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28 4 PM Two Prosecutors Film In-Person Sunday, June 28, 2026 4 PM Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, 2025, (117 mins) Sergei Loznitsa’s latest triumph is a chilling, Kafka-esque thriller about the impunity of power and matter-of-fact horrors of fascism. “A darkly absurdist odyssey through the Soviet totalitarian nightmare” (Jessica Kiang, Variety). Polina Barskova Introduction on June 5 Polina Barskova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley. Series Special Screenings Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter 6:30 PM The Killing Film Sunday, June 28, 2026 6:30 PM The Killing Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1956, (84 mins) Sterling Hayden heads up a phenomenal cast of B players plotting a racetrack holdup in Stanley Kubrick’s high-voltage thriller. “Not to be missed” (Chicago Reader). Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter	29	30	1 7 PM I Married You for Fun Film Wednesday, July 1, 2026 7 PM I Married You for Fun Luciano Salce, Italy, 1967, (100 mins) New 4K Digital Restoration Replete with rapid-fire dialogue and classic screwball timing, I Married You for Fun explores the challenges of an unconventional matchup between straitlaced lawyer Pietro, and romantic bohemian Guiliana (Monica Vitti) amid the social pressures of the 1960s. Series Summer with Monica Vitti Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter	2 7 PM Only Yesterday Film Thursday, July 2, 2026 7 PM Only Yesterday Isao Takahata, Japan, 1991, (119 mins) Isao Takahata utilized Studio Ghibli’s jewel-like color and superb command of technique to show the infinite value of an ordinary life lived in ordinary times, as his protagonist, Taeko, visits the countryside to commune with the ghost of her childhood. Series Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter	3 7 PM Le jour se lève Film Friday, July 3, 2026 7 PM Le jour se lève Marcel Carné, France, 1939, (93 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Jean Gabin gives one of his greatest performances in this Marcel Carné/Jacques Prévert collaboration, “perhaps the finest of the French poetic melodramas” (Pauline Kael). Series French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter	4 5 PM Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Film Saturday, July 4, 2026 5 PM Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1964, (95 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Stanley Kubrick’s nightmare comedy about the threat of nuclear annihilation is “devastatingly more effective via hilarious ridicule than any number of cautionary fables” (Michael Mann). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter
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5 4 PM Only Yesterday Film Sunday, July 5, 2026 4 PM Only Yesterday Isao Takahata, Japan, 1991, (119 mins) Isao Takahata utilized Studio Ghibli’s jewel-like color and superb command of technique to show the infinite value of an ordinary life lived in ordinary times, as his protagonist, Taeko, visits the countryside to commune with the ghost of her childhood. Series Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter 7 PM The Girl with a Pistol Film Sunday, July 5, 2026 7 PM The Girl with a Pistol Mario Monicelli, Italy, United Kingdom, 1968, (102 mins) New 4K Digital Restoration Monica Vitti shines in this proto-feminist comedy about the transformation of a traditional Sicilian woman traveling through the United Kingdom to avenge her honor. The film satirizes provincial Italian mores while also exploring Italy’s relationship to 1960s cosmopolitanism. Series Summer with Monica Vitti Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter	6	7	8 7 PM Paths of Glory Film Wednesday, July 8, 2026 7 PM Paths of Glory Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1957, (88 mins) 35mm Archival Print A grand entry in the pantheon of great antiwar films, Paths of Glory stands beside films like All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Grand Illusion (1937), but it stands alone for its fearless criticism of the high command and its obvious rank. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter	9 7 PM Wanda Film In-Person Thursday, July 9, 2026 7 PM Wanda Barbara Loden, United States, 1970, (102 mins) 35mm Archival Print With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Ross Lipman Introduction Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker, and essayist. He is the author of The Archival Impermanence Project. Series Film Preservationist Ross Lipman in Person Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter	10 7 PM The Times of Harvey Milk Film In-Person Friday, July 10, 2026 7 PM The Times of Harvey Milk Rob Epstein, United States, 1984, (88 mins) 35mm Archival Print Rob Epstein’s film is a powerful record of the beloved San Francisco activist/politician Harvey Milk’s inspirational life and work, from his improbable, heroic rise to his horrific murder. “A truly great documentary” (B. Ruby Rich, The Current). Ross Lipman Introduction Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker, and essayist. He is the author of The Archival Impermanence Project. Series Film Preservationist Ross Lipman in Person Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter	11 1:30 PM Grave of the Fireflies Film Saturday, July 11, 2026 1:30 PM Grave of the Fireflies Isao Takahata, Japan, 1988, (89 mins) Two children struggle for survival in the last days of World War II in Isao Takahata’s haunting film. “It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Series Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter 4 PM Crossroads and The Exploding Digital Inevitable Film In-Person Saturday, July 11, 2026 4 PM Crossroads and The Exploding Digital Inevitable (86 mins) The Exploding Digital Inevitable is a two-part documentary essay by Ross Lipman, who oversaw the restoration of Bruce Conner’s Crossroads in 2012. Shown with Crossroads as the centerpiece. Ross Lipman In Person Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker, and essayist. He is the author of The Archival Impermanence Project. Series Film Preservationist Ross Lipman in Person Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter 7 PM The Exiles Film In-Person Saturday, July 11, 2026 7 PM The Exiles Kent Mackenzie, United States, 1961, (72 mins) 35mm Archival Print Kent Mackenzie’s semi-documentary film about a subculture of Arizona Indians living on Los Angeles’s Bunker Hill is “a wrenching document of cultural dislocation” (Thom Andersen). Ross Lipman Introduction Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker, and essayist. He is the author of The Archival Impermanence Project. Series Film Preservationist Ross Lipman in Person Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter
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12 3 PM Book Launch with David Thomson + Pierrot le fou Film In-Person Sunday, July 12, 2026 3 PM Book Launch with David Thomson + Pierrot le fou Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1965, (110 mins) Digital Restoration David Thomson discusses his latest publication, A Sudden Flicker of Light, and presents Jean-Luc Godard’s audacious take on the lovers-on-the-run genre, Pierrot le fou, featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. David Thomson Introduction and Post-Screening Book Signing David Thomson is a noted film critic and historian who has authored more than twenty books, including A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies (Simon & Schuster, 2026). Series French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter 7 PM One-Eyed Jacks Film Sunday, July 12, 2026 7 PM One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando, United States, 1961, (141 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Stanley Kubrick was originally hired to direct One-Eyed Jacks, but he left the project just prior to shooting. Star Marlon Brando took the reins, and it became his first and only directorial effort, a Freudian Western loosely based on the legend of Billy the Kid. “Mean, moody, and magnificent” (Time Out). Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	13	14	15 7 PM Port of Shadows Film Wednesday, July 15, 2026 7 PM Port of Shadows Marcel Carné, France, 1938, (91 mins) 4K Digital Restoration This is a melancholy poem of life and death in the lower depths of Le Havre. “Epochal . . . the definitive example of the style known as poetic realism” (Lucy Sante, The Current). Series French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	16 7 PM Help Me, My Love Film Thursday, July 16, 2026 7 PM Help Me, My Love Alberto Sordi, Italy, 1969, (124 mins) Directed with an eye for the comic gesture and the absurd moment, Alberto Sordi’s first film with Monica Vitti is a bittersweet domestic comedy that sets about debunking the stereotypes of the faithless husband/long-suffering wife. Series Summer with Monica Vitti Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	17 7 PM Lolita Film Friday, July 17, 2026 7 PM Lolita Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1962, (153 mins) A bumbling professor, played by James Mason, preys on an underage girl in Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the notorious Vladimir Nabokov novel. Peter Sellers and Shelley Winters add their own scene-stealing peculiarities to this pitch-black, comical retelling. Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	18 3:30 PM The Tale of The Princess Kaguya Film Saturday, July 18, 2026 3:30 PM The Tale of The Princess Kaguya Isao Takahata, Japan, 2013, (137 mins) “A visionary tour-de-force” (Maggie Lee, Variety), Isao Takahata’s final film is an adaptation of a Japanese folktale about a rapidly aging princess discovered in a stalk of bamboo. With impressionistic watercolor and charcoal animation, the specificity and wonder of the everyday punctuate this classic tale. Series Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM Shoot the Piano Player Film In-Person Saturday, July 18, 2026 6:30 PM Shoot the Piano Player François Truffaut, France, 1960, (81 mins) This razor-sharp homage to the American gangster film is pure Nouvelle Vague. François Truffaut’s frolicsome yet faithful genre pastiche relates the adventures of a mild-mannered piano player. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Laura Truffaut Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Laura Truffaut is the oldest daughter of director François Truffaut. Based in Berkeley, she regularly speaks about her father’s work at international cinematheques. Series French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS
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19 5 PM Gauche the Cellist Film Sunday, July 19, 2026 5 PM Gauche the Cellist Isao Takahata, Japan, 1982, (62 mins) Stressed about an upcoming performance of Beethoven’s Sixth (“Pastoral”) Symphony, a young cellist, Gauche, receives a succession of pesky, haranguing, anthropomorphic animal visitors. Series Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS 7 PM A Clockwork Orange Film Sunday, July 19, 2026 7 PM A Clockwork Orange Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1971, (137 mins) 4K Digital Restoration One of Stanley Kubrick’s more controversial outings, A Clockwork Orange is set in the near future and follows the ultraviolent escapades of Alex, a demented, sociopathic, Beethoven-loving gang leader. “A spectacularly acted, directed, and designed motion picture” (Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	20	21	22 7 PM Teresa the Thief Film Wednesday, July 22, 2026 7 PM Teresa the Thief Carlo Di Palma, Italy, 1973, (123 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Cinematographer Carlo Di Palma’s directorial debut features Monica Vitti as the eponymous war widow and single mother struggling to survive in postwar Italy. “A fascinating cross between melodrama and comic picaresque” (Film at Lincoln Center). Series Summer with Monica Vitti Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	23 7 PM Eyes Wide Shut Film Thursday, July 23, 2026 7 PM Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1999, (159 mins) Imported Uncensored 35mm Archival Print A married couple (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) free-fall through a psychological landscape of sexuality and fantasy. “A spellbinder: provocatively conceived, gorgeously shot, and masterfully executed” (Chicago Tribune). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	24 7 PM Mississippi Mermaid Film In-Person Friday, July 24, 2026 7 PM Mississippi Mermaid François Truffaut, France, 1969, (123 mins) This is François Truffaut’s go-for-broke romantic melodrama, in which Jean-Paul Belmondo gives up everything for the love of his mail-order bride, a beautiful, two-timing, possibly murderous jade played by Catherine Deneuve. A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Laura Truffaut Introduction and Post-Screening Discussion Laura Truffaut is the oldest daughter of director François Truffaut. Based in Berkeley, she regularly speaks about her father’s work at international cinematheques. Series French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	25 3 PM The Story of Yanagawa Waterways Film Saturday, July 25, 2026 3 PM The Story of Yanagawa Waterways Isao Takahata, Japan, 1987, (167 mins) Studio Ghibli’s only live-action film is Isao Takahata’s contemplative, millennia-spanning documentary look at living with water and sustainability via the picturesque canals, dams, and waterways of Yanagawa, Japan. Series Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS 6:30 PM I Know That You Know That I Know Film Saturday, July 25, 2026 6:30 PM I Know That You Know That I Know Alberto Sordi, Italy, 1982, (113 mins) New 4K Digital Restoration The lives of a complacent banker, Fabio (Alberto Sordi), and his wife of many years, Livia (Monica Vitti), are turned upside down when they learn a detective hired to investigate a neighbor was accidentally trailing Livia. Series Summer with Monica Vitti Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS
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26 3 PM The Shining Film In-Person Sunday, July 26, 2026 3 PM The Shining Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1980, (144 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens Friday, July 31 (without guest). A limited quantity of the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is available for purchase at the BAMPFA Store. Stanley Kubrick reinvents horror as blocked writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) terrorizes his family at a mountain retreat. “A majestically terrifying movie, where what you don’t see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make” (Martin Scorsese). A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space. Lee Unkrich Introduction, Post-Screening Discussion, and Book Signing Lee Unkrich conceived, coauthored (with J. W. Rinzler), and edited the book Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” an in-depth look at the making of the film, published by TASCHEN. Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick SOLD OUT Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Le corbeau Film Sunday, July 26, 2026 7 PM Le corbeau Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, 1943, (92 mins) 4K Digital Restoration In this classic noir dealing with the effect on a small town of an outbreak of poison pen letters, director Henri-Georges Clouzot conducts a study of group psychology in a mood of all-embracing suspicion. Series French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	27	28	29 7 PM Panique Film Wednesday, July 29, 2026 7 PM Panique Julien Duvivier, France, 1946, (98 mins) Digital Restoration Julien Duvivier’s long-unseen Georges Simenon adaptation, starring Michel Simon and Viviane Romance, is an “allegory of wartime collaborationism and the cruel madness of rumor, fear and spite.” Series French Noir: From the Shadows into the Light Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	30 7 PM L’avventura Film Thursday, July 30, 2026 7 PM L’avventura Michelangelo Antonioni, France, Italy, 1960, (143 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Monica Vitti is on a desert island in “a mystery that casually abandons its ostensible premise midway through. . . . Cinema as temporal sculpture” (Village Voice). “The first (and the definitive) film about the diminishing attention span of a modern world” (New York Times). Series Summer with Monica Vitti Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	31 7 PM The Shining Film Friday, July 31, 2026 7 PM The Shining Stanley Kubrick, United Kingdom, United States, 1980, (144 mins) 4K Digital Restoration Also screens Sunday, July 26 with introduction, post-screening discussion, and book signing. Stanley Kubrick reinvents horror as blocked writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) terrorizes his family at a mountain retreat. “A majestically terrifying movie, where what you don’t see or comprehend shadows every move the characters make” (Martin Scorsese). Series A Complete Stanley Kubrick Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS	1 4 PM My Neighbors the Yamadas Film Saturday, August 1, 2026 4 PM My Neighbors the Yamadas Isao Takahata, Japan, 1999, (104 mins) Isao Takahata adopts a soft watercolor style for this wry, charming sketch of Japanese family life, humorously juxtaposed against the poetry of the seventeenth-century writer Basho. Series Some Nostalgic Place: The Films of Isao Takahata Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS 7 PM Vivien’s Wild Ride Audio Description Closed Captioned Film In-Person Saturday, August 1, 2026 7 PM Vivien’s Wild Ride Vivien Hillgrove, United States, 2025, (83 mins) Audio description Closed captioned When legendary film editor Vivien Hillgrove begins losing her sight, she turns to filmmaking to craft a magical memoir, reflecting on her career, personal struggles, and the transformative power of creativity. In Conversation Vivien Hillgrove Deann Borshay Liem Deann Borshay Liem is a producer of Vivien’s Wild Ride. Eric M. Ivey Eric M. Ivey is a co-editor, cinematographer, and co-producer of Vivien’s Wild Ride. Series Made in Berkeley: The House That Zaentz Built Get Tickets Share on facebook Share on twitter Google Calendar ICS