BAM Film 2024
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Perfect Days
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Perfect DaysNow PlayingUnexpected events shake a man’s placid life in Tokyo, creating an interplay of shadow and light in this quiet masterpiece from legendary German auteur Wim Wenders.FilmPerfect DaysNow PlayingUnexpected events shake a man’s placid life in this quiet masterpiece from Wim Wenders. -
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Dune: Part Two
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Dune: Part TwoNow PlayingThe epic journey of Paul Atreides continues in part two of Denis Villeneuve’s visionary adaptation, starring Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, and Austin Butler.
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Love Lies Bleeding
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Love Lies BleedingNow PlayingA reclusive gym manager and an aspiring bodybuilder become suddenly entangled in a web of violence in this gritty, neon-hued romantic thriller from director Rose Glass (Saint Maude).
FilmLove Lies BleedingNow PlayingTwo women are thrust into a web of violence in this gritty, neon-hued romantic thriller.
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The Tuba Thieves
Mar 15—Mar 27, 2024
The Tuba ThievesMar 15—Mar 27, 2024Prioritizing a d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing form of storytelling, this documentary explores the mysterious theft of tubas from high schools across California, examining the roles of sound, power, and language.
FilmThe Tuba ThievesMar 15—Mar 27, 2024Tubas are stolen from high schools across California in this exploration of sound and power.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Ryuichi Sakamoto | OpusSakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave the world with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him, his piano, and 20 spectacular pieces from across his career.
FilmRyuichi Sakamoto | OpusA definitive, heartfelt swan song from one of the world’s greatest musicians.
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FILM SERIES
Triple Canopy Presents: Standard Deviations
Mar 22—Mar 28, 2024
Triple Canopy Presents: Standard DeviationsMar 22—Mar 28, 2024Through unexpected sabotage and unpredictable loopholes, these films provoke, play, question, and go off script to create subversive social critiques and razor-sharp satire.
FILM SERIESTriple Canopy Presents: Standard DeviationsMar 22—Mar 28, 2024Daring filmmakers exploit traditional forms to offer social critiques and razor-sharp satire.
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Living Cartoons: Live Action Films by Animators
Mar 29—Apr 25, 2024
Living Cartoons: Live Action Films by AnimatorsMar 29—Apr 25, 2024This series examines the aesthetic choices of artists who started in the world of animation before moving into live action filmmaking, spanning classic Hollywood to millennial Japan and beyond.
FILM SERIESLiving Cartoons: Live Action Films by AnimatorsMar 29—Apr 25, 2024This series showcases live-action films by directors who started in the world of animation.
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the WorldNow PlayingThis darkly comical swipe at modern day life depicts an overworked production assistant who gets swept up in a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
FilmDo Not Expect Too Much from the End of the WorldNow PlayingAn anarchic satire about a lowly assistant and the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
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Hollywood Entertainment presents Clifford featuring Martin Short + Cast and Crew Live
Sat, Mar 30, 2024
Hollywood Entertainment presents Clifford featuring Martin Short + Cast and Crew LiveSat, Mar 30, 2024The first-ever major New York tribute to the unlikely (and uncanny) 1994 cult-comedy, featuring a Q&A with Martin Short, Richard Kind, Paul Flaherty, Steven Kampmann, and others.
FilmHollywood Entertainment presents Clifford featuring Martin Short + Cast and Crew LiveSat, Mar 30, 2024A special screening of the uncanny 1994 cult-comedy, featuring a Q&A with Martin Short!
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La Chimera
Opens Apr 4
La ChimeraOpens Apr 4An archeologist finds himself involved in a web of stolen historical artifacts in this adventurous, uproarious chimeric journey, written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as Lazzaro).
FilmLa ChimeraOpens Apr 4The latest film from Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher is an uproarious, chimeric journey.
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FILM SERIES
The Art of the Benshi
Apr 5—Apr 7, 2024
The Art of the BenshiApr 5—Apr 7, 2024This program honors the captivating live narrators of Japan’s silent film era, featuring live benshi practitioners alongside classic, newly restored, and rarely seen silent films from Japan and the US.
FILM SERIESThe Art of the BenshiApr 5—Apr 7, 2024This program honors the singularly captivating live narrators of Japan’s silent film era.
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Fresh Kill
Tue, Apr 9, 2024
Fresh KillTue, Apr 9, 2024ONE NIGHT ONLYA new restoration of Shu Lea Cheang’s avant-anarcho eco-satire in which a lesbian couple living on Staten Island find themselves ensnared in a vast corporate conspiracy.
FilmFresh KillTue, Apr 9, 2024A bracing, queer feminist response to the patriarchal poison of corporate capitalism.
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Queering the Canon: Besties
Apr 11—Apr 15, 2024
Queering the Canon: BestiesApr 11—Apr 15, 2024Celebrate the dynamic joys and complexities of queer-positive camaraderie in this retrospective series spotlighting BFFs as they road trip, rob banks, dispense dating advice, hustle, and more!
FILM SERIESQueering the Canon: BestiesApr 11—Apr 15, 2024This retrospective series spotlights the joys and complexities of queer camaraderie.
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The Beast
Opens Apr 12
The BeastOpens Apr 12In a near future when emotions have become a threat, a young woman opts to purify her DNA in a machine that will wash away strong feelings from her past lives—then meets a man she feels she’s known forever.
FilmThe BeastOpens Apr 12In a future when emotions are a threat, a woman opts to wash away her feelings in a machine.
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Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica
Wed, Apr 17, 2024
Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary JamaicaWed, Apr 17, 2024Filmmakers rebel against traditional representations of Jamaica on film, forming their own sense of visual language in the process as they bring the island’s colliding past and present boldly to the screen.
Join us for a post-show Q&A with Marlon James.FilmDead Lef: Visions of Contemporary JamaicaWed, Apr 17, 2024This series of contemporary shorts brings Jamaica’s past and present boldly to the screen.
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The Boom Is Really An Echo
Apr 19—Apr 21, 2024
The Boom Is Really An EchoApr 19—Apr 21, 2024Connecting the earliest history of Black filmmakers to the boom of the 60s, these rarely screened films from Pearl Bowser’s collection highlight Black filmmaking and creativity in Brooklyn.
FILM SERIESThe Boom Is Really An EchoApr 19—Apr 21, 2024Rarely screened films from Pearl Bowser’s collection highlight Black independent filmmaking and cultural expression in Brooklyn.
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Kiss Grandmama Goodbye + I Be Done Been Was Is
Wed, Apr 24, 2024
Kiss Grandmama Goodbye + I Be Done Been Was IsWed, Apr 24, 2024In these restored films from pioneering Black filmmaker Debra J. Robinson, a young girl comes to terms with the death of her grandmother, and four Black women comedians in the 1980s go about their daily lives.
FilmKiss Grandmama Goodbye + I Be Done Been Was IsWed, Apr 24, 2024Two newly-restored films by Debra J. Robinson focus on the lives of Black women in the 20th century. -
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Coconut Head Generation
Apr 26—May 2, 2024
Coconut Head GenerationApr 26—May 2, 2024An empathetic portrait of a Nigerian university film club where a derided young generation comes together to refine their political vision and develop a critical voice.
FilmCoconut Head GenerationApr 26—May 2, 2024A Nigerian university film club becomes the site of political awakening.
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Dry Season
Sat, Apr 27, 2024
Dry SeasonSat, Apr 27, 2024A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father’s murder in this quietly intense parable of revenge and forgiveness set in the wake of Chad’s decades-long civil war.
FilmDry SeasonSat, Apr 27, 2024A quietly intense parable of revenge and forgiveness set in post-civil war Chad.
PAST EVENTS
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2024 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
2024 Oscar Nominated Animated ShortsGorgeous animated gems traverse heartbreak, tragedy, memory, and perception with gut-wrenching humility.Film2024 Oscar Nominated Animated ShortsGorgeous animated gems traverse heartbreak, tragedy, memory, and perception. -
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2024 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
2024 Oscar Nominated Live Action ShortsA grieving rideshare driver, a man with x-ray vision, and a 14-year-old boy on a quest for freedom are just a few of the unconventional heroes in these Oscar-nominated shorts.Film2024 Oscar Nominated Live Action ShortsUnconventional heroes find meaning in extraordinary places in these Oscar-nominated shorts. -
FilmOne Hand Don't Clap
This exhilarating dive into calypso music travels from New York to the streets of Carnival.
Mar 8—Mar 14, 2024FilmOne Hand Don't ClapMar 8—Mar 14, 2024This exhilarating dive into calypso music travels from New York to the streets of Carnival.
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FilmLumumba: Death of a ProphetA gripping political and deeply personal work about a legendary leader in the Congo.Feb 23—Mar 12, 2024FilmLumumba: Death of a ProphetFeb 23—Mar 12, 2024A gripping political and deeply personal work about a legendary leader in the Congo.
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FILM SERIESNYWIFT Presents: Science in Motion
Urgent documentaries and empowering fictions explore science and technology.
Feb 6—Mar 12, 2024FILM SERIESNYWIFT Presents: Science in MotionFeb 6—Mar 12, 2024Urgent documentaries and empowering fictions explore science and technology.
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FILM SERIESThe Paranoid Style in American Cinema, 1974-1999
Paranoid thrillers investigate the power structures at the heart of the American empire.
Mar 1—Mar 7, 2024FILM SERIESThe Paranoid Style in American Cinema, 1974-1999Mar 1—Mar 7, 2024Paranoid thrillers investigate the power structures at the heart of the American empire.
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FilmThe Zone of InterestA bone-chilling drama about quiet complicity from visionary filmmaker Jonathan Glazer.NEW RELEASEFilmThe Zone of InterestA bone-chilling drama about quiet complicity from visionary filmmaker Jonathan Glazer.
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FilmPoor ThingsEmma Stone is a woman resurrected by science in this absurd triumph from Yorgos Lanthimos.New ReleaseFilmPoor ThingsEmma Stone is a woman resurrected by science in this absurd triumph from Yorgos Lanthimos.
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FilmAmerican FictionA biting satire about race, hypocrisy, and the culture industry from director Cord Jefferson.New ReleaseFilmAmerican FictionA biting satire about race, hypocrisy, and the culture industry from director Cord Jefferson.
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FilmA Virus Knows No MoralsAn offbeat, Brechtian skewering of the German response to the AIDS crisis.Thu, Feb 22, 2024FilmA Virus Knows No MoralsThu, Feb 22, 2024An offbeat, Brechtian skewering of the German response to the AIDS crisis.
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FilmBushmanA light-hearted comedy about a Nigerian immigrant in the US in 1968 spins out of control.Feb 2—Feb 22, 2024FilmBushmanFeb 2—Feb 22, 2024A light-hearted comedy about a Nigerian immigrant in the US in 1968 spins out of control.
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FILM SERIESWhen the Apocalypse is Over: New Independent Philippine Cinema
Some of today’s boldest young Filipino filmmakers offer a bombastic explosion of form.
Feb 16—Feb 21, 2024FILM SERIESWhen the Apocalypse is Over: New Independent Philippine CinemaFeb 16—Feb 21, 2024Some of today’s boldest young Filipino filmmakers offer a bombastic explosion of form.
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FilmMost Powerful, a message to the Black manThese works of poetic cinema call on higher ambitions to break the facade of patriarchy.Thu, Feb 15, 2024FilmMost Powerful, a message to the Black manThu, Feb 15, 2024These works of poetic cinema call on higher ambitions to break the facade of patriarchy.
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FilmIt Happened One Night
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are mismatched lovers on a madcap hitchhiking expedition.
Wed, Feb 14, 2024FilmIt Happened One NightWed, Feb 14, 2024Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are mismatched lovers on a madcap hitchhiking expedition.
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FILM SERIESThe Characters of Jeffrey Wright
Celebrate the actor’s exceptional career with works by Cord Jefferson, Ang Lee, and more.
Nov 28, 2023—Feb 11, 2024FILM SERIESThe Characters of Jeffrey WrightNov 28, 2023—Feb 11, 2024Celebrate the actor’s exceptional career with works by Cord Jefferson, Ang Lee, and more.
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FILM SERIESCaribbean Film Series
Vibrant young filmmakers seek connection to family, homeland, and self across the diaspora.
Feb 9—Feb 10, 2024FILM SERIESCaribbean Film SeriesFeb 9—Feb 10, 2024Vibrant young filmmakers seek connection to family, homeland, and self across the diaspora.
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FilmAll of Us Strangers
A man is reunited with his dead parents in this profound examination of grief and love.
New ReleaseFilmAll of Us StrangersA man is reunited with his dead parents in this profound examination of grief and love.
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FilmRustinA stunning portrait of the man responsible for organizing the 1963 march on Washington.Mon, Jan 15, 2024FREEFilmRustinMon, Jan 15, 2024A stunning portrait of the man responsible for organizing the 1963 march on Washington.
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FilmThe Color Purple
A bold new take on the beloved story of sisterhood, with Halle Bailey and Taraji P. Henson.
New ReleaseFilmThe Color PurpleA bold new take on the beloved story of sisterhood, with Halle Bailey and Taraji P. Henson.