Film Series
Programmers’ Notebook: On Love
The first in a new recurring series in which members of BAM’s film programming team respond to a thought-provoking theme.
Love: it intoxicates, sustains, cuts, burns, bruises, heals, makes the world go round, and is, presumably, all you need. There’s love between people: romantic partners, families, and friends. There’s self-love. Love for animals or nature. Love for what you do. And then there’s the flip side: the heartache and pain love leaves in its absence. Love takes many forms in this wide-ranging survey of how this most fundamental yet complex of emotions has been portrayed on-screen by some of cinema’s most perceptive chroniclers of the human condition.
Passions flare on and off the court in this smart, sexy tale of hoop dreams and setbacks.
Claudia Weill’s wonderfully frank and funny study of female friendship in 1970s New York.
A dazzling, dizzying mystery of sex, identity, and cinema from Pedro Almodóvar.
A railroad worker discovers love and black radicalism in this independent landmark.
Even robots need love.
Hayao Miyazaki’s enchanting animist fable.
An iconic Harry Dean Stanton in Wim Wenders’ sublime journey through the American West.
The final, searing masterwork from John Cassavetes.
Transcendent human drama from cinema’s most sensitive chronicler of family relationships.
A rapturous journey into the cosmos and the darkest depths of Chilean history.
Fassbinder’s tenderly cutting, Sirkian melodrama of taboo love and prejudice.
A celebration of love and life at the height of the AIDS crisis.
Dee Rees’ bracing lesbian coming of age drama and a soul-stirring vision of Nina Simone.
A thrillingly visceral portrait of the legendary F1 driver and his passion for racing.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s luxuriant feast of haute couture and masochistic love.