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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2017
2 PM
Explore painter Charles Howard’s enigmatic work with the exhibition curator.
Included with admission
5 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2017
5 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1950,
(88 mins)
Archival Print
An act of violence is replayed through the eyes of witnesses and protagonists, each seeing a different thing, in “one of the most brilliantly constructed films of all time, a monument to Kurosawa’s greatness, and a landmark in film history” (James Monaco).
7 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1969,
(145 mins)
Melville’s drama of the French Resistance, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret, “grips tighter than a Gestapo handcuff. . . . A film of noirish compositions and fantastic cool” (The Independent).
Series
Melville 100
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7 PM
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
7 PM
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28
7:00
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
7:00
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1961,
(130 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Two of the French New Wave’s most iconic actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, star as a cleric and a Communist drawn together through love. “A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo” (Criterion Collection).
Series
Melville 100
6 PM
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
6 PM
A presentation and open discussion on the work of Ugo Rondinone in conjunction with his exhibition the world just makes me laugh.
6:01 PM
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
6:01 PM
The artist behind the world just makes me laugh talks about themes of wonder, sadness, and the sublime in his work.
Included with admission
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4-7 PM
Thursday, June 29, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, June 29, 2017
7 PM
Max Ophuls,
United States,
1949,
(82 mins)
Based on The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
Housewife Joan Bennett must cope with a killing, blackmail, and the everyday pressures of domesticity in this stunning suburban noir. “An underrated gem” (Phillip Lopate).
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4-9 PM
Friday, June 30, 2017
4-9 PM
7 PM
Friday, June 30, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1958,
(134 mins)
Mifune swashbuckles his way through this supremely entertaining samurai adventure, the plot inspiration for Star Wars.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, July 1, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
5:30 PM
Saturday, July 1, 2017
5:30 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1951,
(103 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
A tennis star and a stranger offer to kill off each other’s relatives in Hitchcock’s polished adaptation (cowritten by Raymond Chandler). “A gripping, palm-sweating piece of suspense” (Variety).
8:15 PM
Saturday, July 1, 2017
8:15 PM
René Clément,
France,
1959,
(115 mins)
Based on The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Clément’s adaptation is a dazzling sea-blue film noir starring Alain Delon as an idle, lethal young American in Europe.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
4:30 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2017
4:30 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1947,
New Digital Restoration
Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).
6:30 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2017
6:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(208 mins)
A ragtag group of samurai band together to protect a village from bandits in Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
7 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1953,
(90 mins)
Based on “The Gardenia” by Vera Caspary
Switchboard operator flatmates Anne Baxter, Ann Sothern, and Jeff Donnell mix with predatory sketch artist Raymond Burr and cynical newspaperman Richard Conte in Lang’s combination of women’s picture and film noir.
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4–7 PM
Thursday, July 6, 2017
4–7 PM
4–7 PM
Thursday, July 6, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday and get an up-close view of treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
Free admission
12:15 PM
Thursday, July 6, 2017
12:15 PM
 7 PM
Thursday, July 6, 2017
7 PM
Steven Okazaki,
United States,
2016,
(80 mins)
Oscar-winning Bay Area filmmaker Steven Okazaki pays tribute to the ferocious charisma and larger-than-life talents of the great Mifune in this supremely entertaining documentary.
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4–9 PM
Friday, July 7, 2017
4–9 PM
7 PM
Friday, July 7, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1966,
(145 mins)
Imported Print
Aging gangster Lino Ventura escapes from jail but winds up being sucked into one last heist in Melville’s well-drilled policier.
Series
Melville 100
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2:30–9 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2017
2:30–9 PM
11:30 AM
Saturday, July 8, 2017
11:30 AM
Get inspired by Charles Howard’s dreamlike paintings, then make your own surreal compositions.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
1 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2017
1 PM
Get inspired by Charles Howard’s dreamlike paintings, then make your own surreal compositions.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
1:30 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2017
1:30 PM
The curator of Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures explores the intersection of Indian painting and music.
Included with admission
3 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2017
3 PM
A special musical performance in conjunction with Divine Visions, Earthy Pleasures: Five Hundred Years of Indian Painting.
Included with admission
Saturday, July 8, 2017
3 PM
Read the beginning of this graphic novel about sisters on a road trip from San Francisco to Colorado and pick up a copy to keep reading at home.
Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
6:30 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2017
6:30 PM
Margy Kinmonth,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(85 mins)
“Stunning research and archive footage conjures Revolutionary Russia and the courage of artists in the avant-garde” (State Magazine).
8:30 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2017
8:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1955,
(100 mins)
Mifune gives a daring performance as an eccentric patriarch with a neurotic fear of the atomic bomb. “The final effect is overwhelming, and perhaps Kurosawa’s most sweeping statement on the human condition” (Film Forum).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2017
5 PM
Margy Kinmonth,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(85 mins)
“Stunning research and archive footage conjures Revolutionary Russia and the courage of artists in the avant-garde” (State Magazine).
6:45 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2017
6:45 PM
Otto Preminger,
United States,
1947,
(99 mins)
Studio Vault Print
Joan Crawford is torn between married lawyer Dana Andrews and tormented army gunner Henry Fonda. “That rarest of Hollywood entities: a realist romance” (Los Angeles Times).
7 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2017
7 PM
 Programmed by Land and Sea
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens) and Gabie Strong present their sonic experiments in BAMPFA’s reverberant setting.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1957,
(107 mins)
Kurosawa’s Noh-influenced version of Macbeth is “the most brilliant and original attempt ever made to put Shakespeare on screen” (Time). Mifune is paired with the legendary Isuzu Yamada in “a partnership of titans” (Film Forum).
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4–7 PM
Thursday, July 13, 2017
4–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, July 13, 2017
7 PM
William Wellman,
United States,
1931,
Based on the novel by Dora Macy (Grace Perkins)
Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Blondell expose Hippocratic hypocrisy—and plenty of skin—in this medical melodrama, also featuring Clark Gable.
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4–9 PM
Friday, July 14, 2017
4–9 PM
6 PM
Friday, July 14, 2017
6 PM
 Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Three young poets lay out a constellation of possibilities for linguistic art.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
6:30 PM
Friday, July 14, 2017
6:30 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1947,
New Digital Restoration
Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).
8:30 PM
Friday, July 14, 2017
8:30 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France, Italy,
1953,
(104 mins)
Imported Print
A sleazy loverboy on the Riviera meets his match in his young victim’s older sister—a nun (Juliette Gréco) just out of the convent—in this delirious combination of French fatalism, postwar despair, noir angles, and heated melodrama.
Series
Melville 100
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, July 15, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
6:30 PM
Saturday, July 15, 2017
6:30 PM
Margy Kinmonth,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(85 mins)
“Stunning research and archive footage conjures Revolutionary Russia and the courage of artists in the avant-garde” (State Magazine).
8:15 PM
Saturday, July 15, 2017
8:15 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1947,
New Digital Restoration
Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).
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7:00
Sunday, July 16, 2017
7:00
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1961,
(130 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Two of the French New Wave’s most iconic actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, star as a cleric and a Communist drawn together through love. “A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo” (Criterion Collection).
Series
Melville 100
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 16, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, July 16, 2017
5 PM
Andrei Konchalovsky,
USSR,
1966,
(96 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Konchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “Expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
7 PM
(81 mins)
As part of Canyon Cinema’s fiftieth-anniversary celebrations, Gehr makes a rare visit to the Bay Area to present a selection of his recent digital films: Picture Taking, Autumn, Transport, and A Commuter’s Life (What a Life!).
In Conversation
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4–7 PM
Thursday, July 20, 2017
4–7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, July 20, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1960,
(148 mins)
Kurosawa charts corporate evil as a company is torn from within by scandal, greed, and lust. “Enron meets Hamlet” (Film Forum). “Better than Shakespeare” (Francis Ford Coppola).
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4–9 PM
Friday, July 21, 2017
4–9 PM
11:30 AM
Friday, July 21, 2017
11:30 AM
3 PM
Friday, July 21, 2017
3 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, July 21, 2017
6:30 PM
Lance Comfort,
United Kingdom,
1946,
(90 mins)
Archival Print
A beatific housewife, a smitten husband, and a trail of dead spouses dwell in an isolated Connecticut house in this gothic tale of “disordered emotions.”
8:30 PM
Friday, July 21, 2017
8:30 PM
Otto Preminger,
United States,
1944,
(88 mins)
Based on the novel by Vera Caspary
Detective Dana Andrews is enthralled by a portrait of elusive Gene Tierney in Preminger’s sleek noir, a study in duplicity that asks not just whodunit, but what “it” is. Featuring Clifton Webb and Vincent Price as preening rivals.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2017
11 AM–9 PM
6 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2017
6 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
8:15 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2017
8:15 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1961,
(110 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary in a town ruled by killers in Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic. “A visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2017
11 AM–7 PM
4:30 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2017
4:30 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
This new documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
7 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2017
7 PM
Servando González,
United States,
1965,
(99 mins)
Based on the novel by Helen Eustis
In post–Civil War Tennessee, a young boy escapes abuse at home only to encounter Americana gone berserk in this eerily faithful rendering of Eustis’s novel. Anthony Perkins costars.
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1963,
(143 mins)
A kidnapping becomes a moral dilemma for executive Mifune in “one of the best detective thrillers ever filmed” (New York Times).
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4–7 PM
Thursday, July 27, 2017
4–7 PM
Thursday, July 27, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1988,
(88 mins)
Longtime Almodóvar icon Carmen Maura is but one of many women on the verge in Almodóvar’s international breakthrough, a riotous blend of screwball comedy and fifties melodramas that’s “as crowd-pleasing as it is color-coordinated” (J. Hoberman).
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4–9 PM
Friday, July 28, 2017
4–9 PM
7 PM
Friday, July 28, 2017
7 PM
Roy Ward Baker,
United States,
1952,
(76 mins)
Based on Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong
Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark make an unstable pair in this psychological thriller involving a suicidal young woman and the jaded pilot who hopes to use her as a quick fling.
8:45 PM
Friday, July 28, 2017
8:45 PM
(96 mins)
Kurosawa’s spirited follow-up to Yojimbo finds Mifune leading a band of comically inept samurai. “A superb parody” (Donald Richie).
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6 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2017
6 PM
Andrei Konchalovsky,
USSR,
1966,
(96 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Konchalovsky’s first feature, set in a Kirghiz village shortly after the Revolution. “Expressed with a deft simplicity of style and a rare quality of emotion” (Michel Ciment).
7:30 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2017
7:30 PM
Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins,
United States,
1961,
(185 mins)
Free on Our Outdoor Screen!
Sharks and Jets sing, dance, and rumble their way through the streets and back alleys of late-fifties NYC in a dizzying rush of youth that knows no bounds.
Series
Screen Play
8 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2017
8 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1947,
New Digital Restoration
Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).
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5 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2017
5 PM
Lech Majewski,
Poland, Sweden,
2010,
(92 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Bruegel’s painting The Way to Calvary is brought to life in this inventive interpretation featuring Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling. “An extraordinary example of both art-historical examination and CGI as a passport to unknown lands” (Village Voice).
7 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1959,
(84 mins)
A French journalist uncovers the death of a French diplomat in New York in Melville’s low-budget, semi-documentary noir.
Series
Melville 100
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1961,
(110 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Mifune is a sly, amoral mercenary in a town ruled by killers in Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic. “A visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).
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4–7 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday and get an up-close view of treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
Free admission
4-7 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2017
4-7 PM
12:15 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2017
12:15 PM
7 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1963,
(108 mins)
Serge Reggiani suspects Jean-Paul Belmondo of being a stool pigeon in this Melvillean roundabout of ambiguity and betrayal.
Series
Melville 100
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4-9 PM
Friday, August 4, 2017
4-9 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, August 4, 2017
6:30 PM
Robert Montgomery,
United States,
1947,
(101 mins)
Based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes
Luckless veteran Robert Montgomery heads for a border town during its annual fiesta to avenge a friend’s death in this atmospheric postwar noir scripted by Ben Hecht.
8:40 PM
Friday, August 4, 2017
8:40 PM
Don Siegel,
United States,
1964,
(87 mins)
New Print
Siegel provides his usual tense, no-nonsense direction in this early made-for-TV movie adaptation of Ride the Pink Horse, starring Robert Culp and set in New Orleans. With Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz in performance.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
6 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2017
6 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1963,
(108 mins)
Serge Reggiani suspects Jean-Paul Belmondo of being a stool pigeon in this Melvillean roundabout of ambiguity and betrayal.
Series
Melville 100
8:15 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2017
8:15 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2016,
(99 mins)
Based on stories by Alice Munro, Almodóvar’s latest follows a middle-aged woman as she tries to make sense of her relationships with her husband, her daughter, and the world around her. “Haunting and hypnotic” (Rolling Stone).
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