Sunday, February 26
Sunday, February 26, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
Drop-in Art Making
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
Sunday, February 26, 2017
1:30 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy,
1974,
(120 mins)
“The best opera film ever made” (P. Adams Sitney), Moses and Aaron presents Schoenberg’s great opera in the Roman Alba Fucense amphitheater. “A film in which every cut, every camera movement counts for so much” (New Yorker Films). With short.
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Erik Ulman
IntroductionErik Ulman, a composer and lecturer in music at Stanford University, writes on music, poetry, and film; he codirects, with Marcia Scott, the arts organization Poto.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
2 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Monday, February 27
Monday, February 27, 2017
6:30 PM
Wortham writes about technology and culture for the New York Times. Ellis, associate professor of English at UC Berkeley, specializes in African diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures.
Free admission
Tuesday, February 28
Wednesday, March 1
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
12 PM
Cohen, an associate teaching professor in the African American studies department at UC Berkeley, talks about writer Thomas Pynchon, whose work embodies the radical challenge of the California counterculture.
Included with admission
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
1:30 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
3:10 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1959,
(170 mins)
35mm Print
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemmon star in Wilder’s outrageous cross-dressing comedy, selected by the American Film Institute as the funniest movie ever made.
Tickets on sale to general public on December 15
Special admission applies:
General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50
65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 /
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David Thomson
Lecture
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
7 PM
Kirsten Johnson,
United States,
2016,
(110 mins)
Documentary cinematographer Johnson mines twenty-five years’ worth of her footage for this self-portrait and investigation into the ethics of representation, a “labor of love of the highest order” (Film Comment). With Johnson’s short The Above.
Series
Documentary Voices 2017
Thursday, March 2
Thursday, March 2, 2017
1 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Thursday, March 2, 2017
12–2 & 5–6:20
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Thursday, March 2, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, March 2, 2017
7 PM
Wayne Wang,
United States,
1982,
(92 mins)
New 35mm Print
Touted as the first all–Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching S.F.’s Chinatown for an elusive flim-flam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert). With Wang’s short Dim Sum Take-Out.
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Wayne Wang
In PersonAmong the diverse films Wayne Wang has directed, his works focusing on Asian American cultures include Eat a Bowl of Tea, Dim Sum, The Joy Luck Club, and A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
All Day
Friday, March 3
Friday, March 3, 2017
12–2 & 5–8:15
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Friday, March 3, 2017
4–9 PM
Friday, March 3, 2017
7:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1950,
(114 mins)
A young priest tries to lead an exemplary life, but his parishioners respond with scorn and indifference. “A film of great purity, and at the end, almost Bach-like intensity” (Pauline Kael).
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Tony Pipolo
Introduction and Post-screening DiscussionTony Pipolo is professor emeritus of film and literature at the City University of New York and author of Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film.
Saturday, March 4
Saturday, March 4, 2017
1 PM
Screening weekly in Theater Two, this award-winning documentary is the story of Tibetan refugee lama Tarthang Tulku and his efforts to preserve the sacred texts of his tradition.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 4, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 4, 2017
3-7:30 PM
Four programs of short films screening each afternoon feature works by Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner, John Whitney, and others, plus a 1967 documentary about San Francisco’s blossoming hippie scene.
Included with admission
Saturday, March 4, 2017
5:30 PM
Robert Bresson,
France,
1983,
(85 mins)
Digital Restoration
A young man unknowingly passes counterfeit cash and sets off an escalating spiral of crimes in Bresson’s last film, a tough, terse investigation of the power of money adapted from a Tolstoy novella.
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Tony Pipolo
Introduction and Post-screening DiscussionTony Pipolo will appear only at the March 4 screening. He is professor emeritus of film and literature at the City University of New York and author of Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
8:15 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
United States,
1970,
(107 mins)
Antonioni filmed the sixties war between radical and straight cultures in LA and Death Valley. “A sorrowing, stranger’s-eye view of modern America” (Time).
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