Free Outdoor Screenings—Indelible Moments: May I Have This Dance

August 4–25, 2022

Bring a blanket or lawn chair to BAMPFA’s huge outdoor LED screen for three free screenings.

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  • The Gold Rush

  • Band of Outsiders

  • Do the Right Thing

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  • Free Outdoor Screening: The Gold Rush

    Charles Chaplin
    United States, 1925

    The reedited 1942 version of The Gold Rush will be shown for free on Sunday, June 12, in the Barbro Osher Theater.

    Thursday, August 4 7 PM

    A hapless prospector tries his luck in the frozen north in a film that glitters with some of Charlie Chaplin’s most memorable nuggets of comedy, including a pair of dancing rolls.

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  • Free Outdoor Screening: Band of Outsiders

    Jean-Luc Godard
    France, 1964
    Thursday, August 18 7 PM

    Anna Karina gets involved with a pair of would-be burglars in one of Godard’s most accessible and entrancing films, with exquisitely gritty black-and-white cinematography by Raoul Coutard and music by Michel Legrand. “Like a reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael).

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  • Free Outdoor Screening: Do the Right Thing

    Spike Lee
    United States, 1989
    Thursday, August 25 7 PM

    Lee’s frequently hilarious but hard-hitting drama charts mounting racial tensions on a hot summer day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. “The funniest, most stylized, most visceral New York street scene this side of Scorseseland” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).

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