Week of January 14, 2018

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Sunday, January 14

Sunday, January 14, 2018
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, January 14, 2018
2 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
Sunday, January 14, 2018
4 PM
Jean Renoir,
France,
1939,
(106 mins)

35mm Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

Made just before the outbreak of World War II, Renoir’s masterpiece turns a country-house gathering into a tragicomic study of polite society on the brink of collapse.
Sunday, January 14, 2018
7 PM
Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang,
United States,
1942,
(94 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A luminous Ida Lupino stars as a distraught woman saved from suicide by a hard-drinking longshoreman (the great French actor Jean Gabin in his American debut) in Fritz Lang and Archie Mayo’s atmospheric thriller-cum–fairy tale.

Monday, January 15

Tuesday, January 16

Wednesday, January 17

Wednesday, January 17, 2018
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
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
3:10 PM
Evgenii Bauer,
Russia,
1916,
(170 mins)
A wealthy matriarch juggles her two daughters (one adopted) against a merchant and a dashing prince in this chamber melodrama from one of silent Russian cinema’s great stylists, Evgenii Bauer.
Pre-sale to members at the Sponsor level and above Dec. 5–11. Public ticket sales begin Dec. 12.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12
  • Anne Nesbet
    Lecture
    Anne Nesbet is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley.
  • Bruce Loeb
    On Piano
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
7 PM
(70 mins)
One of Colombia’s most influential, prolific filmmakers presents three of his works, including the classic Vampires of Poverty, that incorporate political critique, an aesthetic sensibility, and, importantly, a sense of humor.
  • Luis Ospina
    In Person

Thursday, January 18

Thursday, January 18, 2018
12 PM
Navigate the evocative installation of Way Bay with the exhibition curators as they share insights into their process and selections.
Included with admission
Thursday, January 18, 2018
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Thursday, January 18, 2018
7 PM
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea,
Cuba,
1968,
(97 mins)

New Digital Restoration / Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!

The Cuban cinema reached full maturity with this classic study of a bourgeois writer who stays in Cuba after the revolution. “Beautifully understated, sophisticated and cosmopolitan” (New York Times).

Friday, January 19

Friday, January 19, 2018
4 PM
Jean Renoir,
France,
1939,
(106 mins)

35mm Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

Made just before the outbreak of World War II, Renoir’s masterpiece turns a country-house gathering into a tragicomic study of polite society on the brink of collapse.
Friday, January 19, 2018
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, January 19, 2018
6 PM
Celebrate the release of a series of postcard prints made in the BAMPFA Art Lab with a spirited mass reading of more than a hundred poems. 
Included with admission
Series Readings
Friday, January 19, 2018
7 PM
Hiroshi Teshigahara,
Japan,
1964,
(147 mins)

35mm Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

The sands of time have not worn away the startling beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s adaptation of Kobo Abe’s acclaimed postmodernist novel. “It’s like a dream—the kind from which you awake bolt upright in a cold sweat” (The Guardian).

Saturday, January 20

Saturday, January 20, 2018
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, January 20, 2018
3:30 PM
Victor Fleming,
United States,
1939,

Recommended for ages 5 & up

What better activity for a Saturday afternoon in winter than a trip down the Yellow Brick Road together with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Woodsman?
Saturday, January 20, 2018
6 PM
Chris Marker,
France,
2000,
(90 mins)

Film to Table dinner follows

Chris Marker’s cinematic psalm to Andrei Tarkovsky transports the viewer into Tarkovsky’s films and his world. With Marker’s short on the Russian director Alexander Medvedkin, The Train Rolls On.
Saturday, January 20, 2018
8 PM
Ida Lupino,
United States,
1950,
(75 mins)

Imported Archival Print

Few Hollywood films address the aftereffects of rape like Lupino’s powerful work, which tracks one brutalized woman’s difficult steps towards recovery. “One of the crucial movies of the era, Outrage looks intimately, painfully, and analytically at what we now know to call rape culture” (New Yorker).