May 2016

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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, May 1, 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

Sunday, May 1, 2016
11 AM
Look through a microscope to discover new levels of structure, beauty, and information in the world around us.
Included with admission
Sunday, May 1, 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.
3:15 PM
  • Film
Sunday, May 1, 2016
3:15 PM
Raam Reddy,
India, United States,
2016,
(123 mins)
In a small South Indian village, a cantankerous centenarian keels over and dies, setting the stage for a capricious comedy of errors among three generations of dissimilar sons.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
6:15 PM
Sunday, May 1, 2016
6:15 PM
Peter Middleton, James Spinney,
France, United Kingdom,
2016,
(87 mins)
A taped journal that theologian John Hull (1935–2015) kept after the onset of blindness in 1980 forms the basis of this elegant and moving depiction of struggle and transcendence.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
8:40 PM
Sunday, May 1, 2016
8:40 PM
Moby Longinotto,
United Kingdom, United States,
2016,
(80 mins)
Filmmaker Moby Longinotto’s fascinating, thoroughly candid documentary invites audiences to pull up a chair at the never-dull family table in a Mississippi trailer-park home.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
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4 PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
4 PM
Sonia Kennebeck,
United States,
2016,
(92 mins)
Executive produced by Wim Wenders and Errol Morris, this elegant and chilling documentary provides a glimpse of what the US government doesn’t want you to know about drone warfare by focusing on three veterans whose service experience caused them to question the use of drones in overseas combat.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
6:30 PM
  • Film
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30 PM
Yaelle Kayam,
Denmark, Israel,
2015,
(83 mins)
Yaelle Kayam’s debut feature is strikingly shot against the tombstones of Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives, where an Orthodox woman’s longing for her husband’s love sets in motion a transformational journey into a nocturnal world of pimps and prostitutes.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
8:40 PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
8:40 PM
Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
France, Japan,
2015,
(128 mins)
The secret wounds of a marriage unfold gently but surely as a shy piano teacher embarks on a mythic journey with her husband, returned from the dead.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
12 PM
Open to BAMPFA members only
Admission free
3:10 PM
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
3:10 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1960,
(170 mins)

Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.

Lecture by Miryam Sas Hideko Takamine portrays the consummate Naruse heroine: high-minded, determined, and out of her element in a sordid world. The film “could give heartbreak lessons to Fassbinder and Sirk” (Village Voice).
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; Seniors, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
  • Miryam Sas
    Lecture
    Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, and professor of film and media at UC Berkeley
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
6:30 PM
Billy Woodberry,
Portugal, United States,
2015,
(90 mins)
Brilliant but largely unheralded Beat poet Bob Kaufman (1925–1986) is featured in this rich documentary tribute.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
8:45 PM
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
8:45 PM
Otar Iosseliani,
France,
2015,
(117 mins)
The way Otar Iosseliani turns Paris on its head makes us think of a young Jean-Luc Godard—yet Iosseliani is eighty-two!
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, May 5, 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

All Day
Thursday, May 5, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
Thursday, May 5, 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.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
4 PM
Morgan Neville,
United States,
2015,
(96 mins)
On a quest to uncover Leonard Bernstein’s “universal language of music,” renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma gathers virtuoso musicians from around the globe to collaborate on new musical explorations.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
6:30 PM
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30 PM
Vitaly Mansky,
Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Germany, Latvia, Russia,
2015,
(106 mins)
Shot with the permission and supervision of North Korean authorities, Russian director Vitaly Mansky’s film turns a propaganda effort into a deep-cover documentary about life inside one of the world’s most repressive nations.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
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Thursday, May 5, 2016
8:40 PM
Vano Burduli,
Georgia, Russia,
2015,
(103 mins)
People fall in and out of love in this delightfully wistful romantic drama. Director Vano Burduli shares amusement and a profoundly deep affection for a changing Tbilisi and its flawed and beautiful inhabitants, guiding each of his characters like the conductor of an orchestra.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, May 6, 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

Friday, May 6, 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.
Friday, May 6, 2016
6 PM
(90 mins)

With student filmmakers in person

Student filmmakers in person Prizewinners and runners-up in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, the highest award for creativity given on the UC Berkeley campus.
8:15 PM
Friday, May 6, 2016
8:15 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Albania, France, Germany, Netherlands,
2015,
(87 mins)

East Bay Premiere!

The Russian master Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Alexandra, Faust) returns with a portrait of the Louvre that extends into a transcendent commentary on art, life, and power. “A meditation on art and humanity” (The Guardian).
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, May 7, 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

Saturday, May 7, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
Saturday, May 7, 2016
2 PM
Robert Mulligan,
United States,
1962,
(125 mins)

Recommended for ages 12 & up

This award-winning adaptation of Harper Lee's classic novel stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. On BFI's list of films you must see before age fourteen.
6:30 PM
Saturday, May 7, 2016
6:30 PM
Julio Bracho,
Mexico,
1943,
(106 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

An unhappily married cabaret singer voyages through a world of corrupt cops, labor union organizers, and political unrest in this Langian noir, starring the legendary Pedro Armendáriz.
8:40 PM
Saturday, May 7, 2016
8:40 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1960,
(83 mins)

Imported Print!

With its jazzy musical score and sordid milieu of drug smuggling and human trafficking, this crime thriller features an ambitious and amoral reporter going up against a ruthless female gang boss.
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, May 8, 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

Sunday, May 8, 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.
6 PM
Sunday, May 8, 2016
6 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Albania, France, Germany, Netherlands,
2015,
(87 mins)

East Bay Premiere!

The Russian master Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Alexandra, Faust) returns with a portrait of the Louvre that extends into a transcendent commentary on art, life, and power. “A meditation on art and humanity” (The Guardian).
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8 PM
Sunday, May 8, 2016
8 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1963,
(91 mins)

Imported Print!

Jo Shishido plays a disgraced ex-cop who pits two yakuza gangs against each other to avenge the death of a fellow officer.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
12 PM
Open to BAMPFA members only
Admission free
3:10 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
3:10 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
1967,
(170 mins)

Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.

Lecture by Tom Vick Suzuki’s absurdist gangster thriller about an assassin who gets aroused by the smell of rice seems as wildly perverse now as it did in 1967, and has influenced filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to John Woo.
General admission: $13.50; BAMPFA members: $9.50; UC Berkeley students: $7.50; Seniors, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50
  • Tom Vick
    The Films of Seijun Suzuki
    Curator of film at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1963,
(92 mins)

Imported Print!

Introduction & Booksigning by Tom Vick A fearsome yakuza bodyguard (Akira Kobayashi) is torn between defending his boss against a rival gang leader and his obsession with Tatsuko, a femme fatale who reappears from his past.
  • Tom Vick
    Introduction & Booksigning
    Tom Vick is curator of film at the Freer | Sacker, Smithsonian Institution, and author of Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki.
7:30 PM
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
7:30 PM
A newly commissioned mixed-media performance work by Otobong Nkanga, presented as part of MATRIX 260.
Included with admission
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, May 12, 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

Thursday, May 12, 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.
Thursday, May 12, 2016
6 PM
A conversation with writer Chris Jennings, author of the recently released Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism.
Included with admission
7:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, May 12, 2016
7:30 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1966,
(83 mins)

Digital Restoration!

Introduction by Tom Vick (May 12 screening only) Tasked with making a vehicle for actor/singer Tetsuya Watari, Suzuki concocted this crazy yarn about a reformed yakuza on the run from his former comrades. “One of the most brilliant genre movies ever made” (Tony Rayns).
  • Tom Vick
    Introduction
    Tom Vick is curator of film at the Freer | Sacker, Smithsonian Institution, and author of Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki.
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, May 13, 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

7 PM
Friday, May 13, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1976,
(176 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A projector repairman and a depressed young man begin a road trip across the East and West German borders in Wender’s major landmark of the New German Cinema.  
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, May 14, 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

11:30 AM & 1 PM
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:30 AM & 1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult

Explore the structure of built urban environments with 3-D paper models. With artist Jill McLennan.
Family Event
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult. Each session is limited to 12 kids. Please arrive promptly to to sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session.
  • Jill McLennan
    With artist Jill McLennan
    Jill McLennan documents her constantly changing urban environment in paintings and mixed-media artworks that explore history, industry, and urban nature, imbued with a hopeful, futuristic vision.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, May 14, 2016
1–5 PM
The second of two mixed-media performance works presented as part of Otobong Nkanga / MATRIX 260, held at the Tropical House of the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley.
At UC Botanical Garden
Included with Botanical Garden and/or BAMPFA admission; reciprocal entry
Saturday, May 14, 2016
2 PM
Take a guided tour to learn more about the design of the new BAMPFA.
No advance reservations necessary
Included with admission
Saturday, May 14, 2016
3 PM

Ages 8 & up  (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Free for kids and one accompanying adult
Series Family Fare
6:30 PM
Saturday, May 14, 2016
6:30 PM
Roberto Gavaldón,
Mexico,
1947,
(107 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

Hammett meets Baudelaire in this steamy noir of love, madness, and death involving an affair between a married aristocrat (Arturo de Córdova) and a female model (María Felix). 
8:40 PM
  • Film
Saturday, May 14, 2016
8:40 PM
Julio Bracho,
Mexico,
1945,
(108 mins)
A progressive, forward-thinking doctor falls for a temptress in this spectacularly shot noir that inhabits a world of darkness and shadows, where rational thought rails against irrational desire—and fails.
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, May 15, 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

Sunday, May 15, 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.
2 PM
Sunday, May 15, 2016
2 PM
Learn how to make string figures, inspired by those on view in Architecture of Life, with folklorist and storyteller Ruth Stotter.
Included with admission
5 PM
Sunday, May 15, 2016
5 PM
Sam Taylor ,
United States,
1927,
(113 mins)
Mary Pickford plays a shopgirl in love with a stock clerk who is not what he seems in this charming silent comedy. With Pickford shorts The Son’s Return and A Manly Man.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    Judith Rosenberg on piano
7:30 PM
Sunday, May 15, 2016
7:30 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1974,
(112 mins)

Digital Restoration

A wandering journalist finds himself stuck with someone else’s daughter in this road movie across the United States and Germany, “a fine, tightly controlled, intelligent, and ultimately touching film” (NY Times).
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All Day
  • Art
  • Free
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
All Day
Free gallery admission all day in celebration of Art Museum Day, sponsored by AAMD.
Admission free
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
12 PM
Open to BAMPFA members only
Admission free
7 PM
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
7 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Albania, France, Germany, Netherlands,
2015,
(87 mins)

East Bay Premiere!

The Russian master Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Alexandra, Faust) returns with a portrait of the Louvre that extends into a transcendent commentary on art, life, and power. “A meditation on art and humanity” (The Guardian).
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, May 19, 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

Thursday, May 19, 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.
7 PM
Thursday, May 19, 2016
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1980,
(144 mins)

Imported Print!

Named the best film of the 1980s in a poll of Japanese film critics, Suzuki’s metaphysical ghost story involves love triangles, doppelgangers, and a blurred line between the worlds of the living and the dead.
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, May 20, 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

Friday, May 20, 2016
7 PM
Alfred L. Werker,
United States,
1932,
(71 mins)
Adolphe Menjou is delightfully tongue-in-cheek as an aging playboy looking for a new plaything to distract his overeager young wife. With musical short Me and the Boys.
8:40 PM
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:40 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1975,
(103 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A hopeful young writer travels through Germany’s palaces and projects in Wenders’s road film, shot in painterly long takes. Nastassja Kinski’s debut. Loosely based on Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship. 
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, May 21, 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

4 PM
Saturday, May 21, 2016
4 PM
Antonio Pietrangeli,
Italy,
1965,
(115 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A beautiful ingenue chases her dreams in the Rome of La dolce vita in this biting critique of sexual politics and celebrity culture in 1960s Italy. “Brilliantly entertaining” (Alexander Payne).
6:30 PM
Saturday, May 21, 2016
6:30 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1965,
(96 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A comfort woman sent to the frontlines of Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese War fights back in Suzuki’s scathing portrayal of Japanese militarism.
7 PM
  • In-Person
Saturday, May 21, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Sarah Cahill

Albert Behar teams up with soprano Ariadne Greif to perform his original song cycle Calligrammes; the premiere of Full Bloom by Edmund Campion; and women’s vocal ensemble Vajra Voices.
Please note seating is very limited.
Included with admission.
Series Full 2016
Saturday, May 21, 2016
8:30 PM
Roberto Gavaldón,
Mexico,
1951,
(113 mins)
A con artist with dreams of grandeur finds himself overmatched by a murderous widow in this Arturo de Córdova–starring noir, which finds our hero abandoning everything for passion, and death. 
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11 AM to 4 PM
Sunday, May 22, 2016
11 AM to 4 PM

Free admission!

Hands-on art making, Unique Derique in performance, the Library on Wheels, and a screening of The Red Balloon. All ages. Free admission.
Free admission! Free tickets for the film will be available at the admissions desk beginning at 2:30.
11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, May 22, 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

6 PM
Sunday, May 22, 2016
6 PM
Tito Davison,
Mexico,
1948,
(91 mins)
Mexico’s glamour queen María Felix channels Bergman, Bacall, and Hayworth as a refugee hiding—or scheming—in Mexico City during World War II. 
8 PM
Sunday, May 22, 2016
8 PM
Antonio Pietrangeli,
Italy,
1965,
(115 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A beautiful ingenue chases her dreams in the Rome of La dolce vita in this biting critique of sexual politics and celebrity culture in 1960s Italy. “Brilliantly entertaining” (Alexander Payne).
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
12 PM
Open to BAMPFA members only
Admission free
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
6 PM
Sketch in the galleries!
Included with admission
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1971,
(100 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Kicked out of a game and bored of the rules, a goalie begins a journey across contemporary West Germany. "My favorite postwar German film . . . a quiet poem of various desolations" (Stanley Kauffmann).
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, May 26, 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

Thursday, May 26, 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.
6 PM
Thursday, May 26, 2016
6 PM
A hands-on workshop that explores correspondences between ancient maps of acupuncture points and our experience of our bodies.
Included with admission
Thursday, May 26, 2016
7 PM
Vincent Bataillon,
United States,
2014,
(97 mins)

Free Admission

Tickets available onsite beginning one hour before showtime.
Free Admission
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6-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, May 27, 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

8:45
Friday, May 27, 2016
8:45
Seijun Suzuki,
1967,
(91 mins)
Suzuki’s anarchic send-up of B-movie clichés stars Jo Shishido as an assassin who winds up a target. Cited as an inspiration by filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch, and John Woo.
6:30 PM
Friday, May 27, 2016
6:30 PM
Antonio Pietrangeli,
Italy,
1965,
(115 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A beautiful ingenue chases her dreams in the Rome of La dolce vita in this biting critique of sexual politics and celebrity culture in 1960s Italy. “Brilliantly entertaining” (Alexander Payne).
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, May 28, 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

6:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, May 28, 2016
6:30 PM
Roberto Gavaldón,
Mexico,
1952,
(85 mins)
Introduced by Steve Seid A Nietzschean jai alai star obliviously struts his way through a succession of broken-hearted lovers and conniving gangsters in this atmospheric noir starring Mexican matinee idol Pedro Armendáriz.
  • Steve Seid
    Introduction
    Steve Seid recently retired after twenty-seven years as BAMPFA’s video curator
8:30 PM
Saturday, May 28, 2016
8:30 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
1964,
(90 mins)
A gang of tough prostitutes try to survive in the ruins of postwar Tokyo, but a lusty ex-soldier (Jo Shishido) soon upsets their fragile camaraderie. Part social-realist drama, part sadomasochistic trash opera.
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, May 29, 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

5 PM
  • Film
Sunday, May 29, 2016
5 PM
Anthony Mann,
United States,
1957,
(102 mins)
Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray star in Mann’s bleak, gripping take on the Korean conflict. “War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this” (New Yorker).
7:30 PM
Sunday, May 29, 2016
7:30 PM
Gérard Corbiau,
France,
2000,
(109 mins)

Imported Print!

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6:30 PM
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30 PM
Juozas Javaitis,
Lithuania,
2012,
(185 mins)
Introduced by Robert Hass, Mark Danner, & Anthony Milosz A sweeping look at the Nobel Prize–winning poet’s tumultuous century, made intimate by his own exquisitely worded memories. Milosz, who taught at Berkeley, said that true poetry is “the passionate pursuit of the Real.”
  • Juozas Javaitis
    In Person
  • Teresa Rozanovska
    In Person
    Producer
  • Robert Hass
    Introduction
    Robert Hass is a professor of English at UC Berkeley. He collaborated with the Nobel laureate Milosz on the translation of his poems.
  • Mark Danner
    Introduction
    Mark Danner, UC Berkeley Chancellor's Professor in Journalism and English, was a friend of Milosz and was his tenant in his house on Grizzly Peak, where Danner and his family still live.
  • Anthony Milosz
    Introduction
    Anthony Milosz is the poet's son.
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4–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, June 2, 2016
4–7 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.

Admission free during the month of June

Thursday, June 2, 2016
7 PM
Grant Gee,
United Kingdom,
2015,
(90 mins)
Introduced by Jonathan Lethem Turkey’s Nobel laureate wrote a (fictional) narration for this exploration of his Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. “A mesmerizing, original meditation on love and the city” (The Guardian).
  • Jonathan Lethem
    Introduction
    Jonathan Lethem is the author of nine novels, including Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, and Motherless Brooklyn, and of the essay collection The Ecstasy of Influen
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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, June 3, 2016
4-9 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.

Admission free during the month of June

Friday, June 3, 2016
6 PM
Barbara Hammer,
United States,
2015,
(84 mins)
Introduced by Katrina Dodson Acclaimed filmmaker Barbara Hammer penetrates the life of the poet Elizabeth Bishop through the places she loved in this new documentary. With short Starfish Aorta Colossus, a poem by Paolo Javier. 
  • Katrina Dodson
    Katrina Dodson wrote her UC Berkeley dissertation on Elizabeth Bishop.
8 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, June 3, 2016
8 PM
John Huston,
United States,
1972,
(100 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Leonard Gardner and David Thomson in Conversation Leonard Gardner wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his novel about small-time boxing in Stockton; John Huston made it a screen masterpiece, “authentic, utterly convincing, compassionate" (Michael Ondaatje).
  • Leonard Gardner
    In Conversation
    Author Leonard Gardner is best known for his first novel, Fat City, which was adapted from his screenplay by John Huston and recently reissued by the New York Review of Books.
  • David Thomson
    In Conversation
    David Thomson is author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies—and What They Have Done to Us; Have You Seen . . . ?
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11 AM–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 4, 2016
11 AM–9 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.

Admission free during the month of June

2 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 4, 2016
2 PM
Carroll Ballard,
United States,
1979,
(118 mins)

New Digital Restoration!
Recommended for ages 7 & up

Carroll Ballard in Person The Walter Farley story about a boy's friendship with a magnificent Arabian horse becomes a visual fantasy, from the opening shipwreck, to lyric scenes on a desert island, to the exciting racing championship.
  • Carroll Ballard
    In Person
5 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 4, 2016
5 PM
Oscar Bucher,
United States,
2016,
(76 mins)
Oscar Bucher, Barry Gifford, Dan Simon, & Philip Kaufman in Person A fabulous introduction for a new generation to this hippest of Chicago writers from the forties and fifties. Barry Gifford, Don DeLillo, actor Willem Defoe, and others pay tribute at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater.
  • Oscar Bucher
    In person
    Bucher is a local award-winning filmmaker.
  • Barry Gifford
    In person
    Local writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart and The Up-Down) is coscreenwriter of Lost Highway, City of Ghosts, director Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being); Algr
  • Dan Simon
    In person
    New York-based writer/publisher Dan Simon has been on Algren's trail for over thirty years—he reissued many of his books and organized the centennial Steppenwolf Theatre performance on which Nelson Al
  • Philip Kaufman
    In person
    Philip Kaufman is a director (The Unbearable Lightness of Being); Algren acted in his films Goldstein and Frank's Greatest Adventure.
7:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, June 4, 2016
7:30 PM
Heddy Honigmann,
Netherlands,
1996,
(90 mins)
Introduced by Katrina Dodson & Idra Novey David Peoples, Siciliana Trevino in Person On a Rio beach, seniors recite the erotic poetry of Carlos Drummond to show “we’re old—we’re not dead!” “An idiosyncratic homage to Brazil’s most beloved poet. A lovely film!” (Village Voice). With short New Mo Cut: David Peoples' Lost Film of Moe's Books.
  • Katrina Dodson
    In Conversation
    Katrina Dodson is the translator of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector.
  • Idra Novey
    In Conversation
    Idra Novey is a novelist, poet, and translator. Her debut novel, Ways to Disappear, is about a translator's search for a missing Brazilian author.
  • Ramona Naddaff
    In Conversation
    Author and Berkeley professor Ramona Naddaff is cofounder and editor of Zone Books. 
  • David Peoples
    In Person
    Local screenwriter
  • Siciliana Trevino
    In Person
    Local filmmaker