Here we post Emily's Film 50 Program. Only Wednesday's so leave work early for great lectures with great films.
Film 50: History of Cinema
January 22, 2014 - May 7, 2014
A UC Berkeley course open to the public as space permits. Lectures by Emily Carpenter
Emily Carpenter is a lecturer in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley.
BAM/PFA and the UC Berkeley Department of Film and Media copresent the film-lecture course Film 50, now celebrating its twenty-first year. This year’s course, taught by Emily Carpenter, showcases an exciting lineup of world cinema classics, globetrotting between continents and featuring strong examples from various film movements and historical periods. The film selection also draws upon the strengths of the BAM/PFA film collection and our ability to present the film experience faithfully, with a high standard of technical presentation. We encourage you to come have a communal viewing experience while learning about the complex medium of film.
Special admission prices applyGeneral admission, $11.50; BAM/PFA members, $7.50; UC Berkeley students, $5.50; Seniors, disabled persons, UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, and youth 17 and under, $8.50. Programs often sell out, so we recommend purchasing advance tickets.
Presale ticketsMembers at the Sponsor level and above may purchase tickets during an exclusive ticket-buying window from December 8 to 15. Upper level members are sent a promo code in the mail; call us at (510) 642-5186 if you'd like to receive the promo code by phone.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
3:10 p.m. Introduction to Film Language plus Avant-Garde Shorts
Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Several short avant-garde films demonstrate the creative potential of film as an expressive medium. Plus an introduction film terminology.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
3:10 p.m. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
Alfred Hitchcock (U.K., 1926). Digital Restoration! Judith Rosenberg on piano. Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Hitchcock’s first foray into the thriller genre, starring Ivor Novello as the eponymous lodger who just may be a serial killer. The director himself called it “the first true Hitchcock movie.” (90 mins)
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
3:10 p.m. M
Fritz Lang (Germany, 1931). Digital Restoration! Lecture by Emily Carpenter. A precursor to American film noir, Fritz Lang’s masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where it is difficult to distinguish morally between the activities of organized crime and law enforcement. With Peter Lorre. (99 mins) A personal favorite. How did Lorre ever overcome this role to become a US star?
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
3:10 p.m. Singin’ In the Rain
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly (U.S., 1952). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds dance their way across the screen in one of the greatest American musicals of all time, set during Hollywood’s transition from silent films to sound. (102 mins) I never liked this film.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
3:10 p.m. Citizen Kane
Orson Welles (U.S., 1941). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. A childhood memory is the ultimate red herring in Welles’s audacious debut, which still tops many critics’ lists of the best films of all time. “Inventing modern cinema is a tough act to follow,” Welles remarked later in his career. (119 mins) It has grown on me over the years.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
3:10 p.m. There’s Always Tomorrow
Douglas Sirk (U.S., 1956). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray rekindle an old flame in Douglas Sirk's wonderful, melancholy melodrama that "demolishes the social fantasy of the 'happy home’” (Time Out). (84 mins) I never liked this film.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
3:10 p.m. Early Summer
Yasujiro Ozu (Japan, 1951). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. "I was interested in getting much deeper than just the story itself; I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life" (Ozu). An exquisite, faintly melancholic portrait of a family, with the radiant Setsuko Hara as the daughter on whose marriage everything depends. (135 mins) A personal favorite and one of the films ever.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
3:10 p.m. Umberto D.
Vittorio De Sica (Italy, 1952). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. De Sica’s “simple, almost Chaplinesque story of a man fighting to preserve his dignity is even more moving for its firm grasp of everyday activities. . . . A truly great film” (Chicago Reader). (89 mins) Wonderful experience.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
3:10 p.m. Los olvidados
Luis Buñuel (Mexico, 1950). New 35mm Print! Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Luis Buñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC). (88 mins) Brilliant film making.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
3:10 p.m. La Pointe Courte
Agnès Varda (France, 1954). New 35mm print! Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Made outside the French film industry on a shoestring budget, Varda’s 1954 debut about two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port has been called “truly the first film of the nouvelle vague.” (90 mins) I am a Varda enthusiast.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
3:10 p.m. Il posto
Ermanno Olmi (Italy, 1961). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Olmi’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. (93 mins) A longtime film companion.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
3:10 p.m. Contempt
Jean-Luc Godard (France, 1963). New Digital Restoration! Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Godard’s Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking”(Film Comment). With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Fritz Lang himself. (103 mins) I really like this film.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
3:10 p.m. My Own Private Idaho
Gus Van Sant (U.S., 1991). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Gus Van Sant’s melancholic portrait of street hustlers in Portland follows a narcoleptic Mike (River Phoenix) and his best friend Scott (Keanu Reeves) as they embark on a journey to find Mike’s mother. With “magnetic performances from Reeves and Phoenix" (Rolling Stone). Brilliant film making.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
3:10 p.m. After Life
Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan, 1999). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. Welcome to the afterlife of Kore-eda’s remarkable film, where a busy crew of angels reenacts the favorite memories of the recently deceased. Entwining documentary and reality, After Life is, as Kore-eda states, "a film about memory, and also a film about what it means to make films." (115 mins) Excellent!
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
3:10 p.m. The Five Obstructions
Lars Von Trier, Jørgen Leth (Denmark, 2003). Lecture by Emily Carpenter. In this playfully profound documentary, Dogme demon Lars von Trier challenges great Dane filmmaker Jørgen Leth to remake The Perfect Human, his 1968 masterpiece, according to devious rules that test the elder statesman's creative and ethical limits. (90 mins) I look forward to seeing this for the first time.
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