Week of July 29, 2018

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Sunday, July 29

Sunday, July 29, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 29, 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 29, 2018
3 PM
In this exhibition walk-through, BAMPFA Assistant Curator Matthew Coleman explores Hujar’s distinctive and arresting photographic style and imagery.
Included with admission
Sunday, July 29, 2018
5 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1951,
(88 mins)
A pianist and his wife quarrel as they prepare for an upcoming recital in Becker’s airy, Lubitsch-like portrait of love and life in a slowly modernizing urban France, which was praised by—and inspired—Godard and Truffaut.
Sunday, July 29, 2018
7 PM
Alain Tanner,
Switzerland,
1974,
(115 mins)
John Berger cowrote the probing, teasingly ambiguous script for this film about the love affair between a Swiss engineer and an Italian immigrant waitress, turning a femme-fatale tragedy into a tale of the growth of a woman’s consciousness.

Monday, July 30

Tuesday, July 31

Wednesday, August 1

Wednesday, August 1, 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, August 1, 2018
7 PM
(79 mins)

Imported Prints
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

An evening of short documentary and narrative works by the Italian master, including The People of the Po, Lies of Love, Superstition, The Villa of Monsters, Suicide Attempt (from the omnibus film Love in the City), and more.

Thursday, August 2

Thursday, August 2, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, August 2, 2018
1:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Way Bay 2 with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Thursday, August 2, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, August 2, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Snakes and elephants and dragons, oh my! Come see works by Baua Devi, Joel Sternfeld, Zhou Xun, Giuseppe Scolari, Paul Ranson, and others.
Free admission
Thursday, August 2, 2018
7 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1958,
(108 mins)
The famed (and infamously wild) Italian artist Modigliani’s last days in Paris are reconstructed in Becker’s untamed biopic, a loving tribute to the city’s bohemian life.

Friday, August 3

Friday, August 3, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, August 3, 2018
7 PM
Alain Tanner,
Switzerland,
1976,
(116 mins)
Tanner’s most celebrated work (coauthored by John Berger) tracks a ragtag group of Swiss dropouts and dreamers and the little refuge they create for themselves. “Seeing it today . . . its undefeated sanity is bracing” (Vogue).
Friday, August 3, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1950,
(98 mins)
The redemptive power of music is Bergman’s central theme in this portrayal of an ambitious, mercurial violinist (Stig Olin), featuring the great Victor Sjöström as an orchestra conductor.
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
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Saturday, August 4

Saturday, August 4, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, August 4, 2018
12 PM

Programmed by Denise Kan

Join local designer and educator Tim Belonax to create Risograph-printed postcards in response to Way Bay 2.
Included with admission
Saturday, August 4, 2018
6 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1962,
(95 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Lyrical and brutal by turns, Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out).
Saturday, August 4, 2018
8 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1949,
(106 mins)
A group of students, hepcats, and others spill through the streets of the Left Bank in search of love, life, and jazz in Becker’s spirited portrait of France’s emerging postwar generation, poised between existential despair and liberating action.