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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.
    Capacity is currently limited to fifty percent.
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    • Bruce Loeb
      On Piano
    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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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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    • Domietta Torlasco
      In Person
      Domietta Torlasco, who received her PhD from the Department of Rhetoric and Film Studies at UC Berkeley, presents her recent short visual essay Garfield Park, USA.
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    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.
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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    In-Theater Livestream Conversation
    • Luna Marán
    • Natalia Brizuela
      Natalia Brizuela is the Class of 1930 Chair of the Center for Latin American Studies and a professor in the Departments of Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
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    7 PM
    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). 

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

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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
    • Carma Hinton
    • Winnie Wong
      Winne Wong is an associate professor of rhetoric and art history at UC Berkeley.
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    Sunday, March 6, 2022
    2 PM
    Tacita Dean,
    Germany, United States,
    2021,
    (51 mins)
    Painters Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu bond over family, climate change, their experience as immigrants, and a lifelong practice of painting in this intimate, inspiring work by artist Dean (MATRIX 189).
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    In Conversation
    • Christina Yang
      Christina Yang is the chief curator at BAMPFA.
    • Lauren Kroiz
      Lauren Kroiz is faculty director of the Phoebe A.
    • Rizvana Bradley
      Rizvana Bradley is assistant professor of film and media at UC Berkeley.
    4:30 PM
    • Film
    Sunday, March 6, 2022
    4:30 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1954,
    (115 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Fellini’s muse, Giulietta Masina, modeled her timeless character Gelsomina after Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp. She stars with a brutish Anthony Quinn in this classic that Martin Scorsese called “the cornerstone of Fellini’s work.”
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    • Film
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    Wednesday, March 9, 2022
    7 PM
    Wang Xiaoshuai,
    China,
    2018,
    (80 mins)
    Roughly sixty carefully composed shots of citizens and their environments, recorded over ten years across China, comprise this formal masterpiece, a photo album of an entire nation’s decade. From the director of Beijing Bicycle.
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    • Andrew F. Jones
      Introduction
      Andrew F. Jones teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture at UC Berkeley.
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    Thursday, March 10, 2022
    7 PM
    Jia Zhangke,
    China,
    2020,
    (112 mins)
    Three of China’s greatest living authors share their stories and memories in Jia’s tribute to storytelling and the connection between intellectual thought and working-class labor. “A spiritual depiction of China. Illuminating” (South China Morning Post).

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

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    In Conversation
    • Carma Hinton
      Award-winning documentary filmmaker Carma Hinton grew up in Beijing and has codirected thirteen documentary films on China. 
    • Andrew F. Jones
      Andrew F. Jones teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture at UC Berkeley.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, March 11, 2022
    7 PM
    Wayne Wang,
    United States,
    1982,
    (80 mins)

    Chan Is Missing also screens without in-person guests on Wednesday, March 30.

    Touted as the first all Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching San Francisco’s Chinatown for an elusive flimflam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert).
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
    In Conversation
    • Wayne Wang
    • Oliver S. Wang
      Oliver S. Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach and writes regularly on popular music and culture. He interviewed Wayne Wang for the latest issue of Film Quarterly.
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    7 PM
    Saturday, March 12, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1960,
    (178 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out).

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

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    4 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Sunday, March 13, 2022
    4 PM
    Wayne Wang,
    United States,
    1993,
    (139 mins)

    The Joy Luck Club also screens without in-person guests on Saturday, April 16.

    Four Chinese American women and their immigrant mothers learn one another’s stories in this intimate adaptation of the famed Amy Tan novel. A landmark in Asian American cinema, “both sweeping and intimate” (New York Times).
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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    In Conversation
    • Wayne Wang
    • Amy Tan
      Amy Tan is the author of seven bestselling novels and two memoirs.
    • Catherine Ceniza Choy
      Catherine Ceniza Choy is professor of ethnic studies and associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice in UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society.
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    Wednesday, March 16, 2022
    7 PM
    Maria Speth,
    Germany,
    2021,
    (217 mins)
    A German schoolteacher welcomes a class of students from twelve different nations in this “affectionate and inspiring portrait of an affectionate and inspiring man” (Variety). 
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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    7 PM
    Thursday, March 17, 2022
    7 PM
    Wang Xiaoshuai,
    China,
    2019,
    (185 mins)
    Wang’s unforgettable family portrait tackles the tragic implications of China’s one-child policy in epic form. “So measured is the pacing, so sinuous the timeline, so understated the subtle ache of the performances . . . [the film performs] the emotional equivalent of open-heart surgery” (Guardian).
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    Friday, March 18, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1955,
    (104 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Three con men pose as priests to trick peasants out of cash in Fellini’s sadly ironic study of misguided faith, whether in religion or upward mobility. This is the closest Fellini would come to film noir.
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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    7 PM
    • Film
    Saturday, March 19, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1963,
    (138 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (Guardian). 

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

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    Sunday, March 20, 2022
    4 PM
    Wayne Wang,
    United States,
    1985,
    (99 mins)

    Director’s Cut

    An elderly Chinese American widow in San Francisco tries to get her adult daughter married off in Wang’s simultaneously gentle and rowdy tribute to Yasujirō Ozu, Chinatown, and Wang’s Asian American heroines. With Laureen Chew, Victor Wong, Joan Chen, Amy Hill.
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
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    In Conversation
    • Wayne Wang
    • Laureen Chew
      Laureen Chew is professor emerita of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University.
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    Streaming All Day
    • Film
    • Free
    • Members
    Thursday, March 24, 2022
    Streaming All Day
    Chaitanya Tamhane,
    India,
    2014,
    (116 mins)

    Available for streaming March 24–27, 2022

    An elderly folk singer and grassroots activist is put on trial for causing a worker’s suicide in this devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, institutional incompetence, and venal politics in contemporary India.
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    Streaming All Day
    • Film
    • Free
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    Friday, March 25, 2022
    Streaming All Day
    Chaitanya Tamhane,
    India,
    2014,
    (116 mins)

    Available for streaming March 24–27, 2022

    An elderly folk singer and grassroots activist is put on trial for causing a worker’s suicide in this devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, institutional incompetence, and venal politics in contemporary India.
    7 PM
    Friday, March 25, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1956,
    (110 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    The great Giulietta Masina portrays the spunky prostitute Cabiria in this humorous and ultimately transformative story of the survival of the human spirit. “The masterpiece of Masina’s collaboration with Fellini” (Albert Johnson).

    Theater capacity is limited for the March 25 screening.

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    Streaming All Day
    • Film
    • Free
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    Saturday, March 26, 2022
    Streaming All Day
    Chaitanya Tamhane,
    India,
    2014,
    (116 mins)

    Available for streaming March 24–27, 2022

    An elderly folk singer and grassroots activist is put on trial for causing a worker’s suicide in this devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, institutional incompetence, and venal politics in contemporary India.
    Saturday, March 26, 2022
    7 PM
    Wayne Wang,
    United States,
    1989,
    (85 mins)
    The spirit of independence that runs through Wang’s films finds its most audacious expression in this tale of an urban cowboy tasked with delivering a briefcase to a mob boss, which was shot on location in Hong Kong.
    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.
    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.
    In Conversation
    • Wayne Wang
    • Spencer Nakasako
    • Antonella Bonfanti
      Antonella Bonfanti is the BAMPFA Film Collection supervisor.
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    Streaming All Day
    • Film
    • Free
    • Members
    Sunday, March 27, 2022
    Streaming All Day
    Chaitanya Tamhane,
    India,
    2014,
    (116 mins)

    Available for streaming March 24–27, 2022

    An elderly folk singer and grassroots activist is put on trial for causing a worker’s suicide in this devastating, absurdist portrait of injustice, institutional incompetence, and venal politics in contemporary India.
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    7 PM
    Wednesday, March 30, 2022
    7 PM
    Wayne Wang,
    United States,
    1982,
    (80 mins)

    Chan Is Missing also screened on Friday, March 11 with Wayne Wang and Oliver S. Wang in conversation.

    Touted as the first all Chinese American feature film, Wang’s irreverent, refreshingly authentic movie follows two cab drivers searching San Francisco’s Chinatown for an elusive flimflam man. “A small, whimsical treasure of a film” (Roger Ebert).

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

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    7 PM
    Thursday, March 31, 2022
    7 PM
    Souleymane Cissé,
    Mali,
    1975,
    (88 mins)

    New Digital Restoration

    Cissé’s recently restored first feature-length film, “the eternal story of a young girl who is raped, becomes pregnant, and is then abandoned[,] is agonizingly sad. . . . [The Young Girl] also represents the emergence of an absolutely singular cinematic composition” (Frédéric Bonnaud, La Biennale di Venezia).

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

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    7 PM
    Friday, April 1, 2022
    7 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1960,
    (178 mins)

    Digital Restoration

    Marcello Mastroianni stars as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence of Rome in Fellini’s masterpiece, filled with jaw-dropping set pieces of both excess and warmth. “Fellini’s bizarre, extravagant visuals are absolutely riveting” (Time Out).

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, April 2, 2022
    7 PM
    Wayne Wang,
    United States,
    1997,
    (87 mins)

    Director’s Cut

    Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, and Maggie Cheung star in another of Wang’s love letters to Hong Kong, this one made all the more memorable and melancholy by its setting and timeline: 1997, at the end of British rule.

    Theater capacity is limited for this screening.

    Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times. We strongly recommend that all visitors choose N95, KN95, or surgical masks.

    In Conversation
    • Wayne Wang
    • Oliver S. Wang
      Oliver S. Wang is a professor of sociology at CSU Long Beach and writes regularly on popular music and culture. He interviewed Wayne Wang for the latest issue of Film Quarterly.
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