Week of July 21, 2024

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Sunday, July 21

Sunday, July 21, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
4:30 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
1989,
(102 mins)

Original Japanese version

Thirteen-year-old witch Kiki leaves home and discovers a soaring independence as she masters her mother’s broom, even as she grapples with the same insecurities that trouble all adolescents.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

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Sunday, July 21, 2024
7:00 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1936,
(76 mins)

35mm Archival Print

"Mr. Thank You is the driver of a bus chugging its way through the hills and villages of rural Japan. Shooting entirely on location, [Hiroshi] Shimizu merrily tracks along the winding paths. Irresistible” (National Film Theatre, London).

Monday, July 22

Tuesday, July 23

Wednesday, July 24

Wednesday, July 24, 2024
12:15 PM
Join us for exhibition tours of A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, led by UC Berkeley graduate students.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
7:00 PM
Gillo Pontecorvo,
Italy,
1966,
(121 mins)

New 4K Digital Restoration

One of the best films on revolution ever made, Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against French occupation. Ennio Morricone and Pontecorvo’s pan flute theme for the revolutionary Ali suggests the breath, body, and humanity of the people’s struggle.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

  • Carmine-Emanuele Cella
    Prerecorded Video Introduction
    Carmine-Emanuele Cella is Associate Professor in Music and Technology at UC Berkeley, where he is also lead researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technology.
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Thursday, July 25

Thursday, July 25, 2024
7:00 PM
Robert Siodmak,
United States,
1949,
(87 mins)

Digital Restoration

Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo are caught in a “criss cross” of obsession and betrayal in Robert Siodmak’s compelling noir of double-dealings and a stylishly enacted armored car heist that takes all involved to the very brink.

Friday, July 26

Friday, July 26, 2024
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Friday, July 26, 2024
7:00 PM
Věra Chytilová,
Czechoslovakia,
1966,
(74 mins)
Věra Chytilová’s most acclaimed film, spawned by the Prague Spring, is a brilliantly colored surrealist comedy starring a couple of chicks in search of kicks.

Saturday, July 27

Saturday, July 27, 2024
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-In Art Making

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Saturday, July 27, 2024
4:00 PM
Les Blank, Maureen Gosling,
United States,
1982,
(94 mins)

Bay Area premiere of 4K Digital Restoration

Bay Area premiere of the new 4K restoration, Burden of Dreams documents Werner Herzog’s obsessive four-year struggle to complete his 1982 film, Fitzcarraldo. Named by Derek Malcolm (The Guardian) as one of the best one hundred films of the twentieth century.

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.

In Conversation
  • Maureen Gosling
  • Harrod Blank
  • Anthony Matt
    Film archivist Anthony Matt is responsible for the restoration of Burden of Dreams as well as many of the recently remastered Les Blank films.
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
7:00 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1937,
(73 mins)
A single mother turned bar hostess struggles to raise her son in the face of social condemnation and economic exploitation in this set-bound, fog-drenched noir of sinister alleyways, Art Deco nightclubs, and maternal duty.