Week of November 24, 2019

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Sunday, November 24

Sunday, November 24, 2019
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, November 24, 2019
1:30 PM

Programmed by Ryanaustin Dennis and Chika Okoye

Members of Diamano Coura West African Dance Company lead a course in traditional West African song and dance. All ages welcome!
Included with admission
Sunday, November 24, 2019
2 PM
Abbas Kiarostami,
Iran,
1983,
(72 mins)

Digital Restoration

Kiarostami turns footage of a traffic cop beleaguered by demanding drivers into a study of verbal invention, miniature rebellion, and the fine line between order and disorder. With short Tribute to Teachers.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
2 PM
Join a guided tour of Hinges and discover Sakaki Hyakusen’s transformative contribution to the art of eighteenth-century Japan.
Included with admission
Sunday, November 24, 2019
4 PM
What’s the difference between a picture, an image, a photograph, a print, a portrait, a piece, a post? Explore this evolving question and learn to print your photographs on the risograph using color separation techniques.
Included with admission
Sunday, November 24, 2019
4:30 PM
Jacques Tati,
France, Italy,
1971,
(97 mins)
A comic-apocalyptic vision of mechanized modernity in which humankind indulges in a perpetual love-hate relationship with its favorite pet, the automobile.
Sunday, November 24, 2019
7 PM
Lewis Gilbert,
United Kingdom,
1966,
(114 mins)

Archival Print

Before Alfie, Michael Caine was just some great British actor. In its offhand candor on all things sexual, Alfie was what it was all about.

Monday, November 25

Monday, November 25, 2019
6:30 PM
Marlon Riggs,
United States,
1989,

Free Admission!

This screening is presented as part of Arts + Design Mondays. Tongues Untied also screens Wednesday, October 23 (with Elena Gross and Vivian Kleiman in conversation; regular admission prices apply).

Riggs’s riveting combination of interviews, performance, stock footage, autobiography, poetry, and dance reveals the revolutionary potential of black men loving black men.
Free admission. Doors open at 6 PM.
In Conversation
  • Ken Light
    Ken Light is the Reva and David Logan Professor and curator of the Center for Photography at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
  • Darieck B. Scott
    Darieck B. Scott is an associate professor in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley.
  • Leila Weefur
    Leila Weefur is an artist, writer, and curator. She/They/He teaches in UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice.

Tuesday, November 26

Wednesday, November 27

Wednesday, November 27, 2019
12:15 PM
Explore the spirit of Surrealism with a guided tour of Strange. 
Included with admission

Thursday, November 28

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Friday, November 29

Friday, November 29, 2019
1:30 PM
Jacques Tati,
France,
1953,
(88 mins)

Recommended for ages 9 & up

This cinematic postcard from a seaside summer resort is “the most important comic work in world cinema since the Marx Brothers and W. C. Fields . . . an event in the history of sound film” (André Bazin).
Friday, November 29, 2019
4 PM
Franz Osten,
Germany, India, United Kingdom,
1928,
(105 mins)

East Bay Premiere of Digital Restoration!

This ravishing silent epic tells the romantic tale behind the creation of the Taj Mahal. We present a recent restoration featuring a stunning new score from sitar master Anoushka Shankar.
Friday, November 29, 2019
6:30 PM
Bill Haney,
United States,
2019,
(90 mins)

Jim Allison: Breakthrough also screens November 15 with a panel discussion featuring scientists Greg Barton, Rachel Humphrey, Steve Isaacs, David Raulet, and Julia Schaletzky.

This documentary tells the remarkable story of a Nobel Prize–winning Bay Area biologist who found a cure for cancer through his trailblazing immunotherapy research.

Saturday, November 30

Saturday, November 30, 2019
1:30 PM
Victor Fleming,
United States,
1939,
(101 mins)

Recommended for ages 5 & up

What better activity for a holiday weekend than a trip down the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Cowardly Lion, and the Tin Woodsman? Experience this enduring classic the old-fashioned way, in a 35mm print.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
4 PM
Jacques Tati,
France, Italy,
1967,
(124 mins)
Tati’s vision of sixties Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema” (New Yorker). Jonathan Rosenbaum called it one of the ten greatest films of all time.
Saturday, November 30, 2019
7 PM
Michelangelo Antonioni,
United Kingdom,
1966,
(110 mins)

Digital Restoration

Michelangelo Antonioni chose Swinging London as the setting for “a cryptic murder mystery . . . a landmark of the decade’s observational outrage and Pop disposability” (Time Out).