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2 PM
Sunday, August 26, 2018
2 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
China, Italy,
1972,
(217 mins)
Imported Print
A meditation on China in the throes of the Cultural Revolution. “The rarest of rare, this epic documentary is as legendary as it is unseen” (Cinematheque Ontario).
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
6:30 PM
Sunday, August 26, 2018
6:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
12:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Way Bay 2 with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
3:10 PM
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1951,
(96 mins)
Digital Restoration
A prima ballerina impulsively revisits the island of her youth and, in flashbacks, her first and only love. Bergman’s breakthrough film is a magical fusion of sunstruck elegiac love poem and dark suggestion.
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: Ingmar Bergman
7 PM
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1962,
(125 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine, drifting out of one affair and into another with Alain Delon’s mercurial stockbroker” (Village Voice). “Perhaps the director’s most savage blast of gorgeous B&W ennui” (Time Out).
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
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12 PM
Thursday, August 30, 2018
12 PM
The organizer of this lecture series discusses the connections among creative works, the experiences of migration, and the possibilities of personal and social transformation.
Free admission
4 PM
Thursday, August 30, 2018
4 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
Back by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, August 30, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, August 30, 2018
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
France, Sweden,
1986,
(149 mins)
A retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film, shot in Sweden by the great Sven Nykvist.
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4 PM
Friday, August 31, 2018
4 PM
Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques Brunius, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Swoboda, Pierre Unik, Maurice Lime, Jean-Paul Le Chanois,
France,
1936,
(66 mins)
The first militant left-wing film made in France, this lyrical cine-essay is a collective effort by some of the finest writers, directors, and cinematographers working in France in the thirties.
Series
Jacques Becker
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, August 31, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
7 PM
Friday, August 31, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1964,
(113 mins)
Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, September 1, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
6 PM
Saturday, September 1, 2018
6 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1970,
(58 mins)
Digital Restoration
Bergman’s first foray into nonfiction filmmaking is a portrait of the remote Baltic island of Fårö, which had become his refuge and the location for a number of his films.
8 PM
Saturday, September 1, 2018
8 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
France, Iran,
1996,
(75 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
The characters of a colorful Persian carpet come alive in Makhmalbaf’s richly colored tribute to the beauty of Iranian gabbeh (carpet) weaving. “Exultantly lyrical” (Variety).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 2, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, September 2, 2018
2 PM
Combining performance and oral history, Berkeley-based hippie icon Wavy Gravy shares his unique experience of living a life of creative activism in the Bay Area, always with fun as a ruling factor.
Included with admission
5 PM
Sunday, September 2, 2018
5 PM
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty,
United States,
1982,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
A blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
In Conversation
7 PM
Sunday, September 2, 2018
7 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1943,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
With this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
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3:10 PM
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1953,
(92 mins)
Digital Restoration
Åke Grönberg and Harriet Andersson portray turn-of-the-century circus performers in Bergman’s earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation.
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: Ingmar Bergman
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
7 PM
(60 mins)
A program of films by a pioneering French avant-garde filmmaker who aimed “to give more space to sensations and dreams,” including short experimental works and her masterpiece, The Smiling Madame Beudet.
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
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11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
12 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
12 PM
Sobecki, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her photographs documenting Europe’s response to the African migration crisis, discusses some of the reasons for migration and the power and limitations of photography as an art form.
Free admission
12 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
12 PM
Lin examines works in Master Traces, Transcultural Visions to highlight the importance of lineage and courtly culture in Tibetan Buddhism.
Included with Free First Thursday
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
A photographic look at the West—the land and the myths—in works by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Ant Farm, and more.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables
7 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
7 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
France, Iran,
1996,
(78 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A policeman and the filmmaker who once attacked him reunite to create a film of their encounter in this revelatory metanarrative on cinema, mythmaking, and storytelling. “Delicate, funny, and touching by turns” (Variety).
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4 PM–9 PM
Friday, September 7, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
5 PM
Friday, September 7, 2018
5 PM
Julie Cohen, Betsy West,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
Profiling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “this clear-eyed and admiring documentary . . . emphasize[s] not just Ginsburg’s work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there” (L.A. Times).
Closed captioned
7 PM
Friday, September 7, 2018
7 PM
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty,
United States,
1982,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
A blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
In Conversation
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11:30 AM–1 PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018
11:30 AM–1 PM
 For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s work, then work with wood, paint, words, and one another to create art and community.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
1 PM–2:30 PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018
1 PM–2:30 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s work, then work with wood, paint, words, and one another to create art and community.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
2:30 PM–9 PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018
2:30 PM–9 PM
3 PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018
3 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Start reading this story about a girl, her dog, and her obsessions—and pick up a copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events
5:30 PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018
5:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1979,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
Bergman’s follow-up documentary about his beloved Fårö offers a more optimistic portrayal of the islanders, as well as fascinating glimpses of community rituals and age-old traditions.
8 PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018
8 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1943,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
With this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 9, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
4 PM
Sunday, September 9, 2018
4 PM
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins,
United States,
1961,
(155 mins)
Digital Restoration Free on the outdoor screen!
Sharks and Jets sing, dance, and rumble their way through the streets and back alleys of late-fifties NYC in a dizzying rush of youth that knows no bounds.
Free. Bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on.
5 PM
Sunday, September 9, 2018
5 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1943,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
With this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
7 PM
Sunday, September 9, 2018
7 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
Iran, Turkey,
1990,
(75 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A love triangle gone awry (maybe) is at the heart of one of Makhmalbaf’s most sensual works, filmed as a triptych in which each section reframes who is victim or victimizer.
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6:30 PM
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30 PM
 Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media
An evening with the acclaimed cultural critic and author of Bad Feminist, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, and many other fierce and funny works.
Admission free; seat reservations required. SOLD OUT.
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3:10 PM
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1955,
(108 mins)
Digital Restoration
Couples meet, split, and reconverge at a country house in the summer of 1900 in Bergman’s carnal comedy. “A tragic-comic chase and roundelay [carried] into elegance and lyric poetry” (Pauline Kael).
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: Ingmar Bergman
7 PM
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
7 PM
(70 mins)
Sears’s experimental animations, collaged from materials ranging from first aid handbooks and high school yearbooks to military newsreels and exercise tapes, are “witty, savvy, ironic, poetic, exhilarating, even cosmic” (Craig Baldwin).
In Conversation
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
12 PM
Ramirez, born and trained in Venezuela and now a dancer with Diablo Ballet, discusses her personal journey and professional career.
Free admission
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 13, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, September 13, 2018
7 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
France, United States,
2009,
(158 mins)
Wiseman “haunts the stairways, rehearsal rooms, and watery subterranean corridors of the Palais Garnier. . . . It’s a joyous experience to see an institution in full flower” (New Yorker).
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6–8 PM
Friday, September 14, 2018
6–8 PM
Make one large-scale collaborative collage with art collective Desi while grooving to the sounds of DJ Microtone.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, September 14, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
5 PM
Friday, September 14, 2018
5 PM
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty,
United States,
1982,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
A blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
In Conversation
7 PM
Friday, September 14, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1952,
(114 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Visconti is in an unusually comic mode for this satire on urban life and movieland ambition. The incomparable Anna Magnani plays a mother trying to launch her young daughter in show business.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, September 15, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
5:30 PM
Saturday, September 15, 2018
5:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1960,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
Looking for trouble, the devil’s minions are sent to the home of a naïve parson whose daughter is about to be married in Bergman’s bizarre fantasy, which underlines that “marriage is hell’s pièce de résistance.”
7:30 PM
Saturday, September 15, 2018
7:30 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
France, Iran, Tajikistan,
1998,
(77 mins)
Tajikistan provides the setting of Makhmalbaf’s lyrical, visually inventive fable about a young blind boy. “Not since Paradjanov has a director so beautifully fragmented his storytelling imagery” (Film Comment).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 16, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, September 16, 2018
5 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
Iran,
1995,
(70 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Makhmalbaf blurs the line between fiction and reality by turning a casting call into cinema, and his prospective actors into subjects, in this tribute to (and wry jab at) the power of film. “Witty and slyly relevant” (Variety).
7 PM
Sunday, September 16, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1943,
(140 mins)
Digital Restoration
With a deft mixture of authenticity, narrative suspense, and ambiguous passions, Visconti transposes James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice to a Po Valley trattoria.
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6:30 PM
Monday, September 17, 2018
6:30 PM
 Presented with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Campbell is cofounder of Creative Aging International, which develops innovative strategies for adapting individuals and systems to aging. He is currently developing collaboration between artists and scientists exploring impacts of demographic change while working to articulate the transitions of contemporary aging.
Free admission
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
12:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
3:10 PM
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1957,
(96 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
A medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy. “A magically powerful film” (Pauline Kael).
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: Ingmar Bergman
7 PM
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
7 PM
Andy Warhol,
United States,
1963/65,
(85 mins)
Revisit Warhol’s famous Factory with this portrait of young heiress Edie Sedgwick, who “was, quite simply, a dazzling film presence” (New York Times). Preceded by a selection of Warhol’s screen tests.
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
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Thursday, September 20, 2018
12 PM
Rael, a UC Berkeley professor of architecture and art practice and author of Borderwall as Architecture, offers counterpropositions to the militarization of the border between the US and Mexico.
Free admission
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 20, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
6 PM
Thursday, September 20, 2018
6 PM
The MATRIX artist discusses her work with the exhibition curator, illuminating the important role of ambiguity in Quarles’s representation of race and sexual identity.
Included with admission
7 PM
Thursday, September 20, 2018
7 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
Federal Republic of Germany, France, Georgia, United Kingdom,
2014,
(119 mins)
A dictator and his young grandson become fugitives in their own country in Makhmalbaf’s modern fable of power and uprising, inspired by the Arab Spring. “A formidable political parable, with echoes of Twain and Beckett” (The Guardian).
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3:30 PM
Friday, September 21, 2018
3:30 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
France, United States,
2009,
(158 mins)
Wiseman “haunts the stairways, rehearsal rooms, and watery subterranean corridors of the Palais Garnier. . . . It’s a joyous experience to see an institution in full flower” (New Yorker).
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, September 21, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
6 PM
Friday, September 21, 2018
6 PM
 Programmed by Maw Shein Win
Readings from local poets Barbara Jane Reyes, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Maw Shein Win, and Vanessa Hua.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
7 PM
Friday, September 21, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1948,
(160 mins)
Digital Restoration
Following the struggles of impoverished Sicilian fisherfolk, Visconti “makes compositions of the most down-to-earth reality as if they were scenes from an opera or a classical tragedy” (André Bazin).
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, September 22, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
12 PM
Saturday, September 22, 2018
12 PM
 Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Join in a creative response to civilian shootings by making clay sculptures of objects that police officers have mistaken for guns.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops
2 PM
Saturday, September 22, 2018
2 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
2017,
(197 mins)
Wiseman’s latest documentary provides welcome confirmation of the survival of intelligent life in discouraging times, following the work behind and beyond the books at the New York Public Library.
6 PM
Saturday, September 22, 2018
6 PM
Samira Makhmalbaf,
Iran,
1998,
(85 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Samira Makhmalbaf’s directorial debut (at age seventeen) blends a fictionalized plot over a shocking real-life tale of two sisters imprisoned by their parents. “Experimental docudrama, open-ended essay, [and] a remarkable movie” (J. Hoberman).
7:30 PM
Saturday, September 22, 2018
7:30 PM
Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion following Samira Makhmalbaf's 1998 directorial debut, which J. Hoberman called “experimental docudrama, open-ended essay, [and] a remarkable movie.”
At Babette
$75 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
8 PM
Saturday, September 22, 2018
8 PM
Victor Sjöström,
Sweden,
1921,
(106 mins)
An alcoholic’s life is changed through love and an encounter with the Grim Reaper in this film of uncanny beauty and inventiveness, which Ingmar Bergman called “the keystone of my cinematographic world.”
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 23, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, September 23, 2018
2 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
4:30 PM
Sunday, September 23, 2018
4:30 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2017,
(115 mins)
The latest feature from acclaimed director Martel is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).
7 PM
Sunday, September 23, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1957,
(101 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Marcello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of the Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
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6:30 PM
Monday, September 24, 2018
6:30 PM
 Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and California Institute for Energy and Environment.
At the close of the Global Climate Summit, join UC Berkeley faculty, artists, and others to reflect on the climate challenges facing our world, and to discuss possible solutions.
Free admission
7 PM
Monday, September 24, 2018
7 PM
 Programmed by Marit Brook-Kothlow and Amy Rathbone
Fauxnique (Monique Jenkinson) performs Drag Movement Study #3, an indulgent investigation of glamour as process.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
12:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
3:10 PM
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1957,
(91 mins)
The film that cemented Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).
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: Ingmar Bergman
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
7 PM
(85 mins)
Seemingly poles apart, Brakhage and Méliès were both independent spirits, explorers of the mythic and the everyday. This program features the rarely screened The Loom and other works by Brakhage as well as Méliès’s The Kingdom of the Fairies.
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
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12 PM
Thursday, September 27, 2018
12 PM
Tijuana-based scholar and author Alarcon discusses his research on deported immigrants and their families.
Free admission
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 27, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, September 27, 2018
7 PM
(110 mins)
In this lecture illustrated with clips from his films, Wiseman talks about the intellectual, aesthetic, and practical decisions involved in making a documentary. Don’t miss this chance to hear a great filmmaker speak in depth about his work.
Special admission: General, $18; BAMPFA members, $14; UC Berkeley students, $10; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under, $15.
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3:30 PM
Friday, September 28, 2018
3:30 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
1969,
(75 mins)
Wiseman’s documentary on a large urban high school in Philadelphia got to the core of American conformity and conditioning; seen as an antiestablishment indictment in the Vietnam War era, it has only gained resonance with age.
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, September 28, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
7 PM
Friday, September 28, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
United Kingdom,
1966,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Simply put, the key movie of the 1960s. Set in a vividly mod Swinging London, Antonioni’s first English-language film [is] a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).
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Saturday, September 29, 2018
1:30 PM
Saturday, September 29, 2018
1:30 PM
Art historian Lusheck delves into intriguing issues of artistic style and connoisseurship, showing why attribution and an appreciation of the “hand of the artist” truly mattered in the European Renaissance.
Included with admission
3:30 PM
Saturday, September 29, 2018
3:30 PM
Richard Lester,
United Kingdom,
1964,
(85 mins)
Digital Restoration
Following the adventures of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, A Hard Day’s Night perfectly captures the spirit of the times—and, of course, the music is fantastic.
6 PM
Saturday, September 29, 2018
6 PM
 Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Brooks performs Tasha, a compelling examination of the intersection of race, gender, mental health, and policing through the story of one woman who was killed in jail.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life
6 PM
Saturday, September 29, 2018
6 PM
Marziyeh Meshkini,
Iran,
2000,
(78 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Meshkini’s intense, allegorical, defiantly feminist triptych covering the challenges of being a woman in Iran is part documentary realism, part Dali-esque fantasy, and altogether “an astonishing directorial debut” (New York Times).
8 PM
Saturday, September 29, 2018
8 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1969,
(72 mins)
One of Bergman’s most stylized and political films, this Kafkaesque chamber drama tracks three actors accused of taking part in a pornographic performance. A bold, blistering comment on artistic censorship.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 30, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, September 30, 2018
2 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
2 PM
Sunday, September 30, 2018
2 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
1999,
(248 mins)
A beautiful portrait of ordinary life in a New England port town, Belfast, Maine is “an immensely rich and immeasurably valuable microcosm of American life at the end of the twentieth century [and] a microcosm of Wiseman’s art” (The Nation).
7 PM
Sunday, September 30, 2018
7 PM
Mel Brooks,
United States,
1968,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
In Brooks’s first film (which won the Oscar for best screenplay), a has-been Broadway producer (Zero Mostel) hopes to bilk his investors by producing a surefire failure: Springtime for Hitler, the musical. With Gene Wilder and Dick Shawn.
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6:30 PM
Monday, October 1, 2018
6:30 PM
 Presented by the Department of Art Practice and the African American Studies Department.
The artist discusses his work using systems, numerals, language, and representation, rethinking notions of subjectivity and how they are manifested in works of art.
Free admission
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
12 PM
Scholar and collector Templeton and art historian Harpster offer their informative perspectives on works in Old Masters in a New Light.
Included with admission
3:10 PM
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1960,
(89 mins)
A stark medieval allegory of faith, sexual violence, and revenge. “Sven Nykvist's luminous black-and-white photography conspire[s] with the austerity of Bergman's imagery to create an extraordinary metaphysical charge” (Time Out).
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: Ingmar Bergman
7 PM
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
7 PM
Steven Arnold,
United States,
1971,
(75 mins)
Restored 16mm Print
The legendary, gender-obliterating funfest unleashed by the cantankerous cross-dressing Cockettes shines on in this immaculate restored print.
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
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11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
12 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
12 PM
The lead consultant for the Pixar animated feature Coco talks about how her work as a cultural translator of Mexican heritage impacted every aspect of the film.
Free admission
1:15 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
1:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Behold the expressive body across cultures: images of dancers, actors, and entertainers from Japan, France, India, and elsewhere.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables
7 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1960,
(177 mins)
Digital Restoration
The lives of a southern Italian family who move to Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society. Starring Alain Delon, the film has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).
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4 PM
Friday, October 5, 2018
4 PM
Julie Cohen, Betsy West,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
Profiling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “this clear-eyed and admiring documentary . . . emphasize[s] not just Ginsburg’s work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there” (L.A. Times).
Closed captioned
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, October 5, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
6 PM
Friday, October 5, 2018
6 PM
 Programmed by MK Chavez
Pushcart Prize nominee Armajani and PEN Center award nominee Banias read from their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings
7 PM
Friday, October 5, 2018
7 PM
Wu Yonggang,
China,
1934,
(85 mins)
Digital Restoration
Ruan Lingyu delivers one of her most luminous performances as a mother forced into prostitution in this classic of the Golden Age of Shanghai cinema, a film that could make even jaded denizens of pre-Code Hollywood blush.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, October 6, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
3:30 PM
Saturday, October 6, 2018
3:30 PM
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats,
France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland,
2001,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Accompanying flocks of migratory birds, this documentary “provides such an intense vicarious experience of being a flapping airborne creature . . . that you leave the theater feeling like an honorary member of another species” (New York Times).
Series
Movie Matinees for All Ages
5:30 PM
Saturday, October 6, 2018
5:30 PM
Samira Makhmalbaf,
Iran,
2000,
(88 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
The starkly desolate mountains of Kurdish Iran serve as backdrop for Samira Makhmalbaf’s hybrid realist fantasia, which follows a group of blackboard-toting itinerant teachers searching for students. “Almost like an art installation in the desert” (The Guardian).
7:30 PM
Saturday, October 6, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden, United States,
1971,
(115 mins)
Digital Restoration
Bergman’s first film in English stars Bibi Andersson as a seemingly happy Swedish housewife embroiled in an affair with a visiting American intellectual hothead (Elliott Gould). Once ignored, the film has been reappraised as “a major entry in the director’s canon” (Geoff Andrews).
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