Film Series
Screen Epiphanies 2018
This monthly series brings a prominent artistic or cultural figure to BAM to discuss the film that inspired their passion for cinema, followed by a screening of the film.
Inspired by the Screen Epiphanies series at London's BFI Southbank

David Fincher's subversive, wickedly funny Gen X insta-classic.

The streets of Bed-Stuy boil in Spike Lee’s landmark Brooklyn classic.

Robert Duvall is electrifying as a fallen Southern preacher on the road to redemption.

Douglas Sirk’s slashing, subversive view of American race relations.

Senegalese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s firecracker couple-on-the-run caper.

An electrifying portrait of life, death, and gang violence in a Rio de Janeiro favela.

Abbas Kiarostami’s masterful investigation of filmmaking, role-playing, and reality.

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s neon-splashed drift through the night world of early 2000s Taipei.

Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel in Martin Scorsese’s explosive gangster classic.

Robert Townsend’s wildly satirical take on being a black actor in 1980s Hollywood.