Sunday, June 5
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
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.
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Walter Murch
IntroductionWidely regarded as "the film editor's editor," Walter Murch also translated Curzio Malaparte's short stories.
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
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).
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Dana Spiotta
IntroductionDana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others.
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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Justin Desmangles
In conversationPoet and radio producer Justin Desmangles is collaborating on an opera on Bob Kaufman’s life. -
devorah major
In conversationdevorah major, San Francisco's Third Poet Laureate, newest book of poetry, and then we became, will be released by City Lights Publishing in November of 2016. -
Al Young
In conversationAl Young is California’s former poet laureate.
Monday, June 6
Tuesday, June 7
Wednesday, June 8
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
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
Thursday, June 9
Thursday, June 9, 2016
2 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
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
Friday, June 10
Friday, June 10, 2016
1 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
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
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).
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).
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Tom Vick
IntroductionTom Vick is curator of film at the Freer | Sacker, Smithsonian Institution, and author of Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki.
Series
The Films of Seijun Suzuki
Saturday, June 11
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
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.
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
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through May 11
Through May 14
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