January 2022

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    Sunday, December 26, 2021
    Streaming All Day
    Jamila Wignot,
    United States,
    2021,
    (82 mins)
    Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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    Monday, December 27, 2021
    Streaming All Day
    Jamila Wignot,
    United States,
    2021,
    (82 mins)
    Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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    Tuesday, December 28, 2021
    Streaming All Day
    Jamila Wignot,
    United States,
    2021,
    (82 mins)
    Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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    Wednesday, December 29, 2021
    Streaming All Day
    Jamila Wignot,
    United States,
    2021,
    (82 mins)
    Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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    Thursday, December 30, 2021
    Streaming All Day
    Jamila Wignot,
    United States,
    2021,
    (82 mins)
    Told through Alvin Ailey’s own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews with those who intimately knew him, Ailey weaves together a resonant biography of an elusive visionary.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, January 7, 2022
    7 PM
    Francis Ford Coppola,
    United States,
    1963,
    (78 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    An unwelcome visitor finds herself in the dank manse of a family haunted by its secrets in Francis Ford Coppola’s atmospheric tale of terror, produced and financed by exploitation guru Roger Corman.
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    • James Mockoski
      Introduction
      James Mockoski is a film archivist and postproduction supervisor at American Zoetrope, where he has supervised the restorations of classic films, including Dementia 13, Apocalypse Now, and&n
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    Saturday, January 8, 2022
    7 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    United States,
    1927,
    (95 mins)
    F. W. Murnau handpicked Janet Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature, a masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made, which tells an elemental tale with virtuosic visual invention. 

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    On Piano
    • Judith Rosenberg
      Judith Rosenberg accompanies the January 8 screening.
    • Bruce Loeb
      Bruce Loeb accompanies the February 18 screening.
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    Sunday, January 9, 2022
    2 PM
    Ritwik Ghatak,
    India,
    1960,
    (127 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Directed by the visionary Bengali filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, The Cloud-Capped Star tells the story of a family that has been uprooted by the partition of India and comes to depend on their eldest daughter, the self-sacrificing Neeta (Supriya Choudhury).
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    Sunday, January 9, 2022
    5 PM
    Michael Powell,
    United Kingdom,
    1937,
    (75 mins)

    Restored 35mm Print

    In a remote Scottish island community facing extinction through isolation, two young men embark on a foolish challenge. Michael Powell’s stunningly photographed film is a hybrid of documentary-like realism and poetic fatalism.
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    • Film
    • Performance
    Wednesday, January 12, 2022
    7 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1921,
    (81 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    This reconstruction of the earliest surviving F. W. Murnau film represents a major rediscovery of a work that, even upon its release, was hailed as a milestone in the art of cinema.
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    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
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    7 PM
    Thursday, January 13, 2022
    7 PM
    George Lucas,
    United States,
    1973,
    (112 mins)
    George Lucas’s classic of boomer nostalgia follows the teens of a small Northern California town through one long summer night. With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, and Harrison Ford among the cast, it’s “the film that launched a thousand careers” (Hollywood Reporter).
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    7 PM
    Friday, January 14, 2022
    7 PM
    Billy Wilder,
    United States,
    1944,
    (106 mins)
    Barbara Stanwyck’s peroxide blonde is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder’s gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Stanwyck for Best Actress. 

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    Saturday, January 15, 2022
    4 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).
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • Performance
    Saturday, January 15, 2022
    7 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1921,
    (81 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with films like Faust, F. W. Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a stormbound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within.
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    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
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    • Film
    • Performance
    Sunday, January 16, 2022
    2 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1922,
    (98 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    “Murnau proved a master both at interior design . . . and at stunning exterior shooting. The fire at the oil-well, ‘the burning earth’ surrounded by snow, is an unforgettable image of hell on earth” (TIFF Cinematheque).
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    • Bruce Loeb
      On Piano
    4:30 PM
    • Film
    Sunday, January 16, 2022
    4:30 PM
    Alfred E. Green,
    United States,
    1933,
    (76 mins)
    Barbara Stanwyck sleeps her way to the top in this notorious pre-Code saga; shown here with the censored scenes reinstated, “it has to be seen to be not quite believed” (New York Times).
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    Wednesday, January 19, 2022
    7 PM
    Francis Ford Coppola,
    United States,
    1974,
    (113 mins)

    New 35mm Print

    Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Francis Ford Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, a grand prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, January 20, 2022
    7 PM
    (110 mins)
    This program features six experimental films that suggest a communal vision for the future arising out of actions in the present by Marwa Arsanios, Emily Chao, Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich, Adele Horne, and Cauleen Smith.

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    • Emily Chao
      Introduction
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    Friday, January 21, 2022
    7 PM
    Djibril Diop Mambéty,
    Senegal,
    1973,
    (110 mins)
    “With a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic,” Djibril Diop Mambéty’s celebrated debut embraces the fire of a new generation of Africans, embodied by two youngsters dreaming of escaping Senegal for Europe (Criterion). With Contras’ City, Mambéty’s first short film.
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    Saturday, January 22, 2022
    4:30 PM
    King Vidor,
    United States,
    1937,
    (108 mins)
    In the ultimate 1930s “women’s weepie,” directed by King Vidor, Barbara Stanwyck sacrifices everything to give her daughter a shot at respectability, earning herself an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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    Saturday, January 22, 2022
    7 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1922,
    (94 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Still among the most unnerving and poetic of horror films, investing the natural world with eerie incandescence, Nosferatu stars Max Schreck as an unforgettable vampire—a living death, a walking ruin.
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    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
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    Sunday, January 23, 2022
    2 PM
    Veronica Selver, Susan Fanshel,
    United States,
    2020,
    (70 mins)

    BAMPFA Collection

    This beautiful documentary portrait of German Jewish émigrée Irmi Selver (1906–2004), based on her memoirs (read by Hanna Schygulla), takes us on a unique journey through a life marked by love, unimaginable loss, and strength of spirit.
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    • Veronica Selver
      In Person
    4:30 PM
    Sunday, January 23, 2022
    4:30 PM
    (120 mins)
    Three short documentaries reveal Djibril Diop Mambéty as both filmmaker and man through his beautiful reflections on cinema; clips from his films and behind-the-scenes footage; and interviews and reflections by his friends, family, and colleagues.
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    Wednesday, January 26, 2022
    7 PM
    Rosine Mbakam, Eléonore Yameogo, An van. Dienderen,
    Belgium,
    2021,
    (78 mins)
    A prismatic inquiry into how skin color is seen on screen, this provocative essay film asks whether technology consciously or unconsciously orients itself to depicting white skin as the norm.

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    Thursday, January 27, 2022
    7 PM
    Francis Ford Coppola,
    United States,
    1979/2019,
    (183 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory Vietnam War epic, one of AFI’s Top 100 Films of All Time, returns in a new cut, a remix of newly discovered soundtrack masters and a 4K restoration from the original negative.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • Performance
    Friday, January 28, 2022
    7 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1922,
    (122 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Long believed lost, Phantom, made after Nosferatu and before The Last Laugh, is considered a key work in F. W. Murnau’s development, with its variety of montage and trick effects that conjure a nightmarish world.
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    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
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    Saturday, January 29, 2022
    2:30 PM
    (114 mins)

    Presented with a prerecorded interview with the filmmakers.

    Canadian animators Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis create story-based animated films that exhibit an extraordinary ability to depict life’s tender moments. Their interview sheds light on how they conceive story ideas and work creatively with drawing, painting, computer applications, and sound.
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    5 PM
    • Film
    • Performance
    Saturday, January 29, 2022
    5 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1924,
    (90 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    A proud hotel doorman falls from grace in F. W. Murnau’s classic of German Expressionism, whose roving camerawork and hallucinatory imagery “changed the way that movies were made” (Dave Kehr).
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    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
    7 PM
    Saturday, January 29, 2022
    7 PM
    Jennifer Reeder,
    United States,
    2019,
    (112 mins)
    Riffing on genre conventions but from a feminist point of view, Knives and Skin is “a mesmerizing tapestry—mundane middle Americana meets magical realism” (Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times).
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    Sunday, January 30, 2022
    2 PM
    Griff Williams, Keelan Williams,
    United States,
    2021,
    (90 mins)
    Featuring eight groundbreaking local artists, this documentary reflects on a Bay Area art scene less concerned with money and power than with imagination, innovation, community, and care.
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    In Conversation
    • Griff Williams
    • Keelan Williams
    • Lawrence Rinder
      Lawrence Rinder, Director Emeritus of BAMPFA is a writer, farmer, and political activist living in Northern California.
    • Nigel Poor
      Nigel Poor is a Bay Area artist, educator, and a cofounder and comanaging producer of the San Quentin Prison Report Radio Project (SQPR) where she cocreated the award-winning prison-based podcast Ear
    • Tucker Nichols
      Tucker Nichols is an artist based in Northern California and the creator of the ongoing project Flowers for Sick People.
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    5 PM
    Sunday, January 30, 2022
    5 PM
    Preston Sturges,
    United States,
    1941,
    (94 mins)
    Starring Barbara Stanwyck as a card sharp who plays naive ale heir Henry Fonda not once but twice, Preston Sturges’s comedy of innocence and experience is “one of the most liberatingly funny films ever made” (New Yorker).

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    Wednesday, February 2, 2022
    7 PM
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    Rodrigo Reyes,
    Mexico,
    2021,
    (88 mins)
    In this “truly brilliant accomplishment of unconventional storytelling” (Carlos Aguilar), a conquistador inexplicably finds himself in Mexico, 499 years after conquering Tenochtitlán with Hernán Cortez’s army in 1521. He retraces their original journey across Mexico, a reluctant witness to the ongoing legacy of Spanish conquest.
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    • Rodrigo Reyes
      In Person
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    Thursday, February 3, 2022
    7 PM
    Akira Kurosawa,
    Japan,
    1980,
    (160 mins)

    BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

    George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola helped produce Akira Kurosawa’s return to epic filmmaking, a “majestic, stately, cool, almost abstract” film about a king and his double (both played by Tatsuya Nakadai) trying to hold a kingdom together (New York Times).
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    Friday, February 4, 2022
    7 PM
    Howard Hawks,
    United States,
    1941,
    (111 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Showgirl Barbara Stanwyck gives naive encyclopedist Gary Cooper lessons in slang, and love, in Howard Hawks’s comedy classic, named to the National Film Registry in 2016.
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    Saturday, February 5, 2022
    3:30 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1924,
    (77 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    F. W. Murnau’s venture into the world of comic irony was greeted with delight by contemporary critics. Working from a screenplay by Thea von Harbou, he crafted a playful espionage thriller reminiscent of Ernst Lubitsch. 
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    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
    5:15 PM
    • Film
    • Performance
    Saturday, February 5, 2022
    5:15 PM
    F. W. Murnau,
    Germany,
    1925,
    (63 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    F. W. Murnau revisited Moliére’s fable of religious hypocrisy, in which a woman (Lil Dagover) tries to convince her husband (Werner Krauss) that their morally superior guest, Tartuffe (Emil Jannings), is in fact a lecherous, imbibing hypocrite.
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    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, February 5, 2022
    7 PM
    (95 mins)

    BAMPFA Collection

    Nathaniel Dorsky’s four short films silently observe nature and the manmade world.
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    • Nathaniel Dorsky
      In Person