Movie Matinees for All Ages 2018

Ongoing

Treat the family to a Saturday afternoon at the movies.

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  • Howl's Moving Castle

  • Gold Rush

  • Spirited Away

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Past Films

  • The Wizard of Oz

    Victor Fleming
    United States, 1939

    Recommended for ages 5 & up

    Saturday, January 20 3:30 PM

    What better activity for a Saturday afternoon in winter than a trip down the Yellow Brick Road together with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Woodsman?

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  • Microcosmos

    Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
    France, Italy, Switzerland, 1996

    Recommended for ages 7 & up

    Saturday, February 17 3:30 PM

    Marvel at a world barely visible to our eyes in this astounding documentary on the insect kingdom, filmed with specially designed micro cameras and close-up lenses.

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  • Films by Sally Cruikshank

    BAMPFA Collection Prints
    Recommended for ages 7 & up

    Saturday, March 24 3 PM

    Cruikshank’s love of surreal 1930s cartoons is evident in her wildly colorful and wonderfully detailed films, some of which were made for Sesame Street.

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  • The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

    Roy Rowland
    United States, 1953

    Recommended for ages 7 & up

    Saturday, April 21 4 PM

    Scolded for not practicing the piano, a nine-year-old boy daydreams himself into a fantastic world where the piano reigns supreme in this funny, clever musical written by Dr. Seuss.

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  • The Magic Flute

    Ingmar Bergman
    Sweden, 1975
    Saturday, June 16 4:30 PM

    This witty, loving adaptation of Mozart’s exuberant opera revels in its own theatricality, revealing the joy and wonder in Bergman’s metaphysics. “A blissful present, sensuous, luxuriant” (New Yorker).

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  • The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

    Judy Irving
    United States, 2005

    BAMPFA Collection Print
    Recommended for ages 8 & up

    Saturday, July 21 4 PM
    Judy Irving and Mark Bittner in Person

    Irving’s very San Franciscan story of a once-homeless man and the birds he befriended “seduces you with its easy rhythm and unexpected dramatic potency . . . beguiling, moving, and just plain fun” (Baltimore Sun).

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  • The Breadwinner

    Nora Twomey
    Canada, Ireland, Luxembourg, 2017

    Recommended for ages 11 & up

    Saturday, August 25 3:30 PM

    This beautifully animated feature-length drama is set in Afghanistan, circa 2001, where an eleven-year-old girl is forced to pretend she is a boy after her father is wrongfully imprisoned by the Taliban.

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  • A Hard Day’s Night

    Richard Lester
    United Kingdom, 1964

    Digital Restoration

     

    Saturday, September 29 3:30 PM

    Following the adventures of John, Paul, George, and Ringo, A Hard Day’s Night perfectly captures the spirit of the times—and, of course, the music is fantastic.

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  • Winged Migration

    Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
    France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, 2001

    BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
    Recommended for ages 7 & up

     

    Saturday, October 6 3:30 PM

    Accompanying flocks of migratory birds, this documentary “provides such an intense vicarious experience of being a flapping airborne creature . . . that you leave the theater feeling like an honorary member of another species” (New York Times).

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  • Howl’s Moving Castle

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2004

    Digital Restoration
    Recommended for ages 9 & up

    Saturday, November 24 1:30 PM

    Based on the novel by Diana Wynne Jones, this spectacular anime blends European fairy tale with director Hayao Miyazaki’s distinctive sensibility.

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  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Jiří Trnka
    Czechoslovakia, 1959

    35mm Archival Print
    Recommended for ages 12 & up

    Sunday, December 9 2 PM
    Introduction by Jan Pinkava

    This bewitching stop-motion adaptation of Shakespeare’s romantic tale is a masterpiece of surpassing, balletic beauty that plays out amidst a garlanded, pastel dreamscape. With short The Devil’s Mill.

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  • The Emperor’s Nightingale

    Jiří Trnka
    Czechoslovakia, 1948

    35mm Archival Print
    Recommended for ages 6 & up

    Saturday, December 15 3:30 PM

    Trnka’s adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a young Chinese emperor enraptured by the song of a mechanical nightingale is awash in lavish storybook imagery. With short Why UNESCO?

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  • The Gold Rush

    Charles Chaplin
    United States, 1925, reedited 1942

    Recommended for ages 8 & up

    Friday, December 28 2:30 PM

    A hapless prospector tries his luck in the frozen north in a film that glitters with some of Charlie Chaplin’s most memorable nuggets of comedy.

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  • Spirited Away

    Hayao Miyazaki
    Japan, 2001

    English-language version
    Recommended for ages 8 & up

    Saturday, December 29 3 PM

    In this Oscar-winning animated fantasy, a ten-year-old girl and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom.

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  • The Gold Rush

    Charles Chaplin
    United States, 1925, reedited 1942

    Recommended for ages 8 & up

    Saturday, January 19 3:30 PM

    A hapless prospector tries his luck in the frozen north in a film that glitters with some of Charlie Chaplin’s most memorable nuggets of comedy.

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