Week of August 11, 2024

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Sunday, August 11

Sunday, August 11, 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 11, 2024
2:00 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.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
3:00 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1939,
(142 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Two young protagonists weather the death of their father and the changes of the four seasons in Hiroshi Shimizu’s follow-up to his beloved Children in the Wind. With a lyricism that “looks forward to early Satyajit Ray” (John Gillett).
Sunday, August 11, 2024
6:00 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1968,
(165 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.

Monday, August 12

Tuesday, August 13

Wednesday, August 14

Wednesday, August 14, 2024
7:00 PM
(105 mins)
A rare chance to see Věra Chytilová’s earliest shorts, which explore anarchy, individualism, and surrealist allegory. Titles include Ceiling, A Bagful of Fleas, and her contribution to the Czech New Wave omnibus Pearls of the Deep, Automat Svět.

Thursday, August 15

Thursday, August 15, 2024
7:00 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1965,
(132 mins)
Ennio Morricone’s haunting score for Sergio Leone’s follow-up to A Fistful of Dollars both grounds and complements the mounting mayhem of bounty hunters (Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef) versus the brutal, deranged Gian Maria Volontè and his gang.

Friday, August 16

Friday, August 16, 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 16, 2024
7:00 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1948,
(86 mins)
A group of orphans and a returning veteran search for jobs across a scarred postwar Japan in Hiroshi Shimizu’s remarkable work of Japanese neorealism, filmed entirely on location—including in a Hiroshima still marked by the atomic bomb.
Friday, August 16, 2024
7:30 PM

Programmed by Sean Carson

Brontez Purnell and his five-piece band perform songs by his uncle J. J. Malone, a blues musician who migrated to Oakland from Alabama in the 1960s. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.

Event Accessibility

If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact us at bampfa@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 642-1412 (during open hours) with as much advance notice as possible. More information on accessibility services.

Space is limited. Advance tickets are recommended.

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Saturday, August 17

Saturday, August 17, 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, August 17, 2024
1:00 PM
This workshop encourages those unfamiliar with comics to dip their feet into character building and expressing themselves through the medium of comics.

Included with gallery admission

Saturday, August 17, 2024
4:00 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2001,
(125 mins)

Original Japanese version

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 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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 17, 2024
7:00 PM
Elio Petri,
Italy,
1970,
(115 mins)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize and the International Critics’ Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, Elio Petri’s still-timely tale of a corrupt police investigator is kept abuzz with the modernist twinges of Ennio Morricone’s unforgettable compositions.