Sunday, September 2
Sunday, September 2, 2018
7 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1943,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
With this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 2, 2018
2 PM
Combining performance and oral history, Berkeley-based hippie icon Wavy Gravy shares his unique experience of living a life of creative activism in the Bay Area, always with fun as a ruling factor.
Included with admission
Sunday, September 2, 2018
5 PM
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty,
United States,
1982,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
A blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
In Conversation
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Jayne Loader
Jayne Loader is a writer and director based in Portola Valley, California. -
Rick Prelinger
Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer, filmmaker, and professor at UC Santa Cruz.
Monday, September 3
Tuesday, September 4
Wednesday, September 5
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1953,
(92 mins)
Digital Restoration
Åke Grönberg and Harriet Andersson portray turn-of-the-century circus performers in Bergman’s earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation.
Special admission: General: $15; BAMPFA members: $11; UC Berkeley students: $7; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12.
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Linda H. Rugg
LectureA professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, Linda H. Rugg has written extensively on Ingmar Bergman.
Series
In Focus: Ingmar Bergman
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
7 PM
(60 mins)
A program of films by a pioneering French avant-garde filmmaker who aimed “to give more space to sensations and dreams,” including short experimental works and her masterpiece, The Smiling Madame Beudet.
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
Thursday, September 6
Thursday, September 6, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
12 PM
Sobecki, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for her photographs documenting Europe’s response to the African migration crisis, discusses some of the reasons for migration and the power and limitations of photography as an art form.
Free admission
Thursday, September 6, 2018
12 PM
Lin examines works in Master Traces, Transcultural Visions to highlight the importance of lineage and courtly culture in Tibetan Buddhism.
Included with Free First Thursday
Thursday, September 6, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 6, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
A photographic look at the West—the land and the myths—in works by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Ant Farm, and more.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
7 PM
Mohsen Makhmalbaf,
France, Iran,
1996,
(78 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A policeman and the filmmaker who once attacked him reunite to create a film of their encounter in this revelatory metanarrative on cinema, mythmaking, and storytelling. “Delicate, funny, and touching by turns” (Variety).
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Hossein Khosrowjah
IntroductionHossein Khosrowjah is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts in the Visual Studies Department.
Friday, September 7
Friday, September 7, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, September 7, 2018
5 PM
Julie Cohen, Betsy West,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
Profiling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “this clear-eyed and admiring documentary . . . emphasize[s] not just Ginsburg’s work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there” (L.A. Times).
Closed captioned
Friday, September 7, 2018
7 PM
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty,
United States,
1982,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
A blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
In Conversation
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Jayne Loader
Jayne Loader is a writer and director based in Portola Valley, California. -
Rick Prelinger
Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer, filmmaker, and professor at UC Santa Cruz.
Saturday, September 8
Saturday, September 8, 2018
8 PM
Henri-Georges Clouzot,
France,
1943,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
With this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
Saturday, September 8, 2018
11:30 AM–1 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s work, then work with wood, paint, words, and one another to create art and community.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Gonzalo Hidalgo
With artistBorn in Santiago, Chile, and a California resident for thirty-five years, artist Gonzalo Hidalgo explores and teaches traditional arts and rituals and specializes in sustainable practices.
Series
Family Events 2018
Saturday, September 8, 2018
1 PM–2:30 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by Cecilia Vicuña’s work, then work with wood, paint, words, and one another to create art and community.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Gonzalo Hidalgo
With artistBorn in Santiago, Chile, and a California resident for thirty-five years, artist Gonzalo Hidalgo explores and teaches traditional arts and rituals and specializes in sustainable practices.
Series
Family Events 2018
Saturday, September 8, 2018
2:30 PM–9 PM
Saturday, September 8, 2018
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Start reading this story about a girl, her dog, and her obsessions—and pick up a copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Jackie Overlid
Reading led byJackie Overlid is a librarian at Cragmont Elementary School in Berkeley.
Series
Family Events 2018
Saturday, September 8, 2018
5:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1979,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
Bergman’s follow-up documentary about his beloved Fårö offers a more optimistic portrayal of the islanders, as well as fascinating glimpses of community rituals and age-old traditions.
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
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