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4:30 PM
Sunday, December 1, 2019
4:30 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
France, Iran, Japan,
2003,
(106 mins)
Digital Restoration
Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, Kiarostami’s set of five serene seafront studies is “remarkably captivating, like a perfectly crafted object of contemplation” (Village Voice). With short Roads of Kiarostami.
7 PM
Sunday, December 1, 2019
7 PM
Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack,
United States,
2018,
(89 mins)
Aretha Franklin’s thrilling 1972 performance of Amazing Grace at a Watts church comes alive in this concert film, unreleased until 2018. “It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle—just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God” (Rolling Stone).
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
7 PM
Joseph Losey,
France,
1976,
(122 mins)
Digital Restoration
An art dealer (Alain Delon) in WWII-era France benefits from the Nazi regime, until they begin to suspect him of being Jewish, in Joseph Losey’s chilling thriller. “A historical reconstruction with a modernist tone, evoking both Kafka and Borges” (J. Hoberman).
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7 PM
Thursday, December 5, 2019
7 PM
Shirley Sun,
United States,
2017,
(64 mins)
East Bay Premiere! Fire and Ashes: Making the Ballet RAkU also screens Friday, December 13 (with Shirley Sun in person), and Sunday, December 29 (without guests in person).
Bay Area filmmaker Shirley Sun’s engaging dance film goes behind the scenes with composer Shinji Eshima and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Yuri Possokhov as they recount their collaboration on the ballet RAkU, set in historic Japan.
In Person
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4 PM
Friday, December 6, 2019
4 PM
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,
United States,
2019,
(119 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Pulitzer- and Nobel Peace Prize–winning author Toni Morrison recalls her life, challenges, and successes in this “eloquent nonfiction biopic” (Variety), featuring archival footage and interviews with Oprah Winfrey, Angela Davis, Hilton Als, and others.
7 PM
Friday, December 6, 2019
7 PM
Cristian Mungiu,
Romania,
2007,
(113 mins)
Two young women go underground to terminate an unwanted pregnancy in this gripping, prizewinning drama. “Beautifully realistic, faultlessly made” (Los Angeles Times).
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Saturday, December 7, 2019
6 PM
Víctor Erice, Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran, Spain,
2005–7,
(97 mins)
Created for a museum exhibition that paired the works of Kiarostami and Víctor Erice, Correspondences is composed of ten “filmed letters” between the two master filmmakers.
8:15 PM
Saturday, December 7, 2019
8:15 PM
Stanley Nelson,
United Kingdom, United States,
2019,
(115 mins)
From the director of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, this profile of the great Miles Davis is “a tantalizing portrait: rich, probing, mournful, romantic, triumphant, tragic, exhilarating, and blisteringly honest” (Variety).
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1:30 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2019
1:30 PM
(90 mins)
Free Admission for UC Berkeley Students!
Explore the arts of film scoring and accompaniment with musician and composer Donald Sosin, who has scored thousands of films for live performance and recording. Bring your imagination and your instrument—no musical experience required!
Free admission for UC Berkeley students with valid ID
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2019
4:30 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
2008,
(92 mins)
Digital Restoration
A film about watching and most of all experiencing film, Shirin features close-ups of 112 Iranian actresses (and Juliette Binoche) as they view—or imagine—a movie. “An illusionist tour de force” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
7 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2019
7 PM
Cristi Puiu ,
Romania,
2001,
(91 mins)
A hopeful young entrepreneur decides to raise money by delivering an unknown package in this deadpan road movie, inspired by Jarmusch’s Down by Law. The debut film by the director of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
7 PM
Martin Scorsese,
United States,
1983,
(109 mins)
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
A crazed would-be stand-up comic (Robert De Niro) becomes obsessed with a talk-show host (Jerry Lewis) in Scorsese’s prescient meditation on the American cult of celebrity.
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7 PM
Thursday, December 12, 2019
7 PM
Tim Hunter,
United States,
1986,
(99 mins)
A group of teenagers discover their friend has murdered his girlfriend—and do nothing about it—in this eighties cult hit, based on a real-life crime in Milpitas and starring Crispin Glover, Dennis Hopper, and Keanu Reeves.
In Coversation
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4 PM
Friday, December 13, 2019
4 PM
Shirley Sun,
United States,
2017,
(64 mins)
East Bay Premiere! The Friday, December 13 screening features director Shirley Sun in person. The Sunday, December 29 screening will be presented without guests in person.
Bay Area filmmaker Shirley Sun’s engaging dance film goes behind the scenes with composer Shinji Eshima and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Yuri Possokhov as they recount their collaboration on the ballet RAkU, set in historic Japan.
7 PM
Friday, December 13, 2019
7 PM
Cristi Puiu ,
Romania,
2005,
(154 mins)
Puiu’s saga of the last hours in the life of a cranky Bucharest widower is “both sad and darkly funny . . . sharply conceived and richly populated” (Chicago Reader). “A thorny masterpiece” (New York Times).
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1 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2019
1 PM
Francesco Rosi,
Italy,
1979,
(250 mins)
Full-Length Digital Restoration, Back by Popular Demand!
Gian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
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.
Screening includes 30-minute intermission.
6 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2019
6 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Belgium, France, Iran, Italy,
2010,
(106 mins)
Juliette Binoche and William Shimell star in Kiarostami’s playful unspooling of the romance genre, set in a radiant Tuscany where nothing is quite as it seems. Binoche won Best Actress at Cannes for her role in this “brilliant, endlessly fascinating work” (New Yorker).
8:15 PM
Saturday, December 14, 2019
8:15 PM
Joseph Losey,
France,
1976,
(122 mins)
Digital Restoration
An art dealer (Alain Delon) in WWII-era France benefits from the Nazi regime, until they begin to suspect him of being Jewish, in Joseph Losey’s chilling thriller. “A historical reconstruction with a modernist tone, evoking both Kafka and Borges” (J. Hoberman).
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3:30 PM
Sunday, December 15, 2019
3:30 PM
ruth weiss,
United States,
1961,
(80 mins)
World Premiere of BAMPFA Preservation Print! Essay
Built around the existential musings of two contentious lovers, ruth weiss’s Beat-era cinepoem jettisons narrative logic for a skeptical embrace of the moment. We showcase BAMPFA’s new preservation print alongside works by weiss’s compatriots Paul Beattie and Steven Arnold.
In Person
7 PM
Sunday, December 15, 2019
7 PM
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 the Caméra d’Or at Cannes.
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7 PM
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
7 PM
Joseph Losey,
France,
1976,
(122 mins)
Digital Restoration
An art dealer (Alain Delon) in WWII-era France benefits from the Nazi regime, until they begin to suspect him of being Jewish, in Joseph Losey’s chilling thriller. “A historical reconstruction with a modernist tone, evoking both Kafka and Borges” (J. Hoberman).
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7 PM
Thursday, December 19, 2019
7 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
France, Japan,
2012,
(109 mins)
A young escort, her older client, and her jealous lover enact their various roles depending on who’s in front of them in Kiarostami’s last narrative feature, made in Japan. “An enthralling journey” (New York Magazine).
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4 PM
Friday, December 20, 2019
4 PM
Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack,
United States,
2018,
(89 mins)
Aretha Franklin’s thrilling 1972 performance of Amazing Grace at a Watts church comes alive in this concert film, unreleased until 2018. “It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle—just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God” (Rolling Stone).
7 PM
Friday, December 20, 2019
7 PM
Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget,
France,
2019,
(115 mins)
East Bay Advance Screenings
In the last of her prodigious life’s work, the legendary, delightfully irreverent Agnès Varda conducts a personal career retrospective as only she can, with skill, charm, wit, reverie, and wonder. “A master class on filmmaking” (Toronto Star).
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1:30 PM
Saturday, December 21, 2019
1:30 PM
Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget,
France,
2019,
(115 mins)
East Bay Advance Screenings
In the last of her prodigious life’s work, the legendary, delightfully irreverent Agnès Varda conducts a personal career retrospective as only she can, with skill, charm, wit, reverie, and wonder. “A master class on filmmaking” (Toronto Star).
4 PM
Saturday, December 21, 2019
4 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
France, Iran,
2017,
(116 mins)
Kiarostami’s final work strips cinema down to its essence—a single frame—creating a hypnotic meditation on image making and the act of seeing that pays tribute to both cinema and the great director’s other passion, photography.
7 PM
Saturday, December 21, 2019
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1957,
(141 mins)
Bay Area Premiere of Digital Restoration
Setsuko Hara stars as a woman trying to hold her family together in Ozu’s darkest, most urban film, set in the shadowy back streets of Ginza. “Retains an enormous dramatic power, perhaps because of [its] very divergences from the Ozu oeuvre” (Michael Koresky).
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1 PM
Sunday, December 22, 2019
1 PM
Francesco Rosi,
Italy,
1979,
(250 mins)
Full-Length Digital Restoration, Back by Popular Demand!
Gian Maria Volonté portrays leftist writer Carlo Levi, banished by the Italian fascist government to a profoundly isolated mountain village. “An absorbing and sometimes stunningly beautiful movie with an impressive sense of historical detail and social insight” (Christian Science Monitor).
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.
Screening includes 30-minute intermission.
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12 PM
Thursday, December 26, 2019
12 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1983,
(352 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.”
Special admission: General: $18; BAMPFA members: $14; UC Berkeley students: $10; UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non–UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $15.
Screening includes two intermissions totaling 40 minutes.
7 PM
Thursday, December 26, 2019
7 PM
Agnès Varda, Didier Rouget,
France,
2019,
(115 mins)
East Bay Advance Screenings
In the last of her prodigious life’s work, the legendary, delightfully irreverent Agnès Varda conducts a personal career retrospective as only she can, with skill, charm, wit, reverie, and wonder. “A master class on filmmaking” (Toronto Star).
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2 PM
Friday, December 27, 2019
2 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1957,
(141 mins)
Bay Area Premiere of Digital Restoration
Setsuko Hara stars as a woman trying to hold her family together in Ozu’s darkest, most urban film, set in the shadowy back streets of Ginza. “Retains an enormous dramatic power, perhaps because of [its] very divergences from the Ozu oeuvre” (Michael Koresky).
5 PM
Friday, December 27, 2019
5 PM
Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack,
United States,
2018,
(89 mins)
Aretha Franklin’s thrilling 1972 performance of Amazing Grace at a Watts church comes alive in this concert film, unreleased until 2018. “It’s the closest thing to witnessing a miracle—just some cameras, a crowd and a voice touched by God” (Rolling Stone).
7 PM
Friday, December 27, 2019
7 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1946,
(101 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Trying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair. Hitchcock’s polished, perverse thriller exploits an espionage plot to explore the nature of love and loyalty.
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3 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2019
3 PM
Lotte Reiniger,
Germany,
1926,
(65 mins)
Hand-Tinted 35mm Print
One of the world’s first animated features, Reiniger’s enchanting work uses intricate silhouettes to enact a tale from the Arabian Nights. It offers “exquisite craftsmanship, balletic movement, expressive romanticism, and moments of potent sensuousness and poetry” (Time Out).
5 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2019
5 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2000,
(82 mins)
Digital Restoration
Varda’s rumination on the art of “living off the leftovers of others” visits food scavengers and cultural rebels, and finds inspiration in both past and present, rural and urban, the political and the highly personal. “Beautiful, absorbing, and touching” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
7 PM
Saturday, December 28, 2019
7 PM
Stanley Nelson,
United Kingdom, United States,
2019,
(115 mins)
From the director of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, this profile of the great Miles Davis is “a tantalizing portrait: rich, probing, mournful, romantic, triumphant, tragic, exhilarating, and blisteringly honest” (Variety).
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2:30 PM
Sunday, December 29, 2019
2:30 PM
Shirley Sun,
United States,
2017,
(64 mins)
East Bay Premiere! The Friday, December 13 screening features director Shirley Sun in person. The Sunday, December 29 screening will be presented without guests in person.
Bay Area filmmaker Shirley Sun’s engaging dance film goes behind the scenes with composer Shinji Eshima and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Yuri Possokhov as they recount their collaboration on the ballet RAkU, set in historic Japan.
4:30 PM
Sunday, December 29, 2019
4:30 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
1985,
(105 mins)
Digital Restoration
The short life and eventual death of a young female drifter forms the basis of Varda’s chilling look at alienation and idealism. “Like so many of the greatest films, it tells us a very specific story, strong and unadorned, about a very particular person” (Roger Ebert).
7 PM
Sunday, December 29, 2019
7 PM
Louis Malle,
France,
1958,
(88 mins)
Digital Restoration
A restored print of Louis Malle’s first feature, an elegant thriller featuring an iconic performance by Jeanne Moreau and a celebrated Miles Davis jazz score. This “consistently engaging, atmospheric noir . . . remains worth treasuring” (Time Out New York).
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