Sunday, January 15
Sunday, January 15, 2023
2 PM
Curator’s Talk: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo on Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World
Guest curator Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo offers a series of gallery talks highlighting works by contemporary Asian and Asian American artists.
Included with admission
Series
Talks & Conversations 2023
Sunday, January 15, 2023
4:30 PM
(80 mins)
This program features animated shorts created by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio that feature painting and folk art that link screen with scroll. The screen becomes a site for the painterly projection of dreams, nightmares, and fantasies.
Introduction
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Julia Irwin
Julia Irwin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. -
Linda C. Zhang
Linda C. Zhang is an assistant professor of film in the Art & Media Studies program at Fulbright University Vietnam.
Sunday, January 15, 2023
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
1981,
(140 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Reality, fantasy, life, and afterlife blend together in Kagero-za—most spectacularly in the grand finale, in which the protagonist, Matsuzaki, finds his life morphing into a deranged theatrical extravaganza. “May well be Suzuki’s finest achievement outside the constraints of genre filmmaking” (Tony Rayns).
Series
Elegy to Seijun Suzuki
Monday, January 16
Tuesday, January 17
Wednesday, January 18
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
12:15 PM
Graduate students —Claire Chun and Patricia de Nobrega-Gomes—offer tours of by Alison Knowles on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
Included with admission
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
7 PM
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina,
Algeria,
1975,
(177 mins)
Digital Restoration
An Algerian farmer lives through drought, colonial injustice, and the dawn of independence in this astounding combination of African revolutionary fervor, Bollywood-style pulp, and Cinemascope beauty. “The most magnificent film to ever come from the Third World” (Albert Johnson).
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Soraya Tlatli
IntroductionSoraya Tlatli is associate professor, Department of French, UC Berkeley, and a specialist on Francophone literature from North Africa, as well as colonial and postcolonial historiography.
Thursday, January 19
Thursday, January 19, 2023
12 PM
What is video art’s place in art history? And which art history? Launching our Thursday series, Shannon Jackson considers video art’s connections to a range of art forms. Introducing artists such as Marina Abramovic, William Kentridge, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, and many more, she considers how video art’s conceptual, durational, and screen-based processes recall and revise a variety of artistic movements.
Free and open to the public
Series
Video Art in Context
Thursday, January 19, 2023
7 PM
Gillo Pontecorvo,
Italy,
1966,
(121 mins)
One of the best films on revolution ever made, Pontecorvo’s agit-prop classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against its French overlords. “A masterpiece! Surely the most harrowing political epic ever” (New Yorker).
Friday, January 20
Friday, January 20, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, January 20, 2023
7 PM
Peter Solan,
Czechoslovakia, Slovakia,
1964,
(92 mins)
Digital Restoration
A humble triangle player in a city orchestra unexpectedly winds up its party director and, engorged with a taste of power, soon becomes a tyrant in Slovak director Solan’s droll send-up of authority and hypocrisy.
Saturday, January 21
Saturday, January 21, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, January 21, 2023
3 PM
F. W. Murnau,
United States,
1927,
(95 mins)
Restored 35mm Print
Murnau handpicked Janet Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature. A masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made, Sunrise tells an elemental tale with virtuosic visual invention.
BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
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Joel Coen
Introduction -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Series
Joel Coen in Person
Saturday, January 21, 2023
7 PM
Joel Coen,
United States,
2021,
(105 mins)
Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, Joel Coen’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s cursed tragedy is attentive to the power of its language while being profoundly cinematic, rendering a fog-shrouded, haunted place where fate and ambition collide.
Special Admission
General: $15
BAMPFA members: $11
UC Berkeley students: $7
UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12
BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
In Conversation
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Joel Coen
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Frances McDormand
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Eileen Jones
Eileen Jones is a film critic at Jacobin magazine and taught film for many years at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Filmsuck, USA and has a podcast called Filmsuck.
Series
Joel Coen in Person
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through April 30
Through May 8
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