Week of July 20, 2025

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Sunday, July 20

Sunday, July 20, 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 20, 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, July 20, 2025
4:30 PM
Rachel Elizabeth Seed,
United States,
2024,
(87 mins)

Winner of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards

A New York Times Critic’s Pick, A Photographic Memory is an intimate portrait of filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s trailblazing mother, Sheila Turner Seed, who was a vibrant and pioneering journalist, photographer, and filmmaker. “Vividly introspective . . . sumptuous” (Carlos Aguilar, Variety).
Sunday, July 20, 2025
6:30 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
France, Sweden,
1986,
(149 mins)

4K Digital Restoration

A retired actor and his family find themselves on a remote Baltic island when word arrives of nuclear war in Andrei Tarkovsky’s elegiac final film. “An epic vision. . . . Spiritual mastery. . . . A work of genius” (David Robinson, The Times).

Monday, July 21

Tuesday, July 22

Wednesday, July 23

Wednesday, July 23, 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 23, 2025
7 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1973,
(112 mins)
Updating Raymond Chandler’s noir pulp for the psychedelic 1970s, Leigh Brackett and Robert Altman pitch a bewildered and bereft Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) into a murder mystery involving a sun-dried siren (Nina van Pallandt) and her washed-out Ernest Hemingway-esque author husband (Sterling Hayden).

Thursday, July 24

Thursday, July 24, 2025
7 PM
Phil Karlson,
United States,
1955,
(100 mins)
“Filmed on location in Alabama with a documentary-like look, the movie captured the ambiance and tenor of its Deep South setting better than almost any other fact-based movie of its era” (Bruce Eder, AllMovie).
  • Eddie Muller
    Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion
    Eddie Muller is founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, director of the Noir City film festival, and a novelist.

Friday, July 25

Friday, July 25, 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 25, 2025
7 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1956,
(98 mins)
Hideko Takamine plays a young woman working to raise enough money to open her own coffee shop. When her family takes the money to fund her sister’s wedding, she arranges a loan, but her husband is wary of the loan officer (Toshiro Mifune).

Saturday, July 26

Saturday, July 26, 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 26, 2025
5 PM
Gabrielle Civil activates her latest performance memoir, In & Out of Place, highlighting her experience making Black feminist performance art in Mexico. Featuring live reading, art gestures, images, and short videos, she will recall swimming in Elizabeth Catlett's pool in Cuernevaca, singing Nina Simone with mariachis in Mexico City, becoming a live Mexican mammy doll, and more.

Included with admission

Series Black Life
Saturday, July 26, 2025
7 PM
Bo Widerberg,
Sweden,
1967,
(90 mins)

35mm Archival Print

“Elvira Madigan is indeed remarkably beautiful, almost every frame would make a painting, and yet the film is alive and cinematic, not simply photographs of pretty pictures” (Roger Ebert).