Sunday, February 3
Sunday, February 3, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 3, 2019
1:30 PM
Sasha Waters Freyer,
United States,
2018,
(90 mins)
This poignant documentary spotlights one of the greatest photographic chroniclers of Cold War–era America, mingling Winogrand’s images with archival materials and musings from eminent curators, photographers, and friends.
Sunday, February 3, 2019
3:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1924,
(130 mins)
Digital Restoration
In its second part, Lang’s epic becomes a terrifying study of barbarism.
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Sunday, February 3, 2019
6:30 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2014,
(131 mins)
A Parisian DJ strives to maintain a semblance of normality in the dizzy world of global club culture. Cameos by Daft Punk and other legends enhance this “perfect mix of music and melancholia” (The Guardian).
Monday, February 4
Monday, February 4, 2019
6:30 PM
Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design
The editor of the Paris Review talks about what it means to be a woman at work in the creative arts today.
Free admission
Tuesday, February 5
Wednesday, February 6
Wednesday, February 6, 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, February 6, 2019
12:15 PM
Expert tour guides share highlights of exhibitions on view throughout the museum.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
7 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2008,
(107 mins)
A Sichuan industrial complex is razed to make way for upscale condos. “Blending fiction with documentary, [Jia] brings huge stretches of long-repressed history to life on an intimate scale” (New Yorker).
Thursday, February 7
Thursday, February 7, 2019
12 PM
Stan Lai ,
Taiwan,
1992,
Lai’s award-winning film adaptation of his own play radically challenges the principles of filmed theater with a tale of two Taiwanese theatrical productions that collide and merge.
Free admission
Thursday, February 7, 2019
1:15 PM
Expert tour guides share highlights of exhibitions on view throughout the museum.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Thursday, February 7, 2019
2:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Hong Kong,
1997,
(105 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A small-time, undermotivated pickpocket finds himself on the wrong end of China’s economic leap forward. Jia’s debut feature was a milestone in contemporary Chinese cinema.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
4 PM–7 PM
An incendiary selection from the collection, from Asian scrolls to Ant Farm’s Media Burn.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables 2019
Thursday, February 7, 2019
4 PM–7 PM
Free in the BAMPFA Art Lab!
Celebrate the release of Issue 4 of New Life Quarterly! Come snag a copy, make your own correspondence art in the Art Lab, and hang with contributors and editors.
Free
Thursday, February 7, 2019
4–7 PM
Thursday, February 7, 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, February 7, 2019
7 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Hong Kong,
2000,
(155 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A performance troupe struggles to keep up during China’s 1980s move from communism to capitalism, and from peasant folk songs to electric breakdancing. “Might be the greatest film to come out of mainland China” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Friday, February 8
Friday, February 8, 2019
2:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, Japan,
2002,
(112 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Teenage life in a Chinese backwater forms “as true a picture of contemporary existence as we could hope for right now” (Film Comment).
SOLD OUT
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Jia Zhangke
CANCELED: In PersonDue to a flight delay, we regret that Jia Zhangke is unable to join us in person for this screening.
Friday, February 8, 2019
4–9 PM
Friday, February 8, 2019
8 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1931,
(111 mins)
Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
This film is also screening on Wednesday, February 13, 3:10 PM as part of our series In Focus: Writing for Cinema featuring speakers David Thomson and Michael Ondaatje.
A precursor to American noir, Lang’s masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where there are few moral distinctions between organized crime and organized law enforcement. With Peter Lorre in his definitive performance.
Saturday, February 9
Saturday, February 9, 2019
11:30 AM–1 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by the Japanese art in Ink, Paper, Silk and paint your own images of animals on a miniature Japanese folding screen.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Mary Curtis Ratcliff
With artistAfter studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed m
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, February 9, 2019
1 PM–2:30 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Get inspired by the Japanese art in Ink, Paper, Silk and paint your own images of animals on a miniature Japanese folding screen.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Mary Curtis Ratcliff
With artistAfter studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed m
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, February 9, 2019
2 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France, Switzerland,
2018,
(84 mins)
The newest essay film by Jean-Luc Godard is “a kaleidoscopic bulletin on the state of our world” (Variety). Winner of the first Special Palme d’Or award in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.
Saturday, February 9, 2019
2:30–9 PM
Saturday, February 9, 2019
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read about a diverse group of kids whose lives weave together in unexpected ways, and pick up a copy of the book to take home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Estella Sisneros
Reading led byEstella Sisneros is a librarian at Sylvia Mendez Elementary School in Berkeley.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, February 9, 2019
4 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1927,
(150 mins)
Digital Restoration
The head of an international bank doubles as a criminal mastermind in Lang’s compelling thriller. “Granddaddy of decades of intrigue epics, Spies, in its rigorous austerity, remains the most modern of the bunch” (Village Voice).
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Saturday, February 9, 2019
8 PM
(80 mins)
Nathaniel Dorsky returns to BAMPFA with this program of four films made since 2012, reflecting on the passing of friends, the passing of years, and the changing of seasons. On the program: August and After, The Dreamer, Autumn, and Colophon.
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Nathaniel Dorsky
In Person
Series
Out of the Vault
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 11
Through July 3
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