Week of July 2, 2017

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Sunday, July 2

Sunday, July 2, 2017
11 AM-7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Sunday, July 2, 2017
4:30 PM
Julien Duvivier,
France,
1947,

New Digital Restoration

Duvivier’s long-unseen Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite” (Village Voice).
Sunday, July 2, 2017
6:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1954,
(208 mins)
A ragtag group of samurai band together to protect a village from bandits in Kurosawa’s masterpiece, often cited as one of the ten best films ever made.
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Wednesday, July 5

Wednesday, July 5, 2017
7 PM
Fritz Lang,
United States,
1953,
(90 mins)

Based on “The Gardenia” by Vera Caspary

Switchboard operator flatmates Anne Baxter, Ann Sothern, and Jeff Donnell mix with predatory sketch artist Raymond Burr and cynical newspaperman Richard Conte in  Lang’s combination of women’s picture and film noir.

Thursday, July 6

Thursday, July 6, 2017
12:15 PM
Free admission; no advance reservation required
Thursday, July 6, 2017
4–7 PM
Drop by our art study centers on Free First Thursday and get an up-close view of treasures from the BAMPFA collection.
Free admission
Thursday, July 6, 2017
4–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Thursday, July 6, 2017
7 PM
Steven Okazaki,
United States,
2016,
(80 mins)
Oscar-winning Bay Area filmmaker Steven Okazaki pays tribute to the ferocious charisma and larger-than-life talents of the great Mifune in this supremely entertaining documentary.
  • Steven Okazaki
    In Person
Thursday, July 6, 2017
All Day
Galleries free all day.
Admission free

Friday, July 7

Friday, July 7, 2017
4–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Friday, July 7, 2017
7 PM
Jean-Pierre Melville,
France,
1966,
(145 mins)

Imported Print

Aging gangster Lino Ventura escapes from jail but winds up being sucked into one last heist in Melville’s well-drilled policier.
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Saturday, July 8

Saturday, July 8, 2017
11:30 AM
Get inspired by Charles Howard’s dreamlike paintings, then make your own surreal compositions.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Free for kids plus one adult
  • Beth Krebs
    Artist in person
    Beth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
1 PM
Get inspired by Charles Howard’s dreamlike paintings, then make your own surreal compositions.
Ages 6 to 12 with accompanying adult(s)
Free for kids plus one adult
  • Beth Krebs
    Artist in person
    Beth Krebs is an artist and educator with an MFA from Rutgers University.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
1:30 PM
The curator of Divine Visions, Earthly Pleasures explores the intersection of Indian painting and music.
Included with admission
Saturday, July 8, 2017
2:30–9 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Included with admission
Saturday, July 8, 2017
3 PM
A special musical performance in conjunction with Divine Visions, Earthy Pleasures: Five Hundred Years of Indian Painting.
Included with admission
Saturday, July 8, 2017
3 PM
Read the beginning of this graphic novel about sisters on a road trip from San Francisco to Colorado and pick up a copy to keep reading at home.
Recommended for ages 8 and up (younger kids welcome as listeners)
Free for kids plus one adult
  • Jennifer Gordon
    Reading led by
    Jennifer Gordon is a librarian at Malcolm X Elementary School, Berkeley.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
6:30 PM
Margy Kinmonth,
United Kingdom,
2016,
(85 mins)
“Stunning research and archive footage conjures Revolutionary Russia and the courage of artists in the avant-garde” (State Magazine).
Saturday, July 8, 2017
8:30 PM
Akira Kurosawa,
Japan,
1955,
(100 mins)
Mifune gives a daring performance as an eccentric patriarch with a neurotic fear of the atomic bomb. “The final effect is overwhelming, and perhaps Kurosawa’s most sweeping statement on the human condition” (Film Forum).