Sunday, March 6
Sunday, March 6, 2016
10 AM
Open to all BAMPFA members
Open to all BAMPFA members
RSVP to bampfamember@berkeley.edu
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
Sunday, March 6, 2016
3 PM
(90 mins)
Live Performance!
Recommended for ages 10 & up
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.
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
Monday, March 7
Tuesday, March 8
Wednesday, March 9
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
12 PM
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
3:10 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1958,
(170 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.
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
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Mike Pogorzelski
Restoring Satyajit Ray’s The Apu TrilogyDirector of the Academy Film Archive
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.
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Marilyn Fabe
IntroductionSenior Lecturer Emerita in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley and author of Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique.
Series
Documentary Voices 2016
Thursday, March 10
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
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.
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
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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Natalia Brizuela
IntroductionGuest curator Natalia Brizuela, who teaches in UC Berkeley’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, edited a special issue of Film Quarterly dedicated to Coutinho’s films.
Friday, March 11
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.
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Judith Rosenberg
Live Musicon piano
Series
Jean Epstein
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.
Saturday, March 12
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.
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Jennie Smith
With artist Jennie SmithJennie Smith, who earned her MFA from UC Berkeley, has an affinity for the ocean and woodless graphite pencils. When she is not drawing in her own studio, she can be seen at the deYoung museum ma
Series
Family Fare
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.
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Jennie Smith
With artist Jennie SmithJennie Smith, who earned her MFA from UC Berkeley, has an affinity for the ocean and woodless graphite pencils. When she is not drawing in her own studio, she can be seen at the deYoung museum ma
Series
Family Fare
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
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
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).
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
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through May 11
Through May 14
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