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28 7 PM Girls of the Night Film In-Person Sunday, August 28, 2022 7 PM Girls of the Night 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. Lili Hinstin Introduction, July 31 Lili Hinstin, an artistic director and programmer, helmed Entrevues Belfort International Film Festival from 2013 to 2018 and the Locarno Film Festival from 2018 to 2020. Series Forever Kinuyo Tanaka Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29	30	31 7 PM The Big Red One: The Reconstruction Film Wednesday, August 31, 2022 7 PM The Big Red One: The Reconstruction Samuel Fuller, United States, 1980/2004, (163 mins) 35mm Print Fuller’s dream project was based on a nightmare: his own experience of combat in World War II. Richard Schickel’s 2004 reconstruction used Fuller’s script and notes to repair and reinstate scenes missing from the truncated version released in 1980. Series From the Front Page to the Front Lines: The Essential Sam Fuller Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1	2	3
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4	5	6	7 7 PM Neptune Frost Film Wednesday, September 7, 2022 7 PM Neptune Frost Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams, Rwanda, United States, 2021, (119 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick Replete with mind-altering visual and sonic imagery, this Afrofuturist mélange of music, poetry, and resistance is hypnotic and visionary in its depiction of a genderqueer community of hackers and techno poets. With Manu Luksch’s short Algo-Rhythm. Series African Film Festival 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 7 PM Rabbit in the Moon Film In-Person Thursday, September 8, 2022 7 PM Rabbit in the Moon Emiko Omori, United States, 1999, (113 mins) Emiko Omori’s poetic documentary tells the story of Japanese incarceration in the United States, bringing to light the courageous acts of protest and rebellion that have been too often overlooked. Beautifully rendered, Rabbit in the Moon bravely lifts the gag that once muted a culture’s voice of anger. With Chris Kennedy’s lay claim to an island, which revisits the 1969 takeover of Alcatraz Island by the American Indian movement. In Person Emiko Omori Chizuko Omori Chizuko Omori is a producer and subject of Rabbit in the Moon. Series Undoing Time: Cinema and Histories of Incarceration Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9 7 PM Mikey and Nicky Film Friday, September 9, 2022 7 PM Mikey and Nicky Elaine May, United States, 1976, (106 mins) Digital Restoration Excellent performances by Peter Falk and John Cassavetes, who play petty gangsters in a lonely night’s landscape, on the run from death, mark this distinctive work, written and directed by May. Series Elaine May: Age of Irony Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10 7 PM Staggerlee . . . A Conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale Film In-Person Saturday, September 10, 2022 7 PM Staggerlee . . . A Conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale Francisco Newman, Allen Willis, United States, 1970, (77 mins) An illuminating interview with Black Panther Bobby Seale while he was incarcerated in San Francisco County Jail. With an excerpt from Queen Mother Moore Speech at Greenhaven Prison. Shani Shay Introduction Shani Shay is the Incarceration to College program founder/director, Berkeley Underground Scholars. Series Undoing Time: Cinema and Histories of Incarceration Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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11 5 PM A New Leaf Film Sunday, September 11, 2022 5 PM A New Leaf Elaine May, United States, 1971, (102 mins) Starring Walter Matthau as a playboy who has squandered his wealth and must marry a rich woman or forfeit all his passions, and May as a nerdy heiress, A New Leaf “illustrates how fluidly May fuses verbal and physical comedy” (Manohla Dargis, New York Times). Series Elaine May: Age of Irony Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	12	13	14 7 PM The Films That Sang and Cried: Recent Bay Area Experimental Animation Film In-Person Wednesday, September 14, 2022 7 PM The Films That Sang and Cried: Recent Bay Area Experimental Animation (65 mins) This brief survey of recent experimental animation features films by new and established local film artists, from pixelated, live-action documentary to abstract hallucinations, all with songs, performances, and soundscapes. In Conversation Meghana Bisineer Lydia Greer Allison Leigh Holt Kathleen Quillian Scott Stark Jeffrey Skoller Jeffrey Skoller is a filmmaker, writer, and associate professor of film and media at UC Berkeley, as well as cocurator of Alternative Visions. Series Alternative Visions 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 7 PM The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman Film Thursday, September 15, 2022 7 PM The Two Faces of a Bamiléké Woman Rosine Mbakam, Belgium, Cameroon, 2016, (76 mins) “The filmmaker reinventing how African women are portrayed in movies” (NPR), Mbakam turns the camera on her own remarkable mother and her generation in this captivating documentary. Series African Film Festival 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 7 PM Heaven Can Wait Film Friday, September 16, 2022 7 PM Heaven Can Wait Warren Beatty, Buck Henry, United States, 1978, (101 mins) This fantasy-comedy about a young man (Beatty) who is mistakenly taken to heaven by his guardian angel earned May her first Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Series Elaine May: Age of Irony Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17 7 PM Mikey and Nicky Film Saturday, September 17, 2022 7 PM Mikey and Nicky Elaine May, United States, 1976, (106 mins) Digital Restoration Excellent performances by Peter Falk and John Cassavetes, who play petty gangsters in a lonely night’s landscape, on the run from death, mark this distinctive work, written and directed by May. Series Elaine May: Age of Irony Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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18 5 PM Women’s Stories: African Short Films Film Sunday, September 18, 2022 5 PM Women’s Stories: African Short Films (73 mins) Women of all ages and backgrounds drive the narratives of these short films, whether in Senegal, Sudan, South Africa, or London. Series African Film Festival 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19	20	21 7 PM Serious Business Company and Bay Area Women Artists Film In-Person Wednesday, September 21, 2022 7 PM Serious Business Company and Bay Area Women Artists (77 mins) This program of shorts features recent BAMPFA preservation prints of films by influential and undervalued Bay Area women filmmakers whose works were distributed by Serious Business Company, including Freude, Gunvor Nelson, and Dorothy Wiley. In Conversation Tanya Zimbardo Introduction Tanya Zimbardo is a curator who has organized artist film programs and exhibitions at SFMOMA and for Bay Area nonprofits. Dorothy Wiley Introduction Dorothy Wiley began making films in the 1960s exploring her everyday experience living in the Bay Area; we present three new BAMPFA preservation prints of her work. Antonella Bonfanti Introduction Antonella Bonfanti is the BAMPFA film collection supervisor. Jon Shibata Introduction Jon Shibata is the BAMPFA film archivist. Series Alternative Visions 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 7 PM Sarraounia Film Thursday, September 22, 2022 7 PM Sarraounia Med Hondo, Burkina Faso, France, Mauritania, 1986, (116 mins) A young queen leads her people against a brutal French expeditionary force in 1899 Niger in Hondo’s anti-colonialist, rough-hewn epic based on the brutal true-life history of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission. Series African Film Festival 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	23 7 PM Attica Film In-Person Friday, September 23, 2022 7 PM Attica Cinda Firestone, United States, 1974, (115 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick An essential counterpoint to the official and mass media accounts of the Attica prison uprising and subsequent massacre. “Few social documentaries hit their mark with more harrowing and urgent impact. No matter how you feel about prison reform Attica makes indifference impossible” (Stanley Eichelbaum, San Francisco Examiner). With Christine Choy and Susan Robeson’s Teach Our Children. Michael Mark Cohen Introduction Michael Mark Cohen is associate teaching professor of American studies and African American studies at UC Berkeley. Series Undoing Time: Cinema and Histories of Incarceration Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 7 PM The Missing Picture Film In-Person Saturday, September 24, 2022 7 PM The Missing Picture Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, 2013, (96 mins) Renowned Cambodian filmmaker Panh’s haunting, powerful, and personal investigation into the Cambodian genocide. In Conversation Rithy Panh Khatharya Um Khatharya Um is associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and associate professor and former coordinator of the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program at UC Berkeley. She is Series Rithy Panh in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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25 3:30 PM Irradiated Film In-Person Sunday, September 25, 2022 3:30 PM Irradiated Rithy Panh, Cambodia, France, 2020, (88 mins) North American Premiere Winner of the 2020 Berlinale Documentary Award, Panh’s Irradiated continues his exploration of the inhumanity of war and ideologically motivated genocide beyond the borders of his native Cambodia. In Conversation Rithy Panh Boreth Ly Borethy Ly is associate professor of Southeast Asian Art History and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz. Series Rithy Panh in Person Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Heartbreak Kid Film Sunday, September 25, 2022 7 PM The Heartbreak Kid Elaine May, United States, 1972, (106 mins) The Heartbreak Kid is a bitter satire that plays like a whimsical romantic comedy. “[A] movie that manages the marvelous and very peculiar trick of blending the mechanisms and the cruelties of Neil Simon’s comedy with the sense and sensibility of F. Scott Fitzgerald” (Vincent Canby, New York Times). Series Elaine May: Age of Irony Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26	27	28 7 PM The Films of Ana Vaz Film Wednesday, September 28, 2022 7 PM The Films of Ana Vaz (74 mins) Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies The experimental films of Brazilian filmmaker Vaz celebrate the medium’s possibility to engage the senses in surprising new ways by reconsidering the limits of our perception. Prerecorded Conversation Ana Vaz Nicolás Pereda Nicolás Pereda is a filmmaker and assistant professor of film and media at UC Berkeley. Series Alternative Visions 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 7 PM The Promises Film Thursday, September 29, 2022 7 PM The Promises Hawa Aliou N’Diaye, Benin, France, Mali, 2021, (71 mins) N’Diaye explores Malian tradition, myth, and the ethereal through interviews with women who—like her—claim to be possessed by enigmatic spirits known as jinn. Series African Film Festival 2022 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30 7 PM Ishtar Film Friday, September 30, 2022 7 PM Ishtar Elaine May, United States, 1987, (107 mins) Digital Restoration BAMPFA Student Committee Pick Broke, untalented nightclub performers (Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman) accept a gig at a Moroccan hotel before becoming CIA pawns in May’s highly underrated romp. “May’s screenwriting has a sardonic, aphoristic brilliance. . . . [as director] she pushes Beatty and Hoffman out of their familiar personae, into strange psychodramatic performances that emerge with a precision of gesture and inflection” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Series Elaine May: Age of Irony Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 7 PM Bush Mama Film In-Person Saturday, October 1, 2022 7 PM Bush Mama Haile Gerima, United States, 1975, (97 mins) Dorothy, the title character, is raising a daughter in Watts while her husband is in prison. Her political awareness develops as she navigates the cacophony and turmoil of the neighborhood and stays connected with him via correspondence. Ryanaustin Dennis Introduction Ryanaustin Dennis is cocurator of BAMPFA's Black Life series. Series Undoing Time: Cinema and Histories of Incarceration Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS