Sunday, July 28
Sunday, July 28, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 28, 2019
3 PM
Master calligrapher and painter Kazuaki Tanahashi presents a lecture-demonstration on the history and techniques of brush calligraphy, followed by a hands-on workshop.
Registration closed.
Series
Workshops 2019
Sunday, July 28, 2019
4:30 PM
Claudia Llosa,
Peru, Spain,
2009,
(124 mins)
Cinematography by Natasha Braier
The niece of novelist Mario Vargas Llosa fashioned this provocative, poetic fable of the survivors of a generation of political violence, as the daughter of an indigenous woman learns more about her mother’s life—and suffering. With Bertrand Bonello’s short Sarah Winchester, Ghost Opera.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
7 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1952,
(89 mins)
Arthur Kennedy searches for the bandit who killed his fiancée, and finds Marlene Dietrich, in this brilliantly curdled western-psychodrama.
Series
Fritz Lang’s America
Monday, July 29
Tuesday, July 30
Wednesday, July 31
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
12:00 PM
Join artist Dennis Feldman as he discusses the portrait, interior, and landscape photographs on view in the current exhibition of his work, emphasizing how the camera sees the world differently from the ways our eyes and minds model it.
Included with admission
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
7 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1962,
(135 mins)
Tatsuya Nakadai is a penniless samurai who asks a wealthy clan’s permission to commit ritual suicide—though that’s not the only killing on his mind. “Probably the best samurai film ever made” (Washington Post).
Thursday, August 1
Thursday, August 1, 2019
1:15 PM
Expert tour guides share highlights of exhibitions on view throughout the museum.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Thursday, August 1, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, August 1, 2019
4 PM–7 PM
If the meek shall inherit the earth, the works on view in the study center show what a grand—also rocky, sandy, and dirty—inheritance this might be.
Free admission
Series
Five Tables 2019
Thursday, August 1, 2019
6:00 PM
Open to Curator's Circle members at the $1,000 level and above
Curator's Circle members join photographer Dennis Feldman and exhibition curator Elaine Y. Yau for a reception and intimate tour to celebrate the opening of Dennis Feldman: Photographs.
Curator's Circle members-only event.
RSVPs open soon.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Thursday, August 1, 2019
7 PM
Jacques Rivette,
France, Switzerland,
1989,
(156 mins)
Cinematography by Caroline Champetier
Performance, life, and cinema merge in Rivette’s metaphysical mystery. “One of the director’s most spellbinding explorations of the sometimes terrifyingly thin line between everyday life and the strangeness beneath it” (Film Society of Lincoln Center).
Friday, August 2
Friday, August 2, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, August 2, 2019
6:30 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1974,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
A young boy in a rural village schemes and dreams his way to a big-city soccer match in Kiarostami’s first feature, similar to The 400 Blows. With short Bread and Alley.
Friday, August 2, 2019
8:30 PM
Jean Luc Godard,
France,
1967,
(105 mins)
“Godard’s vision of bourgeois cataclysm. . . . A savage Swiftian satire, it traces a new Gulliver’s travels through the collapsing consumer society as a married couple set out for a weekend jaunt” (Time Out). Léaud has a revolutionary cameo.
Series
Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
Saturday, August 3
Saturday, August 3, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, August 3, 2019
1:00 PM
Francesco Rosi,
Italy,
1979,
(250 mins)
Bay Area Premiere of Full-Length Digital Restoration
Gian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
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. Screening includes 30-minute intermission.
Saturday, August 3, 2019
6 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1952,
(100 mins)
A killer cast—Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe—star as fated misfits in Monterey. A classic noir, shot on location, “brisk, tense, crackling” (Los Angeles Times).
Series
Fritz Lang’s America
Saturday, August 3, 2019
8:15 PM
Mel Stuart,
United States,
1973,
(103 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
This vibrant, essential document of the Stax soul scene (and the Black Power era) captures a seven-hour concert held in commemoration of the Watts uprising. Featuring Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, and more.
Series
It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through April 28
Through May 2
Through May 5
Through May 11
Through July 3
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