Sunday, January 21
Sunday, January 21, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, January 21, 2018
11:30 AM
Join Jill Satterfield, of Vajra Yoga and the School for Compassionate Action, for a mindfulness and meditation session.
Included in admission
Series
Workshops 2018
Sunday, January 21, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Sunday, January 21, 2018
2 PM
Jean Renoir,
France,
1936,
(84 mins)
New Digital Restoration. Film to Table dinner follows the January 13 screening
Workers at a publishing company form a successful collective after their loathsome boss disappears in Renoir’s vivacious drama of crime, romance, and ethics. “A film touched by divine grace” (François Truffaut).
Sunday, January 21, 2018
4 PM
Raoul Walsh,
United States,
1941,
(96 mins)
High Sierra ushered in the era of the gangster as existential antihero, with Humphrey Bogart as a wanted man hiding out in the Sierras and Ida Lupino as the cabaret singer who loves him.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
6:30 PM
Bill Morrison,
United States,
2017,
(120 mins)
Bill Morrison presents his beautiful meditation on a rare trove of silent nitrate film, as well as the barren Canadian Yukon town where it was found. “Both awe-inspiring and humbling” (New York Times).
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Bill Morrison
In Person
Monday, January 22
Monday, January 22, 2018
6:30 PM
Edward Wasserman, Richard Koci Hernandez, Monica Lam, and Ken Light share innovative work by students at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.
Free admission
Tuesday, January 23
Wednesday, January 24
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
12 PM
Hear from the filmmaker behind the Other Cinema at San Francisco’s ATA gallery, one of the Mission District’s last underground art spaces.
Free admission
Wednesday, January 24, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
3:10 PM
Lev Kuleshov,
USSR,
1924,
(170 mins)
A fearful American and his cowboy bodyguard find themselves in over their heads in Soviet Russia in Lev Kuleshov’s frantic, absurdist comedy. With Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Pravda No. 21.
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
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Anne Nesbet
LectureAnne Nesbet is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
7 PM
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril,
Canada,
2016,
(89 mins)
Inuit filmmaker Alethea Arnaquq-Baril’s passionate, mind-shifting film documents new strands of Inuit activism—“part exposé, part personal documentary, and part community portrait” (TIFF). With Jonathan Wright’s animated short The Bear Facts.
Series
Documentary Voices 2018
Thursday, January 25
Thursday, January 25, 2018
12 PM
Join the curators of To the Letter for an in-depth look at the exhibition.
Included with admission
Thursday, January 25, 2018
4–7 PM
Thursday, January 25, 2018
7:10 PM
(110 mins)
A screening of Near Normal Man, a profile of Holocaust survivor Ben Stern and his fight against a 1977 Nazi rally in Illinois, anchors this discussion of free speech.
General admission is sold out. Free first come, first served tickets will be available to UC Berkeley students on site, January 25, with a Cal ID.
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Carol Christ
IntroductionCarol Christ is chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. -
Ira Glasser
In ConversationIra Glasser served as executive director of the ACLU from 1978 to 2001. He is author of Visions of Liberty: The Bill of Rights for All Americans. -
Ben Stern
In ConversationActivist and educator Ben Stern survived the Holocaust, only to face Nazis again in 1978 in Skokie, Illinois, where he organized a successful counterprotest. -
Charlene Stern
In ConversationCharlene Stern is the producer and director of Near Normal Man and an accomplished businesswoman. -
Manu Meel
In ConversationManu Meel is a sophomore at UC Berkeley studying political science and economics. He is working with the chancellor’s office to facilitate Free Speech Year. -
Edward Wasserman
ModeratorEdward Wasserman is professor of journalism and dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. -
Simone Dill
In ConversationSimone Dill is a Senior at UC Berkeley pursuing degree in Film and Media Studies and is the Communications Director for the Cal Black Student Union. -
Luis Tenorio
In ConversationLuis Tenorio is a doctoral student of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley as both a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow and Chancellor’s Fellow.
Friday, January 26
Friday, January 26, 2018
4 PM
Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl,
France, United Kingdom, United States,
2017,
(95 mins)
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, this documentary tells the fascinating story of Gertrude Bell—who shaped the modern Middle East after World War I and helped draw the borders of Iraq—through intimate letters and secret documents.
Friday, January 26, 2018
4–9 PM
Friday, January 26, 2018
6 PM
Performer and scholar Wang Fei guides us a special musical journey through masterpieces for the guqin, a traditional seven-stringed Chinese instrument.
Included with admission
Friday, January 26, 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).
Saturday, January 27
Saturday, January 27, 2018
1 PM
The two scholars present lectures that deepen and expand our understanding of the late Ming-dynasty painter's work, life, and times.
Included with admission
Saturday, January 27, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, January 27, 2018
4 PM
Ida Lupino,
United States,
1949,
(82 mins)
Archival Print
A young dancer finds her promising career threatened by polio in Lupino’s first fully credited directorial effort, a blend of steadfastly un-melodramatic melodrama with the gritty aesthetics of docu-noir.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
6 PM
Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Artist, writer, and visual culture scholar Duane Deterville discusses "Afrifuturism" (sic)—its history, its manifestations in various media, and how it can be used as a tool for black liberation.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2018
Saturday, January 27, 2018
6:30 PM
Michael Wadleigh,
United States,
1970,
(215 mins)
Archival Print
This legendary documentary captures a rock-and-roll who’s who at their heights: Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Janis Joplin, and many more. With Robert N. Zagone’s short A Day in the Life of Country Joe and the Fish.
In Person
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Country Joe McDonald
In PersonBerkeley resident Country Joe McDonald became famous for his appearance in the Woodstock Music Festival singing a song about the Vietnam War. -
Robert N. Zagone
In PersonRobert N. Zagone is a veteran film and TV director; his works include Read You Like a Book, Go Ride the Music with the Jefferson Airplane, and Drugs in the Tenderloin.
Through July 6
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Through May 11
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