Week of August 25, 2024

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Sunday, August 25

Sunday, August 25, 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 25, 2024
1:00 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
1988,
(87 mins)

Original Japanese version

Two sisters encounter wood sprites, magical trees, and flying “catbuses” in this enchanting tale that has become one of the most beloved family films of all time.
Sunday, August 25, 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 25, 2024
3:00 PM
Lynne Ramsay,
United Kingdom, United States,
2017,
(107 mins)

Audio Description
Closed Captioned

An emotionally scarred Gulf War veteran turned brutal contract killer uncovers a sex-trafficking ring that touches the highest reaches of power in this “Taxi Driver for a new century” (The Times), starring an especially soulful Joaquin Phoenix. With Lynne Ramsay’s short film Swimmer.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
5:30 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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Monday, August 26

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Wednesday, August 28

Wednesday, August 28, 2024
7:00 PM
Hiroshi Shimizu,
Japan,
1957,
(96 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

1950s Japanese sex symbol Machiko Kyo stars as a young sister ready to shake up her older sibling’s safe life in the Asakusa entertainment district in Hiroshi Shimizu’s bouncy postwar melodrama of dance-hall girls, lecherous men, and women’s sacrifice.

Thursday, August 29

Thursday, August 29, 2024
7:00 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
1997,
(134 mins)

Original Japanese version
MPA Rating: PG-13

In a long-ago Japan, a war is raging for the future of Earth, one that sets the animal kingdom against humanity, nature against pollution, and harmony against chaos. An epic cinematic experience.

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 30

Friday, August 30, 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 30, 2024
5:00 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.
Friday, August 30, 2024
7:00 PM
Liliana Cavani,
Italy,
1970,
(88 mins)
Ennio Morricone’s powerful choral compositions add an element of perfectly pitched defiance to Liliana Cavani’s 1970 adaptation of Sophocles’s Antigone, starring Britt Ekland and Pierre Clémenti.

Saturday, August 31

Saturday, August 31, 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 31, 2024
3:00 PM
Hayao Miyazaki,
Japan,
2013,
(126 mins)

Original Japanese version
MPA Rating: PG-13

Audio Description
Closed Captioned 

Young Jiro dreams of flying but ends up designing warplanes instead in Hayao Miyazaki’s “devastatingly honest lament for the corruption of beauty” (David Ehrlich, IndieWire).

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 31, 2024
6:00 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy, United States,
1984,
(251 mins)

Extended Director’s Cut

Time, according to Sergio Leone, is the principal character of the film, and it is the mournful passage of time that Ennio Morricone’s classic score powerfully evokes.

Presented with a 10-minute intermission

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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