Screen Epiphanies With Bowen Yang And TOUKI BOUKI And BREATHLESS In Beyond The Canon, Come To BAM

This June, BAM continues two ongoing monthly programs: Screen Epiphanies on Thursday, June 6 with Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (2004), chosen by comedian Bowen Yang, and Beyond the Canon on Saturday, June 29, with Djibril Diop Mambéty's Touki Bouki (1973) and Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960).

Screen Epiphanies-a series inspired by a program at the British Film Institute, in which prominent figures from the artistic community present a film that inspired their love of cinema-returns with Bowen Yang, who presents Kung Fu Hustle, director-star Stephen Chow's ecstatically choreographed martial arts comedy. Yang is a writer for Saturday Night Live, a standup comedian, and co-host of the popular podcast Las Culturistas.

Beyond the Canon challenges a conception of film history that skews toward lionizing the white male auteur by pairing one canonized classic with a thematically or stylistically-related work by a filmmaker traditionally excluded from that narrative. June's program will showcase Touki Bouki, Djibril Diop Mambéty's Senegalese masterpiece about alienated young people in Dakar who dream of going to Paris, screening alongside Godard's iconic New Wave classic Breathless.

For further press information, please contact:

Shelley Farmer at 718.724.8023 / sfarmer@BAM.org

Thu, June 6
7pm: Screen Epiphanies: Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Sat, June 29
4:30pm: Beyond the Canon: Touki Bouki (1973) + Breathless (1960)

About BAM Film

Since 1998 BAM Rose Cinemas has been Brooklyn's home for alternative, documentary, art-house, and independent films. Combining new releases with year-round repertory program, the four-screen venue hosts new and rarely seen contemporary films, classics, work by local artists, and festivals of films from around the world, often with special appearances by directors, actors, and other guests. BAM has hosted major retrospectives of filmmakers like Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, John Carpenter, Manoel de Oliveira, Luis Buñuel, King Hu, and Vincente Minnelli (winning a National Film Critics' Circle Award prize for the retrospective), and hosted the first US retrospectives of directors Arnaud Desplechin, Hong Sang-soo, Andrzej Zulawski, and Jiang Wen. Since 2009 the program has also produced BAMcinemaFest, New York's home for American independent film, and has championed the work of filmmakers like Janicza Bravo, Andrew Dosunmu, Lena Dunham, and Alex Ross Perry. The 12-day festival of New York premieres, now in its 11th year, runs from June 12-23, 2019.

For ticket information, call BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100, or visit BAM.org.