Oct 11 @ 5 PM—Peter Hujar’s Day
Oct 11 @ 7:30 PM—The Message
Oct 12 @ 1 PM—Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Oct 12 @ 4 PM—Living the Land
Oct 12 @ 7 PM—Case 137 (Standby!)

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📽️This Week in Film:
Oct 8 @ 7 PM—Crazy Love
Oct 9 @ 7 PM—Calle Málaga (Standby!)
Oct 10 @ 4:30 PM—State of Firsts
Oct 10 @ 7 PM—The Mastermind (Standby!)
Oct 11 @ 2 PM—It Was Just an Accident (Standby!)
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Oct 4 @ 4 PM—Sun Ra: Do the Impossible
Oct 4 @ 7 PM—No Other Choice (Standby!)
Oct 5 @ 1 PM—Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Oct 5 @ 3:30 PM—Steal This Story, Please! (Standby!)
Oct 5 @ 6:30 PM—The President’s Cake

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📽️This Week in Film:
Oct 1 @ 7 PM—Everything Is Now: J. Hoberman in Person (Sold out!)
Oct 2 @ 7 PM—Flowers of Shanghai
Oct 3 @ 4 PM—The Alabama Solution
Oct 3 @ 7:15 PM—Promised Sky
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Check out what is new and ongoing @bampfa.bsky.social (2155 Center Street) in October! 🖼️ 📽️

More Info: bampfa.org

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California (June 8 - November 30)

Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman (July 3 - December 21)

This Week in Film:
Sep 24 @ 7PM—16mm Notebooks and Diaries
Sep 25 @ 7PM—You, the Living
Sep 26 @ 7PM—Stranger Inside (Free Admission!)
Sep 27 @ 1PM—Exile Shanghai
Sep 27 @ 7PM—The Fall of Otrar
Sep 28 @ 4PM—Short Films & Commercials by Roy Andersson
Sep 28 @ 7PM—Scattered Clouds

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This Weekend: 𝙅𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙤𝙣: 𝘾𝙊𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙉𝙀𝙎𝙄𝙎, our three-day symposium opening this weekend, presented in partnership with SF Cinematheque and @bampfa.bsky.social

https://grayarea.org/event/jordan-belson-cosmogenesis/


🎥 Meditation - 1971
Courtesy of the Jordan Belson Estate

Screen Grabs: Blasting off with Jordan Belson's mind-expanding cinema - 48 hills Plus: 'Cannes for dirtbags' Scumdance Fest, Emma Thompson on thin ice, and a 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' love letter.

In the post-WW2 years, aJordan Belson helped shape a new West Coast avant-garde. His films are being shown Fri/26-Sun/28 by @grayarea.org @bampfa.bsky.social @sfcinematheque.bsky.social #ScreenGrabs

Sep 20 @ 3:30PM—Yi Yi (Sold out!)
Sep 20 @ 7PM—Songs from the Second Floor
Sep 21 @ 1PM—About Endlessness
Sep 21 @ 4:30PM—Yearning
Sep 21 @ 7PM—Women’s Prison

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📽️ This Week in Film:
Sep 17 @ 7PM—Rituals in Transfigured Time: Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, and Kenneth Anger (Sold out!)
Sep 18 @ 7PM—The Watermelon Woman (Sold out!)
Sep 19 @ 3:30PM—Yõg ãtak: My Father, Kaiowá
Sep 19 @ 7PM—Suzhou River (Sold out!)
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Check out what is new and ongoing @bampfa.bsky.social (2155 Center Street) in September! 🖼️ 📽️

More Info: bampfa.org

Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California (June 8 - November 30)

Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman (July 3 - December 21)

Films, Festivals & Freedom Fighters at BAMPFA This Fall

Now at the @brokeassstuart.bsky.social website: preview of Fall programs at @bampfa.bsky.social with shoutouts to @cheryldunye.bsky.social, Frederick Wiseman et al. #filmsky #films www.tinyurl.com/4zxjnb34

📽️ This Week in Film:
Sep 3 @ 7 PM — The Seashell and the Clergyman and The Blood of a Poet
Sep 5 @ 7 PM — Repast
Sep 6 @ 3:30 PM — Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Sep 6 @ 7 PM — A Swedish Love Story
Sep 7 @ 4:30 PM — Late Chrysanthemums
Sep 7 @ 7 PM — Caught by the Tides
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📽️ This Week in Film:
Sep 3 @ 7 PM — The Seashell and the Clergyman and The Blood of a Poet
Sep 5 @ 7 PM — Repast
Sep 6 @ 3:30 PM — Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
Sep 6 @ 7 PM — A Swedish Love Story
Sep 7 @ 4:30 PM — Late Chrysanthemums
Sep 7 @ 7 PM — Caught by the Tides
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📽️ This Week in Film:
Aug 27 @ 7 PM–Vive l’amour
Aug 28 @ 7 PM–The Hole
Aug 29 @ 3:30 PM–The Sacrifice
Aug 29 @ 7 PM–What Time Is It There?
Aug 30 @ 1 PM–McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Aug 30 @ 4 PM–Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Aug 30 @ 7 PM–Stray Dogs
Aug 31 @ 3 PM–Sand
Aug 31 @ 6 PM–Days

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Vive l'amour This past New Year’s Eve, thousands gathered in Da’an Park to watch Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour (1994) and reenact Yang Kuei-mei’s relentlessly desolate final scene. Marking the film’s thirtieth an...

This week, Delaney Holton on Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece of isolation and longing, Vive l'amour, screening Wednesday at @bampfa.bsky.social with Tsai and actor Lee Kang-sheng in person www.screenslate.com/articles/viv...

Showing Soon at BAMPFA: Avocado Iced Coffee and Art-Inspired Cakes Kopi Bar is bringing its Cal-Indonesian pastries and coffee drinks to Berkeley.

Finally! Something delicious is coming to the long vacant cafe space at @bampfa.bsky.social. Can't wait to patronize Kopi Bar & Bakery! 😋 www.kqed.org/arts/1398046... via @kqedfood.bsky.social @theluketsai.bsky.social

📽️ This Week in Film:
Aug 20 @ 7 PM–Persona
Aug 21 @ 7 PM–Stalker (Sold out!)
Aug 22 @ 7 PM–Rebels of the Neon God (Sold out!)
Aug 23 @ 4:30 PM–Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Aug 23 @ 7 PM–A Swedish Love Story
Aug 24 @ 4 PM–Nostalghia
Aug 24 @ 6:30 PM–Nashville (Sold out!)

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With a 63-by-30 foot art installation, Stephanie Syjuco explores education and activism at BAMPFA - Berkeley News "Present Tense (Roll Call)" covers BAMPFA's Art Wall in a collage of text unearthed from UC Berkeley's long history of radical education and protest.

With a 63-by-30 foot art installation, Stephanie Syjuco explores education and activism at @bampfa.bsky.social news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/15/w...

📽️This Week in Film:
Aug 13 @ 7 PM–Through a Glass Darkly
Aug 14 @ 7 PM–Dragon Inn (Sold out!)
Aug 15 @ 7 PM–Yearning
Aug 16 @ 4 PM–Popeye
Aug 16 @ 7 PM–Solaris
Aug 16 @ 7 PM–Desert Hearts (Free outdoor screening!)
Aug 17 @ 5 PM–Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Aug 17 @ 7 PM–Mirror

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Popeye Unwell in the head in all the right ways, the 1980 Popeye movie was the brainchild of storied Paramount producer Robert Evans, who tapped satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer to write the adaptation ...

This week, Steve Macfarlane on Popeye, Robert Altman's sublime clusterfuck disasterpiece starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall in roles they were born for, screening on 35mm Saturday afternoon at @bampfa.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pop...

Absolutely gorgeous work in an inspiring show of African-American quilts @bampfa.bsky.social recently acquired an enormous collection that is likely the most important and largest in the world. Highly recommended!

Vincent & Theo After selling his production company in the early 1980s and trading Hollywood’s precarious refuge for a string of low-budget chamber pieces, Robert Altman slogged for a decade before his comeback with...

This week, Saffron Maeve on Robert Altman's Van Gogh biopic, Vincent & Theo, made immediately before his late-career renaissance began, screening Sunday evening at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/vin...

Check out what is happening @bampfa.bsky.social (2155 Center Street)! 🖼️ 📽️

More Info: bampfa.org

Collection Focus / Sky Hopinka: Sunflower Siege Engine (March 12 - August 24)

Teaching Wall / Beyond Face Value: Meditations on Portraiture (May 7 - August 17)

Make time to see this remarkable @bampfa.bsky.social exhibit. It’s about quilts, but it’s mostly about history and connection and resilience and it’s just what we need. ❤️

📷 This Week in Film
Aug 6 @ 7 PM The Player
Aug 7 @ 7 PM Smiles of a Summer Night
Aug 8 @ 7 PM Daughters, Wives, and a Mother
Aug 9 @ 4:30 PM The 400 Blows
Aug 9 @ 7 PM Andrei Rublev
Aug 10 @ 4 PM A Wanderer’s Notebook
Aug 10 @ 7 PM Vincent & Theo

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📽️ This Week in Film:
Jul 30 @ 7 PM – Él
Jul 31 @ 7 PM – Untamed
Aug 1 @ 7 PM – Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer
Aug 2 @ 4 PM – Gosford Park
Aug 2 @ 7 PM – Summer with Monika
Aug 3 @ 4 PM – Ivan’s Childhood
Aug 3 @ 6:30 PM – 3 Women

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📽️ This Week in Film:
Jul 23 @ 7 PM – The Long Goodbye (sold out!)
Jul 24 @ 7 PM – The Phenix City Story
Jul 25 @ 7 PM – A Wife’s Heart
Jul 26 @ 5 PM – Elvira Madigan
Jul 27 @ 7 PM – Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

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📽️This Week in Film:
Jul 16 @ 7 PM – Floating Clouds
Jul 17 @ 7 PM – Nostalghia
Jul 18 @ 7 PM – Nightmare Alley
Jul 19 @ 5 PM – The Count of the Old Town
Jul 19 @ 7 PM – Flowing
Jul 20 @ 4:30 PM – A Photographic Memory
Jul 20 @ 6:30 PM – The Sacrifice

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