A Week of Miyazaki in July

Don’t miss the premiere of PONYO, a film retrospective, and more special events in Berkeley honoring renowned animation director Hayao Miyazaki! In conjunction with The Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, which is awarding the 2009 Berkeley Japan Prize to internationally acclaimed filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.

BAM/PFA is very happy to be a co-presenter of the Northern California premiere of PONYO, Miyazaki’s prize-winning newest film. The Center for Japanese Studies and BAM/PFA will co-present the Northern California Premiere of PONYO at Wheeler Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 24. Tickets to the premiere are sold out, and tickets for the retrospective are going fast.

Even if you already treasure Miyazaki’s films on DVD, you won’t want to miss this chance to appreciate their beauty as it was meant to be seen: on the big screen. Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:00 p.m.: My Neighbor Totoro/Totari no Totoro (Japan, 1988) Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:00 p.m.: Porco Rosso/Kurenai no buta (Japan, 1992) Sunday, July 19, 2009 2:30 p.m.: Castle in the Sky/ Tenku no shiro Laputa (Japan, 1986) Tuesday, July 21, 2009 7:00 p.m.: Princess Mononoke/Mononoke Hime (Japan, 1997)

The PFA Theater is located at 2575 Bancroft Way, on the southern edge of the UC Berkeley campus. Films shown at the PFA Theater are presented in 35mm prints, in Japanese with English subtitles.