Auteur, Author: Films and Literature 2018

Auteur, Author: Films and Literature 2018

April 25–29, 2018

BAMPFA partners with the Bay Area Book Festival to present films that celebrate, adapt, or creatively reinterpret the written word and its practitioners.

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  • Film still: hands form a circle framing a tall ship at sea, warm sepia tones, lace cuffs visible.

    The Fabulous Baron Münchausen

  • A Brief History of Time

  • Neruda

  • The Manchurian Candidate

  • Time Regained

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  • The Manchurian Candidate

    John Frankenheimer
    United States, 1962
    Wednesday, April 25 7 PM
    Introduction by Greil Marcus

    File this sobering satire, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, under “Brainwashing, fear of.” The film “takes enormous chances with the audience, and plays not like a ‘classic’ but as a work as alive and smart as when it was first released” (Roger Ebert).

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  • The Fabulous Baron Münchausen

    Karel Zeman
    Czechoslovakia, 1961
    Thursday, April 26 7 PM
    James Mockoski in Person

    Czech animator Karel Zeman captures the wonder in Gustave Doré’s illustrations for a classic novel by using live action against a series of fairy-tale backgrounds and enchanting visual pyrotechnics. With Méliès/Jules Verne short Impossible Voyage.

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  • A Brief History of Time

    Errol Morris
    United States, 1991
    Friday, April 27 5:30 PM
    Errol Morris and Edward Frenkel in Conversation

    Errol Morris’s acclaimed film, based on Stephen Hawking’s book, is a humanly scaled, biographical study of a singular mind navigating a very big universe.

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  • Time Regained

    Raúl Ruiz
    France, Italy, Portugal, 1999

    New Digital Restoration

    Friday, April 27 8 PM
    Introduction by Steve Wasserman

    “For those who know the final volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Ruiz’s film sets off its own chain of memories and associations; for those who do not, it serves as a superb introduction to the shape and texture of the Proustian universe” (Dave Kehr).

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  • Maliglutit (Searchers)

    Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq
    Canada, 2016
    Saturday, April 28 3 PM
    Introduction by Shari Huhndorf

    Maliglutit (Searchers) continues in the breathtaking vein of Canadian-Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s unforgettable Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner with a story of cruelty and cold revenge inspired by John Ford’s The Searchers and spoken entirely in Inuktitut.

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  • Neruda

    Pablo Larraín
    Chile, 2016
    Saturday, April 28 5:30 PM
    Introduction by Mark Eisner

    Pablo Larraín’s film “playfully and provocatively distorts the facts of an extraordinary year in the life of the Chilean Nobel prize–winning poet: Neruda is an anti-biopic” (The Guardian).

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  • Jesus’ Son

    Alison Maclean
    United States, 1999
    Saturday, April 28 8:15 PM
    Introduction by Jane Ciabattari, Christian Kiefer, and ​Tom Barbash

    We pay tribute to the late author Denis Johnson with the film adaptation of his classic short story collection Jesus’ Son. Three esteemed authors and friends of Johnson introduce the film and share stories.

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  • The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

    Jennifer M. Kroot
    United States, 2017
    Sunday, April 29 6:30 PM
    Jennifer M. Kroot in Person

    From dutiful conservative Southern son to gay activist and San Francisco chronicler, Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin looks at his life with wry humor and some choice true tales.

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