Week of August 27, 2017

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Sunday, August 27

Sunday, August 27, 2017
All Day
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Cancelled
Hiroshi Teshigahara,
Japan,
1985,
(72 mins)

 

Teshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Cancelled
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(124 mins)
Cynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Cancelled

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Monday, August 28

Tuesday, August 29

Wednesday, August 30

Wednesday, August 30, 2017
12 PM
Independent curator, writer, and scholar Boas presents case studies from innovative contemporary curatorial efforts.
Free admission
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
12:15 PM
Explore painter Charles Howard’s enigmatic work with the exhibition curator.
Included with admission
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
7 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1967,
(121 mins)
Mifune is a dutiful samurai whose subservience is about to end. With music by Toru Takemitsu and an unforgettable supporting turn by Tatsuya Nakadai.

Thursday, August 31

Thursday, August 31, 2017
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Thursday, August 31, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2006,
(121 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Penélope Cruz stars as a strong-willed woman aiming to help her teenage daughter and sister, with little help from the men around them, in Almodóvar’s merger of comedy, mystery, and social-realist drama. “Moves beyond camp, into a realm of wise, luxuriant humanism” (New York Times).
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Friday, September 1

Friday, September 1, 2017
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Friday, September 1, 2017
6:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1963,
(88 mins)

Digital Restoration
Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.
Friday, September 1, 2017
8:15 PM
Elia Kazan,
United States,
1951,
(122 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Digital Restoration

Marlon Brando was a little-known actor when he was cast in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s play; this film adaptation made him a star. Vivien Leigh costars.

Saturday, September 2

Saturday, September 2, 2017
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Saturday, September 2, 2017
6 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1963,
(88 mins)

Digital Restoration
Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.
Saturday, September 2, 2017
8 PM
Laszlo Benedek,
United States,
1953,
(79 mins)

Digital Restoration

Marlon Brando leads a gang of leather-clad bikers descending on what could be Your Town, USA in this classic of disaffection and outlaw life. What’s he rebelling against? “Whaddya got?”