Spanning several decades and employing radically different cinematic styles, three films revolving around the daily lives of young black men: Do the Right Thing, Killer of Sheep, Fruitvale Station.
ViewAvant-garde filmmaker Robert Beavers comes to BAMPFA for a weeklong residency to show his own work alongside films that have inspired him.
ViewThe witty, daring, and lavish films of writer-director-producer duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, including the influential Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and A Matter of Life and Death.
ViewDavid and Janet Peoples, Justin Desmangles, and Daniel Clowes present films that inspire them.
ViewRecent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
ViewLecture/Screening Series
A seven-week lecture/screening course with film historian David Thomson focusing on Hollywood directors who were at odds with the studio system. Special admission applies.
ViewTreat the family to a Saturday afternoon at the movies.
ViewA selection of recent and historical documentaries that extend the nonfiction form in provocative ways.
ViewThe duo of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet created one of the most uncompromising, yet eternally surprising, filmmaking aesthetics in postwar European cinema. Discover the films that inspired Harun Farocki, Pedro Costa, John Gianvito, and others.
ViewFour evenings with Paraguayan artist, filmmaker, and humanist Paz Encina, who is the UC Regents’ Lecturer of 2017.
ViewFilms that actively participated in emerging counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, presented in conjunction with the exhibiton Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.
ViewBiographical films of composers Lou Harrison (1917–2003) and Isang Yun (1917–1995).
ViewUkrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa joins us to present and discuss his work, including the award-winning Maidan and his latest, Austerlitz.
ViewA near-complete restrospective of the French director's austere yet compassionate work.
ViewFilm scholar Jeffrey Skoller offers insights into three of Bresson's films in this lecture/screening series.
ViewThis annual festival draws on the best of African cinema and films from the African diaspora.
ViewThe artist presents her contemplative, collaborative works in addition to films by Jean Eustache and Raymond Depardon.
ViewBAMPFA is proud to be the East Bay venue for this global showcase of cinematic discovery.
ViewA tribute to one of the great American independent filmmakers and to the indelible characters he and his actors created.
ViewBAMPFA welcomes two distinguished guests from the international film archive community, Alexander Horwath and Shivendra Singh Dungarpur.
ViewFilms that celebrate, adapt, and reinterpret writing and writers, with a stellar lineup of authors, filmmakers, and others in person.
ViewThis summer showcase spans centuries and continents with films from the BAMPFA collection and beyond.
ViewThis retrospective marks the centennial of the great French director whose American-inspired crime films helped set the New Wave in motion.
ViewIn films by Akira Kurosawa and others, Mifune showed astonishing vitality and range. We present a dozen of his iconic roles, plus a new documentary.
ViewAdaptations of tales by Patricia Highsmith, Vera Caspary, Dorothy B. Hughes, and others reveal the dark side of "women's writing."
ViewHeartfelt melodrama meets candy-colored camp in the Spanish director's tales of women's struggles and solidarity.
ViewA Free Outdoor Festival of Theater on Film
BAMPFA's outdoor screen comes to life this summer with vibrant film adaptations of noted stage productions.
ViewA Free Outdoor Festival of Theater on Film
BAMPFA's outdoor screen comes to life this summer with vibrant film adaptations of noted stage productions. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy the show!
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