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3 PM
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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7 PM
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
7 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1919,
Restored Print
Lang’s version of Madame Butterfly changes the title character from geisha to noblewoman, and was one of the first European films to depict Japanese culture. “Refreshingly stereotype-free, the film demonstrates that silent film can rival opera in emotional impact” (Tom Vick).
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7 PM
Thursday, January 10, 2019
7 PM
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese,
Germany,
1920,
(76 mins)
Digital Restoration
A rabbi in medieval Prague conjures a monster to protect his people from destruction in this visually astounding retelling of the Golem myth, shot by gifted cinematographer Karl Freund (The Last Laugh; Metropolis).
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7 PM
Friday, January 11, 2019
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1952,
(143 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
In Kurosawa’s humanist masterpiece, an ordinary civil servant discovers what it means to live. This Japanese Everyman was perhaps Takashi Shimura’s greatest role.
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6 PM
Saturday, January 12, 2019
6 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1948,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
De Sica’s tale of a father and son searching the streets of Rome for their stolen bicycle is a masterwork of Italian neorealism, “an allegory at once timeless and topical” (Village Voice).
7:40 PM
Saturday, January 12, 2019
7:40 PM
Four-course dinner with wine pairing
Following our screening of Vittorio De Sica’s masterwork of Italian neorealism, join fellow cinephiles at our table for dinner and discussion.
At Babette
SOLD OUT
$75 per person. Film and dinner tickets must be purchased separately. Call Babette at (510) 684-3046 with questions.
8 PM
Saturday, January 12, 2019
8 PM
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino,
United States,
1949,
(94 mins)
Digital Restoration
A waitress finds herself pregnant and out of options in Lupino’s dissection of small-town values and women’s choices (or lack of them), made with “a startling blend of compassion and invention” (New Yorker).
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1 PM
Sunday, January 13, 2019
1 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1921,
(98 mins)
Digital Restoration
Lil Dagover stars as a woman who tries to save her lover from “the weary Death” in this Expressionist fantasy said to have influenced both Douglas Fairbanks and Alfred Hitchcock.
Sunday, January 13, 2019
4 PM
(86 mins)
A tribute to one of the seminal figures in American experimental film, featuring the shorts Hall of Mirrors, Divided Loyalties, The Cup and the Lip, and Short Fuse, as well as personal remembrances and audio clips.
In Conversation
Series
Out of the Vault
7 PM
Sunday, January 13, 2019
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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3:10 PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
3:10 PM
Jan Troell,
Denmark, Sweden,
2008,
(132 mins)
Added Screening!
Based on the life of Maria Larsson—wife, mother, and pioneering photographer in early twentieth-century Sweden—this exquisite period piece has much to tell us today about the bonds of family and the liberating power of art.
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
Series
In Focus: Writing for Cinema
7 PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
7 PM
Michael Glawogger,
Austria, Germany,
2005,
(122 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Glawogger’s documentary starts from a global question—Is hard manual labor a thing of the past?—and finds the unflinching answer in portraits of grueling and dangerous professions in Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.
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7 PM
Thursday, January 17, 2019
7 PM
Kon Ichikawa,
Japan,
1956,
(116 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
A lyrical, haunting requiem for the victims of war, set amid the giant Buddhas of Burma. Winner of the top prize at the Venice film festival and one of Ichikawa’s most famous films.
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6:30 PM
Friday, January 18, 2019
6:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1948,
(93 mins)
Digital Restoration
De Sica’s tale of a father and son searching the streets of Rome for their stolen bicycle is a masterwork of Italian neorealism, “an allegory at once timeless and topical” (Village Voice).
8:30 PM
Friday, January 18, 2019
8:30 PM
F. W. Murnau,
Germany,
1922,
(94 mins)
Digital Restoration
Still among the most unnerving and poetic of horror films, investing the natural world with eerie incandescence. Max Schreck’s vampire is unforgettable—a living death, a walking ruin.
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3:30 PM
Saturday, January 19, 2019
3:30 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.
6 PM
Saturday, January 19, 2019
6 PM
Michael Glawogger,
Austria,
1998,
(90 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Glawogger takes us deep into the megacities of Mexico City, Bombay, Moscow, and New York, telling stories of people struggling at the bottom of the urban food chain.
8 PM
Saturday, January 19, 2019
8 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1960,
(110 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Hideko Takamine portrays the consummate Naruse heroine: high-minded, determined, and out of her element in a sordid world. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope . . . could give heartbreak lessons to Fassbinder and Sirk” (Village Voice).
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2 PM
Sunday, January 20, 2019
2 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1931,
(111 mins)
Digital Restoration This film is also screening on Wednesday, February 13, 3:10 PM as part of our series In Focus: Writing for Cinema featuring speakers David Thomson and Michael Ondaatje.
A precursor to American noir, Lang’s masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where there are few moral distinctions between organized crime and organized law enforcement. With Peter Lorre in his definitive performance.
4:30 PM
Sunday, January 20, 2019
4:30 PM
Elmer Clifton, Ida Lupino,
United States,
1949,
(94 mins)
Digital Restoration
A waitress finds herself pregnant and out of options in Lupino’s dissection of small-town values and women’s choices (or lack of them), made with “a startling blend of compassion and invention” (New Yorker).
6:30 PM
Sunday, January 20, 2019
6:30 PM
Michael Glawogger,
Austria, Germany,
2005,
(122 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Glawogger’s documentary starts from a global question—Is hard manual labor a thing of the past?—and finds the unflinching answer in portraits of grueling and dangerous professions in Ukraine, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and China.
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3:10 PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
3:10 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1948,
(92 mins)
Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s gripping, gorgeously visualized thriller about a boy, a butler, and the butler’s secrets “reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at its peak” (New York Observer).
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
Series
In Focus: Writing for Cinema
7 PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
7 PM
Sara Gómez,
Cuba,
1974–77,
(78 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
This masterpiece of Cuban cinema integrates documentary and fiction to offer an unflinching analysis of the problems of urban life and conflicts of race, class, sex, and religion in Castro’s Cuba.
Series
Documentary Voices 2019
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7 PM
Thursday, January 24, 2019
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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Friday, January 25, 2019
4 PM
Michal Goldman,
United States,
2016,
(82 mins)
An intriguing overview of Egypt’s political history in the modern age, Nasser’s Republic examines the transformative influence of the country’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, on the Arab world.
7 PM
Friday, January 25, 2019
7 PM
Jean Eustache,
France,
1973,
(215 mins)
BAMPFA Collection
Jean-Pierre Léaud as a castaway from the sixties and the sexual revolution, waffling between two women. “The greatest French film of the ’70s” (Cahiers du cinéma). “A searing masterpiece” (Chicago Reader).
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10:00 AM
Saturday, January 26, 2019
10:00 AM
 Open to Curator's Circle members at the $1,000 level and above.
Join us for a convivial breakfast reception in Babette cafe, followed by curatorial presentations about the most exciting exhibition and film programs coming up in the year ahead.
Curator's Circle members only event.
3 PM
Saturday, January 26, 2019
3 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
1984,
(116 mins)
Japanese Language Version
In Miyazaki’s stirring animated epic, a girl both soldier and scientist seeks to reconcile the last remnants of her still-warring species with the monstrous biological order overtaking earth.
5:30 PM
Saturday, January 26, 2019
5:30 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2016,
(102 mins)
Philosophy professor Isabelle Huppert competently juggles career and family—until an unexpected series of events forces her to rethink her entire life—in Hansen-Løve’s festival favorite. “Huppert is extraordinary” (Time).
8:15 PM
Saturday, January 26, 2019
8:15 PM
Hou Hsiao-hsien,
Japan,
2003,
(107 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Hou Hsiao-hsien pays tribute to Yasujiro Ozu in this meditative look at life and love in contemporary Tokyo, starring Tadanobu Asano. “The plot is spare, but the sounds, images, and ambience are indelible” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
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2 PM
Sunday, January 27, 2019
2 PM
(63 mins)
A local art cinema pioneer in the 1940s, Stauffacher made films celebrating the Bay Area’s history, landscape, and urban sites. We present his three short works, plus James Broughton’s Mother’s Day, with cinematography by Stauffacher.
Series
Out of the Vault
4 PM
Sunday, January 27, 2019
4 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2011,
(110 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
A young woman moves beyond a teenage love affair in Hansen-Løve’s semiautobiographical film, both a nuanced portrayal of evolving relationships and a study of the creative power generated through love.
7 PM
Sunday, January 27, 2019
7 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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3:10 PM
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
3:10 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2016,
(102 mins)
Philosophy professor Isabelle Huppert competently juggles career and family—until an unexpected series of events forces her to rethink her entire life—in Hansen-Løve’s festival favorite. “Huppert is extraordinary” (Time).
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
Series
In Focus: Writing for Cinema
7 PM
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
7 PM
Jasmina Metwaly, Philip Rizk,
Egypt,
2015,
(71 mins)
Ten Egyptian workers distill their experiences of injustice and exploitation at the hands of bosses, police, and the court system into a series of vignettes for this documentary that engages “ideas about labor, social justice, and the circulation of images” (MoMA).
Series
Documentary Voices 2019
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7 PM
Thursday, January 31, 2019
7 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2009,
(110 mins)
An indie film producer juggles vocation, familial demands, and impending financial ruin in this bittersweet portrait of complex relationships in the world of cinema and beyond, inspired by the real life of producer Humbert Balsan.
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6:30 PM
Friday, February 1, 2019
6:30 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France, Switzerland,
2018,
(84 mins)
The newest essay film by Jean-Luc Godard is “a kaleidoscopic bulletin on the state of our world” (Variety). Winner of the first Special Palme d’Or award in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.
8:30 PM
Friday, February 1, 2019
8:30 PM
Gérard Blain,
France,
1974,
(83 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A jazz musician and new father winds up in jail to satisfy his wife’s upwardly mobile desires; years later, she’s remarried, and he’s an ex-con trying to get back into his son’s life. An achingly moving portrait of paternal love and desperate measures.
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Saturday, February 2, 2019
2 PM
Michal Goldman,
United States,
2016,
(82 mins)
An intriguing overview of Egypt’s political history in the modern age, Nasser’s Republic examines the transformative influence of the country’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, on the Arab world.
4:30 PM
Saturday, February 2, 2019
4:30 PM
Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1924,
(148 mins)
Digital Restoration
Lang’s two-part superproduction of the thirteenth-century saga that also inspired Wagner’s Ring cycle is a triumph of studio artifice. “Stunning . . . very highly recommended” (Chicago Reader).
7:30 PM
Saturday, February 2, 2019
7:30 PM
Mia Hansen-Løve,
France,
2007,
(105 mins)
Hansen-Løve’s assured debut feature is a generous, unflinching look at a loving family gradually undone by addiction. Winner of France’s Louis Deluc Prize for Best First Film.
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