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8	9	10	11	12 7 PM I Hate Mondays Film Thursday, January 12, 2023 7 PM I Hate Mondays Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland, 1971, (114 mins) Digital Restoration This lighthearted comedy turns a dysfunctional Warsaw into a slapstick playground worthy of Jacques Tati, balancing criticism and lyricism in its portrait of the forgotten details of daily life in a socialist state. With Roman Polanski’s Two Men and a Wardrobe. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 7 PM A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness Film Friday, January 13, 2023 7 PM A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1977, (91 mins) Imported 35mm Print Pointedly critical of the homogenizing effects of television and consumerist, bourgeois, suburban existence, A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness focuses on Reiko, a pretty, young golfer who is selected by textile executives to be the new face of their brand. Listed as thirteenth on Kinema Junpo’s “Best Films of 1977.” Series Elegy to Seijun Suzuki Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 4:30 PM From the inside out Film In-Person Saturday, January 14, 2023 4:30 PM From the inside out (66 mins) This program explores the vast richness of inner and outer landscapes through home movies, educational films, and experimental animation. In Conversation Adrianne Finelli Adrianne Finelli is an artist and curator and the media technology specialist in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Jon Shibata Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist. Pamela Vadakan Pamela Vadakan is the director of California Revealed, a California State Library initiative that helps cultural heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials docum Series Out of the Vault: Everything’s Ephemeral Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Case for a Rookie Hangman Film Saturday, January 14, 2023 7 PM Case for a Rookie Hangman Pavel Juráček, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, 1969, (102 mins) Digital Restoration Juráček imaginatively adapted part of Gulliver’s Travels into a sci-fi journey through socialist Czechoslovakia. The film’s allusions to uncomfortable truths caused it to be “banned forever.” Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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15 4:30 PM Chinese Animation: The Screen and the Scroll Film In-Person Sunday, January 15, 2023 4:30 PM Chinese Animation: The Screen and the Scroll (80 mins) This program features animated shorts created by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio that feature painting and folk art that link screen with scroll. The screen becomes a site for the painterly projection of dreams, nightmares, and fantasies. Introduction Julia Irwin Julia Irwin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Linda C. Zhang Linda C. Zhang is an assistant professor of film in the Art & Media Studies program at Fulbright University Vietnam. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Kagero-za Film Sunday, January 15, 2023 7 PM Kagero-za Seijun Suzuki, Japan, 1981, (140 mins) Imported 35mm Print Reality, fantasy, life, and afterlife blend together in Kagero-za—most spectacularly in the grand finale, in which the protagonist, Matsuzaki, finds his life morphing into a deranged theatrical extravaganza. “May well be Suzuki’s finest achievement outside the constraints of genre filmmaking” (Tony Rayns). Series Elegy to Seijun Suzuki Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16	17	18 7 PM Chronicle of the Years of Embers Film In-Person Wednesday, January 18, 2023 7 PM Chronicle of the Years of Embers Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Algeria, 1975, (177 mins) Digital Restoration An Algerian farmer lives through drought, colonial injustice, and the dawn of independence in this astounding combination of African revolutionary fervor, Bollywood-style pulp, and Cinemascope beauty. “The most magnificent film to ever come from the Third World” (Albert Johnson). Soraya Tlatli Introduction Soraya Tlatli is associate professor, Department of French, UC Berkeley, and a specialist on Francophone literature from North Africa, as well as colonial and postcolonial historiography. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19 7 PM The Battle of Algiers Film Thursday, January 19, 2023 7 PM The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy, 1966, (121 mins) One of the best films on revolution ever made, Pontecorvo’s agit-prop classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against its French overlords. “A masterpiece! Surely the most harrowing political epic ever” (New Yorker). Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 7 PM The Barnabáš Kos Case Film Friday, January 20, 2023 7 PM The Barnabáš Kos Case Peter Solan, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, 1964, (92 mins) Digital Restoration A humble triangle player in a city orchestra unexpectedly winds up its party director and, engorged with a taste of power, soon becomes a tyrant in Slovak director Solan’s droll send-up of authority and hypocrisy. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	21 3 PM Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans Film In-Person Performance Saturday, January 21, 2023 3 PM Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans F. W. Murnau, United States, 1927, (95 mins) Restored 35mm Print Murnau handpicked Janet Gaynor to star in his first Hollywood feature. A masterpiece of silent cinema widely considered among the greatest films ever made, Sunrise tells an elemental tale with virtuosic visual invention. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Joel Coen Introduction Judith Rosenberg On Piano Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Tragedy of Macbeth Film In-Person Saturday, January 21, 2023 7 PM The Tragedy of Macbeth Joel Coen, United States, 2021, (105 mins) Starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, Joel Coen’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s cursed tragedy is attentive to the power of its language while being profoundly cinematic, rendering a fog-shrouded, haunted place where fate and ambition collide. Special Admission General: $15 BAMPFA members: $11 UC Berkeley students: $7 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Joel Coen Frances McDormand Eileen Jones Eileen Jones is a film critic at Jacobin magazine and taught film for many years at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Filmsuck, USA and has a podcast called Filmsuck. Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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22 4 PM The Dead Film In-Person Sunday, January 22, 2023 4 PM The Dead John Huston, United States, 1987, (83 mins) Adapted from the final story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, John Huston’s The Dead considers the passage of time, morality, and shared and divergent relationships amongst the guests at an Epiphany party on a snowy Dublin evening. BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Joel Coen Introduction Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Inside Llewyn Davis Film In-Person Sunday, January 22, 2023 7 PM Inside Llewyn Davis Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, United States, 2013, (105 mins) In New York City in 1961, on the cusp of the efflorescence of the American folk scene, Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) navigates the chilly metropolis in search of a gig, a handout, and/or place to sleep, accompanied on his picaresque journey by an aptly named cat. Special Admission General: $15 BAMPFA members: $11 UC Berkeley students: $7 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Joel Coen Timothy Hampton Timothy Hampton holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professorship and is former director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	23	24	25 7 PM March, March! Tra-Ta-Ta! Film Wednesday, January 25, 2023 7 PM March, March! Tra-Ta-Ta! Raimondas Vabalas, Lithuania, USSR, 1965, (94 mins) Digital Restoration A Baltic Duck Soup about the dispute between two nations over a desert borderland, this ambitious, playful film makes colorful fun of fascists and imperialists, patriotism and dogmatism, in a burst of creative satire made the same year as Dr. Strangelove. With Jan Švankmajer’s The Garden. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26 7 PM The Olive Trees of Justice Film Thursday, January 26, 2023 7 PM The Olive Trees of Justice 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). Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27 7 PM The Witness Film Friday, January 27, 2023 7 PM The Witness Péter Bacsó, Hungary, 1969, (110 mins) Digital Restoration A bumbling protagonist fails at a series of assignments before finally showing defiance in this recently restored Hungarian classic, whose acerbic humor and political critique made it renowned in the Soviet bloc. “As broadly entertaining as it is bold” (New York Times). Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film, 1958–89 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28 3:30 PM Le trou Film In-Person Saturday, January 28, 2023 3:30 PM Le trou Jacques Becker, France, 1960, (132 mins) A group of convicts attempts an escape in Becker’s last film, one of the great prison-break movies and, for Jean-Pierre Melville, “the greatest French film of all time.” BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Joel Coen Introduction Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Miller’s Crossing Film In-Person Saturday, January 28, 2023 7 PM Miller’s Crossing Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, United States, 1990, (113 mins) Director’s Cut Replete with crackling dialogue in fluent gangster-ese, elegant production design, and affecting performances, Miller’s Crossing—a Prohibition-era period piece conjured from Dashiell Hammett’s influential novels The Glass Key and Red Harvest—is classic Coen and quintessential Hammett. “An intoxicating achievement in cinematic chemistry” (Christopher Orr, Atlantic). Special Admission General: $15 BAMPFA members: $11 UC Berkeley students: $7 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Joel Coen Mark Danner Mark Danner has written about war and politics for three decades for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications and is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote and five other Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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29 4 PM A Man Escaped Film In-Person Sunday, January 29, 2023 4 PM A Man Escaped Robert Bresson, France, 1956, (97 mins) From the true account of a Resistance leader who escaped from a Nazi prison just before he was to be executed, Bresson created a film where the drama is all internal. “Essential viewing” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Joel Coen Introduction Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM A Serious Man Film In-Person Sunday, January 29, 2023 7 PM A Serious Man Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, United States, 2009, (106 mins) Via the existential, moral, and romantic crises of physics professor and family man Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), A Serious Man ponders the limits of human agency, reason, faith, and the meaning of life in the face of an impassive, chaotic universe. Special Admission General: $15 BAMPFA members: $11 UC Berkeley students: $7 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. In Conversation Joel Coen Eric Karpeles Painter and writer Eric Karpeles explores the relationship between visual and verbal culture in such books as Paintings in Proust and Almost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski. Series Joel Coen in Person SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	30 6:30 PM Women Talking Film In-Person Monday, January 30, 2023 6:30 PM Women Talking Sarah Polley, United States, 2022, (104 mins) Graced with an extraordinary cast, Polley’s thoughtfully executed adaptation of Miriam Toews’s best-selling novel chronicles a radical “act of female imagination” to consider the healing power of language and what is required to escape systematic criminal abuse in an isolated religious community. In Conversation Frances McDormand Frances McDormand is a producer and member of the cast of Women Talking. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is an associate professor of History at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in African American history, women’s and gender history, and the history of American slavery. Naima Karczmar Naima Karczmar is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, where she works on racial epistemologies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	31	1 7 PM One Among Many: Women Documenting Women Film Wednesday, February 1, 2023 7 PM One Among Many: Women Documenting Women (133 mins) In this selection of documentary and ethnographic films, women filmmakers from Lebanon, Senegal, Tanzania, and the United States employ different stylistic approaches and modes of address to depict women’s experience and work. Series Documentary Voices 2023 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 7 PM Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask Film Thursday, February 2, 2023 7 PM Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask Isaac Julien, United Kingdom, 1995, (70 mins) Combining archival footage, interviews with experts, and stark depictions of the Algerian revolution from The Battle of Algiers with dramatized tableaux to extend theorist Frantz Fanon’s challenge to people of all races, director Julien creates an intellectually provocative portrait of Fanon. Series The Algerian War of Independence: Cinema as History Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 6:30 PM Oki’s Movie Film In-Person Friday, February 3, 2023 6:30 PM Oki’s Movie Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2010, (80 mins) A film school provides the appropriate landscape for this caustic look at cinema, relationships, and points of view. A “casually brilliant feat of storytelling, akin to an ingeniously wrought suite of literary short fiction” (New York Times). Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8:30 PM Tale of Cinema Film In-Person Friday, February 3, 2023 8:30 PM Tale of Cinema Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2005, (89 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick A film on two impromptu lovers and their suicide pact turns into another film entirely in Hong’s early deconstruction of narrative, reality, and cinema. “One of the filmmaker’s major touchstones” (New Yorker). Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 2 PM Free Film Screening: Amalia Mesa-Bains: In Her Own Worlds Film In-Person Saturday, February 4, 2023 2 PM Free Film Screening: Amalia Mesa-Bains: In Her Own Worlds Amalia Mesa-Bains’s work is deeply concerned with memory and with how art serves as a portal into the cultural histories of Indigenous, Mexican, African diasporic, and multiply gendered communities. In this new film directed by Raymond Telles, the artist reflects on how culture, history, and family memories have informed her art. Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1 PM. Raymond Telles Introduction Raymond Telles is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the artist in residence at UC Berkeley’s Latinx Research Center. Google Calendar ICS 5 PM The Day He Arrives Film In-Person Saturday, February 4, 2023 5 PM The Day He Arrives Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2011, (79 mins) Four characters in search of a drink find themselves in the same bar again and again in Hong’s most Buñuelian take on the desire for human connection. “A soju-fueled cross between Last Year at Marienbad and Groundhog Day” (Artforum). Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM The Day After Film In-Person Saturday, February 4, 2023 7:30 PM The Day After Hong Sangsoo, South Korea, 2017, (91 mins) A literary office is the fitting setting as a philandering middle-aged publisher, his pissed-off wife, and a mystified new office assistant wonder if words can create reality—or take the edge off it anyway. “A lovely, intricately fractured story” (New York Times). Tickets go on sale November 17. Dennis Lim Introduction Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and writer. He is currently the artistic director of the New York Film Festival and was director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center from 2013 to 2022. Series Tales of Cinema: Hong Sangsoo Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS