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SWEAT!

Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2024

Programmed by Farihah Zaman

Where Hollywood so often endeavors to present the powdered face of perfection, the stinking, visceral, undeniably human sight of perspiration on-screen is a refreshing subversion—and a telling choice. Films that sweat are often introducing us to the most taboo contours of a character’s interior landscape—lust, terror, greed, guilt—or the circumstances of those who must labor against a harsh land or social construct. Sweat can represent rising tension or sweet release, burning desire or ruthless ambition. Deep into the most humid month of New York’s stickiest season, SWEAT! revels in the moments that leave us wrung out and dripping wet.

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BAM’s strategic initiatives provided by:

Mellon Foundation

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BAM Access Programs provided by
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JL Greene

Leadership support for
BAM programming provided by:

Howard Gilman

Leadership support for
BAM’s strategic initiatives provided by:

Altman Foundation

Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
The Thompson Family Foundation

Major support for programs in
the Lepercq Cinema is provided by
The Lepercq Charitable Foundation

  • Film

    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Aug 16—Aug 19, 2024

    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Aug 16—Aug 19, 2024

    Anna Hints’ Sundance-winning documentary celebrates the centuries-old smoke sauna tradition and what it means to a group of Estonian women.

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    Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Aug 16—Aug 19, 2024

    This doc offers an intimate look at the centuries-old smoke sauna tradition.

  • Film

    Almayer's Folly

    Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024

    Almayer's Folly

    Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024

    Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a European man clings to pipe dreams out of love for his daughter in this screen adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel, directed by Chantal Akerman.

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    Almayer's Folly

    Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024

    Chantal Akerman directs this adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel about loss and madness.

  • Film

    Angel Heart

    Aug 16—Aug 21, 2024

    Angel Heart

    Aug 16—Aug 21, 2024

    A private investigator is hired to track down a legendary singer in this mystery thriller starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro.

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    Angel Heart

    Aug 16—Aug 21, 2024

    Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro star in this mystery thriller about a private investigator.

  • Film

    Magic Mike XXL

    Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024

    Magic Mike XXL

    Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024

    The second entry into the holy trinity of stripper films finds a road tripping Mike and friends on a mission to give women exactly what they want.

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    Magic Mike XXL

    Aug 16—Aug 22, 2024

    The second entry into the holy trinity of stripper films finds Mike revisiting his old life.

  • Film

    Sweat

    Aug 17—Aug 20, 2024

    Sweat

    Aug 17—Aug 20, 2024

    This riveting portrait of modern celebrity strips away the digital veneer to reveal the human cost of influencer culture.

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    Sweat

    Aug 17—Aug 20, 2024

    This riveting portrait of modern celebrity examines the human cost of influencer culture.

  • Film

    Do the Right Thing

    Aug 17—Aug 22, 2024

    Do the Right Thing

    Aug 17—Aug 22, 2024

    Spike Lee’s Oscar-nominated Brooklyn classic swings effortlessly from satire to social commentary as the streets of Bed-Stuy boil and tensions run high on the hottest day of the year.

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    Do the Right Thing

    Aug 17—Aug 22, 2024

    The streets of Bed-Stuy boil in Lee’s tale of tensions running high on the hottest day of the year.

  • Film

    All That Jazz

    Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024

    All That Jazz

    Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024

    The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse (Cabaret) uses his own life as inspiration for this madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece.

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    All That Jazz

    Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024

    Bob Fosse’s madly imaginative, self-excoriating musical masterpiece.

  • Film

    Fallen Angels

    Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024

    Fallen Angels

    Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024

    Swinging between hardboiled noir and slapstick lunacy, director Wong Kar Wai depicts the intersecting fates of a handful of urban loners in the glimmering night world of Hong Kong.

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    Fallen Angels

    Aug 17—Aug 19, 2024

    Wong Kar Wai depicts the intersecting fates of a handful of urban loners in Hong Kong.

  • Film

    La Ciénaga

    Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024

    La Ciénaga

    Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024

    A dissolute, bourgeois extended family whiles away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer in this astonishing cinematic marvel.

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    La Ciénaga

    Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024

    A bourgeois family whiles away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer.

  • Film

    Timbuktu

    Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024

    Timbuktu

    Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024

    A man comes face to face with religious extremism in this stunning 2015 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.

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    Timbuktu

    Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024

    A man comes face to face with religious extremism in this stunning Mauritanian drama.

  • Film

    Stray Dog

    Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024

    Stray Dog

    Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024

    In Kurasawa’s sweltering crime thriller, a detective goes undercover in the hot summer streets of post-WWII Tokyo to recover his stolen gun.

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    Stray Dog

    Aug 18—Aug 20, 2024

    The line between cop and criminal blurs in Kurasawa’s sweltering Tokyo thriller.

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    Stranger By the Lake

    Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024

    Stranger By the Lake

    Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024

    When a young man is killed on the shores of a lake in rural France, two vacationers become prime suspects in this award-winning erotic thriller.

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    Stranger By the Lake

    Aug 18—Aug 21, 2024

    Two men become the suspects of a crime in this award-winning erotic thriller.

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