Week of June 5, 2016

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Sunday, June 12

Sunday, June 12, 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 12, 2016
2 PM
Space is limited to ten children and their grown-ups. Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session.
Ages 4 to 8 with accompanying adult(s). Free for kids plus one adult.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
5 PM
Frank Tuttle,
United States,
1932,
(80 mins)
Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Kate Smith, the Mills Brothers, and other recording stars convene for a musical comedy that is “playful, exuberant, and zany to the max” (LA Times). With musical short Me and the Boys.
Sunday, June 12, 2016
6:45 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1976,
(176 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A projector repairman and a depressed young man begin a road trip across the East and West German borders in Wender’s major landmark of the New German Cinema.  

Monday, June 13

Tuesday, June 14

Wednesday, June 15

Wednesday, June 15, 2016
7 PM
Agnes Méth,
Germany,
2009,
(181 mins)

Bay Area Premiere!

  • Nicholas McGegan
    Introduction
    Conductor and early music specialist

Thursday, June 16

Thursday, June 16, 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 16, 2016
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1981,
(129 mins)

Imported Print!

Suzuki’s hallucinatory Taisho-era drama blends reality, fantasy, and theater in a tale of a possible love suicide. “May well be Suzuki’s finest achievement outside the constraints of genre filmmaking” (Tony Rayns).

Friday, June 17

Friday, June 17, 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 17, 2016
7:30 PM
Aleksey German, Jr.,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine,
2015,
(138 mins)

Bay Area Premiere!

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

The son of cult filmmaker Aleksey German (Hard to Be a God) continues his late father’s blend of narrative delirium and social outrage with this science-fiction look at a crumbling Russia.

Saturday, June 18

Saturday, June 18, 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 18, 2016
2 PM
A collage and drawing workshop to make a pop-up paper shrine, led by Dana Dart-McClean, including a performance by local musician Catherine Mehta.
Admission free
Saturday, June 18, 2016
6 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).  
Saturday, June 18, 2016
8:30 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1991,
(128 mins)

Imported Print!

Suzuki’s final film in his Taisho Trilogy spins a fantastical tale from the life of a historical figure, the bohemian artist Takehisa Yumeji (1884–1934).