Andrei Tarkovsky: Voyages in Time
Through August 29
“Tarkovsky is for me the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.”
—Ingmar Bergman
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986) directed an impressive body of work that continues to be celebrated today for its visual power and poetic resonance. Experience these stunning works at full scale with rich Meyer Sound in BAMPFA's state-of-the-art Barbro Osher Theater.
The Long Goodbye
Directed by Robert Altman, 1973
35mm Archival Print
Updating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden).
Series: Robert Altman at 100
The Phenix City Story
Directed by Phil Karlson, 1955
Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion: Eddie Muller
“Filmed on location in Alabama with a documentary-like look, the movie captured the ambiance and tenor of its Deep South setting better than almost any other fact-based movie of its era” (Bruce Eder, AllMovie).
Directed by Mikio Naruse, 1956
Hideko Takamine plays a young woman working to raise enough money to open her own coffee shop. When her family takes the money to fund her sister’s wedding, she arranges a loan, but her husband is wary of the loan officer (Toshiro Mifune).
Elvira Madigan
Directed by Bo Widerberg, 1967
“Elvira Madigan is indeed remarkably beautiful, almost every frame would make a painting, and yet the film is alive and cinematic, not simply photographs of pretty pictures” (Roger Ebert).
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Directed by Robert Altman, 1982
Restored 35mm Archival Print
Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, and Kathy Bates star in Robert Altman’s tale of the members of a James Dean fan club reuniting in a small Texas town.
Series: Robert Altman at 100
Él
Directed by Luis Buñuel, 1953
4K Digital Restoration
A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.
Series: Special Screenings 2025
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Berkeley Art Museum
and Pacific Film Archive
2120 Oxford St.
Berkeley, CA 94720
