Sunday, October 28
Sunday, October 28, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, October 28, 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, October 28, 2018
2 PM
Agnieszka Holland,
Canada, Germany, Poland,
2011,
(144 mins)
During the Nazi occupation of Lvov, Poland, a sewage worker profits by hiding a group of fugitive Jews in the town’s sewers. This claustrophobic, searing drama is “the most volatile film Holland has directed. . . . Honesty is the movie’s greatest strength” (David Denby).
In Conversation
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Agnieszka Holland
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Karolina Pasternak
Karolina Pasternak is a widely published journalist and film critic for the Polish edition of Newsweek; her commentaries on cinema are regularly broadcast on Polish radio and television.
Sunday, October 28, 2018
3 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1986,
(81 mins)
Bergman’s first feature after abandoning 35mm film for television is a tale of tortured love between a middle-aged woman and a slightly younger man. “A melodrama reeking of both sulphur and perfume” (Dagens nyheter).
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
Series
Bergman 100: Late Works
Sunday, October 28, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1965,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
This somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust.
Monday, October 29
Monday, October 29, 2018
6:30 PM
The bestselling science fiction writer talks about the notion of the Anthropocene era and the possibility of creating a “good Anthropocene.”
Free admission
Tuesday, October 30
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6 PM
Meet members of the legendary activist troupe and learn the art of cantastoria, a form of street theater using song, movement, text, and puppetry.
At 2727 California Street, Berkeley
Admission free
Series
Workshops 2018
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6:30 PM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $5,000 level and above.
Please join fellow Curator's Circle members for an intimate and artful gathering at the home of John and Gretchen Berggruen. The evening will include a lively discussion between BAMPFA curator Apsara DiQuinzio and artist Alicia McCarthy.
For Curator's Circle members only.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Wednesday, October 31
Wednesday, October 31, 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
Series
Guided Tours 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1968,
(90 mins)
Digital Restoration
A woman (Liv Ullmann) tells of her life on a remote island with her artist husband (Max von Sydow) in a film that intertwines supernatural mysteries with the no less mysterious torments of creativity.
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 31, 2018
7 PM
Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer,
United States,
2018,
(93 mins)
Empty Metal takes place in a world similar to ours—one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy—as it follows the lives of several people attempting to bring about change. With short The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets.
In Conversation
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Adam Khalil
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Bayley Sweitzer
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Diana Ruíz
Diana Ruíz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
Thursday, November 1
Thursday, November 1, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, November 1, 2018
12 PM
Historian Sikainga discusses the African diaspora in relation to The Routes of Slavery (1444–1888), a musical event at Cal Performances.
Free admission
Thursday, November 1, 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, November 1, 2018
4 PM-7 PM
Images of architecture, from iconic skyscrapers to Main Street vernacular, ancient ruins to modern cityscapes.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables 2018
Thursday, November 1, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, November 1, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1954,
(123 mins)
Digital Restoration
An unhappily married Italian countess embarks on a doomed love affair with an Austrian officer in Visconti’s operatic, meticulously detailed tale of nationalism and destructive passion. “Visconti here moves his camera as if it were a conductor’s baton” (Artforum).
Friday, November 2
Friday, November 2, 2018
4 PM
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Prints
This assembly of radical works encompasses local activism (Newsreel’s Black Panther and San Francisco State on Strike), global movements (Santiago Alvarez’s Now! and 79 Springtimes), and feminist statements (Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley’s Schmeerguntz).
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The Black Aesthetic
IntroductionThe Black Aesthetic is a creative organization whose mission is to curate and assemble a collective and distinct understanding of black visual culture.
Series
1968 and Global Cinema
Friday, November 2, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, November 2, 2018
6 PM
Programmed by MK Chavez
Hear Valdez and and johnson read their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2018
Friday, November 2, 2018
7 PM
Jean Vigo,
France,
1934,
(89 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Vigo’s only full-length feature is a poetic masterpiece on the theme of passionate love, following a young barge captain and his peasant bride in their first days together. “One of the most magical of French masterpieces” (Variety).
Series
Jean Vigo Regained
Friday, November 2, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1986,
(81 mins)
Bergman’s first feature after abandoning 35mm film for television is a tale of tortured love between a middle-aged woman and a slightly younger man. “A melodrama reeking of both sulphur and perfume” (Dagens nyheter).
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
Series
Bergman 100: Late Works
Saturday, November 3
Saturday, November 3, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, November 3, 2018
5:30 PM
Dusan Makavejev,
Yugoslavia,
1971,
(84 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Film to Table dinner follows
Makavejev brings a surreal combinatory style and radical sexual politics to a docu-fictional exploration of Wilhelm Reich and his implications for world revolution.
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Pavle Levi
IntroductionPavle Levi is a professor of film and media studies at Stanford. He has written extensively about Yugoslav cinema and the films of Dusan Makavejev.
Series
1968 and Global Cinema
Saturday, November 3, 2018
7 PM
Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion following this 1971 film, which brings a surreal combinatory style and radical sexual politics to a docu-fictional exploration of Wilhelm Reich and his implications for world revolution.
At Babette
$75 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
Saturday, November 3, 2018
7:30 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Algeria, France, Italy,
1967,
(104 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A rare opportunity to see this adaptation of the great existentialist novel, with Marcello Mastroianni as Camus’s archetype of alienation. Visconti vividly re-creates 1930s colonial Algiers.
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