Week of June 19, 2016

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Sunday, June 26

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.
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).

Monday, June 27

Tuesday, June 28

Wednesday, June 29

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.

Thursday, June 30

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

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).

Friday, July 1

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
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.

Saturday, July 2

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).
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.