Week of March 25, 2018

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Sunday, March 25

Sunday, March 25, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, March 25, 2018
2 PM

Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Discover how printed fabric can tell a story and learn how to print a repeating textile pattern.
Included with admission
Sunday, March 25, 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, March 25, 2018
2 PM
Eduard Tissé,
Switzerland,
1929,
(79 mins)
 A treatise on the need for legal abortions, made in Switzerland by cinematographer Eduard Tisse and “supervised” by Eisenstein. With the poetic short Romance sentimentale.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
4:30 PM
Douglas Sirk,
United States,
1955,
(89 mins)

Vintage Technicolor 35mm Print

Rock Hudson comes to prune widow Jane Wyman’s garden and uproots her sterile, upper-middle-class suburban life in this elegiac, Thoreauvian mood piece that inspired Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
7 PM
(90 mins)
Alassane’s films range from animations to ethnography-infused comedies and adaptations of African legends, all sharing a playful humor and incisive commentary on modern Africa.

Monday, March 26

Tuesday, March 27

Wednesday, March 28

Wednesday, March 28, 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, March 28, 2018
7 PM
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel,
Austria, Italy,
2016,
(90 mins)
The spirits of early Fellini and De Sica can be felt in this captivating docudrama about an Italian lion-tamer on the hunt for the strongman who started him on the circus life.

Thursday, March 29

Thursday, March 29, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, March 29, 2018
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
France, Germany, United Kingdom,
1997,
(95 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Herzog accompanies a Vietnam War POW back to the jungles of Laos to relive his imprisonment and torture in this award-winning documentary. With Jack Chambers’s short Hybrid.

Friday, March 30

Friday, March 30, 2018
4 PM
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel,
Austria, Italy,
2016,
(90 mins)
The spirits of early Fellini and De Sica can be felt in this captivating docudrama about an Italian lion-tamer on the hunt for the strongman who started him on the circus life.
Friday, March 30, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, March 30, 2018
7 PM
Douglas Sirk,
United States,
1955,
(89 mins)

Vintage Technicolor 35mm Print

Rock Hudson comes to prune widow Jane Wyman’s garden and uproots her sterile, upper-middle-class suburban life in this elegiac, Thoreauvian mood piece that inspired Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven.
Friday, March 30, 2018
All Day

Saturday, March 31

Saturday, March 31, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, March 31, 2018
3 PM
Andres Veiel,
Germany,
2018,
(107 mins)

East Bay Theatrical Premiere

This new documentary explores the life and work of avant-garde sculptor, painter, performance artist, and social activist Joseph Beuys, chronicling his art and ideas about media, community, and capitalism in an intimate way.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
5:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1957,
(96 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Film to Table dinner follows the March 31 screening

A medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy. “A magically powerful film” (Pauline Kael).
Saturday, March 31, 2018
7 PM

Programmed by Berkeley Symphony with Anna Clyne

Berkeley Symphony musicians and friends play compositions by Berkeley Sounds composer fellows paired with pieces written by their mentors.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series Full 2018
Saturday, March 31, 2018
7 PM
A medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy, which provides the backdrop for a Swedish-inspired dinner.
At Babette
Saturday, March 31, 2018
7:30 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
Iran,
1995,
(70 mins)
Acclaimed Iranian director Makhmalbaf blurs the line between fiction and reality by turning a casting call into cinema, and his prospective actors into subjects, in this tribute to (and wry jab at) the power of film. “Witty and slyly relevant” (Variety).