Week of April 26, 2020

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Sunday, April 26

Sunday, April 26, 2020
11 AM–3 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Bring the family for a full day of art, books, music and film—with free admission for everyone!
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Free admission
Series Family Events
Sunday, April 26, 2020
3 PM
Hawley Pratt,
United States,
1972,
(24 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Based on the book by Dr. Seuss, this short film tells the story of a young boy’s encounter with a ruined industrialist whose greed left his environment a treeless wasteland. If only the man had listened to the warnings of the wise old Lorax!
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Free admission
Sunday, April 26, 2020
4 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1979,
(122 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

Originally made for Italian TV, this satirical pseudo-documentary about the tensions within an orchestra draws on Fellini’s collaborations with composer Nino Rota. With Fellini: A Director’s Notebook, a self-reflective wander through the director’s mind and the city of Rome.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Sunday, April 26, 2020
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2002,
(112 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Pina Bausch’s Café Müller was one of Almodóvar’s inspirations for this Academy Award–winning film about the friendship between two men, each caring for a woman in a coma. “Almodóvar’s most mature and mysterious movie” (Newsweek).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.

Monday, April 27

Monday, April 27, 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.

This panel discussion brings together youth leaders from several Richmond organizations and initiatives to share the ways in which they are planning the city’s future.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.

Tuesday, April 28

Wednesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
7 PM
Rosine Mbakam,
Belgium, Cameroon,
2016,
(91 mins)
“The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies” (NPR), Rosine Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary. With Haminiaina Ratovoarivony’s short Razana.

Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.

Thursday, April 30

Thursday, April 30, 2020
4 PM

Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $1,000 level and above

 

 

Please join online for an intimate, behind-the-scenes glimpse into a seminal exhibition in the pipeline with Apsara DiQuinzio, BAMPFA's senior curator of modern and contemporary art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
7 PM
Rolands Kalniņš,
Latvia, USSR,
1967,
(112 mins)

Digital Restoration

An idealistic singer in a fledgling Latvian rock band fights censorship and indifference in this inventive musical, which earned comparisons to the French New Wave. With Gyula Gazdag’s The Selection, a Hungarian take on the intersection of socialism and rock ’n’ roll.

Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.

Friday, May 1

Friday, May 1, 2020
5:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1956,
(110 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Digital Restoration

The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Friday, May 1, 2020
8 PM
Paul Schrader,
United States,
1985,
(120 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

New Digital Restoration

Paul Schrader’s riveting docu-fiction retells the life and death of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, supported by Philip Glass’s compelling score, Eiko Ishioka’s remarkable set designs, and a riveting Ken Ogata performance. “One of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film” (New Yorker).
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
  • Tom Luddy
    Introduction
    Producer of Mishima, Tom Luddy is the cofounder and codirector of the Telluride Film Festival and a former director and curator of the Pacific Film Archive.

Saturday, May 2

Saturday, May 2, 2020
5 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2019,
(113 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Ailing and adrift, a celebrated film director (Antonio Banderas) looks back at his work and life in Almodóvar’s pensive, tantalizingly self-reflexive drama, which garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and for Banderas's extraordinary performance.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.
Saturday, May 2, 2020
7 PM

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Following our screening of Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory, 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, May 2, 2020
7:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1980,
(140 mins)

All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

Fellini’s aging alter ego Marcello Mastroianni wanders through a woman-dominated dreamscape in this surrealist fantasia of female power and male sexual anxiety, the director’s fascinating attempt to grapple with feminism.
Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations.