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A listing of tours and conversations with contemporary artists and filmmakers, curators’ talks, musical performances, lectures, and special events coming up at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA).
July – August 2008
Monthly Events
First Impressions: Free First Thursdays at BAM/PFA
Infatuation, discovery, surprise, epiphany — all start with a first impression. Get acquainted with an inspiring world of art on the first Thursday of every month, when admission to the museum galleries is free for everyone.
Free Admission in August!
There will be free admission to the BAM Galleries from Wednesday, August 6, through Sunday, September 7. During this period the museum features the exhibitions Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky (in the MATRIX Gallery through September 14) and Scott Snibbe: Falling Girl (at the Durant entrance through August 31). Other galleries will be closed to prepare for the major exhibition Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, opening on September 10.
Events Listed by Calendar Date
Thursday, July 3
FREE FIRST THURSDAY!
Sunday, July 6
Exhibition Closes: MATRIX/REDUX
Screening — Steamboat Bill, Jr., with Judith Rosenberg on Piano
5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Set along the Mississippi, “Buster Keaton’s most entertaining balance of the instinctual and the cerebral.”—Village Voice. Part of the PFA Series United Artists: 90 Years.
Sunday, July 20
Exhibitions Close: Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things and Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed
Screening — The Thief of Bagdad, with Judith Rosenberg on Piano
4:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckles through fantastic sets in “one of the most rousing adventures of the silent era.”—Time Out N.Y. Part of the PFA Series United Artists: 90 Years.
Friday, August 1
Screening — Dark Passage, with Introduction by Writer Barry Gifford
7:00 p.m., PFA Theater
A prison escapee has plastic surgery and turns out to be Humphrey Bogart. Delmer Daves experiments with a subjective camera in this S.F.-set noir. With Lauren Bacall. Part of the PFA Series Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis.
Saturday, August 2
Screening — Shoot the Piano Player, with Introduction by Writer Mike White
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
A brand-new print of Truffaut’s frolicsome yet faithful genre pastiche, starring a hangdog Charles Aznavour. Repeated on August 5. Part of the PFA Series Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis and The Long View: A Celebration of Widescreen.
Sunday, August 3
Exhibitions Close: Jim Campbell: Home Movies; Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens; James Lee Byars: The Perfect Audience; Held Rectangles; The Graphic Arts Loan Collection at UC Berkeley: 50 Years; and Hans Hoffman
Screening — Broken Blossoms, with Judith Rosenberg on Piano
5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Waif Lillian Gish takes shelter with a Chinese immigrant in D. W. Griffith’s delicate melodrama. Part of the PFA Series United Artists: 90 Years.
Wednesday, August 6
FREE ADMISSION begins for the MATRIX exhibition Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky and continues through the closing of the exhibition on September 14.
Thursday, August 7
Screening — Nightfall, with Introduction by Writer Eddie Muller
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Jacques Tourneur’s noir unravels fall guy Aldo Ray’s paranoid past. With stunning outdoor cinematography by Burnett Guffey. Part of the PFA Series Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis.
Screening — The Burglar, with Introduction by Writer Eddie Muller
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
A miasma of incestuous desire hangs over thief Dan Duryea and sister Jayne Mansfield in Goodis’s pulpy plot. Part of the PFA Series Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis.
Thursday, August 21
Screening — The Professional Man x Two, with Filmmaker Nicholas Kazan in Person
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Kazan and Steven Soderbergh directed two totally different TV takes on the same Goodis story. Part of the PFA Series Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis.
Saturday, August 23
Screening — Moon in the Gutter, with Introduction by former Roxie Cinema Programmer Elliot Lavine
6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Jean-Jacques Beineix evokes Goodis’s murky and haunted world with sinister artifice. Starring Gérard Depardieu and Nastassia Kinski. Part of the PFA Series Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis and The Long View: A Celebration of Widescreen.
Sunday, August 31
Exhibition Closes: Scott Snibbe: Falling Girl
BAM Exhibitions
MATRIX/REDUX
Through July 6
Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
Through July 20
Parting the Curtain: Asian Art Revealed
Through July 20
Jim Campbell: Home Movies
Through August 3
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens
Through August 3
James Lee Byars: The Perfect Audience
Through August 3
Hans Hofmann
Through August 3
The Graphic Arts Loan Collection at UC Berkeley: 50 Years
Through August 3
Held Rectangles
Through August 3
Scott Snibbe: Falling Girl
Through August 31
Trevor Paglen: The Other Night Sky
MATRIX 225
Through September 14
For complete descriptions of the exhibitions listed above, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu.
PFA Film Series
United Artists: 90 Years
July 5 – August 31
Hecho por México: The Films of Gabriel Figueroa
July 10 – August 9
The Long View: A Celebration of Widescreen
July 16 – August 30
Streets of No Return: The Dark Cinema of David Goodis
August 1 – 23
Manoel de Oliveira: Talking Pictures
August 9 – September 28
For complete descriptions of the film series listed above, please visit bampfa.berkeley.edu.
Support
Programs at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Packard Humanities Institute, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Henry Luce Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Columbia Foundation, The Christensen Fund, and other private foundations, corporations, government agencies, and individuals, including the BAM/PFA membership. Major endowment support has been provided by the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation and by George Gund III.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum Galleries and Museum Theater
Location:
2626 Bancroft Way, just below College Avenue near the UC Berkeley campus
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
Gallery Admission Prices:
Free BAM/PFA members; UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty; and children under 12
$8 Adults (18 – 64)
$5 Seniors, disabled persons, non–UC Berkeley students, and young adults (13 – 17)
Admission is free on the first Thursday of each month.
Admission to education programs is included in museum admission unless otherwise indicated.
Recorded Information (24-hour): (510) 642-0808
TTY: (510) 642-8734
Website: bampfa.berkeley.edu
Pacific Film Archive Theater
Location:
2575 Bancroft Way, between College and Telegraph on the UC Berkeley campus.
Theater Admission Prices:
Single Feature
$5.50 BAM/PFA members, UC Berkeley students
$9.50 Adults (18 – 64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley staff and faculty, non–UC Berkeley students, seniors, disabled persons, youth (17 & under)
Additional Feature
$4 All patrons
Box Office Hours: The box opens office one hour before the first showtime of the day.
Purchase PFA tickets online at: bampfa.berkeley.edu
Charge-by-Phone: (510) 642-5249
Recorded Information (24-hour): (510) 642-1124
TTY: (510) 642-8734
Website: bampfa.berkeley.edu
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