The Cannes news made me want to post this bit from a Cahiers interview with Tom Luddy I'm in the middle of translating - according to Luddy, George Lucas arranged for the proceeds from the SF premiere of Star Wars to go to BAMPFA

🐣 Hatch Day is coming to the big screen on Wednesday, April 24!

Annie and Archie should be welcoming new chicks into their family that day—and we'll be streaming the whole thing on @bampfa's outdoor screen, 9 AM-7 PM.

Go to: bampfa.org/hatch-day for more information!

The 'On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous' novelist and poet Ocean Vuong comes to the BAMPFA on Thursday and Friday for a conversation and reading, respectively. Both events are free and open to the general public, first come, first served.
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Agnès Varda's New Wave classic CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 proves Varda's favorite theme: “One isn’t born a woman, one becomes one'. This iconic chronicle of two hours of a pop singer’s life as she waits to learn if she has cancer screens tonight @ 7 PM.

bampfa.org/event/cleo-5-7

The time has come to excitedly pore over the just-announced program for the 67th San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM), taking place April 24–28 at six San Francisco venues and its traditional East Bay outpost, the BAMPFA. (✍️: Sarah Hotchkiss)
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Today @ 7 PM: A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION. In Edward Yang’s satire of Taiwan’s mid-1990s economic boom, a group of young Taiwanese professionals chase cash value over Confusion values (unless those too can be monetized). Screening in a new digital restoration.

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Film critic David Thompson’s “In Focus” series, examining the portrayal of WWI in film, concludes @ 3:10 PM with a multi-Academy Award winning blockbuster. In 1917, British soldiers rush behind enemy lines to deliver a message that can save thousands.

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Today's newsletter marks the 5-month anniversary of Screen Slate SF Bay's launch—an odd one to mark, yes, but we're almost at 1000 subscribers, and that would be a lovely milestone for our 6-month anniversary, in four weeks, so tell your friends to subscribe! screenslate.com/newsletter

Here's our weekly round-up, with screenings by Roxie Theater, California Film Institute (CAFILM), Orinda Theatre, Alamo San Francisco, The New Parkway, Unnamed Footage Festival, Balboa Theater, 4 Star Theater, Vogue Theater, Shapeshifters Cinema, BAMPFA, San Francisco Cinematheque, ATA Connect, Essanay, MidCentury Prod

Ousmane Sembène’s EMITAÏ is a tale of the Diola tribe, who guard their traditions and resist the French colonialists. This story about the awakening of national consciousness, set in the closing days of WWII, screens tomorrow @ 4 PM in a 4K restoration.

bampfa.org/event/emitai

Tomorrow @ 2 PM: Agnès Varda’s radical debut film, LA POINTE COURTE. Often seen as the forerunner of French New Wave, the film follows two reunited lovers in a Mediterranean fishing port.

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Tomorrow @ 4 PM: Catch the Bay Area Premiere of VIVA VARDA! Full of rare archival footage and exclusive interviews, the documentary kicks off our new film series celebrating the life, career, and legacy of the vibrant filmmaker, Agnès Varda.

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Mexico’s official Oscar 2021 submission, PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN, screens tonight @ 7 PM with director Tatiana Huezo in person! In this sensitive film, three girls come of age in a remote highland village, in the shadow of cartel violence.

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Today @ 5 PM: An essential intro to the life and work of Ousmane Sembène—'the father of African cinema.' SEMBÈNE! unveils the brilliance and complexities of the trailblazing artist who fought to give Africans a voice and a way to be seen.

🎟️ bampfa.org/event/sembene

Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang’s 'A Brighter Summer Day' screens at BAMPFA this weekend as part of a months-long series celebrating all seven films that the legendary director made before he died in 2007.
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Our “Decolonizing Cinema” series continues @ 7 PM with KUXA KANEMA: THE BIRTH OF CINEMA. These films explore the power of images and archives through a look at the documentation of Mozambique’s and Guinea-Bissau’s struggles against colonization.

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Today @ 5:30 PM: Honor the first day of spring by joining our inclusive group sing-along from the “In Song Sing On' songbook! 🎶🌷

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“Recent Films from Mexico” opens tonight @ 7 PM with THE ECHO! Following the screening, filmmaker Nicolás Pereda and director Tatiana Huezo discuss this luminous look into multigenerational family life in a remote Puebla community.

🎟️ bampfa.org/event/echo

'In Focus' continues @ 3:10 PM with THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD, directed by Peter Jackson (of LOTR fame). The film pulls together digitally restored WWI footage into a snapshot of a society—and lives—now gone. With a lecture by film critic David Thomson.

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Tomorrow @ 3 PM: Bay Area artists Sadie Barnette and David Huffman continue our series of collection show Artists' Talks. They will discuss their influences, artistic practice, and the work currently on view in our galleries.

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