Week of June 4, 2017

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Sunday, June 4

Sunday, June 4, 2017
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Sunday, June 4, 2017
3 PM
Clarence Brown,
United States,
1949,
(89 mins)
A proud black man who refuses to stand down to racism finds an unlikely friend in a young white boy (played by Claude Jarman, Jr.) in this extraordinary adaptation of the Faulkner classic.
  • Claude Jarman, Jr.
    In Person
    Actor Claude Jarman, Jr. was discovered by MGM and cast in The Yearling; other roles include parts in Rio Grande and The Intruder.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
5:45 PM
Doug Nichol,
United States,
2016,
(103 mins)
This hymn to the ordinary typewriter is also a portrait of the countless artists, writers, and collectors (including Tom Hanks and Sam Shepard) who remain steadfast in their love and loyalty. “Pure typewriter heaven” (Don DeLillo).
In Person
  • Doug Nichol
  • Steve Wasserman
    Steve Wasserman is publisher and executive director of Heyday Books.
  • Jeremy Mayer
    Jeremy Mayer is an artist who makes sculptures from disassembled typewriters.
  • Herbert Permillion III
    Herbert Permillion III is the owner of California Typewriter in Berkeley.
  • Ken Alexander
    Ken Alexander is a typewriter repairman at California Typewriter.
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Sunday, June 4, 2017
8:30 PM
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea,
Cuba,
1968,
(97 mins)

Digital Restoration

This groundbreaking Cuban work explores the experiences and reveries of a bourgeois writer after the revolution. “A profound, noble film” (New York Times).
  • Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
    Introduction
    Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is the author of Island People: The Caribbean and the World and the coeditor of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas.

Monday, June 5

Tuesday, June 6

Wednesday, June 7

Wednesday, June 7, 2017
7 PM
Ceyda Torun,
Turkey, United States,
2016,
(79 mins)
A “splendidly graceful and quietly magical documentary about the multifaceted feline population of Istanbul” (Variety).

Thursday, June 8

Thursday, June 8, 2017
4-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Thursday, June 8, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1967,
(109 mins)

Imported Print

Alain Delon embodies cool as a solitary, silent Parisian killer flitting between hits and flings in this essential, influential assassin film. “Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty” (Slant).
Series Melville 100

Friday, June 9

Friday, June 9, 2017
4-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Friday, June 9, 2017
6:30 PM
Ceyda Torun,
Turkey, United States,
2016,
(79 mins)
A “splendidly graceful and quietly magical documentary about the multifaceted feline population of Istanbul” (Variety).
Friday, June 9, 2017
7 PM

Programmed by Land and Sea

Join us for an evening of auditory astronomy with Chris Chafe and Greg Niemeyer’s Sohosonus and Chris Duncan’s 12 Symbols.
Included with admission. Seating for Full is limited.
Friday, June 9, 2017
8:15 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1950,
(88 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Buñuel’s unsentimental portrait of slum kids in Mexico City. “Its matter-of-fact brilliance continues to astonish” (BBC).

Saturday, June 10

Saturday, June 10, 2017
11:30 AM
Explore symbols of power in Indian paintings, then customize cut-paper models to suit your own special powers.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Free for kids plus one adult
  • Kim Bennett
    Artist in person
    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.
Saturday, June 10, 2017
1 PM
Explore symbols of power in Indian paintings, then customize cut-paper models to suit your own special powers.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Free for kids plus one adult
  • Kim Bennett
    Artist in person
    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.
Saturday, June 10, 2017
1:30 PM
UC Berkeley’s new chancellor and the president of Deep Springs College come together for a discussion of timely issues in undergraduate education.
Included with admission
Saturday, June 10, 2017
2:30-9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission

Saturday, June 10, 2017
3 PM
Read the beginning of this adventurous novel set in 1930s Florida and pick up a copy to keep reading at home.
Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Free for kids plus one accompanying adult
  • Mardawn Wendt
    Reading led by
    Mardawn Wendt is a librarian at Berkeley Arts Magnet Elementary School.
Saturday, June 10, 2017
6 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1969,
(145 mins)
Melville’s drama of the French Resistance, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret, “grips tighter than a Gestapo handcuff. . . . A film of noirish compositions and fantastic cool” (The Independent).
Series Melville 100
Saturday, June 10, 2017
8:45 PM
Kelly Reichardt,
United States,
2010,
(104 mins)
Three strong women and an assortment of weak men head west on the Oregon Trail in Kelly Reichardt’s feminist, stripped-down Western, starring Michelle Williams and Zoe Kazan.