Mikio Naruse: Floating Clouds, 1955
⏰ Summer Film Tickets on Sale Friday!
Mark your calendar—tickets for our summer films go on sale Friday, May 9 at 11 AM. Our summer series include a visit from acclaimed director Tsai Ming-liang, retrospectives of Andrei Tarkovsky and Mikio Naruse, and more.
Our theater goes dark for a couple weeks starting May 19—don't miss the final screenings of our spring season, listed below ⤵️
We look forward to welcoming you back with In Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City kicking off the summer season!
Directed by John Cassavetes, 1971
John Cassavetes’s take on the screwball comedy stars Gena Rowlands as Minnie, a beautiful, refined museum employee unlucky in love.
Directed by John Cassavetes, 1971
John Cassavetes’s take on the screwball comedy stars Gena Rowlands as Minnie, a beautiful, refined museum employee unlucky in love.
Directed by Mai Zetterling, 1968
Digital Restoration
In Mai Zetterling’s send-up of gender relations in contemporary Sweden, life, art, and fantasy intermingle as actors Liz (Bibi Andersson), Marianne (Harriet Andersson), and Gunilla (Gunnel Lindblom) perform in a touring production of Aristophanes’s Lysistrata.
Directed by John Cassavetes, 1984
BAMPFA Collection
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands star in this film about the blows and buttresses of family. “A mighty, intimate, kaleidoscopically subjective, bravely self-searching summation of a career, an era, and a life” (New Yorker).
Directed by Mai Zetterling, 1964
Digital Restoration
“Wildly subversive in its treatment of sexuality, gender, class, religion, marriage, and motherhood, Loving Couples is as electrifying a first feature as any in cinema history, announcing the arrival of an uncompromising artist in pursuit of raw emotional truth” (Janus Films).
Directed by John Cassavetes, 1980
A former gangster’s moll (Gena Rowlands) takes on the mob—while protecting a Puerto Rican orphan—in pre-gentrification, graffiti-tagged early 1980s New York. “A commercial film . . . turned into a slice of pure avant-garde” (Dave Kehr).
Directed by John Cassavetes, 1978
John Cassavetes’s tribute to acting, actors, and the search for artistic integrity centers around a successful stage actress (Gena Rowlands) grappling with her character. “Cassavetes’s most cleverly constructed film” (New Yorker).
Free Admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk starting at 1 PM.
Student filmmakers join us for a screening of this year’s prizewinners and honorable mentions in the film and video category of the Eisner Prize competition, UC Berkeley’s highest award for creative media making.
Series: Special Screenings 2025
Celebrate Mom with the Gift of Membership
This Mother’s Day, skip the ordinary and give Mom a gift she’ll cherish—a year of art, film, and creativity.
With a BAMPFA membership, Mom will enjoy a year filled with cultural discovery and unforgettable moments.
To purchase a membership, email us at bampfamember@berkeley.edu or call (510) 642-5186.
From Our Friends at CAAMFest
CAAMFest 2025
May 8–11 / San Francisco
Featuring over 40 films from Asian America, CAAMFest 2025 is offering the BAMPFA community free tickets to the Centerpiece Narrative screening of Characters Disappearing on Saturday, May 10, 4:30 PM, at the Roxie Theater. For his visually rigorous debut feature, director Connor Sen Warnick crafts a meditative portrait of young people grappling with disillusionment and failure as they navigate collective and individual desires. Use promo code CQ559G at checkout. More films & tickets at CAAMFest.com
Accessibility
If you have any questions about accessibility or need accommodations to attend a film screening, please contact us at bampfa@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-1412 (Wed–Sun, 11 AM–7 PM) as soon as you can. Advance notice helps us fulfill your request.
Berkeley Art Museum
and Pacific Film Archive
2120 Oxford St.
Berkeley, CA 94720
