Sunday, February 23
Sunday, February 23, 2020
2 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1946,
(126 mins)
Digital Restoration
An episodic, semidocumentary portrait of wartime Italy, from Sicily during the Allied invasion to the Po Valley near the war’s end. “One of the strongest antiwar films ever made” (New York Times), it was cowritten by Fellini.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Sunday, February 23, 2020
3 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
Sunday, February 23, 2020
4:30 PM
Agnès Varda,
Belgium, France, Venezuela,
1977,
(121 mins)
Digital Restoration
Two very different women search for their place in the world over the course of a decade in Varda’s look at friendship and feminism. “Remains almost unique as a commercial French film concerned with the militant aspects of the women’s movement” (Alison Smith).
Sunday, February 23, 2020
7 PM
Ivana Mladenović,
Romania,
2017,
(120 mins)
Two men form an unlikely couple in one of Bucharest’s toughest Romany neighborhoods in this naturalist drama, a gay, Romany Romeo and Juliet.
Monday, February 24
Monday, February 24, 2020
6:30 PM
Poet, scholar, and new media artist Margaret Rhee talks about robots, the racialization of Asian Americans, and the relationship between technology and difference in modern society.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Tuesday, February 25
Wednesday, February 26
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1954,
(108 mins)
La strada also screens Saturday, February 1 (without lecture).
Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese has called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”
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 26, 2020
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1977,
(106 mins)
New York City, imposing and anonymous, serves as the visual counterpoint to Chantal Akerman’s reading of her own mother’s letters in this personal, beautifully photographed film. With Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s short Measures of Distance.
Series
Documentary Voices 2020
Thursday, February 27
Thursday, February 27, 2020
5 PM
Award-winning author Susan Straight reads from her family memoir In the Country of Women, which Joyce Carol Oates called “a beautiful book . . . the most populated, celebratory, filled-with-life memoir of our time.”
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
7 PM
Radu Jude,
Romania,
2018,
(138 mins)
Radu Jude dissects the rise of neofascism and the reemergence of anti-Semitism in Europe in this metafictional black comedy. “A complicated meditation on the responsibilities—and limits—of art in the face of horror” (New York Times).
Friday, February 28
Friday, February 28, 2020
4 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.
Friday, February 28, 2020
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2008,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda takes a cinematic stroll through her long career—and the history of French film—in this first-person documentary. “For all its melancholy and its profound awareness of mortality, [it is] one of the jolliest, more life-affirming self-portraits in recent cinema” (Sight & Sound).
Saturday, February 29
Saturday, February 29, 2020
2:00 PM
Scholars Elaine Yau, Horace Ballard, and Lisa Gail Collins shed new light on Tompkins, her cultural context, and her place in modern and contemporary art.
Recorded Saturday, February 29, 2020, 2 PM
Recorded Saturday, February 29, 2 PM PDT
Series
Talks & Conversations 2022
Saturday, February 29, 2020
5:30 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Italy,
1949,
(87 mins)
Cowritten by Fellini, Rossellini’s episodic tribute to the People’s Saint is constructed with crafty simplicity, rich humanity, and earthly joy. “A glorious hallucination of perfect harmony between man and nature” (Dave Kehr).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Saturday, February 29, 2020
7:30 PM
(52 mins)
Discover or revisit the rare short works of David Lynch, from films he made as a student in the late sixties to later evocations of dreams and nightmares.
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