Week of January 5, 2020

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
12:15 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange. 
Included with admission
Wednesday, January 8, 2020
7 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).

Thursday, January 9

Thursday, January 9, 2020
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1955,
(80 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Varda’s debut film about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague.”

Friday, January 10

Friday, January 10, 2020
6:30 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1986,
(120 mins)

Digital Restoration

Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper inhabit a small-town America steeped in psychic dread. Thirty years later, Lynch's color-saturated noir is “still a hilarious, red-hot poker to the brain” (Guy Maddin). 
Friday, January 10, 2020
7 PM

Programmed by PC Muñoz

Recording artist PC Muñoz and a knockout array of Bay Area wordsmiths and musicians present an evening of literary and musical explorations inspired by the Beat Generation.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Series Full 2020

Saturday, January 11

Saturday, January 11, 2020
11:30 AM

For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Experience the magical realism of Sylvia Fein’s paintings, then learn a paint-resist technique for revealing mysterious eyes in unexpected places!
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Mary Curtis Ratcliff
    With artist
    After studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed m
Series Family Events
Saturday, January 11, 2020
1 PM

For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Experience the magical realism of Sylvia Fein’s paintings, then learn a paint-resist technique for revealing mysterious eyes in unexpected places!
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Mary Curtis Ratcliff
    With artist
    After studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture, mixed m
Series Family Events
Saturday, January 11, 2020
1:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
France, Germany, Italy,
1959,
(101 mins)

Digital Restoration

Fritz Lang’s late-career epic is a fantasia of flamboyant set pieces. In Part I, a German architect in India encounters a man-eating tiger and falls for an exotic temple dancer, but has competition from the local maharajah.
Saturday, January 11, 2020
3 PM

Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Join us to read Raina Telgemeier’s relatable graphic novel about tummy trouble and how it relates to life’s ups and downs.
Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
  • Jennifer Gordon
    Reading led by
    Jennifer Gordon is a librarian at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley.
Series Family Events
Saturday, January 11, 2020
3:45 PM
Fritz Lang,
France, Germany, Italy,
1959,
(102 mins)

Digital Restoration

In the second part of Lang’s Indian epic, the romance between the German hero and his Indian beloved is imperiled, while a palace rebellion brews. The film reaches a pinnacle of exoticism with Debra Paget’s eye-popping “snake dance.”
Saturday, January 11, 2020
6 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1962,
(90 mins)

Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Shot entirely on location in the streets of Paris, Cléo chronicles two hours of a pop singer’s life. A score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Legrand, Jean-Luc Godard, and Anna Karina flavor this New Wave classic that proves Varda’s theme, “one isn’t born a woman, one becomes one.”
Saturday, January 11, 2020
8 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1976,
(90 mins)
Lynch’s debut feature, still creepy after all these years: “a masterpiece of texture . . . an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze” (Village Voice).