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28 2 PM In Darkness Film In-Person Sunday, October 28, 2018 2 PM In Darkness Agnieszka Holland, Canada, Germany, Poland, 2011, (144 mins) During the Nazi occupation of Lvov, Poland, a sewage worker profits by hiding a group of fugitive Jews in the town’s sewers. This claustrophobic, searing drama is “the most volatile film Holland has directed. . . . Honesty is the movie’s greatest strength” (David Denby). In Conversation Agnieszka Holland Karolina Pasternak Karolina Pasternak is a widely published journalist and film critic for the Polish edition of Newsweek; her commentaries on cinema are regularly broadcast on Polish radio and television. Series Afterimage: Agnieszka Holland Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 3 PM The Blessed Ones Film Sunday, October 28, 2018 3 PM The Blessed Ones Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1986, (81 mins) Bergman’s first feature after abandoning 35mm film for television is a tale of tortured love between a middle-aged woman and a slightly younger man. “A melodrama reeking of both sulphur and perfume” (Dagens nyheter). Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply Series Bergman 100: Late Works Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Sandra Film Sunday, October 28, 2018 7 PM Sandra Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1965, (105 mins) Digital Restoration This somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust. Series Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29	30	31 3:10 PM Hour of the Wolf Film In-Person Wednesday, October 31, 2018 3:10 PM Hour of the Wolf Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1968, (90 mins) Digital Restoration A woman (Liv Ullmann) tells of her life on a remote island with her artist husband (Max von Sydow) in a film that intertwines supernatural mysteries with the no less mysterious torments of creativity. 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. Linda H. Rugg Lecture A professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, Linda H. Rugg has written extensively on Ingmar Bergman. Series In Focus: Ingmar Bergman Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Afterimage: EMPTY METAL Film In-Person Wednesday, October 31, 2018 7 PM Afterimage: EMPTY METAL Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, United States, 2018, (93 mins) Empty Metal takes place in a world similar to ours—one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy—as it follows the lives of several people attempting to bring about change. With short The Violence of a Civilization Without Secrets. In Conversation Adam Khalil Bayley Sweitzer Diana Ruíz Diana Ruíz is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley. Series Alternative Visions 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 7 PM Senso Film Thursday, November 1, 2018 7 PM Senso Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1954, (123 mins) Digital Restoration An unhappily married Italian countess embarks on a doomed love affair with an Austrian officer in Visconti’s operatic, meticulously detailed tale of nationalism and destructive passion. “Visconti here moves his camera as if it were a conductor’s baton” (Artforum). Series Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 4 PM Out of the Vault: Radical Shorts Film In-Person Friday, November 2, 2018 4 PM Out of the Vault: Radical Shorts (90 mins) BAMPFA Collection Prints This assembly of radical works encompasses local activism (Newsreel’s Black Panther and San Francisco State on Strike), global movements (Santiago Alvarez’s Now! and 79 Springtimes), and feminist statements (Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley’s Schmeerguntz). The Black Aesthetic Introduction The Black Aesthetic is a creative organization whose mission is to curate and assemble a collective and distinct understanding of black visual culture. Series 1968 and Global Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM L’Atalante Film Friday, November 2, 2018 7 PM L’Atalante Jean Vigo, France, 1934, (89 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Vigo’s only full-length feature is a poetic masterpiece on the theme of passionate love, following a young barge captain and his peasant bride in their first days together. “One of the most magical of French masterpieces” (Variety). Series Jean Vigo Regained Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM The Blessed Ones Film Friday, November 2, 2018 7:30 PM The Blessed Ones Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1986, (81 mins) Bergman’s first feature after abandoning 35mm film for television is a tale of tortured love between a middle-aged woman and a slightly younger man. “A melodrama reeking of both sulphur and perfume” (Dagens nyheter). Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply Series Bergman 100: Late Works SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	3 5:30 PM WR: Mysteries of the Organism Film Saturday, November 3, 2018 5:30 PM WR: Mysteries of the Organism Dusan Makavejev, Yugoslavia, 1971, (84 mins) BAMPFA Collection Print Film to Table dinner follows Makavejev brings a surreal combinatory style and radical sexual politics to a docu-fictional exploration of Wilhelm Reich and his implications for world revolution. Pavle Levi Introduction Pavle Levi is a professor of film and media studies at Stanford. He has written extensively about Yugoslav cinema and the films of Dusan Makavejev. Series 1968 and Global Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELLED: Film to Table: WR: Mysteries of the Organism Activity Film Saturday, November 3, 2018 7 PM CANCELLED: Film to Table: WR: Mysteries of the Organism Four-course dinner with wine pairing Join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion following this 1971 film, which brings a surreal combinatory style and radical sexual politics to a docu-fictional exploration of Wilhelm Reich and his implications for world revolution. At Babette $75 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions. Series Film to Table Dinners at Babette 2018 Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM The Stranger Film Saturday, November 3, 2018 7:30 PM The Stranger Luchino Visconti, Algeria, France, Italy, 1967, (104 mins) Imported 35mm Print A rare opportunity to see this adaptation of the great existentialist novel, with Marcello Mastroianni as Camus’s archetype of alienation. Visconti vividly re-creates 1930s colonial Algiers. Series Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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4 11 AM–3 PM Fall Free Family Day Art Families Film Free Performance Sunday, November 4, 2018 11 AM–3 PM Fall Free Family Day Explore BAMPFA exhibitions, make your own art, enjoy a performance by Unique Derique, and check out a screening of animated films by John Canemaker—bring the family and make a day of it! Free admission Series Family Events 2018 Google Calendar ICS 4 PM After the Rehearsal Film In-Person Sunday, November 4, 2018 4 PM After the Rehearsal Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1984, (72 mins) Imported 35mm Print BAMPFA Student Committee Pick A spare, pellucid work featuring three actors (Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, and Lena Olin) in one set, After the Rehearsal is a far-reaching meditation on life, theater, and the connections between the two. In Conversation Katinka Faragó Swedish filmmaker Katinka Faragó worked with Ingmar Bergman as a script consultant, continuity expert, production manager, and producer; she joins us for a discussion before the screening. Linda H. Rugg A professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, Linda H. Rugg has written extensively on Ingmar Bergman. Series Bergman 100: Discoveries & Rarities Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 4PM Curator's Circle: Film to Table with Katinka Faragó Film Members Sunday, November 4, 2018 4PM Curator's Circle: Film to Table with Katinka Faragó Open to Curator’s Circle members at the $2,500 level and above. Curator’s Circle members are invited to a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s late film After the Rehearsal (1984), featuring Swedish filmmaker Katinka Faragó in conversation with Susan Oxtoby, and followed by an intimate dinner with both. For Curator's Circle members only. 4:00–5:30 p.m. discussion and screening; 6:00–8:00 p.m. hosted dinner at Babette Series Curator's Circle Events Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Winter Shooting: L’Atalante—Rushes and Outtakes Film Sunday, November 4, 2018 7 PM Winter Shooting: L’Atalante—Rushes and Outtakes Bernard Eisenschitz, France, 2017, (80 mins) A montage of outtakes and rushes from Vigo’s masterpiece, compiled and narrated by film critic and historian Bernard Eisenschitz, offers insight into the methods of an inspired filmmaker. With Vigo’s Taris and Swimming. Series Jean Vigo Regained Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5	6	7 3:10 PM Shame Film In-Person Wednesday, November 7, 2018 3:10 PM Shame Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1968, (103 mins) Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow star in “Bergman’s simple, masterly vision of normal war and what it does to survivors. Set a tiny step into the future, the film has the inevitability of a common dream” (Pauline Kael). 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. In Conversation Katinka Faragó Katinka Faragó was a longtime collaborator of Ingmar Bergman. She joins Linda H. Rugg for a conversation about the making of Shame following the screening. Linda H. Rugg A professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, Linda H. Rugg has written extensively on Ingmar Bergman. Series In Focus: Ingmar Bergman Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa Film In-Person Wednesday, November 7, 2018 7 PM Underground International: Kurt Kren and Tomonari Nishikawa (65 mins) BAMPFA Student Committee Pick Interweaving works by a pioneering Austrian and a contemporary US-based Japanese filmmaker, this program highlights connections across continents and generations animating the structural filmmaking tradition. In Conversation Tomonari Nishikawa Patrick Harrison Patrick Harrison is a doctoral student in film and media at UC Berkeley. He and Megan Hoetger guest curated tonight’s program. Megan Hoetger Megan Hoetger, a doctoral candidate in performance studies, wrote her dissertation on Kurt Kren. Series Alternative Visions 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 7:30 PM The Treasure Film In-Person Thursday, November 8, 2018 7:30 PM The Treasure Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2015, (89 mins) Two cash-strapped neighbors rent a metal detector to search for treasure that may or may not be buried at one’s family home in this disarming, deadpan parable on bureaucracy, hope, and unearthing the past. “A movie that lives up to its name” (New York Times). Corneliu Porumboiu In Person Series Afterimage: Corneliu Porumboiu Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9 4 PM Zama Film Friday, November 9, 2018 4 PM Zama Lucrecia Martel, Argentina, 2017, (115 mins) The latest feature from acclaimed director Martel is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Police, Adjective Film In-Person Friday, November 9, 2018 7 PM Police, Adjective Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2009, (113 mins) The Wire in Romania; Serpico with a thesaurus: a beat cop tails a teenage pot smoker around town, and engages his superiors in verbal battles about law, language, and justice. “Extraordinary” (Variety). In Conversation Corneliu Porumboiu Mona Nicoară Mona Nicoară is a documentary filmmaker, writer, film curator, and activist. Her documentary Our School won the top prize at AFI SilverDocs in 2011. Series Afterimage: Corneliu Porumboiu Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10 2 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Film Saturday, November 10, 2018 2 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1968, (159 mins) 50th Anniversary Rerelease Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety). Screening includes intermission Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 5:30 PM 12:08 East of Bucharest Film In-Person Saturday, November 10, 2018 5:30 PM 12:08 East of Bucharest Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2006, (89 mins) A provincial TV talk show turns into a battle over the history of the Romanian revolution in Porumboiu’s hilarious allegory, winner of Cannes’ Caméra d’Or. Corneliu Porumboiu In Conversation Mona Nicoară In Conversation Mona Nicoară is a documentary filmmaker, writer, film curator, and activist. Her documentary Our School won the top prize at AFI SilverDocs in 2011. Series Afterimage: Corneliu Porumboiu Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8 PM Senso Film Saturday, November 10, 2018 8 PM Senso Luchino Visconti, Italy, 1954, (123 mins) Digital Restoration An unhappily married Italian countess embarks on a doomed love affair with an Austrian officer in Visconti’s operatic, meticulously detailed tale of nationalism and destructive passion. “Visconti here moves his camera as if it were a conductor’s baton” (Artforum). Series Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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11 3:30 PM Infinite Football Film In-Person Sunday, November 11, 2018 3:30 PM Infinite Football Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2017, (70 mins) Perhaps the purest expression of one of Porumboiu’s favorite themes, rules vs. freedom, Infinite Football documents an unassuming bureaucrat with a unique extracurricular passion: attempting to revolutionize the rules of football. Corneliu Porumboiu In Person Series Afterimage: Corneliu Porumboiu Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Cow Film In-Person Sunday, November 11, 2018 7 PM The Cow Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 1968, (105 mins) This landmark of the Iranian New Wave is a portrait of village life where isolation and extreme poverty create their own social structure. “The first Iranian film to deal with the small-scale, the unredeemed and the unheroic” (Hamidreza Sadr). Targol Mesbah Introduction Targol Mesbah teaches critical theory and media studies in the Department of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Series 1968 and Global Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	12	13	14 3:10 PM Cries and Whispers Film In-Person Wednesday, November 14, 2018 3:10 PM Cries and Whispers Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1972, (91 mins) A dying woman (Harriet Andersson) is attended by her sisters (Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin) at a country house. “A laceratingly beautiful attempt to explore the human need not only to draw comfort from the past, but to project love back into its dusty reaches” (Monthly Film Bulletin). 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. Linda H. Rugg Lecture A professor in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley, Linda H. Rugg has written extensively on Ingmar Bergman. Series In Focus: Ingmar Bergman Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM As Above, So Below Film In-Person Wednesday, November 14, 2018 7 PM As Above, So Below Larry Clark, United States, 1973, (61 mins) Clark’s drama of post-Watts resistance and black power is a rediscovered masterpiece and a key work of the L.A. Rebellion. With Frances Bodomo’s short Everybody Dies! In Conversation Larry Clark Ra Malika Imhotep Ra Malika Imhotep is a black feminist writer and root worker currently pursuing a doctoral degree in black studies at UC Berkeley. Jamal Batts Jamal Batts is a black queer cultural critic, doctoral student in black studies at UC Berkeley, and member of The Black Aesthetic. Series Alternative Visions 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15 7 PM Ciné-tracts Film In-Person Thursday, November 15, 2018 7 PM Ciné-tracts Jean-Luc Godard, Jackie Raynal, Alain Resnais, Philippe Garrel, Gérard Fromanger, et al., France, 1968, (55 mins) A selection of formally inventive, highly politicized short silent films made amid the strikes and uprisings of 1968 Paris. Julia Nelsen Introduction Julia Nelsen is program manager at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies. Series 1968 and Global Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16 3:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Film Friday, November 16, 2018 3:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1968, (159 mins) 50th Anniversary Rerelease Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety). Screening includes intermission Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism Film Friday, November 16, 2018 7 PM When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 2013, (89 mins) Imported 35mm Print Continuing his very particular parsing of language and politics—here, the politics are cinematic—Porumboiu follows a film director rehearsing the details of a nude scene with his lead actress. Series Afterimage: Corneliu Porumboiu Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM In the Presence of a Clown Film Friday, November 16, 2018 7:30 PM In the Presence of a Clown Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1997, (120 mins) Bergman’s eccentric made-for-television drama, set in a Swedish insane asylum in 1925, is both a fond tribute to Swedish silent cinema and an autumnal look back at the director’s own career. Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply Series Bergman 100: Late Works Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17 3:30 PM Zero for Conduct Film Saturday, November 17, 2018 3:30 PM Zero for Conduct Jean Vigo, France, 1933, (90 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A boarding school becomes a center of rebellion in Vigo’s exuberant antiestablishment classic. Followed by outtakes from the film and Vigo’s witty short À propos de Nice. Series Jean Vigo Regained Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5:30 PM Soleil Ô Film In-Person Saturday, November 17, 2018 5:30 PM Soleil Ô Med Hondo, Mauritania, 1970, (98 mins) New Digital Restoration A laborer moves from West Africa to Paris in search of a better life, but finds instead a modern version of slavery, in this “scathing attack on colonialism” (Harvard Film Archive). Christina Gerhardt Introduction Guest curator Christina Gerhardt, a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies, discusses her new book 1968 and Global Cinema, coedited with Sara Saljoughi. Series 1968 and Global Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8 PM The Third Murder Film Saturday, November 17, 2018 8 PM The Third Murder Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2017, (125 mins) Kore-eda’s latest film is “a captivating puzzle” (The Guardian). A man has confessed to murder, but when his defense lawyer tries to establish a motive, he wanders into a web of uncertainties that are both factual and existential. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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18 2 PM Ludwig Film Sunday, November 18, 2018 2 PM Ludwig Luchino Visconti, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, 1973, (238 mins) Imported 35mm Print Visconti gives the tragic life of the mad king of Bavaria an epic treatment, dazzling in its historical detail. “Ludwig is a passion play: a mass” (Film Comment). “An opulent, trance-like biopic” (Artforum). Series Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 2:45 PM In the Presence of a Clown Film Sunday, November 18, 2018 2:45 PM In the Presence of a Clown Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1997, (120 mins) Bergman’s eccentric made-for-television drama, set in a Swedish insane asylum in 1925, is both a fond tribute to Swedish silent cinema and an autumnal look back at the director’s own career. Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply Series Bergman 100: Late Works SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Blind Chance Film Sunday, November 18, 2018 7 PM Blind Chance Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1981/87, (120 mins) Digital Restoration Kieslowski’s Solidarity-era work is three films in one, telling the possible futures of its protagonist: Party member, dissident, or apolitical family man. “One of Kieslowski’s best films. . . . Should not be missed” (Hollywood Reporter). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19	20	21	22	23 All Day Closed: Film Library & Study Center Film Friday, November 23, 2018 All Day Closed: Film Library & Study Center The BAMPFA Film Library & Study Center is closed today. Google Calendar ICS 5 PM L’Atalante Film Friday, November 23, 2018 5 PM L’Atalante Jean Vigo, France, 1934, (89 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Vigo’s only full-length feature is a poetic masterpiece on the theme of passionate love, following a young barge captain and his peasant bride in their first days together. “One of the most magical of French masterpieces” (Variety). Series Jean Vigo Regained Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Third Murder Film Friday, November 23, 2018 7 PM The Third Murder Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2017, (125 mins) Kore-eda’s latest film is “a captivating puzzle” (The Guardian). A man has confessed to murder, but when his defense lawyer tries to establish a motive, he wanders into a web of uncertainties that are both factual and existential. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	24 1:30 PM Howl’s Moving Castle Families Film Saturday, November 24, 2018 1:30 PM Howl’s Moving Castle Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2004, (119 mins) Digital Restoration Recommended for ages 9 & up Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones, this spectacular anime blends European fairy tale with director Hayao Miyazaki’s distinctive sensibility. Series Movie Matinees for All Ages 2018 SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 4 PM Blind Chance Film Saturday, November 24, 2018 4 PM Blind Chance Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, 1981/87, (120 mins) Digital Restoration Kieslowski’s Solidarity-era work is three films in one, telling the possible futures of its protagonist: Party member, dissident, or apolitical family man. “One of Kieslowski’s best films. . . . Should not be missed” (Hollywood Reporter). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Film Saturday, November 24, 2018 6:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1968, (159 mins) 50th Anniversary Rerelease Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety). Screening includes intermission Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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25 3 PM The Image Makers Film Sunday, November 25, 2018 3 PM The Image Makers Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 2000, (100 mins) A great filmmaker pays homage to another: Bergman’s television play documents a behind-the-scene moment from the creation of Victor Sjöström’s silent film classic The Phantom Carriage, one of Bergman’s favorite works. Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply Series Bergman 100: Late Works SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 3:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Film Sunday, November 25, 2018 3:30 PM 2001: A Space Odyssey Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1968, (159 mins) 50th Anniversary Rerelease Kubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety). Screening includes intermission Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Conversation Piece Film Sunday, November 25, 2018 7 PM Conversation Piece Luchino Visconti, France, Italy, 1974, (121 mins) Imported 35mm Print When aging professor Burt Lancaster rents the upper flat of his palazzo to a Roman matron and her gigolo, his life’s denouement is invaded by la dolce vita. Series Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26	27	28 3:10 PM Fanny and Alexander Film In-Person Wednesday, November 28, 2018 3:10 PM Fanny and Alexander Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1982, (188 mins) This chronicle of an early twentieth-century theatrical family, told from the perspective of a young brother and sister, is comic and tragic, opulent and intellectual, mystical and autobiographical. Bergman called it “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.” 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. Series In Focus: Ingmar Bergman Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Three Films Film In-Person Wednesday, November 28, 2018 7 PM The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors: Three Films (84 mins) Three works bear personal witness to collective histories, from Auschwitz to the Japanese internment to postwar Japan: Rea Tajiri’s History and Memory, Abraham Ravett’s The March, and Jeffrey Skoller’s recent The Unimagined Lives of Our Neighbors. Jeffrey Skoller In Person Series Alternative Visions 2018 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 7 PM The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan—Summer in Sanrizuka Film Thursday, November 29, 2018 7 PM The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan—Summer in Sanrizuka Shinsuke Ogawa, Japan, 1968, (108 mins) Archival Print Ogawa’s battle-scarred call-to-arms follows Japanese student activists and radical laborers fighting against forced eviction. A classic of activist documentary by an essential but little-known filmmaker. Series 1968 and Global Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	30 7 PM The Innocent Film Friday, November 30, 2018 7 PM The Innocent Luchino Visconti, France, Italy, 1976, (129 mins) Imported 35mm Print Giancarlo Giannini in Visconti’s final work, a sumptuous, sensuous adaptation of the d’Annunzio novel. “One of Visconti’s most beautiful films [and] one of his most terse, most dramatically economical” (New York Times). Series Luchino Visconti: Cinema of Struggle and Splendor Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM The Image Makers Film Friday, November 30, 2018 7:30 PM The Image Makers Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 2000, (100 mins) A great filmmaker pays homage to another: Bergman’s television play documents a behind-the-scene moment from the creation of Victor Sjöström’s silent film classic The Phantom Carriage, one of Bergman’s favorite works. Screening in Theater 2; regular film ticket prices apply Series Bergman 100: Late Works Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 5:30 PM The Good Soldier Švejk Film Saturday, December 1, 2018 5:30 PM The Good Soldier Švejk Jiří Trnka, Czechoslovakia, 1954, (86 mins) This riotous antiauthoritarian satire—a stop-motion adaptation of the famous Czech antiwar novel—follows a beer-loving, order-ignoring infantryman who “speaks truth to power” by simply repeating its idiocies. Screening with The Two Frosts. Series The Puppet Master: The Films of Jiří Trnka Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM Persona Film Saturday, December 1, 2018 7:30 PM Persona Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 1966, (85 mins) Digital Restoration Exploring the strange symbiosis between a speechless actress (Liv Ullmann) and her nurse companion (Bibi Andersson), this is “Bergman at his most brilliant” (Time Out). Series Bergman 100: Full Circle Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS