Night+Day

tuesday
august 29
Send in the Clowns Part of the two-week retrospective "Tutto Fellini," La Strada and The Clowns find the Italian director using the circus for simple entertainment and lofty metaphors about the meaning of life. La Strada is a fictional tale involving a waif (Giulietta Masina), a strongman (Anthony Quinn), and a tightrope-walking fool. The Clowns mixes slapstick, pie-in-the-face high jinks with musings on memory. Both play with notions of fantasy and reality; see new prints of La Strada at 7 p.m. and The Clowns at 9 p.m. at the Castro, 429 Castro, S.F. All films in the series will be presented with a new system that displays subtitles beneath the screen. Tickets are $7; call 621-6120.