Week of February 7, 2016

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Sunday, February 14

Sunday, February 14, 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, February 14, 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.
Sunday, February 14, 2016
3 PM
Guy Maddin,
Canada,
2002,
(83 mins)
Guy Maddin in person Deliriously silly and earnestly beautiful, steeped in the aesthetics of silent cinema, this ballet version of Dracula is thoroughly, deliciously Maddin. With Bill Morrison’s Light Is Calling.
  • Guy Maddin
    Filmmaker in person
Sunday, February 14, 2016
5 PM
Josef von Sternberg,
United States,
1931,
(90 mins)
Introduced by Guy Maddin Marlene Dietrich is a prostitute turned Austrian spy in “Sternberg’s most outrageous examination of the feminine mystique” (Village Voice).
  • Guy Maddin
    Introduction
Sunday, February 14, 2016
7 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1980,
(105 mins)

Imported 35mm Print!

A bourgeoise leaves her husband for a working-class layabout in this absorbing study of desire.

Monday, February 15

Tuesday, February 16

Wednesday, February 17

Wednesday, February 17, 2016
12 PM
Admission free. Please note that a ticket is required to visit the galleries.
Series Big Ideas
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
3:10 PM
Charles Vidor,
United States,
1946,
(170 mins)

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

Lecture by Michael Friend Rita Hayworth stars as a nightclub performer caught between her casino-owner husband and her ex-lover in this vision of a world permeated by corruption and cynicism, perhaps the most polished of film noirs.
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
  • Michael Friend
    Preserving and Managing Assets at Sony Pictures
    Director of Digital Archives for Sony Pictures Entertainment
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
7 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Netherlands, Ukraine,
2014,
(133 mins)
A bracing portrait of resistance and revolution, Maidan tracks the riots in Kiev’s Maidan Square from peaceful protest to violent confrontation. “An impressive, bold treatment of a complex subject” (Variety).
  • Jeffrey Skoller
    Introduction
    Associate Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley

Thursday, February 18

Thursday, February 18, 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, February 18, 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, February 18, 2016
6 PM

Gallery Talk

Learn about the lace on view in Architecture of Life with Jules Kliot and Erin Algeo of the Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles.
Included with admission
Thursday, February 18, 2016
7 PM
(76 mins)
Three shorts profile artists and movements making waves in Africa today, from urban culture in Nairobi and Accra (Afripedia: Kenya, Afripedia: Ghana) to photographer Fabrice Monteiro’s project on the environment in Senegal (The Prophecy).

Friday, February 19

Friday, February 19, 2016
12:15 PM

Lunchtime Talk

Dan Feldman, of UC Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley neuroscientist, explores Spanish neuroscientist Ramón y Cajal’s pioneering drawings of neural networks.
Included with admission
Friday, February 19, 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, February 19, 2016
6:30 PM
Anne-Marie Faux, Jean-Pierre Devillers,
France,
2007,
(81 mins)
An insightful portrait of one of the greatest French filmmakers of the post–Nouvelle Vague era.
Friday, February 19, 2016
8:15 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.

Saturday, February 20

Saturday, February 20, 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, February 20, 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, February 20, 2016
4:00 PM
Charles Vidor,
United States,
1946,
(110 mins)

Digital Restoration

Rita Hayworth stars as a nightclub performer caught between her casino-owner husband and her ex-lover in perhaps the most polished of film noirs, with gorgeous camerawork by Rudolph Maté.
Also screens on February 17 as part of In Focus: The Role of Film Archives
Saturday, February 20, 2016
6:30 PM
Abderrahmane Sissako,
France, Mauritania,
2014,
(96 mins)
The real-life fall of Timbuktu to Islamic militants in 2012 forms the basis of this political fable from Abderrahmane Sissako (Waiting for Happiness, Bamako). “An extraordinary film” (New Yorker).
Saturday, February 20, 2016
8:30 PM
Maurice Pialat,
France,
1968,
(102 mins)

Imported 35mm Prints! 

A tender but unflinching study of an orphaned boy whose erratic, aggressive behavior leads him to be passed from one set of foster parents to another. With short Love Exists.