Sunday, December 8
Sunday, December 8, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
For all members
For one weekend only, all BAMPFA members get 20 percent off at the BAMPFA Store!
Members-only sale
Sunday, December 8, 2019
1:30 PM
(90 mins)
Free Admission for UC Berkeley Students!
Explore the arts of film scoring and accompaniment with musician and composer Donald Sosin, who has scored thousands of films for live performance and recording. Bring your imagination and your instrument—no musical experience required!
Free admission for UC Berkeley students with valid ID
Sunday, December 8, 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, December 8, 2019
2 PM
Programmed by Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo
Useless Initiatives Collective members River Black, Jillian Crochet, and Beatriz Escobar lead a workshop that explores the relationships between bodies and objects.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2019
Sunday, December 8, 2019
4:30 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
2008,
(92 mins)
Digital Restoration
A film about watching and most of all experiencing film, Shirin features close-ups of 112 Iranian actresses (and Juliette Binoche) as they view—or imagine—a movie. “An illusionist tour de force” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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Donna Honarpisheh
IntroductionDonna Honarpisheh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on modernist Iranian film and fiction.
Sunday, December 8, 2019
5 PM
Filmmaker and curator Alix Blevins leads visitors through her research on experimental films and ephemera in the BAMPFA collection.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2019
Sunday, December 8, 2019
7 PM
Cristi Puiu ,
Romania,
2001,
(91 mins)
A hopeful young entrepreneur decides to raise money by delivering an unknown package in this deadpan road movie, inspired by Jarmusch’s Down by Law. The debut film by the director of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
Monday, December 9
Tuesday, December 10
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
6:00 PM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above
BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder and the remarkable Sylvia Fein join Curator's Circle members for a reception and preview tour of the exhibition Sylvia Fein / MATRIX 275.
Curator's Circle members only event.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Wednesday, December 11
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
12:30 PM
Luisa Caldas discusses BAMPFA AR—Augmented Time, which explores augmented reality as a new medium for narrative and storytelling.
Included with admission
Series
BAMPFA AR—Augmented Time
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
7 PM
Programmed by Graeme Vanderstoel
Duets: movement artist Leonard Pitt with composer Paul Dresher; sarod player Manik Khan with tabla player Sudhakar Vaidyanathan; video by Tandy McBeal and Jon Scoville.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series
Full 2019
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
7 PM
Martin Scorsese,
United States,
1983,
(109 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
A crazed would-be stand-up comic (Robert De Niro) becomes obsessed with a talk-show host (Jerry Lewis) in Scorsese’s prescient meditation on the American cult of celebrity.
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J. Hoberman
IntroductionFollowing the screening, J. Hoberman will sign copies of his new book Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan.
Thursday, December 12
Thursday, December 12, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, December 12, 2019
7 PM
Tim Hunter,
United States,
1986,
(99 mins)
A group of teenagers discover their friend has murdered his girlfriend—and do nothing about it—in this eighties cult hit, based on a real-life crime in Milpitas and starring Crispin Glover, Dennis Hopper, and Keanu Reeves.
In Coversation
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J. Hoberman
Critic and author J. Hoberman will discuss his new book Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, which is available in the BAMPFA Store, with Reyna Cowan after the screening. -
Reyna Cowan
Reyna Cowan is a psychoanalyst and film critic. She writes on film and interviews filmmakers for KPFA radio.
Friday, December 13
Friday, December 13, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, December 13, 2019
4 PM
Shirley Sun,
United States,
2017,
(64 mins)
East Bay Premiere!
The Friday, December 13 screening features director Shirley Sun in person. The Sunday, December 29 screening will be presented without guests in person.
Bay Area filmmaker Shirley Sun’s engaging dance film goes behind the scenes with composer Shinji Eshima and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Yuri Possokhov as they recount their collaboration on the ballet RAkU, set in historic Japan.
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Shirley Sun
In Person, December 13
Friday, December 13, 2019
7 PM
Cristi Puiu ,
Romania,
2005,
(154 mins)
Puiu’s saga of the last hours in the life of a cranky Bucharest widower is “both sad and darkly funny . . . sharply conceived and richly populated” (Chicago Reader). “A thorny masterpiece” (New York Times).
Saturday, December 14
Saturday, December 14, 2019
11:30 AM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After an interactive tour of Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting, draw an imaginary landscape on Japanese paper to make your own miniature folding screen.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Marcela Florez
With artistOriginally from Bogotá, Colombia, Marcela Florez holds an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught at Southern Exposure, LA Commons, the de Young Museum, and BAMPFA.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
1 PM
Francesco Rosi,
Italy,
1979,
(250 mins)
Full-Length Digital Restoration, Back by Popular Demand!
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, December 14, 2019
1 PM
For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
After an interactive tour of Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting, draw an imaginary landscape on Japanese paper to make your own miniature folding screen.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Marcela Florez
With artistOriginally from Bogotá, Colombia, Marcela Florez holds an MFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute and has taught at Southern Exposure, LA Commons, the de Young Museum, and BAMPFA.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
2:30–7 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2019
3 PM
Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Jump into the classic story of a country cricket who finds himself in the big city, and pick up a copy of the book to finish reading at home.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
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Carl Coleman
Reading led byCarl Coleman is a librarian for the West Contra Costa Unified School District.
Series
Family Events 2019
Saturday, December 14, 2019
6 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Belgium, France, Iran, Italy,
2010,
(106 mins)
Juliette Binoche and William Shimell star in Kiarostami’s playful unspooling of the romance genre, set in a radiant Tuscany where nothing is quite as it seems. Binoche won Best Actress at Cannes for her role in this “brilliant, endlessly fascinating work” (New Yorker).
Saturday, December 14, 2019
8:15 PM
Joseph Losey,
France,
1976,
(122 mins)
Digital Restoration
An art dealer (Alain Delon) in WWII-era France benefits from the Nazi regime, until they begin to suspect him of being Jewish, in Joseph Losey’s chilling thriller. “A historical reconstruction with a modernist tone, evoking both Kafka and Borges” (J. Hoberman).
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