Week of November 21, 2021

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Sunday, November 28

Sunday, November 28, 2021
11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, November 28, 2021
2 PM
Sunday, November 28, 2021
3 PM
Scholar and collector Alan Templeton offers tours of The Enduring Mark with an emphasis on the evolution of drawing styles and the iconography of individual works featured in the exhibition.
Included with admission
Sunday, November 28, 2021
3 PM
Alain Resnais,
France, Japan,
1959,
(92 mins)

 Digital Restoration

Hiroshima mon amour depicts a brief affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in the Hiroshima of 1959. The couple’s bliss is slowly eroded by the unavoidable memories of World War II.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
5 PM
Masahiro Shinoda,
Japan,
1986,
(130 mins)

BAMPFA Collection
Winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival

Gonza the Spearman is based on an eighteenth-century bunraku play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Masahiro Shinoda established himself as a provocative independent stylist and an important bridge between art and commercial cinemas in Japan.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Streaming All Day
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(95 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Winner of the Prix du Regard at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky is a deadpan comedy that looks at loneliness, family, friendship, and keeping up appearances. “Global cinema at its best. A truly great film!” (Film Threat).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available November 23–28

Monday, November 29

Tuesday, November 30

Wednesday, December 1

Wednesday, December 1, 2021
7 PM
(120 mins)
This program celebrates a range of materialist approaches to feminist filmmaking in the United States by Peggy Ahwesh, Nazli Dinçel, Jeanne C. Finely, Kelly Gallagher, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Jodie Mack, and Christina C. Nguyen.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
In Person
  • Jeanne C. Finley
  • Janis Crystal Lipzin

Thursday, December 2

Thursday, December 2, 2021
12 PM

Available to the general public as livestream only. UC Berkeley students may attend in person with valid Cal One ID.

Carmine Cella shares his compositions and musical instrument intonations that produce novel sounds, music, and spatial experiences.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
12:15 PM
Thursday, December 2, 2021
4 PM
International authority on the art of Gandhara Osmund Bopearachchi presents a lecture about Buddhist imagery in Gandharan art.
Included with admission.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
4–7 PM
This collection of sculptures, photographs, Japanese woodblock prints, and more centers on the visual tricks that reflections can play.
Free on first Thursday of the month
Thursday, December 2, 2021
7 PM
Melvin Van Peebles,
France,
1968,
(87 mins)

Digital Restoration 

The Thursday, December 2 screening features an introduction with Ryanaustin Dennis. The Sunday, December 5 screening will be presented without an introduction.

In this exuberant, inventive, and poignant film about an American soldier’s sojourn in Paris, Melvin Van Peebles brilliantly balanced French New Wave style with profound social critique and psychological substance.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
  • Ryanaustin Dennis
    Introduction, December 2
    Ryanaustin Dennis is cocurator of BAMPFA’s Black Life series.

Friday, December 3

Friday, December 3, 2021
2 PM-7 PM
Friday, December 3, 2021
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1969,
(101 mins)

4K Digital Restoration 

A disaffected Long Island housewife ditches her man, hits the road, and never stops heading west in Francis Ford Coppola’s striking early work, described as a female Easy Rider with a loose energy that recalls the French New Wave.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.

Saturday, December 4

Saturday, December 4, 2021
11 AM-7 PM
Saturday, December 4, 2021
1:30PM
American Sign Language interpreter Patricia Lessard, who specializes in the arts, offers ASL interpretation for a graduate student–led tour of New Time on Saturday, December 4, at 1:30 PM. All visitors are welcome.
Included with admission
Saturday, December 4, 2021
4:30 PM
Halina Dyrschka,
Germany,
2019,
(93 mins)
This documentary, which “bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long,” illuminates the story of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, the unsung modernist of the early twentieth century (New York Times).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Saturday, December 4, 2021
7 PM
Shireen Seno,
Philippines,
2017,
(90 mins)
Set in Manila in the late 1980s, Nervous Translation depicts the delicate world of childhood via Yael, an intelligent, shy eight-year-old living alone with her mother while her father works abroad.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.