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4:30 PM
Sunday, April 29, 2018
4:30 PM
(75 mins)
Free Admission. Student Filmmakers in Person
We present this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video competition for the Eisner Prize, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creativity.
Free admission. Film tickets available at the will-call table beginning at 3:30 PM.
6:30 PM
Sunday, April 29, 2018
6:30 PM
Jennifer M. Kroot,
United States,
2017,
(90 mins)
From dutiful conservative Southern son to gay activist and San Francisco chronicler, Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin looks at his life with wry humor and some choice true tales.
8:45 PM
Sunday, April 29, 2018
8:45 PM
Errol Morris,
United States,
2003,
(107 mins)
Built around interviews with former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, Morris’s Academy Award–winning film is a haunted reflection on US military power from World War II through the war in Vietnam.
Series
Documenting Vietnam
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3:10 PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
3:10 PM
Yuri Tarich,
USSR,
1926,
(72 mins)
BAMPFA collection print
Directed by the Belarusian Yuri Tarich, this extraordinary 1926 Soviet silent film set in the sixteenth century was influential in the direction of Eisenstein’s two-part Ivan the Terrible (1944-46).
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
7 PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
7 PM
(95 mins)
Tonight’s program mingles short African fiction films with documentary essays from the diaspora. Discover works by Alassane Sy and Mamadou Dia (Senegal), Cedric Ido (Burkina Faso), Lebert Bethune (Jamaica), and Carlos Javier Ortiz (Oakland by way of Chicago).
Series
African Film Festival 2018
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7 PM
Thursday, May 3, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1953,
(92 mins)
Åke Grönberg and Harriet Andersson portray turn-of-the-century circus performers in Bergman’s earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation.
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7 PM
Friday, May 4, 2018
7 PM
João Moreira Salles,
Brazil,
2017,
(127 mins)
Salles portrays the pivotal, tumultuous 1960s through archival footage and home movies from May ’68 Paris, Soviet-invaded Czechoslovakia, China during the Cultural Revolution, and Brazil under military rule. “It’s a documentary that’s really a meditation—history made poetic” (Variety).
Series
Documentary Voices 2018
7:30 PM
Friday, May 4, 2018
7:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1949,
(84 mins)
A voyage across a war-scarred Europe forms the background of a married couple’s collapsing relationship in Bergman’s dreamlike early look at isolation, emotional torment, and romantic masochism. “A sort of Voyage in Italy revised by Sartre” (Cinema 58).
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
Series
Bergman 100: The Early Years
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1:30 PM
Saturday, May 5, 2018
1:30 PM
For the second of our Way Bay Days, four speakers take on four Bay Area artists: Xara Thustra, Kay Sekimachi, Carlos Villa, and Alice Anne Parker (Severson).
Included with admission
4 PM
Saturday, May 5, 2018
4 PM
(75 mins)
This selection of works from the exhibition Way Bay reveals the rich and varied landscape and people of the Bay Area. Featuring a time capsule of San Francisco before the 1906 quake and works by Bruce Baillie, Alice Anne Parker (Severson), Sara Kathyrn Arledge, and Ernie Gehr.
7:30 PM
Saturday, May 5, 2018
7:30 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2004,
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
An adolescent girl tries to save a man from sin in Martel’s hallucinatory look at religious devotion, sexual awakening, Lolita obsessions, and Catholic repressions in small-town Argentina. “A film that defies categorization, but I’m tempted to call it a miracle” (A. O. Scott).
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3:30 PM
Sunday, May 6, 2018
3:30 PM
Raúl Ruiz,
France, Italy, Portugal,
1999,
(158 mins)
New Digital Restoration
“For those who know the final volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Ruiz’s film sets off its own chain of memories and associations; for those who do not, it serves as a superb introduction to the shape and texture of the Proustian universe” (Dave Kehr).
4:30 PM
Sunday, May 6, 2018
4:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1949,
(84 mins)
A voyage across a war-scarred Europe forms the background of a married couple’s collapsing relationship in Bergman’s dreamlike early look at isolation, emotional torment, and romantic masochism. “A sort of Voyage in Italy revised by Sartre” (Cinema 58).
Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply
Series
Bergman 100: The Early Years
7 PM
Sunday, May 6, 2018
7 PM
Akin Omotoso,
South Africa,
2016,
(115 mins)
Three strangers from the South African hinterlands journey to bustling Johannesburg looking for success but find far more than they bargained for in this well-crafted urban noir, an Amores perros for twenty-first-century Africa.
Series
African Film Festival 2018
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7 PM
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1960,
(89 mins)
A stark medieval allegory of faith, sexual violence, and revenge. “Sven Nykvist's luminous black-and-white photography conspire[s] with the austerity of Bergman's imagery to create an extraordinary metaphysical charge” (Time Out).
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7 PM
Thursday, May 10, 2018
7 PM
Lucrecia Martel,
Argentina,
2008,
(87 mins)
A woman involved in a potentially tragic hit-and-run accident tries to ignore what happened in Martel’s disorienting, critically acclaimed suspense thriller. “If Hitchcock and Antonioni ever had an interest in class guilt, you’d have Martel” (Wesley Morris).
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Friday, May 11, 2018
6:30 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(101 mins)
As the series begins, tool maker Jochen (Gottfried John) and his crew are under pressure at the factory, and we meet Marion (Hanna Schygulla), Oma (Luise Ullrich), and Gregor (Werner Finck).
8:30 PM
Friday, May 11, 2018
8:30 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(100 mins)
The search for an affordable apartment leads Oma and Gregor down an unexpected path in this second episode of the series.
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Saturday, May 12, 2018
4:30 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(92 mins)
In the third episode, the factory workers want Franz (Wolfgang Schenck) for their foreman, but management has other ideas.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
6:45 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(89 mins)
The fourth episode of the series focuses on the personal struggles and complications that characters face outside working hours.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
8:30 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(89 mins)
In the final episode, management announces that the business is moving, and Jochen and his crew face new challenges and responsibilities.
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11:30 AM
Sunday, May 13, 2018
11:30 AM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(101 mins)
As the series begins, tool maker Jochen (Gottfried John) and his crew are under pressure at the factory, and we meet Marion (Hanna Schygulla), Oma (Luise Ullrich), and Gregor (Werner Finck).
1:30 PM
Sunday, May 13, 2018
1:30 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(100 mins)
The search for an affordable apartment leads Oma and Gregor down an unexpected path in this second episode of the series.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
3:45 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(92 mins)
In the third episode, the factory workers want Franz (Wolfgang Schenck) for their foreman, but management has other ideas.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
6 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(89 mins)
The fourth episode of the series focuses on the personal struggles and complications that characters face outside working hours.
Sunday, May 13, 2018
7:45 PM
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,
Germany,
1972-73,
(89 mins)
In the final episode, management announces that the business is moving, and Jochen and his crew face new challenges and responsibilities.
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3 PM
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
3 PM
(75 mins)
Copresented with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
This program of rare film fragments, commercials, and newsreels from the archives of the Swedish Film Institute offers glimpses of Garbo at various points throughout her career.
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7 PM
Friday, June 1, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1957,
(91 mins)
The film that cemented Bergman’s international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life’s failures, “Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema” (National Film Theatre, London).
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5 PM
Saturday, June 2, 2018
5 PM
Thomas Reidelsheimer,
United Kingdom,
2017,
(91 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
This visually striking, thought-provoking documentary about the British installation artist Andy Goldsworthy is a sequel to the director’s groundbreaking Rivers and Tides—Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time.
6:45 PM
Saturday, June 2, 2018
6:45 PM
Join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion following this visually striking, thought-provoking recent documentary about the British installation artist Andy Goldsworthy.
At Babette
$75 per person. Contact Babette at babettebam@gmail.com or (510) 684-3046 to purchase dinner tickets. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately.
7 PM
Saturday, June 2, 2018
7 PM
Stanley Kubrick,
United States,
1975,
(184 mins)
Digital Restoration
Kubrick’s historical drama follows the travails of a young Irishman (Ryan O’Neal) determined to rise in the world. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Soundtrack. “A movie at once florid in its realism and brazenly, gluttonously formalistic” (New York Times).
Series
Early Music on Film 2018
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