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Special Screenings 2025
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City
June 6–July 24, 2025Inspired by Imogen Sara Smith’s 2011 book, In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City, this series focuses on film noirs set in suburbia and small towns, on the road, in the desert, and along borderlands. Smith will travel from New York City to introduce the films on the series’ opening weekend, and we will also tap Bay Area film experts David Thomson and Eddie Muller to host additional screenings.
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Robert Altman at 100
June 13–August 30, 2025Presented in collaboration with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Robert Altman at 100 showcases a selection of his work across five decades, including his 1970s classics The Long Goodbye, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, and Nashville, and later work like Vincent & Theo and Gosford Park.
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Bruce Conner: Films from the BAMPFA Collection
June 15 & 27, 2025Alive with satire, irony, and rhythm, experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner’s collage films have influenced countless artists and captivated viewers. His work constitutes a wry, devastating portrait of America. These two programs of his short films are drawn from the BAMPFA collection.
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time
June 20–August 29, 2025Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) directed an impressive body of work that continues to be celebrated today for its visual power and poetic resonance. There is no better way to experience Tarkovsky’s cinema than theatrically, since scale and sound design are so essential to his films.
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Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman
July 3–December 21, 2025Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman offers a rare opportunity to see many of Naruse’s great films chronicling the lives of ordinary people—from his 1935 international hit Wife! Be Like a Rose! (the first Japanese talkie to screen in the United States) to his magnificent movies of the 1960s.
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Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs
July 11–August 29, 2025The second installment in BAMPFA’s ongoing Swedish Cinema Project offers a lineup of classic films synonymous with the white nights of Swedish summers and the country’s rich tradition of auteur directors, including Roy Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, Gustaf Molander, Alf Sjöberg, and Bo Widerberg.
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Tsai Ming-liang in Person
August 14–31, 2025BAMPFA welcomes director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng to discuss seven of their films, including Vive l’amour; The Hole; Goodbye, Dragon Inn; What Time Is It There?; and Stray Dogs.
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