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2 PM
Sunday, October 31, 2021
2 PM
Larry Clark,
United States,
1977,
(111 mins)
Presented in collaboration with Film Quarterly
Passing Through theorizes that jazz is one of the purest expressions of African American culture, now hijacked by a white culture that brutally exploits musicians for profit. “An invaluable film-outcry” (Albert Johnson).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. In Conversation
5 PM
Sunday, October 31, 2021
5 PM
Edmund Goulding,
United States,
1947,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. |
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
7 PM
Leslie Tai,
China, United States,
2013,
(80 mins)
Blurring the boundaries between public and private and inner and outer states, this program illustrates the porous and precarious nature of identity and sanity in light of the challenges confronted by three women.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Thursday, November 4, 2021
7 PM
Mohammad Reza Aslani,
Iran,
1976,
(100 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
A scheming aristocratic family battles for a dead mother’s riches in this gothic 1976 Iranian blend of Visconti, Persian art miniatures, Vermeer, and Edgar Allan Poe—long thought lost, now gorgeously restored.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Friday, November 5, 2021
7 PM
Sara Fattahi,
Austria, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria,
2018,
(100 mins)
The intimately filmed documentary Chaos by Sarah Fattahi—“one of the most original documentarians working today”—looks at the impact of the Syrian war on three women and in so doing “it addresses the very subject of memory” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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5 PM
Saturday, November 6, 2021
5 PM
Blerta Basholli,
Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Switzerland,
2021,
(84 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
An iron-willed widow in Kosovo fights to provide for herself and her family in this formidable tale of female empowerment and resilience, the first film to sweep Sundance’s narrative Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Director Award.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Saturday, November 6, 2021
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1974,
(113 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s Cannes Grand Prize–winning formalist exercise in paranoia, set in 1970s San Francisco, where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for and against you.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
In Conversation
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4:30 PM
Sunday, November 7, 2021
4:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1959,
(119 mins)
Digital Restoration
Glorious color photography brings new intensity to Yasujiro Ozu’s 1934 story about a traveling actor encountering his illegitimate son, revealing “deep nostalgia for the dying folk culture of old Japan” (Hong Kong Film Festival).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. 7 PM
Sunday, November 7, 2021
7 PM
Edmund Goulding,
United States,
1947,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. |
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
7 PM
(70 mins)
Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold’s UVA Black Fire films employ a radical, nonnarrative approach to represent the history of Black achievement and everyday life at the University of Virginia.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Series
Documentary Voices 2021
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7 PM
Thursday, November 11, 2021
7 PM
Alain Resnais,
France, Japan,
1959,
(92 mins)
Digital Restoration
Hiroshima mon amour depicts a brief affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in the Hiroshima of 1959. The couple’s bliss is slowly eroded by the unavoidable memories of World War II.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Friday, November 12, 2021
7 PM
Kote Mikaberidze,
USSR,
1929,
(70 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Join the BAMPFA Student Committee for our exciting annual film and live music event. Berkeley-based jazz duo Gabe and Miles perform a live, original score for My Grandmother, Kote Mikaberidze’s riotous, scathingly antibureaucratic satire.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4:30 PM.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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4 PM
Saturday, November 13, 2021
4 PM
Benoît Jacquot,
France,
2021,
(88 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
Marguerite Duras’s portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage was originally written for the stage. Benoît Jacquot amplified the theme of circular entrapment in his screen adaptation.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
6 PM
Saturday, November 13, 2021
6 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1979/2019,
(183 mins)
This version of Apocalypse Now, prepared for the fortieth anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War saga, “is, in terms of storytelling and scope, a completely different trip up the river, through your acid-fried skull, and into the heart of darkness” (Rolling Stone).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
In Conversation
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4 PM
Sunday, November 14, 2021
4 PM
Shelly Silver,
Germany,
2020,
(145 mins)
Young girls take us on a tour of an art museum, raising questions about the depictions of women while revealing their generation’s concerns. With Eve Fowler’s documentation of women working in their art studios, to a voiceover reading of Gertrude Stein. Plus Emily Chao’s short tribute to Gentileschi.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Sunday, November 14, 2021
7 PM
Julie Dash,
United States,
1991,
(125 mins)
Experienced in sequences, from the perspectives of several generations of women, this film creates a fabric of universal themes: the conflicts between personal and collective history, and spiritual and industrial life.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
7 PM
(60 mins)
Janie Geiser’s hypnotic, elliptical collage animations are constructed from scavenged finds—potent materials that are layered, magnified, fractured, and washed with colored hues, creating new uncanny contexts and resonances, amplified by accompanying sound collages.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
Series
Alternative Visions 2021
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7 PM
Thursday, November 18, 2021
7 PM
Benoît Jacquot,
France,
2021,
(88 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
Marguerite Duras’s portrait of a woman trapped in her marriage was originally written for the stage. Benoît Jacquot amplified the theme of circular entrapment in his screen adaptation.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Friday, November 19, 2021
7 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1954,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration
Shot in a gorgeous, painterly style by Kazuo Miyagawa, this subtly sensuous indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a “great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi.”
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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5 PM
Saturday, November 20, 2021
5 PM
Blerta Basholli,
Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Switzerland,
2021,
(84 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
An iron-willed widow in Kosovo fights to provide for herself and her family in this formidable tale of female empowerment and resilience, the first film to sweep Sundance’s narrative Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award, and Director Award.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Saturday, November 20, 2021
7 PM
Taghi Amirani,
United Kingdom,
2019,
(119 mins)
This fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah is “passionate and fearless” (Hollywood Reporter).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
In Conversation
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5 PM
Sunday, November 21, 2021
5 PM
Marguerite Duras,
France,
1979,
(90 mins)
Digital Restoration
With Le navire Night, writer and filmmaker Marguerite Duras explored the matrix of love, desire, and language in her characteristically oblique and experimental style. Shown in a new digital restoration.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Sunday, November 21, 2021
7 PM
Mohammad Reza Aslani,
Iran,
1976,
(100 mins)
Bay Area Premiere!
A scheming aristocratic family battles for a dead mother’s riches in this gothic 1976 Iranian blend of Visconti, Persian art miniatures, Vermeer, and Edgar Allan Poe—long thought lost, now gorgeously restored.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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Streaming All Day
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Streaming All Day
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Winner of the Prix du Regard at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky is a deadpan comedy that looks at loneliness, family, friendship, and keeping up appearances. “Global cinema at its best. A truly great film!” (Film Threat).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available November 23–28
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Streaming All Day
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Streaming All Day
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Winner of the Prix du Regard at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky is a deadpan comedy that looks at loneliness, family, friendship, and keeping up appearances. “Global cinema at its best. A truly great film!” (Film Threat).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available November 23–28
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Streaming All Day
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Streaming All Day
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Winner of the Prix du Regard at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky is a deadpan comedy that looks at loneliness, family, friendship, and keeping up appearances. “Global cinema at its best. A truly great film!” (Film Threat).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available November 23–28
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Streaming All Day
Friday, November 26, 2021
Streaming All Day
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Winner of the Prix du Regard at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky is a deadpan comedy that looks at loneliness, family, friendship, and keeping up appearances. “Global cinema at its best. A truly great film!” (Film Threat).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available November 23–28
4:30 PM
Friday, November 26, 2021
4:30 PM
Jacques Demy,
France,
1964,
(92 mins)
In this paean to Catherine Deneuve, French design, 1960s chic, MGM musicals, and Michel Legrand, a boy and girl love, lose, love again, and lose again against an assortment of fabulous wallpaper.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. 7 PM
Friday, November 26, 2021
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1961,
(110 mins)
35mm Scope Print
Toshiro Mifune is a mercenary looking to make some money in a lawless town in Akira Kurosawa’s tongue-in-cheek anti-epic, “a visually faultless and highly sophisticated satire on violence and human weakness” (Sight and Sound).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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Streaming All Day
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Streaming All Day
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Winner of the Prix du Regard at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky is a deadpan comedy that looks at loneliness, family, friendship, and keeping up appearances. “Global cinema at its best. A truly great film!” (Film Threat).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available November 23–28
3:30 PM
Saturday, November 27, 2021
3:30 PM
Kon Ichikawa,
1965,
(170 mins)
Digital Restoration
Tokyo Olympiad ranks among the greatest documents of sport ever committed to film. Kon Ichikawa and Kazuo Miyagawa examined the beauty and rich drama on display at the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Saturday, November 27, 2021
7 PM
Edmund Goulding,
United States,
1947,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Wildly unpredictable circus and penthouse noir with gorgeous scumbag Tyrone Power, at the height of his doomed charms. . . . After viewing this picaresque and cathartic film, you will never again misuse the word ‘geek’” (Guy Maddin).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. |
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Streaming All Day
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Streaming All Day
Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll,
Uruguay,
2004,
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Winner of the Prix du Regard at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Whisky is a deadpan comedy that looks at loneliness, family, friendship, and keeping up appearances. “Global cinema at its best. A truly great film!” (Film Threat).
Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
Available November 23–28
3 PM
Sunday, November 28, 2021
3 PM
Alain Resnais,
France, Japan,
1959,
(92 mins)
Digital Restoration
Hiroshima mon amour depicts a brief affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect in the Hiroshima of 1959. The couple’s bliss is slowly eroded by the unavoidable memories of World War II.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
5 PM
Sunday, November 28, 2021
5 PM
Masahiro Shinoda,
Japan,
1986,
(130 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Gonza the Spearman is based on an eighteenth-century bunraku play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Masahiro Shinoda established himself as a provocative independent stylist and an important bridge between art and commercial cinemas in Japan.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
7 PM
(120 mins)
This program celebrates a range of materialist approaches to feminist filmmaking in the United States by Peggy Ahwesh, Nazli Dinçel, Jeanne C. Finely, Kelly Gallagher, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Jodie Mack, and Christina C. Nguyen.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
In Person
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7 PM
Thursday, December 2, 2021
7 PM
Melvin Van Peebles,
France,
1968,
(87 mins)
Digital Restoration The Thursday, December 2 screening features an introduction with Ryanaustin Dennis. The Sunday, December 5 screening will be presented without an introduction.
In this exuberant, inventive, and poignant film about an American soldier’s sojourn in Paris, Melvin Van Peebles brilliantly balanced French New Wave style with profound social critique and psychological substance.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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7 PM
Friday, December 3, 2021
7 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1969,
(101 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
A disaffected Long Island housewife ditches her man, hits the road, and never stops heading west in Francis Ford Coppola’s striking early work, described as a female Easy Rider with a loose energy that recalls the French New Wave.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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4:30 PM
Saturday, December 4, 2021
4:30 PM
Halina Dyrschka,
Germany,
2019,
(93 mins)
This documentary, which “bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long,” illuminates the story of Swedish painter Hilma af Klint, the unsung modernist of the early twentieth century (New York Times).
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
7 PM
Saturday, December 4, 2021
7 PM
Shireen Seno,
Philippines,
2017,
(90 mins)
Set in Manila in the late 1980s, Nervous Translation depicts the delicate world of childhood via Yael, an intelligent, shy eight-year-old living alone with her mother while her father works abroad.
Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.
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