Week of October 15, 2017

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Sunday, October 15

Sunday, October 15, 2017
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Sunday, October 15, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Sunday, October 15, 2017
3 PM

Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil

 

Join Kujichagulia for an excursion into what she calls “JAZZ-OLOGICAL MUSE-OETRY.”
Included with admission
Sunday, October 15, 2017
4:30 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1948,
(92 mins)
Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s gripping, gorgeously visualized thriller about a boy, a butler, and the butler’s secrets “reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at its peak” (New York Observer).
Sunday, October 15, 2017
7 PM
John Huston,
United States,
1967,
(108 mins)
John Huston adapts Carson McCullers’s tale of repressed homosexuality with the able help of Marlon Brando as a military man among (many) men on a Southern army base, and Elizabeth Taylor as his put-upon wife.

Monday, October 16

Monday, October 16, 2017
6:30 PM
Drew, an influential blogger and the social media manager for The Met, discusses curation, social media, race, and institutions with UC Berkeley professor Best.
Free admission

Tuesday, October 17

Wednesday, October 18

Wednesday, October 18, 2017
12 PM
Herold, of UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance, and Ball, a scenic and costume designer, discuss the process of adapting a work of literature to the stage.
Free admission
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
12:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
7 PM
(65 mins)
A rare visit by the Argentine filmmaker Claudio Caldini, whose Super 8 and regular 8mm films are “eternal, dematerialized, and transcendent” (Pablo Marin).
  • Claudio Caldini
    In Person

Thursday, October 19

Thursday, October 19, 2017
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Thursday, October 19, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1977,
(101 mins)

Digital Restoration

New York City, imposing and anonymous, serves as the visual counterpoint to Akerman’s reading of her own mother’s letters in this personal, gorgeously photographed film. With short La chambre.
  • Jon Davies
    Introduction
    Jon Davies is a student in the PhD program in art history at Stanford University and has worked as a contemporary art curator.
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Friday, October 20

Friday, October 20, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Friday, October 20, 2017
4 PM
Norman McLeod,
United States,
1932,
(68 mins)
BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.
Friday, October 20, 2017
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Friday, October 20, 2017
4:30 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Friday, October 20, 2017
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1972,
(175 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and—with an impact that far outweighs his screen time—Marlon Brando anchor Coppola’s oft-imitated, never-improved mob epic, one of the defining films of seventies Hollywood.
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Saturday, October 21

Saturday, October 21, 2017
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Saturday, October 21, 2017
11:15 AM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Saturday, October 21, 2017
4:30 PM
Norman McLeod,
United States,
1932,
(68 mins)
BAMPFA celebrates Homecoming Weekend with this perennial favorite in which college president Groucho and the other Marx Brothers wreak havoc on higher education.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
6:30 PM
Huang Zuolin, Shi Hui, Ye Ming,
China,
1952,
(68 mins)

Digital Restoration

A New York City businessman hopes to market a suicidal window washer’s grief to the highest bidder in this acidic Korean War–era satire on American capitalism, played entirely by Chinese actors in whiteface.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
8:15 PM
John Boulting,
United Kingdom,
1947,
(92 mins)
Richard Attenborough stars as a teenage psychopath leading a gang of toughs in Brighton, Britain’s seedy seaside resort. “The best film to capture [Graham] Greene’s seedy world of evil, sin, and betrayal” (The Observer).