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    7:00 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, January 10, 2025
    7:00 PM
    John Ford,
    United States,
    1956,
    (121 mins)
    An essential reflection of American myths and prejudices that have yet to be overcome, starring John Wayne as a racist confederate veteran searching for his kidnapped niece. Screens with a fragment from the 1899 Kidnapping by Indians, the first Western.
    • Leila Weefur
      Introduction
      Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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    3:00 PM
    Saturday, January 11, 2025
    3:00 PM
    Víctor Erice,
    Argentina, Spain,
    2023,
    (169 mins)
    Revered Spanish auteur Víctor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive, El Sur, and The Quince Tree Sun) returns with his fourth feature, a meditation on memory, absence, and the magic of cinema—a “poignant cinematic swan song” (Hollywood Reporter). 
    6:30 PM
    • Film
    Saturday, January 11, 2025
    6:30 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1963,
    (138 mins)
    For many, Marcello Mastroianni defined Italian masculinity, or at least the debonair version of it, and in this Federico Fellini masterpiece, he gives perhaps his most dashing performance, at once intellectualized and sexualized.

    A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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    4:30 PM
    Sunday, January 12, 2025
    4:30 PM
    Vittorio De Sica,
    France, Italy,
    1964,
    (102 mins)
    Set in Naples, this film is fast-paced, filled with conniving humanity and bitter passion and yes, romance, Italian style. Sophia Loren’s tour-de-force performance plays against Marcello Mastroianni’s perfectly realized cad.
    7:00 PM
    Sunday, January 12, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Claire Denis,
    France,
    1990,
    (91 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    In Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).
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    7:00 PM
    • Film
    Wednesday, January 15, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Alexander Sokurov,
    Belgium,
    2022,
    (78 mins)

    Bay Area Premiere

    Fairytale resurrects from the dead, via animated archival imagery, the twentieth-century leaders Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Joseph Stalin. A cinematic phantasmagoria that was banned by the Russian censors.
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    7:00 PM
    Thursday, January 16, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Mauro Bolognini,
    France, Italy,
    1960,
    (101 mins)
    For Marcello Mastroianni, this is a signature role; the film stands among the best existential films of the 1960s. Pier Paolo Pasolini cowrote the screenplay.
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    7:00 PM
    Friday, January 17, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Paul B. Preciado,
    France,
    2023,
    (102 mins)
    This innovative “New Trans Cinema” essay film from trans philosopher Paul B. Preciado reflects on trans identity, culture, and history via Virginia Woolf’s gender-changing novel Orlando.
    In Conversation
    • Jenni Olson
      Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
    • Susan Stryker
      Susan Stryker, PhD, is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution, codirector of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria, and coedit
    • Ellis Martin
      Ellis Martin is an archivist working in cultural heritage digitization. He edited We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan alongside Zach Ozma.
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    3:30 PM
    Saturday, January 18, 2025
    3:30 PM
    Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly,
    United States,
    1952,
    (102 mins)

    Recommended for ages 6 & up
    4K Digital Restoration

    Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds dance their way across the screen in one of the greatest American musicals of all time, set during Hollywood’s transition from silent films to sound.
    6:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, January 18, 2025
    6:30 PM
    Glauber Rocha,
    Brazil,
    1969,
    (100 mins)
    As much a revolutionary cultural expression as a political allegory, Glauber Rocha’s color sequel to Black God, White Devil deals with the coming to political consciousness of the mercenary jagunço Antonio das Mortes, a paid killer of rebels and bandits in the backlands of Brazil.
    • Leila Weefur
      Introduction
      Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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    1:30 PM
    • Film
    • Performance
    Sunday, January 19, 2025
    1:30 PM
    G. W. Pabst,
    Germany,
    1929,
    (141 mins)
    Daring and stylish, Pandora's Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Louise Brooks’s dazzling individuality as the showgirl Lulu.
    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
    5:00 PM
    • Film
    • Free
    • In-Person
    Sunday, January 19, 2025
    5:00 PM
    Cheryl Dunye,
    United States,
    2001,
    (97 mins)

    Free Admission

    Yolanda Ross stars as a tough young butch in this terrific, rarely seen women’s prison drama from Cheryl Dunye (The Watermelon Woman).

    Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 4:00 PM.

    In Conversation
    • Cheryl Dunye
    • Allegra Madsen
      Allegra Madsen is the Executive Director at Frameline San Francisco LGBTQ+ Film Festival, the largest and longest-running queer film festival in the world.
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    7:00 PM
    Wednesday, January 22, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Federico Fellini,
    Italy,
    1960,
    (175 mins)
    A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.

    A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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    7:00 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, January 23, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Sidney Poitier,
    United States,
    1972,
    (102 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Sidney Poitier’s daring directorial debut, Buck and the Preacher, challenges notions of freedom for African Americans in the post–Civil War West in its depiction of the relentless pursuit of Black settlers by racist bounty hunters.
    • Leila Weefur
      Introduction
      Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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    3:00 PM
    Friday, January 24, 2025
    3:00 PM
    Cédric Kahn,
    France,
    2023,
    (115 mins)
    New York Times Critic’s Pick: “An electrifying courtroom drama” that delves into the sensationalized 1976 trial of Pierre Goldman. The film communicates so much about the complexity of Jewish identity in recent European history.
    7:00 PM
    • Film
    • Performance
    Friday, January 24, 2025
    7:00 PM
    G. W. Pabst,
    Germany,
    1929,
    (113 mins)
    Like much of G. W. Pabst’s best work, Diary of a Lost Girl was heavily cut by the censors. In the restored version, not only is the play of money and desire made explicit, but a comic spirit entirely missing from the censored versions emerges.
    • Judith Rosenberg
      On Piano
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    7:00 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, January 25, 2025
    7:00 PM
    John Ford,
    United States,
    1956,
    (119 mins)
    An essential reflection of American myths and prejudices that have yet to be overcome, starring John Wayne as a racist confederate veteran searching for his kidnapped niece.
    • Leila Weefur
      Introduction
      Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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    3:00 PM
    • Film
    Sunday, January 26, 2025
    3:00 PM
    Michelangelo Antonioni,
    France, Italy,
    1961,
    (122 mins)
    Novelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife, Jeanne Moreau, play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Michelangelo Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture.
    6:00 PM
    Sunday, January 26, 2025
    6:00 PM
    Henri-Georges Clouzot,
    France,
    1953,
    (147 mins)

    4K Digital Restoration

    Four desperate men are hired by a ruthless oil company to drive trucks filled with explosives across a mountainous South American country in one of the toughest noirs ever filmed. Starring Yves Montand. 
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    • Film
    • In-Person
    Wednesday, January 29, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Sérgio Toledo,
    Brazil,
    1986,
    (88 mins)
    One of the earliest portrayals in world cinema of a transmasculine character, a rarely seen Brazilian drama based on the life of the Brazilian trans poet Anderson Bigode Herzer.
    In Conversation
    • Jenni Olson
      Jenni Olson is a Berkeley-based queer film historian, writer, and filmmaker who is the proud proprietor of Butch.org, which features more information about all of her work as a longtime champion of LG
    • Julian Carter
      Julian Carter is the author of Dances of Time and Tenderness and The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America. He teaches at California College of the Arts.
    • João Federici
      João Federici is a Brazilian-American producer and curator. He works at CAFILM as Mill Valley Film Festival’s Senior Programmer and curator for special series, such as CAFILM Pride.
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    7:00 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Thursday, January 30, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa,
    France, Netherlands,
    2024,
    (145 mins)

    Bay Area Premiere

    Working with a crew of cinematographers positioned in different regions of Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa created a film that recounts the actions of the people who have resisted oppression on a daily basis since the Russian invasion began.
    • Sergei Loznitsa
      In Person
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    2:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, January 31, 2025
    2:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa,
    Netherlands, Ukraine,
    2021,
    (121 mins)
    Based entirely on archival footage (official documentation mixed with private footage shot by soldiers and civilians), Sergei Loznitsa’s film recounts the massacre of 33,771 Jews in the Babi Yar Ravine in Kyiv.
    In Conversation
    • Sergei Loznitsa
    • Nicholas Baer
      Nicholas Baer is an Assistant Professor of German at UC Berkeley.
    7:00 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Friday, January 31, 2025
    7:00 PM
    Quentin Tarantino,
    United States,
    2015,
    (168 mins)
    Quentin Tarantino’s post–Civil War whodunit entangles a group of strangers in a tense, claustrophobic racial standoff in a snowbound stagecoach lodge in Wyoming.
    • Leila Weefur
      Introduction
      Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Oakland.
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    2:30 PM
    Saturday, February 1, 2025
    2:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa,
    Germany,
    2022,
    (109 mins)
    An intense work of archival documentary filmmaking inspired by W. G. Sebold’s essay on the devastation of World War II urban bombing campaigns.
    In Conversation
    • Sergei Loznitsa
    • Deniz Göktürk
      Deniz Göktürk is a Professor of German and Film at UC Berkeley.
    6:30 PM
    • Film
    • In-Person
    Saturday, February 1, 2025
    6:30 PM
    Sergei Loznitsa,
    Lithuania, Netherlands,
    2019,
    (135 mins)
    Archival imagery of the news and state funeral for Joseph Stalin. “This expertly constructed rearranging of archival and propaganda footage is the rare film to merit immediate status as a canonical work” (Jay Weissberg, Variety).
    In Conversation
    • Sergei Loznitsa
    • Anne Nesbet
      Anne Nesbet is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Film & Media at UC Berkeley.