A disillusioned Black CIA agent uses his specialized training to build a guerrilla army intent on government overthrow in one of the most radical anti-white-supremacy statements in film history.
Celebrating the best recent restorations of classic works of cinema—from Terrence Malick’s Texas farmland to Edward Yang’s modern Taipei and beyond—this series brings some of the greatest films ever made to the massive screen at the Harvey, BAM’s very own restored movie palace. The festival opens with the premiere of a new restoration of The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Ivan Dixon’s legendary and long-unavailable masterwork of American cinema. Further highlights include I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s film about James Baldwin, screening during Baldwin’s centenary month, as well as masterpieces by Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean Renoir, and Alfred Hitchcock.
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FilmThe Spook Who Sat by the Door (Special Premiere Event)
Fri, Aug 16, 2024
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Special Premiere Event)
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FilmNostalghia
Sat, Aug 17, 2024
Nostalghia
Sat, Aug 17, 2024Tarkovsky’s story of a Russian researcher who becomes obsessed with his translator’s beauty and a wanderer’s ramblings is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West.
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FilmDays of Heaven
Sun, Aug 18, 2024
Days of Heaven
Sun, Aug 18, 2024Elusive writer and director Terrence Malick's second film follows two men in love with the same woman, starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and Sam Shepard.
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FilmRules of the Game
Mon, Aug 19, 2024
Rules of the Game
Mon, Aug 19, 2024Jean Renoir’s scathing critique of corrupt French society lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances, newly restored in 4K.
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FilmI Heard It Through the Grapevine
Tue, Aug 20, 2024
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Tue, Aug 20, 2024This stunning documentary finds James Baldwin revisiting the South in the early 80s as he charts the shapeshifting nature of racism in post-Jim Crow America.
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FilmShadow of a Doubt
Wed, Aug 21, 2024
Shadow of a Doubt
Wed, Aug 21, 2024In this newly-restored early Hitchcock masterpiece, a bored California teenager discovers something sinister about her Uncle Charlie when he comes to stay.
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FilmMahjong
Thu, Aug 22, 2024
Mahjong
Thu, Aug 22, 2024Edward Yang’s penultimate film is an acerbic, sprawling tragicomedy and a poisoned love letter to Taipei as a rising cosmopolis of big money, big dreams, and big cons.
