Sunday, March 22
Sunday, March 22, 2020
12 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
2016,
(193 mins)
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Ottinger traces the paths of past explorers in a multipart exploration of the peoples, landscapes, and legends of the Bering Sea. This extraordinarily beautiful work is perhaps Ottinger’s magnum opus.
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Ulrike Ottinger
In Person
Sunday, March 22, 2020
5 PM
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Programmed by Alix Blevins
A sound and language performance emerging from poet Anne Lesley Selcer and artist Chris Duncan’s mutual obsession with the transformative power of the sun.
Included with admission
Series
Performances
Sunday, March 22, 2020
5 PM
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Simón Wilches-Castro presents a lecture on the distinct history of Latin American animation—in his words, “the history of a fractured continent trying to figure itself out.” Film clips illustrate and enrich the talk.
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Simón Wilches-Castro
LectureSimón Wilches-Castro is an award-winning animation director originally from Colombia and currently based in Los Angeles, where he works as a director at Titmouse Animation Studios.
Sunday, March 22, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1969,
(130 mins)
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Digital Restoration
Fellini’s tour of ancient Rome is less historical document than decadent fantasia, following the narrator Encolpius as he searches for his male lover through feasts, festivals, orgies, and death. “A surreal epic” (New York Times).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Monday, March 23
Tuesday, March 24
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
7 PM
Charles Burnett,
United States,
1977,
(81 mins)
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New 35mm Print!
Open to BAMPFA members only, this free screening is part of Member Appreciation Month. Not yet a member? Join today!
Charles Burnett’s portrait of working-class African Americans in 1970s Watts is “a great—the greatest—cinematic tone poem of American urban life” (New York).
Free admission. BAMPFA members only. Space for this screening is limited. RSVP by March 16.
Wednesday, March 25
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
12 PM
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Join noted filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer Ulrike Ottinger and curator Susan Oxtoby for an insightful tour of Ottinger’s MATRIX exhibition.
Included with admission
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1970,
(93 mins)
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Digital Restoration
The Clowns also screens Sunday, April 5 (without lecture).
Fellini’s tribute to the world of the clown is—like so much of his supposedly nonfiction work—part documentary, part autobiography, and suffused with fantasy. “Fellini turns the world into his circus” (Time).
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 25, 2020
6:30 PM
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Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $5,000 level and above
Join us for dinner and chat with the artist at an art-filled home in celebration of Ulrike Ottinger / MATRIX 276.
Series
Curator's Circle Events
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France, Switzerland,
1980,
(87 mins)
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This achingly lyrical film about the selling of the self revolves around three characters: a filmmaker, his estranged partner, and a prostitute. “A stunning, original work” (NY Times). With Isabelle Huppert and Nathalie Baye.
Thursday, March 26
Thursday, March 26, 2020
7 PM
Péter Bacsó,
Hungary,
1969,
(103 mins)
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Digital Restoration
A bumbling protagonist fails at a series of assignments before finally showing defiance in this recently restored Hungarian classic, whose acerbic humor and political critique made it renowned in the Soviet bloc. “As broadly entertaining as it is bold” (New York Times).
Friday, March 27
Friday, March 27, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
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For all members
During the weekend of March 27–29, all BAMPFA members can enjoy 20 percent off regular-price items at the BAMPFA Store and coffee drinks at Babette.
Members-only sale
Friday, March 27, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1976,
(166 mins)
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Digital Restoration
Donald Sutherland plays Casanova in “Fellini’s most extravagant and courageous dream” (Albert Johnson). “The visual daring and pure imagination of every image leave it as an elegiac farewell to an era of Italian cinema” (Time Out).
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Saturday, March 28
Saturday, March 28, 2020
1 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
2016,
(192 mins)
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The second chapter in Ottinger’s voyage to the far north takes her to Chukotka in the Russian Far East, where Asia faces America across the narrow Bering Strait and a society of sea hunters still depend on their catch of fish, seals, and whales.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
11 AM–7 PM
All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more
For all members
During the weekend of March 27–29, all BAMPFA members can enjoy 20 percent off regular-price items at the BAMPFA Store and coffee drinks at Babette.
Members-only sale
Saturday, March 28, 2020
5 PM
Raimondas Vabalas,
Lithuania, USSR,
1965,
(78 mins)
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Digital Restoration
A Baltic Duck Soup about the dispute between two nations over a desert borderland, this ambitious, playful film makes colorful fun of fascists and imperialists, patriotism and dogmatism, in a burst of creative satire made the same year as Dr. Strangelove.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1982,
(107 mins)
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Restored 35mm Print
Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, and Nastassia Kinski float through an even more artificial version of Las Vegas in Coppola’s lavishly surreal, giddily romantic valentine to a cinema of pure attractions. “A playful, delightfully unfathomable piece of magic” (Washington Post).
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