Week of January 9, 2022

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Sunday, January 16

Sunday, January 16, 2022
2 PM
Sunday, January 16, 2022
2 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1922,
(98 mins)

35mm Archival Print

“Murnau proved a master both at interior design . . . and at stunning exterior shooting. The fire at the oil-well, ‘the burning earth’ surrounded by snow, is an unforgettable image of hell on earth” (TIFF Cinematheque).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
  • Bruce Loeb
    On Piano
Sunday, January 16, 2022
4:30 PM
Alfred E. Green,
United States,
1933,
(76 mins)
Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top in this notorious pre-Code saga; shown here with the censored scenes reinstated, “it has to be seen to be not quite believed” (New York Times).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Sunday, January 16, 2022
7 PM

This event has been postponed due to COVID-19 related operational concerns. Learn more

Acclaimed Bay Area percussionist, recording artist, and producer PC Muñoz returns to BAMPFA with an evening of Debussy’s legendary “Clair de Lune,” rendered in three completely different ways.
Series Full 2022

Monday, January 17

Tuesday, January 18

Wednesday, January 19

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1974,
(113 mins)

New 35mm Print

Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, a grand prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you.
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.

Thursday, January 20

Thursday, January 20, 2022
12:15 PM
Thursday, January 20, 2022
7 PM
(110 mins)
This program features six experimental films that suggest a communal vision for the future arising out of actions in the present by Marwa Arsanios, Emily Chao, Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, Adele Horne, and Cauleen Smith.

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  • Emily Chao
    Introduction

Friday, January 21

Friday, January 21, 2022
12 PM
Three artists featured in New Time—Koak, Lava Thomas, and Anne Walsh—discuss their artwork in relation to their practice and the exhibition itself.
Free and open to the public; online only.
Friday, January 21, 2022
7 PM
Djibril Diop Mambéty,
Senegal,
1973,
(110 mins)
“With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic,” Djibril Diop Mambéty’s celebrated debut embraces the fire of a new generation of Africans, embodied by two youngsters dreaming of escaping Senegal for Europe (Criterion). With Contras’ City, Mambéty’s first short film.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.

Saturday, January 22

Saturday, January 22, 2022
4:30 PM
King Vidor,
United States,
1937,
(108 mins)
In the ultimate 1930s “women’s weepie,” directed by King Vidor, Barbara Stanwyck sacrifices everything to give her daughter a shot at respectability, earning herself an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Saturday, January 22, 2022
4:30 PM
As part of the 2022 edition of the FOG Design+Art Fair at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, BAMPFA Director Julie Rodrigues Widholm joins a panel of arts institutional leaders in a panel discussion the future of the arts across the Bay Area.
At Fort Mason Center
This is an off-site event included with Saturday, January 22 admission to the FOG Design+Art fair.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1922,
(94 mins)

Digital Restoration

Still among the most unnerving and poetic of horror films, investing the natural world with eerie incandescence, Nosferatu stars Max Schreck as an unforgettable vampire—a living death, a walking ruin.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano