Week of July 6, 2025

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Sunday, July 6

Sunday, July 6, 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, July 6, 2025
2:00 PM
UC Berkeley graduate students in the English and Critical Theory offer tours of To Exalt The Ephemeral on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 and Sundays at 2:00, and on Free First Thursdays at 1:15.

Included with admission

Sunday, July 6, 2025
4:30 PM
Maura Delpero,
Italy,
2024,
(119 mins)

East Bay Premiere
Winner of the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival

The lush and breathtaking beauty of the Alps, filmed with painterly grace under natural light from frigid winter to redemptive spring, provides the physical and emotional backdrop for Vermiglio, Maura Delpero’s visionary film, which won the Silver Lion at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
Sunday, July 6, 2025
7 PM
Robert Altman,
Canada, United States,
1969,
(113 mins)

Restored 35mm Archival Print

In this class-conscious psychosexual thriller, Sandy Dennis plays Frances Austen, a lonely, repressed woman who takes a lonely young man into her home and won’t let go.

Monday, July 7

Tuesday, July 8

Wednesday, July 9

Wednesday, July 9, 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 9, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1979,
(163 mins)

Digital Restoration

A writer, a scientist, and their “stalker” guide venture into a mysterious wasteland known as the Zone. “A dense, complex, often contradictory, and endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness” (Slant).

Thursday, July 10

Thursday, July 10, 2025
7 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1941,
(117 mins)
Hideko Takamine stars as the teenage ticket taker for a bus line that has seen better days in this charming comedy, the first of her seventeen films with Mikio Naruse. Screening with The Whole Family Works, a chronicle of a family’s struggle to make ends meet during the depression and the war with China, the social costs of which are never mentioned but keenly felt.

Friday, July 11

Friday, July 11, 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 11, 2025
7 PM
Alf Sjöberg,
Sweden,
1951,
(89 mins)

Digital Restoration

Celebrated for its unique cinematic style (and censored upon its first release in the United States for its adult content), Alf Sjöberg’s Miss Julie was an important turning point in Scandinavian cinema for its depiction of the battle of the sexes and classes.
  • Arne Lunde
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Arne Lunde is Research Professor in European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA.

Saturday, July 12

Saturday, July 12, 2025
1 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
Saturday, July 12, 2025
11:30 AM–1 PM

For ages 6–12 with accompanying adult(s)

Make a quilt-inspired mixed-media poster celebrating Bay Area history.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • William Rhodes
    Workshop led by
Series Family Events
Saturday, July 12, 2025
2:30–3:30 PM

Recommended for ages 7 and up with accompanying adult(s)

At Roundtable Reading, young readers read aloud to one another from the opening pages of a good book. This month, we read a timely tale about our fragile Earth and one girl’s fierce determination to make a difference.

Admission is free for kids 13 and under and for one accompanying adult per child.

Children must be accompanied by at least one adult at these family programs.

  • Vickie Price
    Reading led by
    Librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District
Series Family Events
Saturday, July 12, 2025
4:30 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1952,
(85 mins)
Adapted from a Fumiko Hayashi novel, and starring Mikio Naruse’s favorite actress, Hideko Takamine, this major work illuminates one of the director’s key themes: entrapment within the family system.

Tickets for the November 6 screening go on sale Wednesday, June 18 at 11 AM.

Saturday, July 12, 2025
7 PM
Orson Welles,
United States,
1958/98,
(111 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

This is the 1998 reedit by Walter Murch of Touch of Evil, featuring a cast of castaways led by Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Joseph Calleia, with appearances by Marlene Dietrich, Akim Tamiroff, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Dennis Weaver—all swept grimly along by Russell Metty’s ever-frenetic camerawork.