Week of January 28, 2018

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Sunday, January 28

Sunday, January 28, 2018
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, January 28, 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 28, 2018
2 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.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
4 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
France, Sweden,
1986,
(149 mins)

New 4K Digital Restoration

 

A retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film.
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Sunday, January 28, 2018
7 PM
Federico Veiroj,
Uruguay,
2010,
(110 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

A lifelong film archivist faces a new beginning with the threatened closure of his institution in this loving black-and-white ode to a life lived among the reels. “An elegy to cinephilia” (Slant). With Morgan Fisher’s Standard Gauge and Alexi Manis’s Luminous.

Monday, January 29

Monday, January 29, 2018
6:30 PM
Ohio State University professor of art history and film studies Kris Paulsen discusses the semiotic notion of the index in the age of the digital interface.
Free admission

Tuesday, January 30

Wednesday, January 31

Wednesday, January 31, 2018
12 PM
The pioneering feminist visual artist and experimental filmmaker talks about her influential practice.
Free admission
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
3:10 PM
Sergei Eisenstein,
USSR,
1925,
(170 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A strike by a group of factory workers and its brutal suppression form the backbone of Eisenstein’s agitprop masterpiece of ferocious montage. With short Glumov’s Diary.
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.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
7 PM
Thomas Harlan,
France, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland,
1975,
(106 mins)
This film created by a German leftist in Portugal documents efforts to return a large private estate to local workers. “One of the purest examples of militant documentary” (Harvard Film Archive).

Thursday, February 1

Thursday, February 1, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, February 1, 2018
1:15 PM
Get fresh insights into the works in view in Way Bay with a tour led by a UC Berkeley graduate student. 
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Thursday, February 1, 2018
4–7 PM
Get an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collections. This month, the spotlight is on abstraction.
Free admission
Thursday, February 1, 2018
4–7 PM
Thursday, February 1, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1966,
(85 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

Exploring the strange symbiosis between a speechless actress (Liv Ullmann) and her nurse companion (Bibi Andersson), this is “Bergman at his most brilliant” (Time Out).
Special admission: BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7
  • Liv Ullmann
    In person
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Friday, February 2

Friday, February 2, 2018
4 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
This recent documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
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Friday, February 2, 2018
4–9 PM
Friday, February 2, 2018
7 PM

Programmed by Karen Seneferu

Medea Sirkas performs with harpist Destiny Muhammad and violinist Tarika Lewis. This is where classical instruments meet street ballet.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
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Friday, February 2, 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, February 3

Saturday, February 3, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, February 3, 2018
3 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1966,
(85 mins)

Added screening!

Exploring the strange symbiosis between a speechless actress (Liv Ullmann) and her nurse companion (Bibi Andersson), this is “Bergman at his most brilliant” (Time Out).
Saturday, February 3, 2018
5 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, February 3, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1968,
(103 mins)
Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow star in “Bergman’s simple, masterly vision of normal war and what it does to survivors. Set a tiny step into the future, the film has the inevitability of a common dream” (Pauline Kael).
Special admission: BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7
  • Liv Ullmann
    In Person
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