Week of February 11, 2018

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Sunday, February 11

Sunday, February 11, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 11, 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
Sunday, February 11, 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 11, 2018
2 PM
Sergei Eisenstein,
USSR,
1944,
(96 mins)
In sixteenth-century Moscow, the newly crowned Czar Ivan battles both the nobility and the church in an effort to unify Russia. Scored by Sergei Prokofiev, Eisenstein’s painterly film is like a fresco come to life.
  • Peter Bagrov
    In Person
    Peter Bagrov is a film historian, curator, and archivist specializing in early Russian and Soviet cinema.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
4:30 PM
Sergei Eisenstein,
USSR,
1946/1958,
(96 mins)
The second part of Eisenstein’s unfinished trilogy follows Ivan’s return to the throne and his ruthless opposition to the schemes of the nobility to keep Russia divided among its princes and foreign interests.
  • Peter Bagrov
    In Person
    Peter Bagrov is a film historian, curator, and archivist specializing in early Russian and Soviet cinema.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
7 PM
Ida Lupino,
United States,
1951,
(76 mins)

Archival Print

Lupino’s taut tennis drama depicts the complexities and limits of female ambition in postwar suburban America and offers an early exposé of corruption in amateur sports.

Monday, February 12

Monday, February 12, 2018
6:30 PM
Artist and filmmaker Emily Jacir delivers this year’s talk in UC Berkeley’s prestigious Regents’ Lectureship program.
Free admission

Tuesday, February 13

Wednesday, February 14

Wednesday, February 14, 2018
12 PM
The pioneering media artist and founding partner of Ant Farm pays a visit to BAMPFA.
Free admission
Wednesday, February 14, 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 14, 2018
3:10 PM
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg,
USSR,
1929,
(170 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Originally banned for its excess and aestheticism, and inspired by Impressionists like Monet and Degas, this visually magnificent avant-garde extravaganza tracks a shopgirl and a soldier in the 1871 Paris Commune.
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.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
6 PM
Heikes talks about art and alchemy and offers an overview of his wide-ranging practice, with an emphasis on the works featured in Jay Heikes / MATRIX 269.
Included with admission
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
7 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.
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Thursday, February 15

Thursday, February 15, 2018
4–7 PM
Thursday, February 15, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1972,
A woman dying of cancer (Harriet Andersson) is attended by her sisters (Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin) at a country house. “A laceratingly beautiful attempt to explore the human need not only to draw comfort from the past, but to project love back into its dusty reaches” (Monthly Film Bulletin).

Friday, February 16

Friday, February 16, 2018
4 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.
Friday, February 16, 2018
4–9 PM
Friday, February 16, 2018
7 PM
Ross Lipman,
United States,
2015,
(150 mins)
Lipman’s fascinating kino-essay examines a 1965 collaboration between Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton. “Testifies to an almost inexhaustible fascination with the pleasures and paradoxes of cinema” (New York Times). With the original article: Samuel Beckett’s Film.

Saturday, February 17

Saturday, February 17, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, February 17, 2018
3:30 PM
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou,
France, Italy, Switzerland,
1996,

Recommended for ages 7 & up

Marvel at a world barely visible to our eyes in this astounding documentary on the insect kingdom, filmed with specially designed micro cameras and close-up lenses.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
6 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1978,
(93 mins)

Film to Table dinner follows

A Chopin prelude triggers a long-delayed confrontation between a concert pianist (Ingrid Bergman) and her aggrieved daughter (Liv Ullmann) in this intense and penetrating chamber piece.
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Saturday, February 17, 2018
7:30 PM
Enjoy a four-course chef's dinner following a screening of Bergman's intense and penetrating chamber piece starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann.
At Babette
$75 per person includes wine, tax and tip. Film at 6:00; dinner follows screening.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
8 PM
Ida Lupino,
United States,
1953,
(78 mins)

Archival Print

A salesman commutes between two wives, two classes, and two cities—San Francisco and Los Angeles—in Lupino’s drama of married life and moral tension. Edmond O’Brien, Joan Fontaine, and Lupino star.