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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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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, August 6, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, August 6, 2017
5 PM
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg,
USSR,
1929,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Originally banned for its excess, this energetic Russian avant-garde extravaganza focuses on a shopgirl and a heroic young soldier in the 1871 Paris Commune. “A masterpiece . . . a steaming hot pot of startling images” (Village Voice).
7 PM
Sunday, August 6, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1970,
(140 mins)
Alain Delon and Yves Montand in Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
Series
Melville 100
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7 PM
Monday, August 7, 2017
7 PM
 Programmed by Land and Sea
Performances that push the boundaries of sound, film, and movement, by Julius Smack; Ashley Bellouin and Ben Bracken; and Paul Clipson, Amma Ateria, and Kevin Corcoran.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
7 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1964,
(92 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Pagan rituals, demonology, folklore, and legend come to life in Paradjanov’s hypnotic updating of a Romeo-and-Juliet-like tale. “Astonishing . . . one of the supreme works of Soviet cinema” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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4-7 PM
Thursday, August 10, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, August 10, 2017
7 PM
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg,
USSR,
1929,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Originally banned for its excess, this energetic Russian avant-garde extravaganza focuses on a shopgirl and a heroic young soldier in the 1871 Paris Commune. “A masterpiece . . . a steaming hot pot of startling images” (Village Voice).
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4-9 PM
Friday, August 11, 2017
4-9 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, August 11, 2017
6:30 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1950,
(94 mins)
Archival Print
Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. “Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring” (Time Out).
8:30 PM
Friday, August 11, 2017
8:30 PM
Vanessa Gould,
United States,
2016,
(95 mins)
“An entertaining inside look at the obituary writers of The New York Times. . . . [This] doc makes a strong case for the well-wrought obituary as something of an art form” (Film Journal International).
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
6:30 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2017
6:30 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1972,
(98 mins)
Alain Delon, Catherine Deneuve, and Richard Crenna star in Melville’s last feature, a consummate Sartre-by-way-of-Simenon heist film of remarkable set pieces and an even more remarkable sense of nihilism.
Series
Melville 100
8:30 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2017
8:30 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1980,
(82 mins)
Madrid’s nascent punk and gay underground provides the fertile setting of Almodóvar’s debut feature, a manic slice of screw-you life more post–John Waters than post-Franco.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2017
5 PM
Vanessa Gould,
United States,
2016,
(95 mins)
“An entertaining inside look at the obituary writers of The New York Times. . . . [This] doc makes a strong case for the well-wrought obituary as something of an art form” (Film Journal International).
7 PM
Sunday, August 13, 2017
7 PM
Claude Chabrol,
France,
1970,
(111 mins)
Based on The Balloon Man by Charlotte Armstrong
A young woman is gaslighted by her scheming in-laws after trying to leave her mentally unstable husband in Chabrol’s powerful noir. “Chabrol’s most audacious experiment with narrative form—a modernist reworking of the melodrama” (Dave Kehr).
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1984,
(101 mins)
An “ordinary” housewife navigates a working-class suburban life of deadbeat husbands, mad mothers-in-law, sex-worker neighbors, and child pandering in Almodóvar’s taboo-smashing send-up of the social realist drama. “An absolutely wonderful black comedy” (New York Times).
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4-7 PM
Thursday, August 17, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, August 17, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1964,
(97 mins)
Digital Restoration
Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur are unlikely burglars in Godard’s “reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael).
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4-9 PM
Friday, August 18, 2017
4-9 PM
6 PM
Friday, August 18, 2017
6 PM
 Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Seneferu presents a performance highlighting themes behind her collaborative curatorial project, The Black Woman Is God.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
6:30 PM
Friday, August 18, 2017
6:30 PM
Hiroshi Teshigahara,
Japan,
1985,
(72 mins)
Teshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).
8:15 PM
Friday, August 18, 2017
8:15 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1967,
(121 mins)
Mifune is a dutiful samurai whose subservience is about to end. With music by Toru Takemitsu and an unforgettable supporting turn by Tatsuya Nakadai.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
6 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2017
6 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(124 mins)
Cynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
8:00 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2017
8:00 PM
Spike Lee,
United States,
2009,
(135 mins)
Free on Our Outdoor Screen!
Spike Lee's adaptation of the spectacular musical, which was developed and premiered at Berkeley Rep and went on to be a Broadway hit.
Series
Screen Play
8:30 PM
Saturday, August 19, 2017
8:30 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
1999,
(101 mins)
Winner of the 1999 Cannes Best Director prize, this affectionate drama of a mother’s compassion serves as Almodóvar’s tribute to his two greatest inspirations: women and film.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2017
5 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
1988,
(84 mins)
Davies mines family memories, both painful and bittersweet, for an elliptical, luminous, and moving portrait of working-class life in midcentury Liverpool. “Becomes its own kind of poetry: taut, referential, inward, brilliant” (Los Angeles Times).
7 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2017
7 PM
Vanessa Gould,
United States,
2016,
(95 mins)
“An entertaining inside look at the obituary writers of The New York Times. . . . [This] doc makes a strong case for the well-wrought obituary as something of an art form” (Film Journal International).
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
7 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(124 mins)
Cynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, August 24, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, August 24, 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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4-9 PM
Friday, August 25, 2017
4-9 PM
7 PM
Friday, August 25, 2017
7 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2008,
Davies’s lyrical cine-poem about his hometown of Liverpool, as well as Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, childhood, and the glory of cinema. “Mesmerizing and eloquent” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
8:40 PM
Friday, August 25, 2017
8:40 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2002,
(112 mins)
Almodóvar won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for this film involving the odd friendship between two men, each with a lover in a coma. “Almodóvar’s most mature and mysterious movie” (Newsweek).
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
2 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2017
2 PM
(40 mins)
Free on our outdoor screen
The City of Berkeley presents a free outdoor screening of the 2017 documentary celebrating the life of Berkeley street philosopher Mark Hawthorne, better known as the Hate Man.
6:30 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2017
6:30 PM
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
1992,
(85 mins)
Depicting a cinephilic childhood in 1950s England, Davies paints a world of music, shadows, and light. “A marriage of individual and collective memory consecrated by the movies” (Village Voice).
8:30 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2017
8:30 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2004,
(106 mins)
Gael García Bernal stars in Almodóvar’s intricate hybrid of film noir, melodrama, autobiography, and Catholic Church exposé involving two old friends revisiting their troubled Catholic school days. “A bold and far-reaching summation of his career to date” (A.V. Club).
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All Day
Sunday, August 27, 2017
All Day
Cancelled
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Cancelled
Hiroshi Teshigahara,
Japan,
1985,
(72 mins)
Teshigahara’s study of the visionary Catalan architect’s work, scored by the great Toru Takemitsu. “A masterpiece of visual poetry and aesthetic rumination” (Time Out New York).
Cancelled
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Cancelled
Terence Davies,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(124 mins)
Cynthia Nixon portrays the poet Emily Dickinson in this “absolute drop-dead masterwork” (Richard Brody) that imbues the structure of the biopic with the elliptical intensity of poetry.
Cancelled
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Cancelled
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12 PM
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
12 PM
Independent curator, writer, and scholar Boas presents case studies from innovative contemporary curatorial efforts.
Free admission
12:15 PM
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
12:15 PM
Explore painter Charles Howard’s enigmatic work with the exhibition curator.
Included with admission
7 PM
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
7 PM
Masaki Kobayashi,
Japan,
1967,
(121 mins)
Mifune is a dutiful samurai whose subservience is about to end. With music by Toru Takemitsu and an unforgettable supporting turn by Tatsuya Nakadai.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, August 31, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, August 31, 2017
7 PM
Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain,
2006,
(121 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Penélope Cruz stars as a strong-willed woman aiming to help her teenage daughter and sister, with little help from the men around them, in Almodóvar’s merger of comedy, mystery, and social-realist drama. “Moves beyond camp, into a realm of wise, luxuriant humanism” (New York Times).
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 1, 2017
4-9 PM
6:30 PM
Friday, September 1, 2017
6:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1963,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.
8:15 PM
Friday, September 1, 2017
8:15 PM
Elia Kazan,
United States,
1951,
(122 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Marlon Brando was a little-known actor when he was cast in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s play; this film adaptation made him a star. Vivien Leigh costars.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, September 2, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
6 PM
Saturday, September 2, 2017
6 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1963,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
The director of The Bicycle Thief shows off his comic side in this hilarious sendup of Italy’s early 1960s economic miracle, starring the great Italian comic Alberto Sordi and finally released theatrically in the US after over fifty years.
8 PM
Saturday, September 2, 2017
8 PM
Laszlo Benedek,
United States,
1953,
(79 mins)
Digital Restoration
Marlon Brando leads a gang of leather-clad bikers descending on what could be Your Town, USA in this classic of disaffection and outlaw life. What’s he rebelling against? “Whaddya got?”
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