Sunday, December 22
Sunday, December 22, 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.
Sunday, December 22, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Monday, December 23
Tuesday, December 24
Wednesday, December 25
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Thursday, December 26
Thursday, December 26, 2019
12 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1983,
(352 mins)
Full-Length Television Version
A rare theatrical presentation of Bergman’s magnum opus in its full-length television version, which runs more than five hours. Bergman himself described the project as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.”
Special admission: General: $18; BAMPFA members: $14; UC Berkeley students: $10; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $15.
Screening includes two intermissions totaling 40 minutes.
Thursday, December 26, 2019
2–7 PM
Thursday, December 26, 2019
7 PM
Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget,
France,
2019,
(115 mins)
East Bay Advance Screenings
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 skill, charm, wit, reverie, and wonder. “A master class on filmmaking” (Toronto Star).
Friday, December 27
Friday, December 27, 2019
2 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1957,
(141 mins)
Bay Area Premiere of Digital Restoration
Setsuko Hara stars as a woman trying to hold her family together in Ozu’s darkest, most urban film, set in the shadowy back streets of Ginza. “Retains an enormous dramatic power, perhaps because of [its] very divergences from the Ozu oeuvre” (Michael Koresky).
Friday, December 27, 2019
2–7 PM
Friday, December 27, 2019
5 PM
Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack,
United States,
2018,
(89 mins)
Aretha Franklin’s thrilling 1972 performance of Amazing Grace at a Watts church comes alive in this concert film, unreleased until 2018. “It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle—just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God” (Rolling Stone).
Friday, December 27, 2019
7 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1946,
(101 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Trying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair. Hitchcock’s polished, perverse thriller exploits an espionage plot to explore the nature of love and loyalty.
Saturday, December 28
Saturday, December 28, 2019
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2019
3 PM
Lotte Reiniger,
Germany,
1926,
(65 mins)
Hand-Tinted 35mm Print
Recommended for ages 7 & up
One of the world’s first animated features, Reiniger’s enchanting work uses intricate silhouettes to enact a tale from the Arabian Nights. It offers “exquisite craftsmanship, balletic movement, expressive romanticism, and moments of potent sensuousness and poetry” (Time Out).
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Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Saturday, December 28, 2019
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2000,
(82 mins)
Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the December 28 screening
Varda’s rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, and finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Saturday, December 28, 2019
7 PM
Stanley Nelson,
United Kingdom, United States,
2019,
(115 mins)
From the director of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, this profile of the great Miles Davis is “a tantalizing portrait: rich, probing, mournful, romantic, triumphant, tragic, exhilarating, and blisteringly honest” (Variety).
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