Ingmar Bergman: Smiles of a Summer Night, 1955
Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs
July 11–August 29
The second installment in BAMPFA’s ongoing Swedish Cinema Project offers a lineup of classic films synonymous with the white nights of Swedish summers and the country’s rich tradition of auteur directors, including Roy Andersson, Ingmar Bergman, Gustaf Molander, Alf Sjöberg, and Bo Widerberg.
They Live by Night
Directed by Nicholas Ray, 1948
Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion: David Thomson
Nicholas Ray’s lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents. It influenced films from Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde.
Directed by Mikio Naruse, 1960
BAMPFA Collection
Essential Mikio Naruse. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess’s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder and [Douglas] Sirk” (Village Voice).
Directed by Robert Altman, 1975
As the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).
Series: Robert Altman at 100
Leave Her to Heaven
Directed by John M. Stahl, 1945
35mm Archival Print
Intoxicating Gene Tierney (Laura) is the femme fatale par excellence in this astounding Technicolor noir classic, now beautifully restored, about a young novelist (Cornel Wilde) whose new bride’s extreme jealousy plunges their nuptial heaven into hellish depths of psychic disorder.
Mirror
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975
Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).
Vermiglio
Directed by Maura Delpero, 2024
East Bay Premiere
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival
The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film.
Series: Special Screenings 2025
That Cold Day in the Park
Directed by Robert Altman, 1969
Restored 35mm Archival Print
In this class-conscious psychosexual thriller, Sandy Dennis plays Frances Austen, a lonely, repressed woman who takes a lonely young man into her home and won’t let go.
Series: Robert Altman at 100
Stalker
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
Digital Restoration
A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).
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