Week of May 10, 2020

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Sunday, May 10

Sunday, May 10, 2020
4:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1986,
(126 mins)

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

Digital Restoration

Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as an aging dance duo invited to perform on a TV variety show in Fellini’s film, both a fond tribute to vaudeville and a withering assault on the meaningless opulence of commercial television. 
Sunday, May 10, 2020
7 PM
Gerhard Klingenberg,
German Democratic Republic,
1960,
(112 mins)

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

Released the year before the building of the Berlin Wall, this farce imagines the relocation of a village from East to West Germany. With Vlastimil Venclík’s Czech short The Uninvited Guest, on a couple confronting—then growing accustomed to—an intruder.

Monday, May 11

Tuesday, May 12

Wednesday, May 13

Wednesday, May 13, 2020
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1980,
(160 mins)

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

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped produce Kurosawa’s big-budget return to epic filmmaking, involving a lord and his double (both played by Tatsuya Nakadai) trying to hold a kingdom together. “Probably the director’s most elaborate, awesome film . . . majestic, stately, cool, almost abstract” (New York Times).

Thursday, May 14

Thursday, May 14, 2020
4 PM

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

Join Curatorial Assistant Lucia Olubunmi Momoh for a discussion of Peace Now!, the newest iteration of BAMPFA’s Art for Human Rights series. Lucia will talk about her curatorial vision and the museum's role in social and political activism.
Thursday, May 14, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1987,
(105 mins)

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

Digital Restoration

Fellini turns the camera on himself in this pseudo-documentary, which uses a Japanese TV crew’s visit to the Cinecittà studio as the pretext for a series of glimpses into the filmmaker’s methods and thoughts.

Friday, May 15

Friday, May 15, 2020
6 PM

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

Meet the graduates of UC Berkeley’s Master of Fine Arts program as they talk about their recent work.
Included with admission
Friday, May 15, 2020
7 PM
Kira Muratova,
Ukraine, USSR,
1989,
(153 mins)

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

Legendary director Kira Muratova’s demented chronicle of the absurdities and insults of post-glasnost Soviet life takes its title and cues from a psychological condition that alternates between maniacal aggression and apathetic inaction. “A movie that breaks all the rules” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
  • Stanislav Menzelevskyi
    Introduction
    Stanislav Menzelevskyi, a film scholar and curator, is head of the Research Department of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Center and currently a Fulbright visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.

Saturday, May 16

Saturday, May 16, 2020
2 PM

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

Art historian Julia F. Andrews presents a lecture reflecting on the rise of women as artists and as subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth-century China.
Included with admission
Saturday, May 16, 2020
4:30 PM
John Sayles,
Ireland, United States,
1994,
(103 mins)

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

Newly Restored Print!
Recommended for ages 9 & up

In this charming, beautifully photographed film about storytelling and family ties, a girl living with her grandparents in a remote Irish fishing village discovers a world of myth and magic. A “first-rate, all-ages fairy tale steeped in Irish folklore” (Hollywood Reporter).
Saturday, May 16, 2020
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(174 mins)

The May 16 screening has been canceled. Learn more

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Film to Table dinner follows the January 26 screening

Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out).