Week of September 25, 2016

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Sunday, October 2

Sunday, October 2, 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.

Included with admission

Sunday, October 2, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
4:30 PM
Mario Mattoli,
Italy,
1934,
(78 mins)
Magnani has a small but spirited part as a maid in this delightful comedy of errors starring Vittorio De Sica as a repressed young professor.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
7 PM
Zhou Hao,
China,
2014,
(84 mins)
Zhou Hao and Rachel Stern in conversation.The lives and (mis)fortunes of the unseen labor behind China’s cotton industry are profiled in Zhou’s 2014 documentary. Winner, Best Documentary, Taiwan Golden Horse Film Festival. 
  • Zhou Hao
    In Conversation
  • Rachel Stern
    In Conversation
    An assistant professor of law and political science at UC Berkeley, Stern’s research looks at law in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially the relationship between legal institution build

Monday, October 3

Tuesday, October 4

Wednesday, October 5

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
5-7 PM

Workshop

Included with admission
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
7 PM
(91 mins)
Lawrence Jordan in person. 
  • Lawrence Jordan
    In Person

Thursday, October 6

Thursday, October 6, 2016
1 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Thursday, October 6, 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.

Included with admission

Thursday, October 6, 2016
5 PM
Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor of art history at UC Berkeley, introduces her new book with a reading, discussion, and booksigning.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
Thursday, October 6, 2016
7 PM
Milos Forman,
United States,
1984,
(180 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Director's Cut!

Prague stands in for eighteenth-century Vienna in this visually stunning life of Mozart as seen through the eyes of an envious rival. Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Screenplay, and Sound Design.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free

Friday, October 7

Friday, October 7, 2016
12:15 PM
Friday, October 7, 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.

Included with admission

Friday, October 7, 2016
7 PM
Stanley Kubrick,
United States,
1999,
(159 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

In this adaptation of Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, a married couple (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) free fall through a psychological landscape of sexuality and fantasy. “A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot, and masterfully executed” (Chicago Tribune).
Friday, October 7, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by David Brazil

Regina Mason discusses the Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, the first American fugitive slave memoir, written by her third great-grandfather.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2016

Saturday, October 8

Saturday, October 8, 2016
11:30 AM-1 PM

Family Fare 

Get inspired by the kinetic works on view in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection, then make a hanging mobile that spins by itself with artist Claudia Tennyson
Included with admission
  • Claudia Tennyson
    With artist Claudia Tennyson
    Claudia Tennyson holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She is inspired by the potential found in the simplest of materials and by interactive projects.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, October 8, 2016
1-2:30 PM

Family Fare 

Get inspired by the kinetic works on view in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection, then make a hanging mobile that spins by itself with artist Claudia Tennyson
Included with admission
  • Claudia Tennyson
    With artist Claudia Tennyson
    Claudia Tennyson holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts. She is inspired by the potential found in the simplest of materials and by interactive projects.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, October 8, 2016
1:20 PM
Saturday, October 8, 2016
2:30-9 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.

Included with admission

Saturday, October 8, 2016
3 PM

Ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Included with admission; admission free for kids plus one accompanying adult.
  • Linda Artel
    Reading Led by Linda Artel
    Former children's film festival programmer at BAMPFA
Saturday, October 8, 2016
4 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1959,
(93 mins)
Two little boys refuse to talk until their parents buy them a new TV in Ozu’s genial comedy of manners and tweak of domestic conformity. “The wildcard of Ozu’s career” (Rick Prelinger).
Saturday, October 8, 2016
6 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1933,
(98 mins)

Archival Print

The famed Inspector Maigret roams crowded Montparnasse cafes and dingy tenements as he hunts for a nihilistic, Dostoevskian killer. Both a classic film noir and a seminal police procedural.
Saturday, October 8, 2016
8:15 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1952,
(114 mins)
Magnani is magnificent as a mother prepared to sacrifice everything for her little daughter’s shot at stardom in Visconti’s satire on urban life and movieland ambition.