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5:00 PM
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
5:00 PM
Christopher Nolan,
United Kingdom, United States,
2023,
(180 mins)
Audio Description On the Same Page gives new students (and faculty and staff) at Berkeley something in common to talk about: a work that has changed the way we view the world. This year’s work, selected especially for the Fall 2024 incoming class, is the film Oppenheimer.
Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning film chronicles the spectacular rise and fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s career, from his arrival to teach at UC Berkeley in 1929 through his stewardship of the development of the atomic bomb and the ensuing fallout.
These screenings are only open to UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty as part of the On the Same Page program. Free tickets will be available at the admissions desk one hour prior to showtime. Attendees must present their Cal 1 Card to receive their ticket.
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Special Screenings 2024
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7:00 PM
Friday, September 6, 2024
7:00 PM
Roman Polanski,
United States,
1974,
(140 mins)
Roman Polanski remakes Los Angeles history as noir fiction, placing hard-boiled PI Jack Nicholson in the rotten middle of a public waterworks scam orchestrated by gentleman farmer John Huston. “Undoubtedly one of the great films of the seventies” (Time Out). Preceded by three Hearst Metrotone News Reels from the 1930s.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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5:30 PM
Saturday, September 7, 2024
5:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(207 mins)
4K Digital Restoration Seven Samurai also screens Sunday, September 22 and Sunday, November 24.
A ragtag group of samurai bands together to protect a village from bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Special Screenings 2024
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1:00 PM
Sunday, September 8, 2024
1:00 PM
Christopher Nolan,
United Kingdom, United States,
2023,
(180 mins)
Audio Description On the Same Page gives new students (and faculty and staff) at Berkeley something in common to talk about: a work that has changed the way we view the world. This year’s work, selected especially for the Fall 2024 incoming class, is the film Oppenheimer.
Christopher Nolan’s Academy Award–winning film chronicles the spectacular rise and fall of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s career, from his arrival to teach at UC Berkeley in 1929 through his stewardship of the development of the atomic bomb and the ensuing fallout.
These screenings are only open to UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty as part of the On the Same Page program. Free tickets will be available at the admissions desk one hour prior to showtime. Attendees must present their Cal 1 Card to receive their ticket.
Series
Special Screenings 2024
5:00 PM
Sunday, September 8, 2024
5:00 PM
Jacques Demy,
France, United States,
1969,
(97 mins)
This sequel to Lola finds Anouk Aimée, now a little older and sadder, in Los Angeles, working in a “model shop,” where lonely men go to snap photos of beautiful women. “One of the great movies about L.A.” (Time Out).
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
7:00 PM
Man Ray,
France,
1923–29/2023,
(70 mins)
Between 1923 and 1929, Man Ray made Le retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L’étoile de mer, and Les mystères du château du dé, which represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema. Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s musical combo, SQÜRL, presents these remarkable classics with a newly recorded soundtrack.
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Alternative Visions
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7:00 PM
Thursday, September 12, 2024
7:00 PM
Agnieszka Holland,
Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland,
2023,
(147 mins)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, this riveting thriller explores the European migrant crisis from multiple ground-level perspectives. “A stunning, harrowing film. . . . Reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury” (Time Out).
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Special Screenings 2024
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7:00 PM
Friday, September 13, 2024
7:00 PM
Kent Mackenzie,
United States,
1961,
(79 mins)
35mm Archival Print
A semidocumentary film about American Indians living in Los Angeles, The Exiles is “a wrenching document of cultural dislocation” (Thom Andersen). Preceded by four Hearst Metrotone Newsreels from the 1930s–1960s.
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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3:30 PM
Saturday, September 14, 2024
3:30 PM
Pamela B. Green,
United States,
2018,
(103 mins)
“Critic’s Pick! Tremendously moving. . . . By the end of Be Natural, you won’t only have a clear idea of who this remarkable woman [Alice Guy-Blaché] was; you may well have acquired a new taste in old movies” (A. O. Scott, New York Times).
6:30 PM
Saturday, September 14, 2024
6:30 PM
Franco Rossi,
United States,
1962,
(100 mins)
Digital Restoration May HaDuong and Luca Celada will give a twenty-five-minute lecture prior to the film.
Intended to address the identity crisis facing postwar Italians, and Europeans generally, Smog has become a key touchstone for contemporary Angelinos to connect with the past of their ever-evolving city.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact Lecture
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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1:00 PM
Sunday, September 15, 2024
1:00 PM
Masahiro Shinoda,
Japan,
1969,
(175 mins)
Presented in collaboration with the Berkeley Historical Society & Museum, located at 1931 Center Street, where the Berkeley and the Movies exhibition is on display until September 21.
Founding Director of the Pacific Film Archive Sheldon Renan joins us for a special presentation on the early history of the film archive. Following his talk, we will screen a 35mm print of Masahiro Shinoda’s Double Suicide, a striking and artful adaptation of a Bunraku puppet play about doomed love.
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Special Screenings 2024
4:30 PM
Sunday, September 15, 2024
4:30 PM
Larry Clark,
United States,
1977,
(111 mins)
16mm Archival Print
Passing Through theorizes that jazz is one of the purest expressions of African American culture, now hijacked by a white culture that brutally exploits musicians for profit. “An invaluable film-outcry” (Albert Johnson).
In Conversation
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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2:10 PM
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
2:10 PM
(122 mins)
This screening features examples of Alice Guy-Blaché’s early films at Gaumont Studios, as well as from her period in the United States, after she formed the production company Solax Films. Shown with the first two episodes of Louis Feuillade’s serial crime film Les vampires.
7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
7:00 PM
Lewis Klahr,
United States,
2021,
(63 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
Los Angeles–based filmmaker Lewis Klahr’s latest feature-length series of collage films creates intricate worlds of fantasy and intrigue by culling two-dimensional ephemera for his short films, most of which are works of stop-camera animation.
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Alternative Visions
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7:00 PM
Thursday, September 19, 2024
7:00 PM
Agnieszka Holland,
Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Poland,
2023,
(147 mins)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, this riveting thriller explores the European migrant crisis from multiple ground-level perspectives. “A stunning, harrowing film. . . . Reverberates with deep empathy and quiet fury” (Time Out).
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Special Screenings 2024
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4:00 PM
Friday, September 20, 2024
4:00 PM
Pamela B. Green,
United States,
2018,
(103 mins)
“Critic’s Pick! Tremendously moving. . . . By the end of Be Natural, you won’t only have a clear idea of who this remarkable woman [Alice Guy-Blaché] was; you may well have acquired a new taste in old movies” (A. O. Scott, New York Times).
7:00 PM
Friday, September 20, 2024
7:00 PM
Damien Chazelle,
United States,
2016,
(129 mins)
Audio Description
“[Damien] Chazelle has crafted that rare thing, a genuinely romantic comedy, and as well, a rhapsody in blue, red, yellow and green” (Sight & Sound).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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4:00 PM
Saturday, September 21, 2024
4:00 PM
Ramata-Toulaye Sy,
France, Mali, Senegal,
2023,
(87 mins)
The titular Senegalese couple at the heart of this visually ravishing romantic drama faces the challenges of drought and communal responsibility. Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic debut competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.
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Special Screenings 2024
6:00 PM
Saturday, September 21, 2024
6:00 PM
Bahram Beyzaie,
Iran,
1974,
(146 mins)
Digital Restoration
Banned in Iran after the 1979 revolution, “this visually ravishing masterwork invents its own mythology to critique the sociopolitical conditions of 1970s Iran” (Film at Lincoln Center).
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1:00 PM
Sunday, September 22, 2024
1:00 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(207 mins)
4K Digital Restoration Seven Samurai also screens Sunday, November 24.
A ragtag group of samurai bands together to protect a village from bandits in Akira Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.
Presented with a 10-minute intermission A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Special Screenings 2024
5:15 PM
Sunday, September 22, 2024
5:15 PM
Charles Burnett,
United States,
1977,
(81 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A poetic evocation of working-class Watts, “a great—the greatest—cinematic tone poem of American urban life” (New York Magazine), 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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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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2:10 PM
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
2:10 PM
(127 mins)
Cecile B. DeMille’s The Cheat set standards of acting, decor, frame composition, and lighting that were not surpassed for years. Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley’s Where Are My Children? manages a curious balance, defending birth control while condemning abortion.
7:00 PM
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
7:00 PM
Pat O’Neill,
United States,
1989,
(87 mins)
A moving meditation on industrialization, Water and Power is an ingenious merging of optical printing and time-lapse cinematography. Screening with By the Sea (1963) and Horizontal Boundaries (2008).
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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7:00 PM
Thursday, September 26, 2024
7:00 PM
Ramata-Toulaye Sy,
France, Mali, Senegal,
2023,
(87 mins)
The titular Senegalese couple at the heart of this visually ravishing romantic drama faces the challenges of drought and communal responsibility. Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s poetic debut competed at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023.
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Special Screenings 2024
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3:00 PM
Friday, September 27, 2024
3:00 PM
Staffan Julén,
Sweden,
2024,
(84 mins)
Bay Area Premiere
A special screening of the Swedish documentary Waiting for Life, presented by Stockholm-based filmmaker Staffan Julén. The post-screening conversation includes the two main subjects of the film, Donald “Twin” James and Reginald “Happy” Wilson, as well as Swedish criminologists Amir Rostami and Jerzy Sarnecki. Moderated by Andrea Crider
In Conversation
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Special Screenings 2024
7:00 PM
Friday, September 27, 2024
7:00 PM
Agnès Varda,
France, United States,
1969,
(120 mins)
Agnès Varda’s experimental feature, shot in Hollywood in 1968 and starring Andy Warhol superstar Viva, is a deliberately decadent riff on fantasy, immaturity, and violence. “More than a time capsule of events and moods—it’s a living aesthetic model for revolutionary times” (Richard Brody). Preceded by four short Hearst Metrotone News Reels from the 1960s.
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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3:30 PM
Saturday, September 28, 2024
3:30 PM
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou,
France, Italy, Switzerland,
1996,
(77 mins)
Recommended for ages 7 & up
Marvel at a world barely visible to our eyes in this astounding documentary on the insect kingdom, filmed with specially designed microcameras and close-up lenses.
5:30 PM
Saturday, September 28, 2024
5:30 PM
Gregg Araki,
United States,
1993,
(78 mins)
Inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s Masculin féminin and shot on 16mm and video camcorder, Totally F***ed Up depicts the interconnected sex lives and friendships of six gay teens. Gregg Araki called it “a cross between avant-garde experimental cinema and a queer John Hughes flick.”
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
8:00 PM
Saturday, September 28, 2024
8:00 PM
Gregg Araki,
United States,
1995,
(83 mins)
Starring James Duval and an ultracool Rose McGowan, Gregg Araki’s first film shot on 35mm evokes the noir classic They Live by Night, but with a saturated color palette, amped-up sex, violence, and 1990s nihilism with a killer soundtrack.
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4:00 PM
Sunday, September 29, 2024
4:00 PM
Robert A. Nakamura, Duane Kubo,
United States,
1980,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
An epic Japanese American drama, Hito Hata: Raise the Banner draws on the talents and support of Asian American filmmakers, writers, and theater professionals, as well as literally hundreds of people from the Asian Pacific American community.
Series
Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
7:00 PM
Sunday, September 29, 2024
7:00 PM
Gregg Araki,
United States,
1997,
(82 mins)
Like an episode of “Beverly Hills, 90210 on acid,” Nowhere’s Los Angeles youths exchange sexual partners, discuss addiction, party, and grapple with an alien invasion accompanied by the era-essential tunes of Blur, Hole, Massive Attack, and Portishead.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
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Wednesday, October 2, 2024
7:00 PM
Jennifer Reeves,
United States,
2024,
(97 mins)
World Premiere
Jennifer Reeves’s dual-projection performance continues her cinematic investigation into psychiatry and psychology via a layered portrait of Gloria, a single mother who served as the case study in the 16mm educational film Three Approaches to Psychotherapy (1965).
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Alternative Visions
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7:00 PM
Thursday, October 3, 2024
7:00 PM
Patricia Cardoso,
United States,
2002,
(93 mins)
Free Admission
Filmed on location in the predominantly Latino community of East Los Angeles, this nuanced portrayal of an intergenerational family centers around Ana, a high school senior who navigates what is expected of her with pride as a talented and compassionate woman.
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:00 PM.
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Cities & Cinema: Los Angeles
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7:00 PM
Friday, October 4, 2024
7:00 PM
Andrea Arnold,
United Kingdom,
2024,
(119 mins)
Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank) returns to the hardscrabble lives of Brits to tell the story of a wise-beyond-her-years tween who meets a free spirit named Bird. The film deftly develops their burgeoning friendship to explore various tensions within adolescent life. Barry Keoghan and Franz Rogowski costar.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $18.50 BAMPFA members, CAFILM members: $15 Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $17 Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $9 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. |
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4:30 PM
Saturday, October 5, 2024
4:30 PM
Rungano Nyoni,
Ireland, United Kingdom, Zambia,
2024,
(95 mins)
Rungano Nyoni’s dazzling second feature, an award winner at Cannes, stars Susan Chardy as Shula, a woman who discovers the corpse of the uncle who caused her considerable pain. This darkly funny portrait of Zambia’s matriarchal society and sexual abuse’s emotional scars grippingly explores the younger generation’s desire to break free from the sins of the past.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $18.50 BAMPFA members, CAFILM members: $15 Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $17 Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $9 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 5, 2024
7:00 PM
Mohammad Rasoulof,
France, Germany, Iran,
2024,
(167 mins)
Winner of the FIPRESECI prize at Cannes, this gripping drama-thriller stars Misagh Zareh as a seemingly honorable man who gets promoted to investigating judge—a job that requires him to sign the death warrants of protesters. The film is the latest angry provocation from writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof, who brilliantly details how Iran’s oppressive regime obliterates the souls of its citizens.
BAMPFA members, watch your email for an exclusive MVFF discount code. Not yet a member? Join today! Special Admission General: $18.50 BAMPFA members, CAFILM members: $15 Seniors (65+), disabled persons: $17 Youth (12 & under), students, educators (with valid ID): $9 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs. Tickets are nonrefundable and may not be exchanged. |
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