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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, February 28, 2016
11 AM-7 PM
 Drop-in Art Making
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission 2-5 PM
Sunday, February 28, 2016
2-5 PM
The workshop is at capacity and registration is closed.
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12 PM
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
12 PM
(90 mins)
Admission free. Please note that a ticket is required to visit the galleries.
Series
Big Ideas
3:10 PM
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
3:10 PM
(170 mins)
Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.
Lecture by Rick Prelinger
Prelinger presents an East Bay–themed version of his wildly popular Lost Landscapes series, featuring rediscovered and rarely seen film clips by amateurs, newsreel cameramen, and industrial filmmakers.
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50.
7 PM
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
7 PM
Eduardo Coutinho,
Brazil,
1998,
(81 mins)
Introduced by Natalia Brizuela
Against the backdrop of the Pope’s 1997 visit, Coutinho investigates faith in Brazil, discovering a unique mix of Catholicism, Umbanda beliefs, and Evangelical traditions.
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All Day
Thursday, March 3, 2016
All Day
12:15 PM
Thursday, March 3, 2016
12:15 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
7:30 PM
Thursday, March 3, 2016
7:30 PM
(90 mins)
Member Screening
OPEN TO BAMPFA MEMBERS ONLY
Email to Reserve Tickets. bampfamember@berkeley.edu
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12:15 PM
Friday, March 4, 2016
12:15 PM
 Lunchtime Talk
UC Berkeley art history professor Kroiz brings her current research on Ad Reinhardt to his classic 1960–65 abstract painting from the BAMPFA collection.
Included with admission
6 PM
Friday, March 4, 2016
6 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
7 PM
Friday, March 4, 2016
7 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1929,
(80 mins)
BAMPFA Student Pick!
Live Music: Judith Rosenberg on piano
Epstein collaborated with local Breton fishermen to create this tale of their fear of the very thing that brings them life: the sea. “A masterpiece of silent cinema” (ARTE).
Series
Jean Epstein
8:40 PM
Friday, March 4, 2016
8:40 PM
James Schneider,
France,
2011,
(68 mins)
This poetic meditation on Epstein and his work focuses on the time he spent in Brittany.
Series
Jean Epstein
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Saturday, March 5, 2016
11 AM
Columbia University neuroscientist Claude Ghez analyzes Caillebotte's use of linear perspective in the painting Le Pont de l'Europe, on view in Architecture of Life.
Included with admission
1:30 PM
Saturday, March 5, 2016
1:30 PM
 Cosponsored by UC Extension
Included with admission. Advance registration now closed, but seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
2 PM
Saturday, March 5, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
2 PM
Saturday, March 5, 2016
2 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
6:30 PM
Saturday, March 5, 2016
6:30 PM
 Imported 35mm Prints!
Six lyrical shorts dedicated to Turkey’s history and people, shot there by Pialat and cinematographer Willy Kurant (Masculin féminin) in 1964.
8:15 PM
Saturday, March 5, 2016
8:15 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1974,
(87 mins)
Digital Restoration!
In this "incandescent masterpiece"(Sight & Sound), a man (Philippe Léotard) watches his mother die of cancer.
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Sunday, March 6, 2016
10 AM
Open to all BAMPFA members
Open to all BAMPFA members
RSVP to bampfamember@berkeley.edu
2 PM
Sunday, March 6, 2016
2 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
3 PM
Sunday, March 6, 2016
3 PM
(90 mins)
Live Performance!
Travel back to the vaudeville era, when movies were just part of the show. Performers complement silent gems by Méliès, Griffith, and others with songs, speech, and feats of magic.
5:30 PM
Sunday, March 6, 2016
5:30 PM
Bazi Gete,
Israel,
2014,
(80 mins)
Israel’s vibrant Ethiopian Jewish community—rarely portrayed on screen—is featured in this story of an elderly widower, inspired by King Lear.
Series
African Film Festival 2016
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
12 PM
3:10 PM
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
3:10 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1958,
(170 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Lecture by Mike Pogorzelski
Part three of Satyajit Ray’s beloved Apu Trilogy finds Apu as an adult, and in love. “So fresh and spontaneous that one feels . . . as if it were the world’s first love story” (Pauline Kael). (103 mins)
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
7 PM
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
7 PM
Albert Maysles, D. A. Pennebaker, Robert Drew,
United States,
1960,
(54 mins)
A cinema-verité treatment of John F. Kennedy’s campaign against Hubert Humphrey during the 1960 primary race, Primary ranks among the most influential documentaries of the postwar period.
Series
Documentary Voices 2016
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6-8 PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6-8 PM
Join artist Travis Meinolf for a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building.
Series
Workshops 2016
1–2:30 PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016
1–2:30 PM
At this garden tour, learn how nature’s mathematical designs and patterns are adaptations that help plants to survive.
At UC Botanical Garden
Included with Botanical Garden admission. Advance registration required.
12:15 PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016
12:15 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
6:30 PM
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30 PM
(135 mins)
A special issue of Film Quarterly devoted to Coutinho launches between the features.
Introduced by Natalia Brizuela Scavengers, on life and work in a garbage dump, is followed by a screening of Metal Workers, on the strikes that helped bring down the Brazilian dictatorship.
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6:30 PM
Friday, March 11, 2016
6:30 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1923,
(85 mins)
Judith Rosenberg on piano
A young woman suffers at the hands of her foster family and the town drunk until her true love offers a possible salvation in Epstein’s visually stunning tale of violence, love, and loss.
Series
Jean Epstein
8:30 PM
Friday, March 11, 2016
8:30 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1979,
(85 mins)
Imported 35mm Print!
Pialat's slice-of-life portrait of kids in a northern mining town has the brutally compassionate sense of reality for which he is acclaimed.
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2–5 PM
Saturday, March 12, 2016
2–5 PM
Open to BAMPFA members at the Sponsor level & above
Open to BAMPFA members at the Sponsor level & above
RSVP to bampfamember@berkeley.edu
11:30 AM
Saturday, March 12, 2016
11:30 AM
 Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult
A collaborative brushwork activity inspired by Qiu Zhijie’s ink wall drawing, led by artist Jennie Smith.
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult. Sign up onsite at least ten minutes before session.
Series
Family Fare
1 PM
Saturday, March 12, 2016
1 PM
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult
A collaborative brushwork activity inspired by Qiu Zhijie’s ink wall drawing, led by artist Jennie Smith.
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult. Sign up onsite at least ten minutes before session.
Series
Family Fare
2 PM
Saturday, March 12, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
5 PM
Saturday, March 12, 2016
5 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1960,
(172 mins)
New 4k Digital Restoration!
Visconti’s masterwork about a southern Italian family seeking a better life in Milan has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a 19th-century novel” (NY Times).
8:15 PM
Saturday, March 12, 2016
8:15 PM
Philippe Lacôte,
France,
2014,
(100 mins)
A young man goes on the run after assassinating a politician in this picaresque coming-of-age tale, the first Ivorian feature screened at Cannes. Isaach de Bankolé (Night on Earth, White Material) costars.
Series
African Film Festival 2016
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1:30 PM
Sunday, March 13, 2016
1:30 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1971,
(360 mins)
One of Pialat's most beloved films, The House in the Woods tells of life in a French village during WWI and centers on a gamekeeper and his wife who take in children left abandoned in the war.
Screened with intermission
2 PM
Sunday, March 13, 2016
2 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
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12 PM
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
12 PM
3:10 PM
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
3:10 PM
Rithy Panh,
Cambodia, France,
2013,
(170 mins)
Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.
Lecture by Antonella Bonfanti Renowned Cambodian filmmaker Panh’s haunting, powerful, and personal investigation into the Cambodian genocide. With Warren Sonbert’s Hall of Mirrors and Stan Brakhage’s The Dark Tower.
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50.
7 PM
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
7 PM
Patricio Guzmán,
Chile, France, Spain,
2015,
(82 mins)
Guzmán (Nostalgia for the Light) continues his excavation of Chile’s hidden past by using the theme of water to tie together strands of history and natural history in Patagonia.
Series
Documentary Voices 2016
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12:15 PM
Thursday, March 17, 2016
12:15 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
7 PM
Thursday, March 17, 2016
7 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1927,
(122 mins)
Archival Prints!
Lecture and booksigning by Sarah Keller. Judith Rosenberg on piano
Two brothers inherit the family fortune; one falls in love with an opera singer who cannot be loved, while the other hopes to rescue him. With short Sa tête.
Series
Jean Epstein
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12 PM
Friday, March 18, 2016
12 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, March 18, 2016
6:30 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1932,
(79 mins)
Archival Prints!
Introduced by Sarah Keller
Epstein’s moving yet disturbing portrait of the inhabitants of a remote, windswept island, is an early use of "natural actors" in a "natural set." With short Les berceaux.
Series
Jean Epstein
8:30 PM
Friday, March 18, 2016
8:30 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1936,
(73 mins)
Archival Print!
Introduced by Sarah Keller
The story of a young man from a wealthy family and a perfume girl with whom he falls in love. “A beautifully shot film, bathed in every kind of luminescence” (Anthology Film Archives).
Series
Jean Epstein
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All Day
Saturday, March 19, 2016
All Day
1:30 PM
Saturday, March 19, 2016
1:30 PM
2 PM
Saturday, March 19, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
3:30 PM
Saturday, March 19, 2016
3:30 PM
Michel Ocelot,
Belgium, France,
1998,
(75 mins)
Free for BAMPFA members. RSVP to bampfamember@berkeley.edu Recommended for ages 6 & up English-Language Version
This gorgeously animated modern classic recounts the tale of little Kirikou, a brave newborn toddler who takes on an evil sorceress in order to save his village. Soundtrack by Youssou N’Dour.
6:30 PM
Saturday, March 19, 2016
6:30 PM
(69 mins)
Archival Prints!
Introduced by Sarah Keller Epstein’s innovative films created in the windswept, ocean-lashed region of Brittany: Le tempestaire, Mor'Vran, and Les feux de la mer.
Series
Jean Epstein
8:20 PM
Saturday, March 19, 2016
8:20 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1985,
(113 mins)
Imported 35mm Print!
Gérard Depardieu stars in this policier about a burnt-out cop, a Tunisian drug ring, and an elusive lover.
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11 AM - 12:30 PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016
11 AM - 12:30 PM
All Day
Sunday, March 20, 2016
All Day
2:30 PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016
2:30 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
4 PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016
4 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1960,
(111 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration!
A vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba becomes the intelligence source for the British Secret Service in this droll spy spoof written by Graham Greene, featuring Alec Guinness and Noel Coward.
4 PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016
4 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
6:30 PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016
6:30 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1960,
(172 mins)
New 4k Digital Restoration!
Visconti’s masterwork about a southern Italian family seeking a better life in Milan has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a 19th-century novel” (NY Times).
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7 PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
7 PM
An exploration of the human voice with virtuoso singers Pamela Z, Richard Mix, and the Cornelius Cardew Choir.
Please note seating is very limited
Included with admission
Series
Full 2016
7 PM
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1960,
(172 mins)
New 4k Digital Restoration!
Visconti’s masterwork about a southern Italian family seeking a better life in Milan has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a 19th-century novel” (NY Times).
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7 PM
Thursday, March 24, 2016
7 PM
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Turkey,
2014,
(196 mins)
Inspired by Dostoevsky, Ibsen, and Chekhov, Ceylan’s slow-burning masterpiece of fear and self-loathing among a well-off family in breathtakingly beautiful Cappadocia won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
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6-8 PM
Friday, March 25, 2016
6-8 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, March 25, 2016
6:30 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1983,
(102 mins)
Imported 35mm Print!
The "best film of the year" (Village Voice) revolves around a teenage girl (Sandrine Bonnaire) and her disruptive erotic power over her own family.
8:30 PM
Friday, March 25, 2016
8:30 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1995,
(102 mins)
Imported 35mm Print!
Gérard Depardieu once again shows his extraordinary range, this time as a Parisian deciding whether or not to leave his wife for his mistress.
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6 PM
Saturday, March 26, 2016
6 PM
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Turkey,
1997,
(102 mins)
Ceylan’s feature debut is a wistful look at village life and the structures that bind communities and family together, based on an autobiographical story by the director’s sister. With short Cocoon.
8 PM
Saturday, March 26, 2016
8 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1933,
(97 mins)
Archival Prints!
An ode to transportation, as well as to every possible kind of cinematic movement, Epstein’s film combines a love triangle and the theme of world travel. With short La villanelle des rubans.
Series
Jean Epstein
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4:30 PM
Sunday, March 27, 2016
4:30 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1923,
(72 mins)
Archival Print!
Judith Rosenberg on piano
Based on a Balzac novella, this extraordinary “double narrative” unfolds two stories in parallel—one during an elegant dinner in Paris, the other in an isolated Alsace inn.
Series
Jean Epstein
6:30 PM
Sunday, March 27, 2016
6:30 PM
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Turkey,
1999,
(130 mins)
Ceylan’s second film—in some ways a “making of” his first—tells the story of a filmmaker who returns to the village of his childhood to scout locations for a new project.
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12 PM
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
12 PM
(90 mins)
In Conversation with Nicholas de Monchaux
Admission free. Please note that a ticket is required to visit the galleries.
Series
Big Ideas
7 PM
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
7 PM
Charles Ferguson,
United States,
2010,
(105 mins)
Charles Ferguson in person
Ferguson’s Academy Award–winning documentary charts the sadly all-too-human causes of the 2008 global financial meltdown. It “will leave you both thunderstruck and boiling with rage” (LA Times).
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12:15 PM
Thursday, March 31, 2016
12:15 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
7 PM
Thursday, March 31, 2016
7 PM
Charles Ferguson,
United States,
2015,
(100 mins)
Charles Ferguson in person
Ferguson’s latest documentary takes on global climate change from Indonesia to Appalachia, China to California, unmasking not only its causes and effects but, more importantly, what we can do to combat it.
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6-9 PM
Friday, April 1, 2016
6-9 PM
 Drop-in Artmaking
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
12:15 PM
Friday, April 1, 2016
12:15 PM
 Lunchtime Talk
Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of modern and contemporary art at UC Berkeley, talks about Ruth Asawa’s wire sculptures and Louise Bourgeois’s hanging bronzes.
Included with admission
6 PM
Friday, April 1, 2016
6 PM
Get more out of your visit with a guided tour of BAMPFA's inaugural exhibition, Architecture of Life.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Series
Guided Tours 2016
6:30 PM
Friday, April 1, 2016
6:30 PM
Jean Epstein,
France,
1924,
(93 mins)
Archival Print!
Judith Rosenberg on piano
A young Indian prince (the great Ivan Mosjoukine) flees his kingdom for Paris due to a doomed love affair, only to fall in love again, in Epstein’s almost forgotten treasure.
Series
Jean Epstein
8:30 PM
Friday, April 1, 2016
8:30 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1960,
(111 mins)
New 4K Digital Restoration!
A vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba becomes the intelligence source for the British Secret Service in this droll spy spoof written by Graham Greene, featuring Alec Guinness and Noel Coward.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2016
11 AM-9 PM
Drop-in Artmaking
Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.
Included with admission
2 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
3:30 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2016
3:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
1998,
(105 mins)
English-language version Recommended for ages 5 & up BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
The thirteen-year-old witch Kiki leaves home and discovers a soaring independence as she masters her mother’s broom.
6 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2016
6 PM
Radu Muntean,
France, Germany, Romania, Sweden,
2015,
(93 mins)
East Bay Premiere!
"An expertly executed slow-burn thriller reminiscent of Hitchcock’s Rear Window.”—TIFF
8 PM
Saturday, April 2, 2016
8 PM
Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Turkey,
2002,
(110 mins)
Winner of the Cannes Grand Jury Prize
Introduced by Deniz Göktürk
A lonely photographer haunts the windswept streets of Istanbul, until the arrival of a small-town cousin interrupts—or compounds—his solitude.
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