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It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll: Free Outdoor Screenings
June 13–August 8, 2019Three free events on our outdoor screen take the rock 'n' roll music to the streets.
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It’s Only Rock ’n’ Roll
June 13–August 31, 2019Rock ’n’ roll is the soundtrack to summer at BAMPFA as we celebrate the roots and resonance of rock in cinema. Three free events on our outdoor screen take the music to the streets.
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Cine Manifest: A Radical 1970s Film Collective
June 20–30, 2019Active in the 1970s, the Bay Area–based political film collective Cine Manifest is little known today, but their works still speak to our own troubled times. Former members join us to reminisce and present their works in person.
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Fritz Lang’s America
June 21–August 11, 2019This lineup of Lang’s films made and set in the United States amounts to a noir tour of the psychosocial landscape of twentieth-century America, a land of systemic corruption, thwarted aspiration, and frustrated desire.
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Jean-Pierre Léaud at 75
July 4–August 30, 2019This series surveys the career of a French New Wave icon, from his youthful roles as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel to his embodiment of a dying Louis XIV.
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View Finders: Women Cinematographers
July 12–November 21, 2019Showcasing the artistic visions of female cinematographers around the world, this series asks whether there is such a thing as a “female gaze.”
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Against Authority: The Cinema of Masaki Kobayashi
July 20–August 18, 2019A rare chance to see 35mm prints of films by a key figure in mid-twentieth-century Japanese cinema, including his masterwork, the three-part antiwar epic The Human Condition.
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Abbas Kiarostami: Life as Art
August 2–December 21, 2019Iran’s most influential director, Kiarostami made films that blended fiction and documentary, minimalism and spontaneity, poetic vision and humanist spirit. We present a near-complete retrospective of his work.
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In Focus: Abbas Kiarostami
August 28–September 25, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
Complementing our Abbas Kiarostami retrospective, special guest lecturers offer varied perspectives on the great Iranian director’s work.
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War and Peace
September 1–27, 2019Back by popular demand! Sergei Bondarchuk’s Academy Award–winning adaptation of Tolstoy’s revered novel was hailed by Roger Ebert as “the definitive epic of all time”; it demands to be seen on the big screen.
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Alternative Visions 2019
September 4–November 13, 2019Our annual series of avant-garde and artist-made films returns with a stellar roster of in-person guests, as well as programs of strange and wonderful surrealist works from around the world.
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Berkeley Film Foundation: Celebrating Ten Years of Local Filmmaking
September 12–October 27, 2019The Berkeley Film Foundation is an essential lifeline for East Bay filmmakers. We celebrate BFF’s tenth anniversary with a diverse selection of films—many with makers in person—including two free screenings on BAMPFA’s outdoor screen.
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Out of the Vault: Native American Reelism
September 12–November 14, 2019Drawn from the BAMPFA collection, three programs of films by and about Native Americans explore geographical belonging and dislocation, political and social action, and questions of representation.
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No Regrets: A Celebration of Marlon Riggs
September 19–November 25, 2019In his lucid and provocative video essays, Marlon Riggs grappled with African American culture, representation, and identity. This retrospective presents all of his films, in dialogue with works by other filmmakers.
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Looking Back at the British New Wave
September 21–November 30, 2019Look back at 1950s and ’60s British cinema and rediscover the England of Angry Young Men and working-class heroes, boundary-crossing writing and innovative direction, and electrifying acting by the likes of Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, and Julie Christie.
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In Focus: The British New Wave
October 2–23, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
Film historian David Thomson expands on our British New Wave retrospective with a series of four illuminating presentations on the writers, directors, and actors of sixties Britain.
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Zheng Junli: From Shanghai’s Golden Age to the Cultural Revolution
October 3–November 16, 2019Anchored by new restorations from the China Film Archive, this series explores the extraordinary career of Zheng Junli, an actor, director, film theorist, and victim of the Cultural Revolution.
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42nd Mill Valley Film Festival at BAMPFA
October 5–12, 2019BAMPFA is pleased to partner with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present selected screenings from MVFF42 in the Barbro Osher Theater.
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Jacques Tati: Comedy as Choreography
October 25–November 30, 2019Revel in the modernist comedy of Jacques Tati—both his slapstick exploits as Monsieur Hulot and his astonishing talent behind the camera.
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Strange: Surrealist Tendencies in Cinema
November 6–10, 2019Encounter uncanny landscapes, enigmatic characters, and other mysteries and wonders in these screenings presented in conjunction with the exhibition Strange.
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Soviet Silent Cinema: Peter Bagrov on Treasures from the BAMPFA...
November 6–10, 2019Lecture/Screening Series
Film archivist Peter Bagrov joins us to share his deep expertise on Soviet cinema with this series of silent classics and rarities from the BAMPFA collection.
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Perspectives on History: Romanian Cinema Since 1989
December 6, 2019–February 27, 2020Thirty years after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, this series samples the best in Romanian cinema from the last three decades.
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Afterimage: J. Hoberman on Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
December 11–12, 2019Film critic and historian J. Hoberman presents two films and offers his insights on the intersection between politics and pop culture in Ronald Reagan’s America.
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Agnès Varda: An Irresistible Force
December 20, 2019–February 28, 2020Vive la Varda! We pay tribute to a founding mother of the French New Wave, who died at age ninety in 2019—an inspiring and vital artist to the end.
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Next Door to Darkness: The Films of David Lynch
January 10–February 29, 2020A retrospective of David Lynch’s big-screen work—a journey into a universe both banal and bizarre, incomparably strange and unsettlingly familiar.
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Fritz Lang’s Indian Epic
January 11 and 25, 2020Lang’s late-period two-part epic is a fantasia of flamboyant set pieces and exotic colors shown off to full effect in this recent restoration.
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Federico Fellini at 100
January 16–May 21, 2020A centennial celebration of one of the greats of international art cinema, a master of memory, dreams, fantasy, and desire.
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In Focus: Federico Fellini
January 29–April 1, 2020Lecture/Screening Series
Explore Federico Fellini’s work in depth with this lecture/screening series complementing our Fellini retrospective.
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Documentary Voices 2020
February 5–April 29, 2020Our annual series showcases an international array of recent and historical nonfiction films.
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African Film Festival 2020
March 4–May 8, 2020This year’s edition of the African Film Festival welcomes new voices and veteran filmmakers from both the African continent and the diaspora, spotlighting stories, communities, and struggles rarely seen in Western cinema.
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Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope
Starting March 5, 2020Fifty years after the founding of American Zoetrope, we celebrate the studio and its co-creator, Francis Ford Coppola. Along with Coppola’s works, the series features films by George Lucas, Jean-Luc Godard, Akira Kurosawa, and more.
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East Meets West: The Films of Ulrike Ottinger
March 8–June 28, 2020In conjunction with the MATRIX exhibition of her photographs, Ulrike Ottinger returns to BAMPFA for a series of her films, which encompass ethnography, history, and fantasy. “Watching her films is like traveling through an undiscovered country of marvels” (Village Voice).
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