Week of August 6, 2017

Options
Reset

Sunday, August 6

Sunday, August 6, 2017
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Sunday, August 6, 2017
5 PM
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg,
USSR,
1929,
(85 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Originally banned for its excess, this energetic Russian avant-garde extravaganza focuses on a shopgirl and a heroic young soldier in the 1871 Paris Commune. “A masterpiece . . . a steaming hot pot of startling images” (Village Voice).
Sunday, August 6, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1970,
(140 mins)
Alain Delon and Yves Montand in Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
Series Melville 100

Monday, August 7

Monday, August 7, 2017
7 PM

Programmed by Land and Sea

Performances that push the boundaries of sound, film, and movement, by Julius Smack; Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken; and Paul Clipson, Amma Ateria, and Kevin Corcoran.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.

Tuesday, August 8

Wednesday, August 9

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
7 PM
Sergei Paradjanov,
USSR,
1964,
(92 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Pagan rituals, demonology, folklore, and legend come to life in Paradjanov’s hypnotic updating of a Romeo-and-Juliet-like tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).

Thursday, August 10

Thursday, August 10, 2017
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Thursday, August 10, 2017
7 PM
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg,
USSR,
1929,
(85 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Originally banned for its excess, this energetic Russian avant-garde extravaganza focuses on a shopgirl and a heroic young soldier in the 1871 Paris Commune. “A masterpiece . . . a steaming hot pot of startling images” (Village Voice).

Friday, August 11

Friday, August 11, 2017
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Friday, August 11, 2017
6:30 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1950,
(94 mins)

Archival Print
Based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. “Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring” (Time Out).
Friday, August 11, 2017
8:30 PM
Vanessa Gould,
United States,
2016,
(95 mins)
“An entertaining inside look at the obituary writers of The New York Times. . . . [This] doc makes a strong case for the well-wrought obituary as something of an art form” (Film Journal International).

Saturday, August 12

Saturday, August 12, 2017
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Saturday, August 12, 2017
6:30 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1972,
(98 mins)
Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna star in Melville’s last feature, a consummate Sartre-by-way-of-Simenon heist film of remarkable set pieces and an even more remarkable sense of nihilism.
Series Melville 100
Saturday, August 12, 2017
8:30 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1980,
(82 mins)
Madrid’s nascent punk and gay underground provides the fertile setting of Almodóvar’s debut feature, a manic slice of screw-you life more post–John Waters than post-Franco.
Google Calendar
ICS