Sunday, January 13
Sunday, January 13, 2019
1 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1921,
(98 mins)
Digital Restoration
Lil Dagover stars as a woman who tries to save her lover from “the weary Death” in this Expressionist fantasy said to have influenced both Douglas Fairbanks and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Bruce Loeb
On Piano
Sunday, January 13, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, January 13, 2019
4 PM
(86 mins)
A tribute to one of the seminal figures in American experimental film, featuring the shorts Hall of Mirrors, Divided Loyalties, The Cup and the Lip, and Short Fuse, as well as personal remembrances and audio clips.
In Conversation
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Alan Bernheimer
Alan Bernheimer is a Berkeley poet who has written about narrative in Warren Sonbert’s films and his relationship with avant-garde writers. -
Steve Anker
Steve Anker is Co-Curator of film and video at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) in downtown Los Angeles.
Series
Out of the Vault
Sunday, January 13, 2019
7 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1953,
(96 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
In sixteenth-century Japan, a potter has his head turned by a phantom enchantress, with predictable results. “A shattering experience, among the greatest movies ever made” (New York Times).
Monday, January 14
Tuesday, January 15
Wednesday, January 16
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
12 PM
The MATRIX artist talks about Shinto traditions in Japan and how they have manifested in her felt sculptures and installation work.
Included with admission
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
12 PM-1 PM
Peruse a series of the artist's notebooks, which offer insight into his singular approach, in the Works on Paper Study Center.
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
3:10 PM
Jan Troell,
Denmark, Sweden,
2008,
(132 mins)
Added Screening!
Based on the life of Maria Larsson—wife, mother, and pioneering photographer in early twentieth-century Sweden—this exquisite period piece has much to tell us today about the bonds of family and the liberating power of art.
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.
In Conversation
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Agneta Ulfsäter-Troell
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Linda H. Rugg
Linda H. Rugg is a scholar of literature and cinema and a professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
Series
In Focus: Writing for Cinema
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
7 PM
Michael Glawogger,
Austria, Germany,
2005,
(122 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Glawogger’s documentary starts from a global question—Is hard manual labor a thing of the past?—and finds the unflinching answer in portraits of grueling and dangerous professions in Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.
Thursday, January 17
Thursday, January 17, 2019
4–7 PM
Thursday, January 17, 2019
5 PM-6 PM
Peruse a series of the artist's notebooks, which offer insight into his singular approach, in the Works on Paper Study Center.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
7 PM
Kon Ichikawa,
Japan,
1956,
(116 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A lyrical, haunting requiem for the victims of war, set amid the giant Buddhas of Burma. Winner of the top prize at the Venice film festival and one of Ichikawa’s most famous films.
Friday, January 18
Friday, January 18, 2019
1 PM–5 PM
Offsite workshop
Join MATRIX 273 artist Masako Miki at Untitled, San Francisco and create a poster for the 2019 Women's March.
At Pier 35, San Francisco
Included with admission to Untitled, San Francisco
Friday, January 18, 2019
4–9 PM
Friday, January 18, 2019
6:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1948,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the January 12 screening
De Sica’s tale of a father and son searching the streets of Rome for their stolen bicycle is a masterwork of Italian neorealism, “an allegory at once timeless and topical” (Village Voice).
Friday, January 18, 2019
7 PM
Programmed by Alix Blevins
Vocalist Anna Homler presents her performance persona Breadwoman, who lives outside of time and communicates with gestures and songs in a language that is both alien and familiar.
Included with admission
Friday, January 18, 2019
8:30 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1922,
(94 mins)
Digital Restoration
Still among the most unnerving and poetic of horror films, investing the natural world with eerie incandescence. Max Schreck’s vampire is unforgettable—a living death, a walking ruin.
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Bruce Loeb
On Piano
Saturday, January 19
Saturday, January 19, 2019
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, January 19, 2019
11:30 AM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above
Join fellow BAMPFA Curator's Circle members for a light breakfast and intimate tour of the groundbreaking art fair, Untitled, San Francisco now in a new location at Pier 35.
For Curator's Circle members only.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Saturday, January 19, 2019
3:30 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.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
6 PM
Michael Glawogger,
Austria,
1998,
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Glawogger takes us deep into the megacities of Mexico City, Bombay, Moscow, and New York, telling stories of people struggling at the bottom of the urban food chain.
Saturday, January 19, 2019
8 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1960,
(110 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Hideko Takamine portrays the consummate Naruse heroine: high-minded, determined, and out of her element in a sordid world. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope . . . could give heartbreak lessons to Fassbinder and Sirk” (Village Voice).
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