Week of November 19, 2017

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Sunday, November 19

Sunday, November 19, 2017
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, November 19, 2017
11:30 AM
Jill Satterfield leads a monthly series of mindfulness and meditation sessions at BAMPFA.
Included with admission
Sunday, November 19, 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, November 19, 2017
2:30 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)

Film to Table dinner follows the November 4 screening

Back by popular demand! This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
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Sunday, November 19, 2017
5 PM
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(94 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

From Uruguay, a deadpan comedy about minor subterfuge and awkward loyalties, “the story of ordinary life artfully and touchingly told” (New York Times). “Swigs from the same bottle as Aki Kaurismäki” (Village Voice).
Sunday, November 19, 2017
7 PM
Gordon Parks,
United States,
1971,
(100 mins)
A black private eye holds his own against underworld kings and corrupt cops in Gordon Parks’s seminal blaxploitation opus, with an Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes.
  • Maya Raiford Cohen
    Introduction by
    Maya Raiford Cohen is a curatorial intern at BAMPFA.

Monday, November 20

Monday, November 20, 2017
6:30 PM
Kun, a writer, curator, USC professor, and MacArthur Fellow, explores how music can engage histories of erasure and displacement while imagining new forms of community and collaboration.
Free admission

Tuesday, November 21

Wednesday, November 22

Wednesday, November 22, 2017
12:15 PM
Explore a great Chinese painter’s work and his turbulent times with a tour of Repentant Monk: Illusion and Disillusion in the Art of Chen Hongshou.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required

Thursday, November 23

Thursday, November 23, 2017
All Day

Friday, November 24

Friday, November 24, 2017
3:30 PM
Carl Theodor Dreyer,
France,
1928,
(81 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Carl Dreyer’s 1928 film focuses on the face as a landscape of the soul. Pauline Kael called it “one of the greatest of all movies.”
Friday, November 24, 2017
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, November 24, 2017
5 PM
Explore the diversity of human experience with videos from the Global Lives Project, which capture twenty-four hours in the lives of individuals around the globe.
Included with admission
Friday, November 24, 2017
5:30 PM
Peter Bratt,
United States,
2017,
(98 mins)
Peter Bratt’s intimate yet universal documentary profiles one of the US’s most dedicated community organizers, Dolores Huerta (cofounder of the United Farm Workers), and reveals the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social justice.
Friday, November 24, 2017
7:30 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
United Kingdom,
1966,
(107 mins)

New Digital Restoration

“Set in a vividly mod Swinging London, Antonioni’s first English-language film [is] a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).
Friday, November 24, 2017
All Day

Saturday, November 25

Saturday, November 25, 2017
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, November 25, 2017
3:30 PM
Richard Lester,
United Kingdom,
1964,
(85 mins)

Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 8 & up

Richard Lester’s hyperkinetic mod documentary captures the Fab Four at the height of Beatlemania!
Recommended for ages 8 & up
Saturday, November 25, 2017
5:30 PM
Orson Welles,
United States,
1941,
(119 mins)

35mm Print

A childhood memory is the ultimate red herring in Welles’s audacious debut. Gregg Toland’s deep-focus cinematography is just one reason why Kane still tops many critics’ lists of the best films of all time.
Saturday, November 25, 2017
8 PM
Douglas Sirk,
United States,
1957,

35mm Print

Rock Hudson plays a New Orleans newspaperman who develops an unprofessional fascination with carnival fliers Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone in Douglas Sirk’s drama, based on a story by William Faulkner and shot in sweeping CinemaScope black-and-white.