Sunday, February 10
Sunday, February 10, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 10, 2019
1:30 PM
Bo Widerberg,
Sweden,
1969,
(114 mins)
35mm Archival Print
A worker’s family goes about their daily life while a labor strike looms first in the distance, and then all too close, in Bo Widerberg’s devastating retelling of an infamous 1931 massacre.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
4 PM
Joe May,
Germany,
1929,
(94 mins)
A gorgeous petty thief seduces a straitlaced beat cop, and soon both are over their heads in trouble, in Joe May’s technically astounding proto-noir.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
6:30 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China, France, Japan,
2018,
(136 mins)
East Bay Premiere
A gangster’s wife stands on her own in Jia’s expansive narrative of empowerment and survival, inspired by Hong Kong gangster films and set against the tumultuous changes in contemporary China. “Fierce, gripping, emotionally generous, and surprisingly funny” (Los Angeles Times).
In Coversation
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Jia Zhangke
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Michael Berry
Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA
Monday, February 11
Monday, February 11, 2019
6:30 PM
Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media
The editor in chief at Quartz explores emerging approaches to storytelling and journalism.
Free admission
Tuesday, February 12
Wednesday, February 13
Wednesday, February 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2019
3:10 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1951,
(93 mins)
Carol Reed’s Joseph Conrad adaptation, filmed in Sri Lanka and starring Trevor Howard as a degenerate drifter, “relies on [a] topflight cast, William Fairchild’s caustic script, and atmospheric locales to realize Conrad’s tableau of putrid humanity left to rot in the sun” (Film Comment).
CANCELED
Series
In Focus: Writing for Cinema
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
3:10 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1931,
(111 mins)
Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
This film is also screening (without in-person speakers) on:
Sunday, January 20, 2 PM
Friday, February 8, 8 PM
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.
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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David Thomson
IntroductionDavid Thomson is author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies—and What They Have Done to Us; Have You Seen . . . ?
Series
In Focus: Writing for Cinema
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
7 PM
Bing Liu,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Bing Liu documents his skateboarding friends over ten years as they raise themselves on the streets of a rust belt town. “A rich, devastating essay on race, class, and manhood in 21st-century America” (New York Times). Nominated for this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Series
Documentary Voices 2019
Thursday, February 14
Thursday, February 14, 2019
12 PM
The dance and theater artist talks about how Buddhist philosophy has changed his working method from a preordained “vision” to a process of discovery.
Free admission
Thursday, February 14, 2019
4–7 PM
Thursday, February 14, 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 14, 2019
7 PM
Éric Rohmer,
France,
1986,
(98 mins)
The astounding performance of Marie Rivière as a lonely woman searching for company—yet unwilling to compromise—grounds this airy, ephemeral summertime tale. “Rohmer’s ultimate masterwork” (Andrew Sarris).
Friday, February 15
Friday, February 15, 2019
4 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.
Friday, February 15, 2019
4–9 PM
Friday, February 15, 2019
7 PM
Nathaniel Dorsky,
United States,
2017,
(137 mins)
Dorsky’s complete Arboretum Cycle, films (in the artist's words) “on a single subject, and that subject would be the light." “The experience of watching the Arboretum Cycle in its entirety is in some very large sense stunning” (Max Goldberg).
In Person
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Nathaniel Dorsky
Introduction
Series
Out of the Vault
Saturday, February 16
Saturday, February 16, 2019
11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, February 16, 2019
2:30 PM
Pedro González-Rubio ,
Mexico,
2009,
(73 mins)
Recommended for ages 10 & up
This effortlessly beautiful film follows a Mayan father and his young son as they spend a summer working (and playing) along the Mexican Caribbean coast.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
4:30 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
United States,
2018,
(143 mins)
Film to Table dinner follows the February 16 screening
The eternal Frederick Wiseman trains his camera on small-town America in the age of Trump, observing the citizens of Monrovia, Indiana, after the 2016 national election.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
7 PM
Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Following our screening of Frederick Wiseman's look at small-town American in the age of Trump, join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion.
At Babette
$75 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
7:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1929,
(169 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Lang’s final silent film takes viewers to the moon and back in a fantastical exploration of space travel. Abstract animation pioneer Oskar Fischinger helped create the special effects.
Presented with an intermission
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
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