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    4:00 PM
    Sunday, July 28, 2024
    4:00 PM
    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.

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    6:30 PM
    Sunday, July 28, 2024
    6:30 PM
    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.
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    7:00 PM
    Wednesday, July 31, 2024
    7:00 PM
    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.
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    7:00 PM
    Thursday, August 1, 2024
    7:00 PM
    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.
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    7:00 PM
    Friday, August 2, 2024
    7:00 PM
    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).
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    4:00 PM
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    Saturday, August 3, 2024
    4:00 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.

    Saturday, August 3, 2024
    7:00 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.
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    Sunday, August 4, 2024
    4:30 PM
    Hiroshi Shimizu,
    Japan,
    1941,
    (98 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

     

    A wandering performer is welcomed into the home of a tea merchant but must fight for the family’s business after his death, in Hiroshi Shimizu’s classic melodrama of social obligation and women’s sacrifice.
    7:00 PM
    Sunday, August 4, 2024
    7:00 PM
    Robert Aldrich,
    United States,
    1955,
    (106 mins)
    Robert Aldrich melts down the B detective thriller into a vision of Armageddon in Los Angeles. Ralph Meeker is Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer. Hard-edged and savage, Kiss Me Deadly lifts the lid on 1950s apocalypse.
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    Wednesday, August 7, 2024
    7:00 PM
    Elio Petri,
    Italy,
    1968,
    (105 mins)
    Featuring art by Jim Dine and music by Ennio Morricone and the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, Elio Petri’s Giallo ghost story chronicles the declining mental health of a successful modern painter.
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    7:00 PM
    Thursday, August 8, 2024
    7:00 PM
    Stanley Kubrick,
    United States,
    1956,
    (84 mins)
    Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Stanley Kubrick’s high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader).

    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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    7:00 PM
    Friday, August 9, 2024
    7:00 PM
    Hiroshi Shimizu,
    Japan,
    1937,
    (88 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Two brothers are separated when their father is falsely arrested in one of Hiroshi Shimizu’s most beloved films, shot in a variety of outdoor locations and filled with the director’s sweetly observational approach.
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    4:00 PM
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    Saturday, August 10, 2024
    4:00 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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    7:00 PM
    Saturday, August 10, 2024
    7:00 PM
    Věra Chytilová,
    Czechoslovakia,
    1970,
    (99 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Adam and Eve are seduced by Satan in an Eastern European health spa in Věra Chytilová’s companion piece to Daisies, an inventive union of allegory, feminism, and the avant-garde, often compared to Federico Fellini’s Satyricon and the films of Sergei Parajanov.
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    Sunday, August 11, 2024
    3:00 PM
    Hiroshi Shimizu,
    Japan,
    1939,
    (142 mins)

    35mm Archival Print

    Two young protagonists weather the death of their father and the changes of the four seasons in Hiroshi Shimizu’s follow-up to his beloved Children in the Wind. With a lyricism that “looks forward to early Satyajit Ray” (John Gillett).
    Sunday, August 11, 2024
    6:00 PM
    Sergio Leone,
    Italy,
    1968,
    (165 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.
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    Wednesday, August 14, 2024
    7:00 PM
    (105 mins)
    A rare chance to see Věra Chytilová’s earliest shorts, which explore anarchy, individualism, and surrealist allegory. Titles include Ceiling, A Bagful of Fleas, and her contribution to the Czech New Wave omnibus Pearls of the Deep, Automat Svět.
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    7:00 PM
    Thursday, August 15, 2024
    7:00 PM
    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.
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    Friday, August 16, 2024
    7:00 PM
    Hiroshi Shimizu,
    Japan,
    1948,
    (86 mins)
    A group of orphans and a returning veteran search for jobs across a scarred postwar Japan in Hiroshi Shimizu’s remarkable work of Japanese neorealism, filmed entirely on location—including in a Hiroshima still marked by the atomic bomb.
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    4:00 PM
    Saturday, August 17, 2024
    4:00 PM
    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.

    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 17, 2024
    7:00 PM
    Elio Petri,
    Italy,
    1970,
    (115 mins)
    Winner of the Special Jury Prize and the International Critics’ Prize at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, Elio Petri’s still-timely tale of a corrupt police investigator is kept abuzz with the modernist twinges of Ennio Morricone’s unforgettable compositions.
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    4:30 PM
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    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.
    7:00 PM
    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.”
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    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.”
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    7:00 PM
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    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.
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    7:00 PM
    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.
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    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.
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    1:00 PM
    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.
    3:00 PM
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    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.
    5:30 PM
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    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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    7:00 PM
    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.
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    7:00 PM
    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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    5:00 PM
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    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.
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    3:00 PM
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    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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