Sunday, June 16
Sunday, June 16, 2019
11 AM— 7 PM
Sunday, June 16, 2019
2 PM
Explore Hans Hofmann’s dynamic and influential work with a guided tour.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Sunday, June 16, 2019
4:30 PM
Mark Cousins,
United Kingdom,
2018,
(115 mins)
East Bay Premiere
The creator of the acclaimed The Story of Film: An Odyssey offers a provocative reexamination of Welles’s life, work, and visual imagination, and asks how he would have met the challenges of our contemporary era.
Sunday, June 16, 2019
7 PM
Jonathan Demme,
United States,
1984,
(88 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Also presented in a free outdoor screening on Thursday, June 13
Often heralded as the greatest rock concert film ever, Demme’s rendering of a Talking Heads performance moves from David Byrne’s solo “Psycho Killer” to the joyously collective “Take Me to the River.” The cumulative effect is of “life being lived at a joyous high” (Roger Ebert).
Series
It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll
Monday, June 17
Monday, June 17, 2019
7 PM
Programmed by Amara Tabor-Smith
Dance artist Arrington presents "astrological folk dance" No Quarter.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full 2019
Tuesday, June 18
Wednesday, June 19
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
12 PM
Juneteenth Screening
We celebrate Juneteenth with a screening of Welcome to the Neighborhood, a short documentary exploring Mildred Howard’s family roots in the Bay Area and the impact of gentrification, followed by a conversation with the artist.
Included with admission
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
12:15 PM
Explore Hans Hofmann’s dynamic and influential work with a guided tour.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
7 PM
Orson Welles,
United States,
1948,
(87 mins)
Digital Restoration
Welles, Rita Hayworth, and a deadly hall of mirrors feature in Welles’s brilliant take on the crime thriller. “Complex, courageous, and utterly compelling” (Time Out).
Thursday, June 20
Thursday, June 20, 2019
2— 7 PM
Thursday, June 20, 2019
7 PM
John Hanson, Rob Nilsson,
United States,
1978-80,
(120 mins)
John Hanson and Rob Nilsson uncover a forgotten progressive history with this rousing trilogy of shorts on the life of North Dakota poet and socialist organizer Henry Martinson, that “sunniest of radicals” (Village Voice).
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Rob Nilsson
In Person
Friday, June 21
Friday, June 21, 2019
2— 7 PM
Friday, June 21, 2019
6:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1953,
(90 mins)
Digital Restoration
A noir masterpiece, and not a pretty picture, as cop Glenn Ford prowls the underworld for his wife’s killers. Gloria Grahame delivers a memorable performance as the girlfriend of brutal gangster Lee Marvin.
Series
Fritz Lang’s America
Friday, June 21, 2019
8:30 PM
Christian Petzold,
Germany,
2018,
(101 mins)
Petzold’s tale of displaced people in fascist-occupied France transposes a 1940s novel to today’s Marseille. “Moody, beguiling, and formally bold. . . . Turns history into an existential maze” (New York Times). “Like a remake of Casablanca as written by Kafka” (IndieWire).
Saturday, June 22
Saturday, June 22, 2019
11 AM— 7 PM
Saturday, June 22, 2019
2 PM
Explore this compelling selection of works by Black artists with the organizers of the exhibition.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Saturday, June 22, 2019
3 PM
Tomm Moore,
Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Luxembourg,
2014,
(93 mins)
Recommended for ages 7 & up
The director behind The Secret of Kells returns with a gorgeous animation inspired by Irish legends and Celtic folk art. This Miyazaki-like wonder is “one of the most blissfully beautiful animated films ever made” (Toronto Review).
Saturday, June 22, 2019
4 PM
Suchi Branfman presents Angee’s Journey and Janie, two dance works exploring embodied human landscapes that surround the prison industrial complex.
Included with admission
Saturday, June 22, 2019
5:30 PM
(100 mins)
USC professor and writer David E. James presents a lecture exploring the rich legacy of cinema’s dance with popular music and what these films share with classic film musicals.
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David E. James
Illustrated LectureDavid E. James teaches in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.
Series
It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll
Saturday, June 22, 2019
5:30 PM
Open to Curator's Circle members at the $2,500 level and above
Curator's Circle members are invited to join author David E. James for dinner at Babette following his illustrated lecture Rock 'n' Film: Cinema's Dance with Popular Music.
Curator's Circle members-only event.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Saturday, June 22, 2019
8 PM
Julio Bracho,
Mexico,
1943,
(108 mins)
Labor activists, cabaret singers, and corrupt politicians stalk Mexico City in Bracho’s stylized, politicized film noir. With cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa and starring Pedro Armendáriz, it’s “an antifascist noir comparable to and in some ways superior to Casablanca” (J. Hoberman).
Through July 7
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Through September 22
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