Sunday, August 20
Sunday, August 20, 2023
1 PM
Textile artist and founder of San Anselmo’s Meinolf Weaving School Travis Meinolf invites us to come together to watch a weaving demonstration, strap into a simple back-strap loom, and weave.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2023
Sunday, August 20, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, August 20, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
Sunday, August 20, 2023
5 PM
Yakov Protazanov,
USSR,
1924,
(109 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Soviets in space, as class warfare extends to Mars, in this exhilarating silent saga, a Russian Metropolis famed for its outlandish Constructivist production design. Starring Yuliya Solntseva, it is “a major early achievement in futuristic cinema” (Variety).
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Booth Wilson
IntroductionBooth Wilson, currently a lecturer in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley, is the author of The Cinema of Yakov Protazanov, the first book in English covering the director’s entire caree -
Judith Rosenberg
On Piano
Monday, August 21
Tuesday, August 22
Wednesday, August 23
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1944,
(101 mins)
Preston Sturges’s wartime comedy of community stars Eddie Bracken as a soldier who is discharged from military service due to hay fever but is hailed as a hero when he gets home.
Thursday, August 24
Thursday, August 24, 2023
7 PM
James Blue,
United States,
1964,
(92 mins)
Free Admission
To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which demanded equal rights for African Americans, we present two powerful documentaries, James Blue’s The March and Haskell Wexler’s The Bus.
Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6 PM
Friday, August 25
Friday, August 25, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
Friday, August 25, 2023
7 PM
Jonas Poher Rasmussen,
Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden,
2021,
(90 mins)
Closed captioned
Recommended for ages 13 and up
Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s award-winning film depicts the refugee experience through vivid animation in a moving memoir hailed as “a feat of humanistic filmmaking” (Harper’s Bazaar).
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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 26
Saturday, August 26, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, August 26, 2023
4 PM
Brad Bird,
United States,
2004,
(115 mins)
Closed captioned
Recommended for ages 7 and up
Meet the Incredibles, just a normal suburban family except for one thing: they’re all superheroes. This joyous Pixar pic won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
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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 26, 2023
7:30 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1941,
(91 mins)
Hollywood movie director Joel McCrea wants to switch from lowbrow comedy to dramas with Social Significance, so he sets out to learn something about poverty, and finds out more than he bargained for. Veronica Lake costars.
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