Week of July 22, 2018

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Sunday, July 22

Sunday, July 22, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 22, 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 22, 2018
3 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1949,
(78 mins)
In Bergman’s first major work, a young writer’s encounters with a prostitute fulfill the declaration that begins the film: “Human life is an inferno.”
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
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Sunday, July 22, 2018
5 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1947,
(93 mins)
Becker’s “snappy, sentimental comic melodrama” (New Yorker) follows a young working-class couple and the husband’s desperate search for a missing lottery ticket in this portrait of changing proletarian life in postwar Paris.
Sunday, July 22, 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).

Monday, July 23

Tuesday, July 24

Wednesday, July 25

Wednesday, July 25, 2018
12:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Way Bay 2 with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
7 PM
Kon Ichikawa,
Japan,
1956,
(116 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

A lyrical, haunting requiem for the victims of war, set amid the giant Buddhas of Burma. Winner of the top prize at the Venice film festival and one of Ichikawa’s most famous films.

Thursday, July 26

Thursday, July 26, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, July 26, 2018
7 PM
Alain Tanner,
Switzerland,
1971,
(128 mins)
Two self-proclaimed writers attempt to retell how a young woman (the amazing Bulle Ogier) shot her uncle in Tanner and cowriter John Berger’s portrait of the free and the defiant—and of those who get in their way. “A witty, shaggy, freewheeling tale” (Vogue).
  • Jon Winet
    Introduction
    Jon Winet is a professor of Intermedia at the University of Iowa. He saw La Salamandre the year it came out.

Friday, July 27

Friday, July 27, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, July 27, 2018
4:30 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
Back by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
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Friday, July 27, 2018
7 PM

Programmed by Sarah Cahill

After Everything presents chamber music by Julius Eastman, Lou Harrison, and others.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series Full 2018
Friday, July 27, 2018
7 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1952,
(94 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

 

A dazzling Simone Signoret is caught between a gangster tough and an honest carpenter in Becker’s “elegant masterwork” (Time Out) set in turn-of-the century Paris. Signoret’s performance is “a triumph of sensuality” (Pauline Kael).

Saturday, July 28

Saturday, July 28, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, July 28, 2018
6 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1952,
(94 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

 

A dazzling Simone Signoret is caught between a gangster tough and an honest carpenter in Becker’s “elegant masterwork” (Time Out) set in turn-of-the century Paris. Signoret’s performance is “a triumph of sensuality” (Pauline Kael).
Saturday, July 28, 2018
8 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
United States,
1970,
(112 mins)
Antonioni filmed the 1960s war between radical and straight cultures in L.A. and Death Valley, creating “a sorrowing, stranger’s-eye view of modern America” (Time Out).