January 2017

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Sunday, January 1, 2017
All Day
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4–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, January 5, 2017
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

1 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
  • Tours
Thursday, January 5, 2017
1 PM
A Free First Thursday tour spotlighting highlights of current exhibitions.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
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4–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, January 6, 2017
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

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11 AM–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, January 7, 2017
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, January 8, 2017
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

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4–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, January 12, 2017
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

7 PM
  • In-Person
Thursday, January 12, 2017
7 PM

Programmed by Shinichi Iova-Koga

A night of dance, improvisation, music, and performance art with Ruth Zaporah, Yael Karavan, Cassie Tunick, ROVA, and Charles Gurke.
Seating is very limited
Included with admission
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4–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, January 13, 2017
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

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11:30 AM - 1 PM
Saturday, January 14, 2017
11:30 AM - 1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Learn how crossed threads become cloth through the process of weaving in a workshop inspired by Terri Friedman's current Art Wall installation. Family Fare is for kids ages 6 to 12 and their families.
Free for kids plus one adult
  • Anne Wolf
    With artist Anne Wolf
    Sculptor, installation, and community artist Anne Wolf works with fiber, cloth, clay, and found materials.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
1 - 2:30 PM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Learn how crossed threads become cloth through the process of weaving in a workshop inspired by Terri Friedman's current Art Wall installation. Family Fare is for kids ages 6 to 12 and their families.
Free for kids plus one adult
  • Anne Wolf
    With artist Anne Wolf
    Sculptor, installation, and community artist Anne Wolf works with fiber, cloth, clay, and found materials.
11 AM–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, January 14, 2017
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Saturday, January 14, 2017
3 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Free for kids plus one accompanying adult
  • Jin Zhu
    Reading Led by Jin Zhu
    Zhu, a recent graduate of UC Berkeley’s MFA program, has tutored children in reading.
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, January 15, 2017
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

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3:10 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
3:10 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1950,
(94 mins)

35mm Studio Print

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. "Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring" (Time Out).
Tickets on sale to general public on December 15
Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 /
  • David Thomson
    Lecture
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4–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, January 19, 2017
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

7 PM
Thursday, January 19, 2017
7 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
(95 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Ray's lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents and influenced films from Pierrot le fou to Bonnie and Clyde. 
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4–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, January 20, 2017
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

6—8:30 PM
Friday, January 20, 2017
6—8:30 PM
Artist Barry Ebner guides you through the process of creating a series of monotypes with a focus on improvisation. 
Included with admission
11 AM – 9 PM
Friday, January 20, 2017
11 AM – 9 PM
Those looking to exercise their right to free speech visually are invited to drop in for artist-facilitated poster and sign making, going on all day. Materials provided.
Friday, January 20, 2017
12 PM
Jill Satterfield of Vajra Yoga leads a mindfulness meditation session for all levels.
Friday, January 20, 2017
3 PM
An illustrated talk about the role of the book as a work of art in contemporary practice with Peter Rutledge Koch.
Included with admission
Friday, January 20, 2017
5 PM
Performance by Celli@Berkeley, an all-cello ensemble founded by UC Berkeley students dedicated to dynamic performances in alternative spaces.
7 PM
  • Film
Friday, January 20, 2017
7 PM
Juzo Itami,
Japan,
1986,
(114 mins)

New 4K Restoration

Juzo Itami’s hit Japanese satire of samurai films and Westerns, one of the best-loved foodie films ever made. “Gleefully sensual and inventive” (Film Comment). 
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11 AM–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, January 21, 2017
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

3:30 PM
Saturday, January 21, 2017
3:30 PM
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman,
United States,
1926,
(78 mins)

Digital Restoration

Recommended for ages 7 & up

Buster hops on board a train to save both it and his girl in this masterpiece of silent comedy, boasting some of the greatest stunts, spills, and laughs in all of film. 
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    Judith Rosenberg on piano
6 PM
Saturday, January 21, 2017
6 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
(98 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Bogey's impassioned turn as a socially conscious lawyer for John Derek's pretty-boy criminal is audaciously filmed. "Hard-hitting, tautly crafted" (Time Out). 
8:15 PM
  • Film
Saturday, January 21, 2017
8:15 PM
Juzo Itami,
Japan,
1986,
(114 mins)

New 4K Restoration

Juzo Itami’s hit Japanese satire of samurai films and Westerns, one of the best-loved foodie films ever made. “Gleefully sensual and inventive” (Film Comment). 
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, January 22, 2017
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

2 PM
Sunday, January 22, 2017
2 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
(95 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Ray's lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents and influenced films from Pierrot le fou to Bonnie and Clyde. 
4:15 PM
Sunday, January 22, 2017
4:15 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1949,
(98 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Bogey's impassioned turn as a socially conscious lawyer for John Derek's pretty-boy criminal is audaciously filmed. "Hard-hitting, tautly crafted" (Time Out). 
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
12 PM
Boas kicks off our spring Big Ideas lecture series with a look at the modernist avant-gardes that influenced the California counterculture of the sixties.
Free
3:10 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
3:10 PM
Howard Hawks,
United States,
1946,
(170 mins)
Hawks’s classic captures Raymond Chandler’s gallows humor and abrasive romanticism, with Bogart as Marlowe and Bacall as the fast-talking woman who invites him into an impossibly intricate web of blackmail and murder.
Tickets on sale to general public on December 15.
Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 /
  • David Thomson
    Lecture
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
7 PM
Jem Cohen,
United States,
2015,
(121 mins)
Cohen pays homage to his artistic forebears, in particular Chris Marker, while composing an intimate yet expansive film essay on modern urban life. With one of his Occupy Wall Street newsreels.
  • Jem Cohen
    Les Blank Lecture
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4–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, January 26, 2017
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Thursday, January 26, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet,
Germany, Italy,
1967,
(135 mins)
Loosely based on correspondence between Johann Sebastian Bach and his second wife, Chronicle is not a film about music, it is a film of music. With short.
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6—8 PM
Friday, January 27, 2017
6—8 PM
A launch event for the Heavy Breathing Reader with writer and performer Claudia La Rocco and other guest artists.
Included with admission
  • Claudia La Rocco
    Writer Claudia La Rocco is the author of the selected writings The Best Most Useless Dress and the novel petit cadeau; she is editor-in-chief of SFMOMA’s Open Space. 
Series Readings 2017
4–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, January 27, 2017
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

4 PM
  • Film
Friday, January 27, 2017
4 PM
Juzo Itami,
Japan,
1986,
(114 mins)

New 4K Restoration

Juzo Itami’s hit Japanese satire of samurai films and Westerns, one of the best-loved foodie films ever made. “Gleefully sensual and inventive” (Film Comment). 
Friday, January 27, 2017
7:30 PM
Tamer El Said,
Egypt, Germany,
2016,
(119 mins)

East Bay Premiere

A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety). 
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11 AM–9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, January 28, 2017
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Saturday, January 28, 2017
1 PM
B. Ruby Rich, Karen Fiss, Laura Pérez, and Raquel Cecilia discuss the filmworks of Ana Mendieta, on view in Covered in Time and History.
Included with admission
Panel Discussion
  • B. Ruby Rich
  • Karen Fiss
  • Laura Pérez
  • Raquel Cecilia
5:30 PM
Saturday, January 28, 2017
5:30 PM
Gillo Pontecorvo,
Algeria, Italy,
1966,
(123 mins)

New 4K Restoration

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).
8 PM
Saturday, January 28, 2017
8 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1950,
(94 mins)

Also screens on 1.18.17 in In Focus: Hollywood Outsiders

Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. "Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring" (Time Out). 
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11 AM–7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, January 29, 2017
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Sunday, January 29, 2017
1:30 PM
German Democratic Republic,
1965,
(95 mins)
Straub-Huillet take dynamite to the fabric of postwar Germany in this powerful adaptation of a Heinrich Böll story about a German family before, during, and after the Nazi era. With shorts.
  • Erik Ulman
    Introduction
    Erik Ulman, a composer and lecturer in music at Stanford University, writes on music, poetry, and film; he codirects, with Marcia Scott, the arts organization Poto.
Sunday, January 29, 2017
4 PM
Tamer El Said,
Egypt, Germany,
2016,
(119 mins)

East Bay Premiere

A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety). 
Sunday, January 29, 2017
7 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1955,
(111 mins)

35mm 'Scope Print

James Dean's family is tearing him apart in Ray's classic, still-fresh study of American adolescence.
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Monday, January 30, 2017
6:30 PM
Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Nelson, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry and directs the creative writing program at California Institute of the Arts.
Free admission
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
12 PM
Explore the Left Coast with Boal, a social historian of science and technics and one of the founders of the Retort Collective, an association of radical writers, teachers, artists, and activists.
Free
3:10 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
3:10 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1953,
(90 mins)

35mm Studio Print

Obsessive detective Glenn Ford goes up against organized crime and crooked cops in Fritz Lang’s cynical noir, anchored by a magnetic performance by Gloria Grahame as the femme fatale.
Tickets on sale to general public on December 15.
Special admission applies: General admission: $13.50. BAMPFA members: $9.50. UC Berkeley students: $7.50 65+, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and 18 & under: $10.50 /
  • David Thomson
    Lecture
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
7 PM
Paz Encina,
Paraguay,
2016,
(70 mins)
In this experimental documentary, Encina investigates the Paraguayan dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954–89) through the memories of the children of his “disappeared” opponent, the dissident Agustín Goiburú. 
In Conversation
  • Paz Encina
  • Natalia Brizuela
    Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley
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4–7 PM
Thursday, February 2, 2017
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

1 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
  • Tours
Thursday, February 2, 2017
1 PM
A Free First Thursday tour spotlighting highlights of current exhibitions.
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, February 2, 2017
7 PM
Paz Encina,
Paraguay,
2014-16,
(50 mins)
This omnibus combines two nonfiction pieces based on documents found in the Paraguayan secret police’s “Archives of Terror” with a narrative work based on a story by Rafael Barrett. Includes short A Wind from the South.  
In Conversation
  • Paz Encina
  • Natalia Brizuela
    Natalia Brizuela, Guest Curator, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley
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4–9 PM
Friday, February 3, 2017
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

Friday, February 3, 2017
4 PM
Tamer El Said,
Egypt, Germany,
2016,
(119 mins)

East Bay Premiere

A personal portrait of Cairo during the fall of the Mubarak regime, and a snapshot of the Arab Spring. “A city requiem rather than a city symphony” (Variety). 
Friday, February 3, 2017
7 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1957,
(92 mins)
Ray transforms an American legend into a personal study of displaced, disenchanted youth.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2017
11 AM–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Included with admission

4 PM
  • Film
Saturday, February 4, 2017
4 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1958,
(99 mins)

35mm 'Scope Print

Ray shows characteristic visual flair in this gangland tale, set in a stylized Chicago and starring Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse.
6:30 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2017
6:30 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1951,
(82 mins)
On a rural manhunt, brutal urban cop Robert Ryan has his eyes opened by blind Ida Lupino in this eloquent, brooding noir. 
8:15 PM
Saturday, February 4, 2017
8:15 PM
Gillo Pontecorvo,
Algeria, Italy,
1966,
(123 mins)

New 4K Restoration

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).
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