Week of September 23, 2018

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Sunday, September 23

Sunday, September 23, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 23, 2018
2 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Sunday, September 23, 2018
4:30 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2017,
(115 mins)
The latest feature from acclaimed director Martel is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).
Sunday, September 23, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1957,
(101 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Marcello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of the Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.

Monday, September 24

Monday, September 24, 2018
6:30 PM

Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and California Institute for Energy and Environment.

At the close of the Global Climate Summit, join UC Berkeley faculty, artists, and others to reflect on the climate challenges facing our world, and to discuss possible solutions.
Free admission
Monday, September 24, 2018
7 PM

Programmed by Marit Brook-Kothlow and Amy Rathbone

Fauxnique (Monique Jenkinson) performs Drag Movement Study #3, an indulgent investigation of glamour as process.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series Full 2018

Tuesday, September 25

Wednesday, September 26

Wednesday, September 26, 2018
12:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1957,
(91 mins)
The film that cemented Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).
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.
  • Linda H. Rugg
    Lecture
    A professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, Linda H. Rugg has written extensively on Ingmar Bergman.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
7 PM
(85 mins)
Seemingly poles apart, Brakhage and Méliès were both independent spirits, explorers of the mythic and the everyday. This program features the rarely screened The Loom and other works by Brakhage as well as Méliès’s The Kingdom of the Fairies.

Thursday, September 27

Thursday, September 27, 2018
12 PM
Tijuana-based scholar and author Alarcon discusses his research on deported immigrants and their families.
Free admission
Thursday, September 27, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, September 27, 2018
7 PM
(110 mins)
In this lecture illustrated with clips from his films, Wiseman talks about the intellectual, aesthetic, and practical decisions involved in making a documentary. Don’t miss this chance to hear a great filmmaker speak in depth about his work.
Special admission: General, $18; BAMPFA members, $14; UC Berkeley students, $10; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under, $15.
  • Michael Fox
    In Conversation
    Michael Fox is a Bay Area–based film critic and journalist who regularly teaches a course on documentary film.
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Friday, September 28

Friday, September 28, 2018
3:30 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
1969,
(75 mins)
Wiseman’s documentary on a large urban high school in Philadelphia got to the core of American conformity and conditioning; seen as an antiestablishment indictment in the Vietnam War era, it has only gained resonance with age.
  • Frederick Wiseman
    In Person
Friday, September 28, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, September 28, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
United Kingdom,
1966,
(110 mins)

Digital Restoration

“Simply put, the key movie of the 1960s. Set in a vividly mod Swinging London, Antonioni’s first English-language film [is] a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
    Mark Morris is a celebrated choreographer. His Pepperland: Sgt. Pepper at 50 is presented by Cal Performances September 28–30.

Saturday, September 29

Saturday, September 29, 2018
Saturday, September 29, 2018
1:30 PM
Art historian Lusheck delves into intriguing issues of artistic style and connoisseurship, showing why attribution and an appreciation of the “hand of the artist” truly mattered in the European Renaissance.
Included with admission
Saturday, September 29, 2018
3:30 PM
Richard Lester,
United Kingdom,
1964,
(85 mins)

Digital Restoration

 

Following the adventures of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, A Hard Day’s Night perfectly captures the spirit of the times—and, of course, the music is fantastic.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
6 PM

Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil

Brooks performs Tasha, a compelling examination of the intersection of race, gender, mental health, and policing through the story of one woman who was killed in jail.
Cancelled
Saturday, September 29, 2018
6 PM
Marziyeh Meshkini,
Iran,
2000,
(78 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Meshkini’s intense, allegorical, defiantly feminist triptych covering the challenges of being a woman in Iran is part documentary realism, part Dali-esque fantasy, and altogether “an astonishing directorial debut” (New York Times).
Saturday, September 29, 2018
8 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1969,
(72 mins)
One of Bergman’s most stylized and political films, this Kafkaesque chamber drama tracks three actors accused of taking part in a pornographic performance. A bold, blistering comment on artistic censorship.