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2 PM
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
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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7 PM
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
7 PM
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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Documentary Voices 2022
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7 PM
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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7 PM
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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3:30 PM
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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5:15 PM
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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7 PM
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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2 PM
Sunday, February 6, 2022
2 PM
Melina León,
Peru, Spain, United States,
2019,
(97 mins)
An Indigenous Andean woman searches for her stolen newborn amidst the institutional corruption of 1980s Peru in this surreal blend of Latin American political history and Kafkaesque alienation, “shot, scored, and styled like the most beautiful of bad dreams” (Variety).
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4:30 PM
Sunday, February 6, 2022
4:30 PM
(95 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Local filmmaker Nathaniel Dorksy made these four short silent films over several seasons during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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7 PM
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
7 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha,
United States,
1989,
(130 mins)
BAMPFA Preservation
The history of modern Vietnam and the struggles of its women provide the foundation for this “keenly intelligent, sensuously multilayered” documentary (Stuart Klawans, The Nation). Director Trinh T. Minh-ha gives the fifth Les Blank Lecture prior to the screening.
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Documentary Voices 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, February 10, 2022
7 PM
(85 mins)
Curated by Sky Hopinka
This program, curated by Sky Hopinka, features works by artists from different countries—Canada, the United States, and Mexico—and homelands. Each artist makes works that traverse topics dealing directly and indirectly with Indigeneity.
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7 PM
Friday, February 11, 2022
7 PM
Paul Schrader,
United States,
1985,
(120 mins)
New Digital Restoration
Paul Schrader’s riveting docu-fiction about the life and death of Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima is “one of the most gorgeous and sophisticated portraits of an artist ever put on film” (New Yorker).
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Saturday, February 12, 2022
4 PM
(94 mins)
Presented with a prerecorded interview with the filmmaker.
This program features a selection of Lawrence Jordan’s experimental cut-out animation, including two of his best-known films, Duo Concertantes and Our Lady of the Sphere, that reveal the influence of surrealism on his aesthetic. Jordan’s interview addresses his collaborations with American artist Joseph Cornell.
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6:30 PM
Saturday, February 12, 2022
6:30 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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2 PM
Sunday, February 13, 2022
2 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1983/2005,
(114 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Two groups of rival teens—a cast of soon-to-be Hollywood heartthrobs, including Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, and Rob Lowe—rumble in a dead-end Southwestern town in Francis Ford Coppola’s cult classic.
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5 PM
Sunday, February 13, 2022
5 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1926,
(106 mins)
Digital Restoration
F. W. Murnau’s version of the Faust legend is a masterwork of chiaroscuro lighting, and it helped redefine what black-and-white cinematography could accomplish. Emil Jannings stars as a subtly mischievous Mephistopheles.
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7 PM
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
7 PM
Joshua Bonnetta,
Canada, United Kingdom,
2020,
(90 mins)
In an “eerie and hypnotic” experimental evocation of the gift of second sight, Joshua Bonnetta infused the landscape of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides with otherworldly tales and meanings (Justine Smith, POV).
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Documentary Voices 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, February 17, 2022
7 PM
Djibril Diop Mambéty,
France, Senegal, Switzerland,
1992,
(113 mins)
A wealthy woman revisits her former village with nefarious intentions in this timeless parable about human greed and the betrayal of African independence, “a wicked tale told with wit and irony” (Village Voice).
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Djibril Diop Mambéty
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7 PM
Friday, February 18, 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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1 PM
Saturday, February 19, 2022
1 PM
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola,
United States,
1991,
(96 mins)
Watch as Francis Ford Coppola and crew storm and blunder through the Philippines during the making of Apocalypse Now. This documentary, crafted from Eleanor Coppola’s home movies, is a work of “fascinating, harrowing film history” (Roger Ebert).
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7 PM
Saturday, February 19, 2022
7 PM
Douglas Sirk,
United States,
1956,
(84 mins)
Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray rekindle an old flame in Douglas Sirk’s melodrama that “demolishes the social fantasy of the ‘happy home’” (Time Out). Stanwyck beautifully conveys the ambivalence of an ethical person who wants what she can’t have.
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2 PM
Sunday, February 20, 2022
2 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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5 PM
Sunday, February 20, 2022
5 PM
Djibril Diop Mambéty,
Senegal,
1999,
(95 mins)
Two films from an intended trilogy—“masterpieces of the medium-length form”—portray a poor musician and a young street girl selling newspapers among a gang of boys (Metrograph).
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Djibril Diop Mambéty
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7 PM
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
7 PM
Deniz Tortum,
Turkey,
2020,
(71 mins)
“A human, curious look at a place where life and death, levity and severity, poetry and confrontation go side by side,” Phases of Matter presents the Istanbul hospital where Deniz Tortum’s father worked for thirty years (Rotterdam International Film Festival).
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Documentary Voices 2022
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Thursday, February 24, 2022
7 PM
Isael Maxakali, Sueli Maxakali, Carolina Canguçu, Roberto Romero,
Brazil,
2020,
(70 mins)
Nũhũ yãg mũ yõg hãm—literally, “this land is our land”—creates an alternative system of audiovisual cartography to give shape‚ both physical and mythical, to the Tikmũ’ũn territory in northeast Brazil.
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7 PM
Friday, February 25, 2022
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
United States,
1930,
(90 mins)
Until the late 1960s, City Girl was considered lost; when it was found, film scholars were amazed to discover F. W. Murnau’s complete silent version,“a dazzling work which adds much to Murnau’s already monumental reputation” (Richard Koszarski, Film Comment).
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Saturday, February 26, 2022
4 PM
(125 mins)
Presented with a prerecorded interview with the filmmaker.
Janie Geiser’s films are influenced by surrealism, psychology, art history, design, and Americana, and they reveal a unique and accomplished vision. Her interview sheds light on how she approaches collage animation to create imaginary worlds that explore memory, language, and identity.
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7 PM
Saturday, February 26, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1957,
(77 mins)
Sam Fuller’s wildly Freudian Western—brilliantly blatant in its conflation of sex, violence, and power and its “perversion” of the Western’s usual treatment of all three—stars Barbara Stanwyck as a “high-ridin’ woman with a whip.
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3 PM
Sunday, February 27, 2022
3 PM
F. W. Murnau,
United States,
1931,
(86 mins)
Digital Restoration
F. W. Murnau joined forces with documentarist Robert J. Flaherty, and they fashioned an emotionally rich story of the flowering romance between a young man and woman, filmed on location in Tahiti.
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5 PM
Sunday, February 27, 2022
5 PM
Francis Ford Coppola,
United States,
1983,
(94 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Matt Dillon is a teenager under the spell of his jaded older brother (Mickey Rourke) and beaten-down father (Dennis Hopper) in Francis Ford Coppola’s version of a teen movie, “an exercise in hallucinatory style” (Richard Corliss).
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022
7 PM
Harun Farocki,
Austria, Germany,
2009,
(110 mins)
Farocki’s In Comparison considers the brick, that foundational unit of construction, as object, metaphor, and product of labor. With Domietta Torlasco’s Garfield Park, USA and Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton’s Our Ark, two short essay films.
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Documentary Voices 2022
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7 PM
Thursday, March 3, 2022
7 PM
Luna Marán,
Mexico,
2019,
(82 mins)
In her first feature film, Marán encourages her father—a singer-songwriter, Indigenous philosopher, and community leader—to write a song about his complex life.
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In-Theater Livestream Conversation
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Friday, March 4, 2022
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1952,
(100 mins)
Digital Restoration
Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader).
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Series
Federico Fellini 100
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Saturday, March 5, 2022
7 PM
Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon,
United States,
1994,
(60 mins)
The creators of the classic documentary The Gate of Heavenly Peace turn their attention to the work and legacy of one of the greatest, most fascinating twentieth-century painters, Chang Dai-chien (Zhang Daqian).
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In Conversation
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Chinese Portraits
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