Film Series
Screen Epiphanies
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
Harvey Keitel and an explosive young Robert De Niro star in Scorsese’s breakthrough gangster saga, which captures the lawlessness-reigns atmosphere of 1970s New York City with a whirlwind vérité energy.
Robert Townsend channeled the frustrations of being a black actor in 1980s Hollywood into this wildly inventive showbiz satire, which subversively skewers the industry’s narrow casting of African-Americans.
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.