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2	3	4	5	6	7 7:00 PM The Early Years: The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins and Hot Pepper Film In-Person Friday, June 7, 2024 7:00 PM The Early Years: The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins and Hot Pepper (96 mins) The portrait of Lightnin’ Hopkins came to define Les Blank’s documentary style. With Thailand Moment, filmed and edited in 1967 but only completed posthumously, and the pulsing Cajun rhythms of Hot Pepper. In Conversation Skip Gerson Maureen Gosling Harrod Blank Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8 4:00 PM Princess Mononoke Film Saturday, June 8, 2024 4:00 PM Princess Mononoke 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. Series Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Early Years: A Well Spent Life and Spend It All Film In-Person Saturday, June 8, 2024 7:00 PM The Early Years: A Well Spent Life and Spend It All (94 mins) Discover the distinct musical styles and authentic modes of living of Texan bluesman Mance Lipscomb and the Louisiana Cajun community in these early classics by Les Blank and Skip Gerson, A Well Spent Life and Spend It All. Preceded by a 2014 interview with Chris Strachwitz. In Conversation Skip Gerson Maureen Gosling Harrod Blank Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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9 4:30 PM Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Film Sunday, June 9, 2024 4:30 PM Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1979, (100 mins) Original Japanese version Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature film, based on a popular adventure serial, finds Lupin, a gentleman thief, trying to expose a counterfeiting plot, avoid Interpol, and rescue a damsel in distress. Series Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Nostalghia Film Sunday, June 9, 2024 7:00 PM Nostalghia Andrei Tarkovsky, Italy, USSR, 1983, (125 mins) Digital Restoration Andrei Tarkovsky’s breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film’s title describes. “Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman). Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	10	11	12 7:00 PM The Zone of Interest Audio Description Closed Captioned Film Wednesday, June 12, 2024 7:00 PM The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer, Poland, United Kingdom, United States, 2023, (105 mins) Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and Academy Awards for Best International Feature and Best Sound Audio Description Closed Captioned Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Jonathan Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity. Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 7:00 PM Daughters of the Dust Film In-Person Thursday, June 13, 2024 7:00 PM Daughters of the Dust Julie Dash, United States, 1991, (113 mins) Presented in conjunction with A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration A film experienced in sequences, from the perspective of several generations of women, including an unborn daughter, Daughters of the Dust creates a fabric of universal themes: the conflicts between personal and collective history, and between spiritual and industrial life. Nadia Ellis Introduction Nadia Ellis, an Associate Professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley, specializes in Black diasporic, Caribbean, and postcolonial literatures and cultures. Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	14 7:00 PM Double Indemnity Film Friday, June 14, 2024 7:00 PM Double Indemnity Billy Wilder, United States, 1944, (106 mins) 35mm Archival Print Barbara Stanwyck’s peroxide blond is the archetype of the noir femme fatale in Billy Wilder’s gleefully cynical tale of murder and insurance fraud, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Stanwyck for Best Actress. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	15 1:30 PM Film Screening and Conversation: Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards Art Film Saturday, June 15, 2024 1:30 PM Film Screening and Conversation: Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards A screening of films by Akea Brionne and Jamea Richmond-Edwards, two of the artists featured in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration, followed by a conversation with both artists and Senior Curator Anthony Graham. Included with gallery admission Series Talks & Conversations Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM Spirited Away Film Saturday, June 15, 2024 4:00 PM Spirited Away 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. Series Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM A Poem Is a Naked Person Film In-Person Saturday, June 15, 2024 7:00 PM A Poem Is a Naked Person Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, United States, 1974/2015, (102 mins) Digital Restoration This seminal film, a portrait of Leon Russell and his world, was considered by Les Blank to be one of his major accomplishments. With Out in the Woods, Maureen Gosling’s film diary of that project and time. In Conversation Maureen Gosling Harrod Blank Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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16 3:30 PM–6:30 PM The Lady from Shanghai Film In-Person Sunday, June 16, 2024 3:30 PM–6:30 PM The Lady from Shanghai Orson Welles, United States, 1948, (86 mins) Digital Restoration Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, and a deadly hall of mirrors feature in Welles’s brilliant take on the crime thriller. “Complex, courageous, and utterly compelling” (Time Out). David Thomson Lecture Film critic and historian David Thomson will give a fifty-minute lecture on the nature of the film noir genre prior to the film and then lead a post-screening discussion with the audience. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Zone of Interest Audio Description Closed Captioned Film Sunday, June 16, 2024 7:00 PM The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer, Poland, United Kingdom, United States, 2023, (105 mins) Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and Academy Awards for Best International Feature and Best Sound Audio Description Closed Captioned Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Jonathan Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity. Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	17	18	19 7:00 PM All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Film Wednesday, June 19, 2024 7:00 PM All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Raven Jackson, United States, 2023, (92 mins) A lyrical exploration across a woman’s life in Mississippi, the feature debut from award-winning poet, photographer, and filmmaker Raven Jackson is a richly layered portrait. One of the film’s producers is Barry Jenkins. Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 7:00 PM–10:00 PM In a Lonely Place Film In-Person Thursday, June 20, 2024 7:00 PM–10:00 PM In a Lonely Place Nicholas Ray, United States, 1950, (94 mins) Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame forge a fragile romance in Hollywood. “Never were despair and solitude so romantically alluring” (Time Out). 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. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	21 7:00 PM About Dry Grasses Film Friday, June 21, 2024 7:00 PM About Dry Grasses Nuri Bilge Ceylan, France, Germany, Turkey, 2023, (198 mins) Nestled away in the wintry East Anatolia region of Turkey, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22 7:00 PM Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe & Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers Film In-Person Saturday, June 22, 2024 7:00 PM Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe & Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (73 mins) The people interviewed in Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers are beautiful, natural, and full of zest for life. With Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, the result of Herzog’s lost bet with Errol Morris. 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. In Conversation Maureen Gosling Gary Meyer Gary Meyer cofounded Landmark Theatres, starting with Berkeley’s UC Theater. He publishes EatDrinkFilms.com. L. John Harris L. John Harris is an artist, writer, and garlic enthusiast based in Berkeley. Alice Waters Alice Waters is a celebrated chef, restaurateur, author, and owner of Chez Panisse. Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS
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23 3:00 PM Castle in the Sky Film Sunday, June 23, 2024 3:00 PM Castle in the Sky Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1986, (124 mins) Original Japanese version Two children become caught up in a race against both good-natured aerial pirates and ruthless government agents to claim the secrets of the castle in the sky in this tale inspired by Jules Verne and Gulliver’s Travels. Series Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 6:00 PM–9:00 PM Out of the Past Film In-Person Sunday, June 23, 2024 6:00 PM–9:00 PM Out of the Past Jacques Tourneur, United States, 1947, (97 mins) 35mm Archival Print Jacques Tourneur infuses Out of the Past with all the edginess we demand of noir and bookends it with pastoral imagery and grace. “A lasting joy” (David Thomson). 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. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	24	25	26 7:00 PM The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane Film In-Person Wednesday, June 26, 2024 7:00 PM The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane Maureen Gosling, United States, 2023, (107 mins) For decades Barbara Dane lent her stellar singing voice to social-justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond, garnering an impressive FBI file along the way. “A true unsung hero of American music” (Boston Globe). 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. In Person Maureen Gosling Jed Riffe Jed Riffe is the producer of The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane. Nina Menéndez Nina Menéndez is an executive producer of The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane. Series Special Screenings SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	27 7:00 PM Phantom Lady Film Thursday, June 27, 2024 7:00 PM Phantom Lady Robert Siodmak, United States, 1944, (87 mins) Robert Siodmak swathes a Cornell Woolrich mystery in Expressionist shadow. Phantom Lady is Siodmak’s masterpiece. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	28 7:00 PM I Went to the Dance Film In-Person Friday, June 28, 2024 7:00 PM I Went to the Dance Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz, Maureen Gosling, United States, 1989, (115 mins) Digital Restoration “Les Blank was fascinated by the rural and small-town culture of southern Louisiana, making several documentaries throughout the 1970s and ’80s. The crowning achievement was I Went to the Dance” (G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle). With Yum, Yum, Yum! In Conversation Maureen Gosling Suzy Thompson Suzy Thompson is a musician specializing in Southern old-time, Cajun, blues, and fiddle tunes. She and Eric Thompson helped found and recorded with the award-winning California Cajun Orchestra. Eric Thompson Eric Thompson is a guitarist who, along with Suzy Thompson, has worked with notable Cajun musicians, including Ann Savoy, Blake Miller, and Jimmy Breaux. Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29 4:30 PM Ponyo Film Saturday, June 29, 2024 4:30 PM Ponyo Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2008, (103 mins) Original Japanese version In this ecstatic fairy tale inspired by The Little Mermaid, a five-year-old boy finds a goldfish that transforms into a little girl, the irrepressible Ponyo. Series Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Nostalghia Film Saturday, June 29, 2024 7:00 PM Nostalghia Andrei Tarkovsky, Italy, USSR, 1983, (125 mins) Digital Restoration Andrei Tarkovsky’s breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film’s title describes. “Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman). Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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30 5:00 PM Mildred Pierce Film Sunday, June 30, 2024 5:00 PM Mildred Pierce Michael Curtiz, United States, 1945, (111 mins) Digital Restoration Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her driven performance in this noir melodrama that exposed the nightmare side of upward mobility and domestic virtue. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1	2	3 7:00 PM About Dry Grasses Film Wednesday, July 3, 2024 7:00 PM About Dry Grasses Nuri Bilge Ceylan, France, Germany, Turkey, 2023, (198 mins) Nestled away in the wintry East Anatolia region of Turkey, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. Series Special Screenings Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	4 4:00 PM Always for Pleasure Film In-Person Thursday, July 4, 2024 4:00 PM Always for Pleasure Les Blank, United States, 1978, (115 mins) Immerse yourself in the festivities of America’s most festive city, New Orleans. Preceded and followed by portraits of jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Afro-Cuban drummer Francisco Aguabella. In Conversation Maureen Gosling Chris Simon Chris Simon is a documentary filmmaker who spent seventeen years producing the films of Les Blank. John Santos John Santos is a multi-Grammy-nominated percussionist, prolific Afro-Latin band leader, composer, teacher, writer, and producer who has worked with acknowledged masters like Cachao, Dizzy Gillespie, T Harrod Blank Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	5 7:00 PM The Killers Film Friday, July 5, 2024 7:00 PM The Killers Robert Siodmak, United States, 1946, (103 mins) Digital Restoration This blood-pulsing noir is based on a story by Ernest Hemingway and costars Ava Gardner and Edmond O’Brien. “Burt Lancaster is the center of the story—a hero going numb with sadness, just like Hemingway’s forlorn Swede” (David Thomson). 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. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	6 5:00 PM Porco Rosso Film Saturday, July 6, 2024 5:00 PM Porco Rosso Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1992, (93 mins) Original Japanese version A (literally) pig-headed pilot hunts air pirates over the late 1920s Adriatic Sea in this wartime adventure. “As beautifully drawn and colored as anything [Hayao Miyazaki]’s done” (Mike Hale, New York Times). 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. Series Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Blue Dahlia Film Saturday, July 6, 2024 7:00 PM The Blue Dahlia George Marshall, United States, 1946, (100 mins) A masterpiece of the genre, full of atmosphere, this complex tale of blackmail and murder is based on a Raymond Chandler script and stars Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. 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. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS