Week of February 19, 2017

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Sunday, February 19

Sunday, February 19, 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, February 19, 2017
2 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
France, Germany,
1991,
(100 mins)
Straub-Huillet bring multiple layers of history to life in their dramatic vision of Bertolt Brecht’s version of the poet Hölderlin’s adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone, here restaged in Sicily’s ancient and atmospheric Teatro di Segesta.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
2 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Sunday, February 19, 2017
4:15 PM
Maria Stodtmeier,
Germany,
2013,
(88 mins)
The life story of Korean composer Isang Yun, who lived in Germany while trying to reunite his country. With Eric Marin's 1986 short portrait of composer Lou Harrison, Lou Harrison: "Cherish, Conserve, Consider, Create."
In Conversation
  • Dennis Russell Davies
    Dennis Russell Davies is chief conductor of Bruckner Orchestra, Opera Linz, and the Basel Symphony Orchestra.  
  • Charles Boone
    Composer Charles Boone's works have been played by the San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and the Avignon and Berlin Festivals.
  • Charles Amirkhanian
    Composer Charles Amirkhanian is executive and artistic director of Other Minds.
Sunday, February 19, 2017
7 PM
David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin,
United States,
1971,
(91 mins)

Archival 35mm Print

Often called the greatest rock-and-roll film ever made, Gimme Shelter scrutinizes the Rolling Stones’s infamous Altamont Speedway concert, where hippies, Hells Angels, and rock stars combined to signal the bitter end of the Summer of Love. 

Monday, February 20

Tuesday, February 21

Wednesday, February 22

Wednesday, February 22, 2017
12 PM
Castillo, associate professor of architecture at UC Berkeley and guest curator of Hippie Modernism, maps the exhibition’s alternative cultural geographies.
Free
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
1:30 PM
Guided exhibition tour of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
3:10 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1958,
(170 mins)

35mm Print

Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism, death, and amorous fixation. Voted best film of all time in 2012 Sight and Sound poll.
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
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017
7 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Russia, Ukraine,
2005,
(72 mins)
Loznitsa reinterprets archival footage of the siege of Leningrad during World War II in this, “one of the most important Russian movies of the last decade” (Russian Review). With short The Old Jewish Cemetery.
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Neil Young
    Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications.

Thursday, February 23

Thursday, February 23, 2017
3:10 PM
(124 mins)
Witness contemporary Russia in these three shorts, from the rural village of Life, Autumn to Factory’s busy industrial floor and the tired commuters of Landscape.
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Neil Young
    Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications.
Thursday, February 23, 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, February 23, 2017
7:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Germany,
2016,
(94 mins)

Bay Area Premiere

Tourists wander amid a former concentration camp turned profit center in Loznitsa’s memorable investigation of the atrocity exhibition industry. “Brilliant” (Variety).
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Neil Young
    Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications.

Friday, February 24

Friday, February 24, 2017
3:10 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Netherlands, Ukraine,
2014,
(133 mins)
Composed from extended fixed shots, this account of Kiev’s Maidan Square protests tracks the trajectory from peaceful dissent to violent confrontation. “A film of scale and immediacy, finding artistry in bearing witness” (New York Times).
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Neil Young
    Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications.
Friday, February 24, 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, February 24, 2017
6—8 PM
Collage Night with Desi returns to BAMPFA! Make one large-scale collaborative collage while grooving to the sounds of a special guest DJ.
Included with admission
Friday, February 24, 2017
7:30 PM
Sergei Loznitsa,
Belarus, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Russia,
2012,
(128 mins)
Two partisans plan to kill a Belarusian railway worker suspected of Nazi sympathies in Loznitsa’s dreamlike narrative film. “A masterpiece” (David Thomson).
In Conversation
  • Sergei Loznitsa
  • Neil Young
    Critic Neil Young writes on film for Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, The Hollywood Reporter, and other publications.

Saturday, February 25

Saturday, February 25, 2017
1 PM
Screening weekly in Theater Two, this award-winning documentary is the story of Tibetan refugee lama Tarthang Tulku and his efforts to preserve the sacred texts of his tradition.
Included with admission
Saturday, February 25, 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, February 25, 2017
5 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1957,
(103 mins)

Restored Full-Length ‘Scope Print

Set in the Libyan desert in 1942, a war drama of bitter paradoxes and a breakthrough in the realist aesthetic. With Richard Burton. 
Saturday, February 25, 2017
7:30 PM
Marlon Brando,
United States,
1961,
(141 mins)

New 4K Restoration

Marlon Brando's first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. "Mean, moody, and magnificent" (Time Out).