Week of June 25, 2017

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Sunday, June 25

Sunday, June 25, 2017
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Sunday, June 25, 2017
2 PM
Explore painter Charles Howard’s enigmatic work with the exhibition curator.
Included with admission
Sunday, June 25, 2017
5 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1950,
(88 mins)

Archival Print

An act of violence is replayed through the eyes of witnesses and protagonists, each seeing a different thing, in “one of the most brilliantly constructed films of all time, a monument to Kurosawa’s greatness, and a landmark in film history” (James Monaco).
Sunday, June 25, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1969,
(145 mins)
Melville’s drama of the French Resistance, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret, “grips tighter than a Gestapo handcuff. . . . A film of noirish compositions and fantastic cool” (The Independent).
Series Melville 100

Monday, June 26

Tuesday, June 27

Tuesday, June 27, 2017
7 PM

Members' Event!

Members' reception celebrating BAMPFA's summer exhibitions

Wednesday, June 28

Wednesday, June 28, 2017
6 PM
A presentation and open discussion on the work of Ugo Rondinone in conjunction with his exhibition the world just makes me laugh.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
6:01 PM
The artist behind the world just makes me laugh talks about themes of wonder, sadness, and the sublime in his work.
Included with admission
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
7:00
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1961,
(130 mins)

New Digital Restoration

Two of the French New Wave’s most iconic actors, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva, star as a cleric and a Communist drawn together through love. “A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo” (Criterion Collection).
Series Melville 100

Thursday, June 29

Thursday, June 29, 2017
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Thursday, June 29, 2017
7 PM
Max Ophuls,
United States,
1949,
(82 mins)

Based on The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding

Housewife Joan Bennett must cope with a killing, blackmail, and the everyday pressures of domesticity in this stunning suburban noir. “An underrated gem” (Phillip Lopate).

Friday, June 30

Friday, June 30, 2017
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Friday, June 30, 2017
7 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1958,
(134 mins)
Mifune swashbuckles his way through this supremely entertaining samurai adventure, the plot inspiration for Star Wars.
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Saturday, July 1

Saturday, July 1, 2017
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Saturday, July 1, 2017
5:30 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1951,
(103 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith

A tennis star and a stranger offer to kill off each other’s relatives in Hitchcock’s polished adaptation (cowritten by Raymond Chandler). “A gripping, palm-sweating piece of suspense” (Variety).
Saturday, July 1, 2017
8:15 PM
René Clément,
France,
1959,
(115 mins)

Based on The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Clément’s adaptation is a dazzling sea-blue film noir starring Alain Delon as an idle, lethal young American in Europe.