Week of August 4, 2024

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Sunday, August 4

Sunday, August 4, 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, August 4, 2024
4:30 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1941,
(98 mins)

35mm Archival Print

 

A wandering performer is welcomed into the home of a tea merchant but must fight for the family’s business after his death, in Hiroshi Shimizu’s classic melodrama of social obligation and women’s sacrifice.
Sunday, August 4, 2024
7:00 PM
Robert Aldrich,
United States,
1955,
(106 mins)
Robert Aldrich melts down the B detective thriller into a vision of Armageddon in Los Angeles. Ralph Meeker is Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer. Hard-edged and savage, Kiss Me Deadly lifts the lid on 1950s apocalypse.

Monday, August 5

Tuesday, August 6

Wednesday, August 7

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
5:00 PM
San Francisco–based artist Rose D’Amato addresses her newly commissioned Art Wall with Claire Frost, former BAMPFA Curatorial Associate.

Included with gallery admission

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
6:00 PM
Los Angeles–based artist Young Joon Kwak talks about their new sculptural installation, commissioned for MATRIX 285 / Young Joon Kwak: Resistance Pleasure, with Anthony Graham, Senior Curator.

Included with gallery admission

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
7:00 PM
Elio Petri,
Italy,
1968,
(105 mins)
Featuring art by Jim Dine and music by Ennio Morricone and the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Elio Petri’s Giallo ghost story chronicles the declining mental health of a successful modern painter.

Thursday, August 8

Thursday, August 8, 2024
7:00 PM
Stanley Kubrick,
United States,
1956,
(84 mins)
Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Stanley Kubrick’s high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader).

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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Friday, August 9

Friday, August 9, 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, August 9, 2024
7:00 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1937,
(88 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Two brothers are separated when their father is falsely arrested in one of Hiroshi Shimizu’s most beloved films, shot in a variety of outdoor locations and filled with the director’s sweetly observational approach.

Saturday, August 10

Saturday, August 10, 2024
1 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.
Saturday, August 10, 2024
4:00 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2023,
(124 mins)

Original Japanese version
MPA Rating: PG-13
Audio Description
Closed Captioned

Hayao Miyazaki’s self-proclaimed final film takes a maximalist approach to storytelling, as a pestering gray heron leads the sullen twelve-year-old Mahito deep into a realm of hallucinatory, time-bending fantasy.

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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Saturday, August 10, 2024
7:00 PM
Věra Chytilová,
Czechoslovakia,
1970,
(99 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Adam and Eve are seduced by Satan in an Eastern European health spa in Věra Chytilová’s companion piece to Daisies, an inventive union of allegory, feminism, and the avant-garde, often compared to Federico Fellini’s Satyricon and the films of Sergei Parajanov.