October 2016

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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 25, 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

Sunday, September 25, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
4 PM
Tengiz Abuladze,
USSR,
1977,
(108 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Introduced by Mark Morris 
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
7 PM
  • Film
Sunday, September 25, 2016
7 PM
Luigi Zampa,
Italy,
1947,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Magnani won Best Actress at Venice for her funny and formidable portrait of an accidental activist from the impoverished suburbs of Rome in this populist comedy.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
7 PM
Pat O'Neill,
United States,
1995,
(73 mins)
Pat O'Neill in person
  • Pat O'Neill
    Filmmaker in Person
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 29, 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.

Included with admission

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, September 29, 2016
7 PM
Pat O'Neill,
United States,
1989,
(71 mins)

Archival Prints

Pat O'Neill in person
  • Pat O'Neill
    Filmmaker in Person
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 30, 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.

Included with admission

Friday, September 30, 2016
12:15 PM
Friday, September 30, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Friday, September 30, 2016
4 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Friday, September 30, 2016
4 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1988,
(78 mins)
Introduced by Mark Morris 
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
7:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, September 30, 2016
7:30 PM
Zhou Hao,
China,
2015,
(89 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Zhou Hao and Rachel Stern in conversation.An idealistic mayor hopes to change his city’s fortunes by transforming it into a center for cultural tourism in Zhou Hao’s fascinating look at politics and power in contemporary China.
  • Zhou Hao
    In Conversation
  • Rachel Stern
    In Conversation
    An assistant professor of law and political science at UC Berkeley, Stern’s research looks at law in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially the relationship between legal institution build
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 1, 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.

Included with admission

11:15 AM
Saturday, October 1, 2016
11:15 AM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Saturday, October 1, 2016
2 PM
(180 mins)
A symposium that offers context though which to experience the world premiere of Mark Morris's Layla and Majnun at Cal Performances.
Admission free Advance registration suggested
5:45 PM
Saturday, October 1, 2016
5:45 PM
Nikoloz Shengelaia,
USSR,
1928,
(97 mins)

New 35mm Print

Introduced by Mark Morris. Judith Rosenberg on piano.
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    on piano
8:30 PM
Saturday, October 1, 2016
8:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1941,
(94 mins)
Magnani plays a showgirl involved with playboy pediatrician Vittorio De Sica, who is also pursued by an heiress and a comely orphan, in this “screwball romantic comedy of the first rank” (New York Times).
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 2, 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

Sunday, October 2, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
4:30 PM
  • Film
Sunday, October 2, 2016
4:30 PM
Mario Mattoli,
Italy,
1934,
(78 mins)
Magnani has a small but spirited part as a maid in this delightful comedy of errors starring Vittorio De Sica as a repressed young professor.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 2, 2016
7 PM
Zhou Hao,
China,
2014,
(84 mins)
Zhou Hao and Rachel Stern in conversation.The lives and (mis)fortunes of the unseen labor behind China’s cotton industry are profiled in Zhou’s 2014 documentary. Winner, Best Documentary, Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival. 
  • Zhou Hao
    In Conversation
  • Rachel Stern
    In Conversation
    An assistant professor of law and political science at UC Berkeley, Stern’s research looks at law in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially the relationship between legal institution build
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5-7 PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
5-7 PM

Workshop

Included with admission
12:15 PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
7 PM
(91 mins)
Lawrence Jordan in person. 
  • Lawrence Jordan
    In Person
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, October 6, 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.

Included with admission

All Day
Thursday, October 6, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
Thursday, October 6, 2016
1 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
5 PM
Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of art history at UC Berkeley, introduces her new book with a reading, discussion, and booksigning.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
7 PM
  • Film
Thursday, October 6, 2016
7 PM
Milos Forman,
United States,
1984,
(180 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Director's Cut!

Prague stands in for eighteenth-century Vienna in this visually stunning life of Mozart as seen through the eyes of an envious rival. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Screenplay, and Sound Design.
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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, October 7, 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.

Included with admission

Friday, October 7, 2016
12:15 PM
7 PM
Friday, October 7, 2016
7 PM
Stanley Kubrick,
United States,
1999,
(159 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

In this adaptation of Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, a married couple (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) free fall through a psychological landscape of sexuality and fantasy. “A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot, and masterfully executed” (Chicago Tribune).
Friday, October 7, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by David Brazil

Regina Mason discusses the Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, the first American fugitive slave memoir, written by her third great-grandfather.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
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11:30 AM-1 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 8, 2016
11:30 AM-1 PM

Family Fare 

Get inspired by the kinetic works on view in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection, then make a hanging mobile that spins by itself with artist Claudia Tennyson
Included with admission
  • Claudia Tennyson
    With artist Claudia Tennyson
    Claudia Tennyson holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She is inspired by the potential found in the simplest of materials and by interactive projects.
Series Family Fare
1-2:30 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 8, 2016
1-2:30 PM

Family Fare 

Get inspired by the kinetic works on view in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection, then make a hanging mobile that spins by itself with artist Claudia Tennyson
Included with admission
  • Claudia Tennyson
    With artist Claudia Tennyson
    Claudia Tennyson holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She is inspired by the potential found in the simplest of materials and by interactive projects.
Series Family Fare
2:30-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 8, 2016
2:30-9 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.

Included with admission

Saturday, October 8, 2016
1:20 PM
Saturday, October 8, 2016
3 PM

Ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Included with admission; admission free for kids plus one accompanying adult.
  • Linda Artel
    Reading Led by Linda Artel
    Former children's film festival programmer at BAMPFA
4 PM
Saturday, October 8, 2016
4 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1959,
(93 mins)
Two little boys refuse to talk until their parents buy them a new TV in Ozu’s genial comedy of manners and tweak of domestic conformity. “The wildcard of Ozu’s career” (Rick Prelinger).
Saturday, October 8, 2016
6 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1933,
(98 mins)

Archival Print

The famed Inspector Maigret roams crowded Montparnasse cafes and dingy tenements as he hunts for a nihilistic, Dostoevskian killer. Both a classic film noir and a seminal police procedural.
8:15 PM
  • Film
Saturday, October 8, 2016
8:15 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1952,
(114 mins)
Magnani is magnificent as a mother prepared to sacrifice everything for her little daughter’s shot at stardom in Visconti’s satire on urban life and movieland ambition.
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 9, 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

Sunday, October 9, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
4:30 PM
Mario Bonnard,
Italy,
1943,
(95 mins)
Magnani created the first of the raucous working-class characters that would become her trademark in this comedy starring Aldo Fabrizi (Rome Open City) as a lovestruck fishmonger.
6:45 PM
Sunday, October 9, 2016
6:45 PM
Michael Haneke,
Austria, France,
2001,
(129 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Isabelle Huppert is a musician driven by dark sexual compulsions in Michael Haneke's scandalous melodrama. "At once an emotional thriller and a domestic horror movie" (LA Weekly).
  • David Thomson
    Introduction
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
7 PM
(76 mins)
Introduced by Steve Anker.A program of films by Ken Jacobs. (Unfortunately, Ken Jacobs had to cancel his previously announced visit to the Bay Area.)
  • Steve Anker
    Anker is on the faculty of CalArts School of Film/Video and co-curates film at REDCAT.
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, October 13, 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.

Included with admission

Thursday, October 13, 2016
7 PM
Noel Bruckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills,
United States,
1984,
(110 mins)
Introduced by Peter Carroll.An inspiring documentary reveals the true story behind the Americans who gave up everything to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. With the influential short Guernica (Alain Resnais, Robert Hessens).
  • Peter N. Carroll
    Introduction
    Historian Peter Carroll is the author of The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War and is Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade A
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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, October 14, 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.

Included with admission

12:15 PM
Friday, October 14, 2016
12:15 PM

Gallery Talk

Included with admission; limited seating
6:30 PM
Friday, October 14, 2016
6:30 PM
Jean Renoir,
France,
1932,
(75 mins)

Archival Print

Inspector Maigret's first onscreen appearance, made in in collaboration with Simenon. "The only great French detective film" (Jean-Luc Godard).
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8:15 PM
Friday, October 14, 2016
8:15 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1945,
(100 mins)

Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Magnani gives an indelible performance as the pregnant lover of a Resistance worker in this neorealist classic, as moving and agonizing today as it was in 1945.
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 15, 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.

Included with admission

Saturday, October 15, 2016
2-5 PM
Saturday, October 15, 2016
1 PM
(60 mins)

Lecture

Unfortunately, Ken Jacobs had to cancel his previously announced visit to the Bay Area. We will instead present a recorded version of his planned lecture along with a selection of his films, influenced by Hans Hofmann.
Included with admission
3:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 15, 2016
3:30 PM
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor ,
United States,
1923,
(67 mins)

Recommended for all ages

  • Judith Rosenberg
    On piano
6 PM
  • Film
Saturday, October 15, 2016
6 PM
Alberto Lattuada,
Italy,
1946,
(78 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

A former prisoner of war becomes entangled with the seductive, ruthless Magnani and her criminal gang in this drama set amid the turmoil of war-torn Italy.
7 PM
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 15, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Shinichi Iova-Koga

Shakuhachi virtuoso Masayuki Koga, dancer Dana Iova-Koga, and Oakland-based duo Ghost Lore. Plus live calligraphy painting by Aoi Yamaguchi.
Included with admission
Series Full 2016
7:45 PM
Saturday, October 15, 2016
7:45 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1960,
(127 mins)
Coming full circle from Late Spring, Setsuko Hara plays a widowed mother pushing her unwilling daughter to marry. "Exquisite and not to be missed” (New Republic).
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 16, 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

Sunday, October 16, 2016
2-5 PM
Sunday, October 16, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
4 PM
  • Film
Sunday, October 16, 2016
4 PM
Luigi Zampa,
Italy,
1947,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Magnani won Best Actress at Venice for her funny and formidable portrait of an accidental activist from the impoverished suburbs of Rome in this populist comedy.
6 PM
Sunday, October 16, 2016
6 PM
Wolf Gremm,
Germany,
1982,
(106 mins)

New Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

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5:30-7:30 PM
Monday, October 17, 2016
5:30-7:30 PM
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016
12:15 PM

Gallery Talk

Included with admission; limited seating
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
7 PM
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, October 20, 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.

Included with admission

Thursday, October 20, 2016
9 PM-12 AM

Special off-site free event at the Starline Social Club, 645 West Grand Ave, Oakland

At Starline Social Club
Free off-site event
7 PM
Thursday, October 20, 2016
7 PM
Wolf Gremm,
Germany,
1982,
(106 mins)

New Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, October 21, 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.

Included with admission

Friday, October 21, 2016
7–9 PM
Friday, October 21, 2016
5:30 PM

Space is limited; RSVP required

Included with admission. RSVP beginning October 3 by calling (510) 643-0857
Friday, October 21, 2016
6 PM

Programmed by Ava Koohbor

Novelist Shahrnush Parsipur and poet Brian Lucas read from their work.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
6:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, October 21, 2016
6:30 PM
Alberto Lattuada,
Italy,
1946,
(78 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

A former prisoner of war becomes entangled with the seductive, ruthless Magnani and her criminal gang in this drama set amid the turmoil of war-torn Italy.
8:15 PM
Friday, October 21, 2016
8:15 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1966,
(145 mins)

Imported 35mm print

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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 22, 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.

Included with admission

Saturday, October 22, 2016
6 PM
Mario Camerini,
Italy,
1948,
(84 mins)
Magnani is comic and affecting in this tale of a Roman housewife who thwarts her luckless husband’s efforts to make a dishonest living. Costarring Massimo Girotti (Ossessione).
8 PM
Saturday, October 22, 2016
8 PM
Claude Chabrol,
France,
2009,
(110 mins)
Chabrol's final film stars Gérard Depardieu as a police commissioner very much like Inspector Maigret in this "diabolically witty homage to Simenon" (Stephen Holden, NY Times).
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 23, 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

Sunday, October 23, 2016
2 PM
4 PM
  • Film
Sunday, October 23, 2016
4 PM
William Dieterle,
Italy, United States,
1950,
(103 mins)
Magnani’s retort to Roberto Rosellini’s Stromboli is a tale of cruel lives in a harsh landscape, with Magnani as a Neapolitan prostitute sent back to the volcanic island of her birth.
6:15 PM
  • Film
Sunday, October 23, 2016
6:15 PM
Marcie Begleiter,
Germany, United States,
2016,
(108 mins)
An inspiring, heartbreaking profile on the artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant American artists of the last century. “An indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating a fascinating artist” (A. O. Scott,  NY Times).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
7 PM
Gibbs Chapman,
United States,
2013,
(99 mins)
Gibbs Chapman in person. Live music by Turbine.
  • Gibbs Chapman
    In Person
  • Turbine
    Live Music
    Turbine is local duo Scott Thiessen and David Barrett
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, October 27, 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.

Included with admission

7 PM
Thursday, October 27, 2016
7 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1945,
(100 mins)

Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Magnani gives an indelible performance as the pregnant lover of a Resistance worker in this neorealist classic, as moving and agonizing today as it was in 1945.
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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, October 28, 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.

Included with admission

12:15 PM
Friday, October 28, 2016
12:15 PM

Gallery Talk

Included with admission; limited seating
6:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, October 28, 2016
6:30 PM
Marcie Begleiter,
Germany, United States,
2016,
(108 mins)
An inspiring, heartbreaking profile on the artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant American artists of the last century. “An indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating a fascinating artist” (A. O. Scott,  NY Times).
8:45 PM
Friday, October 28, 2016
8:45 PM
Wolf Gremm,
Germany,
1982,
(106 mins)

New Digital Restoration

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 29, 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.

Included with admission

6 PM
  • Film
Saturday, October 29, 2016
6 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1952,
(114 mins)
Magnani is magnificent as a mother prepared to sacrifice everything for her little daughter’s shot at stardom in Visconti’s satire on urban life and movieland ambition.
8:15 PM
Saturday, October 29, 2016
8:15 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1966,
(145 mins)

Imported 35mm print

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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, October 30, 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

Sunday, October 30, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, October 30, 2016
4 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1962,
(112 mins)
Chishu Ryu once again plays a widowed father planning to marry off his daughter in Ozu's beautiful, bittersweet last film. "Quietly tears your heart to pieces” (Terence Davies).
6:30 PM
  • Film
Sunday, October 30, 2016
6:30 PM
Marcie Begleiter,
Germany, United States,
2016,
(108 mins)
An inspiring, heartbreaking profile on the artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant American artists of the last century. “An indispensable aid to understanding and appreciating a fascinating artist” (A. O. Scott,  NY Times).
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
7 PM
(68 mins)
Introduced by Susan Chainey and Janis Crystal Lipzin.A program of films by Roger Jacoby, a key transitional figure of gay experimental film.
  • Susan Chainey
    Introduction
    Susan Chainey, Roger Jacoby’s sister, appears in Pearl and Puppet.
  • Janis Crystal Lipzin
    Introduction
    Janis Crystal Lipzin knew Jacoby well during the last ten years of his life; former chair of the San Francisco Art Institute film department, she is a Bay Area intermedia artist and filmmaker.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, November 3, 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.

Included with admission

All Day
Thursday, November 3, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
Thursday, November 3, 2016
7 PM
Alanis Obomsawin,
Canada,
1993,
(119 mins)
Alanis Obomsawin in conversation with Joanne Barker and Corinna Gould.The 1990 fight for First Nations members to protect their burial grounds from a golf course expansion is chronicled in this moving documentary on native rights, resistance, and courage.  
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    In Conversation
  • Joanne Barker
    In Conversation
    Barker is professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University and author of Native Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity.
  • Corrina Gould
    In Conversation
    Corrina Gould is cofounder of Indian People Organizing for Change and the Segora Te Land Trust
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4-9 PM
Friday, November 4, 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.

Included with admission

Friday, November 4, 2016
12:15 PM
4 PM
Friday, November 4, 2016
4 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1955,
(125 mins)

Digital Restoration

The first film in the Apu Trilogy. Ravi Shankar provided the score for Ray’s debut film, the tale of a young boy in an impoverished Bengal village. The film won a special prize at Cannes: Best Human Document.
Friday, November 4, 2016
6 PM

Programmed by Ava Koohbor

Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, November 4, 2016
7 PM
Alanis Obomsawin,
2014,
(84 mins)
Alanis Obomsawin, Joanne Barker, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie in conversation. Obomsawin’s powerful documentary is about both tracing and making history, looking back at Canada’s notorious Treaty No. 9 (which led many First Nations communities to lose their sovereignty) and chronicling contemporary indigenous struggles. 
  • Alanis Obomsawin
    In Conversation
  • Joanne Barker
    In Conversation
    Professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University and author of Native Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity.
  • Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie
    In Conversation
    Director of the Gorman Museum and professor of Native American studies at UC Davis
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, November 5, 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.

Included with admission

5:30 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2016
5:30 PM
Jean Renoir,
France, Italy, United Kingdom,
1952,
(103 mins)
Renoir’s graceful comedy revolves around Magnani as the star of a commedia dell’arte troupe in eighteenth-century Peru. François Truffaut called it “the noblest and most refined film ever made.”
8 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2016
8 PM
Spike Lee,
United States,
1989,
(120 mins)
Spike Lee’s frequently hilarious but hard-hitting drama charts mounting racial tensions on a hot summer day in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. “The funniest, most stylized, most visceral New York street scene this side of Scorseseland” (J. Hoberman, Village Voice).