The Art of Cinematography
November 5–December 29, 2017
Revel in cinema as a visual art with this international lineup of celebrated classics and lesser-known discoveries.
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Manufactured Landscapes
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Last Year at Marienbad
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
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Cléo from 5 to 7
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Ran
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Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein
USSR, 1925BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, November 5 2 PMView DetailsSergei Eisenstein’s classic on revolution and rebellion, told almost entirely through riveting images, can be appreciated for “not only the perfection of its form, but the humanitarianism and enthusiasm that impregnated its revolutionary subject” (Georges Sadoul).
My Grandmother
Kote Mikaberidze
Soviet Union, 1929BAMPFA Collection Print
Sunday, November 12 2 PMView DetailsGogol meets Chaplin in this riotous, scathingly antibureaucratic satire, one of the eccentric high points of Soviet silent cinema, filled with expressionist décor, askew camera angles, and even puppetry and animation.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer
France, 1928New Digital Restoration
Friday, November 24 3:30 PMView DetailsCarl Dreyer’s 1928 film focuses on the face as a landscape of the soul. Pauline Kael called it “one of the greatest of all movies.”
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles
United States, 194135mm Print
Saturday, November 25 5:30 PMView DetailsA childhood memory is the ultimate red herring in Welles’s audacious debut. Gregg Toland’s deep-focus cinematography is just one reason why Kane still tops many critics’ lists of the best films of all time.
The Tarnished Angels
Douglas Sirk
United States, 195735mm Print
Saturday, November 25 8 PMView DetailsRock Hudson plays a New Orleans newspaperman who develops an unprofessional fascination with carnival fliers Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone in Douglas Sirk’s drama, based on a story by William Faulkner and shot in sweeping CinemaScope black-and-white.
Manufactured Landscapes
Jennifer Baichwal
Canada, 200635mm Print
Sunday, November 26 3 PMView DetailsThis quietly provocative consideration of the mechanized sublime follows photographer Edward Burtynsky as he travels through China and Bangladesh recording large-scale industrial incursions into the landscape.
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957BAMPFA Collection Print
Sunday, November 26 5 PMView DetailsA medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Ingmar Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy rendered in chiaroscuro. “A magically powerful film” (Pauline Kael).
Antonio Gaudí
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan, 198535mm Print
Saturday, December 2 6:30 PMView DetailsHiroshi Teshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).
I Am Cuba
Mikhail Kalatozov
Cuba, USSR, 1964BAMPFA Collection Print
Wednesday, December 6 7 PMView DetailsThis portrait of revolutionary Cuba, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and brimming with bravura camerawork, is an extraordinary example of “pure” cinema in the service of politics.
The First Teacher
Andrei Konchalovsky
USSR, 1966BAMPFA Collection Print
Friday, December 8 4 PMView DetailsAndrei Konchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “The beauty of tradition and the need for change . . . expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
Antonio Gaudí
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan, 198535mm Print
Saturday, December 9 4 PMView DetailsHiroshi Teshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).
Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda
France, 1962Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 9 6 PMView DetailsShot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Cléo chronicles two hours in the life of a pop singer. A classic work of the French New Wave, “almost unique in the history of movies” (Pauline Kael).
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer
France, 1928New Digital Restoration
Sunday, December 10 2 PMView DetailsCarl Dreyer’s 1928 film focuses on the face as a landscape of the soul. Pauline Kael called it “one of the greatest of all movies.”
Pour la suite du monde
Michel Brault, Pierre Perrault
Canada, 1963Digital Restoration
Sunday, December 10 4 PMView DetailsMichel Brault and Pierre Perrault beautifully evoke the rhythms of rural life and language in this enchanting documentary about traditional customs on an isolated island in Quebec.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Carl Theodor Dreyer
France, 192835mm Archival Print
Saturday, December 16 6:15 PMJudith Rosenberg on PianoView DetailsCarl Dreyer’s 1928 film focuses on the face as a landscape of the soul. Pauline Kael called it “one of the greatest of all movies.”
La Pointe Courte
Agnès Varda
France, 1955BAMPFA Collection Print
Sunday, December 17 2 PMView DetailsMade outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Agnès Varda’s 1954 debut about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called the first film of the French New Wave.
Throne of Blood
Akira Kurosawa
Japan, 195735mm Print
Saturday, December 23 6 PMView DetailsKurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen” (Time). The towering Toshiro Mifune stars.
Cléo from 5 to 7
Agnès Varda
France, 1962Digital Restoration
Wednesday, December 27 4:30 PMView DetailsShot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Cléo chronicles two hours in the life of a pop singer. A classic work of the French New Wave, “almost unique in the history of movies” (Pauline Kael).
Ran
Akira Kurosawa
Japan, France, 198535mm Print
Wednesday, December 27 6:30 PMView DetailsKing Lear in feudal Japan, with Tatsuya Nakadai as the lord who divides his kingdom among his three sons, with disastrous results. “A majestic piece of filmmaking” (Village Voice).
Le cercle rouge
Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 197035mm Print
Thursday, December 28 7 PMView DetailsAlain Delon, Gian-Maria Volonté, and Yves Montand star as thief, convict, and lawman in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
Last Year at Marienbad
Alain Resnais
France, 196135mm Print
Friday, December 29 7 PMView DetailsIt’s déjà vu all over the place in Alain Resnais’s elegant, labyrinthine puzzle, written by Alain Robbe-Grillet and starring Delphine Seyrig.