Sunday, February 17
Sunday, February 17, 2019
1 PM
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Explore the use of dreams to illuminate alternative nonlinear timelines, access collective and ancestral knowledge, and map inner landscapes.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2019
Sunday, February 17, 2019
1 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1922,
(154 mins)
A vicious portrait of post-WWI social breakdown (in fabulous art deco settings). A fiendish mastermind gifted with sinister hypnotic powers, “Mabuse is history’s secret agent” (J. Hoberman).
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Sunday, February 17, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, February 17, 2019
4:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1922,
(114 mins)
In Part II, Mabuse descends into madness, but we haven’t seen the last of him!
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Bruce Loeb
On Piano
Sunday, February 17, 2019
7 PM
Jia Zhangke,
China,
2013,
(133 mins)
Jia takes on the collateral damage of China’s maniacal growth, explosively restaging four violent deeds to illustrate everyday citizens pushed to the edge—of the economy. Winner of the Best Screenplay prize at Cannes.
Monday, February 18
Tuesday, February 19
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
6:30 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.
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
7 PM
Programmed by Mahealani Uchiyama
Join us for an evening of kathak, a classical dance of northern India that tells stories through gesture, footwork, and meticulous facial expression.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full 2019
Wednesday, February 20
Wednesday, February 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2019
3:10 PM
Open to Curator's Circle members at the $2,500 level and above.
Director James Ivory introduces a screening of his early films and shorts, then joins us for conversation and dinner at Babette.
Curator's Circle members only event.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
3:10 PM
James Ivory,
United Kingdom,
1975,
(98 mins)
The adoring daughter (Madhur Jaffrey) of a once-powerful maharajah invites her father’s tutor (James Mason) to tea, and stories begin to flow, in Ivory’s critique of colonial memory. With shorts The Sword and the Flute and The Creation of Woman.
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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James Ivory
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Ajay Gehlawat
Ajay Gehlawat is a professor of theater and film at Sonoma State University and author of several studies on Indian cinema, including Twenty-First Century Bollywood.
Series
James Ivory in Person
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
7 PM
Nika Saravanja, Alessandro D’Emilia,
Italy,
2016,
(75 mins)
This documentary follows eco-composer David Monacchi’s attempt to create a 3-D aural record of the vanishing sounds of the Amazon rainforests. With Richard Lerman’s short Arctic Transitions: In the Age of Carbon.
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Richard Lerman
In PersonRichard Lerman is professor of sound, media, and digital arts at Arizona State University. He will introduce his short film, Arctic Transitions: In the Age of Carbon.
Series
Documentary Voices 2019
Thursday, February 21
Thursday, February 21, 2019
12 PM
Thomas Wood delivers a talk drawing on her decades-long experience in dance, including her career as a performer and teacher with the Martha Graham Company and as founder of the dance program at UC Berkeley.
Free admission
Thursday, February 21, 2019
4—7 PM
Thursday, February 21, 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 21, 2019
7 PM
(70 mins)
Local collective The Black Aesthetic present rarely seen educational, ethnographic, and experimental works exploring the theme of black interiors: Lynne Sachs’s Sermons and Sacred Pictures and two films on the famous folk singer Bessie Jones.
In Conversation
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The Black Aesthetic
The Black Aesthetic is an Oakland-based organization whose mission is to curate a collective understanding of black visual culture. -
Marvin K. White
Marvin K. White is a poet, artist, teacher, and preacher currently serving as artivist in residence at the Oakland Peace Center.
Series
Out of the Vault
Friday, February 22
Friday, February 22, 2019
4 PM
Fritz Lang,
France,
1934,
(120 mins)
Charles Boyer gives a winning performance as a self-centered carousel operator in this inventive fantasy touched with melancholic poetry.
Friday, February 22, 2019
4—9 PM
Friday, February 22, 2019
7 PM
James Ivory,
India,
1965,
(115 mins)
A family of English Shakespearean actors find themselves lost in the new India in Ivory’s insightful, Chekhovian look at life, art, and cultural change. With a musical score by Satyajit Ray.
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James Ivory
In Person
Series
James Ivory in Person
Saturday, February 23
Saturday, February 23, 2019
11 AM—9 PM
Saturday, February 23, 2019
4:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1933,
(112 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
From an insane asylum, the evil Mabuse carries on his international terrorism. Lang shapes an anti-Nazi allegory in the form of a thriller.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
7 PM
Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Experience Afrofuturist mythos through story and song with writer, vocalist, sacred scholar, and activist Amber McZeal.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
7:30 PM
James Ivory,
India,
1969,
(112 mins)
35mm Studio Vault Print
A sitar virtuoso takes an English pop star as a pupil—with predictably disruptive results—in “Merchant Ivory’s version of a sixties trip” (James Ivory). Uptal Butt, Michael York, and Rita Tushingham star in this spoof on the Western fascination with all things India.
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James Ivory
In Person
Series
James Ivory in Person
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through August 24
Through November 30
Through June 27
Through July 24
Through August 30
Through December 31
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