July 2016

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  • Art
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Sunday, June 26, 2016
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Admission free during the month of June

Sunday, June 26, 2016
2 PM
In this experimental workshop artist Stephanie Syjuco leads participants through a series of physical exercises and activities to transform modeling materials into vernacular versions of iconic objects.
Admission free
  • Stephanie Syjuco
    Syjuco is assistant professor in sculpture in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
5 PM
(131 mins)

Double Feature

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

A sensational tale of the living dead featuring Bela Lugosi. Followed by The Crime of Doctor Crespi, starring Erich von Stroheim as a sinister surgeon.
7:30 PM
Sunday, June 26, 2016
7:30 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1952,
(113 mins)

New 35mm Print!

Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy, and Susan Hayward are swept up in a love triangle in Ray’s melancholy critique of masculine values, set against a modern-day rodeo background. “A masterpiece” (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader).
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6:30 PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
6:30 PM
Gallery walkthrough with the artist and curator.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
7 PM
Aleksey German, Jr.,
Poland, Russia, Ukraine,
2015,
(138 mins)

Bay Area Premiere!

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick!

The son of cult filmmaker Aleksey German (Hard to Be a God) continues his late father’s blend of narrative delirium and social outrage with this science-fiction look at a crumbling Russia.
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, June 30, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Admission free during the month of June

7 PM
Thursday, June 30, 2016
7 PM
Seijun Suzuki,
Japan,
2005,
(111 mins)
Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi and Japanese slacker king Joe Odagiri star in Suzuki’s bizarre fable involving an exiled prince, shape-shifting raccoons, and a princess. “Energetic, inventive and ever-so-slightly insane” (The Guardian).
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Friday, July 1, 2016
6 PM

Open to BAMPFA members and guests of the artists

Celebrate the 2016 MFA graduates of UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice. 
Open to BAMPFA members and guests of the artists
7 PM
Friday, July 1, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany, France,
1984,
(148 mins)

Digital Restoration

A wanderer (Harry Dean Stanton) heads in search of his long-lost son and wife (Nastassja Kinski) in Wenders’s magisterial deconstruction of family, masculinity, and the American West.
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6 PM
Saturday, July 2, 2016
6 PM
Orson Welles,
France, Spain, Switzerland,
1966,
(116 mins)

Digital Restoration

The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s later film career, Chimes at Midnight is "the greatest Shakespearean film ever made, bar none" (Vincent Canby).
8:30 PM
Saturday, July 2, 2016
8:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)

Digital Restoration

Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara star in this eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice. A near-perfect film, and one of Ozu's own favorites.
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3 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, July 3, 2016
3 PM
MFA graduates discuss their work informally in the galleries,
Included with admission
Sunday, July 3, 2016
4:30 PM
Wim Wenders,
Australia, France, Germany, United States,
1991/1994,
(295 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Solveig Dommartin, William Hurt, Jeanne Moreau, Chishu Ryu, Rüdiger Vogler, Max von Sydow, and Tom Waits lend their talents to Wenders’s wildly ambitious, science-fiction epic. Digitally restored director’s cut.
Screened with an intermission
4:30 PM
  • Art
  • Free
  • In-Person
Sunday, July 3, 2016
4:30 PM
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
7 PM
Nicolas Philibert,
France,
1990,
(103 mins)
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All Day
Thursday, July 7, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
Thursday, July 7, 2016
12:15 PM

Gallery Talk

Included with admission
  • Julia M. White
    Julia M. White
    BAMPFA Senior Curator for Asian Art 
7 PM
Thursday, July 7, 2016
7 PM
Max Ophuls,
United States,
1948,
(90 mins)

Restored Print

Introduced by David ThomsonJoan Fontaine stars as a young woman in love with a concert pianist (Louis Jourdan) in this Ophuls classic set in a turn-of-the-century Vienna of spiral staircases, mirrors, and elaborate grillwork. 
  • David Thomson
    Introduction
    Film critic and historian David Thomson is the author of more than twenty books, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
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7 PM
  • Film
Friday, July 8, 2016
7 PM
Ran
Akira Kurosawa,
France, Japan,
1985,
(160 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

King Lear in feudal Japan. “A majestic piece of filmmaking, a lush tapestry of lordly tableaux, ruthless betrayals, and flaming carnage” (Village Voice).
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11:30 AM
Saturday, July 9, 2016
11:30 AM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

View Chinese paintings of the natural world on view in Summer Trees Casting Shade and then create your own mixed-media landscape.
Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Be advised that space is limited to twelve kids per session; please arrive promptly to sign up.
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult.
  • Kim Bennett
    With artist Kim Bennett
    Kim Bennett is an artist and teacher whose work ranges across disciplines and includes devotional botanical paintings, imaginary embroideries, and collaborations with kids, poets and other artists.
Series Family Fare
Saturday, July 9, 2016
1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

View Chinese paintings of the natural world on view in Summer Trees Casting Shade and then create your own mixed-media landscape.
Sign up onsite beginning fifteen minutes before the session you wish to attend. Be advised that space is limited to twelve kids per session; please arrive promptly to sign up.
Free for kids 18 & under and one accompanying adult.
  • Kim Bennett
    With artist Kim Bennett
    Kim Bennett is an artist and teacher whose work ranges across disciplines and includes devotional botanical paintings, imaginary embroideries, and collaborations with kids, poets and other artists.
Series Family Fare
6 PM
Saturday, July 9, 2016
6 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(109 mins)

Digital Restoration

Joseph Cotten pursues Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time" (NY Times).
8:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, July 9, 2016
8:30 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany, United States,
1985,
(92 mins)

Digital Restoration

Wenders’s tribute to Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu takes us across Japan to meet frequent Ozu collaborators and explore contemporary life there. Chris Marker and Werner Herzog also appear.
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4:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, July 10, 2016
4:30 PM
Ernst Lubitsch,
United States,
1924,
(89 mins)

Restored Print

Live Music / Judith Rosenberg on pianoAdolphe Menjou, Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, and Florence Vidor square the circle in Lubitsch’s Vienna-set comedy of marital manners.
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    on piano
Sunday, July 10, 2016
7 PM
(90 mins)
Amie Siegel in personProvenance travels in reverse from houses populated by midcentury-modern furniture to the collectibles’ origins in the modernist city of Chandigarh, India. With short, Lot 248. 
  • Amie Siegel
    In Person
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)

Digital Restoration

Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara star in this eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice. A near-perfect film, and one of Ozu's own favorites.
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
12:15 PM

Gallery Talk

Included with admission
  • Jacquelynn Baas
    Director Emeritus of BAMPFA (1988–99, 2007–8) and founding director of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College.
Series Berkeley Eye
7 PM
Thursday, July 14, 2016
7 PM
Kent Jones,
United States,
2015,
(80 mins)
With commentary from Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, and others, Hitchcock/Truffaut provides an engaging look at one of the most beloved film books—and two of the most beloved directors—of all time.
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6:30 PM
Friday, July 15, 2016
6:30 PM
Ernst Lubitsch,
United States,
1931,
(88 mins)

Restored Print

Maurice Chevalier is caught in a tug-of-war between lovely Claudette Colbert and royal Miriam Hopkins. An Oscar-nominated hit, and “a work of nearly total assurance” (James Harvey). 
8:20 PM
Friday, July 15, 2016
8:20 PM
Orson Welles,
France, Spain, Switzerland,
1966,
(116 mins)

Digital Restoration

The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s later film career, Chimes at Midnight is "the greatest Shakespearean film ever made, bar none" (Vincent Canby).
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6 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, July 16, 2016
6 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1973,
(116 mins)

Imported Print

Introduced by Laura TruffautJean-Pierre Léaud, Jacqueline Bisset, and François Truffaut himself join an ensemble cast for a behind-the-scenes romantic comedy in which the love interest is cinema itself. “Truffaut’s droll and generous celebration of filmmaking remains an enchanting experience” (NY Times).
  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction
    Daughter of François Truffaut
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8:45 PM
Saturday, July 16, 2016
8:45 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United Kingdom,
1938,
(96 mins)
An elderly lady mysteriously vanishes on a transcontinental train, to the concern of one young woman—and hardly anyone else. “Directed with such skill and velocity that it has come to represent the quintessence of screen suspense” (Pauline Kael).
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Sunday, July 17, 2016
5:30–7 PM

Workshop

Use Feldenkrais methods and listening meditations to explore new ways of perceiving visual works in relation to museum architecture. Inspired by Space, Time, Energy–themed works on view in Berkeley Eye.
Included with admission
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
5 PM
Sunday, July 17, 2016
5 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)

Digital Restoration

Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara star in this eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice. A near-perfect film, and one of Ozu's own favorites.
7:15 PM
Sunday, July 17, 2016
7:15 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany,
1988,
(128 mins)

Digital Restoration

Two angels haunt the streets and skies of Berlin, listening in on the dreams and sorrows of its residents, in this gothic, poetic masterpiece, inspired by Rilke.
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7 PM
  • In-Person
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

Oakland duo Black Spirituals, percussionist PC Muñoz with his trio, and poet Farnoosh Fathi.
Please note seating is very limited
Included with admission
Series Full 2016
7 PM
  • Film
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
7 PM
Ran
Akira Kurosawa,
France, Japan,
1985,
(160 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

King Lear in feudal Japan. “A majestic piece of filmmaking, a lush tapestry of lordly tableaux, ruthless betrayals, and flaming carnage” (Village Voice).
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
7 PM
Lech Majewski,
Poland, Sweden,
2010,
(99 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Bruegel’s painting The Way to Calvary is brought to life in this technologically stunning interpretation “starring” Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling. With short Black Mirror at The National Gallery.
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12:15 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2016
7 PM
Josef von Sternberg,
Germany,
1930,
(105 mins)
Prim professor Emil Jannings is destroyed by his obsession with cabaret singer Marlene Dietrich in the film that launched Dietrich’s screen career.
preceded by 4 min screen test
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Friday, July 22, 2016
6:30 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany, France,
1989,
(83 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Wenders and famed Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto meet and muse together in this thoughtful essay film "about fashion, transience, and identity” (Janet Maslin).
8:15 PM
Friday, July 22, 2016
8:15 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1962,
(106 mins)

Imported Print

Truffaut's portrayal of an early twentieth-century love triangle with Jeanne Moreau at its apex is "full of wit and radiance" (Pauline Kael). 
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3:30 PM
Saturday, July 23, 2016
3:30 PM
Jacques Tati,
France,
1953,
(88 mins)

Recommended for ages 8 & up

This masterpiece of gentle slapstick about the vacation of a clumsy fellow at a French seaside resort abounds in brilliantly choreographed sight gags that will amuse the whole family. 
6 PM
  • Film
Saturday, July 23, 2016
6 PM
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Fritz Lang,
Germany,
1931,
(111 mins)

Digital Restoration

A precursor to American film noir, Fritz Lang’s masterpiece is a terrifying excursion into an urban underworld where it is difficult to distinguish morally between organized crime and law enforcement. Peter Lorre stars. 
8:15 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, July 23, 2016
8:15 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1946,
(101 mins)
Introduced by Marilyn Fabe.Trying to infiltrate a group of Nazis in Latin America, Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves entangled in a cruel love affair in Hitchcock's polished, perverse thriller. 
  • Marilyn Fabe
    Introduction
    Senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley and author of Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, July 24, 2016
5:30 PM
Nicolas Philibert,
France,
1995,
(70 mins)

Imported Print

A droll and engrossing look at the restoration of Paris's Natural History Museum and the reinstatement of its inhabitants—elephants, badgers, butterflies, and more. With shorts Circuit (Amie Siegel) and The Wake (Dana Levy). 
7:15 PM
  • Film
Sunday, July 24, 2016
7:15 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1958,
(128 mins)
Detective Jimmy Stewart combs the Bay Area looking for the secret behind Kim Novak’s beauty in Hitchcock’s sinister ode to voyeurism, death, and amorous fixation. Voted best film of all time in a 2012 Sight and Sound poll.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
7 PM

Open to all BAMPFA members

A festive evening to celebrate our summer exhibitions. 
Open to all BAMPFA members
7:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
7:30 PM
Billy Wilder,
United States,
1950,
(115 mins)
Introduced by David ThomsonFledgling screenwriter William Holden stumbles into the mansion of faded silent-film superstar Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder’s poison pen letter to Hollywood. Winner of three Academy Awards.
  • David Thomson
    Introduction
    Film critic and historian David Thomson is the author of more than twenty books, including The New Biographical Dictionary of Film.
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12:15 PM
Thursday, July 28, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Thursday, July 28, 2016
7 PM
Oeke Hoogendijk,
Netherlands,
2014,
(131 mins)
A fascinating trip through the battles, discussions, and minutiae behind the remodeling of Amsterdam’s famed Rijksumusem. “An elegant portrait of dysfunction.” (LA Weekly).
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, July 29, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Admission free during the month of June

6:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, July 29, 2016
6:30 PM
Max Ophuls,
Germany,
1932,
(88 mins)

Archival Print

From Ophuls's early German period, an adaptation of a Schnitzler play about love that outlives life under an oppressive military authority. Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna.
8:30 PM
Friday, July 29, 2016
8:30 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1960,
(81 mins)
Truffaut’s homage to the American gangster film stars Charles Aznavour as a dejected barroom tinkler with a tragic past. 
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, July 30, 2016
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Admission free during the month of June

6 PM
Saturday, July 30, 2016
6 PM
Aleksandr Sokurov,
Germany, Japan, Russia,
2002,
(96 mins)
Sokoruv’s technically astounding feature—shot entirely in one continuous, unbroken take—moves through St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum, and entire eras of Russian history and culture.  “A magnificent conjuring act, an eerie historical mirage” (NY Times).
Saturday, July 30, 2016
8:15 PM
Wim Wenders,
Cuba, Germany, United States,
1999,
(105 mins)

Digital Restoration

One of the most critically acclaimed and adored music documentaries of the past twenty years, Buena Vista Social Club is a love letter to Cuba, its music, its people, and its soul.
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, July 31, 2016
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Admission free during the month of June

2 PM
Sunday, July 31, 2016
2 PM
Create your own personal carte de visite inspired by those on view in Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery. 
Included with admission
  • Raphael Noz
    With artist Raphael Noz
Sunday, July 31, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
5:30 PM
Sunday, July 31, 2016
5:30 PM
Aleksandr Sokurov,
Germany, Japan, Russia,
2002,
(96 mins)
Sokoruv’s technically astounding feature—shot entirely in one continuous, unbroken take—moves through St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum, and entire eras of Russian history and culture.  “A magnificent conjuring act, an eerie historical mirage” (NY Times).
7:30 PM
Sunday, July 31, 2016
7:30 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1968,
(107 mins)
In Truffaut’s Hitchockian thriller, Jeanne Moreau is a bride widowed on her wedding day who takes vengeance on those responsible for her groom’s death.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016
7 PM
(85 mins)
Jeanne Finley and Judy Fiskin in personArtists look at museums with wit, insight, and in some cases, pointed critique, in this group of shorts. Includes films by Andrea Fraser, Jeanne Finley, Ximena Cuevas, Amie Siegel, and Judy Fiskin. 
  • Jeanne Finley
    In Person
  • Judy Fiskin
    In Person
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, August 4, 2016
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Free with admission

All Day
Thursday, August 4, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
12:15 PM
Thursday, August 4, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, August 4, 2016
7 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1954,
(114 mins)
Introduced by Marilyn Fabe (August 4 screening only)Dour photojournalist Jimmy Stewart sits with a broken leg by his window observing his neighbors' lives, in Hitchcock’s brilliant meditation on cinema and voyeurism.  
  • Marilyn Fabe
    Introduction to 8/4 Screening
    Marilyn Fabe is senior lecturer emerita in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley and the author of Closely Watched Films: An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique
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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, August 5, 2016
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Free with admission

6:30 PM
Friday, August 5, 2016
6:30 PM
Carol Reed,
United Kingdom,
1949,
(109 mins)

Digital Restoration

Joseph Cotten pursues Welles through postwar Vienna in Graham Greene and Carol Reed’s cynical masterpiece. “Seeing it on the big screen is like watching it for the first time" (NY Times).
8:40 PM
  • Film
Friday, August 5, 2016
8:40 PM
Athina Rachel Tsangari,
Greece,
2015,
(104 mins)
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, August 6, 2016
11 AM-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Visit the Art Lab to participate in an evolving series of hands-on projects with a focus on drawing, collage, prints, and books. For all ages.

Free with admission

3:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, August 6, 2016
3:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2008,
(103 mins)

English-language version 
Recommended for ages 5 & up

In this ecstatic fairy tale inspired byThe Little Mermaid, a five-year-old boy finds a goldfish that transforms into a little girl, the irrepressible Ponyo. 
6 PM
Saturday, August 6, 2016
6 PM
Kent Jones,
United States,
2015,
(80 mins)
With commentary from Martin Scorsese, Olivier Assayas, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, and others, Hitchcock/Truffaut provides an engaging look at one of the most beloved film books—and two of the most beloved directors—of all time.
8 PM
  • Film
Saturday, August 6, 2016
8 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1960,
(109 mins)
Janet Leigh and Anthony Perkins star in Hitchcock’s legendary, groundbreaking thriller. One of the most influential horror films ever made.