Week of January 22, 2017

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Sunday, January 22

Sunday, January 22, 2017
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, January 22, 2017
2 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
(95 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Ray's lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents and influenced films from Pierrot le fou to Bonnie and Clyde. 
Sunday, January 22, 2017
4:15 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
(98 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Bogey's impassioned turn as a socially conscious lawyer for John Derek's pretty-boy criminal is audaciously filmed. "Hard-hitting, tautly crafted" (Time Out). 

Monday, January 23

Tuesday, January 24

Wednesday, January 25

Wednesday, January 25, 2017
12 PM
Boas kicks off our spring Big Ideas lecture series with a look at the modernist avant-gardes that influenced the California counterculture of the sixties.
Free
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
3:10 PM
Howard Hawks,
United States,
1946,
(170 mins)
Hawks’s classic captures Raymond Chandler’s gallows humor and abrasive romanticism, with Bogart as Marlowe and Bacall as the fast-talking woman who invites him into an impossibly intricate web of blackmail and murder.
Tickets on sale to general public on December 15.
Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 /
  • David Thomson
    Lecture
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
7 PM
Jem Cohen,
United States,
2015,
(121 mins)
Cohen pays homage to his artistic forebears, in particular Chris Marker, while composing an intimate yet expansive film essay on modern urban life. With one of his Occupy Wall Street newsreels.
  • Jem Cohen
    Les Blank Lecture

Thursday, January 26

Thursday, January 26, 2017
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, January 26, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Germany, Italy,
1967,
(135 mins)
Loosely based on correspondence between Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife, Chronicle is not a film about music, it is a film of music. With short.

Friday, January 27

Friday, January 27, 2017
4 PM
Juzo Itami,
Japan,
1986,
(114 mins)

New 4K Restoration

Juzo Itami’s hit Japanese satire of samurai films and Westerns, one of the best-loved foodie films ever made. “Gleefully sensual and inventive” (Film Comment). 
Friday, January 27, 2017
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, January 27, 2017
6—8 PM
A launch event for the Heavy Breathing Reader with writer and performer Claudia La Rocco and other guest artists.
Included with admission
  • Claudia La Rocco
    Writer Claudia La Rocco is the author of the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress and the novel petit cadeau; she is editor-in-chief of SFMOMA’s Open Space. 
Series Readings 2017
Friday, January 27, 2017
7:30 PM
Tamer El Said,
Egypt, Germany,
2016,
(119 mins)

East Bay Premiere

A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety). 

Saturday, January 28

Saturday, January 28, 2017
1 PM
B. Ruby Rich, Karen Fiss, Laura Pérez, and Raquel Cecilia discuss the filmworks of Ana Mendieta, on view in Covered in Time and History.
Included with admission
Panel Discussion
  • B. Ruby Rich
  • Karen Fiss
  • Laura Pérez
  • Raquel Cecilia
Saturday, January 28, 2017
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.

Included with admission

Saturday, January 28, 2017
5:30 PM
Gillo Pontecorvo,
Algeria, Italy,
1966,
(123 mins)

New 4K Restoration

One of the best films on revolution ever made, Pontecorvo’s agit-prop classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against its French overlords. “A masterpiece! Surely the most harrowing political epic ever!” (New Yorker).
Saturday, January 28, 2017
8 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1950,
(94 mins)

Also screens on 1.18.17 in In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. "Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring" (Time Out).