Special Screenings

Ongoing

Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.

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  • Black God, White Devil

  • Sorry to Bother You

  • Snow and the Bear

  • Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

  • Victims of Sin

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Upcoming Films

  • Snow and the Bear

    Selcen Ergun
    Turkey, Germany, Serbia, 2022
    Thursday, December 7 7 PM

    A 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).

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  • Victims of Sin

    Emilio Fernández
    Mexico, 1951

    Digital Restoration

    Thursday, December 14 7 PM
    Introduced by Peter Conheim and Viviana Garcia-Besné

    Victims 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.

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  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    Béla Tarr
    Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2000

    Digital Restoration

    Sunday, December 17 4 PM

    One 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.  

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  • Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

    Frederick Wiseman
    France, United States, 2023
    Sunday, January 14 2 PM

    Esteemed 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.

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  • Werckmeister Harmonies

    Béla Tarr
    Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, 2000

    Digital Restoration

    Sunday, January 21 1:30 PM

    One 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.  

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  • Victims of Sin

    Emilio Fernández
    Mexico, 1951

    Digital Restoration

    Wednesday, January 24 7 PM
    Introduced by Peter Conheim and Viviana Garcia-Besné

    Victims 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.

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  • Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

    Frederick Wiseman
    France, United States, 2023
    Saturday, January 27 2 PM

    Esteemed 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.

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  • Black God, White Devil

    Glauber Rocha
    Brazil, 1964

    Digital Restoration

    Saturday, January 27 7 PM

    “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).

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  • Snow and the Bear

    Selcen Ergun
    Turkey, Germany, Serbia, 2022
    Wednesday, January 31 7 PM

    A 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).

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  • Bushman

    David Schickele
    United States, 1971
    Saturday, February 3 3 PM
    Gail Schickele, Nighttrain Schickele, Rob Nilsson, Ross Lipman, among others in Conversation

    BAMPFA 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.

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  • Vishniac

    Laura Bialis
    United States, 2023

    Copresented with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art

    Sunday, February 4 2 PM
    Laura Bialis and Veronica Selver in Conversation

    BAMPFA 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).

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  • Sorry to Bother You

    Boots Riley
    United States, 2018

    Copresented 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 PM
    Boots Riley and Darieck Scott in Conversation

    Surrealism 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.

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  • Black God, White Devil

    Glauber Rocha
    Brazil, 1964

    Digital Restoration

    Thursday, February 15 7 PM

    “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).

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  • Vishniac

    Laura Bialis
    United States, 2023

    Copresented with The Magnes Collection of Jewish Life and Art

    Friday, February 23 4 PM

    BAMPFA 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.

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  • Bushman

    David Schickele
    United States, 1971
    Saturday, February 24 7 PM

    BAMPFA 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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