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4 PM
Saturday, January 13, 2024
4 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1970,
(96 mins)
Anarchy ensues when a group of institutionalized dwarfs takes over their asylum in Werner Herzog’s notorious second feature, an unholy combination of 1960s revolutionary attitude, Tod Browning’s Freaks, and the surrealist shivers of Luis Buñuel. “One of the most genuinely disturbing films I have ever seen” (Richard Roud, The Guardian).
6:30 PM
Saturday, January 13, 2024
6:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1951,
(125 mins)
“I was interested in getting much deeper than just the story itself; I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life,” Yasujiro Ozu said of this exquisite, faintly melancholy portrait of a family, with Setsuko Hara as the daughter on whose marriage everything depends.
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2 PM
Sunday, January 14, 2024
2 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
France, United States,
2023,
(240 mins)
Esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades.
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
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Special Screenings
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7 PM
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1976,
(95 mins)
Werner Herzog memorably hypnotized nearly his entire cast for this haunting tale of nineteenth-century German townsfolk fallen into despair after forgetting how to make their famed glassworks. “It should be approached like a piece of music, in which we comprehend everything in terms of mood and aura” (Roger Ebert).
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7 PM
Thursday, January 18, 2024
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
1952,
(116 mins)
Digital Restoration
A series of extraordinarily revealing domestic details forms a portrait of middle-class marriage, domestic tension, and reconciliation.
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7 PM
Friday, January 19, 2024
7 PM
Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase Joynt,
Canada,
2020,
(85 mins)
A new consideration of trans jazz musician Billy Tipton’s life story and the media’s response to it, crafted by trans masculine performers and trans historians.
In Conversation
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4 PM
Saturday, January 20, 2024
4 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1956,
(145 mins)
Digital Restoration
A salaryman’s marriage is threatened when, stifled by routine, he indulges in an affair. Observing the subtle rituals and rhythms of the work day, Yasujiro Ozu explained, “I wanted to . . . let the viewer experience the peculiar sadness of the office man’s existence.”
7 PM
Saturday, January 20, 2024
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1977,
(108 mins)
A lyrical, melancholy, bitterly funny tale of three oddly assorted Berlin misfits who follow the American Dream to Railroad Flats, Wisconsin, a bleak dead end of flat farmlands, TV dinners, CB radio, and mobile homes.
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1:30 PM
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:30 PM
Béla Tarr,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland,
2000,
(145 mins)
Digital Restoration
One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. New German Cinema icon Hanna Schygulla appears in a welcome cinematic comeback, while Lars Rudolf contributes a fevered performance of Klaus Kinski–like proportions.
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Special Screenings
5 PM
Sunday, January 21, 2024
5 PM
Kate Davis,
United States,
2001,
(86 mins)
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, Southern Comfort—produced, filmed, and edited by Kate Davis—tells the powerful story of Robert Eads, a trans man dying of ovarian cancer who was failed by his doctors yet surrounded by his loving community.
In Conversation
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3:10 PM–6 PM
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
3:10 PM–6 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2007,
Lecture & Screening
A voyage to the end of the world—Antarctica—to discover the ecstatic realities of those who have chosen to live amidst nature’s awe-inspiring vastness. “A portrait of people in search of the sublime” (Cinema Scope).
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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
7 PM
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
7 PM
Emilio Fernández,
Mexico,
1951,
(84 mins)
Digital Restoration
Victims of Sin is famed Mexican director Emilio Fernández’s unique blend of film noir, melodrama, and musical. Fernández infuses the film with impassioned songs and performances by Ninón Sevilla, an icon of Mexican cinema and a purveyor of African, Caribbean, and Cuban dance styles.
Introduction
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7 PM
Thursday, January 25, 2024
7 PM
(75 mins)
Recommended for adults only
Produced between 1966 and 1969, these student films range from deconstructed narratives and agitprop to experimental essays, revealing the young Skip Norman’s multifaceted style and a commitment to social justice that would inform later projects and collaborations.
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Skip Norman Here and There
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7 PM
Friday, January 26, 2024
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1957,
(141 mins)
Digital Restoration
In his last black-and-white film, Yasujiro Ozu tackles issues of abortion and suicide, depicting the disintegration of a family with unexpected toughness.
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2 PM
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
France, United States,
2023,
(240 mins)
Esteemed documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest is a food lover’s heaven—a long, behind-the-scenes excursion into the world of France’s venerable restaurant La Maison Troisgros, which has held three Michelin stars for more than five decades.
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
Special Screenings
7 PM
Saturday, January 27, 2024
7 PM
Glauber Rocha,
Brazil,
1964,
(120 mins)
Digital Restoration
“Steeped in history, myth, religion, and politics, and suffused with the feverish intensity of the blistering desert, Black God, White Devil is one of the Cinema Novo movement’s most uncompromising statements on current social issues as well as the universal problem of mindless fanaticism” (Janus Films).
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Sunday, January 28, 2024
1 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1972,
(95 mins)
Stunningly photographed in hazardous locations in Peru, Aguirre, the Wrath of God takes the viewer on a mad voyage as frightening and entertaining as one of Edgar Allan Poe’s maelstrom-bent epics of demented discovery. Featuring a seething, controlled performance from Klaus Kinski, who delivers an unforgettable portrait of madness and power.
3 PM
Sunday, January 28, 2024
3 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1936,
In Yasujiro Ozu’s first sound feature, a small-town widow sacrifices everything so her son can better himself in Tokyo; visiting him, she faces bitter disappointment. “A small masterpiece of haunting grace and economy” (Village Voice).
5 PM
Sunday, January 28, 2024
5 PM
Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi,
Mexico, United States,
2017,
(93 mins)
A tremendous, joyful portrait of legendary Mexican lesbian singer Chavela Vargas, told through amazing archival material and interviews with friends, colleagues, and ex-lovers.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact Introduction
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Wednesday, January 31, 2024
3:10 PM–6 PM
Werner Herzog,
Germany,
1971,
Lecture & Screening
Werner Herzog’s 1971 documentary on the world of those who are both deaf and blind defies expectations; neither morbidly depressing nor heartwarmingly uplifting, it is “so intense and abstract that at times it reaches great lyrical heights” (New Yorker Films).
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 BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.
7 PM
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
7 PM
Selcen Ergun,
Germany, Serbia, Turkey,
2022,
(93 mins)
A chilling, mysterious, and stunning debut film. “Selcen Ergun’s acute and wide-awake direction emphasizes the undertones of a rigid patriarchal society while brilliantly setting the atmosphere for this anti fairy-tale” (Toronto International Film Festival).
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Thursday, February 1, 2024
7 PM
Lothar Lambert, Wolfram Zobus,
Germany,
1974,
(100 mins)
Recommended for adults only
This is a complex portrayal of the social alienation suffered by a Black American GI attempting to start a career and maintain a relationship with a white German woman in Berlin. Drifting through the city’s subcultures—including queer cruising spots and Berlin’s Black Panther Solidarity Committee—fleeting moments of tenderness prove less common than crass fetishization and brazen bigotry.
Series
Skip Norman Here and There
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Friday, February 2, 2024
7 PM
Werner Herzog,
United States,
2007,
(99 mins)
A voyage to the end of the world—Antarctica—to discover the ecstatic realities of those who have chosen to live amidst nature’s awe-inspiring vastness. “A portrait of people in search of the sublime” (Cinema Scope).
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Saturday, February 3, 2024
3 PM
David Schickele,
United States,
1971,
(140 mins)
Bay Area Premiere of the Digital Restoration Open Captions
BAMPFA presents the Bay Area premiere of the recently completed restoration of Bushman, directed by Bay Area independent filmmaker David Schickele. We will be joined by special guests, including Schickele’s family, who have been instrumental to the preservation of Bushman, as well as original members of the cast and crew and the preservation team. Paired with Schickele’s earlier film Give Me a Riddle.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact In Conversation
7 PM
Saturday, February 3, 2024
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1958,
(118 mins)
Teenage girls quietly rebel against their traditional parents’ plans. “Gentle and amused in the way that it acknowledges time’s passage, the changing of values, and the adjustments that have to be made between generations” (New York Times).
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