Week of July 12, 2026

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Sunday, July 12

Sunday, July 12, 2026
1 PM

Included with admission.

Join us in the Art Lab to repurpose the printed materials freshly deinstalled from Stephanie Syjuco’s recent epic wall installation Present Tense (Roll Call). Expanding on the spirit of radical pedagogy central to her exhibition, Syjuco will offer examples of ways to transform this raw material into mini publications, encouraging participants to enjoy a free-form collage session with an exploded artwork.
Series Workshops
Sunday, July 12, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
2 PM
Graduate students offer exhibition tours on select Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15 PM.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
3 PM
Jean-Luc Godard,
France,
1965,
(110 mins)

Digital Restoration

David Thomson discusses his latest publication, A Sudden Flicker of Light, and presents Jean-Luc Godard’s audacious take on the lovers-on-the-run genre, Pierrot le fou, featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina.

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.

  • David Thomson
    Introduction and Post-Screening Book Signing
    David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies (Simon & Schuster, 2026).
Sunday, July 12, 2026
7 PM
Marlon Brando,
United States,
1961,
(141 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Stanley Kubrick was originally hired to direct One-Eyed Jacks, but he left the project just prior to shooting. Star Marlon Brando took the reins, and it became his first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. “Mean, moody, and magnificent” (Time Out).

Monday, July 13

Tuesday, July 14

Wednesday, July 15

Wednesday, July 15, 2026
7 PM
Marcel Carné,
France,
1938,
(91 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

This is a melancholy poem of life and death in the lower depths of Le Havre. “Epochal . . . the definitive example of the style known as poetic realism” (Lucy Sante, The Current).

Thursday, July 16

Thursday, July 16, 2026
7 PM
Alberto Sordi,
Italy,
1969,
(124 mins)
Directed with an eye for the comic gesture and the absurd moment, Alberto Sordi’s first film with Monica Vitti is a bittersweet domestic comedy that sets about debunking the stereotypes of the faithless husband/long-suffering wife.

Friday, July 17

Friday, July 17, 2026
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Friday, July 17, 2026
7 PM
Stanley Kubrick,
United Kingdom, United States,
1962,
(153 mins)
A bumbling professor, played by James Mason, preys on an underage girl in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the notorious Vladimir Nabokov novel. Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters add their own scene-stealing peculiarities to this pitch-black, comical retelling.

Saturday, July 18

Saturday, July 18, 2026
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making!

The museum’s popular Fisher Family Art Lab welcomes drop-in visitors of all ages to explore their creativity through hands-on artmaking.
Saturday, July 18, 2026
3:30 PM
Isao Takahata,
Japan,
2013,
(137 mins)
“A visionary tour-de-force” (Maggie Lee, Variety), Isao Takahata’s final film is an adaptation of a Japanese folktale about a rapidly aging princess discovered in a stalk of bamboo. With impressionistic watercolor and charcoal animation, the specificity and wonder of the everyday punctuate this classic tale.
Saturday, July 18, 2026
6:30 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1960,
(81 mins)
This razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure Nouvelle Vague. François Truffaut’s frolicsome yet faithful genre pastiche relates the adventures of a mild-mannered piano player.

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.

  • Laura Truffaut
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Laura Truffaut is the oldest daughter of director François Truffaut. Based in Berkeley, she regularly speaks about her father’s work at international cinematheques.