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    Sunday, May 31, 2020
    All Day
    Henri-Georges Clouzot,
    France,
    1956,
    (78 mins)

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
    Available May 30–31. Password required.

    Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this colorful documentary glimpse of the seventy-five-year-old Picasso captures the fecund nature of his creative process. “One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made” (Pauline Kael).
    Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
    Available May 30–31, 2020.
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    7 PM
    Thursday, June 4, 2020
    7 PM
    Ulrike Ottinger,
    Austria, Germany,
    2007,
    (104 mins)

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Imported 35mm Print

    Ottinger’s award-winning documentary on the Prater amusement park in Vienna draws a parallel between the illusionary business of carnival freak shows and the bygone era of a cinema of attractions.
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    Sunday, June 7, 2020
    12 PM
    Ulrike Ottinger,
    Germany,
    1992,
    (286 mins)

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Digital Restoration

    Ottinger’s serenely beautiful, eight-hour ethnographic project Taiga is a study in epic time, a journey through northern Mongolia structured in ten parts. This screening includes parts one through six. “Fascinating . . . a landmark in the West’s attempts to represent the East” (Cinemaya).
    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. Second-feature discount for all categories: $6. Presented with a 20-minute intermission following Part 3.
    Sunday, June 7, 2020
    6 PM
    Ulrike Ottinger,
    Germany,
    1992,
    (195 mins)

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Digital Restoration

    As Ottinger’s epic Mongolian trek moves toward its conclusion, the narrative shifts from the wilderness to the towns of the Mongolian-Russian period, ending in the urban environs of Ulaanbaatar.
    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. Second-feature discount for all categories: $6. Presented with 20-minute intermission following part 8.
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    Sunday, June 14, 2020
    12 PM
    Ulrike Ottinger,
    Germany,
    1992,
    (195 mins)

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Digital Restoration

    As Ottinger’s epic Mongolian trek moves toward its conclusion, the narrative shifts from the wilderness to the towns of the Mongolian-Russian period, ending in the urban environs of Ulaanbaatar.
    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. Second-feature discount for all categories: $6. Presented with 20-minute intermission following part 8.
    Sunday, June 14, 2020
    5 PM
    Watch a live conversation between Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own director Daniel Traub, the artist, and Steven H. Oliver, who commissioned von Rydingsvard’s Iggy’s Pride (1990–91) for the Oliver Ranch Foundation in Sonoma. 
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    All Day
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    Saturday, June 20, 2020
    All Day
    Mikhail Kalatozov,
    Cuba, USSR,
    1964,
    (141 mins)

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
    Available June 20-21. Password required.

    This portrait of revolutionary Cuba, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and brimming with bravura camerawork, is an extraordinary example of “pure” cinema in the service of politics.
    Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
    Available June 20–21, 2020.
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    Sunday, June 21, 2020
    All Day
    Mikhail Kalatozov,
    Cuba, USSR,
    1964,
    (141 mins)

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
    Available June 20-21. Password required.

    This portrait of revolutionary Cuba, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and brimming with bravura camerawork, is an extraordinary example of “pure” cinema in the service of politics.
    Free for BAMPFA members only. Password required.
    Available June 20–21, 2020.
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    Wednesday, June 24, 2020
    7 PM
    Ulrike Ottinger,
    Germany,
    1981,
    (126 mins)

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    Digital Restoration

    “Virginia Woolf meets the German camp underground in this extravaganza of performance art and oddity” (Jonathan Rosenbaum). Ottinger’s gender-bending, boundary-breaking fantasy of world history features Magdalena Montezuma, Delphine Seyrig, and Eddie Constantine.
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    Sunday, June 28, 2020
    1 PM
    Ulrike Ottinger,
    Germany,
    1990,
    (188 mins)

    All film screenings and public programs at BAMPFA have been temporarily canceled. Learn more

    30th Anniversary Screening!

    In this observational documentary filmed in Berlin and environs over the ten-day period leading up to the unification of the German currencies on July 1, 1990, Ottinger captures a city and a world on the brink of transition.
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