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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.
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, August 7, 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.

Free with admission

12– 5 PM
Sunday, August 7, 2016
12– 5 PM
A participatory artwork that responds to a collective loss-for-words to describe the changing world around us, focusing on language in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection.
Included with admission
3 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, August 7, 2016
3 PM
Frederick Wiseman,
France, United States,
2014,
(181 mins)
Master documentary filmmaker Wiseman turns his attention to the inner workings of London’s National Gallery. "A tribute to the wonders of creative expression" (Village Voice). 
  • Lucinda Barnes
    Introduction
    Barnes retired last month after fifteen years at BAMPFA, where she served most recently as chief curator and director of progams and collections.
7 PM
  • Film
Sunday, August 7, 2016
7 PM
Athina Rachel Tsangari,
Greece,
2015,
(104 mins)
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7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, August 10, 2016
7 PM
Michael Gitlin,
United States,
2015,
(95 mins)
An intimate portrait of a community of artists, musicians, and writers who create work at the Living Museum, located on the grounds of a psychiatric center. With the Quay Brothers short, The Phantom Museum. 
  • Michael Gitlin
    In Person
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, August 11, 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

12:15 PM
Thursday, August 11, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Thursday, August 11, 2016
7 PM
Agnès Varda,
France,
2008,
(110 mins)
Introduced by Tiffany ShlainVarda takes a cinematic stroll through her long career—and the history of French film—in this jovial first-person documentary.
  • Tiffany Shlain
    Introduction
    UC Berkeley film graduate, Webby Awards founder, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain has been named by Newsweek magazine as “one of the women shaping the 21st Century.”
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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, August 12, 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 12, 2016
6:30 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1957,
(105 mins)
Hitchcock combines film noir and documentary to spin off the frightening possibilities when an innocent man, New York jazz player Manny (Henry Fonda), is named as the guilty party in a holdup. 
8:40 PM
Friday, August 12, 2016
8:40 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1959,
(99 mins)

Imported Print

A fifteen-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud makes his debut as François Truffaut’s alter ego Antoine Doinel in this quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris. 
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, August 13, 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

11:30 AM
Saturday, August 13, 2016
11:30 AM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Explore artworks that play with optical effects in this Family Fare session led by artist Beth Krebs.
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.
  • Beth Krebs
    With artist Beth Krebs
    Beth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Series Family Fare
1 PM
Saturday, August 13, 2016
1 PM

Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)

Explore artworks that play with optical effects in this Family Fare session led by artist Beth Krebs.
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.
  • Beth Krebs
    With artist Beth Krebs
    Beth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Series Family Fare
3:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, August 13, 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. 
Saturday, August 13, 2016
6 PM
Max Ophuls,
France,
1940,
(90 mins)
In this neglected masterwork, a historic love affair becomes "a fascinating study of repression and isolation . . . love as a shifting series of masquerades" (Paul Willemen).
8 PM
Saturday, August 13, 2016
8 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1959,
(136 mins)

Recommended for ages 10 & up

Hitchcock dubbed this exhilarating thriller “my final word on the chase film.” Cary Grant plays the fast talking adman who is mistaken for an assassin by the police and for a double agent by an international spy ring.  
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, August 14, 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.

Free with admission

12– 5 PM
Sunday, August 14, 2016
12– 5 PM
A participatory artwork that responds to a collective loss-for-words to describe the changing world around us, focusing on language in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection.
Included with admission
Sunday, August 14, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, August 14, 2016
3:30 PM
William Dieterle, Max Reinhardt,
1935,
(132 mins)

Archival Print

Hollywood studio power meets theatrical German Expressionism in this ornate post-Code collaboration between Warner Bros. and Max Reinhardt, starring James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, and Dick Powell.
6:30 PM
Sunday, August 14, 2016
6:30 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1984,
(141 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Introduced by Vijay AndersonBay Area musician Anderson introduces Cassavetes’s “mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life" (New Yorker).
  • Vijay Anderson
    Introduction
    Vijay Anderson is a Bay Area drummer, bandleader, and composer; he and other members of Gambits will play music inspired by Love Streams at the August 18 Full.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
7 PM
(120 mins)
Presented by Gary MeyerLandmark Theatres cofounder revisits a life spent going to the movies, with shorts from Méliès to Brakhage, Hitchcock to Brooks, and plenty of trailers and coming attractions. 
  • Gary Meyer
    Special Guest
    Gary Meyer opened his first theater in a hayloft as a teenager. He cofounded Landmark Theatres starting with Berkeley’s UC Theater.
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, August 18, 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

12:15 PM
Thursday, August 18, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
  • In-Person
Thursday, August 18, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson 

Structured improvisations inspired by the work of influential filmmakers, featuring saxophonist Larry Ochs and the collective Gambits. With author Brontez Purnell.
Please note seating is very limited
Included with admission
Series Full 2016
7 PM
Thursday, August 18, 2016
7 PM
Alexander Sokurov,
Albania, France, Germany, Netherlands,
2015,
(117 mins)
Russian master Alexander Sokurov's portrait of the Louvre extends into a transcendent investigation of art, life, and cultural and political power. With Alain Resnais and Chris Marker’s short, Statues Also Die. 
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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, August 19, 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

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, August 19, 2016
7 PM
(146 mins)
Introduction & Booksigning with Dennis LimAn ingenue recently arrived in Los Angeles (Naomi Watts) becomes involved with a raven-haired amnesiac beauty (Laura Harring) in Lynch’s Chandler-by-way-of-Borges postmodern noir. One of only two twenty-first-century works named in Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time poll.
  • Dennis Lim
    Introduction and Booksigning
    Director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, August 20, 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 PM
Saturday, August 20, 2016
3 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United States,
1959,
(136 mins)

Recommended for ages 10 & up

Hitchcock dubbed this exhilarating thriller “my final word on the chase film.” Cary Grant plays the fast talking adman who is mistaken for an assassin by the police and for a double agent by an international spy ring.  
6 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, August 20, 2016
6 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1986,
(120 mins)
Introduced by Dennis LimIn Lynch’s color-drenched, surreal noir (celebrating its thirtieth anniversary), Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern sleuth out the ugly underneath the meticulous lawns and rose bushes of small-town U.S.A. "An instant cult classic” (Janet Maslin, NY Times).
  • Dennis Lim
    Director of programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
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8:45 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, August 20, 2016
8:45 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1976,
(90 mins)
Introduced by Dennis LimDavid Lynch’s debut feature, still creepy after all these years: “a masterpiece of texture . . . an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze. The immaculate restoration brings all this to new light” (Village Voice).
  • Dennis Lim
    Introduction
    Director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, August 21, 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.

Free with admission

Sunday, August 21, 2016
1–2:30 PM
Join dancer Olive McKeon for an experiential group encounter that explores how groups move, think, talk, and organize together.

Included with admission

Series Berkeley Eye
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, August 21, 2016
4:30 PM
(80 mins)

Free Screening. Tickets available on site one hour before screening.

With Special Guest Dennis LimLim, author of David Lynch: The Man from Another Place, takes us on a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of Lynch’s filmography, from fledgling efforts to online interventions and other moving-image oddities.
Free screening. Tickets available on site one hour before screening.
  • Dennis Lim
    Special Guest
    Director of programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
7 PM
Sunday, August 21, 2016
7 PM
David Lynch,
United States,
1992,
(134 mins)
Introduced by Dennis LimLynch’s prequel to his cult television show Twin Peaks heads deeper into the woods of small-town Americana, where murder, perversity, and crap interior decorating rule. “Lynch’s masterpiece” (Village Voice).
  • Dennis Lim
    Introduction
    Director of programming, Film Society of Lincoln Center
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7 PM
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
7 PM
Jem Cohen,
Austria, United States,
2012,
(107 mins)
Amid artwork and strangers in Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, a guard and a visitor are drawn into each other’s lives.  "A powerfully contemplative look at the transformative ability of all art" (Indiewire).
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4-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Thursday, August 25, 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

12:15 PM
Thursday, August 25, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
  • Film
Thursday, August 25, 2016
7 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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4-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Friday, August 26, 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

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, August 26, 2016
7 PM
King Hu,
Hong Kong,
1967,
(111 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

The Chinese martial arts picture was never the same after King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn, which merges swordplay, melodrama, history, and Beijing Opera traditions with thrilling results. Paul Fonoroff introduces 8/26 screening.
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
    Chinese cinema expert Paul Fonoroff, who lives in Hong Kong, introduces the August 26 screening
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, August 27, 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

4 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, August 27, 2016
4 PM
Alfred Hitchcock,
United Kingdom,
1927,
(90 mins)

Digital Restoration

Live Music / Judith Rosenberg on pianoHitchcock’s first foray into the thriller genre, starring Ivor Novello as the eponymous lodger who just may be a serial killer. The director himself called it “the first true Hitchcock movie.”
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    On piano
Saturday, August 27, 2016
6 PM
Edward Yang,
Taiwan,
1991,
(237 mins)

Digital Restoration

Young teens come of age in the politically charged Taipei of the 1960s in this Taiwanese New Wave masterpiece.
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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Sunday, August 28, 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.

Free with admission

Sunday, August 28, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
5:15 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, August 28, 2016
5:15 PM
King Hu,
Hong Kong,
1967,
(111 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

The Chinese martial arts picture was never the same after King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn, which merges swordplay, melodrama, history, and Beijing Opera traditions with thrilling results. Paul Fonoroff introduces 8/26 screening.
  • Paul Fonoroff
    Introduction
    Chinese cinema expert Paul Fonoroff, who lives in Hong Kong, introduces the August 26 screening
7:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Sunday, August 28, 2016
7:30 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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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
7 PM
Grant Gee,
United Kingdom,
2015,
(97 mins)
Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence captures “the magic of ordinary objects”; this film does the same, and showcases Pamuk’s relationship to his beloved Istanbul. With Dana Levy’s short, Dead World Order.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 1, 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.

Included with admission

All Day
Thursday, September 1, 2016
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free
Thursday, September 1, 2016
1 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
Thursday, September 1, 2016
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1949,
(108 mins)
Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara star as father and daughter in a deceptively simple, eloquent story of filial devotion and parental sacrifice. A near-perfect film, and one of Ozu's own favorites.
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 2, 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.

Included with admission

Friday, September 2, 2016
7 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1967,
(179 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

One of the most influential Westerns of all time, and a striking example of how cinema can create a living myth out of pure visual spectacle. Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, and Lee Van Cleef.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, September 3, 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.

Included with admission

5:30 PM
  • Film
Saturday, September 3, 2016
5:30 PM
Max Ophuls,
France,
1950,
(97 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Love's ceaseless roundabout, set in the Vienna of the waltz. “Ophuls displays dazzling technical virtuosity and cinematic elegance” (Chicago Reader).
7:30 PM
Saturday, September 3, 2016
7:30 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1953,
(140 mins)
This simple, sad story of the gap between generations in a Japanese family revealed to Western viewers the poetic acuteness of Ozu's style. "Wonderful . . . One of the manifest miracles of cinema” (The New Yorker).
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