Week of July 8, 2018

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Sunday, July 8

Sunday, July 8, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 8, 2018
3 PM
Poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña reads from and signs her new volume of selected poems.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2018
Sunday, July 8, 2018
4 PM
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger,
United Kingdom,
1948,
(133 mins)

Digital Restoration
Free on the outdoor screen!

Ballerina Moira Shearer must choose between love and art in this ravishing melodrama, which Martin Scorsese called “one of the most beautiful Technicolor films ever made.”
At Outdoor Screen
Free on the outdoor screen. Bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on.
Sunday, July 8, 2018
5:15 PM
Aki Kaurismäki,
Finland, Sweden,
1990,
(74 mins)
This grimly funny gender parable stars Kaurismäki regular Kati Outinen in “a beautiful, unsentimental performance . . . deeply realized and affecting” (New York Times). With short Those Were the Days.
Sunday, July 8, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Italy,
1952,
(110 mins)
Three moral tales observe the dehumanized behavior of postwar youth; aimlessness is reflected in the landscape as much as in the action.

Monday, July 9

Tuesday, July 10

Tuesday, July 10, 2018
6:30 PM

Members' Event

Event is at capacity. BAMPFA members may email bampfamember@berkeley.edu by July 6 to be put on the waitlist.

Wednesday, July 11

Wednesday, July 11, 2018
12 PM
The curator of Peter Hujar: Speed of Life shares insights into Hujar’s arresting vision of the downtown Manhattan underground of the 1970s and 1980s.
Included with admission
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
6 PM
The co-curators of Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen discuss lost languages and the politics of ephemerality in this exhibition walkthrough.
Included with admission
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1952,
(107 mins)
Scenes from several marriages emerge when five women gather to await the arrival of their respective husbands at an island summer house in this essential early Bergman work.
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
7:30 PM
Cecilia Vicuña creates a participatory performance, followed by a conversation with exhibition co-curators Julia Bryan-Wilson and Andrea Andersson.
Included with admission

Thursday, July 12

Thursday, July 12, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, July 12, 2018
6 PM
In this illustrated talk, Joanne Leonard discusses her photographic work and the places and spaces of women’s lives.
Included with admission
Thursday, July 12, 2018
7 PM
Bertrand Tavernier,
France,
2017,
(195 mins)

East Bay Premiere

A great director takes viewers on an idiosyncratic tour of French film in this delightful documentary, which offers an entire lifetime of cinema knowledge and passion within its running time. “Exhilarating and inspiring” (New York Times).

Friday, July 13

Friday, July 13, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, July 13, 2018
6 PM

Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil

In this lecture-demonstration, Michaela Leslie-Rule, T. Carlis Roberts, and Ron Ragin share from their documentary work in Georgia and South Carolina, which explores the waning black church tradition of lining hymns.
Included with admission
Friday, July 13, 2018
6:30 PM
George Cukor,
United States,
1941,
(88 mins)
A wholesome but exuberant ski instructress (Garbo) impersonates her own twin in order to lure her husband (Melvyn Douglas) back from his mistress (Constance Bennett) in Cukor’s frothy comedy.
Friday, July 13, 2018
8:30 PM
Aki Kaurismäki,
Finland, France,
1992,
(100 mins)
Forget Puccini: Kaurismäki delivers his own ironic yet improbably sincere take on Henri Murger’s novel of bohemians struggling to sustain themselves, their loves, and their art in a timelessly shabby Paris.

Saturday, July 14

Saturday, July 14, 2018
11:30 AM–1 PM

For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Explore biomorphic forms and fictional characters in Way Bay 2, then create your own colorful sculpture.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Greta Liz Anderson
    With artist
    Greta Liz Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited and performed at the de Young Museum, TechShop SF, and alternative spaces in New York, San Francisco, Miami, and in her h
Saturday, July 14, 2018
1–2:30 PM

For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Explore biomorphic forms and fictional characters in Way Bay 2, then create your own colorful sculpture.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Greta Liz Anderson
    With artist
    Greta Liz Anderson is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited and performed at the de Young Museum, TechShop SF, and alternative spaces in New York, San Francisco, Miami, and in her h
Saturday, July 14, 2018
2:30 PM–9 PM
Saturday, July 14, 2018
3 PM

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

Start reading about the adventures of Ulysses the squirrel and human girl Flora, and pick up your own copy of this entertaining novel to keep reading at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Alagia Cirolia
    Reading led by
    Alagia Cirolia is a preschool teacher and language development researcher.
Saturday, July 14, 2018
6 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1943,
(110 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

A city slicker departs Paris for the provinces in Becker’s droll satire on city and country folk, family and outsiders, men and women. “Becker gave French cinema its greatest film about rural France” (Bernard Eisenschitz).
Saturday, July 14, 2018
8:15 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
Italy,
1955,
(104 mins)

Imported Print

Antonioni inspects the social architecture of 1950s Turin in this portrait of a group of fashionable young women, “masterfully directed in Antonioni’s choreographic manner, with strong melancholic undertones” (Chicago Reader).