Week of August 18, 2024

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Sunday, August 18

Sunday, August 18, 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 18, 2024
4:30 PM
Věra Chytilová,
Czechoslovakia,
1979,
(100 mins)

35mm Archival Print

A new suburban housing block in the midst of either construction or destruction provides the site of Věra Chytilová’s biting satire of official incompetence and corruption and of the resourcefulness and/or deceit of those left living in its cracks.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
7:00 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1949,
(97 mins)
A kindly rich man gives away his fortune to all who ask for it in this village comedy of manners and misfits. Its 1949 postwar setting provides the film a surprisingly elegiac look at how “times have changed.”

Monday, August 19

Tuesday, August 20

Wednesday, August 21

Wednesday, August 21, 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, August 21, 2024
7:00 PM
Pier Paolo Pasolini,
Italy,
1968,
(98 mins)
Pier Paolo Pasolini combines themes composed by Ennio Morricone with the music of Mozart and Ted Curson in his first film shot in a bourgeois milieu, arguing “anything done by the bourgeoisie, however sincere, profound and noble it is, is on the wrong track.”

Thursday, August 22

Thursday, August 22, 2024
7:00 PM
Lynne Ramsay,
United Kingdom,
1999,
(105 mins)
Set in Glasgow during the 1973 garbage strike, Ratcatcher finds beauty and magic amidst the detritus. “A touching coming of age film with a remarkable tenderness towards its flawed characters, and an exceptional ability to make the mundane beautiful (Carlota Larrea, Senses of Cinema). With Lynne’s Ramsay’s short film Small Deaths.

Friday, August 23

Friday, August 23, 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 23, 2024
7:00 PM
Lynne Ramsay,
Canada, United Kingdom,
2002,
(112 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Grief or grift? The reasons for Morvern Callar’s reaction to the suicide of her boyfriend remain compellingly mysterious throughout this road movie meets mixtape. “Pure punk existentialism” (Elvis Mitchell, New York Times). With Lynne Ramsay’s short film Gasman.

Saturday, August 24

Saturday, August 24, 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 24, 2024
3:00 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy,
1966,
(179 mins)

Extended Cut

Ennio Morricone’s now-legendary score provides depth to Sergio Leone’s brutal characters and resonance to the violent vistas in which this classic fable of American greed plays out.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
6:30 PM
Lynne Ramsay,
United States,
2011,
(129 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, and Ezra Miller star in this “domestic horror story” about a family whose young son commits a horrendous act and the mother who replays every maternal moment that could have influenced it. With Lynne Ramsay’s short film Kill the Day.