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30 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, June 30, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Art Tours Sunday, June 30, 2024 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration 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. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 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 All Day Free First Thursdays Art Families Free Thursday, July 4, 2024 All Day Free First Thursdays First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, July 4, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Art Tours Thursday, July 4, 2024 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration 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. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 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 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 5, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 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 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 6, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 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
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7 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 7, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Intro to Risograph Workshop with Alayna Tinney Art Workshop Sunday, July 7, 2024 1:00 PM Intro to Risograph Workshop with Alayna Tinney Space is limited; RSVP required Join local artist and Art Lab facilitator Alayna Tinney for a beginner friendly dive into risograph printing. You will be given the chance to create a multimedia drawing or collage and turn it into a one-color risograph print using the machine’s manual printing option. Space is limited; RSVP required Series Workshops SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Closing Day Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection Art Tours Sunday, July 7, 2024 2:00 PM Closing Day Exhibition Tour: What Has Been and What Could Be: The BAMPFA Collection On the closing day of What Has Been and What Could Be, a graduate student in art history offers a tour of the exhibition. Included with admission Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists Film In-Person Sunday, July 7, 2024 4:00 PM The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon, United States, 1994, (85 mins) A pair of films that celebrate individuality and creativity: The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists, a portrait of local artist Gerald Gaxiola; preceded by Gap-Toothed Women, which addresses issues of beauty, womanhood, and personal fulfillment. In Conversation Maureen Gosling Chris Simon Gerald Gaxiola Harrod Blank Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	8	9	10 7:00 PM The Big Clock Film Wednesday, July 10, 2024 7:00 PM The Big Clock John Farrow, United States, 1948, (93 mins) 35mm Archival Print “Fraught with suspense, twisting its unique plot and characters to a clever and frightening conclusion” (James Monaco). Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	11 7:00 PM The Maltese Falcon Film Thursday, July 11, 2024 7:00 PM The Maltese Falcon John Huston, United States, 1941, (100 mins) 35mm Archival Print An undisputed classic. “A work of entertainment so skillfully constructed that after many years and many viewings it has the same brittle explosiveness . . . that it had in its first run” (Pauline Kael). 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	12 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 12, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM A Fistful of Dollars Film Friday, July 12, 2024 7:00 PM A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone, Italy, 1964, (99 mins) This first “spaghetti” Western features a lanky Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name, an itinerant gunslinger who finds himself in a beat-up border town ruled over by two ruthless clans. Ennio Morricone’s bravura mix of surf guitar, gongs, and rustic choir only adds to the delirium of this virtuosic oater filled with tumbleweed nihilism. Carmine-Emanuele Cella Prerecorded Video Introduction Prerecorded video introduction by Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Associate Professor in Music and Technology at UC Berkeley, where he is also lead researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technology. Series Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	13 11:30 AM–1:00 PM We Go: Ancestors Go Where the Indigo Flow Activity Art Families Saturday, July 13, 2024 11:30 AM–1:00 PM We Go: Ancestors Go Where the Indigo Flow For ages six to twelve with accompanying adult(s) Trace a migratory history by combining meaningful images and objects into an expressive tapestry made on indigo-dyed canvas. Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under Janaé "Jaee" Sumter Workshop led by Janaé "Jaee" Sumter hails from New Orleans and has migrated to Houston, Atlanta, New York, China, California, and Oaxaca, Mexico. They hold a BA from Spelman College and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 13, 2024 1 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Roundtable Reading: Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere by Elise Gravel Families Saturday, July 13, 2024 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Roundtable Reading: Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere by Elise Gravel Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s) Meet Olga, the amazing child scientist who loves everything about animals and their habits, and follow along as her curiosity drives her to discover a whole new species. Included with admission: Free for kids 18 and under and for one adult per child 13 and under Vickie Price Reading led by librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District Series Family Events Google Calendar ICS 5:00 PM My Neighbor Totoro Film Saturday, July 13, 2024 5:00 PM My Neighbor Totoro Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1988, (87 mins) Original Japanese version My Neighbor Totoro also screens Sunday, August 25. 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. 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 Chulas fronteras Film In-Person Saturday, July 13, 2024 7:00 PM Chulas fronteras Les Blank, Chris Strachwitz, United States, 1976, (91 mins) Digital Restoration While previously scheduled to be in person, Harrod Blank will not be appearing for this screening. Swing along with some of the greats of Mexican American music in Les Blank’s two bouncy 1970s affectionate tributes to the vivacity of Chicano culture, Chulas fronteras and Del mero corazón, both even more vibrant now thanks to new 4K digital remasters. With Good Morning, Aztlán. Maureen Gosling In Person Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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14 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 14, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Art Tours Sunday, July 14, 2024 2:00 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration 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. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Film Sunday, July 14, 2024 4:30 PM Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1984, (116 mins) BAMPFA Collection Original Japanese version In Hayao Miyazaki’s stirring animated epic, a girl who is both soldier and scientist seeks to reconcile the last remnants of her still-warring species with the monstrous biological order overtaking Earth. 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 Lizards Film Sunday, July 14, 2024 7:00 PM The Lizards Lina Wertmüller, Italy, 1963, (85 mins) New 4K Digital Restoration Ennio Morricone’s inventive score for his first “auteur film” adds a wry, poignant atmosphere to Lina Wertmüller’s chronicle of the suffocating structures of small-town life in the south of Italy. Series Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	15	16	17 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Art Tours Wednesday, July 17, 2024 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration 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. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Laura Film Wednesday, July 17, 2024 7:00 PM Laura Otto Preminger, United States, 1944, (88 mins) Detective Dana Andrews is enthralled by a portrait of elusive Gene Tierney in Otto Preminger’s sleek noir, a study in duplicity that asks not just whodunit, but what “it” is. Featuring Clifton Webb and Vincent Price as preening rivals. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	18 7:00 PM Sunset Blvd. Film Thursday, July 18, 2024 7:00 PM Sunset Blvd. Billy Wilder, United States, 1950, (110 mins) Fledgling screenwriter William Holden stumbles into the mansion of faded silent-film superstar Gloria Swanson in Billy Wilder’s poison pen letter to Hollywood. Winner of three Academy Awards. 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	19 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 19, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Ornamental Hairpin Film Friday, July 19, 2024 7:00 PM Ornamental Hairpin Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan, 1941, (71 mins) 35mm Archival Print Yasujiro Ozu regular Chishu Ryu and legendary actress/director Kinuyo Tanaka star in Hiroshi Shimizu’s elegiac tale of two strangers brought together by fate at a mountain onsen resort. Series Hiroshi Shimizu: Notes of an Itinerant Director Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	20 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 20, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM All in This Tea Film In-Person Saturday, July 20, 2024 4:30 PM All in This Tea Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht, United States, 2007, (70 mins) Follow tea importer David Lee Hoffman as he travels through China in search of handcrafted premium teas. “An entertaining portrait of an eccentric figure whose singular passion proves infectious” (Hollywood Reporter). In Conversation Gina Leibrecht David Lee Hoffman Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM For a Few Dollars More Film Saturday, July 20, 2024 7:00 PM For a Few Dollars More 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. Series Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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21 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 21, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:30 PM Kiki’s Delivery Service Film Sunday, July 21, 2024 4:30 PM Kiki’s Delivery Service Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 1989, (102 mins) Original Japanese version Thirteen-year-old witch Kiki leaves home and discovers a soaring independence as she masters her mother’s broom, even as she grapples with the same insecurities that trouble all adolescents. 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 Mr. Thank You Film Sunday, July 21, 2024 7:00 PM Mr. Thank You Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan, 1936, (76 mins) 35mm Archival Print "Mr. Thank You is the driver of a bus chugging its way through the hills and villages of rural Japan. Shooting entirely on location, [Hiroshi] Shimizu merrily tracks along the winding paths. Irresistible” (National Film Theatre, London). Series Hiroshi Shimizu: Notes of an Itinerant Director Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	22	23	24 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Art Tours Wednesday, July 24, 2024 12:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration 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. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Battle of Algiers Film Wednesday, July 24, 2024 7:00 PM The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo, Italy, 1966, (121 mins) New 4K Digital Restoration One of the best films on revolution ever made, Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic concerns Algeria’s struggle for independence against French occupation. Ennio Morricone and Pontecorvo’s pan flute theme for the revolutionary Ali suggests the breath, body, and humanity of the people’s struggle. 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. Carmine-Emanuele Cella Prerecorded Video Introduction Carmine-Emanuele Cella is Associate Professor in Music and Technology at UC Berkeley, where he is also lead researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technology. Series Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS	25 7:00 PM Criss Cross Film Thursday, July 25, 2024 7:00 PM Criss Cross Robert Siodmak, United States, 1949, (87 mins) Digital Restoration Burt Lancaster and Yvonne De Carlo are caught in a “criss cross” of obsession and betrayal in Robert Siodmak’s compelling noir of double-dealings and a stylishly enacted armored car heist that takes all involved to the very brink. Series Film Noir Classics: America’s Dark Dreams Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	26 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, July 26, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Daisies Film Friday, July 26, 2024 7:00 PM Daisies 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. Series Something Different: The Films of Věra Chytilová Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	27 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, July 27, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM Burden of Dreams Film In-Person Saturday, July 27, 2024 4:00 PM Burden of Dreams Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, United States, 1982, (94 mins) Bay Area premiere of 4K Digital Restoration Bay Area premiere of the new 4K restoration, Burden of Dreams documents Werner Herzog’s obsessive four-year struggle to complete his 1982 film, Fitzcarraldo. Named by Derek Malcolm (The Guardian) as one of the best one hundred films of the twentieth century. 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 Harrod Blank Anthony Matt Film archivist Anthony Matt is responsible for the restoration of Burden of Dreams as well as many of the recently remastered Les Blank films. Series Les Blank: A Life Well Spent SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Forget Love for Now Film Saturday, July 27, 2024 7:00 PM Forget Love for Now Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan, 1937, (73 mins) A single mother turned bar hostess struggles to raise her son in the face of social condemnation and economic exploitation in this set-bound, fog-drenched noir of sinister alleyways, Art Deco nightclubs, and maternal duty. Series Hiroshi Shimizu: Notes of an Itinerant Director Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS
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28 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Sunday, July 28, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:00 PM Papermaking with Julia Goodman Art Workshop Sunday, July 28, 2024 1:00 PM Papermaking with Julia Goodman Space is limited; RSVP required Join local artist Julia Goodman to learn to use deckle boxes, colored recycled paper, kitchen blenders, and water to make your own paper. This workshop is full. Series Workshops SOLD OUT Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM Howl’s Moving Castle Film Sunday, July 28, 2024 4:00 PM Howl’s Moving Castle Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2004, (120 mins) Original Japanese version In an intricately rendered European storybook land, Sophie must help the mysterious magician Howl end both his own curse and an all-too-real war. 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 6:30 PM Fists in the Pocket Film Sunday, July 28, 2024 6:30 PM Fists in the Pocket Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 1965, (108 mins) Marco Bellocchio’s “urgent, impulsive” depiction of a murderously dysfunctional bourgeois family is accompanied by the eerie bells, strings, organ, and vocals of Ennio Morricone’s score. Series Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	29	30	31 7:00 PM A Hero of Tokyo Film Wednesday, July 31, 2024 7:00 PM A Hero of Tokyo Hiroshi Shimizu, Japan, 1935, (63 mins) 35mm Archival Print A woman turns to operating a hostess bar in order to save her children from poverty, only to find her secrets revealed, in Hiroshi Shimizu’s melodrama, tinged with social critique and noirish influences. Series Hiroshi Shimizu: Notes of an Itinerant Director Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	1 All Day Free First Thursdays Art Families Free Thursday, August 1, 2024 All Day Free First Thursdays First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day. Google Calendar ICS 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Thursday, August 1, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration Art Tours Thursday, August 1, 2024 1:15 PM Exhibition Tour: A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration 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. Series Exhibition Tours Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM A Fistful of Dollars Film Thursday, August 1, 2024 7:00 PM A Fistful of Dollars Sergio Leone, Italy, 1964, (99 mins) This first “spaghetti” Western features a lanky Clint Eastwood as The Man with No Name, an itinerant gunslinger who finds himself in a beat-up border town ruled over by two ruthless clans. Ennio Morricone’s bravura mix of surf guitar, gongs, and rustic choir only adds to the delirium of this virtuosic oater filled with tumbleweed nihilism. Carmine-Emanuele Cella Prerecorded Video Introduction Prerecorded video introduction by Carmine-Emanuele Cella, Associate Professor in Music and Technology at UC Berkeley, where he is also lead researcher at the Center for New Music and Audio Technology. Series Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	2 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Friday, August 2, 2024 2 PM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM Something Different Film Friday, August 2, 2024 7:00 PM Something Different Věra Chytilová, Czechoslovakia, 1963, (84 mins) Věra Chytilová’s debut feature intercuts the lives of its two female protagonists—a professional gymnast and a restless housewife—who never meet but share a similarly tracked existence. “An unsung landmark of feminist cinema” (BAMcinématek). Series Something Different: The Films of Věra Chytilová Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS	3 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab Activity Art Families Saturday, August 3, 2024 11 AM–7 PM Open: Art Lab 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. Series Workshops Google Calendar ICS 4:00 PM The Wind Rises Audio Description Closed Captioned Film Saturday, August 3, 2024 4:00 PM The Wind Rises 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. Series Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Cinema Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS 7:00 PM The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Film Saturday, August 3, 2024 7:00 PM The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 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. Series Made in Italy: Morricone, Leone, and More Buy Tickets Google Calendar ICS