BAMPFA Channel

Anne Nesbet, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley, lectured on Sergei Eisenstein's OCTOBER (1928).

A lecture by Anne Nesbet, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley, following a screening of Vsevolod Pudovkin’s The End of St. Petersburg (1927).

Anne Nesbet, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley, lectured on Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg’s The New Babylon (1929). Following the screening, Nesbet and film historian, curator, and archivist Peter Bagrov discussed the film in the context of early Russian and Soviet cinema.

Joan Neuberger, professor at University of Texas, Austin, introduced a screening of Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944). Following, Neuberger conversed with film historian, curator, and archivist Peter Bagrov about the film.

Anne Nesbet, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley, lectured on Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925).

William Guynn, author and professor emeritus of art at Sonoma State University, introduced Yaël Hersonski’s A FILM UNFINISHED (2010), which examines an unfinished propaganda film on the Warsaw Ghetto. Following the screening, Guynn and BAMPFA Film Curator Kathy Geritz responded to audience comments and questions.

Actress Liv Ullmann introduced a screening of PERSONA (1966) and reflected on her collaboration with director Ingmar Bergman.

Berkeley resident Country Joe McDonald, who famously performed in the Woodstock Music Festival, and director Robert N. Zagone introduced a a special screening of Michael Wadleigh's documentary Woodstock (1970).

Anne Nesbet, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley, lectured on Lev Kuleshov's THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF MR. WEST IN THE LAND OF THE BOLSHEVIKS (1924).

Filmmaker Bill Morrison introduced DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (2017), which mediates on a rare trove of silent nitrate film. Following the screening, Morrison and BAMPFA Film Curator Kathy Geritz responded to audience comments and questions.

Anne Nesbet, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley, lectured on Evgenii Bauer's A LIFE FOR A LIFE (1916).