Sunday, September 22
Sunday, September 22, 2019
1 PM
Amir Soltani, Chihiro Wimbush,
United States,
2015,
(94 mins)
This intimate story of recyclers in West Oakland chronicles their battles to survive in Oakland’s Dogtown neighborhood, an area battered by addiction, violence, and unemployment—and about to be changed by gentrification.
In Person
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Amir Soltani
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Chihiro Wimbush
Sunday, September 22, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, September 22, 2019
2 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2020
Sunday, September 22, 2019
4 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1979,
(100 mins)
Digital Restoration
A seemingly simple classroom struggle between teacher and students becomes an absorbing lesson in solidarity, ideology, and resistance in Kiarostami’s gripping documentary, filmed during the last days of the Shah and finished during the earliest days of the Islamic Revolution.
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Abbas Milani
LectureAbbas Milani is director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a leading commentator on contemporary Iranian political history.
Sunday, September 22, 2019
7 PM
Tony Richardson,
United Kingdom,
1961,
(100 mins)
Interracial sex, homosexuality, and unwed pregnancy had the shock of the new in 1961, when Rita Tushingham worked her way into viewers’ hearts.
Monday, September 23
Monday, September 23, 2019
6:30 PM
In this talk, artist Marisa Morán Jahn weaves together her interest in creative technology as myth-making and her practice of co-designing with and for historically underserved communities.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Tuesday, September 24
Wednesday, September 25
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
12:15 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2020
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
3:10 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
France, Iran,
2017,
(116 mins)
East Bay Premiere
Kiarostami’s final work strips cinema down to its essence—a single frame—creating a hypnotic meditation on image making and the act of seeing that pays tribute to both cinema and the great director’s other passion, photography.
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.
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Ahmad Kiarostami
LectureAhmad Kiarostami is a San Francisco–based entrepreneur with a wide range of experience, from startups to producing films and making music videos.
Series
In Focus: Abbas Kiarostami
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
7 PM
(75 mins)
Hollywood glamour is destabilized, appropriated, and filtered through a camp lens in this program of shorts by Teo Hernandez, Eduardo Solá Franco, Horacio Vallereggio, and José Rodriguez Soltero.
Series
Alternative Visions 2019
Thursday, September 26
Thursday, September 26, 2019
12 PM
Melodie Yashar shares insights from her work as a design architect, researcher, and cofounder of Space Exploration Architecture, a group developing human-supporting concepts for space exploration.
Free admission
Thursday, September 26, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, September 26, 2019
7 PM
Marlon Riggs, Peter Webster,
United States,
1981,
(87 mins)
Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, chronicling the city’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present. With Karen Everett’s profile of Riggs, I Shall Not Be Removed.
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Ashley Omoma
IntroductionAshley Omoma is a journalist and documentarian, engulfed in the intersections between art and journalism. As a storyteller, she works to amplify narratives that often go untold. -
Karen Everett
In Person
Friday, September 27
Friday, September 27, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, September 27, 2019
4 PM
Sergei Bondarchuk,
USSR,
1966,
(96 mins)
Digital Restoration
Back by Popular Demand!
The final installment in the four-part epic opens as the Russian army retreats, leaving Moscow in flames; it closes as the city rebuilds, and life and love begin again.
Series
War and Peace
Friday, September 27, 2019
7 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, September 28
Saturday, September 28, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, September 28, 2019
3:30 PM
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner,
Belgium, France, Luxembourg,
2012,
(80 mins)
Recommended for ages 8 & up
Nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 2012 Oscars, this magical film (inspired by the Belgian children’s books) follows Celestine the mouse, a dentist-in-training, and Ernestine the bear, a musician and poet.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
4 PM
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Join artists Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma in a celebration of queer ancestor Lou Sullivan—arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition—featuring readings from We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2019
Saturday, September 28, 2019
5:30 PM
Tony Richardson,
United Kingdom,
1960,
(97 mins)
Film to Table dinner follows
Laurence Olivier stars as a has-been music-hall performer—with Alan Bates and Albert Finney in their screen debuts—in John Osborne’s play-turned-film. Olivier’s “greatest contemporary role” (Pauline Kael).
Saturday, September 28, 2019
7:30 PM
Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Following our screening of Tony Richardson's The Entertainer, join fellow cinephiles at our communal table for dinner and warm conversation.
$85 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
8 PM
Tom Kalin,
United States,
1992,
(94 mins)
Cinematography by Ellen Kuras
This cornerstone of the “New Queer Cinema” of the early 1990s revisits the notorious 1924 Leopold & Loeb murders, with striking black-and-white cinematography by Ellen Kuras.
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Damon R. Young
IntroductionDamon R. Young is an associate professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley, and the author of Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
All Day
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $10,000 level and above
Join BAMPFA Curator's Circle and Trustees for a rare, personal guided tour of the Kramlich Residence and Collection, led by Director of the Kramlich Collection, Aebhric Coleman.
For Curator's Circle members only
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through May 14
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