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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
4:30 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2023
4:30 PM
Alice Diop,
France,
2022,
(122 mins)
Alice Diop’s first venture into narrative after more than a decade of documentary filmmaking, Saint Omer follows a young novelist, Rama, who is observing the trial of Laurence Coly, a woman accused of murdering her fifteen-month-old child in northern France.
7 PM
Sunday, June 25, 2023
7 PM
Mauro Bolognini,
Italy,
1961,
(102 mins)
A headstrong peasant (Jean-Paul Belmondo) abandons the politics and doom of his family farm for the arms of a beautiful prostitute (Claudia Cardinale) in a rain-soaked nineteenth-century Florence. Directed by Mauro Bolognini, one of Cardinale’s favorite collaborators.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
7 PM
Sadao Yamanaka,
Japan,
1937,
(86 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
A poor ronin samurai and his gambling neighbor become involved in a desperate plan in this little-known gem from the 1930s, set in what would become downtown Tokyo during the Edo period.
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7 PM
Thursday, June 29, 2023
7 PM
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea,
Cuba,
1968,
(97 mins)
Digital Restoration
This groundbreaking Cuban work explores the experiences and reveries of a bourgeois writer after the revolution. “A profound, noble film” (New York Times). Tom Luddy hosted Tomás Gutiérrez Alea at the Pacific Film Archive in October 1979.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, June 30, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, June 30, 2023
7 PM
(89 mins)
In Memoriam Kenneth Anger (1927–2023) The Magick Lantern Cycle, Part 2, screens at 9 PM.
Tom Luddy was a great supporter of avant-garde film and brought many filmmakers to the Pacific Film Archive over the years. Kenneth Anger visited in December 1976 to present his work. We take this occasion to showcase Anger’s The Magick Lantern Cycle, a central body of work in American avant-garde cinema.
9 PM
Friday, June 30, 2023
9 PM
(81 mins)
In Memoriam Kenneth Anger (1927–2023) The Magick Lantern Cycle, Part 1, screens at 7 PM.
Tom Luddy was a great devotee of avant-garde film and brought many filmmakers to the Pacific Film Archive over the years. Kenneth Anger visited in December 1976 to present his work. We take this occasion to showcase Anger’s The Magick Lantern Cycle, a central body of work in American avant-garde cinema.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, July 1, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
4:30 PM
Saturday, July 1, 2023
4:30 PM
Satyajit Ray,
India,
1956,
(110 mins)
Digital Restoration
The second film in the Apu trilogy follows Apu’s family as they travel to the holy city of Benares along the banks of the Ganges River. “Graceful, insightful, and moving” (San Francisco Chronicle). Satyajit Ray’s films were shown frequently by Tom Luddy during the 1970s.
7 PM
Saturday, July 1, 2023
7 PM
Yuzo Kawashima,
Japan,
1956,
(81 mins)
A down-on-their-luck young couple settles on the edge of Tokyo’s red-light district in this major rediscovery, a “radiant masterwork of Japanese cinematic melodramas” (Tokyo Filmex).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2023
1 PM
(60 mins)
programmed by KT Nelson
KT Nelson curates a set of dances by nine different choreographers, on the theme of birds.
Included with gallery admission. Seating is very limited.
Series
Full
4 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2023
4 PM
(60 mins)
programmed by KT Nelson
KT Nelson curates a set of dances by nine different choreographers, on the theme of birds.
Included with gallery admission. Seating is very limited.
Series
Full
4:30 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2023
4:30 PM
Valerio Zurlini,
Italy,
1961,
(113 mins)
Abandoned by a playboy aristocrat, a showgirl (Claudia Cardinale) makes do with his teenage brother in this moving study of adolescence and class filmed in Parma and Rimini.
7 PM
Sunday, July 2, 2023
7 PM
Wim Wenders,
Germany, United States,
1974,
(113 mins)
Digital Restoration
A wandering journalist finds himself stuck with someone else’s daughter in this road movie across the United States and Germany, “a fine, tightly controlled, intelligent, and ultimately touching film” (New York Times). Wim Wenders, who was a guest presenter at the Pacific Film Archive numerous times in the 1970s, was one of the New German Cinema filmmakers whose films Tom Luddy helped introduce to audiences.
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023
7 PM
Chantal Akerman,
France,
1975,
(201 mins)
Voted the number one film of Sight & Sound’s 2022 Poll of the 100 Greatest Films.
A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. Tom Luddy hosted Akerman as a guest at the Pacific Film Archive in 1976 and 1979.
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11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, July 6, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
12:15 PM
Thursday, July 6, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Thursday, July 6, 2023
7 PM
Yasujiro Ozu,
Japan,
1947,
(72 mins)
An unsentimental and funny treatment of a sentimental subject: an abandoned boy in postwar Tokyo taken in by a widow who claims to dislike children.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, July 7, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, July 7, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico, Spain,
1961,
(90 mins)
Kindly Viridiana (Silvia Pinal) dreams of becoming a nun until the attentions of her lecherous uncle change her path in Luis Buñuel’s notorious satire of religion and desire. Winner of both the Cannes Palme d’Or and the Vatican’s condemnation.
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11:30 AM
Saturday, July 8, 2023
11:30 AM
 For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)
Explore Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women, by Amalia Mesa-Bains, and envision a special garment for someone you consider a heroine.
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
1 PM–7 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2023
1 PM–7 PM
2 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2023
2 PM
 Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)
Can Bree defy the odds and guide her team to a state championship in swimming, or have the Mighty Manatees swum their last lap?
Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under Becca Todd
Series
Family Events 2022-2023
4:30 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2023
4:30 PM
Antonio Pietrangeli,
France, Italy,
1964,
(124 mins)
Claudia Cardinale lends a becalmed radiance in this giddy tale of a middle-aged businessman (Ugo Tognazzi) who’ll stop at nothing to prove his young wife is cheating on him, even though he’s the one who’s been unfaithful.
7 PM
Saturday, July 8, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1962,
(95 mins)
A bourgeois dinner turns to chaos when the guests realize they cannot leave in Luis Buñuel’s daring, Surrealist, darkly comic assault on the hypocrisy of the ruling class and organized religion. “The most distinctly and completely Surrealist film since L’age d’or” (Francisco Aranda).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
4 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2023
4 PM
Hirokazu Kore-eda,
Japan,
2004,
(141 mins)
Based on a true story that scandalized Japan in the mid-1980s, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2004 drama follows four children left abandoned in a Tokyo apartment. “Absorbing, humane, and deeply moving,” Nobody Knows reveals the “director’s talent for extending a single moment with superbly poised artistry” (The Guardian).
7 PM
Sunday, July 9, 2023
7 PM
Mikhail Kalatozov,
Cuba, USSR,
1964,
(136 mins)
This portrait of revolutionary Cuba, written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko and brimming with bravura camerawork, is an extraordinary example of “pure” cinema in the service of politics. Tom Luddy helped bring this film to light by programming it at the Telluride Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival. He also helped acquire a 35mm print for the BAMPFA collection.
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12:15 PM
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
12:15 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
7 PM
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1953,
(98 mins)
New 4K Restoration
Set in Toyko just after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Kinuyo Tanaka’s impressive directorial debut provides “a much-needed female voice that offers a . . . nuanced reading of women’s lives in postwar Japan, and especially regarding sex work” (Natalie Ng, Filmed in Ether).
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7 PM
Thursday, July 13, 2023
7 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1963,
(148 mins)
A traffic jam nightmare, a literal flight of fancy, nuns and whores and more: 8 1/2 follows the dreams and visions of a jaded director (Marcello Mastroianni) as he bemusedly attempts his next great film, which may or may not take precedence over his own sexual desires. Followed by Un Cardinale Donna.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, July 14, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, July 14, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France, Italy,
1964,
(95 mins)
Jeanne Moreau is a chambermaid in a household of perfectly ordinary bourgeois perverts in this darkly funny update of a Gustave Mirbeau novel, the first film in the long collaboration between Luis Buñuel and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, July 15, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
11:30 AM
Saturday, July 15, 2023
11:30 AM
(180 mins)
Two programs of performances, discussions, activities, and improvisations, led by artist Zekarias Thompson
Included with gallery admission
Series
Black Life
4:30 PM
Saturday, July 15, 2023
4:30 PM
Ousmane Sembène,
Senegal,
1968,
(91 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
A comic fable about a middle-aged man in Dakar whose life changes when he receives a money order from Paris. “[Ousmane] Sembène’s approach is spare, laconic, slightly ironic, and never patronizing” (New York Times). The film received the International Critics’ Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Tom Luddy hosted Sembène at the Pacific Film Archive in February 1978 as part of a focus on New Senegalese Cinema.
7 PM
Saturday, July 15, 2023
7 PM
Luchino Visconti,
Italy,
1965,
(102 mins)
Luchino Visconti’s somber mood piece is an Elektra story of madness and incestuous passions in a family haunted by secrets and the shadow of the Holocaust. Claudia Cardinale stars with Jean Sorel and Marie Bell.
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11:30 AM
Sunday, July 16, 2023
11:30 AM
(180 mins)
Two programs of performances, discussions, activities, and improvisations, led by artist Zekarias Thompson
Included with gallery admission
Series
Black Life
2 PM
Sunday, July 16, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
4 PM
Sunday, July 16, 2023
4 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1952,
(143 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
In Akira Kurosawa’s humanist masterpiece, an ordinary civil servant discovers what it means to live. This Japanese Everyman was perhaps Takashi Shimura’s greatest role.
4:30 PM
Sunday, July 16, 2023
4:30 PM
Berkeley Poetry Festival presents its 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award to Jewelle Gomez
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
Series
Readings
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
7 PM
Yoji Yamada,
Japan,
1963,
(86 mins)
BAMPFA Collection Print
Chieko Baisho shines as a Shitamachi factory worker in Yoji Yamada’s fascinating study of postwar Japanese social mobility and a woman’s choice in the paths she takes.
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7 PM
Thursday, July 20, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1965,
(88 mins)
The devil takes many guises to tempt Saint Simon Stylites from his pedestal in Luis Buñuel’s wicked satire of religion and hypocrisy. With Cinéastes de notre temps: Luis Buñuel.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, July 21, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, July 21, 2023
7 PM
Yuliya Solntseva,
USSR,
1961,
(102 mins)
Adapted from a script by Oleksandr Dovzhenko, The Story of the Flaming Years sets an elegiac tone for Yuliya Solnetseva’s tribute to the Ukrainian peasants’ struggle against the Nazi invaders through extraordinary montage sequences and double and triple superimpositions.
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
3:30 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2023
3:30 PM
Sergio Leone,
Italy, United States,
1968,
(167 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.
7 PM
Saturday, July 22, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1967,
(101 mins)
In Luis Buñuel’s subversive erotic classic, Catherine Deneuve is a frigid housewife who indulges her masochistic desires by working in a Paris brothel. “A landmark not only of Buñuel’s career, but of the history of motion pictures” (Paul Schrader).
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2023
2 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
5 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2023
5 PM
Yuliya Solntseva, Yakiv Avdiienko,
USSR,
1943,
(86 mins)
This extraordinary montage film, weaving images taken by twenty-four frontline cameramen, plus captured Nazi footage, was praised by film scholar Jay Leyda as “an astonishingly personal movie . . . an inspiration to every artist who works in the documentary film.” With John Gianvito’s Fugue.
7 PM
Sunday, July 23, 2023
7 PM
Heinosuke Gosho,
Japan,
1953,
(108 mins)
Imported 35mm Print
Set against the backdrop of Tokyo’s growing industrialization during the 1950s, Ken Uehara and Kinuyo Tanaka portray a tabi salesman and his wife, whose lives are disrupted by the arrival of an abandoned baby on their tenement doorstep.
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7 PM
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France, Italy,
1969,
(102 mins)
Two derelicts make an impious pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, with many detours in time and space along the way. Part theological fantasy, part shaggy dog story, the film makes manifest Luis Buñuel’s famous motto: “Thank God I’m an atheist!”
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7 PM
Thursday, July 27, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1940,
(81 mins)
Preston Sturges’s ferociously funny attack on the American political system is a twist on the Abe Lincoln myth: even a bum, backed by the right machine, can become president.
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, July 28, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, July 28, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France, Italy, Spain,
1970,
(95 mins)
Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey star in Luis Buñuel’s tale of amour fou involving a virginal young orphan, a well-to-do older man, and a younger painter. “Extremely funny, bluntly fast-paced, and very, very beautiful” (Vincent Canby).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
5 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2023
5 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1941,
(94 mins)
Starring Barbara Stanwyck as a cardsharp who plays naive ale heir Henry Fonda not once but twice, Preston Sturges’s comedy of innocence and experience is “one of the most liberatingly funny films ever made” (New Yorker).
7:30 PM
Saturday, July 29, 2023
7:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1948,
(98 mins)
Doctor meets tubercular gangster in the slums of postwar Japan in this noirish tale, the first film in the long collaboration between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune.
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11 AM–7 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
1 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2023
1 PM
Join local artist and educator Jenny Rosenberg to make cyanotype postcards. Simple chemicals, paper, sunshine, and water are all that is needed to create the photographic blueprints known as cyanotypes.
Included with admission
Series
Workshops 2023
2 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2023
2 PM
Tours of Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory are led by UC Berkeley graduate students in history of art, Chicanx/Latinx studies, and theater, dance, and performance studies.
Included with admission.
Series
Exhibition Tours 2023
4:30 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2023
4:30 PM
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky,
USSR,
1924,
(105 mins)
Copresented by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Yuliya Solntseva plays the eponymous tobacco vendor who unwittingly attracts the love of three men: a hapless scribe straight out of Gogol, an overstuffed American capitalist, and a wayward cinema cameraman.
7 PM
Sunday, July 30, 2023
7 PM
Preston Sturges,
United States,
1944,
(99 mins)
When small-town girl Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) gets knocked up by a soldier—she isn’t sure which one—a 4-F local boy (Eddie Bracken) attempts to save the day. That Preston Sturges’s riotous comedy made it past the censors is a miracle in itself.
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Wednesday, August 2, 2023
7 PM
William Wyler,
United States,
1935,
(97 mins)
Preston Sturges provided the sparkling script for this rarely seen comedy. Margaret Sullavan plays a movie usherette, who, to deflect the amorous attentions of a would-be benefactor (Frank Morgan), finds herself a husband in the White Pages.
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11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2023
1:15 PM
Tours of What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection take place on selected Sundays at 2 PM and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM
Series
Exhibition Tours 2024
7 PM
Thursday, August 3, 2023
7 PM
John Lasseter,
United States,
1999,
(92 mins)
Recommended for all ages
“An awe-inspiring display of special effects, and its characterization, particularly that of the all-American hero Buzz, is very funny. As well as being a landmark of sorts in commercial cinema, Toy Story 2 really is that mythical beast: an extremely enjoyable picture for all ages” (Peter Bradshaw, Guardian).
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2 PM–7 PM
Friday, August 4, 2023
2 PM–7 PM
7 PM
Friday, August 4, 2023
7 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1972,
(100 mins)
This account of six wealthy people’s thwarted attempts to sit down to dinner is the comedy of manners to end all comedies of manners. “A deeply funny movie. . . . [Luis] Buñuel’s art is as insolent now as ever” (David Denby).
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11 AM–7 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2023
11 AM–7 PM
4 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2023
4 PM
Brad Bird,
United States,
2007,
(111 mins)
Recommended for all ages
“Ratatouille is delicious. In this satisfying, souffle-light tale of a plucky French rodent with a passion for cooking, the master chefs at Pixar have blended all the right ingredients to produce a warm and irresistible concoction that’s sure to appeal to everyone’s inner Julia Child” (Justin Chang, Variety).
7:30 PM
Saturday, August 5, 2023
7:30 PM
Luis Buñuel,
France,
1974,
(104 mins)
Casual blasphemies and waking dreams, bourgeois improprieties and Surrealist sight gags are strung together in this slippery chain of abortive comic vignettes, loosely coiled around themes of enslavement and the fear of freedom.
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