Films
Saturday, June 1, 2019
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Film - Feature | June 1 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1969, Roger Ebert proclaimed Sergei Bondarchuks War and Peace the definitive epic of all time, and no film has come along since to contradict that assessment. Bondarchuk undertook the adaptation of the revered Russian novel with all the resources of the Soviet state at his disposal, including priceless museum artifacts as props and literal armies of extras. He also drew on a full arsenal of... More >
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Film - Feature | June 1 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1969, Roger Ebert proclaimed Sergei Bondarchuks War and Peace the definitive epic of all time, and no film has come along since to contradict that assessment. Bondarchuk undertook the adaptation of the revered Russian novel with all the resources of the Soviet state at his disposal, including priceless museum artifacts as props and literal armies of extras. He also drew on a full arsenal of... More >
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Film - Feature | June 1 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The second part of Bondarchuks epic adaptation opens in 1807 as Napoleon and Tsar Alexander negotiate in Tilsit. Meanwhile, far from the world of politics, young Natasha attends a grand ball, waltzes with Prince Andrei, and is soon engaged to him. However, his protracted absence leaves the emotionally volatile Natasha vulnerable. The film features a remarkable wolf-hunting sequence where... More >

Sunday, June 2, 2019
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Film - Feature | June 2 | 2:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1969, Roger Ebert proclaimed Sergei Bondarchuks War and Peace the definitive epic of all time, and no film has come along since to contradict that assessment. Bondarchuk undertook the adaptation of the revered Russian novel with all the resources of the Soviet state at his disposal, including priceless museum artifacts as props and literal armies of extras. He also drew on a full arsenal of... More >
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky
Film - Feature | June 2 | 2:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1969, Roger Ebert proclaimed Sergei Bondarchuks War and Peace the definitive epic of all time, and no film has come along since to contradict that assessment. Bondarchuk undertook the adaptation of the revered Russian novel with all the resources of the Soviet state at his disposal, including priceless museum artifacts as props and literal armies of extras. He also drew on a full arsenal of... More >
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Film - Feature | June 2 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The second part of Bondarchuks epic adaptation opens in 1807 as Napoleon and Tsar Alexander negotiate in Tilsit. Meanwhile, far from the world of politics, young Natasha attends a grand ball, waltzes with Prince Andrei, and is soon engaged to him. However, his protracted absence leaves the emotionally volatile Natasha vulnerable. The film features a remarkable wolf-hunting sequence where... More >
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart: Documentaries at Doe
Film - Documentary | June 4 | 3-4:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library
Documentary about the visionary playwright who authored the groundbreaking A Raisin in the Sun and the story of Hansberry's battle against racial injustice and fight for human rights and women's equality. Written and directed by by Tracy Heather Strain.

Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Film - Feature | June 5 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleons armies are crossing into Russia. Nobles discuss politics at their opulent tables as violence rages elsewhere. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through yet another brush with death. Bondarchuk moves between the... More >

Thursday, June 6, 2019
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Film - Feature | June 6 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As Part IV begins, the Russian army is in retreat, and Moscow soon goes up in flames (a stunning display of film pyrotechnics). Pierre is drawn fully into the conflict at last; taken prisoner, he is witness to new cruelties. Andrei and Natasha reach a kind of peace, and as war recedes and Moscow rebuilds, life and love begin again. The series concludes where it started, with the words: If evil... More >

Saturday, June 8, 2019
War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (Voyna i mir)
Film - Series | June 8 | 2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In 1969, Roger Ebert proclaimed Sergei Bondarchuks War and Peace the definitive epic of all time, and no film has come along since to contradict that assessment. Bondarchuk undertook the adaptation of the revered Russian novel with all the resources of the Soviet state at his disposal, including priceless museum artifacts as props and literal armies of extras. He also drew on a full arsenal of... More >
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812
Film - Feature | June 8 | 5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleons armies are crossing into Russia. Nobles discuss politics at their opulent tables as violence rages elsewhere. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through yet another brush with death. Bondarchuk moves between the... More >
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (Voyna i mir)
Film - Series | June 8 | 5:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleons armies are crossing into Russia. Nobles discuss politics at their opulent tables as violence rages elsewhere. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through yet another brush with death. Bondarchuk moves between the... More >
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov
Film - Feature | June 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As Part IV begins, the Russian army is in retreat, and Moscow soon goes up in flames (a stunning display of film pyrotechnics). Pierre is drawn fully into the conflict at last; taken prisoner, he is witness to new cruelties. Andrei and Natasha reach a kind of peace, and as war recedes and Moscow rebuilds, life and love begin again. The series concludes where it started, with the words: If evil... More >
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (Voyna i mir)
Film - Series | June 8 | 7:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As Part IV begins, the Russian army is in retreat, and Moscow soon goes up in flames (a stunning display of film pyrotechnics). Pierre is drawn fully into the conflict at last; taken prisoner, he is witness to new cruelties. Andrei and Natasha reach a kind of peace, and as war recedes and Moscow rebuilds, life and love begin again. The series concludes where it started, with the words: If evil... More >
Sunday, June 9, 2019
War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova
Film - Series | June 9 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The second part of Bondarchuks epic adaptation opens in 1807 as Napoleon and Tsar Alexander negotiate in Tilsit. Meanwhile, far from the world of politics, young Natasha attends a grand ball, waltzes with Prince Andrei, and is soon engaged to him. However, his protracted absence leaves the emotionally volatile Natasha vulnerable. The film features a remarkable wolf-hunting sequence where... More >

The Eyes of Orson Welles
Film - Feature | June 9 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Best known for his television documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, filmmaker Mark Cousins here adopts the form of a film essay, a letter from himself to Orson Welles. In this idiosyncratic and highly personal work, he muses on Welless life, career, and visual imagination. Cousins gained rare access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings made by Welles, and he uses these images to... More >
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Citizen Kane
Film - Feature | June 12 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Inventing modern cinema is a tough act to follow, Orson Welles remarked later in his career. Indeed, Rosebud may be the cinemas most beloved red herring, for the mystery of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is solved early onit is lonely at the topbut Citizen Kanes gothic, labyrinthine modernism remains its great mystery. Its as distanced as Kane himself, protecting the power of enigma... More >
Thursday, June 13, 2019
La réligieuse: (The Nun)
Film - Feature | June 13 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Banned for two years in France for its supposedly excessive attack on the Church, Rivettes adaptation of Denis Diderots famous novel of eighteenth-century convent life became a cause célèbre. Anna Karina plays a young woman, Suzanne, whose parents force her to enter a convent. The institution proves prisonlike and on a deeper level of individual repression, is revealed as an arena for sexual... More >
Stop Making Sense: Free Outdoor Screening!
Film - Feature | June 13 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Under the leadership of David Byrne, Talking Heads evolved from a prototypically cerebral New York art-rock band to a musically adventurous ensemble incorporating influences from funk, salsa, and world beat. Stop Making Sense captures the infectious energy of their live show while eschewing the MTV clichés of quick cuts, gratuitous crowd shots, and exploding smudge pots. From the opening chords... More >
Friday, June 14, 2019
Story of a Great Love: (Historia de un gran amor)
Film - Feature | June 14 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Brachos decades-spanning tale of two star-crossed lovers turns doomed romance into the highest of operatic entertainment, and showcases the charisma of legendary singer/actor Jorge Negrete, a.k.a. El Charro Cantor. A young boy watches his fathers life and fortune destroyed by an unscrupulous moneylender; hes aided first by a kindly priest, and then by the moneylenders daughter. But what... More >
Saturday, June 15, 2019
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 (Voyna i mir)
Film - Series | June 15 | 1:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Part III of War and Peace, the emphasis is on the war: it is 1812 and Napoleons armies are crossing into Russia. Nobles discuss politics at their opulent tables as violence rages elsewhere. Pierre visits the battlefield as a casual observer and finds himself in the midst of chaos, while Andrei rediscovers his love of life through yet another brush with death. Bondarchuk moves between the... More >
War and Peace, Part IV: Pierre Bezukhov (Voyna i mir)
Film - Series | June 15 | 3:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As Part IV begins, the Russian army is in retreat, and Moscow soon goes up in flames (a stunning display of film pyrotechnics). Pierre is drawn fully into the conflict at last; taken prisoner, he is witness to new cruelties. Andrei and Natasha reach a kind of peace, and as war recedes and Moscow rebuilds, life and love begin again. The series concludes where it started, with the words: If evil... More >
Transit
Film - Feature | June 15 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As a fascist occupation descends on France, refugeesincluding a German camp survivor who assumes a dead writers identity (Franz Rogowski) and the writers unwitting wife (Paula Beer)gather in the sunlit purgatory of Marseille, seeking passage out of an increasingly dangerous Europe. Its a classic scenario for a World War II thriller, but Christian Petzolds Transit is no period piece:... More >
King Creole
Film - Feature | June 15 | 8:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In Rock n Film, David E. James describes how Elvis movies transformed classic backstage musicals into rock n roll musicals by mobilizing his particular combination of a masculine outlaw aggressiveness and a feminine romantic vulnerability. Taking place in the streets and nightclubs of New Orleans, King Creole is the only Elvis film that attempted to articulate his complex relation to... More >
Sunday, June 16, 2019
The Eyes of Orson Welles
Film - Feature | June 16 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Best known for his television documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, filmmaker Mark Cousins here adopts the form of a film essay, a letter from himself to Orson Welles. In this idiosyncratic and highly personal work, he muses on Welless life, career, and visual imagination. Cousins gained rare access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings made by Welles, and he uses these images to... More >
Stop Making Sense
Film - Feature | June 16 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Under the leadership of David Byrne, Talking Heads evolved from a prototypically cerebral New York art-rock band to a musically adventurous ensemble incorporating influences from funk, salsa, and world beat. Stop Making Sense captures the infectious energy of their live show while eschewing the MTV clichés of quick cuts, gratuitous crowd shots, and exploding smudge pots. From the opening chords... More >
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Screening and Discussion: Welcome to the Neighborhood
Film - Short | June 19 | 12 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Mildred Howard, Artist; Leigh Raiford, Associate professor of African American studies, UC Berkeley; Lawrence Rinder, BAMPFA director and chief curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
We celebrate Juneteenth with a screening and discussion featuring artist Mildred Howard, whose work is on view in About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging. Following a presentation of the new documentary Welcome to the Neighborhood, the artist joins in conversation with Leigh Raiford, UC Berkeley associate professor of African American studies, and Lawrence Rinder, BAMPFA director and chief... More >
The Lady from Shanghai
Film - Feature | June 19 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Welles turned a mediocre novel into a brilliant film by overturning all the expectations of the crime thriller. Although the film remains an absorbing intriguethe story of a murder plan that unfolds as a yacht makes its luxurious way along the Pacificevery scene is a showcase for Welless cinematic inventiveness, and the whole adds up to a significant statement on the evils of money lust.... More >
Thursday, June 20, 2019
The Prairie Trilogy
Film - Feature | June 20 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
John Hanson and Rob Nilsson uncover a forgotten progressive history with this rousing trilogy of shorts on the life of North Dakota poet and socialist organizer Henry Martinson, that sunniest of radicals (Village Voice) who fought against economic exploitation from the 1900s to his death in 1981. Originally made between 1977 and 1980 as three separate films (Prairie Fire, Rebel Earth, and... More >
Friday, June 21, 2019
The Big Heat
Film - Feature | June 21 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the German Langsin Dr. Mabuse, Spies, Mone cant tell the cops from the robbers, and Lang was no less cynical in his Hollywood noirs. In The Big Heat, Glenn Ford gives a fine performance of inward obsession as a police detective who engages in a crusade against organized crime and police corruption. But the moral and magnetic center of the film is Gloria Grahame; as the girlfriend of a... More >
Transit
Film - Feature | June 21 | 8:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
As a fascist occupation descends on France, refugeesincluding a German camp survivor who assumes a dead writers identity (Franz Rogowski) and the writers unwitting wife (Paula Beer)gather in the sunlit purgatory of Marseille, seeking passage out of an increasingly dangerous Europe. Its a classic scenario for a World War II thriller, but Christian Petzolds Transit is no period piece:... More >
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Song of the Sea
Film - Animated | June 22 | 3 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Irish director behind The Secret of Kells returns with this gorgeous hand-drawn animated feature inspired by Irish legends, Celtic folk art, and modernist painters like Klee and Kandinsky. One of the most blissfully beautiful animated films ever made (Carlos Aguilar, Toronto Review), the film tells of the young children Saoirse and Ben, whose mother disappeared into the sea the night that... More >
Another Dawn: (Distinto amanecer)
Film - Feature | June 22 | 8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Labor activists, cabaret singers, and corrupt politicians stalk the back streets of Mexico City in Brachos stylized film noir, which adds a unique revolutionary spin to that genres rain-soaked, tenebrous aesthetics. An antifascist noir comparable to and in some ways superior to Casablanca(J. Hoberman, New York Review of Books), the film stars the great Pedro Armendáriz as a union organizer on... More >
Sunday, June 23, 2019
Christ Stopped at Eboli: (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli)
Film - Feature | June 23 | 2 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
In the mountain village of Gagliano, in the impoverished Lucania region of south-central Italy, a proverb reflects the unchanging nature of the inhabitants isolation: even Christ stopped at Eboli, the town at the bottom of the bare and craggy hill. In 1935 Carlo Levi, the leftist writer, physician, and painter, was banished by the Fascist government to three years exile in Gagliano. His... More >

Northern Lights
Film - Feature | June 23 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Northern Lights is Cine Manifests goal of creating politically charged features made manifest, a stunning, gritty recreation of Midwestern agrarian life circa 1915, a sort of prequel to The Grapes of Wrath. Both Midwesterners themselves, directors Hanson and Nilsson root out the origins of the Nonpartisan League, a short-lived grassroots political movement that organized against corporate... More >
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Human Desire
Film - Feature | June 26 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Langs remake of Renoirs La bête humaine reunites his stars from The Big Heat. Glenn Ford is just back from the Korean War, ignoring the advances of his landlords daughter and heading straight for Gloria Grahames seductively puckered mouth. Problem is, Grahame has a husband. Lang replaces Renoirs humanism with a sense of determinism and perverse doom, continually arranging the characters... More >

Human Desire
Film - Feature | June 26 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Langs remake of Renoirs La bête humaine reunites his stars from The Big Heat. Glenn Ford is just back from the Korean War, ignoring the advances of his landlords daughter and heading straight for Gloria Grahames seductively puckered mouth. Problem is, Grahame has a husband. Lang replaces Renoirs humanism with a sense of determinism and perverse doom, continually arranging the characters... More >

Thursday, June 27, 2019
Over-Under, Sideways-Down
Film - Feature | June 27 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Over-Under, Sideways-Down explores the politics of everyday life in America through the experiences of a working-class couple, Roy and Jan Stannis, who live with their two children in a cramped tract home. An assembly line worker in a steel plant, Roy entertains the fantasy of moving from the local semi-pro baseball team, for which he plays third base, to the big leagues. Its just a matter of... More >

Friday, June 28, 2019
Three by Kenneth Anger
Film - Short | June 28 | 6:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Keenly attuned to the mythopoeic resonance of popular songs, Kenneth Angers films presaged the use of rock n roll in narrative cinema as well as the way that cinema would later be employed to give rock songs a visual dimension for TV. The three films on this program illustrate his uncanny genius and his ability, as David E. James writes, to visualize the ambiguities of rock n rolls social... More >

The Eyes of Orson Welles
Film - Feature | June 28 | 8:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Best known for his television documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, filmmaker Mark Cousins here adopts the form of a film essay, a letter from himself to Orson Welles. In this idiosyncratic and highly personal work, he muses on Welless life, career, and visual imagination. Cousins gained rare access to hundreds of sketches, drawings, and paintings made by Welles, and he uses these images to... More >
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Dont Look Back
Film - Documentary | June 29 | 6 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
If Bob Dylan isnt exactly an event of the sixties, surely he is a felt presence for the decade. Marrying the social impulse of Woody Guthrie to the rhythms of rock-and-roll is only part of his achievement. To look once more at him now, through the direct-cinema prism of Dont Look Back, is to see him navigate the difficult terrain between art and commerce, between Woodstock nation and... More >

Twilight: (Crepúsculo)
Film - Feature | June 29 | 8:15 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
One of Mexican cinemas great flores del mal, Twilight renders a world of darkness and shadows, where rational thought rails against irrational desireand fails. Arturo de Córdova stars as a successful, forward-looking professional whose views on Mexicos progress are obscured by a destructive passion for his best friends wife, the alluring Gloria Marín. Dont stay in the light, come into the... More >

Sunday, June 30, 2019
Cine Manifest
Film - Documentary | June 30 | 4:30 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Inspired by the groups reunion, more than thirty years following its dissolution, Irola decided to create this documentary tracing the formation, development, and eventual splintering of Cine Manifest. Featuring frank, often hilarious interviews with all the groups members, who reminisce about their days working together, Cine Manifest is a fascinating account of the hopes, ideals, and... More >

Fury
Film - Feature | June 30 | 7 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Langs first Hollywood film after fleeing Germany is a vivid social melodrama with many visual elements of Expressionism-turned-noir. Spencer Tracy, a stranger in a small town, is bizarrely charged with kidnappingimplicated by a bag of salted peanutsand becomes the object of a mob who burn down the jailhouse and, they think, him with it. From his position as a dead man he follows the trial of... More >
