In Focus: Writing for Cinema

January 16–February 27, 2019

  • It Happened One Night

  • The Fallen Idol

  • Things to Come

  • Upcoming
    Films
  • Upcoming
    Events
  • Selected
    Objects
  • Past
    Films
  • Past
    Events

Past Films

  • Everlasting Moments

    Jan Troell
    Sweden/Denmark, 2008

    Added Screening!

    Wednesday, January 16 3:10 PM
    Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell and Linda H. Rugg in Conversation

    Based on the life of Maria Larsson—wife, mother, and pioneering photographer in early twentieth-century Sweden—this exquisite period piece has much to tell us today about the bonds of family and the liberating power of art.

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  • The Fallen Idol

    Carol Reed
    United Kingdom, 1948
    Wednesday, January 23 3:10 PM
    David Thomson and Michael Ondaatje in Conversation

    Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s gripping, gorgeously visualized thriller about a boy, a butler, and the butler’s secrets “reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at its peak” (New York Observer).

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  • Things to Come

    Mia Hansen-Løve
    France, 2016
    Wednesday, January 30 3:10 PM
    Mia Hansen-Løve and Linda H. Rugg in Conversation

    Philosophy professor Isabelle Huppert competently juggles career and family—until an unexpected series of events forces her to rethink her entire life—in Hansen-Løve’s festival favorite. “Huppert is extraordinary” (Time).

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  • M

    Fritz Lang
    Germany, 1931

    Digital Restoration
    BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

    This film is also screening (without in-person speakers) on:
    Sunday, January 20, 2 PM
    Friday, February 8, 8 PM

    Wednesday, February 13 3:10 PM
    Introduction by David Thomson

    A precursor to American noir, Lang’s masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where there are few moral distinctions between organized crime and organized law enforcement. With Peter Lorre in his definitive performance.

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  • Autobiography of a Princess

    James Ivory
    United Kingdom, 1975
    Wednesday, February 20 3:10 PM
    James Ivory and Ajay Gehlawat in Conversation

    The adoring daughter (Madhur Jaffrey) of a once-powerful maharajah invites her father’s tutor (James Mason) to tea, and stories begin to flow, in Ivory’s critique of colonial memory. With shorts The Sword and the Flute and The Creation of Woman.  

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  • It Happened One Night

    Frank Capra
    United States, 1934

    Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, February 27 3:10 PM
    Victoria Riskin and Joseph McBride in Conversation

    Runaway heiress Claudette Colbert and reporter Clark Gable meet cute in this racy Depression-era romp with Oscar-winning repartee by Robert Riskin.

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