Sunday, August 4
Sunday, August 4, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 4, 2019
2 PM
Explore the intersections of language, image, and identity by creating a visual translation of a poem.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2019
Sunday, August 4, 2019
5 PM
Alain Gomis,
Senegal,
2012,
(89 mins)
Cinematography by Crystel Fournier
American musician/slam poet Saul Williams stars in this dreamlike Senegalese fable of one man’s last day on earth, as prescribed by fate. “Spiritual, soulful and captivating” (Hollywood Reporter).
Sunday, August 4, 2019
7 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1999,
(118 mins)
Digital Restoration
A television crew arrives at a remote Kurdish village to await a mourning ritual. While they wait for death, life happens. “A stunningly lyrical and eloquent exploration of both rural village life and the nature of artistic responsibility” (New York Times).
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Hamid Naficy
Introduction and Post-Screening Lecture on November 3Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, where he is also affiliate faculty at the De
Monday, August 5
Tuesday, August 6
Wednesday, August 7
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
7 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1962,
(107 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A dying businessman sets off a family scandal by announcing that his fortune will go to his illegitimate children in Kobayashi’s melodrama. A wry condemnation of Japanese postwar materialism, perfectly chilled by Toru Takemitsu’s jazzy score.
Thursday, August 8
Thursday, August 8, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, August 8, 2019
6:30 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.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
7 PM
D. A. Pennebaker,
United States,
1968,
(79 mins)
Legendary performances by Otis Redding, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, and more jump off the screen in Pennebaker’s document of the legendary music festival. “The first great pop festival, the first great festival film” (Greil Marcus). With Jimi Plays Berkeley, filmed at Hendrix’s 1970 Berkeley shows.
At Outdoor Screen
Free on the outdoor screen
Series
It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll
Friday, August 9
Friday, August 9, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, August 9, 2019
6:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1956,
(80 mins)
Archival Print
A crusading newspaperman hopes to prove the cruelty of capital punishment—by framing himself for murder—in Lang’s last, low-budget, nihilistic noir. Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine star.
Series
Fritz Lang’s America
Friday, August 9, 2019
8:15 PM
Kiyoshi Kurosawa,
Hong Kong, Japan, Netherlands,
2008,
(119 mins)
Imported Print
Cinematography by Akiko Ashizawa
A laid-off salaryman pretends to go to work every day in order not to disappoint his family in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s darkly comic, deeply unsettling drama, which “tells us a great deal about contemporary Japan” (New York Review of Books).
Saturday, August 10
Saturday, August 10, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, August 10, 2019
6 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1987,
(83 mins)
Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
This beautiful picture of the life of a child in a northern Iranian village is the first film in Kiarostami’s beloved Koker trilogy.
Saturday, August 10, 2019
8 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1967,
(121 mins)
Japanese cinema icons Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai team up to slice their way through duty-bound Japan in this tale of a dutiful samurai whose attempts to be a “good servant” are about to end . . . in blood.
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