Week of December 23, 2018

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Sunday, December 23

Sunday, December 23, 2018
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 23, 2018
2 PM
Sara Driver,
United States,
2017,
(78 mins)
Found footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews chronicle the artistic emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used New York City as both a canvas and a stage. “A treasure” (Hollywood Reporter).
Sunday, December 23, 2018
4 PM
Milos Forman,
Czechoslovakia,
1967,
(75 mins)

Digital Restoration

A small-town party thrown by the local fire brigade soon goes up in flames in Forman’s takedown of bureaucracies big and small. Both sweet-natured and biting enough to worry Czech authorities, this satire is also “a tragicomedy of old age” (Raymond Durgnat).

Monday, December 24

Tuesday, December 25

Wednesday, December 26

Wednesday, December 26, 2018
4 PM
Nathaniel Kahn,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
Featuring an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
6:30 PM
Edmund Goulding,
United States,
1932,
(113 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Edmund Goulding’s masterpiece of set design and art direction tracks the denizens of Berlin’s Grand Hotel before the rise of fascism. The all-star cast includes Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and John Barrymore.
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
All Day

Thursday, December 27

Thursday, December 27, 2018
12 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1983,
(312 mins)

Full-Length Television Version

A rare theatrical presentation of Bergman’s magnum opus in its full-length television version, which runs more than five hours. Bergman himself described the project as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.”
Presented with intermissions
Thursday, December 27, 2018
4 PM–7 PM
Thursday, December 27, 2018
7 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1960,
(125 mins)

Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the December 8 screening

Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
Thursday, December 27, 2018
All Day

Friday, December 28

Friday, December 28, 2018
2:30 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1925, reedited 1942,
(72 mins)

Recommended for ages 8 & up

A hapless prospector tries his luck in the frozen north in a film that glitters with some of Charlie Chaplin’s most memorable nuggets of comedy.
Friday, December 28, 2018
4 PM–9 PM
Friday, December 28, 2018
4:15 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1951,
(125 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

An exquisite, faintly melancholy portrait of a family, with Setsuko Hara as the daughter on whose marriage everything depends. “I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life” (Ozu).
Friday, December 28, 2018
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1926,
(107 mins)
Murnau’s version of the Faust legend is a masterwork of chiaroscuro lighting, and helped redefine what black-and-white cinematography could accomplish. Emil Jannings stars as a subtly mischievous Mephistopheles.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Friday, December 28, 2018
All Day

Saturday, December 29

Saturday, December 29, 2018
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, December 29, 2018
3 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2001,
(125 mins)

English-language version
Recommended for ages 8 & up

In this Oscar-winning animated fantasy, a ten-year-old girl and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
5:30 PM
Ermanno Olmi,
Italy,
1961,
(93 mins)
Olmi’s humane, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young man embarking on his first job in Milan captures the alienation and regimentation of the working world.
Saturday, December 29, 2018
7:45 PM
Masahiro Shinoda,
Japan,
1969,
(100 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Shinoda’s “remix” of a classic Japanese bunraku puppet play finds live actors, puppets, and their handlers all part of the action, heightened by a Brechtian divide between “story” and “telling” and a jarring score by Toru Takemitsu.