Week of July 1, 2018

Options
Reset

Sunday, July 1

Sunday, July 1, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 1, 2018
2 PM
Explore the works on view in Way Bay 2 with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Sunday, July 1, 2018
4:30 PM
George Cukor,
United States,
1936,
(108 mins)

Film to Table dinner follows

Cukor breathes new life into Alexandre Dumas’s nineteenth-century Paris, where an elegant courtesan (Garbo, in an exquisite performance) inhabits a lush and sensual world but is denied “perfect love.”
Sunday, July 1, 2018
6:30 PM
Join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion following this 1936 classic featuring an exquisite performance by Greta Garbo.
At Babette
$75 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
Sunday, July 1, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Italy,
1950,
(110 mins)

Imported Print

Antonioni’s first feature is loosely based on The Postman Always Rings Twice, but turns a torrid love story into a tale of corruption and betrayal in postwar industrial society.

Monday, July 2

Tuesday, July 3

Wednesday, July 4

Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France, United States,
1980,
(81 mins)

Digital Restoration

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, the great Agnès Varda looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980.
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1964,
(113 mins)
Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).

Thursday, July 5

Thursday, July 5, 2018
Thursday, July 5, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, July 5, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, July 5, 2018
4–7 PM
Art for your delectation: works by Wayne Thiebaud, Hiroshige, Paul Wonner, William Hogarth, and more.
Free admission
Thursday, July 5, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1948,
(99 mins)
This naturalistic city film about a young working-class girl presents the closest thing to overt social critique in Bergman’s oeuvre. An early collaboration with Gunnar Fischer, the great cinematographer who would work with Bergman throughout the 1950s.

Friday, July 6

Friday, July 6, 2018
Friday, July 6, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, July 6, 2018
7 PM
Aki Kaurismäki,
Finland, Germany,
2017,
(101 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A Syrian refugee adrift in Helsinki finds an unlikely ally in a sullen restaurateur in Kaurismäki’s delightfully humanizing take on immigration. “At once honest and artful, a touching and clear-sighted declaration of faith in people and in movies” (New York Times).

Saturday, July 7

Saturday, July 7, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, July 7, 2018
6 PM

Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil

Prolific and visionary author and musician Will Alexander joins us from Los Angeles to share his lexically ecstatic work.
Included with admission
Saturday, July 7, 2018
6 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Italy,
1953,
(105 mins)

Imported Print

A Milanese shopgirl becomes a movie actress, but not a great one, in this expressive early melodrama. “Antonioni transcends the traditional hypocrisies of the soap-opera genre, [yet] never loses touch with the throbbing feelings of his characters” (Village Voice).
Saturday, July 7, 2018
8:15 PM
Ernst Lubitsch,
United States,
1939,
(110 mins)
Severe Soviet commissar Garbo has her head turned by dashing capitalist Melvyn Douglas, and cynicism gives way to about as warm a Cold War comedy as ever there was. The ads proclaimed, “Garbo laughs!” So will you.