Sunday, March 15
Sunday, March 15, 2020
5 PM
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been canceled through March 29. Learn more
Programmed by Michal “MJ” Jones
Poets Raina J. León and Mimi Tempestt read their work.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2020
Sunday, March 15, 2020
7 PM
Souleymane Cissé,
Mali,
1982,
(100 mins)
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Cissé’s remarkable satire on Africa’s ruling class follows two college kids rebelling against military control and the establishment, and is by turns fierce, romantic, and ultimately hopeful.
In Conversation
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Souleymane Cissé
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Akin Adesokan
Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature and of cinema and media studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Series
Afterimage: Souleymane Cissé
Monday, March 16
Monday, March 16, 2020
6:30 PM
This event has been postponed to a later date. Updates will be posted at artsdesign.berkeley.edu. Thank you for your understanding.
Join us for an evening of fierce readings and conversation with renowned poets Danez Smith and Patricia Smith.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Tuesday, March 17
Wednesday, March 18
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(138 mins)
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A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (The Guardian).
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, March 18, 2020
7 PM
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin,
United States,
1969,
(91 mins)
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New Digital Restoration
This direct cinema study of door-to-door Bible salesmen in Boston slyly underlines the materialism at the heart of the American dream, and revolutionized the documentary form in the 1960s. “Its broader diagnosis has lost none of its truth” (Village Voice).
Series
Documentary Voices 2020
Thursday, March 19
Thursday, March 19, 2020
12 PM
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A presentation by Bryant Terry, a James Beard Award–winning chef, educator, and author renowned for his activism to create a healthy, just, and sustainable food system.
Free admission
Thursday, March 19, 2020
7 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1989,
(165 mins)
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Digital Restoration
The epic adventure of seven Western women travelers on the Trans-Siberian Express who are ambushed by a band of Mongol horsewomen. “A rare and remarkable film. . . . Sumptuously stylized yet ardently observational” (New Yorker).
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Ulrike Ottinger
In Person
Friday, March 20
Friday, March 20, 2020
5 PM
(90 mins)
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Borg presents a selection of her films, which interrogate questions of form and explore the pull between the real and the mediated, between nonfiction and the constructed genres of science fiction and horror.
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Pia Borg
In Person
Friday, March 20, 2020
7:30 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1974,
(113 mins)
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New 35mm Print!
Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you. Winner, Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival.
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James Mockoski
IntroductionJames Mockoski is a film archivist and postproduction supervisor at American Zoetrope, where he has supervised the restoration of classic films including Dementia 13, Apocalypse Now, and The Rain Peop
Saturday, March 21
Saturday, March 21, 2020
2:30 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1972–73,
(62 mins)
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Digital Restoration
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and featuring Tabea Blumenschein in multiple roles, Ottinger’s visually striking debut film is an allegory on themes of death, destruction, and resurrection. With short Superbia—The Pride.
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Ulrike Ottinger
In Person
Saturday, March 21, 2020
5 PM
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Leaf introduces a selection of her films made between 1969 and 2004. Her intimate, tactile animations focus on familiar spaces that we share as families and communities, with simply observed stories that feel true to life.
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Caroline Leaf
In Person
Through July 7
Through July 14
Through September 22
Through May 11
Through July 3
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