Sunday, September 30
Sunday, September 30, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 30, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
2 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
1999,
(248 mins)
A beautiful portrait of ordinary life in a New England port town, Belfast, Maine is “an immensely rich and immeasurably valuable microcosm of American life at the end of the twentieth century [and] a microcosm of Wiseman’s art” (The Nation).
Sunday, September 30, 2018
2 PM
Let the music move your imagination and make art and poetry with composer Anna Clyne.
Series
Workshops 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
7 PM
Mel Brooks,
United States,
1968,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
In Brooks’s first film (which won the Oscar for best screenplay), a has-been Broadway producer (Zero Mostel) hopes to bilk his investors by producing a surefire failure: Springtime for Hitler, the musical. With Gene Wilder and Dick Shawn.
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Mark Morris
IntroductionMark Morris is a celebrated choreographer. His Pepperland: Sgt. Pepper at 50 is presented by Cal Performances September 28–30.
Monday, October 1
Monday, October 1, 2018
6:30 PM
Presented by the Department of Art Practice and the African American Studies Department.
The artist discusses his work using systems, numerals, language, and representation, rethinking notions of subjectivity and how they are manifested in works of art.
Free admission
Tuesday, October 2
Wednesday, October 3
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
12 PM
Scholar and collector Templeton and art historian Harpster offer their informative perspectives on works in Old Masters in a New Light.
Included with admission
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1960,
(89 mins)
A stark medieval allegory of faith, sexual violence, and revenge. “Sven Nykvist's luminous black-and-white photography conspire[s] with the austerity of Bergman's imagery to create an extraordinary metaphysical charge” (Time Out).
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, October 3, 2018
7 PM
Steven Arnold,
United States,
1971,
(75 mins)
Restored 16mm Print
The legendary, gender-obliterating funfest unleashed by the cantankerous cross-dressing Cockettes shines on in this immaculate restored print.
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Steve Seid
IntroductionSteve Seid was a curator at BAMPFA for twenty-five years and spearheaded the effort to preserve Luminous Procuress.
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
Thursday, October 4
Thursday, October 4, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
12 PM
The lead consultant for the Pixar animated feature Coco talks about how her work as a cultural translator of Mexican heritage impacted every aspect of the film.
Free admission
Thursday, October 4, 2018
1:15 PM
Explore the works on view in Old Masters in a New Light with tours led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Thursday, October 4, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, October 4, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Behold the expressive body across cultures: images of dancers, actors, and entertainers from Japan, France, India, and elsewhere.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables 2018
Thursday, October 4, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1960,
(177 mins)
Digital Restoration
The lives of a southern Italian family who move to Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society. Starring Alain Delon, the film has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).
Friday, October 5
Friday, October 5, 2018
4 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, October 5, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, October 5, 2018
6 PM
Programmed by MK Chavez
Pushcart Prize nominee Armajani and PEN Center award nominee Banias read from their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2018
Friday, October 5, 2018
7 PM
Wu Yonggang,
China,
1934,
(85 mins)
Digital Restoration
Ruan Lingyu delivers one of her most luminous performances as a mother forced into prostitution in this classic of the Golden Age of Shanghai cinema, a film that could make even jaded denizens of pre-Code Hollywood blush.
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Paul Fonoroff
In ConversationPaul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema and author of the new book Chinese Movie Magazines 1921–1951. -
Peter Zhou
In ConversationPeter Zhou is director of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library and assistant university librarian at UC Berkeley. -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Saturday, October 6
Saturday, October 6, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, October 6, 2018
3:30 PM
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats,
France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland,
2001,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Recommended for ages 7 & up
Accompanying flocks of migratory birds, this documentary “provides such an intense vicarious experience of being a flapping airborne creature . . . that you leave the theater feeling like an honorary member of another species” (New York Times).
Saturday, October 6, 2018
5:30 PM
Samira Makhmalbaf,
Iran,
2000,
(88 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
The starkly desolate mountains of Kurdish Iran serve as backdrop for Samira Makhmalbaf’s hybrid realist fantasia, which follows a group of blackboard-toting itinerant teachers searching for students. “Almost like an art installation in the desert” (The Guardian).
Saturday, October 6, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden, United States,
1971,
(115 mins)
Digital Restoration
Bergman’s first film in English stars Bibi Andersson as a seemingly happy Swedish housewife embroiled in an affair with a visiting American intellectual hothead (Elliott Gould). Once ignored, the film has been reappraised as “a major entry in the director’s canon” (Geoff Andrews).
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