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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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2 PM
Sunday, June 3, 2018
2 PM
Nayo Titzin,
Bulgaria,
2010,
(56 mins)
This behind-the-scenes look at an opera production documents a performance of Handel’s Agrippina by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, as conducted by René Jacobs and performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Series
Early Music on Film 2018
6:30 PM
Sunday, June 3, 2018
6:30 PM
King Hu,
Taiwan,
1971,
(180 mins)
Digital Restoration
A swordswoman on the run takes refuge with a shy scholar, but soon finds herself back under attack. King Hu’s visionary martial arts epic turns swordplay into ballet, and remains one of the greatest action films of all time.
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1:30 PM
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
1:30 PM
Emanuele Garofalo,
France, Italy,
2009,
(116 mins)
L’Orfeo showcases Robert Wilson’s wonderful minimalist interpretation of Monteverdi’s seminal first opera, based on Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Performed by the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini.
Series
Early Music on Film 2018
7 PM
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
7 PM
(90 mins)
Svenska Filminstitutet curator Jon Wengström shares films featuring Bergman as a director on set, offering insights into his working process and collaborations with actors.
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1:30 PM
Thursday, June 7, 2018
1:30 PM
Stéphane Metge,
2016,
(136 mins)
Handel’s allegorical first oratorio comes alive in stage director Krzysztof Warlikowski’s contemporary adaptation. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts her ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée, with Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Sara Mingardo, and Michael Spyres.
Series
Early Music on Film 2018
7 PM
Thursday, June 7, 2018
7 PM
Clarence Brown,
United States,
1926,
(112 mins)
Archival Print
The attentions of a countess (Garbo) transform lifelong friends (John Gilbert and Lars Hanson) into bitter rivals in this fine example of the artistic and technical heights achieved by the Hollywood silent cinema in the late 1920s.
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2:30 PM
Friday, June 8, 2018
2:30 PM
Sergei Paradjanov,
USSR,
1969,
(75 mins)
Digital Restoration
This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese).
Series
Early Music on Film 2018
7 PM
Friday, June 8, 2018
7 PM
Valeska Grisebach,
Austria, Bulgaria, Germany,
2017,
(120 mins)
East Bay Premiere
This intense, slow-burning thriller follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. “A stunning existential study of masculinity” (Sight & Sound).
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6 PM
Saturday, June 9, 2018
6 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1951,
(96 mins)
A prima ballerina impulsively revisits the island of her youth and, in flashbacks, her first and only love. Bergman’s breakthrough film is a magical fusion of sunstruck elegiac love poem and dark suggestion.
8:15 PM
Saturday, June 9, 2018
8:15 PM
Sergei Paradjanov,
USSR,
1969,
(75 mins)
Digital Restoration
This magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese).
Series
Early Music on Film 2018
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4 PM
Sunday, June 10, 2018
4 PM
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly,
United States,
1952,
(102 mins)
Digital Restoration
In this vastly entertaining film, Gene Kelly is brilliant as the silent star who connives to pull his pathetic partner Jean Hagen into the world of sound by sidestepping the talkies altogether and inventing the musical, where Debbie Reynolds can do the singing offscreen.
At Outdoor Screen
Free on the outdoor screen.
Bring a lawn chair or blanket to sit on.
5 PM
Sunday, June 10, 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.
7 PM
Sunday, June 10, 2018
7 PM
Clarence Brown,
United States,
1928,
(90 mins)
Garbo delivers one of her finest performances and a feminist punch in this tale of an English aristocrat who acts out with calculated recklessness. John Gilbert and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. costar.
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7 PM
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
7 PM
Milos Forman,
United States,
1984,
(180 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
This adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s “black opera” reinterprets the life of Mozart (Tom Hulce) as seen through the eyes of his envious rival Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham). Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Screenplay, and Sound Design.
Series
Early Music on Film 2018
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7 PM
Thursday, June 14, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1953,
(96 mins)
Bergman naturalistically captures the sensuality and anguish of a youthful summer love affair in this acclaimed early work, which balances eroticism with bleak commentary.
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5 PM
Friday, June 15, 2018
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France, United States,
1980,
(81 mins)
Digital Restoration
Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, the great Agnès Varda looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980.
7 PM
Friday, June 15, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1960,
(140 mins)
Imported Print
Monica Vitti on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times).
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
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4:30 PM
Saturday, June 16, 2018
4:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1975,
(135 mins)
This witty, loving adaptation of Mozart’s exuberant opera revels in its own theatricality, revealing the joy and wonder in Bergman’s metaphysics. “A blissful present, sensuous, luxuriant” (New Yorker).
7:30 PM
Saturday, June 16, 2018
7:30 PM
Rouben Mamoulian,
United States,
1933,
(97 mins)
Garbo explores the pains and pleasures of crossing between nations, genders, and sexualities in this loose biography of the Swedish Queen Christina, as infamous as Garbo for being a powerful, cross-dressing, girl-kissing woman.
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5 PM
Sunday, June 17, 2018
5 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1955,
(87 mins)
A fashion director (Eva Dahlbeck) and her top model (Harriet Andersson) grapple with relationships old and new in Bergman’s film that explores love as a function of reflection and projection.
7 PM
Sunday, June 17, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1961,
(122 mins)
Digital Restoration
Novelist Marcello Mastroianni and his wife Jeanne Moreau play out a drama of marital disillusionment against Antonioni’s rigorous sense of place and architecture.
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
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7 PM
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1962,
(125 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine, drifting out of one affair and into another with Alain Delon’s mercurial stockbroker” (Village Voice). “Perhaps the director’s most savage blast of gorgeous B&W ennui” (Time Out).
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
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7 PM
Thursday, June 21, 2018
7 PM
Valeska Grisebach,
Austria, Bulgaria, Germany,
2017,
(120 mins)
East Bay Premiere
This intense, slow-burning thriller follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. “A stunning existential study of masculinity” (Sight & Sound).
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5 PM
Friday, June 22, 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.
7 PM
Friday, June 22, 2018
7 PM
Clarence Brown,
United States,
1930,
(90 mins)
A world-weary Swedish girl (Garbo) makes her way back to her father’s fishing barge in Garbo’s sound debut, theatrically directed by Clarence Brown and costarring Charles Bickford and Marie Dressler.
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6 PM
Saturday, June 23, 2018
6 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1955,
(108 mins)
Couples meet, split, and reconverge at a country house in the summer of 1900 in Bergman’s carnal comedy. “A tragic-comic chase and roundelay [carried] into elegance and lyric poetry” (Pauline Kael).
8:15 PM
Saturday, June 23, 2018
8:15 PM
Věra Chytilová,
Czechoslovakia,
1966,
(74 mins)
35mm Print
Chytilová's most acclaimed film, spawned by the Prague Spring, is a brilliantly colored surrealist comedy starring a couple of chicks in search of kicks.
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5 PM
Sunday, June 24, 2018
5 PM
Alison McAlpine,
Canada, Chile,
2017,
(78 mins)
East Bay Premiere
Poet-turned-filmmaker Alison McAlpine finds her wonder at the night sky of Chile’s Atacama Desert reflected in the people she meets there, from cowboys to algae collectors, astronomers to miners and storytellers. “A beautiful film” (Walter Murch).
7 PM
Sunday, June 24, 2018
7 PM
Edmund Goulding,
United States,
1932,
(113 mins)
Archival Print
Edmund Goulding’s masterpiece of set design and art direction tracks the denizens of Berlin’s Grand Hotel before the rise of fascism. The all-star cast includes Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and John Barrymore.
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7 PM
Wednesday, June 27, 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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28
7 PM
Thursday, June 28, 2018
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1960,
(140 mins)
Imported Print
Monica Vitti on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times).
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
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4:30 PM
Friday, June 29, 2018
4:30 PM
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel,
France, Switzerland,
2016,
(104 mins)
Back by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
7 PM
Friday, June 29, 2018
7 PM
Clarence Brown,
United States,
1935,
(94 mins)
Nothing says movie romance like a doomed love triangle, and this is one of the best: Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone, and Frederic March star in Clarence Brown’s swooning adaptation of the great Tolstoy novel.
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6 PM
Saturday, June 30, 2018
6 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
France, Italy,
1964,
(113 mins)
Antonioni’s first color film draws images of alarming beauty from environmental apocalypse as an industrialist’s wife (Monica Vitti) suffers a nervous breakdown. “Never has so bleak a vision of contemporary life been projected with more intensity” (Time).
Series
Michelangelo Antonioni
8:30 PM
Saturday, June 30, 2018
8:30 PM
Alison McAlpine,
Canada, Chile,
2017,
(78 mins)
East Bay Premiere
Poet-turned-filmmaker Alison McAlpine finds her wonder at the night sky of Chile’s Atacama Desert reflected in the people she meets there, from cowboys to algae collectors, astronomers to miners and storytellers. “A beautiful film” (Walter Murch).
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