MAR 2016 Special Events at BAMcinématek

The Wall Street Journal is the title sponsor for BAMcinématek and BAM Rose Cinemas.

Mar 2 & 3 New restorations! BAMcinématek Favorites: Gallic 60s 50th Anniversary of Claude Lelouch’s A MAN AND A WOMAN (1966) & Jean-Luc Godard’s PIERROT LE FOU (1965) Legendary French directors Claude Lelouch and Jean-Luc Godard screen back-to-back with one- night engagements of A Man and a Woman and Pierrot Le Fou. Claude Lelouch has been making supremely stylish, unabashedly pleasurable paeans to l’amour for over five decades. BAMcinématek is pleased to screen a restoration of the classic Palme d’Or and foreign language Oscar winner A Man and a Woman for its 50th anniversary, a stylistically inventive story of a torrid love affair between a widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racecar driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). Cited as “a vital part of film history” by The Guardian, Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou follows Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo) as he leaves his wife and child to go on a cross country adventure with the babysitter (and former girlfriend) Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina), the exciting escapade soon becoming a surreal, crime spree.

Mar 11 & 12 RadioLoveFest Wes Craven’s SCREAM (1996) & Penny Marshall’s A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992) Curated by WNYC’s Sean Rameswaram and Molly Webster For its third consecutive year, WNYC takes up residence at BAM venues to reimagine some of public radio’s most beloved programs and podcasts live on stage as part of RadioLoveFest. Two films were chosen to screen in conjunction with RadioLoveFest programming: Wes Craven’s Scream and Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own. Starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette, Scream kick-started a 90s horror franchise. Attempting to cope with her mother's murder, Sydney (Campbell) and her horror movie-obsessed friends are stalked by a murderer who seems to have a hard time letting go of the past. In A League of Their Own, starring Rosie O’Donnell, Geena Davis, and Tom Hanks, two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed despite their growing rivalry.

Mar 11—14 New 4K restoration! Edward Yang’s A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991) BAMcinématek presents an exclusive four-day engagement of Edward Yang’s masterpiece in a brand new 4K restoration. This breathtaking epic charts the coming-of-age of a teenage boy (Chang Chen) as he grows up amidst political turmoil, warring street gangs, and the encroaching influence of American pop culture in 1960s Taiwan. The film’s novelistic sweep—its expansive running time, sprawling cast, masterful accumulation of details—creates a richly-realized, intoxicating portrait of young love, rock ‘n’ roll, and teenage abandon. One of the towering masterpieces of the 1990s, A Brighter Summer Day is “a powerful statement from Yang's generation about what it means to be Taiwanese” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader). A Janus Films release.

Mar 15 The Caribbean Film Series Miquel Galofré’s ART CONNECT (2013) Q&A with Galofré moderated by Creatively Speaking’s Michelle Materre Spanish director Miquel Galofré’s new documentary shines a light on the powerful process of creative intervention. At Trinidad and Tobago’s Success Laventille Secondary School, a group of seven “at risk” teenagers from the disenfranchised and volatile community are recruited for a series of dynamic workshops using mural art, music, poetry, and dance—opening their eyes to art’s power to uplift their community, family, and ultimately themselves. These young men and women are the narrators of this story, armed with Go-Pro cameras to expand their journeys of courage through moments of doubt and vulnerability.