All events on Sunday January 27

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Music: Rock/Pop
Tim Finn
Sunday Jan 27 (8pm) @ The Independent
When Tim Finn helped form the category-defying group Split Enz at New Zealand's Auckland University in 1971, it's hard to imagine he had any sense... View details »
Tim Finn
Reading
Writers Remembered
Sunday Jan 27 (1pm) @ Koret Auditorium
Free
Norman Mailer, Grace Paley, David Halberstam, Tillie Olsen, Kurt Vonnegut: these are just a few of the authors and cultural icons who will be commemorated... View details »
Writers Remembered
Film
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sunday Jan 27 (4:30pm) @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Long thought irretrievably lost in its complete form, director Carl Dreyer's unqualified masterpiece came back to life when a stroke of luck turned up a... View details »
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Film: Documentary
Que Viva La Lucha and DNN: Dead News Network
Sunday Jan 27 (2pm) @ Brava Theater Center
Que Viva La Lucha, the most recent documentary by San Francisco video artist and director Gustavo Vazquez, is screened tonight to benefit Galería de la... View details »
Que Viva La Lucha and DNN: Dead News Network

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Art
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–5pm) @ Berkeley Art Museum More times »
Free
Like a new-media update on Marcel Duchamp's mustachioed Mona Lisa, the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive's latest show exhibits contemporary artists' provocative reconfigurations of existing... View details »
RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA
Art
Douglas Gordon
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
The ultimate in one-stop viewing, Scottish multimedia artist Douglas Gordon's cheekily titled installation is a veritable retrospective: the work's title serves as a perfect description... View details »
Douglas Gordon
Art
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Sunday Jan 27 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ de Young Museum More times »
Until he was killed by Egyptian machine-gun fire while covering the 1956 Suez War armistice, Polish-born David Seymour (also known as Chim) rubbed elbows with... View details »
The Photography of David Seymour (1911-1956)
Art
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Sunday Jan 27 (9:30am–5:15pm) @ The Legion of Honor Museum More times »
Celebrity retreats, situated far from the gossip-hungry public, are anything but a new phenomenon. Marie-Antoinette's Petit Trianon at Versailles was just such a pied-à-terre —... View details »
Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Sunday Jan 27 @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so successfully mined its medium to render universal a fiercely specific political struggle; naturally, fans of... View details »
Persepolis
Performing Arts: Theatre
Speed-the-Plow
Sunday Jan 27 @ American Conservatory Theater More times »
In Speed-the-Plow, playwright David Mamet dissects the behind-the-scenes manipulations and machinations that drive Hollywood. Bobby Gould can't decide between producing... View details »
Speed-the-Plow
Art: Photography
Jeff Wall
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
Canadian photographer Jeff Wall's major traveling retrospective charts nearly three decades of work. Renowned as the photographer who "begins by not photographing," Wall stages scenes,... View details »
Jeff Wall
Film: Documentary
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Sunday Jan 27 @ SFMOMA More times »
Giveaway
Though often given short shrift in film histories, the political documentaries of Emile de Antonio played a major hand in shaping the radical discourses that... View details »
The Films of Emile de Antonio
Art
An-My Lê
Sunday Jan 27 (11am–5:45pm) @ SFMOMA More times »
An-My Lê's stunning Small Wars and 29 Palms series find the photographer capturing Vietnam War enthusiasts who recreate scenes of battle and treading through the... View details »
An-My Lê
Film
Noir City Film Festival
Sunday Jan 27 @ The Castro Theatre More times »
Eddie Muller and the rest of the Film Noir Foundation keep the night alive with another Noir City Film Festival. As with earlier incarnations, ten... View details »
Noir City Film Festival
Film
African Film Festival
Sunday Jan 27 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater More times »
Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive has picked the cream of the NYC-based African Film Festival's crop for this monthlong series. Opening night belongs to Abderrahmane Sissako's... View details »
African Film Festival
Art
Conduits of Labor
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–6pm) @ Queen's Nail Annex More times »
Free
In the new exhibition Conduits of Labor, QNA examines the aestheticization of the laboring body. Ana Teresa Fernandez presents her Sisyphean hausfrau in the digital... View details »
Conduits of Labor
Art
Caroline Hwang
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–7pm) @ Giant Robot More times »
Free
Reinventing the art of quilting, artist Caroline Hwang brings a selection of quirky new fabric pieces to Giant Robot. Her simple, graphic figures — clad... View details »
Caroline Hwang
Art
An Equal Playing Field
Sunday Jan 27 (noon–5pm) @ Triple Base More times »
Free
Of his recent paintings, Peter Stegall has exclaimed, "Color has me on the end of a string!" It's a strange statement to reconcile with his... View details »
An Equal Playing Field