Limited Engagements & Special Screenings 2018
Ongoing
Recent releases, restored classics, and special guests grace the Barbro Osher Theater.
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The Apartment
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The Price of Everything
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Past Films
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden, France, 1986New 4K Digital Restoration
Friday, January 12 7 PMView DetailsA retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Jean Renoir
France, 1936New Digital Restoration. Film to Table dinner follows the January 13 screening
Saturday, January 13 6 PMView DetailsWorkers at a publishing company form a successful collective after their loathsome boss disappears in Renoir’s vivacious drama of crime, romance, and ethics. “A film touched by divine grace” (François Truffaut).
The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir
France, 193935mm Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Sunday, January 14 4 PMView DetailsMade just before the outbreak of World War II, Renoir’s masterpiece turns a country-house gathering into a tragicomic study of polite society on the brink of collapse.
Memories of Underdevelopment
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba, 1968New Digital Restoration / Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!
Thursday, January 18 7 PMView DetailsThe Cuban cinema reached full maturity with this classic study of a bourgeois writer who stays in Cuba after the revolution. “Beautifully understated, sophisticated and cosmopolitan” (New York Times).
The Rules of the Game
Jean Renoir
France, 193935mm Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Friday, January 19 4 PMView DetailsMade just before the outbreak of World War II, Renoir’s masterpiece turns a country-house gathering into a tragicomic study of polite society on the brink of collapse.
Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan, 196435mm Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Friday, January 19 7 PMView DetailsThe sands of time have not worn away the startling beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s adaptation of Kobo Abe’s acclaimed postmodernist novel. “It’s like a dream—the kind from which you awake bolt upright in a cold sweat” (The Guardian).
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
Jean Renoir
France, 1936New Digital Restoration. Film to Table dinner follows the January 13 screening
Sunday, January 21 2 PMView DetailsWorkers at a publishing company form a successful collective after their loathsome boss disappears in Renoir’s vivacious drama of crime, romance, and ethics. “A film touched by divine grace” (François Truffaut).
Free Speech and Its Limits: An Unfinished Conversation
Thursday, January 25 7:10 PMIntroduction by Carol Christ; Ira Glasser, Ben Stern, Charlene Stern, Manu Meel, Simone Dill, Luis Tenorio and Edward Wasserman in ConversationView DetailsA screening of Near Normal Man, a profile of Holocaust survivor Ben Stern and his fight against a 1977 Nazi rally in Illinois, anchors this discussion of free speech.
Letters from Baghdad
Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl
United States, United Kingdom, France, 2017Friday, January 26 4 PMView DetailsNarrated by Tilda Swinton, this documentary tells the fascinating story of Gertrude Bell—who shaped the modern Middle East after World War I and helped draw the borders of Iraq—through intimate letters and secret documents.
Memories of Underdevelopment
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba, 1968New Digital Restoration / Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!
Friday, January 26 7 PMView DetailsThe Cuban cinema reached full maturity with this classic study of a bourgeois writer who stays in Cuba after the revolution. “Beautifully understated, sophisticated and cosmopolitan” (New York Times).
Woodstock
Michael Wadleigh
United States, 1970Archival Print
Saturday, January 27 6:30 PMCountry Joe McDonald and Robert N. Zagone in PersonView DetailsThis legendary documentary captures a rock-and-roll who’s who at their heights: Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Janis Joplin, and many more. With Robert N. Zagone’s short A Day in the Life of Country Joe and the Fish.
Letters from Baghdad
Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl
United States, United Kingdom, France, 2017Sunday, January 28 2 PMView DetailsNarrated by Tilda Swinton, this documentary tells the fascinating story of Gertrude Bell—who shaped the modern Middle East after World War I and helped draw the borders of Iraq—through intimate letters and secret documents.
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden, France, 1986New 4K Digital Restoration
Sunday, January 28 4 PMView DetailsA retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film.
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Friday, February 2 4 PMView DetailsThis recent documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
Woman in the Dunes
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan, 196435mm Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Friday, February 2 7 PMView DetailsThe sands of time have not worn away the startling beauty of Hiroshi Teshigahara’s adaptation of Kobo Abe’s acclaimed postmodernist novel. “It’s like a dream—the kind from which you awake bolt upright in a cold sweat” (The Guardian).
Memories of Underdevelopment
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cuba, 1968New Digital Restoration / Bay Area Theatrical Premiere!
Saturday, February 3 5 PMView DetailsThe Cuban cinema reached full maturity with this classic study of a bourgeois writer who stays in Cuba after the revolution. “Beautifully understated, sophisticated and cosmopolitan” (New York Times).
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Frederick Wiseman
United States, 2017Sunday, February 4 3 PMView DetailsFrederick Wiseman’s latest documentary provides welcome confirmation of the survival of intelligent life in discouraging times, following the work behind and beyond the books at the New York Public Library.
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Saturday, February 10 2 PMView DetailsThis recent documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Frederick Wiseman
United States, 2017Wednesday, February 14 7 PMView DetailsFrederick Wiseman’s latest documentary provides welcome confirmation of the survival of intelligent life in discouraging times, following the work behind and beyond the books at the New York Public Library.
Satantango
Béla Tarr
Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, 199435mm Mint Print / BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Sunday, February 18 1 PMView DetailsDon’t miss a rare chance to witness one of cinema’s “genuine masterpieces” (Cahiers du cinéma) on the big screen. Béla Tarr’s seven-and-a-half-hour opus of melancholia and alcohol is “devastating, enthralling for every minute” (Susan Sontag).
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden, France, 1986New 4K Digital Restoration
Friday, February 23 4 PMView DetailsA retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film.
Beuys
Andres Veiel
Germany, 2018East Bay Theatrical Premiere
Friday, March 9 4 PMView DetailsThis new documentary explores the life and work of avant-garde sculptor, painter, performance artist, and social activist Joseph Beuys, chronicling his art and ideas about media, community, and capitalism in an intimate way.
The Assassin
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, 2015Film to Table dinner follows the March 10 screening
Saturday, March 10 5 PMView DetailsWinner of the Best Director prize for Hou Hsiao-hsien at the 2015 Cannes film festival, The Assassin is “a mesmerizing slow burn of a martial-arts movie” (Variety).
Beuys
Andres Veiel
Germany, 2018East Bay Theatrical Premiere
Sunday, March 11 4:30 PMView DetailsThis new documentary explores the life and work of avant-garde sculptor, painter, performance artist, and social activist Joseph Beuys, chronicling his art and ideas about media, community, and capitalism in an intimate way.
The Assassin
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, 2015Film to Table dinner follows the March 10 screening
Friday, March 16 7 PMView DetailsWinner of the Best Director prize for Hou Hsiao-hsien at the 2015 Cannes film festival, The Assassin is “a mesmerizing slow burn of a martial-arts movie” (Variety).
The Burning Child
Joseph Leo Koerner, Christian D. Bruun
United States, 2017Special Preview Screening
Saturday, March 17 4 PMJoseph Leo Koerner and Winnie Wong in conversationView DetailsA film journey into Vienna’s interior—both its domestic architecture and the space of the psyche—set against the backdrop of Austria’s troubled past.
Time Regained
Raúl Ruiz
France, Italy, Portugal, 1999New Digital Restoration
Sunday, March 18 1 PMView Details“For those who know the final volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Ruiz’s film sets off its own chain of memories and associations; for those who do not, it serves as a superb introduction to the shape and texture of the Proustian universe” (Dave Kehr).
Mister Universo
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Austria, Italy, 2016Saturday, March 24 8 PMView DetailsThe spirits of early Fellini and De Sica can be felt in this captivating docudrama about an Italian lion-tamer on the hunt for the strongman who started him on the circus life.
All That Heaven Allows
Douglas Sirk
United States, 1955Vintage Technicolor 35mm Print
Sunday, March 25 4:30 PMView DetailsRock Hudson comes to prune widow Jane Wyman’s garden and uproots her sterile, upper-middle-class suburban life in this elegiac, Thoreauvian mood piece that inspired Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven.
Mister Universo
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Austria, Italy, 2016Wednesday, March 28 7 PMView DetailsThe spirits of early Fellini and De Sica can be felt in this captivating docudrama about an Italian lion-tamer on the hunt for the strongman who started him on the circus life.
Mister Universo
Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Austria, Italy, 2016Friday, March 30 4 PMView DetailsThe spirits of early Fellini and De Sica can be felt in this captivating docudrama about an Italian lion-tamer on the hunt for the strongman who started him on the circus life.
All That Heaven Allows
Douglas Sirk
United States, 1955Vintage Technicolor 35mm Print
Friday, March 30 7 PMView DetailsRock Hudson comes to prune widow Jane Wyman’s garden and uproots her sterile, upper-middle-class suburban life in this elegiac, Thoreauvian mood piece that inspired Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven.
Beuys
Andres Veiel
Germany, 2018East Bay Theatrical Premiere
Saturday, March 31 3 PMView DetailsThis new documentary explores the life and work of avant-garde sculptor, painter, performance artist, and social activist Joseph Beuys, chronicling his art and ideas about media, community, and capitalism in an intimate way.
In the Intense Now
João Moreira Salles
Brazil, 2017Wednesday, April 4 7 PMView DetailsSalles portrays the pivotal, tumultuous 1960s through archival footage and home movies from May ’68 Paris, Soviet-invaded Czechoslovakia, China during the Cultural Revolution, and Brazil under military rule. “It’s a documentary that’s really a meditation—history made poetic” (Variety).
Infrastructure of the Universe
Friday, April 27 3:30 PMZachary Epcar in PersonView DetailsThis program of short films explores how the interweaving of built, natural, and virtual media environments shapes our world.
Works from the Eisner Competition 2018
Free Admission. Student Filmmakers in Person
Sunday, April 29 4:30 PMView DetailsWe present this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video competition for the Eisner Prize, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creativity.
In the Intense Now
João Moreira Salles
Brazil, 2017Friday, May 4 7 PMView DetailsSalles portrays the pivotal, tumultuous 1960s through archival footage and home movies from May ’68 Paris, Soviet-invaded Czechoslovakia, China during the Cultural Revolution, and Brazil under military rule. “It’s a documentary that’s really a meditation—history made poetic” (Variety).
Way Bay on Screen
Saturday, May 5 4 PMView DetailsThis selection of works from the exhibition Way Bay reveals the rich and varied landscape and people of the Bay Area. Featuring a time capsule of San Francisco before the 1906 quake and works by Bruce Baillie, Alice Anne Parker (Severson), Sara Kathyrn Arledge, and Ernie Gehr.
Time Regained
Raúl Ruiz
France, Italy, Portugal, 1999New Digital Restoration
Sunday, May 6 3:30 PMView Details“For those who know the final volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, Ruiz’s film sets off its own chain of memories and associations; for those who do not, it serves as a superb introduction to the shape and texture of the Proustian universe” (Dave Kehr).
Greta Garbo Rarities
Copresented with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Wednesday, May 30 3 PMIllustrated Lecture by Jon Wengström; Stephen Horne on PianoView DetailsThis program of rare film fragments, commercials, and newsreels from the archives of the Swedish Film Institute offers glimpses of Garbo at various points throughout her career.
Leaning into the Wind—Andy Goldsworthy
Thomas Reidelsheimer
United Kingdom, 2017BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Film to Table dinner follows the June 2 screeningSaturday, June 2 5 PMView DetailsThis visually striking, thought-provoking documentary about the British installation artist Andy Goldsworthy is a sequel to the director’s groundbreaking Rivers and Tides—Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time.
A Touch of Zen
King Hu
Taiwan, 1971Digital Restoration
Sunday, June 3 6:30 PMView DetailsA swordswoman on the run takes refuge with a shy scholar, but soon finds herself back under attack. King Hu’s visionary martial arts epic turns swordplay into ballet, and remains one of the greatest action films of all time.
Western
Valeska Grisebach
Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, 2017East Bay Premiere
Friday, June 8 7 PMView DetailsThis intense, slow-burning thriller follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. “A stunning existential study of masculinity” (Sight & Sound).
Leaning into the Wind—Andy Goldsworthy
Thomas Reidelsheimer
United Kingdom, 2017BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Film to Table dinner follows the June 2 screeningSunday, June 10 5 PMView DetailsThis visually striking, thought-provoking documentary about the British installation artist Andy Goldsworthy is a sequel to the director’s groundbreaking Rivers and Tides—Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time.
Mur Murs
Agnès Varda
United States, France, 1980Digital Restoration
Friday, June 15 5 PMView DetailsVenturing from Venice Beach to Watts, the great Agnès Varda looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980.
Western
Valeska Grisebach
Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, 2017East Bay Premiere
Thursday, June 21 7 PMView DetailsThis intense, slow-burning thriller follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. “A stunning existential study of masculinity” (Sight & Sound).
Leaning into the Wind—Andy Goldsworthy
Thomas Reidelsheimer
United Kingdom, 2017BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!
Film to Table dinner follows the June 2 screeningFriday, June 22 5 PMView DetailsThis visually striking, thought-provoking documentary about the British installation artist Andy Goldsworthy is a sequel to the director’s groundbreaking Rivers and Tides—Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time.
Daisies
Věra Chytilová
Czechoslovakia, 196635mm Print
Saturday, June 23 8:15 PMView DetailsChytilová's most acclaimed film, spawned by the Prague Spring, is a brilliantly colored surrealist comedy starring a couple of chicks in search of kicks.
Cielo
Alison McAlpine
Canada, Chile, 2017East Bay Premiere
Sunday, June 24 5 PMView DetailsPoet-turned-filmmaker Alison McAlpine finds her wonder at the night sky of Chile’s Atacama Desert reflected in the people she meets there, from cowboys to algae collectors, astronomers to miners and storytellers. “A beautiful film” (Walter Murch).
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Friday, June 29 4:30 PMView DetailsBack by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
Cielo
Alison McAlpine
Canada, Chile, 2017East Bay Premiere
Saturday, June 30 8:30 PMView DetailsPoet-turned-filmmaker Alison McAlpine finds her wonder at the night sky of Chile’s Atacama Desert reflected in the people she meets there, from cowboys to algae collectors, astronomers to miners and storytellers. “A beautiful film” (Walter Murch).
Mur Murs
Agnès Varda
United States, France, 1980Digital Restoration
Wednesday, July 4 5 PMView DetailsVenturing from Venice Beach to Watts, the great Agnès Varda looks at the murals of Los Angeles as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures circa 1980.
My Journey Through French Cinema
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 2017East Bay Premiere
Thursday, July 12 7 PMView DetailsA great director takes viewers on an idiosyncratic tour of French film in this delightful documentary, which offers an entire lifetime of cinema knowledge and passion within its running time. “Exhilarating and inspiring” (New York Times).
Harp of Burma
Kon Ichikawa
Japan, 1956BAMPFA Collection Print
Wednesday, July 25 7 PMView DetailsA lyrical, haunting requiem for the victims of war, set amid the giant Buddhas of Burma. Winner of the top prize at the Venice film festival and one of Ichikawa’s most famous films.
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Friday, July 27 4:30 PMView DetailsBack by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Friday, August 17 4 PMView DetailsBack by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
My Journey Through French Cinema
Bertrand Tavernier
France, 2017East Bay Premiere
Friday, August 17 7 PMView DetailsA great director takes viewers on an idiosyncratic tour of French film in this delightful documentary, which offers an entire lifetime of cinema knowledge and passion within its running time. “Exhilarating and inspiring” (New York Times).
The End of the Ottoman Empire
Mathilde Damoisel, Sylvie Jézéquel
France, Switzerland, 2016Thursday, August 30 4 PMView DetailsBack by popular demand! This documentary offers an overview of the Ottoman Empire and its decline, the essential backstory of our world today.
The Atomic Cafe
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
United States, 1982Digital Restoration
Sunday, September 2 5 PMJayne Loader and Rick Prelinger in conversation on September 7View DetailsA blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
Le corbeau
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1943Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee PickSunday, September 2 7 PMView DetailsWith this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
RBG
Julie Cohen, Betsy West
United States, 2018Friday, September 7 5 PMView DetailsProfiling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “this clear-eyed and admiring documentary . . . emphasize[s] not just Ginsburg’s work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there” (L.A. Times).
The Atomic Cafe
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
United States, 1982Digital Restoration
Friday, September 7 7 PMJayne Loader and Rick Prelinger in conversation on September 7View DetailsA blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
Le corbeau
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1943Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee PickSaturday, September 8 8 PMView DetailsWith this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
Le corbeau
Henri-Georges Clouzot
France, 1943Digital Restoration
BAMPFA Student Committee PickSunday, September 9 5 PMView DetailsWith this noir made in occupied France, director Clouzot (Diabolique) turns a thriller about an outbreak of poison-pen letters into a study of group psychology and all-encompassing suspicion.
The Atomic Cafe
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
United States, 1982Digital Restoration
Friday, September 14 5 PMJayne Loader and Rick Prelinger in conversation on September 7View DetailsA blast of nuclear nostalgia with a long half-life, this found-footage documentary is both a deft history of the Cold War and a comic essay on the American knack for turning tragedy and terror into kitsch.
Zama
Lucrecia Martel
Argentina, 2017Sunday, September 23 4:30 PMView DetailsThe latest feature from acclaimed director Martel is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).
RBG
Julie Cohen, Betsy West
United States, 2018Friday, October 5 4 PMView DetailsProfiling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “this clear-eyed and admiring documentary . . . emphasize[s] not just Ginsburg’s work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there” (L.A. Times).
RBG
Julie Cohen, Betsy West
United States, 2018Sunday, October 14 2 PMView DetailsProfiling Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “this clear-eyed and admiring documentary . . . emphasize[s] not just Ginsburg’s work on the court but how extraordinarily influential she was before she even got there” (L.A. Times).
Zama
Lucrecia Martel
Argentina, 2017Friday, October 19 4 PMView DetailsThe latest feature from acclaimed director Martel is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).
CineSpin: The Blood of a Poet
Jean Cocteau
France, 1930Free admission
Friday, October 19 9:30 PMView DetailsLive student DJs and musicians perform an original score to Cocteau’s Surrealist classic. Plus surprise shorts!
Zama
Lucrecia Martel
Argentina, 2017Friday, November 9 4 PMView DetailsThe latest feature from acclaimed director Martel is a glimpse into the colonial abyss, adapted from a famed Argentine novel about a Spanish officer in a remote proto-Paraguayan outpost. “Perplexing and thrilling in equal measure” (Variety).
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
United Kingdom, United States, 196850th Anniversary Rerelease
Saturday, November 10 2 PMView DetailsKubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety).
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
United Kingdom, United States, 196850th Anniversary Rerelease
Friday, November 16 3:30 PMView DetailsKubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety).
The Third Murder
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan, 2017Saturday, November 17 8 PMView DetailsKore-eda’s latest film is “a captivating puzzle” (The Guardian). A man has confessed to murder, but when his defense lawyer tries to establish a motive, he wanders into a web of uncertainties that are both factual and existential.
Blind Chance
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Poland, 1981/87Digital Restoration
Sunday, November 18 7 PMView DetailsKieslowski’s Solidarity-era work is three films in one, telling the possible futures of its protagonist: Party member, dissident, or apolitical family man. “One of Kieslowski’s best films. . . . Should not be missed” (Hollywood Reporter).
The Third Murder
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan, 2017Friday, November 23 7 PMView DetailsKore-eda’s latest film is “a captivating puzzle” (The Guardian). A man has confessed to murder, but when his defense lawyer tries to establish a motive, he wanders into a web of uncertainties that are both factual and existential.
Blind Chance
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Poland, 1981/87Digital Restoration
Saturday, November 24 4 PMView DetailsKieslowski’s Solidarity-era work is three films in one, telling the possible futures of its protagonist: Party member, dissident, or apolitical family man. “One of Kieslowski’s best films. . . . Should not be missed” (Hollywood Reporter).
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
United Kingdom, United States, 196850th Anniversary Rerelease
Saturday, November 24 6:30 PMView DetailsKubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety).
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick
United Kingdom, United States, 196850th Anniversary Rerelease
Sunday, November 25 3:30 PMView DetailsKubrick harnesses the widescreen, epic format for an intensely metaphysical experience in space and time. Since 2001’s release fifty years ago, “no movie has matched its solemnly jaw-dropping techno-poetic majesty” (Variety).
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sara Driver
United States, 2017Sunday, December 2 7 PMView DetailsFound footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews chronicle the artistic emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used New York City as both a canvas and a stage. “A treasure” (Hollywood Reporter).
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sara Driver
United States, 2017Friday, December 7 4 PMView DetailsFound footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews chronicle the artistic emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used New York City as both a canvas and a stage. “A treasure” (Hollywood Reporter).
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
United States, 1960Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the December 8 screeningSaturday, December 8 5:30 PMView DetailsJack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
The Price of Everything
Nathaniel Kahn
United States, 2018Sunday, December 9 7 PMView DetailsFeaturing an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
Il posto
Ermanno Olmi
Italy, 1961Friday, December 14 6:30 PMView DetailsOlmi’s humane, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young man embarking on his first job in Milan captures the alienation and regimentation of the working world.
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
United States, 1960Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the December 8 screeningFriday, December 14 8:30 PMView DetailsJack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Ermanno Olmi
Italy, 1978Digital Restoration
Thursday, December 20 7 PMView DetailsOlmi won the Cannes Palme d’Or with this intimate epic of life, love, and work among three peasant families in turn-of-the-century Italy, a film of majesty made from minutiae. “A fully articulated work of cinematic art” (Andrew Sarris).
The Price of Everything
Nathaniel Kahn
United States, 2018Friday, December 21 4 PMView DetailsFeaturing an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
The Firemen’s Ball
Milos Forman
Czechoslovakia, 1967Digital Restoration
Saturday, December 22 6 PMView DetailsA small-town party thrown by the local fire brigade soon goes up in flames in Forman’s takedown of bureaucracies big and small. Both sweet-natured and biting enough to worry Czech authorities, this satire is also “a tragicomedy of old age” (Raymond Durgnat).
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
United States, 1960Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the December 8 screeningSaturday, December 22 8 PMView DetailsJack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Sara Driver
United States, 2017Sunday, December 23 2 PMView DetailsFound footage, home movies, and contemporary interviews chronicle the artistic emergence of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who used New York City as both a canvas and a stage. “A treasure” (Hollywood Reporter).
The Firemen’s Ball
Milos Forman
Czechoslovakia, 1967Digital Restoration
Sunday, December 23 4 PMView DetailsA small-town party thrown by the local fire brigade soon goes up in flames in Forman’s takedown of bureaucracies big and small. Both sweet-natured and biting enough to worry Czech authorities, this satire is also “a tragicomedy of old age” (Raymond Durgnat).
The Price of Everything
Nathaniel Kahn
United States, 2018Wednesday, December 26 4 PMView DetailsFeaturing an impressive cast of art world characters, including artists Jeff Koons and Gerhard Richter, this documentary is a lively exploration of the uneasy but inextricable relationship between art and money.
Grand Hotel
Edmund Goulding
United States, 193235mm Archival Print
Wednesday, December 26 6:30 PMView DetailsEdmund Goulding’s masterpiece of set design and art direction tracks the denizens of Berlin’s Grand Hotel before the rise of fascism. The all-star cast includes Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, and John Barrymore.
The Apartment
Billy Wilder
United States, 1960Digital Restoration
Film to Table dinner follows the December 8 screeningThursday, December 27 7 PMView DetailsJack Lemmon, Fred MacMurray, and Shirley MacLaine in a riotously acidic tale of sex and corporate success. This winner of Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Art Direction is “an American classic” (New York Times).
Il posto
Ermanno Olmi
Italy, 1961Saturday, December 29 5:30 PMView DetailsOlmi’s humane, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young man embarking on his first job in Milan captures the alienation and regimentation of the working world.
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