Week of August 7, 2016

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Sunday, August 14

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

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.
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.

Monday, August 15

Tuesday, August 16

Wednesday, August 17

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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Thursday, August 18

Thursday, August 18, 2016
12:15 PM
Included with admission; no advance reservations necessary.
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

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
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. 

Friday, August 19

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

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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Saturday, August 20

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

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.  
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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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