Sunday, August 18
Sunday, August 18, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 18, 2019
4:30 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1956,
(111 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Japan’s favorite sport gets taken down in Kobayashi’s clear-eyed dissection of the ruthlessness and greed of the baseball business, shot more like a film noir or paranoid thriller than a sports saga.
Sunday, August 18, 2019
4:30 PM
Programmed by Alix Blevins
In their improvisational music, Bassett and Lubelski create personal interplay with the surrounding environment to expand upon abstraction, chromatic noise, and long-form drone. The evening opens with a new piece by Ecstatic Music Band.
Included with admission
Sunday, August 18, 2019
7 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1990,
(98 mins)
An unemployed film fanatic who impersonated director Mohsen Makhmalbaf is the subject of Kiarostami’s mind-bending docu-fictional masterpiece, which reenacts the entire affair with the impersonator and Makhmalbaf himself.
Monday, August 19
Tuesday, August 20
Wednesday, August 21
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
12 PM
An engaging walkthrough of the exhibition with its curator, who discusses themes of drama and memory, miracles and coincidence, myth and magic, and artistic oddities.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
7 PM
Aki Kaurismäki,
France,
1992,
(100 mins)
Kaurismäki’s update of Henri Murger’s novel is “a fine, deceptively querulous comedy that mocks the conventions of art and romantic love while . . . exalting them as the only means of salvation” (New York Times). Léaud puts in a brief but pivotal appearance.
Series
Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
Thursday, August 22
Thursday, August 22, 2019
12 PM
Join exhibition curator Lisa Sutcliffe for a walkthrough of The San Quentin Project, focusing on artist Nigel Poor’s evolving collaboration with residents of San Quentin State Prison.
Included with admission
Thursday, August 22, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, August 22, 2019
7 PM
Alice Rohrwacher,
Germany, Italy, Switzerland,
2014,
(110 mins)
Cinematography by Hélène Louvart
The lives of a beekeeping family in rural Italy are disrupted by the arrival of a sullen teenage boy and a cheesy TV production crew in this evocative look at rituals, relationships, and adolescent dreams. “A beautiful, richly imagined ride” (Washington Post).
Friday, August 23
Friday, August 23, 2019
12 PM
Two poets respond to the work of artists Helen Mirra and Sean Thackrey with poetry that attempts to grapple in language with wordlessness.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2019
Friday, August 23, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, August 23, 2019
7 PM
Jean Eustache,
France,
1973,
(210 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Léaud gives perhaps his greatest performance as a castaway from the sixties and the sexual revolution, waffling between two women, in Jean Eustache’s chronicle of disenchantment in post-1968 Paris.
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.
Series
Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
Saturday, August 24
Saturday, August 24, 2019
12 PM
Saturday, August 24, 2019
2 PM–7 PM
Saturday, August 24, 2019
6 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1994,
(103 mins)
Digital Restoration
Through the Olive Trees is also presented on Tuesday, September 17 with an introduction and post-screening lecture by author Godfrey Cheshire.
In Kiarostami’s fittingly self-reflective end to the Koker trilogy, a lovelorn youth gets another chance at romance when a visiting film crew casts him and his disinterested paramour as husband and wife.
Plays on September 17 with lecture by author Godfrey Cheshire.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
8:15 PM
Martin Scorsese,
United States,
1978,
(115 mins)
Scorsese’s loving portrait of The Band’s farewell concert in San Francisco is “arguably the most beautiful of rock movies, while the musical highlights . . . still astound” (Time Out). With guest appearances by Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, 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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