Reverse Angle: Cinema Looks at Itself
January 20–April 1, 2018
This rich array of fiction, nonfiction, and experimental works interrogates film as a medium and asks what cinema’s social and cultural role is or could be.
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Notfilm
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A Useful Life
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Dawson City: Frozen Time
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Sacred Places
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The Thoughts That Once We Had
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Two Marxists in Hollywood
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Chris Marker
France, 2000Film to Table dinner follows
Saturday, January 20 6 PMView DetailsChris Marker’s cinematic psalm to Andrei Tarkovsky transports the viewer into Tarkovsky’s films and his world. With Marker’s short on the Russian director Alexander Medvedkin, The Train Rolls On.
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Bill Morrison
United States, 2017Sunday, January 21 6:30 PMBill Morrison in PersonView DetailsBill Morrison presents his beautiful meditation on a rare trove of silent nitrate film, as well as the barren Canadian Yukon town where it was found. “Both awe-inspiring and humbling” (New York Times).
A Useful Life
Federico Veiroj
Uruguay, 2010BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, January 28 7 PMView DetailsA lifelong film archivist faces a new beginning with the threatened closure of his institution in this loving black-and-white ode to a life lived among the reels. “An elegy to cinephilia” (Slant). With Morgan Fisher’s Standard Gauge and Alexi Manis’s Luminous.
A Film Unfinished
Yaël Hersonski
Israel, 2010BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, February 4 7 PMIntroduction by William GuynnView DetailsA remarkable examination of what happens when a film on the Warsaw Ghetto, discovered shortly after World War II and thought to be documentary footage, turns out to be an unfinished propaganda film.
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Ross Lipman
United States, 2015Friday, February 16 7 PMView DetailsLipman’s fascinating kino-essay examines a 1965 collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton. “Testifies to an almost inexhaustible fascination with the pleasures and paradoxes of cinema” (New York Times). With the original article: Samuel Beckett’s Film.
Cinema: A Public Affair
Tatiana Brandrup
Germany, 2015Thursday, February 22 7 PMView DetailsThis profile of Naum Kleiman, an acclaimed film historian and former director of Moscow’s Cinema Museum and Eisenstein Center, celebrates “a modest, inspiring cultural figure [with a] conviction that cinema can be used to construct a free civil society” (Hollywood Reporter).
Sacred Places
Jean-Marie Téno
Cameroon, France, 2009Sunday, March 4 7 PMChristian Bruno, Natalija Vekic, and Emily Chao in PersonView DetailsA bootleg DVD, an old TV, and beat-up benches are all you need to keep cinema alive—at least in one run-down Burkinabe neighborhood—in Téno’s tribute to African hustle and cinephilia. With Christian Bruno and Natalija Vekic’s Ed and Pauline and Emily Chao’s Bruce Takes Dragon Town.
The Thoughts That Once We Had
Thom Andersen
United States, 2015Sunday, March 18 7 PMView DetailsThe film essayist behind Red Hollywood and Los Angeles Plays Itself returns with this personal history of cinema, inspired by Gilles Deleuze. “Less a lecture than a wordless, associative, haunted journey not just through the history of cinematic innovation, but through the 20th century itself” (The Guardian).
Salaam Cinema
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Iran, 1995Saturday, March 31 7:30 PMView DetailsAcclaimed Iranian director Makhmalbaf blurs the line between fiction and reality by turning a casting call into cinema, and his prospective actors into subjects, in this tribute to (and wry jab at) the power of film. “Witty and slyly relevant” (Variety).
A World Redrawn: Eisenstein and Brecht in Hollywood
Sunday, April 1 7 PMZoe Beloff in PersonView DetailsExperimental filmmaker Zoe Beloff revisits the Hollywood exile of two revolutionaries—Sergei Eisenstein and Bertolt Brecht—in an illustrated presentation and a trilogy of short films.