Summer Repertory, BAMPFA Style
June 6–August 27, 2017
This summer showcase spans centuries and continents with films from the BAMPFA collection and beyond.
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Meek's Cutoff
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Los Olvidados
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The Mill and the Cross
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The New Babylon
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Los Olvidados
Luis Buñuel
Mexico, 1950BAMPFA Collection Print
Friday, June 9 8:15 PMView DetailsBuñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC).
Meek's Cutoff
Kelly Reichardt
United States, 2010Saturday, June 10 8:45 PMView DetailsThree strong women and an assortment of weak men head west on the Oregon Trail in Kelly Reichardt’s feminist, stripped-down Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan.
Meek's Cutoff
Kelly Reichardt
United States, 2010Wednesday, June 14 7 PMView DetailsThree strong women and an assortment of weak men head west on the Oregon Trail in Kelly Reichardt’s feminist, stripped-down Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan.
Los Olvidados
Luis Buñuel
Mexico, 1950BAMPFA Collection Print
Friday, June 16 6:30 PMView DetailsBuñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC).
The First Teacher
Andrei Konchalovsky
USSR, 1966BAMPFA Collection Print
Sunday, July 16 5 PMView DetailsKonchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “Expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Saturday, July 22 6 PMView DetailsThis new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Sunday, July 23 4:30 PMView DetailsThis new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
The First Teacher
Andrei Konchalovsky
USSR, 1966BAMPFA Collection Print
Saturday, July 29 6 PMView DetailsKonchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “Expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
The Mill and the Cross
Lech Majewski
Poland, Sweden, 2010BAMPFA Collection Print
Sunday, July 30 5 PMView DetailsBruegel’s painting The Way to Calvary is brought to life in this inventive interpretation featuring Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling. “An extraordinary example of both art-historical examination and CGI as a passport to unknown lands” (Village Voice).
The New Babylon
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
USSR, 1929BAMPFA Collection
Sunday, August 6 5 PMView DetailsOriginally banned for its excess, this energetic Russian avant-garde extravaganza focuses on a shopgirl and a heroic young soldier in the 1871 Paris Commune. “A masterpiece . . . a steaming hot pot of startling images” (Village Voice).
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
Sergei Parajanov
USSR, 1964BAMPFA Collection Print
Wednesday, August 9 7 PMView DetailsPagan rituals, demonology, folklore, and legend come to life in Paradjanov’s hypnotic updating of a Romeo-and-Juliet-like tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
The New Babylon
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
USSR, 1929BAMPFA Collection
Thursday, August 10 7 PMView DetailsOriginally banned for its excess, this energetic Russian avant-garde extravaganza focuses on a shopgirl and a heroic young soldier in the 1871 Paris Commune. “A masterpiece . . . a steaming hot pot of startling images” (Village Voice).
Antonio Gaudí
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan, 1985Friday, August 18 6:30 PMView DetailsTeshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).
Antonio Gaudí
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan, 1985Sunday, August 27 CancelledView DetailsTeshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).