Painters Painting
Painters Painting
March 1–April 28, 2019
Inspired by BAMPFA’s Hans Hofmann retrospective, we screen a selection of exceptional films about painters and painting, from Van Gogh to Basquiat, Giotto to Joan Mitchell.
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Van Gogh
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The Mystery of Picasso
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Downtown 81
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Edvard Munch
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Past Films
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).
Van Gogh
Maurice Pialat
France, 1991Imported 35mm Print
Sunday, March 3 3 PMView DetailsThe artist’s world in the last two months of his life is drawn with period feeling harking back to the Impressionists. “An extraordinary portrait of the artist as common man” (Sight & Sound).
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).
Painters Painting
Emile de Antonio
United States, 1973Friday, March 15 4 PMView DetailsEminent documentarian de Antonio surveys the New York art scene circa 1970 via studio visits and conversations with preeminent artists, critics, dealers, and collectors, including Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol.
Downtown 81
Edo Bertoglio
United States, 1981/2000Saturday, March 16 5:30 PMView DetailsJean-Michel Basquiat plays a fictionalized version of himself in this gritty urban fairytale, a glimpse of New York’s early-eighties Lower East Side in all its blighted, bohemian glory. With appearances by James White and the Blacks, DNA, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, and more.
Edvard Munch
Peter Watkins
Sweden, Norway, 1974Friday, March 22 7 PMView DetailsThis portrait of the painter is “the standard by which all subsequent films of artists’ lives will be measured” (New Yorker Films). “In the end the paintings do Munch’s talking for him, both directly and through the prefigurations and echoes in the film’s set pieces” (Time Out).
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 Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1971Friday, March 29 7 PMView DetailsPasolini plays the painter Giotto in this ribald yet rigorous film weaving together a selection of Boccaccio’s classic tales. “One of the most beautiful, turbulent and uproarious panoramas of early Renaissance life ever put on film” (New York Times).
The Quince Tree Sun
Víctor Erice
Spain, 1992New 4K Digital Restoration
Sunday, April 7 5 PMView DetailsVictor Erice (Spirit of the Beehive) creates an exquisite portrait of the Spanish realist painter Antonio López García, expanding his attempts to paint a single quince tree into a treatise on light, the creative process, and the passage of time.
Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter
Marion Cajori
United States, 1993Sunday, April 28 2 PMView DetailsCajori’s elliptical and intimate portrait offers a rare chance to hear from painter Joan Mitchell, who created an eloquent vocabulary of abstract gesture, color, and light. With Jem Cohen’s Anne Truitt, Working and Bruce Conner’s The White Rose.