Sunday, June 18
Sunday, June 18, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, June 18, 2017
4 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1958,
(134 mins)
Mifune swashbuckles his way through this supremely entertaining samurai adventure, the plot inspiration for Star Wars.
Sunday, June 18, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1950,
(105 mins)
Imported Print
Jean Cocteau collaborated with Melville on this poetic, moody adaptation of Cocteau’s novel about the obsessive love between a brother and sister. “One of French cinema’s greatest, and most surprising, meetings of the minds” (Criterion Collection).
Series
Melville 100
Monday, June 19
Tuesday, June 20
Wednesday, June 21
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1949,
Mifune is a driven detective in Kurosawa’s bravura Tokyo noir. “A bona fide masterpiece” (Time Out).
Thursday, June 22
Thursday, June 22, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, June 22, 2017
7 PM
(124 mins)
Combining a key early work, a recent documentary, and an in-person discussion, this special evening provides an unparalleled introduction to one of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Featuring No Sex Last Night and the documentary Sophie Calle, Untitled.
In Conversation
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Sophie Calle
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Lawrence Rinder
Lawrence Rinder is director and chief curator at BAMPFA.
Friday, June 23
Friday, June 23, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, June 23, 2017
6 PM
Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
The director of the UC Berkeley Gospel Choir offers a presentation on the freedom songs of the black civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
Friday, June 23, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(208 mins)
A ragtag group of samurai band together to protect a village from bandits in Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.
Saturday, June 24
Saturday, June 24, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, June 24, 2017
6:30 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1956,
(98 mins)
“The cinematic Birth of the Cool, Melville’s drollest, most likable gangster movie. . . . Exceedingly light on its feet” (Village Voice).
Series
Melville 100
Saturday, June 24, 2017
8:30 PM
Peter Middleton, James Spinney,
France, United Kingdom,
2016,
(87 mins)
A taped journal that theologian John Hull (1935–2015) kept after the onset of blindness in 1980 forms the basis of this “beautiful, accessible, and thoughtful work of art” (The Guardian).
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