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11 AM-7 PM
  • Art
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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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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 4, 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.

Included with admission

Sunday, September 4, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
5 PM
Sunday, September 4, 2016
5 PM
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell,
United Kingdom,
1955,
(101 mins)
Powell and Pressburger's adapation of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus is “as light and tart as Viennese pastry” (David Thomson). Set in postwar Vienna and starring Michael Redgrave.
7:15 PM
Sunday, September 4, 2016
7:15 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1964,
(96 mins)
Leone invented a new kind of Western with his sagebrush version of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and a new kind of hero in Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
7 PM
(83 mins)
Works by Gregg Biermann, Peter Tscherkassky, Matthias Müller, Jerry Tartaglia, Rebecca Baron, and Douglas Goodwin engage with Hollywood films and video games.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 8, 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

7 PM
Thursday, September 8, 2016
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Federal Republic of Germany, United States,
1985,
(92 mins)

Digital Restoration

  • Ken Ueno
    Introduction
    Ken Ueno is a composer/vocalist/sound artist and professor of music at UC Berkeley.
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 9, 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

6-8 PM
Friday, September 9, 2016
6-8 PM

Workshop

Included with admission
7 PM
Friday, September 9, 2016
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1956,
(145 mins)
A salaryman's marriage is threatened when, stifled by routine, he indulges in an affair. "I wanted to . . . let the viewer experience the peculiar sadness of the office man's existence” (Ozu).
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1–2:30 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2016
1–2:30 PM

Family Fare

After a guided viewing of Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery, make collages with artist Kaya Fortune using reproductions of historic photographs, autographs, and stamps from the Civil War period.
Included with admission
  • Kaya Fortune
    With artist Kaya Fortune
    Kaya Fortune is an arts educator whose professional practice includes fashion design.
Series Family Fare
2:30–9 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2016
2:30–9 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

11 AM–12 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2016
11 AM–12 PM

Family Fare

After a guided viewing of Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery, make collages with artist Kaya Fortune using reproductions of historic photographs, autographs, and stamps from the Civil War period.
Included with admission
  • Kaya Fortune
    With artist Kaya Fortune
    Kaya Fortune is an arts educator whose professional practice includes fashion design.
Series Family Fare
3 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2016
3 PM

Ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)

Included with admission; admission free for kids plus one accompanying adult.
  • Julia Sackett
    Reading Led by Julia Sackett
    School & Family Programs Assistant at BAMPFA
4:30 PM
  • Film
  • Free
  • In-Person
Saturday, September 10, 2016
4:30 PM
5:30 PM
Saturday, September 10, 2016
5:30 PM
Max Ophuls,
France, Germany,
1955,
(116 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Free Prescreening Lecture by David Thomson at 4:30.In Max Ophuls’s audacious final film, a life of passion becomes the stuff of carnival. “The ultimate cinephilic object: a color-and-CinemaScope dream” (Boston Phoenix).
Saturday, September 10, 2016
8 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1965,
(130 mins)
Leone's follow-up to Fistful of Dollars pairs Eastwood with Van Cleef against Gian Maria Volontè, making for mounting mayhem.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 11, 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.

Included with admission

Sunday, September 11, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, September 11, 2016
3 PM

Gallery Talk

Included with admission
Sunday, September 11, 2016
3:30 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.
7 PM
Sunday, September 11, 2016
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1951,
(125 mins)
"I wanted to depict the cycles of life, the transience of life" (Ozu). An exquisite, faintly melancholy portrait of a family, with Setsuko Hara as the daughter upon whose marriage everything depends.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
7 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha,
United States,
1989,
(108 mins)

BAMPFA Preservation Print

Trinh T. Minh-ha and Shannon Jackson in conversation.The history of modern Vietnam and the struggles of its women provide the foundation for this revelatory experimental documentary. “Keenly intelligent, sensuously multilayered” (Stuart Klawans, The Nation).  
  • Trinh T. Minh-ha
    In Conversation
    A writer and composer as well as a filmmaker, Trinh is professor of gender and women’s studies and of rhetoric at UC Berkeley.
  • Shannon Jackson
    In Conversation
    Shannon Jackson is the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair at UC Berkeley, as well as professor of rhetoric and of theater, dance and performance studies.
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 15, 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

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, September 15, 2016
7 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha,
United States,
2015,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Trinh T. Minh-ha and Akira Mizuta Lippit in conversation.Trinh T. Minh-ha’s eloquent portrait of Vietnam, spliced between Hi-8 video footage from 1995 and HD in 2012, asks, "Who remembers, and who conceals?" 
  • Trinh T. Minh-ha
    In Conversation
  • Akira Mizuta Lippitt
    In Conversation
    Akira Mizuta Lippit is vice dean of faculty in the School of Cinematic Arts and professor in the division of cinema and media studies at USC.
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 16, 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 16, 2016
6:30 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy, United States,
1968,
(165 mins)
Leone goes to the heartland of the Western—Monument Valley—for this monumental revision of American myth, starring Henry Fonda as a ruthless killer up against Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.
7 PM
  • In-Person
Friday, September 16, 2016
7 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

The US premiere of Lisa Mezzacappa's Organelle plus the Broun Fellinis and films by Jean Painlevé.
Included with admission
Series Full 2016
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, September 17, 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

Saturday, September 17, 2016
1 PM

Roundtable Discussion

Join a conversation with UC Berkeley professors Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (History of Art) and Leigh Raiford (African American Studies) and photographer/photography historian Makeda Best of the California College of the Arts on the uses to which photography has been put in the African American struggle for political change.
Included with admission
3:30 PM
Saturday, September 17, 2016
3:30 PM
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly,
United States,
1952,
(102 mins)

Recommended for ages 6 & up

Saturday, September 17, 2016
5 PM

Programmed by David Brazil

Join writer, poet, and UC Irvine professor Frank B. Wilderson III for a screening of his 2005 film Reparations . . . Now, followed by a group conversation about the issues raised by the film.
Included with admission
Series Readings 2016
6 PM
  • Film
Saturday, September 17, 2016
6 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Germany, Italy,
1955,
(83 mins)
Based on a novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, Fear was Rossellini’s last collaboration with his then wife Ingrid Bergman. 
8 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Saturday, September 17, 2016
8 PM
Trinh T. Minh-ha,
United States,
2015,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Trinh T. Minh-ha and Akira Mizuta Lippit in conversation.Trinh T. Minh-ha’s eloquent portrait of Vietnam, spliced between Hi-8 video footage from 1995 and HD in 2012, asks, "Who remembers, and who conceals?" 
  • Trinh T. Minh-ha
    In Conversation
  • Akira Mizuta Lippitt
    In Conversation
    Akira Mizuta Lippit is vice dean of faculty in the School of Cinematic Arts and professor in the division of cinema and media studies at USC.
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 18, 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.

Included with admission

Sunday, September 18, 2016
2-5 PM

Workshop

Participatory dance workshop inspired by & Connection and Change–themed artworks featured in Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection.
Included with admission
Sunday, September 18, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, September 18, 2016
4 PM
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg,
Germany,
1972,
(140 mins)
Twenty-eight chapters from the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria add up to what Syberberg calls “a summary of the Germany of the 19th century as experienced by the Germany of 1972."
Sunday, September 18, 2016
6:45 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy, United States,
1968,
(165 mins)
Leone goes to the heartland of the Western—Monument Valley—for this monumental revision of American myth, starring Henry Fonda as a ruthless killer up against Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
7 PM
(53 mins)
Hayoun Kwon in person.Artist and animator Hayoun Kwon joins us to present five of her short films on historical truth and personal meaning, whether in the Korean DMZ or modern France. 
  • Hayoun Kwon
    In Person
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 22, 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

Thursday, September 22, 2016
7 PM
(73 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Presented by Hayoun Kwon.Hayoun Kwon curated this special program of animation films that deal with social or political issues. Includes the work of Norman McLaren, Jirí Trnka, and Jan Svankmajer. 
  • Hayoun Kwon
    Presented by
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 23, 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

6:30 PM
  • Film
Friday, September 23, 2016
6:30 PM
Roberto Rossellini,
Germany, Italy,
1955,
(83 mins)
Based on a novella by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, Fear was Rossellini’s last collaboration with his then wife Ingrid Bergman. 
8:15 PM
Friday, September 23, 2016
8:15 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1964,
(96 mins)
Leone invented a new kind of Western with his sagebrush version of Kurosawa's Yojimbo, and a new kind of hero in Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name.
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11 AM–9 PM
Saturday, September 24, 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

Saturday, September 24, 2016
5:30 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1994,
(108 mins)

Imported Print

In Memoriam, Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016)

Introduced by Mark Morris 
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
8 PM
Saturday, September 24, 2016
8 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
1958,
(118 mins)
Teenage girls quietly rebel against their traditional parents' plans. "Gentle and amused in the way that it acknowledges time's passage, the changing of values, and the adjustments that have to be made between generations” (NY Times).
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11 AM-7 PM
Sunday, September 25, 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.

Included with admission

Sunday, September 25, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
4 PM
Tengiz Abuladze,
USSR,
1977,
(108 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Introduced by Mark Morris 
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
7 PM
  • Film
Sunday, September 25, 2016
7 PM
Luigi Zampa,
Italy,
1947,
(90 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Magnani won Best Actress at Venice for her funny and formidable portrait of an accidental activist from the impoverished suburbs of Rome in this populist comedy.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
7 PM
Pat O'Neill,
United States,
1995,
(73 mins)
Pat O'Neill in person
  • Pat O'Neill
    Filmmaker in Person
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4-7 PM
Thursday, September 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.

Included with admission

7 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Thursday, September 29, 2016
7 PM
Pat O'Neill,
United States,
1989,
(71 mins)

Archival Prints

Pat O'Neill in person
  • Pat O'Neill
    Filmmaker in Person
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4-9 PM
Friday, September 30, 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 30, 2016
12:15 PM
Friday, September 30, 2016
2 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Friday, September 30, 2016
4 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Friday, September 30, 2016
4 PM
Sergei Parajanov,
USSR,
1988,
(78 mins)
Introduced by Mark Morris 
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
7:30 PM
  • Film
  • In-Person
Friday, September 30, 2016
7:30 PM
Zhou Hao,
China,
2015,
(89 mins)

BAMPFA Student Committee Pick

Zhou Hao and Rachel Stern in conversation.An idealistic mayor hopes to change his city’s fortunes by transforming it into a center for cultural tourism in Zhou Hao’s fascinating look at politics and power in contemporary China.
  • Zhou Hao
    In Conversation
  • Rachel Stern
    In Conversation
    An assistant professor of law and political science at UC Berkeley, Stern’s research looks at law in Mainland China and Hong Kong, especially the relationship between legal institution build
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11 AM-9 PM
  • Art
  • In-Person
Saturday, October 1, 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

11:15 AM
Saturday, October 1, 2016
11:15 AM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
Saturday, October 1, 2016
2 PM
(180 mins)
A symposium that offers context though which to experience the world premiere of Mark Morris's Layla and Majnun at Cal Performances.
Admission free Advance registration suggested
5:45 PM
Saturday, October 1, 2016
5:45 PM
Nikoloz Shengelaia,
USSR,
1928,
(97 mins)

New 35mm Print

Introduced by Mark Morris. Judith Rosenberg on piano.
  • Mark Morris
    Introduction
  • Judith Rosenberg
    Live Music
    on piano
8:30 PM
Saturday, October 1, 2016
8:30 PM
Vittorio De Sica,
Italy,
1941,
(94 mins)
Magnani plays a showgirl involved with playboy pediatrician Vittorio De Sica, who is also pursued by an heiress and a comely orphan, in this “screwball romantic comedy of the first rank” (New York Times).