In Claire Denis’ stunning and deeply personal debut feature, the eight-year-old daughter of a French bureaucrat gradually awakens to the racial, social, and sexual tensions that surround her in 1950s Cameroon.
Fourteen masterpieces arrive on the big screen this summer for our annual festival of new restorations yet to play BAM. This year’s program brings together breakthrough triumphs by Claire Denis and Peter Greenaway, well-known favorites by Bernardo Bertolucci, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, and Wim Wenders, pathbreaking works by Yvonne Rainer and Cauleen Smith, and Krzysztof Kieślowski’s full Three Colors trilogy.
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The Double Life of Véronique
Fri, Jun 30, 2023
The Double Life of VéroniqueFri, Jun 30, 2023Irène Jacob won Best Actress at Cannes for her mesmerizing dual performances in Kieślowski’s enigmatic, existential drama about two unrelated, physically- identical women living separate lives in Poland and France.
FilmThe Double Life of VéroniqueFri, Jun 30, 2023Irène Jacob delivers two riveting performances in Kieślowski’s enigmatic, existential drama.
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Millenium Mambo
Jul 1—Jul 6, 2023
Millenium MamboJul 1—Jul 6, 2023Hou Hsiao-hsien’s neon-splashed reverie is a dreamlike drift through the night world of early 2000s Taipei as a wayward bar hostess is caught between a jealously possessive boyfriend and a kindly gangster.
FilmMillenium MamboJul 1—Jul 6, 2023Hou Hsiao-hsien’s neon-splashed reverie is a dreamlike drift through Taipei’s night world.
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Robinson’s Garden
Sat, Jul 1, 2023
Robinson’s GardenSat, Jul 1, 2023A drug-dealing dropout decides to live in a flourishing garden located in an abandoned industrial site in this anticapitalist rejoinder to the “economic bubble” culture of the 1980s.
FilmRobinson’s GardenSat, Jul 1, 2023A Tokyo drug dealer drops out of society in Masashi Yamamoto’s anticapitalist masterpiece.
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The Trial
Sat, Jul 1, 2023
The TrialSat, Jul 1, 2023Orson Welles inventively adapts Franz Kafka’s classic novel about Josef K. (Anthony Perkins), a lowly office worker who is relentlessly pursued for an unspecified crime until even he is unsure of his innocence.
FilmThe TrialSat, Jul 1, 2023Orson Welles fashions an eerie dystopian parable that he called “the best film I ever made.”
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Three Colors: Blue
Sun, Jul 2, 2023
Three Colors: BlueSun, Jul 2, 2023Juliette Binoche delivers one of her most revelatory performances as a woman attempting to start a new life unencumbered by emotional attachments in the first film of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s landmark trilogy.
FilmThree Colors: BlueSun, Jul 2, 2023Juliette Binoche is revelatory in the first film of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s landmark trilogy.
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Three Colors: Red
Sun, Jul 2, 2023
Three Colors: RedSun, Jul 2, 2023Krzysztof Kieślowski’s swan song is the grand conclusion to his historic Three Colors trilogy and an iridescent, life-affirming meditation on fate and the whims of human nature.
FilmThree Colors: RedSun, Jul 2, 2023Kieślowski’s life-affirming swan song is the grand conclusion to his Three Colors trilogy.
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Three Colors: White
Sun, Jul 2, 2023
Three Colors: WhiteSun, Jul 2, 2023In the lone comedy of his famed Three Colors trilogy, Krzysztof Kieślowski creates a caustic allegory of post-communist Poland, centered around a hapless Polish immigrant determined to get back to his homeland.
FilmThree Colors: WhiteSun, Jul 2, 2023Kieślowski allegorizes post-communist Poland in the lone comedy of his Three Colors trilogy.
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Privilege
Mon, Jul 3, 2023
PrivilegeMon, Jul 3, 2023In one of her most complex works, Yvonne Rainer concocts a genre-busting, autobiographical meta-film that interrogates memory, gender dynamics, and the reductive manner in which women’s stories are too often told.
FilmPrivilegeMon, Jul 3, 2023Yvonne Rainer’s genre-busting meta-film interrogates the ways in which women’s stories are told.
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Suzhou River
Mon, Jul 3, 2023
Suzhou RiverMon, Jul 3, 2023Upon his release from prison, a small-time crook happens upon a go-go dancer who bears an uncanny resemblance to the long-lost love who mysteriously vanished years before.
FilmSuzhou RiverMon, Jul 3, 2023Lou Ye nods to Hitchcock and Wong Kar-wai in his gorgeous, Shanghai-set tale of doomed love.
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Paris, Texas
Tue, Jul 4, 2023
Paris, TexasTue, Jul 4, 2023Wim Wenders’ sublime, Palme d’Or-winning road movie traverses the mythic landscapes of the American Southwest as Harry Dean Stanton’s amnesiac desert drifter searches for his estranged wife (Nastassja Kinski).
FilmParis, TexasTue, Jul 4, 2023An iconic Harry Dean Stanton stars in Wim Wenders’ sublime journey through the American West.
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The Conformist
Tue, Jul 4, 2023
The ConformistTue, Jul 4, 2023One of the most visually ravishing films ever made, Bernardo Bertolucci’s international breakthrough was this landmark political thriller starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a tormented assassin.
FilmThe ConformistTue, Jul 4, 2023Bertolucci’s classic political thriller is one of the most visually ravishing films ever made.
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Drylongso
Wed, Jul 5, 2023
DrylongsoWed, Jul 5, 2023One of the most visually ravishing films ever made, Bernardo Bertolucci’s international breakthrough was this landmark political thriller starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a tormented assassin.
FilmDrylongsoWed, Jul 5, 2023Cauleen Smith’s remarkable debut feature is a feminist murder mystery-buddy movie-romance.
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Thu, Jul 6, 2023
The Draughtsman's ContractThu, Jul 6, 2023In Peter Greenaway’s gleefully perverse breakthrough feature, an aristocratic wife commissions a young draughtsman to sketch 12 drawings of her husband’s property in exchange for one sexual favor per picture.
FilmThe Draughtsman's ContractThu, Jul 6, 2023A noblewoman trades sexual favors with an artist in Peter Greenaway’s breakthrough feature.