Sunday, February 16
Sunday, February 16, 2020
12:30 PM
Andrei Ujica,
Romania,
2010,
(180 mins)
A portrait of a nation—and a cult of personality—through found footage, Ujică’s dissection of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu’s media masquerade is “a cinematic tour de force” (New York Times).
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Andrei Ujica
CANCELED: In PersonDue to unforeseen circumstances, we regret that Andrei Ujica will be unable to join us in person.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
5 PM
Programmed by Alix Blevins
The AB West 8+1 ensemble performs the music of Anthony Braxton, one of the most revered figures in contemporary music.
Included with admission
Series
Performances
Sunday, February 16, 2020
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France, United States,
1980,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s documentary looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980.
Monday, February 17
Tuesday, February 18
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
12 PM
A talk by architect Rodney Leon, designer of the Ark of Return—the United Nations memorial dedicated to victims of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade—and of the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York.
Admission free; seat reservations required.
Wednesday, February 19
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1953,
(105 mins)
I vitelloni also screens Saturday, January 25 (without lecture).
Fellini paired with the great Italian comic everyman Alberto Sordi for this look at the not-so-young sons of the middle class, (barely) growing up in the provincial town of Rimini. “One of the screen’s great portrayals of the hell-raising and malaise of young men” (Chicago Tribune).
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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Russell Merritt
LectureFilm historian Russell Merritt has been introducing films, lecturing, and serving as an occasional guest curator at BAMPFA for more than thirty years.
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6:00 PM
Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above
Please join BAMPFA Director and Chief Curator Lawrence Rinder for a reception and tour of Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
7 PM
Maya Da-Rin,
Brazil,
2010,
(100 mins)
The invisible border that the Amazon River forms between Colombia, Brazil, and Peru is the main character in Maya Da-Rin’s beautiful film, which moves between nature, culture, and commerce. With Jesse Lerner and Scott Sterling’s short Natives.
Series
Documentary Voices 2020
Thursday, February 20
Thursday, February 20, 2020
12 PM
This program has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Scholar Sarah Lewis discusses how images create narratives that shape our definition of national belonging.
Free admission
Thursday, February 20, 2020
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
United States,
1969,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s experimental feature, shot in Hollywood in 1968 and starring Warhol superstar Viva, is a deliberately decadent riff on fantasy, immaturity, and violence. “More than a time capsule of events and moods—it’s a living aesthetic model for revolutionary times” (Richard Brody).
Friday, February 21
Friday, February 21, 2020
12 PM
The student curators of Lands of Promise and Peril present gallery talks mapping the exhibition’s themes and revealing their curatorial process and perspectives.
Included with admission
Friday, February 21, 2020
4 PM
Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang,
United States,
2019,
(89 mins)
This chilling and complex documentary explores the lasting consequences of China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015. Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize, US Documentary.
Friday, February 21, 2020
7 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, February 22
Saturday, February 22, 2020
3 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1991,
(118 mins)
Digital Restoration
Recommended for ages 12 & up
Inspired by the memories of her husband, director Jacques Demy, Varda crafted this affecting and enlightening portrait of the artist as a young boy in 1940s Nantes. “A one-of-a-kind celebration” (New York Times).
Saturday, February 22, 2020
5:30 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1945,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration
Open City also screens Wednesday, January 29, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
A group of women and children (led by a charismatic Anna Magnani) try to shelter resistance forces from the Nazis. Rossellini’s moving, inspiring, and agonizing neorealist classic was cowritten by Fellini.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Saturday, February 22, 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).
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