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Sunday, October 22

Sunday, October 22, 2023

11 AM–7 PM

Open: Art Lab

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Sunday, October 22, 2023

2 PM

Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection

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

Exhibition Tours 2024

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Sunday, October 22, 2023

4 PM

With Peter Bradley

Alex Rappoport ,

United States,

2023,

(103 mins)

Presented in conjunction with What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection

Pioneering Black abstract artist and curator Peter Bradley reflects on life and art in this invigorating, intimate documentary portrait. “Documentary in its purest form: one subject speaking and showing us his life and work. It is riveting” (Film Threat). With two short films by painter/filmmaker Mike Henderson.

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Alex Rappoport
Mike Henderson

Local painter/filmmaker Mike Henderson will be in person with two short films, Dufus (aka Art) and The Shape of Things.Photo by Susan Deming

Artists on Film

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Sunday, October 22, 2023

7 PM

A Maid from Heaven

Ho Meng-hua, Chen Yi-hsin,

Hong Kong,

1963,

(97 mins)

A fairy from heaven descends to Earth and finds love with a mill owner’s servant in this blend of fantasy film and Chinese huangmei diao musical opera, featuring Ivy Ling Bo as the male lead and some charming special effects.

Paul Fonoroff
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Paul Fonoroff is an expert on Chinese cinema who lived for years in Hong Kong and is currently based in Bangkok.

Chinese Musicals from 1957 to 1963

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Monday, October 23

Tuesday, October 24

Wednesday, October 25

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

12:15 PM

Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection

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

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

7 PM

Nicaragua Hear-Say/See-Here

Jeffrey Skoller,

Nicaragua, United States,

1986,

(93 mins)

Cosponsored by Canyon Cinema

Celebrating Jeffrey Skoller’s many years cocurating Alternative Visions, we present his 1986 “image-sound tapestry” of Nicaragua and his recent portrait of his neighbor, two films reflecting on US involvement in wars.

Jeffrey Skoller
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Alternative Visions 2023

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Thursday, October 26

Thursday, October 26, 2023

7 PM

Third Sister Liu

Su Li,

China,

1960,

(117 mins)

Digital Restoration

A tune-filled, rabble-rousing farm girl incites the masses against greedy landowners—through a singing competition!—in this wildly entertaining Communist musical, filled with anti-capitalist throw downs and set amidst Guangxi’s stunning limestone cliffs and riverways.

Andrew F. Jones
Introduction
Andrew F. Jones is professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley.

Chinese Musicals from 1957 to 1963

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Friday, October 27

Friday, October 27, 2023

2 PM–7 PM

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Friday, October 27, 2023

7 PM

Él

Luis Buñuel,

Mexico,

1953,

(88 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Arturo de Córdova plays a middle-aged landowner, devout Catholic, and virgin whose marriage to a much-younger woman winds up destroyed by his own jealousy. One of Luis Buñuel’s most outrageous subversions of the traditional commercial melodrama.

Luis Buñuel’s Magnificent Weapon

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Saturday, October 28

Saturday, October 28, 2023

11 AM–7 PM

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Saturday, October 28, 2023

4 PM

Music Makes a City

Jerome Hiler, Owsley Brown,

United States,

2010,

(103 mins)

“In striking synchronicity, a mayor, a conductor, and a robust postwar generation of composers intersected to make the city [of Louisville, Kentucky,] a hub for visionary composition” (New York Times).

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Jerome Hiler
Owsley Brown

Illuminations: Jerome Hiler

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Saturday, October 28, 2023

7 PM

The Wild, Wild Rose

Wong Tin-lam,

Hong Kong,

1960,

(134 mins)

Hong Kong icon Grace Chang stars as a hot-tempered nightclub temptress surrounded by bad love, bad men, and a worse fate in this fevered film noir musical of cigarettes, songs, and flair to burn. “One of the best films in the history of Hong Kong cinema” (Hong Kong Film Archive) and a Tsai Ming-liang favorite.

Weihong Bao
Introduction
Weihong Bao is associate professor in the Department of Film and Media and the Chinese Program of the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, UC Berkeley.