Sunday, March 29
Sunday, March 29, 2020
1 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
2016,
(156 mins)
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Continuing her exploration of Chukotka and points north, Ottinger documents varied facets of the region’s natural, cultural, and political history, and travels to the remote outpost of Wrangel Island, home to polar bears and a few hardy humans.
Sunday, March 29, 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
Sunday, March 29, 2020
4:30 PM
Taghi Amirani,
United Kingdom,
2019,
(119 mins)
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A fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah. “Passionate and fearless” (Hollywood Reporter).
Monday, March 30
Monday, March 30, 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.
Russian scholars Margarita Kuleva and Natalia Samutina talk about questions of fairness, inclusion, and cultural innovation in post-Soviet societies.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
Tuesday, March 31
Wednesday, April 1
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
3:10 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1973,
(127 mins)
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Digital Restoration
Amarcord also screens Thursday, January 23, and Saturday, March 21 (without lecture).
Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life. “As full of tales as Scheherazade, some romantic, some slapstick, some elegiacal, some bawdy, some mysterious . . . a film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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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David Thomson
LectureDavid Thomson is the author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies—and What They Have Done to Us; Have You Seen . . . ?
Series
In Focus: Federico Fellini
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
7 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha,
United States,
2001,
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Trinh T. Minh-ha’s essayistic work explores Japan’s everyday life and rituals with her usual sense of lyricism, investigation, and play. “Functions as a recurrent melody, appealing to all the senses” (Locarno Film Festival).
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Trinh T. Minh-ha
Les Blank Lecture
Series
Documentary Voices 2020
Thursday, April 2
Thursday, April 2, 2020
12 PM
Due to coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions this event will not be public, and instead, will be posted online afterwards at artsdesign.berkeley.edu. Thank you for your understanding.
Ronni Favors, rehearsal director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, discusses her work in dance.
Free admission
Thursday, April 2, 2020
6 PM
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Post:Ballet presents Mine Is Yours and Yours Is Mine, a pair of quartets that explore the complexities of sharing in relationships.
Included with admission
Series
Performances
Thursday, April 2, 2020
7 PM
Lucian Pintilie,
Romania,
1968,
(100 mins)
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BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
The police force two friends to reenact a drunken crime on screen—with awkward results—in Lucian Pintilie’s masterful satire, voted best Romanian film of all time in a poll of Romanian critics.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Gabriel M. Paletz
IntroductionA film scholar, journalist, teacher, and curator, Gabriel M. Paletz has written for Variety and now teaches at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic.
Friday, April 3
Friday, April 3, 2020
12 PM
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Oakland-based artist Steuart Pittman addresses recurring themes of humor, music, craftsmanship, and beauty in Ron Nagle’s work, as well as Nagle’s role as a teacher.
Included with admission
Friday, April 3, 2020
6:30 PM
(117 mins)
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This program also screens Wednesday, March 4, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Three Fellini shorts originally released as parts of omnibus films: The Marriage Agency (from the neorealist anthology Love in the City), The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (from the Decameron-inspired sex farce Boccaccio ’70), and Toby Dammit (from the Poe collection Spirits of the Dead).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Series
Federico Fellini at 100
Friday, April 3, 2020
9 PM
(75 mins)
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Free Admission!
Student Filmmakers in Person
Join the BAMPFA Student Committee for their annual showcase of short films made by students in Berkeley and the wider Bay Area.
Free admission
Saturday, April 4
Saturday, April 4, 2020
1 PM
Ulrike Ottinger,
Germany,
2016,
(177 mins)
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Ottinger’s Bering Sea voyage concludes with Bering Island and the peninsula of Kamchatka, a land long held in tension between continuity and displacement, beauty and exploitation.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
5 PM
Tadeusz Chmielewski,
Poland,
1971,
(99 mins)
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Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows
This lighthearted comedy turns a dysfunctional Warsaw into a slapstick playground worthy of Jacques Tati, balancing criticism and lyricism in its portrait of the forgotten details of daily life in a socialist state.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Gabriel M. Paletz
IntroductionA film scholar, journalist, teacher, and curator, Gabriel M. Paletz has written for Variety and now teaches at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
6:45 PM
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Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Following our screening of Tadeusz Chmielewski's I Hate Mondays, join fellow cinephiles at our communal table for dinner and warm conversation.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
$95 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
Saturday, April 4, 2020
8 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1982,
(87 mins)
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BAMPFA Collection
Two directors create a film based on tableaux vivants of famous paintings, but find the true stories beyond the frames, in Godard’s essay on labor, love, and capital. Isabelle Huppert, Michel Piccoli, and Hanna Schygulla star.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
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Tom Luddy
IntroductionWhile working as a producer with American Zoetrope in the 1980s and ’90s, Tom Luddy coordinated the studio’s collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard.
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