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Sunday, July 3

Sunday, July 3, 2022
11 AM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Sunday, July 3, 2022
5 PM
Jacques Tati,
France, Italy,
1967,
(124 mins)
Tati’s vision of 1960s Paris is “perhaps the most madly modernistic work of anti-modernism in the history of cinema” (New Yorker). And for Tati, “The more the picture continues, the more the people dance” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).

Monday, July 4

Tuesday, July 5

Wednesday, July 6

Wednesday, July 6, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
France, Hungary,
1980,
(105 mins)
In 1936 Budapest, with Nazism on the rise, the wealthy but sterile wife of a military officer asks her young Jewish friend (Isabelle Huppert) to bear her husband’s child. 

Thursday, July 7

Thursday, July 7, 2022
1:15 PM
Join us for guided tours of The Artist's Eyeled by BAMPFA curatorial staff and UC Berkeley graduate students.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
4–7 PM
Delve deeper into the Study Center’s collections in this second showing of portraits of the noble, notable, and notorious.

Free on first Thursday of the month

Thursday, July 7, 2022
7 PM
Charles Burnett,
United States,
1977,
(81 mins)

New 35mm BAMPFA Collection Print

A poetic evocation of working-class Watts, “a great—the greatest—cinematic tone poem of American urban life” (New York), Killer of Sheep’s “single most-recalled moment” is “the slow-dance scene between the . . . alienated Stan and his wife” (Adrian Martin). 
  • ruth gebreyesus
    Introduction
    Ruth Gebreyesus, a writer and producer based in the Bay Area, is currently cocurator of Black Life, a multidisciplinary art and film series at BAMPFA.

Friday, July 8

Friday, July 8, 2022
2 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Friday, July 8, 2022
7 PM
Kinuyo Tanaka,
Japan,
1953,
(98 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

Based on a popular novel by Fumio Niwa and set just after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Tanaka’s impressive directorial debut reveals the stigma suffered by women compelled to engage in transactional affairs through the eyes of the embittered male protagonist.

Saturday, July 9

Saturday, July 9, 2022
1 PM–7 PM

Drop-in Art Making

Saturday, July 9, 2022
11:30 AM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Artists can be inspired by works that feel like—but don’t look—like their own. Inspired by some of the paintings in The Artist’s Eye, use watercolors to explore sensations and variations in nature.

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under

  • Kim Bennett
    Workshop led by
    Kim Bennett is an artist and teacher whose work ranges across disciplines and includes devotional botanical paintings, imaginary embroideries, and collaborations with kids, poets, and other artists.
Series Family Events
Saturday, July 9, 2022
2 PM

Recommended for ages 8 and up with accompanying adult(s)

Young Ramona exasperates her older sister, Beezus, in more ways than she can count. Is there anyone in the world like Ramona?

Included with admission: Free for kids 18 & under and for one adult per child 13 & under

  • Linda Artel
    Reading led by
    Linda Artel, former BAMPFA children’s film festival programmer
Series Family Events
Saturday, July 9, 2022
7 PM
Márta Mészáros,
Hungary,
1984,
(107 mins)
Mészáros folds national history, a coming-of-age tale, and the power of cinephilia into this look at a young orphan seeking truth amidst the lies, conspiracies, and shadows of postwar Hungary.