Big Screen: Highlights from a Year of Virtual Cinema
December 2, 2021–February 16, 2022
Now that we are back in the Barbro Osher Theater, we want to share some highlights from the past year of virtual cinema as an affirmation of the importance of seeing films on the big screen and with an audience.
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Chungking Express
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Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
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The Story of a Three Day Pass
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Tell Them We Were Here
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Edo Avant Garde
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Black Life: The Story of a Three Day Pass
Melvin Van Peebles
France, 1968Digital Restoration
The Thursday, December 2 screening features an introduction with Ryanaustin Dennis. The Sunday, December 5 screening will be presented without an introduction.
Thursday, December 2 7 PMIntroduced by Ryanaustin DennisView DetailsIn this exuberant, inventive, and poignant film about an American soldier’s sojourn in Paris, Melvin Van Peebles brilliantly balanced French New Wave style with profound social critique and psychological substance.
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Halina Dyrschka
Germany, 2019Saturday, December 4 4:30 PMView DetailsThis documentary, which “bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long,” illuminates the story of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, the unsung modernist of the early twentieth century (New York Times).
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Ric Burns
United States, 2019Sunday, December 5 1:30 PMView Details“At once tender and thrilling,” this moving and insightful portrait of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks centers on intimate interviews from his final months, facing death and looking back on his extraordinary life (Variety).
Black Life: The Story of a Three Day Pass
Melvin Van Peebles
France, 1968Digital Restoration
The Thursday, December 2 screening features an introduction with Ryanaustin Dennis. The Sunday, December 5 screening will be presented without an introduction.
Sunday, December 5 4 PMIntroduced by Ryanaustin DennisView DetailsIn this exuberant, inventive, and poignant film about an American soldier’s sojourn in Paris, Melvin Van Peebles brilliantly balanced French New Wave style with profound social critique and psychological substance.
Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
Ric Burns
United States, 2019Thursday, December 9 7 PMView Details“At once tender and thrilling,” this moving and insightful portrait of neurologist and author Oliver Sacks centers on intimate interviews from his final months, facing death and looking back on his extraordinary life (Variety).
Chungking Express
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 1994Digital Restoration
Friday, December 10 7 PMView DetailsWong Kar Wai’s love letter to Hong Kong combines separate tales of two cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and their tenuous romantic connections (Brigitte Lin, Faye Wong) in “a film with style to burn” (Los Angeles Times).
Flowers of Shanghai
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan, 1998Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 11 7 PMView DetailsTony Leung Chiu-wai stars in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s period-piece reverie set in a Shanghai brothel circa 1890. “‘Surrender’ is the key to this visually ravishing masterpiece” (Phillip Lopate).
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Halina Dyrschka
Germany, 2019Sunday, December 12 2 PMView DetailsThis documentary, which “bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long,” illuminates the story of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, the unsung modernist of the early twentieth century (New York Times).
Flowers of Shanghai
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan, 1998Digital Restoration
Thursday, December 16 7 PMView DetailsTony Leung Chiu-wai stars in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s period-piece reverie set in a Shanghai brothel circa 1890. “‘Surrender’ is the key to this visually ravishing masterpiece” (Phillip Lopate).
The Cloud-Capped Star
Ritwik Ghatak
India, 1960Digital Restoration
Friday, December 17 7 PMView DetailsDirected by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the partition of India and comes to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury).
Chungking Express
Wong Kar Wai
Hong Kong, 1994Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 18 7 PMView DetailsWong Kar Wai’s love letter to Hong Kong combines separate tales of two cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and their tenuous romantic connections (Brigitte Lin, Faye Wong) in “a film with style to burn” (Los Angeles Times).
Edo Avant Garde
Linda Hoaglund
Japan, United States, 2019Sunday, December 19 2 PMLinda Hoaglund in PersonView DetailsThis beautiful examination of the tradition of Japanese folding screen and scroll painting explores the sensuous style and innovative methods of Edo-period painting and reveals its influence on Western art.
The Edge of the World
Michael Powell
United Kingdom, 1937Restored 35mm Print
Sunday, December 19 4:30 PMView DetailsIn a remote Scottish island community facing extinction through isolation, two young men embark on a foolish challenge. Michael Powell’s stunningly photographed film is a hybrid of documentary-like realism and poetic fatalism.
The Cloud-Capped Star
Ritwik Ghatak
India, 1960Digital Restoration
Sunday, January 9 2 PMView DetailsDirected by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the partition of India and comes to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury).
The Edge of the World
Michael Powell
United Kingdom, 1937Restored 35mm Print
Sunday, January 9 5 PMView DetailsIn a remote Scottish island community facing extinction through isolation, two young men embark on a foolish challenge. Michael Powell’s stunningly photographed film is a hybrid of documentary-like realism and poetic fatalism.
Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint
Halina Dyrschka
Germany, 2019Saturday, January 15 4 PMView DetailsThis documentary, which “bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long,” illuminates the story of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, the unsung modernist of the early twentieth century (New York Times).
Irmi
Veronica Selver, Susan Fanshel
United States, 2020BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, January 23 2 PMVeronica Selver and Susan Fanshel in PersonView DetailsThis beautiful documentary portrait of German Jewish émigrée Irmi Selver (1906–2004), based on her memoirs (read by Hanna Schygulla), takes us on a unique journey through a life marked by love, unimaginable loss, and strength of spirit.
Tell Them We Were Here
Griff Williams, Keelan Williams
United States, 2021Sunday, January 30 2 PMGriff and Keelan Williams, Lawrence Rinder, and Bay Area Artists in ConversationView DetailsFeaturing eight groundbreaking local artists, this documentary reflects on a Bay Area art scene less concerned with money and power than with imagination, innovation, community, and care.
Song Without a Name
Melina León
Peru, Spain, United States, 2019Sunday, February 6 2 PMView DetailsAn Indigenous Andean woman searches for her stolen newborn amidst the institutional corruption of 1980s Peru in this surreal blend of Latin American political history and Kafkaesque alienation, “shot, scored, and styled like the most beautiful of bad dreams” (Variety).
The Two Sights
Joshua Bonnetta
Canada, United Kingdom, 2020Wednesday, February 16 7 PMView DetailsIn an “eerie and hypnotic” experimental evocation of the gift of second sight, Joshua Bonnetta infused the landscape of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides with otherworldly tales and meanings (Justine Smith, POV).