Week of November 25, 2018

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Sunday, November 25

Sunday, November 25, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, November 25, 2018
3 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
2000,
(100 mins)
A great filmmaker pays homage to another: Bergman’s television play documents a behind-the-scene moment from the creation of Victor Sjöström’s silent film classic The Phantom Carriage, one of Bergman’s favorite works.
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
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Sunday, November 25, 2018
3:30 PM
Stanley Kubrick,
United Kingdom, United States,
1968,
(159 mins)

50th Anniversary Rerelease

Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety).
Screening includes intermission
Sunday, November 25, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1974,
(121 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

When aging professor Burt Lancaster rents the upper flat of his palazzo to a Roman matron and her gigolo, his life’s denouement is invaded by la dolce vita.

Monday, November 26

Monday, November 26, 2018
6:30 PM

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice, Art21 and Berkeley Arts + Design.

A screening of highlights from the ninth season of the Art21 TV program Art in the Twenty-First Century, with Syjuco and Hershman Leeson—both featured in the show—in person.
Free admission

Tuesday, November 27

Wednesday, November 28

Wednesday, November 28, 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, November 28, 2018
3:10 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1982,
(188 mins)
This chronicle of an early twentieth-century theatrical family, told from the perspective of a young brother and sister, is comic and tragic, opulent and intellectual, mystical and autobiographical. Bergman called it “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.”
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.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
6 PM

Open to Curator's Circle members at the $1,000 level and above.

Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder and special guest Alan Templeton will guide Curator's Circle members through Old Masters in a New Light: Rediscovering the European Collection and share highlights and discoveries related to the exhibition.
Curator's Circle members only event.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
7 PM
(84 mins)
Three works bear personal witness to collective histories, from Auschwitz to the Japanese internment to postwar Japan: Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory, Abraham Ravett’s The March, and Jeffrey Skoller’s recent The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors.
  • Jeffrey Skoller
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Thursday, November 29

Thursday, November 29, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, November 29, 2018
7 PM
Shinsuke Ogawa,
Japan,
1968,
(108 mins)

Archival Print

Ogawa’s battle-scarred call-to-arms follows Japanese student activists and radical laborers fighting against forced eviction. A classic of activist documentary by an essential but little-known filmmaker.

Friday, November 30

Friday, November 30, 2018
12 PM
UC Berkeley art history professor Olson explores the close relationship between religious experience and eroticism in two works on view in Old Masters in a New Light.
Included with admission
Friday, November 30, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, November 30, 2018
6 PM
Cultivating a spirit of playful experimentation, participants will explore the intersection of language, image, and identity through freeform collage.
Included with admission
Friday, November 30, 2018
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1976,
(129 mins)

Imported 35mm Print

Giancarlo Giannini in Visconti’s final work, a sumptuous, sensuous adaptation of the d’Annunzio novel. “One of Visconti’s most beautiful films [and] one of his most terse, most dramatically economical” (New York Times).
Friday, November 30, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
2000,
(100 mins)
A great filmmaker pays homage to another: Bergman’s television play documents a behind-the-scene moment from the creation of Victor Sjöström’s silent film classic The Phantom Carriage, one of Bergman’s favorite works.
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply

Saturday, December 1

Saturday, December 1, 2018
1 PM

Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo

Collaborate with other workshop participants to create a performance, complete with costumes and props.
Included with admission
Saturday, December 1, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, December 1, 2018
5:30 PM
Jiří Trnka,
Czechoslovakia,
1954,
(86 mins)
This riotous antiauthoritarian satire—a stop-motion adaptation of the famous Czech antiwar novel—follows a beer-loving, order-ignoring infantryman who “speaks truth to power” by simply repeating its idiocies. Screening with The Two Frosts.
Saturday, December 1, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1966,
(85 mins)

Digital Restoration

Exploring the strange symbiosis between a speechless actress (Liv Ullmann) and her nurse companion (Bibi Andersson), this is “Bergman at his most brilliant” (Time Out).