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1:30 PM
Sunday, January 26, 2020
1:30 PM
(89 mins)
This collection of short works finds Varda observing people, spaces, and places from France to Iran, in L’opéra-Mouffe, Du côté de la côte, La réponse de femmes, Plaisir d’amour en Iran, Ulysse, and Les dites cariatides.
3:30 PM
Sunday, January 26, 2020
3:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(174 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
7 PM
Sunday, January 26, 2020
7 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1999,
(111 mins)
An elderly man drives his lawn mower across the Midwest to see his ailing brother in Lynch’s atypically sweet-natured work, released by Walt Disney Pictures. “It may be my most experimental film,” Lynch claimed.
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6:30 PM
Monday, January 27, 2020
6:30 PM
The director of the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab at UC Berkeley discusses the challenges of developing expressive robotic systems to integrate with natural counterparts.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
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3:10 PM
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
3:10 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1945,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration Open City also screens Saturday, February 22 (without lecture).
A group of women and children (led by a charismatic Anna Magnani) try to shelter resistance forces from the Nazis. Rossellini’s moving, inspiring, and agonizing neorealist classic was cowritten by Fellini.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12.
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
7 PM
Wednesday, January 29, 2020
7 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1990,
(127 mins)
Wild at Heart also screens Friday, February 14, with an introduction by Barry Gifford.
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern are star-crossed lovers on the run from various maniacs, including Harry Dean Stanton, William Dafoe, and Dianne Ladd, in Lynch’s fantastical winner of Cannes’s Palme d’Or.
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12 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2020
12 PM
Author Jeff Chang gives a talk drawing on his award-winning book We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation.
Free admission
5 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2020
5 PM
Artist Anne Walsh introduces her new book Hello Leonora, Soy Anne Walsh, a visual and textual response to Surrealist painter Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
7 PM
Thursday, January 30, 2020
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1985,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
The short life and eventual death of a young female drifter forms the basis of Varda’s chilling look at alienation and idealism. “Like so many of the greatest films, it tells us a very specific story, strong and unadorned, about a very particular person” (Roger Ebert).
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5 PM
Friday, January 31, 2020
5 PM
Agnès Varda, JR,
France,
2017,
(89 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Varda teams up with hipster artist JR on a road trip across rural France, meeting the locals and creating large-scale portraits. One of Varda’s last films, and a first-rate achievement in her brilliant career.
7 PM
Friday, January 31, 2020
7 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1986,
(120 mins)
Digital Restoration
Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper inhabit a small-town America steeped in psychic dread. Thirty years later, Lynch's color-saturated noir is “still a hilarious, red-hot poker to the brain” (Guy Maddin).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 1, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
12 PM
Saturday, February 1, 2020
12 PM
Your videotapes are dying! Join the Bay Area Video Coalition’s Preservation Department for hands-on preservation demos and DIY tips.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
3 PM
Saturday, February 1, 2020
3 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1955,
(80 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Varda’s debut film about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague.”
5:30 PM
Saturday, February 1, 2020
5:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1954,
(108 mins)
La strada also screens Wednesday, February 26, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese has called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
8 PM
Saturday, February 1, 2020
8 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1986,
(120 mins)
Digital Restoration
Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper inhabit a small-town America steeped in psychic dread. Thirty years later, Lynch's color-saturated noir is “still a hilarious, red-hot poker to the brain” (Guy Maddin).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 2, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
3 PM
Sunday, February 2, 2020
3 PM
Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang,
United States,
2019,
(89 mins)
This chilling and complex documentary explores the lasting consequences of China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015. Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, US Documentary.
5 PM
Sunday, February 2, 2020
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1975,
(80 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s playful and affectionate portrait of her own thoroughly Parisian neighborhood and the shopkeepers who keep it thriving. “Casual anthropology with a strongly humanist bent” (Slant).
7 PM
Sunday, February 2, 2020
7 PM
Călin Peter Netzer,
Romania,
2013,
(112 mins)
Grand prize winner at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival, this “ferocious psychological drama with the pace of a thriller” (Los Angeles Times) follows an upper-class Bucharest architect who’ll stop at nothing to keep her grown son out of jail.
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6:30 PM
Monday, February 3, 2020
6:30 PM
Faculty and students from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism present documentaries, photography, and innovative multimedia projects from the J-School.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
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5:30 PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
5:30 PM
 Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $2,500 level and above
Curator's Circle member reception and tickets to screening and public program featuring producer James Schamus in conversation.
Curator's Circle members only event.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
7 PM
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
7 PM
Kitty Green,
United States,
2019,
(87 mins)
Free Sneak Preview!
A junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul grows increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday. “An urgent, quiet scream . . . a jarring portrait of today’s contemporary workplace where too many women remain marginalized. And worse” (Film Comment).
Free admission; first come, first served. Doors open at 6:30 PM.
In Conversation
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3:10 PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada,
Italy,
1950,
(97 mins)
Variety Lights also screens Sunday, January 19 (without lecture).
Following a troupe of small-time vaudevillians led by an incorrigible dreamer (Peppino De Filippo) and his fiancée (Giulietta Masina), this was Fellini’s first look at the passions and dreams of eccentrics living beyond bourgeois society—but not his last.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12.
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
7 PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2020
7 PM
(85 mins)
Three short works that expand the nonfiction form: Vincent Carelli and Mari Corrêa’s Video in the Villages Presents Itself, on indigenous media in Brazil; Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s The Black Cave, exploring Puerto Rico’s Paso del Indio; and Laura Huertas Millán’s La libertad, taking its structure from the pre-Hispanic backstrap loom.
Series
Documentary Voices
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12 PM
Thursday, February 6, 2020
12 PM
Join artists Lava Thomas and Mildred Howard for a conversation about their experiences with public art commissions in the Bay Area.
Free admission
1:15 PM
Thursday, February 6, 2020
1:15 PM
Expert tour guides share highlights of exhibitions on view throughout the museum.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
2 PM–7 PM
Thursday, February 6, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, February 6, 2020
4 PM–7 PM
This month’s Five Tables gathers works in many shades and moods of blue.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables
7 PM
Thursday, February 6, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(138 mins)
Film to Table dinner follows the February 15 screening 8 1/2 also screens Wednesday, March 18, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (The Guardian).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 7, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
5 PM
Friday, February 7, 2020
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1962,
(90 mins)
Digital Restoration
Shot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Cléo chronicles two hours of a pop singer’s life. A score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Legrand, Jean-Luc Godard, and Anna Karina flavor this New Wave classic that proves Varda’s theme, “one isn’t born a woman, one becomes one.”
7 PM
Friday, February 7, 2020
7 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1997,
(134 mins)
Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, and Balthazar Getty flicker across the nocturnal highways and haunts of a nightmarish Los Angeles in Lynch’s audacious “twenty-first-century noir horror film,” as he and cowriter Barry Gifford dubbed it.
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11:30 AM
Saturday, February 8, 2020
11:30 AM
 For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Tour the exhibition of Ron Nagle’s work and learn how his sculptures take shape, then make a painting inspired by Nagle’s vibrant and fascinating art.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
1 PM
Saturday, February 8, 2020
1 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Tour the exhibition of Ron Nagle’s work and learn how his sculptures take shape, then make a painting inspired by Nagle’s vibrant and fascinating art.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
2:30 PM–7 PM
Saturday, February 8, 2020
2:30 PM–7 PM
3 PM
Saturday, February 8, 2020
3 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
This month’s reading is the funny, heartfelt story of a Bay Area fifth-grader, his two very different sisters, and their struggle to keep their beloved dog.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
Saturday, February 8, 2020
5 PM
(80 mins)
This program also screens Wednesday, January 22, with a lecture by Tom Luddy.
These short films made in the sixties are both political and playful, in keeping with the times. Salut les cubains screens along with two works made in the Bay Area, Uncle Yanco (on Varda’s artist uncle) and Black Panthers (featuring Huey Newton and Kathleen Cleaver).
7 PM
Saturday, February 8, 2020
7 PM
Berkeley Ballet Theater and San Francisco Girls Chorus present excerpts from their new production exploring the impact of the women’s suffrage movement.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full
7 PM
Saturday, February 8, 2020
7 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1992,
(134 mins)
Lynch’s prequel to his cult television show Twin Peaks heads deeper into the woods of small-town Americana, a province of murder, perversity, and crap interior decorating. “Lynch’s masterpiece” (Village Voice).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 9, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
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6:30 PM
Monday, February 10, 2020
6:30 PM
Join Oakland-based artist Drew Bennett, the founder of Facebook’s artist residency program, as well as UC Berkeley faculty for a discussion of careers in creative fields.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
12:15 PM
Expert tour guides share highlights of exhibitions on view throughout the museum.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
3:10 PM
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1952,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration The White Sheik also screens Thursday, January 16 (without lecture).
Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader).
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12.
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
7 PM
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
7 PM
Andrei Ujica, Harun Farocki,
Germany,
1992,
(106 mins)
The infamous televised speech Nicolae Ceauşescu delivered on the night his regime fell in 1989 is the centerpiece of this sophisticated investigation of the power of images.
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12 PM
Thursday, February 13, 2020
12 PM
Curator Eungie Joo discusses the exhibition SOFT POWER, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Free admission
2 PM–7 PM
Thursday, February 13, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, February 13, 2020
7 PM
Andrei Ujica,
Russia,
1995,
(96 mins)
Ujică’s Russian-made precursor to The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu uses found footage to revisit the tale of a Soviet cosmonaut whose time in space corresponded with the sudden downfall of the Soviet Union.
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12 PM
Friday, February 14, 2020
12 PM
Independent curator and writer Juana Berrío presents perspectives on Ron Nagle’s ceramic sculptures through the lenses of painting and music.
Included with admission
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 14, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
5 PM
Friday, February 14, 2020
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1965,
(85 mins)
Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure, as a carpenter seeks happiness with both his wife and his mistress. “Varda fills her frames with riots of nature and color” (Richard Brody).
7 PM
Friday, February 14, 2020
7 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1990,
(127 mins)
Wild at Heart also screens Wednesday, January 29 (without introduction).
Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern are star-crossed lovers on the run from various maniacs, including Harry Dean Stanton, William Dafoe, and Dianne Ladd, in Lynch’s fantastical winner of Cannes’s Palme d’Or.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 15, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Saturday, February 15, 2020
1 PM
Jacques Demy,
France,
1967,
(124 mins)
Digital Restoration
Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac play twins lifted out of their small-town reveries by a troupe of wandering entertainers, including Gene Kelly. This musical by Varda’s husband, Jacques Demy, is “not merely charming or amusing, but profoundly moving” (Sight & Sound).
3:30 PM
Saturday, February 15, 2020
3:30 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1993,
(65 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s splendid documentary revisits the town of Rochefort on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the shooting of The Young Girls of Rochefort, and finds evidence of the film’s lasting effects on the townspeople.
5 PM
Saturday, February 15, 2020
5 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(138 mins)
Film to Table dinner follows the February 15 screening 8 1/2 also screens Wednesday, March 18, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (The Guardian).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
8 PM
Saturday, February 15, 2020
8 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
2001,
(146 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
An ingenue recently arrived in Los Angeles (Naomi Watts) becomes involved with a raven-haired amnesiac beauty (Laura Harring) in Lynch’s Chandler-by-way-of-Borges postmodern noir, one of Sight & Sound’s “greatest films of all time.”
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
12:30 PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020
12:30 PM
Andrei Ujica,
Romania,
2010,
(180 mins)
A portrait of a nation—and a cult of personality—through found footage, Ujică’s dissection of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu’s media masquerade is “a cinematic tour de force” (New York Times).
5 PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020
5 PM
 Programmed by Alix Blevins
The AB West 8+1 ensemble performs the music of Anthony Braxton, one of the most revered figures in contemporary music.
Included with admission
Series
Performances
5 PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France, United States,
1980,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s documentary looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980.
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12 PM
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
12 PM
A talk by architect Rodney Leon, designer of the Ark of Return—the United Nations memorial dedicated to victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade—and of the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York.
Admission free; seat reservations required.
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12 PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
12 PM
Explore the art and life of Rosie Lee Tompkins with a gallery talk by exhibition cocurator Elaine Yau.
Included with admission
3:10 PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1953,
(105 mins)
I vitelloni also screens Saturday, January 25 (without lecture).
Fellini paired with the great Italian comic everyman Alberto Sordi for this look at the not-so-young sons of the middle class, (barely) growing up in the provincial town of Rimini. “One of the screen’s great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men” (Chicago Tribune).
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12.
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
6:00 PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6:00 PM
 Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above
Please join BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder for a reception and tour of Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
7 PM
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
7 PM
Maya Da-Rin,
Brazil,
2010,
(100 mins)
The invisible border that the Amazon River forms between Colombia, Brazil, and Peru is the main character in Maya Da-Rin’s beautiful film, which moves between nature, culture, and commerce. With Jesse Lerner and Scott Sterling’s short Natives.
Series
Documentary Voices
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12 PM
Thursday, February 20, 2020
12 PM
Scholar Sarah Lewis discusses how images create narratives that shape our definition of national belonging.
Free admission
2 PM–7 PM
Thursday, February 20, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, February 20, 2020
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
United States,
1969,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s experimental feature, shot in Hollywood in 1968 and starring Warhol superstar Viva, is a deliberately decadent riff on fantasy, immaturity, and violence. “More than a time capsule of events and moods—it’s a living aesthetic model for revolutionary times” (Richard Brody).
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12 PM
Friday, February 21, 2020
12 PM
The student curators of Lands of Promise and Peril present gallery talks mapping the exhibition’s themes and revealing their curatorial process and perspectives.
Included with admission
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 21, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
4 PM
Friday, February 21, 2020
4 PM
Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang,
United States,
2019,
(89 mins)
This chilling and complex documentary explores the lasting consequences of China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015. Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, US Documentary.
7 PM
Friday, February 21, 2020
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2000,
(82 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, and finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 22, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
3 PM
Saturday, February 22, 2020
3 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1991,
(118 mins)
Digital Restoration
Inspired by the memories of her husband, director Jacques Demy, Varda crafted this affecting and enlightening portrait of the artist as a young boy in 1940s Nantes. “A one-of-a-kind celebration” (New York Times).
4 PM
Saturday, February 22, 2020
4 PM
 Programmed by Ryanaustin Dennis
Choreographer and movement artist Stephanie Hewett presents (E)cho Queue, a performance that aims to reclaim the inextricable connection between techno music and black life.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life
5:30 PM
Saturday, February 22, 2020
5:30 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1945,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration Open City also screens Wednesday, January 29, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
A group of women and children (led by a charismatic Anna Magnani) try to shelter resistance forces from the Nazis. Rossellini’s moving, inspiring, and agonizing neorealist classic was cowritten by Fellini.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
8 PM
Saturday, February 22, 2020
8 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1976,
(90 mins)
Lynch’s debut feature, still creepy after all these years: “a masterpiece of texture . . . an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze” (Village Voice).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2020
2 PM
Join a guided tour to discover the vibrant and innovative work of quilt artist Rosie Lee Tompkins.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
2 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2020
2 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1946,
(126 mins)
Digital Restoration
An episodic, semidocumentary portrait of wartime Italy, from Sicily during the Allied invasion to the Po Valley near the war’s end. “One of the strongest antiwar films ever made” (New York Times), it was cowritten by Fellini.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
3 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2020
3 PM
The student curators of Lands of Promise and Peril present gallery talks mapping the exhibition’s themes and revealing their curatorial process and perspectives.
Included with admission
4:30 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2020
4:30 PM
Agnès Varda,
Belgium, France, Venezuela,
1977,
(121 mins)
Digital Restoration
Two very different women search for their place in the world over the course of a decade in Varda’s look at friendship and feminism. “Remains almost unique as a commercial French film concerned with the militant aspects of the women’s movement” (Alison Smith).
7 PM
Sunday, February 23, 2020
7 PM
Ivana Mladenović,
Romania,
2017,
(120 mins)
Two men form an unlikely couple in one of Bucharest’s toughest Romany neighborhoods in this naturalist drama, a gay, Romany Romeo and Juliet.
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6:30 PM
Monday, February 24, 2020
6:30 PM
Poet, scholar, and new media artist Margaret Rhee talks about robots, the racialization of Asian Americans, and the relationship between technology and difference in modern society.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
12:15 PM
Join a guided tour to discover the vibrant and innovative work of quilt artist Rosie Lee Tompkins.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
3:10 PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1954,
(108 mins)
La strada also screens Saturday, February 1 (without lecture).
Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese has called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12.
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
7 PM
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1977,
(106 mins)
New York City, imposing and anonymous, serves as the visual counterpoint to Chantal Akerman’s reading of her own mother’s letters in this personal, beautifully photographed film. With Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s short Measures of Distance.
Series
Documentary Voices
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2 PM–7 PM
Thursday, February 27, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
5 PM
Thursday, February 27, 2020
5 PM
Award-winning author Susan Straight reads from her family memoir In the Country of Women, which Joyce Carol Oates called “a beautiful book . . . the most populated, celebratory, filled-with-life memoir of our time.”
Included with admission
Series
Readings
Thursday, February 27, 2020
7 PM
Radu Jude,
Romania,
2018,
(138 mins)
Radu Jude dissects the rise of neofascism and the reemergence of anti-Semitism in Europe in this metafictional black comedy. “A complicated meditation on the responsibilities—and limits—of art in the face of horror” (New York Times).
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, February 28, 2020
2 PM–7 PM
4 PM
Friday, February 28, 2020
4 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1946,
(101 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Trying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair. Hitchcock’s polished, perverse thriller exploits an espionage plot to explore the nature of love and loyalty.
7 PM
Friday, February 28, 2020
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2008,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda takes a cinematic stroll through her long career—and the history of French film—in this first-person documentary. “For all its melancholy and its profound awareness of mortality, [it is] one of the jolliest, more life-affirming self-portraits in recent cinema” (Sight & Sound).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, February 29, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Saturday, February 29, 2020
2 PM
Note: An email announcement mistakenly listed this event's start time as 3 PM. The correct start time is 2 PM. We regret the error.
Scholars Elaine Yau, Horace Ballard, and Lisa Gail Collins shed new light on Tompkins, her cultural context, and her place in modern and contemporary art.
Included with admission
5:30 PM
Saturday, February 29, 2020
5:30 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1949,
(87 mins)
Cowritten by Fellini, Rossellini’s episodic tribute to the People’s Saint is constructed with crafty simplicity, rich humanity, and earthly joy. “A glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature” (Dave Kehr).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
7:30 PM
Saturday, February 29, 2020
7:30 PM
(52 mins)
Discover or revisit the rare short works of David Lynch, from films he made as a student in the late sixties to later evocations of dreams and nightmares.
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