Week of December 15, 2024

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Sunday, December 15

Sunday, December 15, 2024
11 AM-5 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, December 15, 2024
11 AM–5 PM

For all members

For one weekend only, BAMPFA members get 20% off at the BAMPFA Store!

Members-only sale

Sunday, December 15, 2024
1:30 PM
Agnes Martin,
United States,
1976,
(85 mins)
Gabriel, Agnes Martin’s cinematic celebration of freedom, happiness, and the beauty of the natural world, screens with Bruce Conner’s The White Rose, an elegiac ode to painter Jay DeFeo and her monumental masterpiece. 
Sunday, December 15, 2024
4:00 PM
Luchino Visconti,
France, Italy,
1957,
(101 mins)
Marecello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.
Sunday, December 15, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.

Monday, December 16

Tuesday, December 17

Wednesday, December 18

Wednesday, December 18, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
7:00 PM
Claire Denis,
France,
1990,
(91 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

In Claire Denis’s surprising second film, Isaach de Bankolé and Alex Descas play immigrants who train birds for cockfights on the outskirts of Paris. The film “has a seedy, claustrophobic power that says as much about human as about animal exploitation” (Time Out).

Thursday, December 19

Thursday, December 19, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
7:00 PM
Pietro Germi,
Italy,
1961,
(104 mins)
Marcello Mastroianni in Pietro Germi’s Sicilian farce is “a terrific entertainment” (Chicago Reader).

Friday, December 20

Friday, December 20, 2024
2 PM-5 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, December 20, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Friday, December 20, 2024
7:00 PM
G. W. Pabst,
Germany,
1925,
(154 mins)
The Joyless Street “is not only one of the most important films of the Weimar Republic, it is also one of the most spectacular censorship cases of the era” (Jan-Christopher Horak).
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano

Saturday, December 21

Saturday, December 21, 2024
11 AM–5 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, December 21, 2024
3:30 PM
Charles Chaplin,
United States,
1936,
(87 mins)

Recommended for ages 8 & up

Charlie Chaplin’s politically outspoken film also contains some of his funniest scenes, in which he causes complete chaos simply by being human.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
5:00 PM
BAMPFA galleries will close early at 5:00 PM on select days during the winter holiday season.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
6:00 PM
Federico Fellini,
Italy,
1960,
(175 mins)
A Federico Fellini masterpiece eddying around Marcello Mastroianni’s definitive performance as a jaded reporter drawn to the decadence he sensationalizes.

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.