Sunday, October 22
Sunday, October 22, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, October 22, 2017
11:30 AM
Jill Satterfield leads a monthly series of mindfulness and meditation sessions at BAMPFA.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2017
Sunday, October 22, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2017
Sunday, October 22, 2017
2 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.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
3:45 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1983,
(124 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Akerman’s brilliantly funny comedy of manners could be the cinema’s most eloquent evocation of Sartre’s observation, “Hell is other people.” With Akerman’s self-portrait in film clips, Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman.
Sunday, October 22, 2017
6:30 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
2001,
(202 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A reedit of Coppola’s Vietnam War saga, the most astute, acute portrait of Americans at war in the post-World War II period. At the heart of its madness lies Marlon Brando.
Monday, October 23
Monday, October 23, 2017
6:30 PM
Artist, activist, and cultural critic Cirio discusses how socially engaged Internet art can maximize both social and artistic efficacy.
Free admission
Tuesday, October 24
Wednesday, October 25
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
12 PM
De Jesus highlights some individuals from her collection of memorial portraits.
Included with admission
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
12 PM
The executive director of Science Gallery International considers the creative collisions of art, culture, science, and design.
Free admission
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
7 PM
(75 mins)
Featuring a selection of Everson’s films from 2005 to the present that examine formal practices and structures of history while chronicling everyday African American life and excavating its neglected legacies.
In Conversation
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Kevin Jerome Everson
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Michael B. Gillespie
Michael B. Gillespie is the author of Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film and an associate professor of film at the City College of New York, CUNY.
Thursday, October 26
Thursday, October 26, 2017
12 PM
The curator of BAMPFA’s Chen Hongshou exhibition offers insights into the artist’s mindset as the world around him dissolved into chaos.
Included with admission
Thursday, October 26, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, October 26, 2017
7:30 PM
(65 mins)
This program, presented in conjunction with the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, showcases the richly textured film and video work of two artists who share a concern for the multiple definitions of art, race, performance, and history.
In Conversation
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Kevin Jerome Everson
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Edgar Arceneaux
Edgar Arceneaux is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He was the director of the Watts House Project from 1999-2012. -
Michael B. Gillespie
Michael Gillespie signs his book Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film after the screening.
Friday, October 27
Friday, October 27, 2017
4 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1960,
(111 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A vacuum-cleaner salesman in steamy Cuba turns to international espionage in this droll spy spoof from a quartet of formidable Englishmen—actors Alec Guinness and Noel Coward, writer Graham Greene, and director Carol Reed.
Friday, October 27, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, October 27, 2017
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France,
1975,
(198 mins)
The repetitive domestic routines of a bourgeois widow become a source of visceral suspense in Akerman’s landmark of feminist filmmaking.
Saturday, October 28
Saturday, October 28, 2017
1 PM
Two scholars present talks illuminating different periods in the work of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission
Saturday, October 28, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, October 28, 2017
6 PM
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola,
United States,
1991,
(96 mins)
Head behind the scenes of one of the most notorious film shoots ever in this fly-on-the-wall documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now. “Fascinating, harrowing film history” (Roger Ebert).
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Eleanor Coppola
Introduction by
Saturday, October 28, 2017
8:15 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1944,
(85 mins)
Ray Milland is released from an asylum into an even stranger milieu—wartime London, stalked by Nazi spies—in Fritz Lang’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. “A tour de force of paranoia” (Cinematheque Ontario).
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