Sunday, October 6
Sunday, October 6, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, October 6, 2019
1:30 PM
Zheng Junli,
China,
1950,
(113 mins)
Digital Restoration
Crows and Sparrows also screens with a lecture by UC Berkeley professor Weihong Bao on Saturday, November 16.
A Shanghai apartment building serves as a microcosm of China’s class struggles in Zheng Junli’s striking urban drama, filmed during the last days of China’s Nationalist rule and already looking forward to, as one character says, “a New Society.”
Introduction
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Paul Fonoroff
Paul Fonoroff is a film critic, historian, collector, and expert on Chinese cinema. -
Zheng Dali
Zheng Dali will be unable to attend this screening in person as originally announced.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
2 PM
Join a guided tour of Hinges and discover Sakaki Hyakusen’s transformative contribution to the art of eighteenth-century Japan.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Sunday, October 6, 2019
5 PM
Lauren Greenfield,
Denmark, United States,
2019,
(100 mins)
First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos was notorious for her lavish lifestyle before she and her husband Ferdinand were forced into exile during the 1986 revolution. Now she’s back, a return captured in this unvarnished portrait by Lauren Greenfield (The Queen of Versailles).
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
7:30 PM
Corneliu Porumboiu,
France, Germany, Romania, Sweden,
2019,
(97 mins)
Acclaimed director Corneliu Porumboiu delivers a sleek, exhilarating thriller about an undercover cop who learns an obscure whistling language while infiltrating the mob. It’s a stunningly smart genre exercise full of double-crosses, showdowns, and seductions.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
Monday, October 7
Monday, October 7, 2019
6:30 PM
Artist Nona Faustine discusses her work at the intersection between past and present, individual identity and collective history.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Tuesday, October 8
Wednesday, October 9
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
12:15 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2020
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
3:10 PM
Joseph Losey,
United Kingdom,
1963,
(115 mins)
Let’s play master and servant! Dirk Bogarde and James Fox do it in this striking parable on class conflict, Joseph Losey’s first collaboration with Harold Pinter.
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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David Thomson
LectureDavid Thomson is the author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies—and What They Have Done to Us; Have You Seen . . . ?
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
7 PM
Jeanne C. Finley, Lyazzat Khanim,
United States,
2019,
(92 mins)
This haunting, poetic film calls forth the dreams of teenage orphans in Kazakhstan, who use words, pictures, and music to craft mesmerizing prophecies of what adulthood and independence will mean to them. With Carol Dysinger’s Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl).
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
In Person
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Jeanne C. Finley
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Carol Dysinger
Thursday, October 10
Thursday, October 10, 2019
12 PM
As part of the UC Berkeley campus power shutdown, BAMPFA will be closed until further notice for gallery visitors, film screenings, classes, and library access. More info
A talk by Aza Raskin, a cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology, which is leading the charge in reversing the digital attention crisis and realigning technology with humanity’s best interests.
CANCELED
Free admission
Thursday, October 10, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, October 10, 2019
6:30 PM
Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli,
China,
1947,
(189 mins)
Digital Restoration
Rescheduled
This film has been rescheduled to screen Saturday, November 16.
Included on the Hong Kong Film Awards list of the greatest Chinese-language films of all time, this decades-spanning epic following a couple’s separation during the Sino-Japanese War has been called China’s Gone with the Wind.
Presented with intermission
Thursday, October 10, 2019
7 PM
Jacob Kornbluth,
United States,
2013,
(114 mins)
Rescheduled
This film has been rescheduled to screen Thursday, October 24.
In this entertaining, still timely documentary, UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich takes on the American economy. “Smart, funny and articulate” (Los Angeles Times). With Gail Dolgin and Robin Fryday’s The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement.
Free on the outdoor screen
In Person
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Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. -
Jacob Kornbluth
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Robin Fryday
Friday, October 11
Friday, October 11, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, October 11, 2019
3 PM
Feras Fayyad,
Denmark, Germany, Qatar, Syria, United States,
2019,
(96 mins)
This screening has been canceled due to the UC Berkeley campus power shutdown. If you have purchased tickets online for a Mill Valley Film Festival screening via the MVFF website, please call 415.383.5256 or contact info@cafilm.org for information on refunds. Note: If you purchased in person at BAMPFA, please email bampfa@berkeley.edu or call 510.642.1412 during regular business hours.
The Oscar-nominated team behind Last Men in Aleppo takes us to “The Cave,” an underground hospital in war-torn Syria. The camera is a mute witness to the heroic staff’s daily efforts to keep a grasp on ordinary life even as they cope with an endless stream of grave obstacles.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
Friday, October 11, 2019
5:30 PM
Miia Tervo,
Finland,
2019,
(105 mins)
This screening has been canceled due to the UC Berkeley campus power shutdown. If you have purchased tickets online for a Mill Valley Film Festival screening via the MVFF website, please call 415.383.5256 or contact info@cafilm.org for information on refunds. Note: If you purchased in person at BAMPFA, please email bampfa@berkeley.edu or call 510.642.1412 during regular business hours.
Hard-partying, commitment-phobic Aurora is true to her name—at once luminous and dark, beautiful and bound to burn out. An encounter with an Iranian man seeking asylum in Finland gives her new purpose and takes the film in unexpected directions.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
In Person
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Mimosa Willamo
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Miia Tervo
Miia Tervo will be unable to attend this screening in person as originally announced.
Friday, October 11, 2019
8 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1989,
(112 mins)
Digital Restoration
Rescheduled
This film has been rescheduled to screen Saturday, November 23.
In a series of interviews with grade-school boys on the topic of homework, much is revealed on the topic of life. With shorts Breaktime and Orderly or Disorderly.
Saturday, October 12
Saturday, October 12, 2019
11:30 AM–1 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by works of Zen calligraphy in Meditation in Motion, explore ways of drawing words to visually express their meaning and create fragments of poetry in response to works of art.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Beth Krebs
With artistBeth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
1 PM–2:30 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Inspired by works of Zen calligraphy in Meditation in Motion, explore ways of drawing words to visually express their meaning and create fragments of poetry in response to works of art.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Beth Krebs
With artistBeth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
12 PM
Taghi Amirani,
United Kingdom,
2019,
(119 mins)
Cowritten and edited by Oscar winner Walter Murch, this documentary is a fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
In Person
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Taghi Amirani
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Walter Murch
Saturday, October 12, 2019
1:30 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a special guided tour of Strange featuring expert ASL interpretation.
Included with admission
Series
Guided Tours 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
2:30 PM–7 PM
Saturday, October 12, 2019
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
In the Upside-Down Magic class at Dunwiddle Magic School, the spells go wonky at the worst possible moments. Join us to start reading this delightful book and pick up a copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Cheryl Meibos
Reading led byCheryl Meibos is a librarian for the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
3:15 PM
Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget,
France,
2019,
(115 mins)
In the last of her prodigious life’s work, the legendary, delightfully irreverent Agnès Varda conducts a personal career retrospective as only she can, with accomplished skill, inimitable charm, wit, reverie, and copious wonder.
Special admission: General: $16.50; BAMPFA members, CFI members: $14; Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $15; Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $8. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
5 PM
Queer curatorial platform HUSH-HUSH presents Crummy Sheets, a new performance devised by writer Brittany Newell, performance maker and scholar Ryan Tacata, and artist Silk Worm.
Included with admission
Saturday, October 12, 2019
5:45 PM
Zheng Junli,
China,
1959,
(115 mins)
Digital Restoration
Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC’s national anthem.
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Weihong Bao
IntroductionWeihong Bao is an associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures and film studies at UC Berkeley.
Saturday, October 12, 2019
8:15 PM
Gus Van Sant,
United States,
2007,
(85 mins)
Cinematography by Rain Li and Christopher Doyle
A young Portland skateboarder finds himself over his head in Gus Van Sant’s dreamy examination of bodies in motion and teen lives in stasis. Rain Li’s Super 8 footage complements images by longtime Wong Kar-wai collaborator Christopher Doyle.
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