Sunday, August 6
Sunday, August 6, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 6, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
Sunday, August 6, 2023
5 PM
Oleksandr Dovzhenko,
USSR,
1935,
(81 mins)
“Frankly operatic in its portraiture and poetic stylization, this Soviet masterpiece began as propaganda but veers closer to pagan fantasy than any of Dovzhenko’s other sound films” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader).
Sunday, August 6, 2023
7 PM
Mitchell Leisen,
United States,
1937,
(88 mins)
Jean Arthur plays a working girl whose life is transformed when a fur coat tossed from a millionaire’s apartment lands on her head. Preston Sturges’s screenplay is “funny and gracious and generous in the best Sturges tradition” (Andrew Sarris).
Monday, August 7
Tuesday, August 8
Wednesday, August 9
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1940,
(67 mins)
Striving clerk Dick Powell wins an advertising jingle contest and triggers a corporate nervous breakdown in this comedy skewering the American dream of overnight success.
Thursday, August 10
Thursday, August 10, 2023
7 PM
Wes Anderson,
United States,
2009,
(87 mins)
Recommended for ages 8 and up
George Clooney and Meryl Streep lend their voices to this hilarious and heartwarming animated adventure from visionary director Wes Anderson. Based on Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel about a fox clan and other animal friends eluding human predators, this is a meticulous work of stop-motion animation.
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Bill Kinder
IntroductionBerkeley-based independent filmmaker Bill Kinder began his career in documentary, news, and sports, with a focus on editing and creating experimental nonfiction films.
Friday, August 11
Friday, August 11, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, August 11, 2023
7 PM
Mitchell Leisen,
United States,
1940,
(94 mins)
DA Fred MacMurray takes jewel thief Barbara Stanwyck home to Indiana for the holidays in this tender comedy scripted by Preston Sturges. “As smart-mouthed as it is stunningly compassionate” (Village Voice).
Saturday, August 12
Saturday, August 12, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, August 12, 2023
4:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2002,
(125 mins)
English version
Recommended for ages 8 and up
The original Japanese version of Spirited Away screens on Friday, August 18.
In this celebrated Hayao Miyazaki fantasy, ten-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon an abandoned theme park that turns out to be a true magic kingdom. Joe Hisaishi’s exquisite score enhances a cinematic feast. Winner of the 2003 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
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Bill Kinder
IntroductionBerkeley-based independent filmmaker Bill Kinder began his career in documentary, news, and sports, with a focus on editing and creating experimental nonfiction films.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
7:30 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1977,
(103 mins)
A seemingly well-heeled elderly man narrates the tale of his obsession with a much younger woman (played by two actresses) in Luis Buñuel’s final treatise on passion, perversion, and the irrationality of human desire.
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through December 31
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