Sunday, July 23
Sunday, July 23, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Sunday, July 23, 2023
5 PM
Yuliya Solntseva, Yakiv Avdiienko,
USSR,
1943,
(86 mins)
This extraordinary montage film, weaving images taken by twenty-four frontline cameramen, plus captured Nazi footage, was praised by film scholar Jay Leyda as “an astonishingly personal movie . . . an inspiration to every artist who works in the documentary film.” With John Gianvito’s Fugue.
Sunday, July 23, 2023
7 PM
Heinosuke Gosho,
Japan,
1953,
(108 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Set against the backdrop of Tokyo’s growing industrialization during the 1950s, Ken Uehara and Kinuyo Tanaka portray a tabi salesman and his wife, whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of an abandoned baby on their tenement doorstep.
Monday, July 24
Tuesday, July 25
Wednesday, July 26
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France, Italy,
1969,
(102 mins)
Two derelicts make an impious pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, with many detours in time and space along the way. Part theological fantasy, part shaggy dog story, the film makes manifest Luis Buñuel’s famous motto: “Thank God I’m an atheist!”
Thursday, July 27
Thursday, July 27, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1940,
(81 mins)
Preston Sturges’s ferociously funny attack on the American political system is a twist on the Abe Lincoln myth: even a bum, backed by the right machine, can become president.
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Stuart Klawans
IntroductionStuart Klawans was for many years the award-winning film critic for The Nation and is the author of the new book, Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges.
Friday, July 28
Friday, July 28, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, July 28, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France, Italy, Spain,
1970,
(95 mins)
Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey star in Luis Buñuel’s tale of amour fou involving a virginal young orphan, a well-to-do older man, and a younger painter. “Extremely funny, bluntly fast-paced, and very, very beautiful” (Vincent Canby).
Saturday, July 29
Saturday, July 29, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2023
5 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1941,
(94 mins)
Starring Barbara Stanwyck as a cardsharp who plays naive ale heir Henry Fonda not once but twice, Preston Sturges’s comedy of innocence and experience is “one of the most liberatingly funny films ever made” (New Yorker).
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Stuart Klawans
IntroductionStuart Klawans was for many years the award-winning film critic for The Nation and is the author of the new book, Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges. Ther
Saturday, July 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1948,
(98 mins)
Doctor meets tubercular gangster in the slums of postwar Japan in this noirish tale, the first film in the long collaboration between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through May 11
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