Week of January 2, 2022

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Sunday, January 9

Sunday, January 9, 2022
11 AM

All ages, Drop-in

Learn the basics of risograph printing in the BAMPFA Art Lab and go home with a collaboratively designed set of postcards.
Included with admission
Sunday, January 9, 2022
2 PM
Sunday, January 9, 2022
2 PM
Ritwik Ghatak,
India,
1960,
(127 mins)

Digital Restoration

Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the partition of India and comes to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Sunday, January 9, 2022
5 PM
Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1937,
(75 mins)

Restored 35mm Print

In a remote Scottish island community facing extinction through isolation, two young men embark on a foolish challenge. Michael Powell’s stunningly photographed film is a hybrid of documentary-like realism and poetic fatalism.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.

Monday, January 10

Tuesday, January 11

Wednesday, January 12

Wednesday, January 12, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1921,
(81 mins)

Digital Restoration

This reconstruction of the earliest surviving F. W. Murnau film represents a major rediscovery of a work that, even upon its release, was hailed as a milestone in the art of cinema.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano

Thursday, January 13

Thursday, January 13, 2022
12:15 PM
Thursday, January 13, 2022
7 PM
George Lucas,
United States,
1973,
(112 mins)
George Lucas’s classic of boomer nostalgia follows the teens of a small Northern California town through one long summer night. With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, and Harrison Ford among the cast, it’s “the film that launched a thousand careers” (Hollywood Reporter).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.

Friday, January 14

Friday, January 14, 2022
7 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1944,
(106 mins)
Barbara Stanwyck’s peroxide blonde is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder’s gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Stanwyck for Best Actress. 

Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.

Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

Saturday, January 15

Saturday, January 15, 2022
11 AM

All ages, Drop-in

Learn how to cut foam to create simple abstract stamp designs in the Art Lab.
Included with admission
Saturday, January 15, 2022
4 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, January 15, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1921,
(81 mins)

Digital Restoration

Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with films like Faust, F. W. Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a stormbound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano