Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2019
Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2019
Ongoing
Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Ash Is Purest White
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Shiraz: A Romance of India
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Amazing Grace
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Fire and Ashes: Making the Ballet RAkU
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
Bicycle Thief
Vittorio De Sica
Italy, 1948Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the January 12 screeningSaturday, January 12 6 PMView DetailsDe Sica’s tale of a father and son searching the streets of Rome for their stolen bicycle is a masterwork of Italian neorealism, “an allegory at once timeless and topical” (Village Voice).
Not Wanted
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
United States, 1949Digital Restoration
Saturday, January 12 8 PMView DetailsA waitress finds herself pregnant and out of options in Lupino’s dissection of small-town values and women’s choices (or lack of them), made with “a startling blend of compassion and invention” (New Yorker).
Workingman’s Death
Michael Glawogger
Austria/Germany, 2005BAMPFA Collection
Wednesday, January 16 7 PMView DetailsGlawogger’s documentary starts from a global question—Is hard manual labor a thing of the past?—and finds the unflinching answer in portraits of grueling and dangerous professions in Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.
Bicycle Thief
Vittorio De Sica
Italy, 1948Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the January 12 screeningFriday, January 18 6:30 PMView DetailsDe Sica’s tale of a father and son searching the streets of Rome for their stolen bicycle is a masterwork of Italian neorealism, “an allegory at once timeless and topical” (Village Voice).
Megacities
Michael Glawogger
Austria, 1998BAMPFA Collection
Saturday, January 19 6 PMView DetailsGlawogger takes us deep into the megacities of Mexico City, Bombay, Moscow, and New York, telling stories of people struggling at the bottom of the urban food chain.
Not Wanted
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino
United States, 1949Digital Restoration
Sunday, January 20 4:30 PMView DetailsA waitress finds herself pregnant and out of options in Lupino’s dissection of small-town values and women’s choices (or lack of them), made with “a startling blend of compassion and invention” (New Yorker).
Workingman’s Death
Michael Glawogger
Austria/Germany, 2005BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, January 20 6:30 PMView DetailsGlawogger’s documentary starts from a global question—Is hard manual labor a thing of the past?—and finds the unflinching answer in portraits of grueling and dangerous professions in Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.
Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt
Michal Goldman
United States, 2016Friday, January 25 4 PMView DetailsAn intriguing overview of Egypt’s political history in the modern age, Nasser’s Republic examines the transformative influence of the country’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, on the Arab world.
The Image Book
Jean-Luc Godard
Switzerland/France, 2018Friday, February 1 6:30 PMView DetailsThe newest essay film by Jean-Luc Godard is “a kaleidoscopic bulletin on the state of our world” (Variety). Winner of the first Special Palme d’Or award in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.
Nasser’s Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt
Michal Goldman
United States, 2016Saturday, February 2 2 PMView DetailsAn intriguing overview of Egypt’s political history in the modern age, Nasser’s Republic examines the transformative influence of the country’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, on the Arab world.
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
Sasha Waters Freyer
United States, 2018Sunday, February 3 1:30 PMView DetailsThis poignant documentary spotlights one of the greatest photographic chroniclers of Cold War–era America, mingling Winogrand’s images with archival materials and musings from eminent curators, photographers, and friends.
The Image Book
Jean-Luc Godard
Switzerland/France, 2018Saturday, February 9 2 PMView DetailsThe newest essay film by Jean-Luc Godard is “a kaleidoscopic bulletin on the state of our world” (Variety). Winner of the first Special Palme d’Or award in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
Sasha Waters Freyer
United States, 2018Friday, February 15 4 PMView DetailsThis poignant documentary spotlights one of the greatest photographic chroniclers of Cold War–era America, mingling Winogrand’s images with archival materials and musings from eminent curators, photographers, and friends.
Monrovia, Indiana
Frederick Wiseman
United States, 2018Film to Table dinner follows the February 16 screening
Saturday, February 16 4:30 PMView DetailsThe eternal Frederick Wiseman trains his camera on small-town America in the age of Trump, observing the citizens of Monrovia, Indiana, after the 2016 national election.
Monrovia, Indiana
Frederick Wiseman
United States, 2018Film to Table dinner follows the February 16 screening
Tuesday, February 19 6:30 PMView DetailsThe eternal Frederick Wiseman trains his camera on small-town America in the age of Trump, observing the citizens of Monrovia, Indiana, after the 2016 national election.
The Mystery of Picasso
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1956New Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the March 9 screening
Friday, March 1 7 PMView DetailsWinner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
The Cold Heart
Karl Ulrich Schnabel
Germany, 1933/2016US Premiere!
Saturday, March 2 4 PMAnn Schnabel Mottier, François Mottier, and Sarah Cahill in ConversationView DetailsAustrian pianist Karl Ulrich Schnabel was also an experimental filmmaker, and this rediscovered film displays a surprising aesthetic affinity with the psychodramas of avant-garde filmmakers like Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, and Stan Brakhage.
The Mystery of Picasso
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1956New Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the March 9 screening
Saturday, March 9 5:30 PMView DetailsWinner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Yasujiro Ozu
Japan, 1952Digital Restoration
Saturday, March 23 5:30 PMView DetailsA series of extraordinarily revealing domestic details forms a portrait of middle-class marriage, domestic tension, and reconciliation. One of Ozu’s less screened works, recently digitally restored.
The Mystery of Picasso
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1956New Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the March 9 screening
Sunday, March 24 2 PMView DetailsWinner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
Yasujiro Ozu
Japan, 1952Digital Restoration
Thursday, March 28 7 PMView DetailsA series of extraordinarily revealing domestic details forms a portrait of middle-class marriage, domestic tension, and reconciliation. One of Ozu’s less screened works, recently digitally restored.
Detour
Edgar G. Ulmer
United States, 1945Digital Restoration
Saturday, March 30 8:15 PMView Details“No matter where you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you”: this lean, mean little movie sums up the film noir philosophy. “Detour isn’t just a masterpiece, it’s . . . a jagged chunk of the American psyche” (Village Voice).
BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2019
Friday, April 5 9 PMView DetailsJoin the BAMPFA Student Committee for their annual festival showcasing short films made by students in Berkeley and the wider Bay Area.
Detour
Edgar G. Ulmer
United States, 1945Digital Restoration
Saturday, April 6 6 PMView Details“No matter where you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you”: this lean, mean little movie sums up the film noir philosophy. “Detour isn’t just a masterpiece, it’s . . . a jagged chunk of the American psyche” (Village Voice).
Grand Tour Italiano, 1905–1914
Presented in partnership with San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Wednesday, May 1 3 PMIllustrated Lecture by Gian Luca Farinelli; Stephen Horne on PianoView DetailsThe director of the Cineteca di Bologna presents an enthralling collection of silent travelogues from Italy. The early twentieth-century grand tour wends from Sicily through Amalfi, Rome, Bologna, and Milan before ending in Venice.
Works from the Eisner Competition 2019
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Sunday, May 5 4:30 PMStudent Filmmakers in PersonView DetailsThe student filmmakers join us for a screening of this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creative media making.
The Baker's Wife
Marcel Pagnol
France, 1938Film to Table dinner follows the May 11 screening
Saturday, May 11 5 PMView DetailsA warm and ribald comedy based on the idea that food is the life of a community. Orson Welles once called The Baker's Wife “a perfect movie,” and star Raimu “the greatest actor of the cinema.”
The Baker's Wife
Marcel Pagnol
France, 1938Film to Table dinner follows the May 11 screening
Friday, May 17 7 PMView DetailsA warm and ribald comedy based on the idea that food is the life of a community. Orson Welles once called The Baker's Wife “a perfect movie,” and star Raimu “the greatest actor of the cinema.”
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 1 4:30 PMView DetailsSergei Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel, following good-hearted Pierre, battle-scarred Andrei, and tempestuous Natasha through the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, was hailed by Roger Ebert as “the definitive epic of all time”; it demands to be seen on the big screen.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 1 8 PMView DetailsIn the second part of Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation, young Natasha becomes engaged to military man Andrei, but his protracted absence leaves her vulnerable.
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 2 2:30 PMView DetailsSergei Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel, following good-hearted Pierre, battle-scarred Andrei, and tempestuous Natasha through the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, was hailed by Roger Ebert as “the definitive epic of all time”; it demands to be seen on the big screen.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 2 6:30 PMView DetailsIn the second part of Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation, young Natasha becomes engaged to military man Andrei, but his protracted absence leaves her vulnerable.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Wednesday, June 5 7 PMView DetailsIn Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Thursday, June 6 7 PMView DetailsThe final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 8 2 PMView DetailsSergei Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel, following good-hearted Pierre, battle-scarred Andrei, and tempestuous Natasha through the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars, was hailed by Roger Ebert as “the definitive epic of all time”; it demands to be seen on the big screen.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 8 5:30 PMView DetailsIn Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 8 7:30 PMView DetailsThe final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 9 4:30 PMView DetailsIn the second part of Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation, young Natasha becomes engaged to military man Andrei, but his protracted absence leaves her vulnerable.
La religieuse
Jacques Rivette
France, 1965Digital Restoration
Thursday, June 13 6:30 PMView DetailsAnna Karina plays a young woman forced to become a nun in Rivette’s notorious adaptation of Diderot’s novel. A work of “brilliant filmmaking and impassioned restraint . . . as sumptuous in its color photography as it is austere in its mise-en-scène” (New York Times).
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 15 1:30 PMView DetailsIn Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 15 3:30 PMView DetailsThe final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
Transit
Christian Petzold
Germany, 2018Saturday, June 15 6 PMView DetailsPetzold’s tale of displaced people in fascist-occupied France transposes a 1940s novel to today’s Marseille. “Moody, beguiling, and formally bold. . . . Turns history into an existential maze” (New York Times). “Like a remake of Casablanca as written by Kafka” (IndieWire).
Transit
Christian Petzold
Germany, 2018Friday, June 21 8:30 PMView DetailsPetzold’s tale of displaced people in fascist-occupied France transposes a 1940s novel to today’s Marseille. “Moody, beguiling, and formally bold. . . . Turns history into an existential maze” (New York Times). “Like a remake of Casablanca as written by Kafka” (IndieWire).
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Bay Area Premiere of Full-Length Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 23 2 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Bay Area Premiere of Full-Length Digital Restoration
Friday, July 5 6:30 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
La religieuse
Jacques Rivette
France, 1965Digital Restoration
Thursday, July 11 6:30 PMView DetailsAnna Karina plays a young woman forced to become a nun in Rivette’s notorious adaptation of Diderot’s novel. A work of “brilliant filmmaking and impassioned restraint . . . as sumptuous in its color photography as it is austere in its mise-en-scène” (New York Times).
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Bay Area Premiere of Full-Length Digital Restoration
Saturday, July 13 1:00 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
Transit
Christian Petzold
Germany, 2018Friday, July 26 8:30 PMView DetailsPetzold’s tale of displaced people in fascist-occupied France transposes a 1940s novel to today’s Marseille. “Moody, beguiling, and formally bold. . . . Turns history into an existential maze” (New York Times). “Like a remake of Casablanca as written by Kafka” (IndieWire).
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Bay Area Premiere of Full-Length Digital Restoration
Saturday, August 3 1:00 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Bay Area Premiere of Full-Length Digital Restoration
Thursday, August 8 6:30 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
La religieuse
Jacques Rivette
France, 1965Digital Restoration
Sunday, August 11 4 PMView DetailsAnna Karina plays a young woman forced to become a nun in Rivette’s notorious adaptation of Diderot’s novel. A work of “brilliant filmmaking and impassioned restraint . . . as sumptuous in its color photography as it is austere in its mise-en-scène” (New York Times).
3 Faces
Jafar Panahi
Iran, 2018East Bay Premiere
Friday, August 16 6:30 PMView DetailsAcclaimed director Jafar Panahi plays himself in this captivating road movie, “a gently provocative meditation on the role of creative souls in modern-day Iran” (Time Out).
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Bay Area Premiere of Full-Length Digital Restoration
Saturday, August 17 1:00 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
3 Faces
Jafar Panahi
Iran, 2018East Bay Premiere
Sunday, August 25 4:30 PMView DetailsAcclaimed director Jafar Panahi plays himself in this captivating road movie, “a gently provocative meditation on the role of creative souls in modern-day Iran” (Time Out).
Transit
Christian Petzold
Germany, 2018Friday, August 30 5:30 PMView DetailsPetzold’s tale of displaced people in fascist-occupied France transposes a 1940s novel to today’s Marseille. “Moody, beguiling, and formally bold. . . . Turns history into an existential maze” (New York Times). “Like a remake of Casablanca as written by Kafka” (IndieWire).
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Sunday, September 1 7 PMView DetailsPart I of Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel moves between ballroom and battlefield, hinging on the disastrous Battle of Austerlitz.
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Friday, September 6 3:30 PMView DetailsPart I of Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel moves between ballroom and battlefield, hinging on the disastrous Battle of Austerlitz.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Friday, September 6 7 PMView DetailsIn the second part of Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation, young Natasha becomes engaged to military man Andrei, but his protracted absence leaves her vulnerable.
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Saturday, September 7 12 PMView DetailsPart I of Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel moves between ballroom and battlefield, hinging on the disastrous Battle of Austerlitz.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Saturday, September 7 3:30 PMView DetailsIn the second part of Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation, young Natasha becomes engaged to military man Andrei, but his protracted absence leaves her vulnerable.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Saturday, September 7 6 PMView DetailsIn Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Saturday, September 7 7:45 PMView DetailsThe final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Sunday, September 8 2:30 PMView DetailsIn Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Sunday, September 8 7 PMView DetailsThe final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Friday, September 13 4 PMView DetailsIn the second part of Bondarchuk’s epic adaptation, young Natasha becomes engaged to military man Andrei, but his protracted absence leaves her vulnerable.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Saturday, September 14 4 PMView DetailsIn Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Saturday, September 14 5:45 PMView DetailsThe final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Friday, September 20 4 PMView DetailsIn Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleon’s armies are crossing into Russia. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through a brush with death.
Shiraz: A Romance of India
Franz Osten
UK, Germany, India, 1928East Bay Premiere of Digital Restoration!
Saturday, September 21 8 PMView DetailsThis ravishing silent epic tells the romantic tale behind the creation of the Taj Mahal. We present a recent restoration featuring a stunning new score from sitar master Anoushka Shankar.
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Sergei Bondarchuk
USSR, 1966Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!Friday, September 27 4 PMView DetailsThe final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
Green Days
Ahn Jae-hoon, Han Hye-jin
South Korea, 2011Free Admission!
Recommended for ages 10 & upSunday, September 29 3:30 PMAhn Jae-hoon in PersonView DetailsThree high schoolers come of age in a small Korean town in this warmhearted, hand-drawn animated feature, presented in conjunction with Korea Week 2019.
Shiraz: A Romance of India
Franz Osten
UK, Germany, India, 1928East Bay Premiere of Digital Restoration!
Friday, October 18 4 PMView DetailsThis ravishing silent epic tells the romantic tale behind the creation of the Taj Mahal. We present a recent restoration featuring a stunning new score from sitar master Anoushka Shankar.
Ash Is Purest White
Jia Zhangke
China/France/Japan, 2018BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Tuesday, November 12 6:30 PMView DetailsA gangster’s wife stands on her own in Jia’s expansive narrative of empowerment and survival, inspired by Hong Kong gangster films and set against the tumultuous changes in contemporary China. “Fierce, gripping, emotionally generous, and surprisingly funny” (Los Angeles Times).
Shiraz: A Romance of India
Franz Osten
UK, Germany, India, 1928East Bay Premiere of Digital Restoration!
Sunday, November 17 2 PMView DetailsThis ravishing silent epic tells the romantic tale behind the creation of the Taj Mahal. We present a recent restoration featuring a stunning new score from sitar master Anoushka Shankar.
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Bill Haney
United States, 2019Jim Allison: Breakthrough also screens November 15 with a panel discussion featuring scientists Greg Barton, Rachel Humphrey, Steve Isaacs, David Raulet, and Julia Schaletzky.
Sunday, November 17 4:30 PMView DetailsThis documentary tells the remarkable story of a Nobel Prize–winning Bay Area biologist who found a cure for cancer through his trailblazing immunotherapy research.
CineSpin: The Unholy Three
Tod Browning
United States, 1925Free Admission!
Friday, November 22 9:30 PMLive music by student musicians and DJsView DetailsJoin the BAMPFA Student Committee for the 2019 edition of CineSpin, a freewheeling free screening with local student musicians and DJs playing live accompaniment to a demented silent about sideshow performers (Lon Chaney among them) who turn to a life of crime.
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Bill Haney
United States, 2019Jim Allison: Breakthrough also screens November 15 with a panel discussion featuring scientists Greg Barton, Rachel Humphrey, Steve Isaacs, David Raulet, and Julia Schaletzky.
Saturday, November 23 3 PMView DetailsThis documentary tells the remarkable story of a Nobel Prize–winning Bay Area biologist who found a cure for cancer through his trailblazing immunotherapy research.
Ash Is Purest White
Jia Zhangke
China/France/Japan, 2018BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Saturday, November 23 7:30 PMView DetailsA gangster’s wife stands on her own in Jia’s expansive narrative of empowerment and survival, inspired by Hong Kong gangster films and set against the tumultuous changes in contemporary China. “Fierce, gripping, emotionally generous, and surprisingly funny” (Los Angeles Times).
Shiraz: A Romance of India
Franz Osten
UK, Germany, India, 1928East Bay Premiere of Digital Restoration!
Friday, November 29 4 PMView DetailsThis ravishing silent epic tells the romantic tale behind the creation of the Taj Mahal. We present a recent restoration featuring a stunning new score from sitar master Anoushka Shankar.
Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Bill Haney
United States, 2019Jim Allison: Breakthrough also screens November 15 with a panel discussion featuring scientists Greg Barton, Rachel Humphrey, Steve Isaacs, David Raulet, and Julia Schaletzky.
Friday, November 29 6:30 PMView DetailsThis documentary tells the remarkable story of a Nobel Prize–winning Bay Area biologist who found a cure for cancer through his trailblazing immunotherapy research.
Amazing Grace
Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
US, 2018Sunday, December 1 7 PMView DetailsAretha Franklin’s thrilling 1972 performance of Amazing Grace at a Watts church comes alive in this concert film, unreleased until 2018. “It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle—just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God” (Rolling Stone).
Mr. Klein
Joseph Losey
France, 1976Digital Restoration
Wednesday, December 4 7 PMView DetailsAn art dealer (Alain Delon) in WWII-era France benefits from the Nazi regime, until they begin to suspect him of being Jewish, in Joseph Losey’s chilling thriller. “A historical reconstruction with a modernist tone, evoking both Kafka and Borges” (J. Hoberman).
Fire and Ashes: Making the Ballet RAkU
Shirley Sun
United States, 2017East Bay Premiere!
Fire and Ashes: Making the Ballet RAkU also screens Friday, December 13 (with Shirley Sun in person), and Sunday, December 29 (without guests in person).
Thursday, December 5 7 PMShirley Sun in PersonView DetailsBay Area filmmaker Shirley Sun’s engaging dance film goes behind the scenes with composer Shinji Eshima and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Yuri Possokhov as they recount their collaboration on the ballet RAkU, set in historic Japan.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
United States, 2019BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Friday, December 6 4 PMView DetailsPulitzer- and Nobel Peace Prize–winning author Toni Morrison recalls her life, challenges, and successes in this “eloquent nonfiction biopic” (Variety), featuring archival footage and interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Hilton Als, and others.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Stanley Nelson
United States, United Kingdom, 2019Saturday, December 7 8:15 PMView DetailsFrom the director of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, this profile of the great Miles Davis is “a tantalizing portrait: rich, probing, mournful, romantic, triumphant, tragic, exhilarating, and blisteringly honest” (Variety).
Film Composing in Real Time: A Workshop with Donald Sosin
Free Admission for UC Berkeley Students!
Sunday, December 8 1:30 PMView DetailsExplore the arts of film scoring and accompaniment with musician and composer Donald Sosin, who has scored thousands of films for live performance and recording. Bring your imagination and your instrument—no musical experience required!
Fire and Ashes: Making the Ballet RAkU
Shirley Sun
United States, 2017East Bay Premiere!
The Friday, December 13 screening features director Shirley Sun in person. The Sunday, December 29 screening will be presented without guests in person.
Friday, December 13 4 PMView DetailsBay Area filmmaker Shirley Sun’s engaging dance film goes behind the scenes with composer Shinji Eshima and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Yuri Possokhov as they recount their collaboration on the ballet RAkU, set in historic Japan.
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Full-Length Digital Restoration, Back by Popular Demand!
Saturday, December 14 1 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
Mr. Klein
Joseph Losey
France, 1976Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 14 8:15 PMView DetailsAn art dealer (Alain Delon) in WWII-era France benefits from the Nazi regime, until they begin to suspect him of being Jewish, in Joseph Losey’s chilling thriller. “A historical reconstruction with a modernist tone, evoking both Kafka and Borges” (J. Hoberman).
Out of the Vault: The Brink
ruth weiss
United States, 1961World Premiere of BAMPFA Preservation Print!
Essay
On the Brink of Something: ruth weiss as Filmmaker
Steve Seid on ruth weiss and The Brink.Sunday, December 15 3:30 PMruth weiss, Robyn Beattie, and Steve Seid in PersonView DetailsBuilt around the existential musings of two contentious lovers, ruth weiss’s Beat-era cinepoem jettisons narrative logic for a skeptical embrace of the moment. We showcase BAMPFA’s new preservation print alongside works by weiss’s compatriots Paul Beattie and Steven Arnold.
Mr. Klein
Joseph Losey
France, 1976Digital Restoration
Wednesday, December 18 7 PMView DetailsAn art dealer (Alain Delon) in WWII-era France benefits from the Nazi regime, until they begin to suspect him of being Jewish, in Joseph Losey’s chilling thriller. “A historical reconstruction with a modernist tone, evoking both Kafka and Borges” (J. Hoberman).
Amazing Grace
Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
US, 2018Friday, December 20 4 PMView DetailsAretha Franklin’s thrilling 1972 performance of Amazing Grace at a Watts church comes alive in this concert film, unreleased until 2018. “It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle—just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God” (Rolling Stone).
Tokyo Twilight
Yasujiro Ozu
Japan, 1957Bay Area Premiere of Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 21 7 PMView DetailsSetsuko Hara stars as a woman trying to hold her family together in Ozu’s darkest, most urban film, set in the shadowy back streets of Ginza. “Retains an enormous dramatic power, perhaps because of [its] very divergences from the Ozu oeuvre” (Michael Koresky).
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Francesco Rosi
Italy, 1979Full-Length Digital Restoration, Back by Popular Demand!
Sunday, December 22 1 PMView DetailsGian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1983Full-Length Television Version
Thursday, December 26 12 PMView DetailsA rare theatrical presentation of Bergman’s magnum opus in its full-length television version, which runs more than five hours. Bergman himself described the project as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.”
Tokyo Twilight
Yasujiro Ozu
Japan, 1957Bay Area Premiere of Digital Restoration
Friday, December 27 2 PMView DetailsSetsuko Hara stars as a woman trying to hold her family together in Ozu’s darkest, most urban film, set in the shadowy back streets of Ginza. “Retains an enormous dramatic power, perhaps because of [its] very divergences from the Ozu oeuvre” (Michael Koresky).
Amazing Grace
Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack
US, 2018Friday, December 27 5 PMView DetailsAretha Franklin’s thrilling 1972 performance of Amazing Grace at a Watts church comes alive in this concert film, unreleased until 2018. “It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle—just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God” (Rolling Stone).
Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock
United States, 19464K Digital Restoration
Friday, December 27 7 PMView DetailsTrying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair. Hitchcock’s polished, perverse thriller exploits an espionage plot to explore the nature of love and loyalty.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Stanley Nelson
United States, United Kingdom, 2019Saturday, December 28 7 PMView DetailsFrom the director of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, this profile of the great Miles Davis is “a tantalizing portrait: rich, probing, mournful, romantic, triumphant, tragic, exhilarating, and blisteringly honest” (Variety).
Fire and Ashes: Making the Ballet RAkU
Shirley Sun
United States, 2017East Bay Premiere!
The Friday, December 13 screening features director Shirley Sun in person. The Sunday, December 29 screening will be presented without guests in person.
Sunday, December 29 2:30 PMView DetailsBay Area filmmaker Shirley Sun’s engaging dance film goes behind the scenes with composer Shinji Eshima and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Yuri Possokhov as they recount their collaboration on the ballet RAkU, set in historic Japan.
Elevator to the Gallows
Louis Malle
France, 1958Digital Restoration
Sunday, December 29 7 PMView DetailsA restored print of Louis Malle’s first feature, an elegant thriller featuring an iconic performance by Jeanne Moreau and a celebrated Miles Davis jazz score. This “consistently engaging, atmospheric noir . . . remains worth treasuring” (Time Out New York).
Tokyo Twilight
Yasujiro Ozu
Japan, 1957Bay Area Premiere of Digital Restoration
Wednesday, January 8 7 PMView DetailsSetsuko Hara stars as a woman trying to hold her family together in Ozu’s darkest, most urban film, set in the shadowy back streets of Ginza. “Retains an enormous dramatic power, perhaps because of [its] very divergences from the Ozu oeuvre” (Michael Koresky).
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
United States, 2019BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Sunday, January 19 1:30 PMView DetailsPulitzer- and Nobel Peace Prize–winning author Toni Morrison recalls her life, challenges, and successes in this “eloquent nonfiction biopic” (Variety), featuring archival footage and interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Hilton Als, and others.
Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock
United States, 19464K Digital Restoration
Wednesday, January 22 7 PMView DetailsTrying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair. Hitchcock’s polished, perverse thriller exploits an espionage plot to explore the nature of love and loyalty.
Notorious
Alfred Hitchcock
United States, 19464K Digital Restoration
Friday, February 28 4 PMView DetailsTrying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair. Hitchcock’s polished, perverse thriller exploits an espionage plot to explore the nature of love and loyalty.