Week of February 4, 2018

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Sunday, February 4

Sunday, February 4, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 4, 2018
12:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1968,
(103 mins)

Added screening!

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).
Sunday, February 4, 2018
2 PM
Using cardboard and printed materials, work alongside artist Grace Rosario Perkins to create abstract or representational objects and contribute to a collaborative group sculpture.
Included with admission
Sunday, February 4, 2018
2 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
Sunday, February 4, 2018
3 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
2017,
(197 mins)
Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary provides welcome confirmation of the survival of intelligent life in discouraging times, following the work behind and beyond the books at the New York Public Library.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
7 PM
Yaël Hersonski,
Israel,
2010,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

A remarkable examination of what happens when a film on the Warsaw Ghetto, discovered shortly after World War II and thought to be documentary footage, turns out to be an unfinished propaganda film.
  • William Guynn
    Introduction
    William Guynn is professor emeritus of art at Sonoma State University.

Monday, February 5

Monday, February 5, 2018
6:30 PM
An evening with MIT Media Lab cofounder and technology pioneer Nicholas Negroponte.
Free admission

Tuesday, February 6

Wednesday, February 7

Wednesday, February 7, 2018
12 PM
A talk by an illustrious composer, vocalist, and sound artist.
Free admission
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
12:15 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
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
3:10 PM
Sergei Eisenstein,
USSR,
1925,
(170 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Eisenstein’s classic can be appreciated for “not only the perfection of its form, but the humanitarianism and enthusiasm that impregnated its revolutionary subject” (Georges Sadoul).
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.
  • Peter Bagrov
    Discussion
    Peter Bagrov is a film historian, curator, and archivist specializing in early Russian and Soviet cinema.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
7 PM
José Filipe Costa,
Portugal,
2012,
(80 mins)
This 2012 work revisits Thomas Harlan’s 1975 documentary Torre Bela in order to investigate not only the Portuguese revolution, but the very idea of the political documentary.

Thursday, February 8

Thursday, February 8, 2018
4–7 PM
Thursday, February 8, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1968,
(90 mins)
A woman (Liv Ullmann) tells of her life on a remote island with her artist husband (Max von Sydow) in a film that intertwines supernatural mysteries with the no less mysterious torments of creativity.

Friday, February 9

Friday, February 9, 2018
1:30 PM
(210 mins)

JUST ADDED!

A panel of visiting scholars—all experts in the field of early Russian and Soviet cinema—joins Moscow-based scholar and archivist Peter Bagrov for this program of rare shorts and excerpts from the BAMPFA Soviet Cinema Collection.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: FREE; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12
Friday, February 9, 2018
4–9 PM
Friday, February 9, 2018
6 PM
Bring a garment and use our fabric-marker stash to explore the expressive potential of your style. Get inspired by fashions from Creative Growth Art Center and groove to a DJ set by Chulita Vinyl Club.
Included with admission
Friday, February 9, 2018
7 PM
Sergei Eisenstein,
USSR,
1925,
(70 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

 

Eisenstein’s classic can be appreciated for “not only the perfection of its form, but the humanitarianism and enthusiasm that impregnated its revolutionary subject” (Georges Sadoul).
  • Peter Bagrov
    In Person
    Peter Bagrov is a film historian, curator, and archivist specializing in early Russian and Soviet cinema.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano

Saturday, February 10

Saturday, February 10, 2018
11:30–1 PM

For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Use watercolors and colored pencils to make your own memorial drawings honoring someone important to you.
Free for kids 13 & under plus one adult
  • Kim Bennett
    With artist
    Kim Bennett is an artist and teacher whose work ranges across disciplines and includes devotional botanical paintings, imaginary embroideries, and collaborations with kids, poets, and other artists.
Saturday, February 10, 2018
1–2:30 PM

For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Use watercolors and colored pencils to make your own memorial drawings honoring someone important to you.
Free for kids 13 & under plus one adult
  • Kim Bennett
    With artist
    Kim Bennett is an artist and teacher whose work ranges across disciplines and includes devotional botanical paintings, imaginary embroideries, and collaborations with kids, poets, and other artists.
Saturday, February 10, 2018
2 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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Saturday, February 10, 2018
2:30–9 PM
Saturday, February 10, 2018
3 PM

Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Get into this graphic novel about a girl who finds her inner strength through roller derby, and pick up a free copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids 13 & under plus one adult
  • David Reed
    Reading led by
    David Reed is a librarian at Thousand Oaks Elementary School.
Saturday, February 10, 2018
4:30 PM
Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasiliev,
USSR,
1938,
(111 mins)

Film to Table dinner follows the February 10 screening

Eisenstein’s first completed sound film has a score by Sergei Prokofiev to propel its tale of a thirteenth-century hero confronting foreign invaders.
  • Peter Bagrov
    Peter Bagrov is a film historian, curator, and archivist specializing in early Russian and Soviet cinema.
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Saturday, February 10, 2018
7 PM
Enjoy a four-course chef's dinner following a screening of Eisenstein's first sound film.
At Babette
$75 per person includes wine, tax and tip. Film at 4:30, dinner seating follows screening.
Saturday, February 10, 2018
8 PM
Ida Lupino,
United States,
1953,
(71 mins)

Archival Print

Two fishing buddies pick up a hitchhiker on their way to Baja, with potentially deadly results, in Lupino’s high-tension thriller. Photographed by the great noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca.