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1 7 PM 8 1/2 Film Sunday, March 1, 2020 7 PM 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963, (138 mins) Film to Table dinner follows the February 15 screening 8 1/2 also screens Wednesday, March 18, with a lecture by Russell Merritt. A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (The Guardian). Series Federico Fellini at 100 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2	3	4 3:10 PM A Fellini Omnibus Film In-Person Wednesday, March 4, 2020 3:10 PM A Fellini Omnibus (117 mins) This program also screens Friday, April 3 (without lecture). Three Fellini shorts originally released as parts of omnibus films: The Marriage Agency (from the neorealist anthology Love in the City), The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (from the Decameron-inspired sex farce Boccaccio ’70), and Toby Dammit (from the Poe collection Spirits of the Dead). 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. Russell Merritt Lecture Film historian Russell Merritt has been introducing films, lecturing, and serving as an occasional guest curator at BAMPFA for more than thirty years. Series In Focus: Federico Fellini Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Chez Jolie Coiffure Film In-Person Wednesday, March 4, 2020 7 PM Chez Jolie Coiffure Rosine Mbakam, Belgium, Cameroon, 2018, (79 mins) A Brussels hair salon catering to West African immigrant women is at the center of this warmhearted documentary. “A must-see! An atypical and timely portrait of the intersection between the immigrant experience and female identity” (Indiewire). With Ellen Spiro and Cheryl Dunye’s short DiAna’s Hair Ego REMIX. Introductions Cornelius Moore Cornelius Moore is the codirector of the film distribution and production organization California Newsreel and a curator focusing on films from the black world. Ellen Spiro Ellen Spiro is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker whose work champions mavericks and renegades with wit, inventiveness, and emotional depth. Series African Film Festival 2020 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5 7 PM The Godfather Film Thursday, March 5, 2020 7 PM The Godfather Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1972, (175 mins) 4K Digital Restoration BAMPFA Student Committee Pick! A chronicle of the life and times of an Italian American mafia family becomes a shadow history of the American dream in Coppola’s masterpiece, widely acclaimed as one of the best American films ever made. “Overflowing with life” (Los Angeles Times). Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	6 4 PM In Search of Voodoo: Roots to Heaven Film In-Person Friday, March 6, 2020 4 PM In Search of Voodoo: Roots to Heaven Djimon Hounsou, Benin, United States, 2018, (110 mins) Weaving together personal, cultural, and spiritual journeys, this documentary by actor Djimon Hounsou seeks to illuminate the practice of faith that is prevalent in West Africa, specifically Benin, the “cradle of Voodoo.” “Vivid and heartfelt” (Variety). Panel Discussion: Spiritual Reclamation as a Revolutionary Act Her Majesty Queen Mother Dowoti Desir Hounon Houna II Her Majesty Queen Mother Dowoti Desir Hounon Houna II is a Manbo Asogwe (high priest) in Haitian Vodou and a chief of the Zangbeto and Egungun secret societies, as well as an author, critical theorist Dr. Wade W. Nobles Dr. Wade W. Nobles is a professor emeritus at San Francisco State University, a Ghanaian development chief, and author of Voodoo or IQ: An Introduction to African Psychology. Yeye Luisah Teish Yeye Luisah Teish, a storyteller-writer, artist-activist, and spiritual guidance counselor, is an initiated elder (Iyanifa) in the Ifa/Orisha tradition of the West African diaspora. Iya Susheel Bibbs Iya Susheel Bibbs emphasizes unsung ancestors in her work on stage, in writings, and in film. She has participated in Ifa since 1991, Vodou since 2001, and was initiated in Voodoo in 2006. Tracy Brown Tracy Brown, the organizer of this event and panel moderator, is an artivist and curator. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELED: Pain and Glory Film Friday, March 6, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar, Spain, 2019, (113 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Ailing and adrift, a celebrated film director (Antonio Banderas) looks back at his work and life in Almodóvar’s pensive, tantalizingly self-reflexive drama, which garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and for Banderas's extraordinary performance. Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Google Calendar ICS	7 5 PM CANCELED: Coup 53 Film Saturday, March 7, 2020 5 PM CANCELED: Coup 53 Taghi Amirani, United Kingdom, 2019, (119 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more A fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah. “Passionate and fearless” (Hollywood Reporter). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Google Calendar ICS 7:15 PM Film to Table: Coup 53 Activity Film Saturday, March 7, 2020 7:15 PM Film to Table: Coup 53 Four-course dinner with wine pairing Following our screening of Taghi Amirani's Coup 53, join fellow cinephiles at our communal table for dinner and warm conversation. $95 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 2020 Buy Dinner Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8 PM THX 1138 Film Saturday, March 7, 2020 8 PM THX 1138 George Lucas, United States, 1971, (88 mins) George Lucas’s debut film is more 1984 than Star Wars. Robert Duvall stars as a rebel in a dystopian future where sex is illegal, robots are everywhere, and TV monitors keep the populace both sedated and monitored. Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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8 1 PM Exile Shanghai Film Sunday, March 8, 2020 1 PM Exile Shanghai Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 1997, (275 mins) Digital Restoration Fascinating and rich with wry humor, Exile Shanghai is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost Jewish world of 1930s Shanghai. 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. Presented with 30-minute intermission. Series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM The Rain People Film In-Person Sunday, March 8, 2020 7 PM The Rain People Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1969, (101 mins) 4K Digital Restoration A disaffected Long Island housewife ditches her man, hits the road, and never stops heading west in Coppola’s striking early work, described as a female Easy Rider and overflowing with a loose energy that recalls the French New Wave. James Mockoski Introduction James Mockoski is a film archivist and postproduction supervisor at American Zoetrope, where he has supervised the restoration of classic films including Dementia 13, Apocalypse Now, and The Rain Peop Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	9	10	11 3:10 PM Guy Maddin on Federico Fellini Film In-Person Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:10 PM Guy Maddin on Federico Fellini (150 mins) World Premiere! Canadian auteur Guy Maddin joins us via video conference to present the world premiere of The Rabbit Hunters, a new short commissioned by BAMPFA in honor of Federico Fellini’s centenary. Starring Isabella Rossellini, it’s equal parts Felliniesque and Maddinesque. Followed by Fellini: A Director’s Notebook. 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. Guy Maddin Live Via Video Conference Due to a travel advisory, Guy Maddin will join us via video conference. Series In Focus: Federico Fellini Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Spell Reel Film Wednesday, March 11, 2020 7 PM Spell Reel Filipa César, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, 2017, (96 mins) Decaying archival films from Guinea-Bissau’s 1960s war of independence were digitized and screened in the places where the original footage was shot. The resulting film is “a tribute, a documentary, and an excavation” (New York Times). Series Documentary Voices 2020 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	12 7 PM Brightness Film In-Person Thursday, March 12, 2020 7 PM Brightness Souleymane Cissé, Mali, 1987, (105 mins) A young warrior/seer must overcome his own father to gain the knowledge of the ancients in this visionary reimagining of Mandé creation myths and oral tales. “Not only the most beautifully photographed African film ever, but also the best African film ever made” (Film Comment). In Conversation Souleymane Cissé Akin Adesokan Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature and of cinema and media studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Series Afterimage: Souleymane Cissé SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	13 4 PM CANCELED: Coup 53 Film Friday, March 13, 2020 4 PM CANCELED: Coup 53 Taghi Amirani, United Kingdom, 2019, (119 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more A fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah. “Passionate and fearless” (Hollywood Reporter). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELED: Fellini’s Roma Film Friday, March 13, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Fellini’s Roma Federico Fellini, Italy, 1972, (128 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more Digital Restoration Fellini’s episodic, “panoramic album of impressions in praise of Rome and the Italians, past, present, and future” (Albert Johnson). Series Federico Fellini at 100 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 2 PM CANCELED: Bedlam Film In-Person Saturday, March 14, 2020 2 PM CANCELED: Bedlam Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, United States, 2019, (84 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more East Bay Premiere! Copresented with the Downtown Berkeley Association This documentary takes us inside psychiatric emergency rooms, jails, homes, and homeless encampments in its wrenching portrayal of America’s crisis surrounding the care of severely mentally ill citizens. “Haunting and trenchant . . . a necessary and important film” (Hollywood Reporter). In Conversation Thomas Insel Dr. Thomas Insel is Governor Gavin Newsom’s special advisor on behavioral health. He previously served as director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). John Snook John Snook is executive director of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Washington, DC. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 5 PM CANCELED: Baara Film In-Person Saturday, March 14, 2020 5 PM CANCELED: Baara Souleymane Cissé, Mali, 1978, (93 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more The unlikely friendship between a young worker from the countryside and a progressive factory engineer leads to the triggering of political and class fault lines in Cissé’s searing drama. “Cissé makes explicit the infrastructure of corruption” (New Yorker). In Conversation Souleymane Cissé Akin Adesokan Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature and of cinema and media studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Series Afterimage: Souleymane Cissé Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 8:15 PM CANCELED: Dementia 13 Film In-Person Saturday, March 14, 2020 8:15 PM CANCELED: Dementia 13 Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1963, (78 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more An unwelcome visitor finds herself in the dank manse of a family haunted by its secrets in Coppola’s atmospheric tale of terror, produced and financed by exploitation guru Roger Corman. James Mockoski Introduction James Mockoski is a film archivist and postproduction supervisor at American Zoetrope, where he has supervised the restoration of classic films including Dementia 13, Apocalypse Now, and The Rain Peop Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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15 7 PM CANCELED: The Wind Film In-Person Sunday, March 15, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: The Wind Souleymane Cissé, Mali, 1982, (100 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been cancelled through March 29. Learn more Cissé’s remarkable satire on Africa’s ruling class follows two college kids rebelling against military control and the establishment, and is by turns fierce, romantic, and ultimately hopeful. In Conversation Souleymane Cissé Akin Adesokan Akin Adesokan is associate professor of comparative literature and of cinema and media studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. Series Afterimage: Souleymane Cissé Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	16	17	18 3:10 PM CANCELED: 8 1/2 Film In-Person Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:10 PM CANCELED: 8 1/2 Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963, (138 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more A jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) fantasizes on his next great film—or his next sexual conquest—in Fellini’s metafictional masterpiece, “probably the most potent movie about filmmaking” (The Guardian). 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. Russell Merritt Lecture Film historian Russell Merritt has been introducing films, lecturing, and serving as an occasional guest curator at BAMPFA for more than thirty years. Series In Focus: Federico Fellini Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELED: Salesman Film Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Salesman Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, United States, 1969, (91 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more New Digital Restoration This direct cinema study of door-to-door Bible salesmen in Boston slyly underlines the materialism at the heart of the American dream, and revolutionized the documentary form in the 1960s. “Its broader diagnosis has lost none of its truth” (Village Voice). Series Documentary Voices 2020 Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	19 7 PM CANCELED: Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia Film In-Person Thursday, March 19, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia Ulrike Ottinger, Federal Republic of Germany, 1989, (165 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration The epic adventure of seven Western women travelers on the Trans-Siberian Express who are ambushed by a band of Mongol horsewomen. “A rare and remarkable film. . . . Sumptuously stylized yet ardently observational” (New Yorker). Ulrike Ottinger In Person Series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Google Calendar ICS	20 5 PM CANCELED: The Hybrid Films of Pia Borg Film In-Person Friday, March 20, 2020 5 PM CANCELED: The Hybrid Films of Pia Borg (90 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Borg presents a selection of her films, which interrogate questions of form and explore the pull between the real and the mediated, between nonfiction and the constructed genres of science fiction and horror. Pia Borg In Person Series GLAS Animation Festival at BAMPFA 2020 Google Calendar ICS 7:30 PM CANCELED: The Conversation Film In-Person Friday, March 20, 2020 7:30 PM CANCELED: The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1974, (113 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more New 35mm Print! Gene Hackman plays a crack wiretapper in over his head in Coppola’s formalist exercise in paranoia, set in a 1970s San Francisco where—much like today—privacy is elusive and technology can work both for you and against you. Winner, Grand Prize, Cannes Film Festival. James Mockoski Introduction James Mockoski is a film archivist and postproduction supervisor at American Zoetrope, where he has supervised the restoration of classic films including Dementia 13, Apocalypse Now, and The Rain Peop Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Google Calendar ICS	21 2:30 PM CANCELED: Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio Film In-Person Saturday, March 21, 2020 2:30 PM CANCELED: Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio Ulrike Ottinger, Federal Republic of Germany, 1972–73, (62 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and featuring Tabea Blumenschein in multiple roles, Ottinger’s visually striking debut film is an allegory on themes of death, destruction, and resurrection. With short Superbia—The Pride. Ulrike Ottinger In Person Series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Google Calendar ICS 5 PM CANCELED: The Animation of Caroline Leaf Film In-Person Saturday, March 21, 2020 5 PM CANCELED: The Animation of Caroline Leaf All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Leaf introduces a selection of her films made between 1969 and 2004. Her intimate, tactile animations focus on familiar spaces that we share as families and communities, with simply observed stories that feel true to life. Caroline Leaf In Person Series GLAS Animation Festival at BAMPFA 2020 Google Calendar ICS
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22 12 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 1: Alaska and the Aleutian Islands Film In-Person Sunday, March 22, 2020 12 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 1: Alaska and the Aleutian Islands Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 2016, (193 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Ottinger traces the paths of past explorers in a multipart exploration of the peoples, landscapes, and legends of the Bering Sea. This extraordinarily beautiful work is perhaps Ottinger’s magnum opus. Ulrike Ottinger In Person Series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Google Calendar ICS 5 PM CANCELED: Despacito: A Quick Survey of Latin American Animation Film In-Person Sunday, March 22, 2020 5 PM CANCELED: Despacito: A Quick Survey of Latin American Animation All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Simón Wilches-Castro presents a lecture on the distinct history of Latin American animation—in his words, “the history of a fractured continent trying to figure itself out.” Film clips illustrate and enrich the talk. Simón Wilches-Castro Lecture Simón Wilches-Castro is an award-winning animation director originally from Colombia and currently based in Los Angeles, where he works as a director at Titmouse Animation Studios. Series GLAS Animation Festival at BAMPFA 2020 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELED: Fellini Satyricon Film Sunday, March 22, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Fellini Satyricon Federico Fellini, Italy, 1969, (130 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration Fellini’s tour of ancient Rome is less historical document than decadent fantasia, following the narrator Encolpius as he searches for his male lover through feasts, festivals, orgies, and death. “A surreal epic” (New York Times). Series Federico Fellini at 100 Google Calendar ICS	23	24 7 PM CANCELED: Free Member Screening: Killer of Sheep Film Free Members Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Free Member Screening: Killer of Sheep Charles Burnett, United States, 1977, (81 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more New 35mm Print! Open to BAMPFA members only, this free screening is part of Member Appreciation Month. Not yet a member? Join today! Charles Burnett’s portrait of working-class African Americans in 1970s Watts is “a great—the greatest—cinematic tone poem of American urban life” (New York). Free admission. BAMPFA members only. Space for this screening is limited. RSVP by March 16. Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Google Calendar ICS	25 3:10 PM CANCELED: The Clowns Film In-Person Wednesday, March 25, 2020 3:10 PM CANCELED: The Clowns Federico Fellini, Italy, 1970, (93 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration The Clowns also screens Sunday, April 5 (without lecture). Fellini’s tribute to the world of the clown is—like so much of his supposedly nonfiction work—part documentary, part autobiography, and suffused with fantasy. “Fellini turns the world into his circus” (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. Russell Merritt Lecture Film historian Russell Merritt has been introducing films, lecturing, and serving as an occasional guest curator at BAMPFA for more than thirty years. Series In Focus: Federico Fellini Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELED: Every Man for Himself Film Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Every Man for Himself Jean-Luc Godard, France, Switzerland, 1980, (87 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more This achingly lyrical film about the selling of the self revolves around three characters: a filmmaker, his estranged partner, and a prostitute. “A stunning, original work” (NY Times). With Isabelle Huppert and Nathalie Baye. Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Google Calendar ICS	26 7 PM CANCELED: The Witness Film Thursday, March 26, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: The Witness Péter Bacsó, Hungary, 1969, (103 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration A bumbling protagonist fails at a series of assignments before finally showing defiance in this recently restored Hungarian classic, whose acerbic humor and political critique made it renowned in the Soviet bloc. “As broadly entertaining as it is bold” (New York Times). Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film 1960–1989 Google Calendar ICS	27 7 PM CANCELED: Fellini’s Casanova Film Friday, March 27, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: Fellini’s Casanova Federico Fellini, Italy, 1976, (166 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration Donald Sutherland plays Casanova in “Fellini’s most extravagant and courageous dream” (Albert Johnson). “The visual daring and pure imagination of every image leave it as an elegiac farewell to an era of Italian cinema” (Time Out). Series Federico Fellini at 100 Google Calendar ICS	28 1 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 2, Part 1: Chukotka Film Saturday, March 28, 2020 1 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 2, Part 1: Chukotka Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 2016, (192 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more The second chapter in Ottinger’s voyage to the far north takes her to Chukotka in the Russian Far East, where Asia faces America across the narrow Bering Strait and a society of sea hunters still depend on their catch of fish, seals, and whales. Series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Google Calendar ICS 5 PM CANCELED: March, March! Tra-Ta-Ta! Film Saturday, March 28, 2020 5 PM CANCELED: March, March! Tra-Ta-Ta! Raimondas Vabalas, Lithuania, USSR, 1965, (78 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration A Baltic Duck Soup about the dispute between two nations over a desert borderland, this ambitious, playful film makes colorful fun of fascists and imperialists, patriotism and dogmatism, in a burst of creative satire made the same year as Dr. Strangelove. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film 1960–1989 Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELED: One from the Heart Film Saturday, March 28, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: One from the Heart Francis Ford Coppola, United States, 1982, (107 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Restored 35mm Print Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, and Nastassia Kinski float through an even more artificial version of Las Vegas in Coppola’s lavishly surreal, giddily romantic valentine to a cinema of pure attractions. “A playful, delightfully unfathomable piece of magic” (Washington Post). Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Google Calendar ICS
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29 1 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 2, Part 2: Chukotka and Wrangel Island Film Sunday, March 29, 2020 1 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 2, Part 2: Chukotka and Wrangel Island Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 2016, (156 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Continuing her exploration of Chukotka and points north, Ottinger documents varied facets of the region’s natural, cultural, and political history, and travels to the remote outpost of Wrangel Island, home to polar bears and a few hardy humans. Series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM CANCELED: Coup 53 Film Sunday, March 29, 2020 4:30 PM CANCELED: Coup 53 Taghi Amirani, United Kingdom, 2019, (119 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more A fascinating investigation into the 1953 Anglo-American coup d’état in Iran that displaced democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the despotic Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as shah. “Passionate and fearless” (Hollywood Reporter). Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Google Calendar ICS	30	31	1 3:10 PM CANCELED: Amarcord Film In-Person Wednesday, April 1, 2020 3:10 PM CANCELED: Amarcord Federico Fellini, Italy, 1973, (127 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration Amarcord also screens Thursday, January 23, and Saturday, March 21 (without lecture). Fellini’s free-spirited portrait of Rimini in the 1930s, when fascism was a fact of life. “As full of tales as Scheherazade, some romantic, some slapstick, some elegiacal, some bawdy, some mysterious . . . a film of exhilarating beauty” (New York Times). Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. 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. David Thomson Lecture David Thomson is the author of The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies—and What They Have Done to Us; Have You Seen . . . ? Series In Focus: Federico Fellini Google Calendar ICS 7 PM CANCELED: The Fourth Dimension Film In-Person Wednesday, April 1, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: The Fourth Dimension Trinh T. Minh-ha, United States, 2001, All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Trinh T. Minh-ha’s essayistic work explores Japan’s everyday life and rituals with her usual sense of lyricism, investigation, and play. “Functions as a recurrent melody, appealing to all the senses” (Locarno Film Festival). Trinh T. Minh-ha Les Blank Lecture Series Documentary Voices 2020 Google Calendar ICS	2 7 PM CANCELED: The Reenactment Film In-Person Thursday, April 2, 2020 7 PM CANCELED: The Reenactment Lucian Pintilie, Romania, 1968, (100 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more BAMPFA Student Committee Pick! The police force two friends to reenact a drunken crime on screen—with awkward results—in Lucian Pintilie’s masterful satire, voted best Romanian film of all time in a poll of Romanian critics. Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Gabriel M. Paletz Introduction A film scholar, journalist, teacher, and curator, Gabriel M. Paletz has written for Variety and now teaches at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film 1960–1989 Google Calendar ICS	3 6:30 PM CANCELED: A Fellini Omnibus Film Friday, April 3, 2020 6:30 PM CANCELED: A Fellini Omnibus (117 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more This program also screens Wednesday, March 4, with a lecture by Russell Merritt. Three Fellini shorts originally released as parts of omnibus films: The Marriage Agency (from the neorealist anthology Love in the City), The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (from the Decameron-inspired sex farce Boccaccio ’70), and Toby Dammit (from the Poe collection Spirits of the Dead). Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Series Federico Fellini at 100 Google Calendar ICS 9 PM CANCELED: BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2020 Film Free In-Person Friday, April 3, 2020 9 PM CANCELED: BAMPFA Student Committee Film Festival 2020 (75 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Free Admission! Student Filmmakers in Person Join the BAMPFA Student Committee for their annual showcase of short films made by students in Berkeley and the wider Bay Area. Free admission Series Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2020 Google Calendar ICS	4 1 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 3: Kamchatka and Bering Island Film Saturday, April 4, 2020 1 PM CANCELED: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 3: Kamchatka and Bering Island Ulrike Ottinger, Germany, 2016, (177 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Ottinger’s Bering Sea voyage concludes with Bering Island and the peninsula of Kamchatka, a land long held in tension between continuity and displacement, beauty and exploitation. Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Series East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger Google Calendar ICS 5 PM CANCELED: I Hate Mondays Film In-Person Saturday, April 4, 2020 5 PM CANCELED: I Hate Mondays Tadeusz Chmielewski, Poland, 1971, (99 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Digital Restoration Film to Table dinner follows This lighthearted comedy turns a dysfunctional Warsaw into a slapstick playground worthy of Jacques Tati, balancing criticism and lyricism in its portrait of the forgotten details of daily life in a socialist state. Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Gabriel M. Paletz Introduction A film scholar, journalist, teacher, and curator, Gabriel M. Paletz has written for Variety and now teaches at the Prague Film School in the Czech Republic. Series The Cinema of the Absurd: Eastern European Film 1960–1989 Google Calendar ICS 6:45 PM CANCELED: Film to Table: I Hate Mondays Activity Film Saturday, April 4, 2020 6:45 PM CANCELED: Film to Table: I Hate Mondays All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more Four-course dinner with wine pairing Following our screening of Tadeusz Chmielewski's I Hate Mondays, join fellow cinephiles at our communal table for dinner and warm conversation. Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. $95 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 2020 Google Calendar ICS 8 PM CANCELED: Passion Film In-Person Saturday, April 4, 2020 8 PM CANCELED: Passion Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1982, (87 mins) All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more BAMPFA Collection Two directors create a film based on tableaux vivants of famous paintings, but find the true stories beyond the frames, in Godard’s essay on labor, love, and capital. Isabelle Huppert, Michel Piccoli, and Hanna Schygulla star. Tickets will be available later in March, pending public health recommendations. Tom Luddy Introduction While working as a producer with American Zoetrope in the 1980s and ’90s, Tom Luddy coordinated the studio’s collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard. Series Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope Google Calendar ICS