Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection
Tue Oct 27
Utopian visions across centuries
This event is in the past.It took place on March 18, 2026 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Drama Film
Film Screening – The Postman
March 18 at 3:30pm
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"firmly establishes Mehrjui as a major talent whose successful fusing of pathos and humor and preoccupation with the poor resembles in its ferocity nothing less than Chaplin or the early De Sica" (Amos Vogel, Village Voice)
📚Adaptation of Georg Büchner's 1836 play Woyzeck
🎟️Free for UC Berkeley students
Dariush Mehrjui's 1972 Iranian New Wave classic adapts Büchner's Woyzeck into a devastating portrait of a postman unraveling. The 4K restoration screens at BAMPFA with all its dark humor and crushing pathos intact.
Iranian New Wave
literary adaptation
4K restoration
art house cinema
Drama Film
Film Screening – The Postman
March 18 at 3:30pm
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley
🎬"firmly establishes Mehrjui as a major talent whose successful fusing of pathos and humor and preoccupation with the poor resembles in its ferocity nothing less than Chaplin or the early De Sica" (Amos Vogel, Village Voice)
📚Adaptation of Georg Büchner's 1836 play Woyzeck
🎟️Free for UC Berkeley students
Dariush Mehrjui's 1972 Iranian New Wave classic adapts Büchner's Woyzeck into a devastating portrait of a postman unraveling. The 4K restoration screens at BAMPFA with all its dark humor and crushing pathos intact.
Iranian New Wave
literary adaptation
4K restoration
art house cinema
Matches these interests
- Iranian New Wave
- literary adaptation
- 4K restoration
- art house cinema
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Downtown Berkeley
- Berkeley
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