Cheaply curious in Berkeley | Local Guides
We’ve all been there — typing desperate last-minute queries into Google, TikTok or anything else that might promise…
Free Berkeley (and beyond) events you don’t want to miss this August | Local Guides
August is right around the corner, which means students start heading back to UC Berkeley. Whether this is…
Films made at Saul Zaentz’s Berkeley studio spotlit at BAMPFA
Saul Zaentz at work in Fantasy Studios. Courtesy: BAMPFA Few film producers were better at balancing art and…
BAMPFA curator Jeff Griffith-Perham unpacks expansive film exhibition ‘A Complete Stanley Kubrick’ | Film & Television
Whether or not you self-identify as a cinephile, the chances you’ve escaped references to Stanley Kubrick’s contributions to…
BAMPFA removes George Washington painting from Doe Library for preservation | Campus
After 33 years of display in Doe Library’s Heyns Reading Room, the painting “Washington Rallying the Troops at…
Maren Hassinger turns trash into art at BAMPFA
Watch for a scramble in September, when Cal undergraduates will line up to help scatter—and then reclaim—trash. As…
No English major required: Berkeley literary picks for everyone | Local Guides
I’m a woman in STEM, but I was almost an English major. With the weather warming up and…
Lucrecia Martel dives into ‘Our Land,’ BAMPFA retrospective | Film & Television
In the 25 years since Lucrecia Martel premiered her directorial debut “La Ciénaga,” Argentina has seen more presidents…
UC Berkeley appoints Alissa Schapiro as curator of country’s only public university-affiliated Jewish museum | Campus
Alissa Schapiro has been interested in the Magnes Collection for nearly 10 years. Writing about American art and…
Berkeley museum goes deep on the New German Cinema
To a dedicated admirer of European movies, going to “Fassbinder and the New German Cinema,” a 20-title retrospective…
Psychedelic film series at BAMPFA opens doors to other worlds
BAMPFA’s Kate MacKay explains Psychedelia & Cinema, a mind-bending film series that redefines the cinematic trip as a…
François Truffaut’s daughter is a Berkeley resident since 1978
French New Wave director François Truffaut and his daughter Laura Truffaut, now a Berkeley resident, on the set…