Week of June 12, 2016

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Sunday, June 19

Sunday, June 19, 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 19, 2016
5 PM
John Ford,
United States,
1940,
(103 mins)
Ford’s maritime drama, based on Eugene O’Neill works, follows a freighter whose crew includes John Wayne and Thomas Mitchell. Glorious cinematography by Gregg Toland (Citizen Kane) begs for the big screen.
Sunday, June 19, 2016
7:15 PM
Peter Handke,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1978,
(115 mins)

4K Digital Restoration!

A married woman living in suburban Paris leaves her husband and begins a more solitary life in this rigorously poetic, Chantal Akerman-influenced work from writer/director Peter Handke and producer Wim Wenders. 

Monday, June 20

Monday, June 20, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

Three musical pairs: Overmorrow Duo (viola & cello), DunkelpeK (percussion & guitar/piano), and Kate Petersen & Russell Norman (soprano & piano).  With poetry from Cheena Marie Lo.
Seating for Full is very limited.
Admission $8 or included with same-day film ticket; FREE for BAMPFA members. Please note that the exhibition galleries will be closed for reinstallation.
Series Full 2016
Monday, June 20, 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.

Tuesday, June 21

Wednesday, June 22

Wednesday, June 22, 2016
7 PM
Edgar G. Ulmer,
United States,
1946,
(86 mins)
A New Orleans belle’s out-of-wedlock pregnancy leads to further unintended consequences in this melodrama, an unusually glossy outing from B-movie king Edgar Ulmer.

Thursday, June 23

Thursday, June 23, 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 23, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1982,
(121 mins)

4K Digital Restoration!

Wenders’s “film about filmmaking” moves from the rocky Portuguese coast to Hollywood, following those trapped in a doomed Hollywood project. Features Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman, Robert Kramer, and Warhol superstar Viva. 

Friday, June 24

Friday, June 24, 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 24, 2016
6:30 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1952,
(113 mins)

New 35mm Print!

Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, and Susan Hayward are swept up in a love triangle in Ray’s melancholy critique of masculine values, set against a modern-day rodeo background. “A masterpiece” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader).
Friday, June 24, 2016
8:45 PM
Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders,
Germany, United States,
1979,
(90 mins)
An intimate portrait of the legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray—and of cinema itself—made while Ray was dying of cancer.

Saturday, June 25

Saturday, June 25, 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 25, 2016
6:30 PM
Joseph L. Anderson,
United States,
1967,
(82 mins)
Introduced by Peter ConheimShot on location in rural Ohio, this lost-and-found classic of American independent cinema could be “the missing link between Shadows and The Last Picture Show” (Village Voice).
  • Peter Conheim
    Introduction
    Conheim is a Bay Area curator and film preservationist who has worked to bring Spring Night, Summer Night back to the screen for eleven years. 
Saturday, June 25, 2016
8:15 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
2001,
(112 mins)

Imported Print!

An assassin battles her way to the top of her guild in Suzuki’s very loose sequel to Branded to Kill, updated with cartoonish CGI effects and infused with the metaphysical concerns of the Taisho Trilogy.