Special Screenings
Ongoing
Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Black God, White Devil
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Sorry to Bother You
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Snow and the Bear
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
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Victims of Sin
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Upcoming Films
Snow and the Bear
Selcen Ergun
Turkey, Germany, Serbia, 2022Thursday, December 7 7 PMView DetailsA chilling, mysterious, and stunning debut film. “Selcen Ergun’s acute and wide-awake direction emphasizes the undertones of a rigid patriarchal society while brilliantly setting the atmosphere for this anti fairy-tale” (Toronto International Film Festival).
Victims of Sin
Emilio Fernández
Mexico, 1951Digital Restoration
Thursday, December 14 7 PMIntroduced by Peter Conheim and Viviana Garcia-BesnéView DetailsVictims of Sin is famed Mexican director Emilio Fernández’s unique blend of film noir, melodrama, and musical. Fernández infuses the film with impassioned songs and performances by Ninón Sevilla, an icon of Mexican cinema and a purveyor of African, Caribbean, and Cuban dance styles.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Béla Tarr
Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2000Digital Restoration
Sunday, December 17 4 PMView DetailsOne of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. New German Cinema icon Hanna Schygulla appears in a welcome cinematic comeback, while Lars Rudolf contributes a fevered performance of Klaus Kinski–like proportions.
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
Frederick Wiseman
France, United States, 2023Sunday, January 14 2 PMView DetailsEsteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades.
Werckmeister Harmonies
Béla Tarr
Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2000Digital Restoration
Sunday, January 21 1:30 PMView DetailsOne of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. New German Cinema icon Hanna Schygulla appears in a welcome cinematic comeback, while Lars Rudolf contributes a fevered performance of Klaus Kinski–like proportions.
Victims of Sin
Emilio Fernández
Mexico, 1951Digital Restoration
Wednesday, January 24 7 PMIntroduced by Peter Conheim and Viviana Garcia-BesnéView DetailsVictims of Sin is famed Mexican director Emilio Fernández’s unique blend of film noir, melodrama, and musical. Fernández infuses the film with impassioned songs and performances by Ninón Sevilla, an icon of Mexican cinema and a purveyor of African, Caribbean, and Cuban dance styles.
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
Frederick Wiseman
France, United States, 2023Saturday, January 27 2 PMView DetailsEsteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades.
Black God, White Devil
Glauber Rocha
Brazil, 1964Digital Restoration
Saturday, January 27 7 PMView Details“Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, Black God, White Devil is one of the Cinema Novo movement’s most uncompromising statements on current social issues as well as the universal problem of mindless fanaticism” (Janus Films).
Snow and the Bear
Selcen Ergun
Turkey, Germany, Serbia, 2022Wednesday, January 31 7 PMView DetailsA chilling, mysterious, and stunning debut film. “Selcen Ergun’s acute and wide-awake direction emphasizes the undertones of a rigid patriarchal society while brilliantly setting the atmosphere for this anti fairy-tale” (Toronto International Film Festival).
Bushman
David Schickele
United States, 1971Bay Area Premiere of the Digital Restoration
Saturday, February 3 3 PMGail Schickele, Nighttrain Schickele, Rob Nilsson, Ross Lipman, among others in ConversationView DetailsBAMPFA presents the Bay Area premiere of the recently completed restoration of Bushman, directed by Bay Area independent filmmaker David Schickele. We will be joined by special guests, including Schickele’s family, who have been instrumental to the preservation of Bushman, as well as original members of the cast and crew and the preservation team. Paired with Schickele’s earlier film Give Me a Riddle.
Vishniac
Laura Bialis
United States, 2023Copresented with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art
Sunday, February 4 2 PMLaura Bialis and Veronica Selver in ConversationView DetailsBAMPFA partners with The Magnes to host the East Bay Premiere of Vishniac, Laura Bialis’s new portrait of famed photographer Roman Vishniac’s life and work. Bialis joins the February 4 screening to discuss her film with Bay Area documentary filmmaker Veronica Selver (Irmi, KPFA on the Air).
Sorry to Bother You
Boots Riley
United States, 2018Copresented with UC Berkeley’s Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, in conjunction with Imagining Beyond Authoritarianism: Race and Gender in Our Times
Saturday, February 10 7 PMBoots Riley and Darieck Scott in ConversationView DetailsSurrealism meets satire in Oakland. Boots Riley’s black comedy chronicles a hapless telemarketer whose sudden burgeoning success in the workplace is directly proportional to his alienation from his coworkers, his girlfriend, and himself.
Black God, White Devil
Glauber Rocha
Brazil, 1964Digital Restoration
Thursday, February 15 7 PMView Details“Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, Black God, White Devil is one of the Cinema Novo movement’s most uncompromising statements on current social issues as well as the universal problem of mindless fanaticism” (Janus Films).
Vishniac
Laura Bialis
United States, 2023Copresented with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art
Friday, February 23 4 PMView DetailsBAMPFA partners with The Magnes to host the East Bay Premiere of Vishniac, Laura Bialis’s new portrait of famed photographer Roman Vishniac’s life and work.
Bushman
David Schickele
United States, 1971Saturday, February 24 7 PMView DetailsBAMPFA presents the recently completed restoration of Bushman, directed by Bay Area independent filmmaker David Schickele. Paired with Schickele’s earlier film Give Me a Riddle.
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