Week of July 2, 2023

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Sunday, July 2

Sunday, July 2, 2023
1 PM
(60 mins)

programmed by KT Nelson

KT Nelson curates a set of dances by nine different choreographers, on the theme of birds.

Included with gallery admission. Seating is very limited.

Series Full
Sunday, July 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Sunday, July 2, 2023
4 PM
(60 mins)

programmed by KT Nelson

KT Nelson curates a set of dances by nine different choreographers, on the theme of birds.

Included with gallery admission. Seating is very limited.

Series Full
Sunday, July 2, 2023
4:30 PM
Valerio Zurlini,
Italy,
1961,
(113 mins)
Abandoned by a playboy aristocrat, a showgirl (Claudia Cardinale) makes do with his teenage brother in this moving study of adolescence and class filmed in Parma and Rimini.
Sunday, July 2, 2023
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Germany, United States,
1974,
(113 mins)

Digital Restoration

A wandering journalist finds himself stuck with someone else’s daughter in this road movie across the United States and Germany, “a fine, tightly controlled, intelligent, and ultimately touching film” (New York Times). Wim Wenders, who was a guest presenter at the Pacific Film Archive numerous times in the 1970s, was one of the New German Cinema filmmakers whose films Tom Luddy helped introduce to audiences.

Monday, July 3

Tuesday, July 4

Wednesday, July 5

Wednesday, July 5, 2023
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1975,
(201 mins)

Voted the number one film of Sight & Sound’s 2022 Poll of the 100 Greatest Films.

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. Tom Luddy hosted Akerman as a guest at the Pacific Film Archive in 1976 and 1979.

Thursday, July 6

Thursday, July 6, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Thursday, July 6, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.

Included with admission.

Thursday, July 6, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1947,
(72 mins)
An unsentimental and funny treatment of a sentimental subject: an abandoned boy in postwar Tokyo taken in by a widow who claims to dislike children.

Friday, July 7

Friday, July 7, 2023
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Friday, July 7, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico, Spain,
1961,
(90 mins)
Kindly Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) dreams of becoming a nun until the attentions of her lecherous uncle change her path in Luis Buñuel’s notorious satire of religion and desire. Winner of both the Cannes Palme d’Or and the Vatican’s condemnation.

Saturday, July 8

Saturday, July 8, 2023
1 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Saturday, July 8, 2023
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Explore Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women, by Amalia Mesa-Bains, and envision a special garment for someone you consider a heroine.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under

  • Rebeca Abidaíl Flores
    Workshop led by
    Rebeca Abidaíl Flores is a Salvadoreña and Mexican American artist from Fresno who writes stories and makes large-scale sculptures.
Saturday, July 8, 2023
2 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Can Bree defy the odds and guide her team to a state championship in swimming, or have the Mighty Manatees swum their last lap?

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under

Becca Todd
  • Becca Todd
    Reading led by
    Reading led by Becca Todd, former District Library Coordinator, Berkeley Unified School District
Saturday, July 8, 2023
4:30 PM
Antonio Pietrangeli,
France, Italy,
1964,
(124 mins)
Claudia Cardinale lends a becalmed radiance in this giddy tale of a middle-aged businessman (Ugo Tognazzi) who’ll stop at nothing to prove his young wife is cheating on him, even though he’s the one who’s been unfaithful.
Saturday, July 8, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1962,
(95 mins)
A bourgeois dinner turns to chaos when the guests realize they cannot leave in Luis Buñuel’s daring, Surrealist, darkly comic assault on the hypocrisy of the ruling class and organized religion. “The most distinctly and completely Surrealist film since L’age d’or” (Francisco Aranda).