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11 AM-9 PM
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
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
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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.”
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4–7 PM
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 7 PM
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).
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4-9 PM
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 6 PM
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.
8 PM
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).
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11 AM–9 PM
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
Saturday, June 4, 2016
2 PM
Carroll Ballard,
United States,
1979,
(118 mins)
New Digital Restoration!
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.
5 PM
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.
7:30 PM
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.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, June 5, 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.
Admission free during the month of June Sunday, June 5, 2016
12 PM
2 PM
Sunday, June 5, 2016
2 PM
Curzio Malaparte,
Italy,
1951,
(99 mins)
Introduced by Walter Murch Showing here for the first time, the only film by Italian author Curzio Malaparte is a visually stunning, morally trenchant entry in the neorealist genre.
Sunday, June 5, 2016
4 PM
Tickets are $42. Advance tickets available through the Berkeley Festival at berkeleyfestival.org. Dependent on availability, tickets will be sold at the BAMPFA admissions desk on the day of the performance.
Series
Early Music Film Festival
4:45 PM
Sunday, June 5, 2016
4:45 PM
Stan Neumann,
France,
2014,
(90 mins)
Introduced by Dana Spiotta Literary intrigue and narrative layers make this tour through W. G. Sebald’s last novel “a very Sebaldien film . . . a worthy homage to a modern literary giant” (Hollywood Reporter).
7 PM
Sunday, June 5, 2016
7 PM
Billy Woodberry,
Portugal, United States,
2015,
(99 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Justin Desmangles, devorah major, & Al Young in Conversation From Billy Woodberry comes a lively and affecting look at the life of the black Beat poet Bob Kaufman, richly set to archival footage and “Kaufman’s jazz-inspired, enduringly quicksilver work” (Hollywood Reporter). Copresented by City Lights Bookstore.
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016
2 PM
Vincent Bataillon,
United States,
2014,
(97 mins)
Free Admission
Tickets available onsite beginning one hour before showtime.
Free Admission
Series
Early Music Film Festival
7 PM
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
7 PM
(112 mins)
Free admission Digital Restorations
Program change: we are unable to screen all of the previously announced short films, so this will be a free screening of three shorts.This program of Wenders’s extremely rare early short films showcase a nascent talent already infused with the themes and moods, from American music to modern despair, that would echo across a career.
Tickets available onsite beginning one hour before showtime.
Free Screening
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4-7 PM
Thursday, June 9, 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 2 PM
Thursday, June 9, 2016
2 PM
 7 PM
Thursday, June 9, 2016
7 PM
Alejandro Galindo,
Mexico,
1953,
(85 mins)
Stolen money, lustful romance, labor unrest, and the rumba flavor this expressionistic noir by Alejandro Galindo.
Series
Mexican Film Noir
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4-9 PM
Friday, June 10, 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 10, 2016
1 PM
2:30 PM
Friday, June 10, 2016
2:30 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Germany, Italy,
1967,
(94 mins)
Imported Print!
Series
Early Music Film Festival
6:30 PM
Friday, June 10, 2016
6:30 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1977,
(126 mins)
4K Digital Restoration!
Neo-noir by way of European arthouse, Wenders’s first “commercial” film adapts Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game to tell the tale of a dying family man (Bruno Ganz) suckered into the seedy world of an American mobster (Dennis Hopper).
9 PM
Friday, June 10, 2016
9 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).
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, June 11, 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 6:30 PM
Saturday, June 11, 2016
6:30 PM
Douglas Sirk,
United States,
1951,
(86 mins)
Charles Boyer plays a priest investigating a purported miracle at a Jesuit seminary in Sirk’s drama of faith and doubt.
8:30 PM
Saturday, June 11, 2016
8:30 PM
Roberto Gavaldón,
Mexico,
1946,
(98 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Mexican superstar Dolores del Rio stars (twice) in a double role as both a preening, wealthy housewife and her downtrodden, bespectacled sister in this gritty noir, filmed on locale in Mexico City.
Series
Mexican Film Noir
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, June 12, 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.
Admission free during the month of June 2 PM
Sunday, June 12, 2016
2 PM
Space is limited to ten children and their grown-ups. Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session.
Ages 4 to 8 with accompanying adult(s). Free for kids plus one adult.
5 PM
Sunday, June 12, 2016
5 PM
Frank Tuttle,
United States,
1932,
(80 mins)
Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Kate Smith, the Mills Brothers, and other recording stars convene for a musical comedy that is “playful, exuberant, and zany to the max” (LA Times). With musical short Me and the Boys.
6:45 PM
Sunday, June 12, 2016
6:45 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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7 PM
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
7 PM
Agnes Méth,
Germany,
2009,
(181 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
Series
Early Music Film Festival
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4-7 PM
Thursday, June 16, 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 7 PM
Thursday, June 16, 2016
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1981,
(129 mins)
Imported Print!
Suzuki’s hallucinatory Taisho-era drama blends reality, fantasy, and theater in a tale of a possible love suicide. “May well be Suzuki’s finest achievement outside the constraints of genre filmmaking” (Tony Rayns).
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
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4-9 PM
Friday, June 17, 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 7:30 PM
Friday, June 17, 2016
7:30 PM
Aleksey German, Jr.,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine,
2015,
(138 mins)
Bay Area Premiere! BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
The son of cult filmmaker Aleksey German (Hard to Be a God) continues his late father’s blend of narrative delirium and social outrage with this science-fiction look at a crumbling Russia.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, June 18, 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
Saturday, June 18, 2016
2 PM
A collage and drawing workshop to make a pop-up paper shrine, led by Dana Dart-McClean, including a performance by local musician Catherine Mehta.
Admission free
Series
Workshops 2016
6 PM
Saturday, June 18, 2016
6 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1977,
(126 mins)
4K Digital Restoration!
Neo-noir by way of European arthouse, Wenders’s first “commercial” film adapts Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game to tell the tale of a dying family man (Bruno Ganz) suckered into the seedy world of an American mobster (Dennis Hopper).
8:30 PM
Saturday, June 18, 2016
8:30 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1991,
(128 mins)
Imported Print!
Suzuki’s final film in his Taisho Trilogy spins a fantastical tale from the life of a historical figure, the bohemian artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934).
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, June 19, 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.
Admission free during the month of June 5 PM
Sunday, June 19, 2016
5 PM
John Ford,
United States,
1940,
(103 mins)
Ford’s maritime drama, based on Eugene O’Neill works, follows a freighter whose crew includes John Wayne and Thomas Mitchell. Glorious cinematography by Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane) begs for the big screen.
7:15 PM
Sunday, June 19, 2016
7:15 PM
Peter Handke,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1978,
(115 mins)
4K Digital Restoration!
A married woman living in suburban Paris leaves her husband and begins a more solitary life in this rigorously poetic, Chantal Akerman-influenced work from writer/director Peter Handke and producer Wim Wenders.
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7 PM
Monday, June 20, 2016
7 PM
 Programmed by Sean Carson
Three musical pairs: Overmorrow Duo (viola & cello), DunkelpeK (percussion & guitar/piano), and Kate Petersen & Russell Norman (soprano & piano). With poetry from Cheena Marie Lo.
Seating for Full is very limited.
Admission $8 or included with same-day film ticket; FREE for BAMPFA members. Please note that the exhibition galleries will be closed for reinstallation.
Series
Full 2016
7:30 PM
Monday, June 20, 2016
7:30 PM
Aleksey German, Jr.,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine,
2015,
(138 mins)
Bay Area Premiere! BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
The son of cult filmmaker Aleksey German (Hard to Be a God) continues his late father’s blend of narrative delirium and social outrage with this science-fiction look at a crumbling Russia.
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7 PM
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
7 PM
Edgar G. Ulmer,
United States,
1946,
(86 mins)
A New Orleans belle’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy leads to further unintended consequences in this melodrama, an unusually glossy outing from B-movie king Edgar Ulmer.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, June 23, 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 7 PM
Thursday, June 23, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1982,
(121 mins)
4K Digital Restoration!
Wenders’s “film about filmmaking” moves from the rocky Portuguese coast to Hollywood, following those trapped in a doomed Hollywood project. Features Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman, Robert Kramer, and Warhol superstar Viva.
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4-9 PM
Friday, June 24, 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 6:30 PM
Friday, June 24, 2016
6:30 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1952,
(113 mins)
New 35mm Print!
Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, and Susan Hayward are swept up in a love triangle in Ray’s melancholy critique of masculine values, set against a modern-day rodeo background. “A masterpiece” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader).
8:45 PM
Friday, June 24, 2016
8:45 PM
Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders,
Germany, United States,
1979,
(90 mins)
An intimate portrait of the legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray—and of cinema itself—made while Ray was dying of cancer.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, June 25, 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 6:30 PM
Saturday, June 25, 2016
6:30 PM
Joseph L. Anderson,
United States,
1967,
(82 mins)
Introduced by Peter ConheimShot on location in rural Ohio, this lost-and-found classic of American independent cinema could be “the missing link between Shadows and The Last Picture Show” (Village Voice).
8:15 PM
Saturday, June 25, 2016
8:15 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
2001,
(112 mins)
Imported Print!
An assassin battles her way to the top of her guild in Suzuki’s very loose sequel to Branded to Kill, updated with cartoonish CGI effects and infused with the metaphysical concerns of the Taisho Trilogy.
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, June 26, 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.
Admission free during the month of June 2 PM
Sunday, June 26, 2016
2 PM
In this experimental workshop artist Stephanie Syjuco leads participants through a series of physical exercises and activities to transform modeling materials into vernacular versions of iconic objects.
Admission free
Series
Workshops 2016
Sunday, June 26, 2016
5 PM
(131 mins)
Double Feature BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
A sensational tale of the living dead featuring Bela Lugosi. Followed by The Crime of Doctor Crespi, starring Erich von Stroheim as a sinister surgeon.
7:30 PM
Sunday, June 26, 2016
7:30 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1952,
(113 mins)
New 35mm Print!
Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, and Susan Hayward are swept up in a love triangle in Ray’s melancholy critique of masculine values, set against a modern-day rodeo background. “A masterpiece” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader).
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6:30 PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
6:30 PM
7 PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
7 PM
Aleksey German, Jr.,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine,
2015,
(138 mins)
Bay Area Premiere! BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
The son of cult filmmaker Aleksey German (Hard to Be a God) continues his late father’s blend of narrative delirium and social outrage with this science-fiction look at a crumbling Russia.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, June 30, 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 7 PM
Thursday, June 30, 2016
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
2005,
(111 mins)
Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi and Japanese slacker king Joe Odagiri star in Suzuki’s bizarre fable involving an exiled prince, shape-shifting raccoons, and a princess. “Energetic, inventive and ever-so-slightly insane” (The Guardian).
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
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Friday, July 1, 2016
6 PM
 Open to BAMPFA members and guests of the artists
Celebrate the 2016 MFA graduates of UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice.
Open to BAMPFA members and guests of the artists
7 PM
Friday, July 1, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany, France,
1984,
(148 mins)
Digital Restoration
A wanderer (Harry Dean Stanton) heads in search of his long-lost son and wife (Nastassja Kinski) in Wenders’s magisterial deconstruction of family, masculinity, and the American West.
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6 PM
Saturday, July 2, 2016
6 PM
Orson Welles,
France, Spain, Switzerland,
1966,
(116 mins)
Digital Restoration
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s later film career, Chimes at Midnight is "the greatest Shakespearean film ever made, bar none" (Vincent Canby).
8:30 PM
Saturday, July 2, 2016
8:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)
Digital Restoration
Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara star in this eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice. A near-perfect film, and one of Ozu's own favorites.
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