Week of December 17, 2023

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Sunday, December 17

Sunday, December 17, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Sunday, December 17, 2023
2 PM
Exhibition tours of Duane Linklater: mymothersside are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in the Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM and Sundays at 2 PM.

Included with admission.

Sunday, December 17, 2023
2 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1934,
(86 mins)

Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival

This poetic, quietly devastating story finds the leader of a down-at-the-heels theater troupe meeting his grown son, the fruit of a casual affair years earlier. “A picture of great atmosphere and intensity of character” (Donald Richie).
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
Sunday, December 17, 2023
4 PM
Béla Tarr,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland,
2000,
(145 mins)

Digital Restoration

One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. New German Cinema icon Hanna Schygulla appears in a welcome cinematic comeback, while Lars Rudolf contributes a fevered performance of Klaus Kinski–like proportions.  

Monday, December 18

Tuesday, December 19

Wednesday, December 20

Wednesday, December 20, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1987,
(111 mins)
Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski’s final collaboration continues their exploration of colonial madness in Indigenous worlds, with Kinski starring as a Brazilian outlaw turned African slave trader in Dahomey. Haunted with an “intoxicated, intoxicating sense of spectacle” (New York Times).
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Galleries close at 5 PM
BAMPFA will be have modified hours December 20–22 and January 3–7: galleries close at 5 PM

Thursday, December 21

Thursday, December 21, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1948,
(84 mins)

Digital Restoration

A former POW comes home to Japan to discover that his wife has prostituted herself to pay their son’s hospital bills. “[Yasujiro] Ozu brilliantly and honestly confronts the postwar moment” (Joan Mellen).
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Galleries close at 5 PM
BAMPFA will be have modified hours December 20–22 and January 3–7: galleries close at 5 PM

Friday, December 22

Friday, December 22, 2023
2 PM–5 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Friday, December 22, 2023
Galleries close at 5 PM
BAMPFA will be have modified hours December 20–22 and January 3–7: galleries close at 5 PM

Saturday, December 23

Saturday, December 23, 2023
All Day
BAMPFA will be closed from Saturday, December 23, reopening Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Happy holidays and we'll see you in the new year!