Check out what is new and ongoing @bampfa.bsky.social (2155 Center Street) in December! 🖼️ 📽️

More Info: bampfa.org

Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman (Jul 3 - Dec 21)

Lee ShinJa: Drawing with Thread (Aug 6 - Feb 1, 2026)

The Rad Films This Winter at The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive Dive into BAMPFA's Winter 2025: Frederick Wiseman docs, Julia Loktev's daring journalism film, and Jerry Ross Barrish's art—provocative cinema that challenges perspectives.

Now at the @brokeassstuart.bsky.social website: preview of the @bampfa.bsky.social Winter 2025 program, featuring everything from a look at Truffaut's #films from a personal perspective to Wong Kar-Wai's films restored in 4K and on the big screen. www.tinyurl.com/4mvmuhfs #Filmsky

📽️ Upcoming Screenings:
Nov 12 @ 7 PM—Gunvor Nelson: Program 1
Nov 13 @ 7 PM—Fire of Wind
Nov 14 @ 7 PM—Marta Mateus: Poetry, Portraiture, and Place
Nov 15 @ 7 PM—Trás-os-Montes
Nov 16 @ 2 PM—Gunvor Nelson: Program 2
Nov 16 @ 5 PM—Husband and Wife
Nov 16 @ 7 PM—Ana

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António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro One of my biggest objections to many of the films that pass through the festival circuit today is the phony cosmopolitanism of many productions: films made from nowhere, but seemingly addressed to eve...

Bonus archive posts: Jonathan Mackris on António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, two of whose category-defying films "recapturing some of the oral traditions of the villages" of northeastern Portugal are screening this weekend at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/ant...

Sat / Nov 8 @ 3:30 PM—The Burnt Theatre
Sat / Nov 8 @ 7 PM—One Evening After the War
Sun / Nov 9 @ 1:30 PM—Everything Will Be OK
Sun / Nov 9 @ 5 PM—Wife
Sun / Nov 9 @ 7 PM—Juvenile Court

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📽️ Upcoming Screenings:
Wed / Nov 5 @ 7 PM—The Films of Tomonari Nishikawa
Thu / Nov 6 @ 3:30 PM—Rice People
Thu / Nov 6 @ 7 PM—Lightning
Fri / Nov 7 @ 2:30 PM—The Missing Picture
Fri / Nov 7 @ 7 PM—Meeting with Pol Pot
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Showing Soon at BAMPFA: Avocado Iced Coffee and Art-Inspired Cakes Kopi Bar is bringing its Cal-Indonesian pastries and coffee drinks to Berkeley.

Opening Saturday at @bampfa.bsky.social!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398046...

A face seen through sun-dappled autumn leaves in Marta Mateus’s FIRE OF WIND (2024)

Marta Mateus (BARBS, WASTELAND; FIRE OF WIND) is presenting and discussing her work and influences @anthologyfilm.bsky.social, the Siskel + Doc Films, @acropoliscinema.bsky.social, and @bampfa.bsky.social — www.criterion.com/current/post...

Kopi Bar is now open at @bampfa.bsky.social! Welcome to #downtown #berkeley! ☕️

@mayoradenaishii.bsky.social

Sat / Nov 1 @ 1:30 PM—State Legislature
Sat / Nov 1 @ 6:30 PM—Shanghai Blues
Sun / Nov 2 @ 3 PM—Lust, Caution (Sold out!)
Sun / Nov 2 @ 7 PM—Before Night Falls
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📽️This Week in Film:
Wed / Oct 29 @ 7 PM—BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Free admission!)
Thu / Oct 30 @ 7 PM—Crows and Sparrows
Fri / Oct 31 @ 4:30 PM—Four Nights a Dreamer
Fri / Oct 31 @ 6:30 PM—Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
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Oct 18 @ 7 PM — The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Oct 19 @ 1 PM — Traveling Actors
Oct 19 @ 3 PM — Outsider. Freud
Oct 19 @ 6 PM — About Endlessness

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This Week in Film:
Oct 15 @ 7 PM — Cheryl Dunye’s Short Work (Sold out!)
Oct 16 @ 7 PM — A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
Oct 17 @ 7 PM — No. 89 Shimen Road
Oct 18 @ 3 PM — Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
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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

🎟️ wfly.co/Qd5i3

📽️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

🎟️https://wfly.co/b9T1V

📽️ 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
bampfa.org/film

📽️ 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
bampfa.org/film

📽️ 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

🎟️ bampfa.org/film

Routed West @bampfa.bsky.social is stunning & worth the visit. I’d already planned to go but happened to meet one of the quilters leaving a coffee shop a few days before. She told me “look for the red cardinals” (her quilt) next to her grandmother’s (age 109) & great aunt’s quilts. Very memorable—

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...