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5 PM
Sunday, June 26, 2022
5 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1957,
(101 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Marcello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of the Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
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7 PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
Hungary,
1977,
(98 mins)
French star Marina Vlady (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) provides the calm to Lili Monori’s rage in this astonishing look at two women at different stages of their lives.
Series
The Films of Márta Mészáros
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30
7 PM
Thursday, June 30, 2022
7 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1969,
(77 mins)
Digital Restoration
This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese).
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7 PM
Friday, July 1, 2022
7 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
1985,
(119 mins)
Digital Restoration
Pop star Tsai Chin and director Hou Hsiao-hsien star in Yang’s breakthrough work, a treatise on loves gone wrong, urban alienation, and sorrow within the bright lights of a mid-1980s Taipei caught between past and present.
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7 PM
Saturday, July 2, 2022
7 PM
Ermanno Olmi,
Italy,
1978,
(186 mins)
Digital Restoration
Olmi won the Cannes Palme d’Or with this intimate epic of life, love, and work among three peasant families in turn-of-the-century Italy, “a fully articulated work of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
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5 PM
Sunday, July 3, 2022
5 PM
Jacques Tati,
France, Italy,
1967,
(124 mins)
Tati’s vision of 1960s Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema” (New Yorker). And for Tati, “The more the picture continues, the more the people dance” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
France, Hungary,
1980,
(105 mins)
In 1936 Budapest, with Nazism on the rise, the wealthy but sterile wife of a military officer asks her young Jewish friend (Isabelle Huppert) to bear her husband’s child.
Series
The Films of Márta Mészáros
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7
7 PM
Thursday, July 7, 2022
7 PM
Charles Burnett,
United States,
1977,
(81 mins)
New 35mm BAMPFA Collection Print
A poetic evocation of working-class Watts, “a great—the greatest—cinematic tone poem of American urban life” (New York), Killer of Sheep’s “single most-recalled moment” is “the slow-dance scene between the . . . alienated Stan and his wife” (Adrian Martin).
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7 PM
Friday, July 8, 2022
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1953,
(98 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Based on a popular novel by Fumio Niwa and set just after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Tanaka’s impressive directorial debut reveals the stigma suffered by women compelled to engage in transactional affairs through the eyes of the embittered male protagonist.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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9
7 PM
Saturday, July 9, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
Hungary,
1984,
(107 mins)
Mészáros folds national history, a coming-of-age tale, and the power of cinephilia into this look at a young orphan seeking truth amidst the lies, conspiracies, and shadows of postwar Hungary.
Series
The Films of Márta Mészáros
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7 PM
Sunday, July 10, 2022
7 PM
Heinosuke Gosho,
Japan,
1953,
(108 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Set against the backdrop of Tokyo’s growing industrialization during the 1950s, Ken Uehara and Kinuyo Tanaka portray a tabi salesman and his wife, whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of an abandoned baby on their tenement doorstep.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
7 PM
Barbara Loden,
United States,
1970,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration
With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen.
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7 PM
Thursday, July 14, 2022
7 PM
Béla Tarr,
Hungary,
1988,
(116 mins)
New 4K Restoration by Hungarian National Film Institute
Damnation, “a tale of erotic obsession,” is a brilliant calling card. “Its melancholy, hurdy-gurdy score, exaggerated sound design, ritual ensemble dances, inexorable camera moves suggest a dry run for Tarr’s. . . Satantango” (J. Hoberman).
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15
7 PM
Friday, July 15, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
Hungary,
1987,
(132 mins)
Mészáros’s second Diary installment follows teenage Juli, the director’s alter ego, as she leaves Hungary to become a filmmaker in Moscow and discovers that her vision of “reality” is different than Russia’s.
Series
The Films of Márta Mészáros
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7 PM
Saturday, July 16, 2022
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1933,
(100 mins)
In Ozu’s atmospheric American-style crime melodrama, Kinuyo Tanaka brings a wide range of moods and emotions to the role of a gangster’s moll trying to get herself and her lover/accomplice out of their murky world and into “a decent life.”
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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5 PM
Sunday, July 17, 2022
5 PM
Chantal Akerman,
Belgium, France,
1982,
(90 mins)
“Playing as a series of richly textured tableaux . . . featuring full-bodied embraces, phone calls punctuated by the longing of distance, breakups, recouplings and impromptu dances. . . . Akerman achieves an aura of singular intimacy” (Patrick Preziosi).
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
Hungary,
1990,
(116 mins)
The heartrending final installment of Mészáros’s semi-autobiographical Diary trilogy continues the journey of Juli, a young orphan, through the tumult of postwar Hungary.
Series
The Films of Márta Mészáros
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7 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2022
7 PM
Yasujiro Shimazu,
Japan,
1935,
(100 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A high point of Kinuyo Tanaka’s early career was her haunting, restrained, delicately sensual portrayal of the blind koto teacher Okoto, who is worshiped by her male servant and disciple, Sasuke.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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7 PM
Friday, July 22, 2022
7 PM
Mario Soffici,
Argentina,
1939,
(85 mins)
Digital Restoration
This passionate tropical noir, set in plantation-era Misiones, Argentina, weaves a love triangle around the class struggles of the birth of contemporary Latin America and is widely acclaimed as one the greatest Argentine films.
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7 PM
Saturday, July 23, 2022
7 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1952,
(136 mins)
Distinguished by Kinuyo Tanaka’s iconic portrayal of a noblewoman’s harrowing fall from grace, The Life of Oharu was deemed by many critics to be among the greatest films of all time—even Mizoguchi himself considered it his masterpiece.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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7 PM
Sunday, July 24, 2022
7 PM
Max Ophuls,
France,
1950,
(97 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Love’s ceaseless roundabout, set in the Vienna of the waltz. “Ophuls displays dazzling technical virtuosity and cinematic elegance” (Chicago Reader).
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
7 PM
Nina Menkes,
United States,
1991,
(77 mins)
Digital Restoration
Shot with beautiful compositional rigor, Queen of Diamonds follows the life of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes), a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape that juxtaposes glittering casino lights and barren desert landscapes.
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7 PM
Thursday, July 28, 2022
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1955,
(102 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
When a childhood acquaintance arrives in the picturesque town of Nara to set up a telecommunications hub, the youngest of three sisters begins a relentless matchmaking campaign to bring him together with her disinterested sibling.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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7 PM
Friday, July 29, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1953,
(80 mins)
Archival 35mm Print
Fuller managed to irk Herbert Hoover and leftist critics by depicting honest crooks caught between the cops and a Communist plot.
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7 PM
Saturday, July 30, 2022
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1955,
(106 mins)
4K Digital Restoration The Saturday, July 30 screening features an introduction by Lili Hinstin.
In this uncompromising account of a woman’s struggle for self-realization, Tanaka depicts the progress of poet Fumiko Nakajo from resigned submission to intellectual self-assurance, sexual fulfilment, and professional success as she battles breast cancer.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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7 PM
Sunday, July 31, 2022
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1961,
(93 mins)
4K Digital Restoration The Sunday, July 31 screening features an introduction by Lili Hinstin.
Focused on the efforts of one young woman to build a new life in the wake of Japan’s 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, Girls of the Night offers a sharp critique of the mistreatment of sex workers in postwar occupied Japan.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1951,
(85 mins)
Archival 35mm Print
Disdain for war creeps into every characterization of Fuller’s grim film about an American patrol lost in the woods of North Korea, which the Pentagon called “vicious [and] full of perversions.”
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7 PM
Thursday, August 4, 2022
7 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1925,
(88 mins)
The reedited 1942 version of The Gold Rush will be shown for free on Sunday, June 12, in the Barbro Osher Theater.
A hapless prospector tries his luck in the frozen north in a film that glitters with some of Charlie Chaplin’s most memorable nuggets of comedy, including a pair of dancing rolls.
At Outdoor Screen
Free on the outdoor screen 7:30 PM
Thursday, August 4, 2022
7:30 PM
James Blue,
France,
1962,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
Blue tells a powerful story of common people living and struggling in their daily lives, while providing a valuable testimony to the complexity of the Algerian struggle for independence. “A neorealist take on the Algerian War made with nonprofessional actors is newly restored and still resonates today” (J. Hoberman, New York Times).
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7 PM
Friday, August 5, 2022
7 PM
Samuel Fuller,
United States,
1952,
A history in miniature of the emergence of modern journalism and a combined portrait of Joseph Pulitzer and other great newspaper editors of the period, Park Row was, for Fuller, “the story of my heart,” a love letter to the popular press.
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7 PM
Saturday, August 6, 2022
7 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1956,
(116 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A trio of Japan’s finest actresses—Kinuyo Tanaka, Isuzu Yamada, and Hideko Takamine—is featured in this revealing picture of traditional geishas facing the decline of their way of life and the specter of prostitution in the mid-1950s.
Series
Forever Kinuyo Tanaka
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