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

  • Los Olvidados

  • The Mill and the Cross

  • The New Babylon

  • Upcoming
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  • Upcoming
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  • Selected
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  • Past
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Past Films

  • Los Olvidados

    Luis Buñuel
    Mexico, 1950

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Friday, June 9 8:15 PM

    Buñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC).

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  • Meek's Cutoff

    Kelly Reichardt
    United States, 2010
    Saturday, June 10 8:45 PM

    Three 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.

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  • Meek's Cutoff

    Kelly Reichardt
    United States, 2010
    Wednesday, June 14 7 PM

    Three 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.

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  • Los Olvidados

    Luis Buñuel
    Mexico, 1950

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Friday, June 16 6:30 PM

    Buñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC).

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  • The First Teacher

    Andrei Konchalovsky
    USSR, 1966

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Sunday, July 16 5 PM

    Konchalovsky’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).

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  • The End of the Ottoman Empire

    Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
    France, Switzerland, 2016
    Saturday, July 22 6 PM

    This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.

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  • The End of the Ottoman Empire

    Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
    France, Switzerland, 2016
    Sunday, July 23 4:30 PM

    This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.

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  • The First Teacher

    Andrei Konchalovsky
    USSR, 1966

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Saturday, July 29 6 PM

    Konchalovsky’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).

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  • The Mill and the Cross

    Lech Majewski
    Poland, Sweden, 2010

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Sunday, July 30 5 PM

    Bruegel’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).

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  • The New Babylon

    Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
    USSR, 1929

    BAMPFA Collection

    Sunday, August 6 5 PM

    Originally 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).

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  • Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

    Sergei Parajanov
    USSR, 1964

    BAMPFA Collection Print

    Wednesday, August 9 7 PM

    Pagan 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).

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  • The New Babylon

    Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
    USSR, 1929

    BAMPFA Collection

    Thursday, August 10 7 PM

    Originally 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).

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  • Antonio Gaudí

    Hiroshi Teshigahara
    Japan, 1985

     

    Friday, August 18 6:30 PM

    Teshigahara’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).

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  • Antonio Gaudí

    Hiroshi Teshigahara
    Japan, 1985

     

    Sunday, August 27 Cancelled

    Teshigahara’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).

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