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
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.