Jacques Becker
July 12–August 31, 2018
From hardboiled crime sagas to breezy portraits of postwar Parisian life, the films of this classic French director are ripe for rediscovery.
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Touchez pas au grisbi
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Le trou
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Antoine et Antoinette
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Goupi mains-rouges
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Casque d’or
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My Journey Through French Cinema
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 2017East Bay Premiere
Thursday, July 12 7 PMView DetailsA great director takes viewers on an idiosyncratic tour of French film in this delightful documentary, which offers an entire lifetime of cinema knowledge and passion within its running time. “Exhilarating and inspiring” (New York Times).
Goupi mains-rouges
Jacques Becker
France, 1943Imported 35mm Print
Saturday, July 14 6 PMView DetailsA city slicker departs Paris for the provinces in Becker’s droll satire on city and country folk, family and outsiders, men and women. “Becker gave French cinema its greatest film about rural France” (Bernard Eisenschitz).
Dernier atout
Jacques Becker
France, 1942Wednesday, July 18 7 PMView DetailsBecker’s “official” directorial debut offers a suitably fast-moving tribute to Hollywood pre-Code programmers, as two rookie sleuths deal with a murderer, a beautiful femme fatale, and even a visiting Chicago gangster.
Falbalas
Jacques Becker
France, 1944Friday, July 20 7 PMView DetailsA talented, vain couturier runs roughshod over workers, friends, and lovers in Becker’s vividly realist drama of Parisian haute couture, a fascinating companion piece to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. Jean-Paul Gaultier is a fan.
Antoine et Antoinette
Jacques Becker
France, 1947Sunday, July 22 5 PMView DetailsBecker’s “snappy, sentimental comic melodrama” (New Yorker) follows a young working-class couple and the husband’s desperate search for a missing lottery ticket in this portrait of changing proletarian life in postwar Paris.
Casque d’or
Jacques Becker
France, 1952BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Friday, July 27 7 PMView DetailsA dazzling Simone Signoret is caught between a gangster tough and an honest carpenter in Becker’s “elegant masterwork” (Time Out) set in turn-of-the century Paris. Signoret’s performance is “a triumph of sensuality” (Pauline Kael).
Casque d’or
Jacques Becker
France, 1952BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Saturday, July 28 6 PMView DetailsA dazzling Simone Signoret is caught between a gangster tough and an honest carpenter in Becker’s “elegant masterwork” (Time Out) set in turn-of-the century Paris. Signoret’s performance is “a triumph of sensuality” (Pauline Kael).
Édouard et Caroline
Jacques Becker
France, 1951Sunday, July 29 5 PMView DetailsA pianist and his wife quarrel as they prepare for an upcoming recital in Becker’s airy, Lubitsch-like portrait of love and life in a slowly modernizing urban France, which was praised by—and inspired—Godard and Truffaut.
The Lovers of Montparnasse
Jacques Becker
France, 1958Thursday, August 2 7 PMView DetailsThe famed (and infamously wild) Italian artist Modigliani’s last days in Paris are reconstructed in Becker’s untamed biopic, a loving tribute to the city’s bohemian life.
Rendezvous de Juillet
Jacques Becker
France, 1949Saturday, August 4 8 PMView DetailsA group of students, hepcats, and others spill through the streets of the Left Bank in search of love, life, and jazz in Becker’s spirited portrait of France’s emerging postwar generation, poised between existential despair and liberating action.
Touchez pas au grisbi
Jacques Becker
France, Italy, 1953Friday, August 10 7 PMView DetailsFrench legend Jean Gabin is a Montmartre gangster looking to hide—and later find—his loot, with Jeanne Moreau as his tough-as-nails lover. A masterpiece of hard-boiled film noir, French style.
Le trou
Jacques Becker
France, 1960Sunday, August 12 7 PMView DetailsA group of convicts attempts an escape in Becker’s last film, one of the great prison-break movies and, for Jean-Pierre Melville, “the greatest French film of all time.”
My Journey Through French Cinema
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 2017East Bay Premiere
Friday, August 17 7 PMView DetailsA great director takes viewers on an idiosyncratic tour of French film in this delightful documentary, which offers an entire lifetime of cinema knowledge and passion within its running time. “Exhilarating and inspiring” (New York Times).
Touchez pas au grisbi
Jacques Becker
France, Italy, 1953Saturday, August 18 6 PMView DetailsFrench legend Jean Gabin is a Montmartre gangster looking to hide—and later find—his loot, with Jeanne Moreau as his tough-as-nails lover. A masterpiece of hard-boiled film noir, French style.
Le trou
Jacques Becker
France, 1960Friday, August 24 6:30 PMView DetailsA group of convicts attempts an escape in Becker’s last film, one of the great prison-break movies and, for Jean-Pierre Melville, “the greatest French film of all time.”
La vie est à nous
Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Swoboda, Pierre Unik, Maurice Lime, Jean-Paul Le Chanois
France, 1936Friday, August 31 4 PMView DetailsThe first militant left-wing film made in France, this lyrical cine-essay is a collective effort by some of the finest writers, directors, and cinematographers working in France in the thirties.