Week of August 3, 2025

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Sunday, August 3

Sunday, August 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
Sunday, August 3, 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, August 3, 2025
4 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1962,
(95 mins)

BAMPFA Collection

Lyrical and brutal by turns, Andrei Tarkovsky’s first feature tells of a child’s experiences during World War II. “Tarkovsky would go on to make grander, weightier, more iconic films, but it’s tough to argue he ever made a better one” (Time Out).
Sunday, August 3, 2025
6:30 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1977,
(124 mins)
Young Pinky (Sissy Spacek) finds herself in the thrall of her extroverted but unpopular roommate, Millie (Shelley Duvall), in this exploration of identities fractured and fused. “3 Women is a film whose provocative schizophrenia is both gripping and contagious” (Kier-La Janisse).

Monday, August 4

Tuesday, August 5

Wednesday, August 6

Wednesday, August 6, 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, August 6, 2025
7 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1992,
(124 mins)
Hollywood hotshot executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is receiving poison pen postcards in this metatext for film lovers. “With breathtaking assurance, the movie veers from psychological-thriller suspense to goofball comedy to icy satire” (Terrence Rafferty, New Yorker).

Thursday, August 7

Thursday, August 7, 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, August 7, 2025
1:15 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.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
7 PM
Ingmar Bergman,
Sweden,
1955,
(108 mins)

Digital Restoration

Couples meet, split, and reconverge at a country house in the summer of 1900 in Ingmar Bergman’s carnal comedy. “A tragic-comic chase and roundelay [carried] into elegance and lyric poetry” (Pauline Kael).
  • Linda Haverty Rugg
    Introduction
    Linda Haverty Rugg is Professor Emerita in the Department of Scandinavian at UC Berkeley.
Thursday, August 7, 2025
All Day
First Thursdays are a great time to visit BAMPFA! Admission to our galleries is free all day.

Friday, August 8

Friday, August 8, 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, August 8, 2025
7 PM
Mikio Naruse,
Japan,
1960,
(122 mins)
Daughters, Wives, and a Mother features a stellar cast in a saga of a comfortable suburban family’s unraveling after the family home is mortgaged.

Saturday, August 9

Saturday, August 9, 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, August 9, 2025
4:30 PM
François Truffaut,
France,
1959,
(99 mins)
Jean-Pierre Léaud plays François Truffaut’s alter ego, Antoine Doinel, in the quintessential coming-of-age film, a lyrical but unsentimental portrait of adolescence and of Paris.
Saturday, August 9, 2025
7 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
USSR,
1966,
(183 mins)

Digital Restoration

Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic, otherworldly portrait of a fifteenth-century Russian icon painter is “a superproduction gone ideologically berserk” (Village Voice). “The best arthouse film of all time” (The Guardian).