Week of July 16, 2023

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Sunday, July 16

Sunday, July 16, 2023
11:30 AM
(180 mins)
Two programs of performances, discussions, activities, and improvisations, led by artist Zekarias Thompson

Included with gallery admission

Series Black Life
Sunday, July 16, 2023
2 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.

Sunday, July 16, 2023
4 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1952,
(143 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

In Akira Kurosawa’s humanist masterpiece, an ordinary civil servant discovers what it means to live. This Japanese Everyman was perhaps Takashi Shimura’s greatest role.
Sunday, July 16, 2023
4:30 PM
Berkeley Poetry Festival presents its 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award to Jewelle Gomez

Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

Series Readings

Monday, July 17

Tuesday, July 18

Wednesday, July 19

Wednesday, July 19, 2023
7 PM
Yoji Yamada,
Japan,
1963,
(86 mins)

BAMPFA Collection Print

Chieko Baisho shines as a Shitamachi factory worker in Yoji Yamada’s fascinating study of postwar Japanese social mobility and a woman’s choice in the paths she takes.

Thursday, July 20

Thursday, July 20, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1965,
(88 mins)
The devil takes many guises to tempt Saint Simon Stylites from his pedestal in Luis Buñuel’s wicked satire of religion and hypocrisy. With Cinéastes de notre temps: Luis Buñuel.

Friday, July 21

Friday, July 21, 2023
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Friday, July 21, 2023
7 PM
Yuliya Solntseva,
USSR,
1961,
(102 mins)
Adapted from a script by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, The Story of the Flaming Years sets an elegiac tone for Yuliya Solnetseva’s tribute to the Ukrainian peasants’ struggle against the Nazi invaders through extraordinary montage sequences and double and triple superimpositions.

Saturday, July 22

Saturday, July 22, 2023
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

Saturday, July 22, 2023
3:30 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy, United States,
1968,
(167 mins)
Sergio Leone goes to the heartland of the Western—Monument Valley—for this monumental revision of American myth, starring Henry Fonda as a ruthless killer up against Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, and Claudia Cardinale.
Saturday, July 22, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1967,
(101 mins)
In Luis Buñuel’s subversive erotic classic, Catherine Deneuve is a frigid housewife who indulges her masochistic desires by working in a Paris brothel. “A landmark not only of Buñuel’s career, but of the history of motion pictures” (Paul Schrader).