Streaming: Free Films for Members 2020

May 30–December 28, 2020

We’re grateful to our members for standing with BAMPFA during our temporary closure. To show our appreciation, we’re offering a series of free streaming films just for members.

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  • Streaming: Street Days

    • Monday, December 28 All Day
    • Tuesday, December 29 All Day
    • Wednesday, December 30 All Day
    Levan Koguashvili
    Georgia, 2010

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    This powerful character study of a drug addict struggling to survive in a dilapidated Tbilisi is laced with remarkable touches of humor and pathos.

  • Streaming: A Useful Life

    • Friday, December 11 All Day
    • Saturday, December 12 All Day
    • Sunday, December 13 All Day
    Federico Veiroj
    Uruguay, 2010

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    A lifelong film archivist faces a new beginning with the threatened closure of his institution in this loving black-and-white ode to a life lived among the reels. “An elegy to cinephilia” (Slant).

  • Streaming—Ornette: Made in America

    • Saturday, November 28 All Day
    • Sunday, November 29 All Day
    Shirley Clarke
    United States, 1985

    Digital Restoration
    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    This portrait of jazz innovator Ornette Coleman features performances from 1968 to 1983, from Morocco to Berkeley, collaged with conversations and commentary. With Clarke’s short Bridges-Go-Round.

  • Streaming: Portrait of Jason

    • Saturday, November 14 All Day
    • Sunday, November 15 All Day
    Shirley Clarke
    United States, 1967

    Digital Restoration
    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    Clarke’s portrait of an African American gay prostitute and aspiring nightclub performer is “an intense, commanding film” (Chicago Reader). With short Skyscraper. 

  • Streaming: The Connection

    • Saturday, October 24 All Day
    • Sunday, October 25 All Day
    Shirley Clarke
    United States, 1961

    Digital Restoration
    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    Greenwich Village junkies rap, jive, and blow cool jazz while waiting for a fix in this indie cinema classic. With Clarke’s Oscar-winning documentary Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World.

  • Streaming—Marius Petipa: The French Master of Russian Ballet

    • Saturday, October 3 All Day
    • Sunday, October 4 All Day
    Denis Sneguirev
    France, 2019

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    The extraordinary story of the choreographer who created Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty. “More relevant than ever, Marius Petipa, who has been gaining renewed interest, remains a bedrock and a driving force” (Le Monde).

  • Streaming—Mr. Gaga: A True Story of Love and Dance

    • Saturday, September 12 All Day
    • Sunday, September 13 All Day
    Tomer Heymann
    Israel, Sweden, Germany, Netherlands, 2015

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    A spectacular and celebratory investigation of a modern dancer’s creative process, this documentary tracks the four-decades-long career of renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin, the artistic director of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company. “Highly recommended” (New York Times).

  • Streaming: The Exiles

    • Saturday, August 22 All Day
    • Sunday, August 23 All Day
    Kent Mackenzie
    United States, 1961

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only! Password required.

    A semi-documentary film about American Indians living in Los Angeles, The Exiles is “a wrenching document of cultural dislocation” (Thom Andersen).

  • Streaming: The Wide Blue Road

    • Saturday, August 8 All Day
    • Sunday, August 9 All Day
    Gillo Pontecorvo
    Italy, 1957

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
    Available August 8–9. Password required.

    In a “starkly beautiful morality tale” (New York Times) set under the brilliant turquoise skies of the Dalmatian coast, Yves Montand plays a rogue fisherman trying to provide for his family while at odds with the law.

  • Streaming: Rocco and His Brothers

    • Saturday, July 25 All Day
    • Sunday, July 26 All Day
    Luchino Visconti
    Italy, France, 1960

    Free streaming presentation for BAMPFA members only!
    Available July 25–26. Password required.

    The lives of a southern Italian family who move to Milan mirror the transformation of postwar Italian society. Starring Alain Delon, the film has “the emotional sweep of a Verdi opera and the narrative density of a nineteenth-century novel” (New York Times).

  • Streaming: I Am Cuba

    • Saturday, June 20 All Day
    • Sunday, June 21 All Day
    Mikhail Kalatozov
    Cuba, USSR, 1964

    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.

  • Streaming: The Mystery of Picasso

    • Saturday, May 30 All Day
    • Sunday, May 31 All Day
    Henri-Georges Clouzot
    France, 1956

    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).