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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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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 3, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, September 3, 2017
5 PM
Amit Dutta,
India,
2015,
(79 mins)
An intricately mosaicked portrait of nonagenarian artist Ram Kumar at home and in the studio. With short Chitrashala, which brings to life a series of painted tableaus in a former palace.
7 PM
Sunday, September 3, 2017
7 PM
Elia Kazan,
United States,
1954,
(108 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“I coulda been a contender,” mumbles Marlon Brando in this brilliant drama set among the longshoremen and cops of an East Coast waterfront. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor.
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12 PM
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
12 PM
The BAMPFA curator discusses her methodology and process in developing and organizing the exhibition Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos.
Free admission
7 PM
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
7 PM
 Programmed by Land and Sea
Cedar Sigo reads his work, Voicehandler play their intuitive, incantatory music, and Frank Haines brings his trademark magical musical montage.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
7 PM
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
7 PM
Amit Dutta,
India, Switzerland,
2010,
(95 mins)
Dutta painstakingly recreates the eighteenth-century artist Nainsukh’s brilliant miniature paintings through sumptuous compositions set amid palace ruins. With Museum of Imagination: A Portrait in Absentia, on the great art historian B. N. Goswamy.
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4–7 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday for an up-close look at treasures from the BAMPFA collections.
Free admission
4-7 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017
4-7 PM
1:15 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017
1:15 PM
Enjoy a guided tour exploring BAMPFA’s current exhibitions.
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
5:30 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017
5:30 PM
Bryan-Wilson introduces and signs her new book, Fray: Art and Textile Politics, and talks with art historian Richard Meyer and artist Angela Hennessey.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2017
7 PM
Amit Dutta,
India,
2013,
(92 mins)
Dutta returns to northern India’s Kangra Valley to consider the region’s legends, folk tales, and rich visual arts through the creative process of the contemporary landscape painter Paramjit Singh. With Dutta’s dreamlike short To Be Continued.
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 8, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, September 8, 2017
4 PM
(77 mins)
Continuing the exploration begun in Nainsukh, three shorts—Gita Govinda, Field-Trip, and Scenes from a Sketchbook—see Dutta experimenting with radically different approaches to the master and his artistic descendants.
6 PM
Friday, September 8, 2017
6 PM
The first in a series of New Narrative readings features local icons Bellamy and Killian, coeditors of Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7 PM
Friday, September 8, 2017
7 PM
Marlon Brando,
United States,
1961,
(141 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Marlon Brando’s first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. “Mean, moody, and magnificent” (Time Out).
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11:30 AM–1 PM & 1–2:30 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2017
11:30 AM–1 PM & 1–2:30 PM
 For ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Enter into abstraction through an automatic drawing exercise inspired by Charles Howard’s enigmatic works.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
2:30-9 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2017
2:30-9 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2017
3 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 & up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Read the beginning of this book about growing up and fitting in, and pick up a free copy to keep reading at home.
Free for kids plus one adult
Series
Family Events 2017
5 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2017
5 PM
Fred Zinnemann,
United States,
1950,
(85 mins)
Imported Print
Brando made his screen debut as a paralyzed World War II veteran struggling to adapt back “home.” From the director of From Here to Eternity.
7 PM
Saturday, September 9, 2017
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)
Digital Restoration
A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
5 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2017
5 PM
Amit Dutta,
India,
2017,
(92 mins)
Sneak Preview!
Dutta’s magical new film follows an eighth-century architect across the lower Himalayas in search of a temple site, a voyage that becomes a spiritual quest. With short The Future of Cinema.
7 PM
Sunday, September 10, 2017
7 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.
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6:30 PM
Monday, September 11, 2017
6:30 PM
The artist talks about his project THE VACANT AMERICAN and what he calls the “Vast Void of image making.”
Free admission
6:30 PM
Monday, September 11, 2017
6:30 PM
UC Berkeley’s associate vice chancellor of arts and design joins Cal faculty to discuss the Arts + Design Initiative and reflect on the concept of assembly.
Free admission
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12 PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
12 PM
The director of the Worth Ryder Art Gallery at UC Berkeley talks about the gallery’s history and his curatorial process.
6 PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6 PM
The artist discusses his current project for BAMPFA's Art Wall and his engagement with the natural landscape, his connection to the Bay Area, and the significance of language in his work. Watch the video.
7 PM
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
7 PM
(70 mins)
This program highlights works by artists involved in Canyon’s early years in the 1960s, including films by Bruce Baillie, Anne Severson, Lenny Lipton, and Gunvor Nelson as well as several classics (and two premieres) by Lawrence Jordan.
Series
Canyon Cinema 50
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 14, 2017
4-7 PM
7 PM
Thursday, September 14, 2017
7 PM
Raoul Peck,
Belgium, France, Switzerland, United States,
2016,
(93 mins)
Raoul Peck’s acclaimed documentary is an invigorating look at the great writer James Baldwin, and at the fight for civil rights both in the past and now. “An act of provocation and prophecy” (Village Voice).
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 15, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, September 15, 2017
4 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.
6 PM
Friday, September 15, 2017
6 PM
 Programmed by Chika Okoye and David Brazil
Marvin K. White presents "White Noise/Black Masks," five local poets reading their work through a sonic haze of white noise.
Included with admission
Series
Black Life 2017
7:30 PM
Friday, September 15, 2017
7:30 PM
Owsley Brown,
United States,
2016,
(72 mins)
Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2017
1:30 PM
Explore Charles Howard’s arresting art in this fresh, wide-ranging look at the themes and changing contexts of his work as he navigated among figurative, Surrealist, and abstract currents. With Apsara DiQuinzio, Douglas Dreishpoon, Lauren Kroiz, and Jeff Gunderson; moderated by Alexander Nemerov.
Included with admission
5:30 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2017
5:30 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1965,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Agnès Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure.
6:30 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2017
6:30 PM
Pianist Irene Herrmann and soprano Sheila Willey perform the music of American expatriate writer and composer Paul Bowles.
Included with admission
7:10 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2017
7:10 PM
A delicious, French-infused meal inspired by the film.
At Babette
7:30 PM
Saturday, September 16, 2017
7:30 PM
Owsley Brown,
United States,
1999,
(108 mins)
The musical work of American expatriate writer Paul Bowles, who lived much of his life in Tangier, is explored in this evocative, globe-hopping documentary. With Nathaniel Dorsky’s short Triste.
In Person
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
1:30 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2017
1:30 PM
Raoul Peck,
Belgium, France, Switzerland, United States,
2016,
(93 mins)
Raoul Peck’s acclaimed documentary is an invigorating look at the great writer James Baldwin, and at the fight for civil rights both in the past and now. “An act of provocation and prophecy” (Village Voice).
4 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2017
4 PM
Owsley Brown, Jerome Hiler,
United States,
2010,
(103 mins)
Discover the origins and work of the Louisville Orchestra, which grew from a city’s devastation to become a major center for contemporary music, in this beautifully made documentary. Narrated by indie icon Will Oldham.
In Person
7 PM
Sunday, September 17, 2017
7 PM
Sidney Lumet,
United States,
1960,
(121 mins)
Sidney Lumet’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play places four consummate actors—Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton, Joanne Woodward, and Anna Magnani—in a backwoods bastion of stifling meanness. There’s enough heat to set the town on fire.
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Monday, September 18, 2017
6:30 PM
The author of the bestselling book Strangers in Their Own Land talks about theater and community with actor and researcher Ben Russell.
Free admission
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
12 PM
A dialogue about how museums and other arts organizations are responding to the call for participation in our current moment.
Free admission
7 PM
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
7 PM
Mike Kuchar,
United States,
1965,
(74 mins)
Mike Kuchar’s sci-fi extravaganza of lusty robots in revolt—featuring his brother George as an evil prince—helped launch American underground cinema. With the Kuchar brothers’ short Night of the Bomb.
Series
Alternative Visions 2017
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 21, 2017
4-7 PM
1 PM
Thursday, September 21, 2017
1 PM
Lewallen discusses the life and work of Martin Wong—his identity, his milieu, and his passions.
Included with admission
7 PM
Thursday, September 21, 2017
7 PM
Stanley Kramer,
United States,
1958,
(97 mins)
Nominated for eight Academy Awards and winner of two, Stanley Kramer’s anti-racist “message” film stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as escaped convicts in the deep South.
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 22, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, September 22, 2017
4 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1965,
(85 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Agnès Varda’s strikingly colorful, lyrical film examines a love triangle within a circular structure.
6 PM
Friday, September 22, 2017
6 PM
We continue our series of New Narrative readings with authors Glück and Saidenberg.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7 PM
Friday, September 22, 2017
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)
Digital Restoration
A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
4 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2017
4 PM
Charles F. Reisner,
United States,
1928,
(69 mins)
Digital Restoration
Set along the Mississippi but filmed along the Sacramento Delta, this is “Buster Keaton’s most entertaining balance of the instinctual and the cerebral” (Village Voice).
6 PM
Saturday, September 23, 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.
7:45 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2017
7:45 PM
This Film-to-Table dinner is sold out.
At Babette
8 PM
Saturday, September 23, 2017
8 PM
Elia Kazan,
United States,
1954,
(108 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“I coulda been a contender,” mumbles Marlon Brando in this brilliant drama set among the longshoremen and cops of an East Coast waterfront. Winner of eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2017
11 AM-7 PM
2 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2017
2 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
3 PM
Sunday, September 24, 2017
3 PM
Owsley Brown,
United States,
2016,
(72 mins)
Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
5 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France,
1975,
(198 mins)
The repetitive domestic routines of a bourgeois widow become a source of visceral suspense in Akerman’s landmark of feminist filmmaking.
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Monday, September 25, 2017
6:30 PM
Foer, a staff writer for the Atlantic, exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology. Wired editor Nicholas Thompson joins him in conversation.
Free Admission
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
12 PM
UC Berkeley’s associate vice chancellor for arts and design and the associate director of Cal Performances discuss issues of curation in the performing arts.
Free admission
12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
12:15 PM
Join a tour of Martin Wong: Human Instamatic and discover the work of a painter the New York Times called “one of our great urban visionaries.”
Included with admission; no advance reservation required
Series
Guided Tours 2017
6 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6 PM
Join the exhibition curator for a talk about Miyoko Ito’s singular and compelling form of abstraction.
Included with admission
7 PM
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
7 PM
(75 mins)
Abigail Child presents her most recent film, a dazzling collage portrait of Emma Goldman, preceded by works made by Canyon members George Kuchar, Mike Henderson, and Henry Hills between 1970 and 1981.
Series
Canyon Cinema 50
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017
4-7 PM
12 PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017
12 PM
The curator of Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument offers critical insights into Parks’s first photo-essay for Life magazine.
Included with admission
5:30 PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017
5:30 PM
Join writer and artist Gaines for a reading and signing of his new book, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left.
Included with admission
Series
Readings 2017
7 PM
Thursday, September 28, 2017
7 PM
John Huston,
United States,
1942,
(97 mins)
Bette Davis delivers what James Baldwin called a “ruthlessly accurate” portrayal of a spoiled, amoral Southern girl who blames her black chauffeur for a fatal accident in this little-seen social drama from John Huston.
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 29, 2017
4-9 PM
4 PM
Friday, September 29, 2017
4 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.
7 PM
Friday, September 29, 2017
7 PM
Arthur Penn,
United States,
1966,
(135 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Robert Redford escapes from prison and finds his hometown sheriff (Marlon Brando) lying in wait. Jane Fonda and Angie Dickinson costar in a lusty, gripping melodrama about small-town Texas crude.
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11 AM-9 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2017
11 AM-9 PM
1 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2017
1 PM
This panel offers an appreciation of the influential photographer Gordon Parks and a critical examination of the processes that shaped his first Life magazine photo-essay. With Makeda Best, Tina Sacks, and Ken Light; moderated by Leigh Raiford.
Included with admission
4 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2017
4 PM
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman,
United States,
1926,
(78 mins)
Digital Restoration
Buster Keaton plays a Civil War–era railroad engineer in love with both his girl and his train in this masterpiece of silent comedy.
6:15 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2017
6:15 PM
Owsley Brown,
United States,
2016,
(72 mins)
Shot over a period of years both before and after Haiti’s deadly 2010 earthquake, this vibrant documentary testifies to the role of music in creating community and sustaining hope under the most difficult of circumstances.
8 PM
Saturday, September 30, 2017
8 PM
Fei Mu,
China,
1948,
(99 mins)
Digital Restoration
With a visual panache often compared to Ophuls, Antonioni, and Welles, Fei Mu’s 1948 gem possesses a melancholy beauty all its own. Voted the best Chinese film of all time in a Chinese critics’ poll.
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