On View
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Limited Engagements & Special Screenings
OngoingRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Julio Bracho and Mexican Cinema’s Golden Age
June 7–July 18, 2019From raucous music-hall comedy to tough urban noir, this selection of digitally restored works showcases the range and artistry of a master craftsman of midcentury Mexican cinema.
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Looking Again at Orson Welles
June 9–July 10, 2019An intriguing new documentary on Welles’s multifaceted creative career is the inspiration for this series revisiting several of his landmark films.
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It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll: Free Outdoor Screenings
June 13–August 8, 2019Three free events on our outdoor screen take the rock 'n' roll music to the streets.
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It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll
June 13–August 31, 2019Rock ’n’ roll is the soundtrack to summer at BAMPFA as we celebrate the roots and resonance of rock in cinema. Three free events on our outdoor screen take the music to the streets.
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Cine Manifest: A Radical 1970s Film Collective
June 20–30, 2019Active in the 1970s, the Bay Area–based political film collective Cine Manifest is little known today, but their works still speak to our own troubled times. Former members join us to reminisce and present their works in person.
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Fritz Lang’s America
June 21–August 11, 2019This lineup of Lang’s films made and set in the United States amounts to a noir tour of the psychosocial landscape of twentieth-century America, a land of systemic corruption, thwarted aspiration, and frustrated desire.
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Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
July 4–August 30, 2019This series surveys the career of a French New Wave icon, from his youthful roles as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel to his embodiment of a dying Louis XIV.
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View Finders: Women Cinematographers
July 12–November 21, 2019Showcasing the artistic visions of female cinematographers around the world, this series asks whether there is such a thing as a “female gaze.”
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Against Authority: The Cinema of Masaki Kobayashi
July 20–August 18, 2019A rare chance to see 35mm prints of films by a key figure in mid-twentieth-century Japanese cinema, including his masterwork, the three-part antiwar epic The Human Condition.
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Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art
August 2–December 21, 2019Iran’s most influential director, Kiarostami made films that blended fiction and documentary, minimalism and spontaneity, poetic vision and humanist spirit. We present a near-complete retrospective of his work.
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