Week of December 17, 2017

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Sunday, December 17

Sunday, December 17, 2017
11-7 PM
Sunday, December 17, 2017
11:30 AM
Jill Satterfield leads a monthly series of mindfulness and meditation sessions at BAMPFA.
Included with admission
Sunday, December 17, 2017
2 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1955,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Agnès Varda’s 1954 debut about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called the first film of the French New Wave.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
4 PM
Agnès Varda, JR,
France,
2017,
(89 mins)
Forever young-at-heart filmmaker (and French New Wave legend) Agnès Varda teams up with hipster artist JR on a road trip across rural France. A first-rate achievement in Varda’s brilliant career.
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Sunday, December 17, 2017
7 PM
(86 mins)
A stunning variety of styles and techniques is on display in works by the new generation of Polish animated filmmakers, including Ewa Borysewicz, Anita Kwiatowska-Naqvi, Tomasz Siwinski, Piotr Szczepanowicz, and more.

Monday, December 18

Tuesday, December 19

Wednesday, December 20

Wednesday, December 20, 2017
7 PM
(85 mins)
From puppets to epics, this program of recent animation from Poland features Academy Award winners and festival hits by Suzie Templeton, Kamil Polak, and others.

Thursday, December 21

Thursday, December 21, 2017
4-7 PM
Thursday, December 21, 2017
7 PM
Reha Erdem,
Turkey,
2004,
(124 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Reha Erdem’s innovative group portrait of the inhabitants of an apartment building in Istanbul serves as a comic exploration of what it means to be human.

Friday, December 22

Friday, December 22, 2017
4 PM
Doug Nichol,
United States,
2016,
(103 mins)
This hymn to the ordinary typewriter is also a portrait of the countless artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfast in their love and loyalty. “Pure typewriter heaven” (Don DeLillo).
Friday, December 22, 2017
4-9 PM
Friday, December 22, 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, December 22, 2017
7 PM
Clint Eastwood,
United States,
1992,
(131 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Clint Eastwood’s Western opus chronicles a retired, reformed gunman roped back into action by a much younger (and dumber) man. “A tense, hard-edged, superbly dramatic yarn” (Todd McCarthy, Variety).

Saturday, December 23

Saturday, December 23, 2017
11-9 PM
Saturday, December 23, 2017
3:30 PM
Doug Nichol,
United States,
2016,
(103 mins)
This hymn to the ordinary typewriter is also a portrait of the countless artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfast in their love and loyalty. “Pure typewriter heaven” (Don DeLillo).
Saturday, December 23, 2017
6 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1957,
(107 mins)

35mm Print

Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen” (Time). The towering Toshiro Mifune stars.
Saturday, December 23, 2017
8:15 PM
Michael Curtiz,
United States,
1945,
(109 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her driven performance in this noir melodrama that exposed the nightmare side of upward mobility and domestic virtue.