Arts & Events

Movies in the Margin

Gar Smith
Friday September 30, 2016 - 03:07:00 PM

The Castro Theater's celebration of Anna Magnani, the dazzling diva of Italian film, has now crossed the Bay to Berkeley's new art museum/film house. 

In addition to stunning 35mm restorations of the four Magnani classics screened in SF (Bellissima, Rome Open City, The Passionate Thief, and The Rose Tattoo), BAMPFA is now showcasing an additional 13 works (some so rare that they have not been screened for more than a half-century). 

BAMPFA's retrospective of Magnani's film career—"Anna Magnani: Eternal Soul of Italian Cinema"—includes a total of 17 films over a run that continues through December 4. 

In addition to the four memorable features mentioned in our previous Movies in the Margin, BAMPFA is showing the following films: Teresa Venerdi (Vittorio De Sica, 1941), Full Speed (Mario Mattoli, 1934), Bellissima (Luchino Visconti, 1952), The Peddler and the Lady (Mario Bonnard, 1943), The Bandit (Alberto Lattuada, 1946), Angelina (Luigi Zampa, 1947), Many Dreams Along the Way (Mario Camerini, 1948), Volcano (William Dieterle, 1950), The Golden Coach (Jean Renoir, 1952), … And the Wild Women (Alberto Castellani, 1959), Mamma Roma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962), The Fugitive Kind (Sidney Lumet, 1969), 1870 (Alfredo Giannetti, 1972), Wild Is the Wind (George Cuko, 1957). 

Several of the films will be screened more than once. For additional information on each of these films and a full list of BAMPFA screening dates, see: http://www.bampfa.org/program/anna-magnani-eternal-soul-italian-cinema