Film Series
Overdue
BAMcinématek welcomes back critics Nick Pinkerton and Nicolas Rapold for their peripatetic series of unsung cinematic gems, paired for your delectation.

Sam Neill stars in the capstone of John Carpenter’s Apocalypse Trilogy.

Deconstructing the myth of his own wild man persona, this film is Abel Ferrara’s 8½.

John Garfield and Patricia Neal star in this version of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not.

Claire Denis’ second feature is an intuitively felt portrait of self-destruction.

This hypnotic snapshot of 1990s Lower East Side chronicles the life of a tape bootlegger.

A short, sharp noir from low-budget, B-movie pioneer Monogram Pictures.

Critics Nick Pinkerton and Nicolas Rapold salute the 1950s film work of Don Weis.

The Cure sack France’s ancient Roman Théâtre Antique d’Orange in this rare concert film.

Hype Williams directed this sui generis swirl of millennial Manhattan and dancehall reggae.

Alec Baldwin stars as a fresh-from-the-slammer sociopath in this darkly comic thriller.

Rod Taylor and Jane Russell star in this thriller based on John MacDonald’s novel.

Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton star in this rip-roaring WWII adventure yarn.

This post-WWII conspiracy thriller features a star-studded international cast.