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3 PM
Sunday, November 25, 2018
3 PM
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
3:30 PM
Sunday, November 25, 2018
3:30 PM
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
7 PM
Sunday, November 25, 2018
7 PM
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.
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3:10 PM
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
3:10 PM
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
7 PM
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
7 PM
(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.
Series
Alternative Visions 2018
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Thursday, November 29, 2018
7 PM
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
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7 PM
Friday, November 30, 2018
7 PM
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).
7:30 PM
Friday, November 30, 2018
7:30 PM
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
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5:30 PM
Saturday, December 1, 2018
5:30 PM
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.
7:30 PM
Saturday, December 1, 2018
7:30 PM
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
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12:30 PM
Sunday, December 2, 2018
12:30 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1973,
(284 mins)
Digital Restoration
Bergman’s masterful reconstruction of the dissolution of a “perfect twosome” (Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann) is “a movie of . . . extraordinary intimacy” (New York Times).
Presented with intermissions
Series
Bergman 100: Full Circle
Sunday, December 2, 2018
7 PM
Sara Driver,
United States,
2017,
(78 mins)
Found footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews chronicle the artistic emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used New York City as both a canvas and a stage. “A treasure” (Hollywood Reporter).
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7:00 PM
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
7:00 PM
(84 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
A selection of Trnka’s 1960s masterpieces: politically defiant, visually innovative, surrealist, and satirical. Includes Archangel Gabriel and Mistress Goose, based on a story from the Decameron, and Trnka’s last film, the great antiauthoritarian parable The Hand.
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7 PM
Thursday, December 6, 2018
7 PM
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).
Series
Bergman 100: Full Circle
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Friday, December 7, 2018
4 PM
Sara Driver,
United States,
2017,
(78 mins)
Found footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews chronicle the artistic emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used New York City as both a canvas and a stage. “A treasure” (Hollywood Reporter).
7 PM
Friday, December 7, 2018
7 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1926,
(149 mins)
The Complete Version
Evil leaders, enslaved citizens, the orgiastic super-rich, and messiah robots populate Lang’s dystopian classic. Now over ninety years old, and still one of the most essential, influential science fiction films of all time.
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5:30 PM
Saturday, December 8, 2018
5:30 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1960,
(125 mins)
Digital Restoration
Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
7:40 PM
Saturday, December 8, 2018
7:40 PM
Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Following our screening of Billy Wilder's riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success, join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion. Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine star in this American classic, which won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction.
At Babette
$75 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
8 PM
Saturday, December 8, 2018
8 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1970,
(101 mins)
Bergman’s second color film is one of his sparest and most straightforward, involving four people who escape to a remote Swedish island, yet remain unable to escape the injustice of the modern world. “One of Bergman’s most beautiful films” (New York Times).
Series
Bergman 100: Full Circle
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2 PM
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2 PM
Jiří Trnka,
Czechoslovakia,
1959,
35mm Archival Print
This bewitching stop-motion adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic tale is a masterpiece of surpassing, balletic beauty that plays out amidst a garlanded, pastel dreamscape. With short The Devil’s Mill.
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 9, 2018
4:30 PM
Robert Wiene,
Germany,
1920,
(77 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
The quintessential German Expressionist film translates narrative and psychology into stunning set design.
7 PM
Sunday, December 9, 2018
7 PM
Nathaniel Kahn,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
Featuring an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
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6 PM
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
6 PM
MATRIX artist Arthur Jafa and UC Berkeley professor Stephen Best talk about the move from the cinema screen to the gallery, the politics of aesthetics, and the turn toward “Afropessimism.”
Included with admission
7 PM
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
7 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1953,
(96 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
In sixteenth-century Japan, a potter has his head turned by a phantom enchantress, with predictable results. “A shattering experience, among the greatest movies ever made” (New York Times).
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7 PM
Thursday, December 13, 2018
7 PM
Liv Ullmann,
Sweden,
2000,
(155 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Marriage and infidelity have rarely been treated as intelligently as in Liv Ullmann’s masterful adaptation of a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, featuring a narcissistic filmmaker also named Bergman. “An unqualified triumph” (Los Angeles Times).
Series
Bergman 100: Full Circle
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6:30 PM
Friday, December 14, 2018
6:30 PM
Ermanno Olmi,
Italy,
1961,
(93 mins)
Olmi’s humane, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young man embarking on his first job in Milan captures the alienation and regimentation of the working world.
8:30 PM
Friday, December 14, 2018
8:30 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1960,
(125 mins)
Digital Restoration
Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
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3:30 PM
Saturday, December 15, 2018
3:30 PM
Jiří Trnka,
Czechoslovakia,
1948,
(82 mins)
35mm Archival Print
Trnka’s adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a young Chinese emperor enraptured by the song of a mechanical nightingale is awash in lavish storybook imagery. With short Why UNESCO?
6 PM
Saturday, December 15, 2018
6 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1924,
(90 mins)
A proud hotel doorman falls from grace in Murnau’s classic of German Expressionism, whose roving camerawork and hallucinatory imagery “changed the way that movies were made” (Dave Kehr).
8 PM
Saturday, December 15, 2018
8 PM
Kenji Mizoguchi,
Japan,
1954,
(126 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Bring all your senses and your handkerchief to this haunting tale of a family (led by Kinuyo Tanaka) victimized by the cruel practices of feudal Japan, “developed with intuition, cunning, and an overarching sense of tragedy” (SF Weekly).
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2 PM
Sunday, December 16, 2018
2 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1975,
(176 mins)
Full-Length Television Version
Liv Ullmann gives a devastating performance in Bergman’s wrenching portrait of a successful psychiatrist on the brink of mental collapse. Bergman: “Regard it as a surgeon’s scalpel. Not everyone will welcome it.”
Presented with an intermission
Series
Bergman 100: Full Circle
6:30 PM
Sunday, December 16, 2018
6:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1943,
(80 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A young man learns dedication and discipline in life—and judo—in Kurosawa’s debut film, “a must for Kurosawa admirers” (Los Angeles Times).
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
7 PM
(74 mins)
See the range of Trnka’s craftmanship and artistry, from early hand-drawn cartoons to surrealist interventions to the expressive beauty of his stop-motion beginnings. The program includes Romance with Double Bass, The Gift, Springman and the SS, and more.
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7 PM
Thursday, December 20, 2018
7 PM
Ermanno Olmi,
Italy,
1978,
(186 mins)
Digital Restoration
Olmi won the Cannes Palme d’Or with this intimate epic of life, love, and work among three peasant families in turn-of-the-century Italy, a film of majesty made from minutiae. “A fully articulated work of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
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4 PM
Friday, December 21, 2018
4 PM
Nathaniel Kahn,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
Featuring an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
7 PM
Friday, December 21, 2018
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1982,
(183 mins)
Theatrical Version
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.
Series
Bergman 100: Full Circle
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6 PM
Saturday, December 22, 2018
6 PM
Milos Forman,
Czechoslovakia,
1967,
(75 mins)
Digital Restoration
A small-town party thrown by the local fire brigade soon goes up in flames in Forman’s takedown of bureaucracies big and small. Both sweet-natured and biting enough to worry Czech authorities, this satire is also “a tragicomedy of old age” (Raymond Durgnat).
8 PM
Saturday, December 22, 2018
8 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1960,
(125 mins)
Digital Restoration
Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
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Sunday, December 23, 2018
2 PM
Sara Driver,
United States,
2017,
(78 mins)
Found footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews chronicle the artistic emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used New York City as both a canvas and a stage. “A treasure” (Hollywood Reporter).
4 PM
Sunday, December 23, 2018
4 PM
Milos Forman,
Czechoslovakia,
1967,
(75 mins)
Digital Restoration
A small-town party thrown by the local fire brigade soon goes up in flames in Forman’s takedown of bureaucracies big and small. Both sweet-natured and biting enough to worry Czech authorities, this satire is also “a tragicomedy of old age” (Raymond Durgnat).
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4 PM
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
4 PM
Nathaniel Kahn,
United States,
2018,
(98 mins)
Featuring an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
6:30 PM
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
6:30 PM
Edmund Goulding,
United States,
1932,
(113 mins)
35mm 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 Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and John Barrymore.
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Thursday, December 27, 2018
12 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1983,
(312 mins)
Full-Length Television Version
A rare theatrical presentation of Bergman’s magnum opus in its full-length television version, which runs more than five hours. Bergman himself described the project as “the sum total of my life as a filmmaker.”
Presented with intermissions
Series
Bergman 100: Full Circle
7 PM
Thursday, December 27, 2018
7 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1960,
(125 mins)
Digital Restoration
Jack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
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2:30 PM
Friday, December 28, 2018
2:30 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1925, reedited 1942,
(72 mins)
Recommended for ages 8 & up
A hapless prospector tries his luck in the frozen north in a film that glitters with some of Charlie Chaplin’s most memorable nuggets of comedy.
4:15 PM
Friday, December 28, 2018
4:15 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1951,
(125 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
An exquisite, faintly melancholy portrait of a family, with Setsuko Hara as the daughter on whose marriage everything depends. “I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life” (Ozu).
7 PM
Friday, December 28, 2018
7 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1926,
(107 mins)
Murnau’s version of the Faust legend is a masterwork of chiaroscuro lighting, and helped redefine what black-and-white cinematography could accomplish. Emil Jannings stars as a subtly mischievous Mephistopheles.
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3 PM
Saturday, December 29, 2018
3 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2001,
(125 mins)
English-language version
In this Oscar-winning animated fantasy, a ten-year-old girl and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom.
5:30 PM
Saturday, December 29, 2018
5:30 PM
Ermanno Olmi,
Italy,
1961,
(93 mins)
Olmi’s humane, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young man embarking on his first job in Milan captures the alienation and regimentation of the working world.
7:45 PM
Saturday, December 29, 2018
7:45 PM
Masahiro Shinoda,
Japan,
1969,
(100 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Shinoda’s “remix” of a classic Japanese bunraku puppet play finds live actors, puppets, and their handlers all part of the action, heightened by a Brechtian divide between “story” and “telling” and a jarring score by Toru Takemitsu.
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Sunday, December 30, 2018
3 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1919,
(75 mins)
Lang’s extravagant globetrotting serial moves from San Francisco’s Chinatown to Peru and Asia as an adventurer battles the worldwide criminal gang known as The Spiders, led by femme fatale Lio Shia.
4:45 PM
Sunday, December 30, 2018
4:45 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1919,
(100 mins)
The continuation of Lang’s sensational serial, a time capsule of European exotica.
7 PM
Sunday, December 30, 2018
7 PM
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
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