Week of June 5, 2022

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Sunday, June 12

Sunday, June 12, 2022
11 AM - 2 PM
Explore the museum’s galleries with mini tours featuring interactive activities, plus a free all-ages screening of Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush.

Free Admission!

Series Family Events
Sunday, June 12, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, June 12, 2022
2 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1925, reedited 1942,
(72 mins)

Free Family Day Screening—Free Admission!

The original 1925 version of The Gold Rush will be shown for free on the outdoor screen Thursday, August 4.

A hapless prospector tries his luck in the frozen north in a film that glitters with some of Chaplin’s most memorable nuggets of comedy, including our hero leading a pair of rolls in a graceful soft-shoe.

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 1 PM.

Sunday, June 12, 2022
4 PM
Elizabeth Ferrell, associate professor of art history at Arcadia University and an alumna of UC Berkeley’s History of Art Department, introduces her new book, About The Rose: Creation and Community in Jay DeFeo’s Circle. A book signing will follow.

Included with admission

Sunday, June 12, 2022
5:30 PM
Jacques Becker,
France,
1952,
(116 mins)
A dazzling Simone Signoret is caught between a gangster tough and an honest carpenter in Becker’s “elegant masterwork” (Time Out) set in turn-of-the century Paris. With Pass the Gravy, a silent comedy short with Max Davidson.
  • Edith Kramer
    Introduction
    Edith Kramer was senior film curator and Pacific Film Archive director from 1983 until her retirement in 2005.
  • Bruce Loeb
    Live Music
    Bruce Loeb on piano for Pass the Gravy

Monday, June 13

Tuesday, June 14

Tuesday, June 14, 2022
7 PM

This event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Splinter Reeds is the first quintet made up of only reed instruments on the West Coast, showcasing the artistry of five immensely talented Bay Area players: Kyle Bruckmann (oboe), Bill Kalinkos (clarinet), Nicki Roman (saxophone), Jeff Anderle (bass clarinet), and Dana Jessen (bassoon). This performance includes new music by composers Laura Cetilia, Mario Godoy, and Paula Matthusen.

Seating for Full performances is limited

Included with admission

Series Full 2022

Wednesday, June 15

Wednesday, June 15, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
Hungary,
1973,
(81 mins)
A lower-class textile mill girl falls for a bourgeoise student in Mészáros’s biting examination of unequal social constructs—and the final freedom of smashing plates. 

Thursday, June 16

Thursday, June 16, 2022
7 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1962,
(85 mins)
In twelve tableaux, Vivre sa vie tells of Nana (Anna Karina) at the brief, flickering moment when she takes responsibility for her life. The ninth episode includes “perhaps the saddest ‘happy’ dance scene in cinema” (Ifan Davies).

Friday, June 17

Friday, June 17, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, June 17, 2022
7 PM
John Cassavetes,
United States,
1959,
(82 mins)

Restored 35mm Print

Time never caught up with Cassavetes’s first film; his tale of three Black Manhattanites is still inherently hip, mordantly funny, terribly sad, and very New York.

Saturday, June 18

Saturday, June 18, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, June 18, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
Hungary,
1975,
(87 mins)
Mészáros brought her documentary background to bear in this masterful parable about female self-actualization in 1970s Hungary, the winner of the Golden Bear at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival.