Sunday, August 24
Sunday, August 24, 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 24, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
Sunday, August 24, 2025
4 PM
Andrei Tarkovsky,
Italy, USSR,
1983,
(125 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Andrei Tarkovsky’s breathtaking journey through the ruined but magical spaces of Tuscany follows a Russian man who feels the longing for home, closure, and the absolute that the film’s title describes. “Not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours” (J. Hoberman).
Sunday, August 24, 2025
6:30 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).
Series
Robert Altman at 100
Monday, August 25
Tuesday, August 26
Wednesday, August 27
Wednesday, August 27, 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.
Series
Exhibition Tours
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
7 PM
Tsai Ming-liang,
Taiwan,
1994,
(118 mins)
Three lost souls—and a very alluring empty apartment—form an unlikely love quadrangle in Tsai Ming-liang’s Venice-winning follow-up to Rebels of the Neon God. Here “Tsai began to emerge as one of our great poets of modern alienation” (Slant).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Tsai Ming-liang
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Lee Kang-Sheng
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Andrew F. Jones
Andrew F. Jones is Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Series
Tsai Ming-liang in Person
Thursday, August 28
Thursday, August 28, 2025
7 PM
Tsai Ming-liang,
France, Taiwan,
1998,
(95 mins)
In Taipei it’s the end of the world as we know it, thanks to a mysterious plague, but even the most alienated urbanite is dreaming of 1950s movie musicals in Tsai Ming-liang’s delirious exploration of modern isolation, quarantines, and dance numbers.
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Tsai Ming-liang
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Lee Kang-Sheng
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Weihong Bao
Weihong Bao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Tsai Ming-liang in Person
Friday, August 29
Friday, August 29, 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 29, 2025
3:30 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).
Friday, August 29, 2025
7 PM
Tsai Ming-liang,
France, Taiwan,
2001,
(116 mins)
35mm Archival Print
A Taipei street vendor sets every clock to French time after meeting a young woman on her way to Paris in this endearing examination of loneliness, mourning, and time’s passage. “A film of surprise and wonder” (Rolling Stone).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Tsai Ming-liang
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Lee Kang-Sheng
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Pheng Cheah
Pheng Cheah is a Professor of Rhetoric and Geography at UC Berkeley and works in the areas of postcolonial theory, literature, and contemporary globalization.
Series
Tsai Ming-liang in Person
Saturday, August 30
Saturday, August 30, 2025
1 PM
Robert Altman,
United States,
1971,
(121 mins)
4K Digital Restoration
Also screens Thursday / 6.19.25 (with introduction)
Far from the open plains of the classic Western, Robert Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond created a radical and ravishing vision of the turn-of-the-century Pacific Northwest, capturing the sodden grit of frontier life with impressive authenticity.
Series
Robert Altman at 100
Saturday, August 30, 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 30, 2025
4 PM
Tsai Ming-liang,
Taiwan,
2003,
(82 mins)
A crumbling old movie theater may be screening a martial arts film on-screen, but off-screen its patrons dream of other things in Tsai Ming-liang’s “weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going” (Chicago Tribune).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Tsai Ming-liang
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Lee Kang-Sheng
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Pheng Cheah
Pheng Cheah is a Professor of Rhetoric and Geography at UC Berkeley and works in the areas of postcolonial theory, literature, and contemporary globalization.
Series
Tsai Ming-liang in Person
Saturday, August 30, 2025
7 PM
Tsai Ming-liang,
France, Taiwan,
2013,
(138 mins)
An alcoholic single father and his two children flit through the margins of contemporary Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang’s remarkable work of social critique, long-take experimentalism, and asphalt surrealism, in which “every sequence exerts an almost telepathic grip” (The Telegraph).
A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact
In Conversation
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Tsai Ming-liang
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Lee Kang-Sheng
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Iggy Cortez
Iggy Cortez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.
Series
Tsai Ming-liang in Person
Through July 6
Through July 13
Through August 17
Through August 24
Through November 30
Through July 24
Through December 31
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