Week of June 29, 2025

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Sunday, June 29

Sunday, June 29, 2025
1 PM
Discover the joy of working with fabric and thread and create your own miniature quilt!

Included with admission.

Space is limited; Admission is first come, first served.

Series Workshops
Sunday, June 29, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
Sunday, June 29, 2025
2 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
Sunday, June 29, 2025
5 PM
Él
Luis Buñuel,
Mexico,
1953,
(93 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A psychological thriller: one of Luis Buñuel’s rawest, angriest indictments of religious and social hypocrisy, Él stands as the Surrealist master’s great excursion into dark melodrama, where civilization can find no answer to the raging urges of the irrational id.
Sunday, June 29, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1972,
(167 mins)

Digital Restoration

In Andrei Tarkovsky’s influential 1972 masterwork, based on a famous novel by Stanisław Lem, “the alien world is one immense ocean, the ocean is a brain, and the brain may be our own” (Village Voice).

Monday, June 30

Tuesday, July 1

Wednesday, July 2

Wednesday, July 2, 2025
12:15 PM
Graduate students from the Departments of Folklore, History of Art, and African American Studies offer tours of Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
7 PM
Nicholas Ray,
United States,
1948,
(95 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Nicholas Ray’s lyrical, passionate debut follows a pair of fugitive innocents. It influenced films from Jean Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou to Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde.
  • David Thomson
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film.

Thursday, July 3

Thursday, July 3, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
Thursday, July 3, 2025
1:15 PM
BAMPFA Associate Curator and Academic Liaison Elaine Yau shares in-depth stories of individual quilts in the exhibition that illuminate the bonds of love, kinship, commemoration, and innovative artistry entwined in their making.
Thursday, July 3, 2025
7 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1960,
(111 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Essential Mikio Naruse. “An elegant essay in black-and-white CinemaScope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess’s attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to [Rainer Werner] Fassbinder and [Douglas] Sirk” (Village Voice).

Tickets for December screening go on sale Wednesday, June 18 at 11 AM.

Thursday, July 3, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.

Friday, July 4

Friday, July 4, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
Friday, July 4, 2025
5 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1975,
(160 mins)
As the bicentennial of American independence looms, the titular “Country Music Capital of the World” becomes an unholy soup of politics, art, patriotism, religion, and money—showbiz, America. Buoyed by a cast of dozens, Nashville “is a satire, a comedy, a musical, a melodrama” (Vincent Canby, New York Times).

Saturday, July 5

Saturday, July 5, 2025
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.
Series Workshops
Saturday, July 5, 2025
4:30 PM
John M. Stahl,
United States,
1945,
(110 mins)

35mm Archival Print

Intoxicating Gene Tierney (Laura) is the femme fatale par excellence in this astounding Technicolor noir classic, now beautifully restored, about a young novelist (Cornel Wilde) whose new bride’s extreme jealousy plunges their nuptial heaven into hellish depths of psychic disorder.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1975,
(106 mins)
Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, a collection of memories of a young boy coming of age, invented “a new language, true to the nature of film . . . life as a dream” (Ingmar Bergman).