Sunday, April 24
Sunday, April 24, 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, April 24, 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, April 24, 2016
4:15 PM
(75 mins)
Eight artist-made films explore things that pass between us. Songs, stories, and trinkets are handed down from one generation to the next.
Sunday, April 24, 2016
6:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Belgium, Netherlands,
2015,
(74 mins)
Sergei Loznitsa (Maidan, SFIFF 2015) once again brings Eastern European history to vivid life with the inspired deployment of archival resources.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Sunday, April 24, 2016
8:15 PM
Athina Rachel Tsangari,
Greece,
2015,
(104 mins)
A slow-burn satire dubbed “a buddy movie without the buddies,” Chevalier brilliantly mines the comedy of the modern male competitive spirit.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Monday, April 25
Tuesday, April 26
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
7 PM
Tom McCarthy,
United States,
2003,
(150 mins)
Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) looks forward to a life of solitude and endless solo walks along the railroad tracks when he inherits an abandoned and decrepit New Jersey train station in Tom McCarthy’s bewitching, closely observed drama.
Special Admission Applies: $25 General admission /
$20 BAMPFA & Film Society members
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Tom McCarthy
Kanbar Storytelling AwardThe Kanbar Storytelling Award is given each year to acknowledge the crucial role that storytelling plays in the creation of great film and television.
Wednesday, April 27
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
3:10 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1961,
(170 mins)
Lecture/screening class (3 hours). Special admission applies.
Lecture by Susan Oxtoby
Toshiro Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary looking to make a fistful of ryo in a lawless town in Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic, which inspired A Fistful of Dollars.
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
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Susan Oxtoby
Akira Kurosawa: Master of StyleBAMPFA Senior Film Curator
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
6:30 PM
Johan Grimonprez,
Belgium, United States,
2016,
(94 mins)
Director Johan Grimonprez deploys powerful and sinister imagery in this adaptation of journalist Andrew Feinstein’s ominous, important book on the global arms trade.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
8:50 PM
Lorenzo Vigas,
Mexico, Venezuela,
2015,
(93 mins)
A middle-aged single man who cruises his Caracas neighborhood for rough trade takes a tough young boy into his home, in this gritty exploration of a relationship.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Thursday, April 28
Thursday, April 28, 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, April 28, 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, April 28, 2016
6:30 PM
Tomer Heymann,
Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Sweden,
2015,
(100 mins)
A spectacular and celebratory investigation of a modern dancer’s creative process, this documentary tracks the four-decades-long career of renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin, the artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Thursday, April 28, 2016
8:50 PM
Slávek Horák,
Czech Republic, Slovakia,
2015,
(92 mins)
Dedicated home-care nurse Vlasta (Karlovy Vary winner Alena Mihulová) traipses around the south Moravia countryside on bus and foot tending to (and bantering with) patients too infirm or elderly to travel.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Friday, April 29
Friday, April 29, 2016
12:15 PM
Lunchtime Talk
Thomas Laqueur teaches European cultural history at UC Berkeley. He is working on a book about what dogs represent in Western art and has many intriguing things to say about the eye-catching dog in the foreground of Gustave Caillebotte’s Le Pont de l’Europe.
Included with admission
Friday, April 29, 2016
4 PM
Zhang Yang,
China,
2015,
(115 mins)
Chinese director Zhang Yang’s Paths of the Soul is a captivating and profound portrait of a small group of Tibetan villagers on an arduous, one-thousand-mile pilgrimage to the holy city of Lhasa.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Friday, April 29, 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, April 29, 2016
6:30 PM
Babak Jalali,
Iran, United States,
2016,
(93 mins)
Hamid, the often exasperated program director of a Farsi-language radio station based in San Francisco, awaits a much-anticipated meeting between Metallica and real-life Afghani band Kabul Dreams in his studio.
SOLD OUT
Friday, April 29, 2016
8:45 PM
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami,
Germany, Iran, Switzerland,
2015,
(91 mins)
Sonita Alizadeh is like many teenagers—she loves hip-hop, argues with her mother, and gossips with her friends. She is also an Afghan refugee living under the tenuous protection of a Tehran homeless shelter, where she contends with the imminent risk of being sold into marriage under the Afghan system of “bride price.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Saturday, April 30
Saturday, April 30, 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, April 30, 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, April 30, 2016
2:50 PM
Pascale Breton,
France,
2015,
(148 mins)
A Paris-based art historian returns to her native town of Rennes to teach a class. There, she encounters a troubled male student who is contending with an itinerant mother as well as the demands of university life.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Saturday, April 30, 2016
6:15 PM
Penny Lane,
United States,
2015,
(79 mins)
Penny Lane’s documentary—comprising archival material, animated sequences, and the occasional talking head—blooms into an incredible almanac of early twentieth-century quackery and innovation as she focuses on J. R. Brinkley, an early broadcasting baron, direct-mail pioneer, and an evangelical proponent of goat-testicle implants.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
Saturday, April 30, 2016
8:30 PM
Lewis Klahr,
United States,
2015,
(90 mins)
Sixties pop-art heroines and DC comic-strip heroes are suffused with the passions of Greco-Roman gods in Lewis Klahr’s compilation spanning fourteen years of filmmaking.
Please note that onsite ticket sales are subject to limited availability
Special Pricing Applies
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