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Sunday, October 29, 2023
4 PM
Yujiro Seki,
Japan, United States,
2020,
(99 mins)
Copresented by the Center for Buddhist Studies, UC Berkeley
Carving the Divine is a documentary film that offers a rare look into a 1,400-year-old Buddhist wood-carving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a rapidly changing Japan.
Series
Artists on Film
7 PM
Sunday, October 29, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1954,
(91 mins)
Luis Buñuel’s handling of the story of a doctor who returns to his rancorous hometown, his adoring mother, and a life-threatening blood feud was informed by the director’s ongoing fascination with Mexican machismo and the “ease with which certain people can kill others.”
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
7 PM
Peggy Ahwesh, Jacqueline Goss,
United States,
2022,
(75 mins)
A collaboratively made musical that places the work of scientist and social thinker Wilhelm Reich in conversation with feminist thinkers. With related shorts films by Peggy Ahwesh and Jacqueline Goss.
Series
Alternative Visions 2023
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7 PM
Thursday, November 2, 2023
7 PM
Katy Lena N’diaye,
Belgium, France, Germany, Senegal,
2022,
(104 mins)
The tainted history of the CFA franc, a currency created (and still controlled) by France for its former sub-Saharan colonies, is investigated here, in “the most important contemporary document on Francophone Africa’s malignant economic relations with France” (Film Verdict).
Series
African Film Festival 2023
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6:30 PM
Friday, November 3, 2023
6:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1952,
(86 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Federico Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader).
8:30 PM
Friday, November 3, 2023
8:30 PM
(65 mins)
Free Admission
Join us for CineSpin, the BAMPFA Student Committee’s annual event featuring terrific UC Berkeley student musicians providing original live accompaniment for Chess Fever (1925), Un chien Andalou (1929), and The Cage (1947).
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 7 PM. |
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4:30 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2023
4:30 PM
Dino Risi,
Italy,
1961,
(118 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“Alberto Sordi’s pungent embodiment of a left-wing pamphleteer who can’t prosper in a capitalist republic propels [Dino] Risi’s deft seriocomic panorama from Mussolini’s fall to the rise of the postwar Roman oligarchy. . . . The closest America has come to Alberto Sordi is Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their prime, rolled into one” (Michael Sragow, Air Mail).
7 PM
Saturday, November 4, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1954,
(82 mins)
When their beloved streetcar is decommissioned, two tipsy transit workers decide to take it out for one last late-night spin. “Gorgeously photographed by Raúl Martínez Solares, Illusion Travels by Streetcar is in many ways Luis Buñuel’s most visually intoxicating creation” (Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine).
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2 PM
Sunday, November 5, 2023
2 PM
Peter Stern,
United States,
2020,
(60 mins)
Copresented with the Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley
An in-depth portrait of artist Brian Wall, renowned for his abstract steel sculptures, told through fascinating interviews and archival materials. Wall taught art at UC Berkeley for over two decades and continues to live and work in the Bay Area at age ninety-two.
In Person
Series
Artists on Film
4:30 PM
Sunday, November 5, 2023
4:30 PM
Kwesi Owusu, Nii Kwate Owoo,
Ghana, United Kingdom,
1991,
(91 mins)
A Ghanaian English teenager’s chance discovery reawakens African legends and stories in an early 1990s England of floppy discs, yuppies, racists, and neon jackets in this restored 1991 cornerstone of diasporic Black cinema.
Series
African Film Festival 2023
7 PM
Sunday, November 5, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1954,
(90 mins)
Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel adds “a touch of the inferno” (Tom Milne) to the otherwise stuffy literary drama. “A blatant hacienda melodrama that camps out on poverty row before blasting triumphantly into the stratosphere” (J. Hoberman).
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
7 PM
(75 mins)
The films in this program include portrayals and testimonies of family and friends and recognition of those who have passed. Works by Al Wong, Anna Kipervaser, Nadia Shihab, Courtney Stephens, Sky Hopinka, John Gianvito, and Keisha Rae Witherspoon.
In Person
Series
Alternative Visions 2023
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4:30 PM
Thursday, November 9, 2023
4:30 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1968,
(90 mins)
Werner Herzog’s breakthrough film garnered a special jury award at the Berlinale and this appraisal at the New York Film Festival: “A strange, intense work . . . influenced by Borges and Kafka. The hypnotic probing of cruelty, indifference, and unspoken horrors becomes a metaphysical comment on man and his ideologies.”
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
7:30 PM
Thursday, November 9, 2023
7:30 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2009,
(122 mins)
Bad Lieutenant benefits from Werner Herzog’s fearless direction and a delightfully unhinged Nicolas Cage, who brings a manic energy and humor to his performance. It is Herzog’s documentarian’s eye that brings an extra depth to the film. “He constantly frames the devastated New Orleans with heartbreaking poverty and ruin in the foreground and the gleaming metal towers of affluence in the background” (Toronto International Film Festival).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
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1 PM
Friday, November 10, 2023
1 PM
The author of more than a dozen books of prose, Werner Herzog reads from the long-awaited Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir and engages in conversation with the audience.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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
3:30 PM
Friday, November 10, 2023
3:30 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1971,
(78 mins)
This film about the creation and transformation of things is between documentary and feature, utopia and reality, beauty and decay. Hallucinatory images of African deserts and dunes are combined with music by Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen; Lotte H. Eisner reads the Guatemalan creation myth.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
7 PM
Friday, November 10, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1972,
(95 mins)
Stunningly photographed in hazardous locations in Peru, Aguirre, the Wrath of God takes the viewer on a mad voyage as frightening and entertaining as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s maelstrom-bent epics of demented discovery. Featuring a seething, controlled performance from Klaus Kinski, who delivers an unforgettable portrait of madness and power.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
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1 PM
Saturday, November 11, 2023
1 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1974,
(110 mins)
Werner Herzog’s unforgettable 1974 classic is based on a real historical incident of an adult foundling. Bruno S. gives a revelatory performance as Kaspar Hauser, a man who literally has no concept of society, no language, and no knowledge, but who finds civilization terrifyingly uncivilized.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
4 PM
Saturday, November 11, 2023
4 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, United Kingdom,
2004,
(91 mins)
The White Diamond is a film about the daring adventure of exploring the rainforest canopy with a novel flying device. Airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington embarks on a trip to the giant Kaieteur Falls in the heart of Guyana, hoping to fly his helium-filled invention above the treetops.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
Saturday, November 11, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1955,
(91 mins)
A childhood incident has blurred the line between death and desire for mild-mannered, kind, definitely insane Archibaldo—with predictably perverse results. “Light-hearted, benign, and extremely funny” (New York Times).
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1:30 PM
Sunday, November 12, 2023
1:30 PM
Werner Herzog,
France, Germany, United Kingdom,
1992,
(53 mins)
Werner Herzog’s gripping documentary shows the disaster of the Kuwait oil fields in flames. In contrast to most documentaries—especially ones tackling the destruction of the planet—there’s minimal commentary and no talking heads. “An evocation of hell on earth . . . with an epic, elegiac musical backdrop” (Time Out).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
4 PM
Sunday, November 12, 2023
4 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2019,
(89 mins)
Werner Herzog’s latest narrative focuses on Japan’s bizarre “rent-a-family” business, a professional stand-in service that provides clients with actors who portray a range of roles, including friends, family members, or even coworkers.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact 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.
7 PM
Sunday, November 12, 2023
7 PM
Amil Shivji,
Germany, Qatar, South Africa, Tanzania, United Republic of,
2021,
(93 mins)
A young Marxist and a runaway Indian Zanzibari bride find love and revolutionary fervor amidst the atmospheric alleys and taarab nightclubs of 1950s-era Stone Town, Zanzibar, in this gorgeously languid Tanzanian period drama, and anti-colonial In the Mood for Love.
Series
African Film Festival 2023
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
7 PM
(88 mins)
Canadian filmmaker and artist Lindsay McIntyre is of Inuit and settler descent. Her impressionistic films include portraits of people and the land and reflect on her complicated family history.
Series
Alternative Visions 2023
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7 PM
Thursday, November 16, 2023
7 PM
Alain Kassanda,
Belgium, France,
2022,
(89 mins)
The history of the Congo’s decolonization and independence is glimpsed through the recollections of the filmmaker’s grandparents in this New York Times Critic’s Pick, a “deeply personal, sometimes poetic, sometimes harrowing history of oppression, revolution, betrayal, disillusionment, and love” (Business Doc Europe).
Series
African Film Festival 2023
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7 PM
Friday, November 17, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1959,
(91 mins)
A turn-of-the-century wandering cleric sheds his priestly garments to aid the rural poor directly, but material reality and human cruelty have other plans. Magnificently photographed by the great Gabriel Figueroa.
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4:30 PM
Saturday, November 18, 2023
4:30 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(104 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Joseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
7 PM
Saturday, November 18, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1970,
(140 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Alain Delon and Yves Montand star in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
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2:30 PM
Sunday, November 19, 2023
2:30 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1952,
(86 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Provincial newlyweds arriving in Rome get sidetracked by the wife’s obsession with a fumetto photo-comic star in Federico Fellini’s solo directorial debut. “A funny, sardonic, and clever satire on popular heroes and ordinary people’s illusions” (Chicago Reader).
4:30 PM
Sunday, November 19, 2023
4:30 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1960,
(95 mins)
Archival 35mm Print
Luis Buñuel’s sole English-language film, which follows a Black jazz performer running from false rape charges in the Deep South, is a peculiar portrait of American Southern racism that at first resembles a Hollywood effort; by the end, it’s pure Buñuel. “One of his most sensual, sheerly physical works” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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3 PM
Friday, November 24, 2023
3 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany, Peru,
1982,
(157 mins)
“In a film of stunning spectacle and furious struggle, boat and task become centerpieces for two tales of obsession. Every bit as driven as Fitzcarraldo’s efforts to move the craft upward, Mr. Herzog’s determination to perform the feat in actuality inspired Les Blank’s documentary Burden of Dreams, also released in 1982, about the making of the film” (Peter M. Nichols, New York Times).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for the November 24 screening. Please contact 6:30 PM
Friday, November 24, 2023
6:30 PM
Dino Risi,
Italy,
1961,
(118 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
“Alberto Sordi’s pungent embodiment of a left-wing pamphleteer who can’t prosper in a capitalist republic propels [Dino] Risi’s deft seriocomic panorama from Mussolini’s fall to the rise of the postwar Roman oligarchy. . . . The closest America has come to Alberto Sordi is Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau in their prime, rolled into one” (Michael Sragow, Air Mail).
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4 PM
Saturday, November 25, 2023
4 PM
Les Blank, Maureen Gosling,
United States,
1982,
(94 mins)
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker and longtime collaborator with Les Blank, Maureen Gosling was nominated for Best Editing for Burden of Dreams by the American Cinema Editors. Gosling joins us for the presentation of a new digital restoration of this celebrated film.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
6:30 PM
Saturday, November 25, 2023
6:30 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1969,
(145 mins)
Digital Restoration
Jean-Pierre Melville’s drama of the French Resistance, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret, “grips tighter than a Gestapo handcuff. . . . A film of noirish compositions and fantastic cool” (Independent).
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1:30 PM
Sunday, November 26, 2023
1:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
France, Japan,
1985,
(160 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
King Lear in feudal Japan, with Tatsuya Nakadai as the lord who divides his kingdom among his three sons, with disastrous results. “A majestic piece of filmmaking” (Village Voice).
5 PM
Sunday, November 26, 2023
5 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(104 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Joseph Cotten pursues Orson Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time” (New York Times).
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7 PM
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1970,
(140 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Alain Delon and Yves Montand star in Jean-Pierre Melville’s “dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters, and cigarettes” (Los Angeles Times).
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7 PM
Saturday, December 2, 2023
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1972,
(95 mins)
Stunningly photographed in hazardous locations in Peru, Aguirre, the Wrath of God takes the viewer on a mad voyage as frightening and entertaining as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s maelstrom-bent epics of demented discovery. Featuring a seething, controlled performance from Klaus Kinski, who delivers an unforgettable portrait of madness and power.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact |
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