Welcome to the Buzz’s community calendar – please explore our list of local-ish events…and please feel free to add your own.
We will have a series of drag queen story hours this June hosted by Pickle, the director of Drag Story Hour Los Angeles. Pickle will be joined by fellow drag artists for readings of The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess, Feminist Baby by Loryn Brantz, and It's Okay […]
Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is a private eye in 1930s Los Angeles who gains an unexpected client—Roger Rabbit, a cartoon film star, for Eddie lives in a world where cartoon characters are as real as humans. Director Robert Zemeckis’s wittily scripted comedy-mystery is a dazzling mix of live-action and animation, incorporating beloved cartoon characters from […]
Director Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 innovative, genre-bending feature, The Exiles, surveys the lives of Indigenous folks who had been displaced from their reservation and are now living in and around what was then Bunker Hill in Downtown LA. Mackenzie employs minimal intent in the formation of his cinematic language, utilizing negative space in his shots, which […]
On weekend afternoons this summer, visitors can experience a curated selection of home movies filmed in and around Los Angeles in the state-of-the-art David Geffen Theater (DGT) with the purchase of a museum general admission ticket. Home movies are an essential part of our moving image heritage. The Academy Film Archive collects and conserves home […]
A Millennial cinematic classic, Clueless not only popularized famous catchphrases like “As if!” but also set new trends in pop culture which linger to this day. The film follows Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a rich and popular teenager from Beverly Hills, who, with the help of her best friend, Dionne (Stacey Dash), engineers a successful matchmaking […]
One of many international filmmakers drawn to Hollywood in the 1960s, Franco Rossi brought his cast and crew to Los Angeles to shoot the city’s first-ever Italian-American co-production. As an Italian attorney’s vapid pursuits during a 24-hour layover take him between architectural marvels and anonymous locations, his encounters offer a darker take on the sunbaked […]
On weekend afternoons this summer, visitors can experience a curated selection of home movies filmed in and around Los Angeles in the state-of-the-art David Geffen Theater (DGT) with the purchase of a museum general admission ticket. Home movies are an essential part of our moving image heritage. The Academy Film Archive collects and conserves home […]
One of over a dozen collaborations between one-time Academy president Frank Capra and vaudeville-enthusiast-turned-screenwriter Robert Riskin, this wholesome rom-com finds wealthy, straitlaced bank vice-president Tony Kirby (James Stewart) head-over-heels for his stenographer Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), the only “normal” member in her family of eccentrics. What chaos will ensue when the parents meet?! Nominated in […]
Winner of the Cinematography Award at the edition of the Sundance Film Festival that inspired B. Ruby Rich to invent the term New Queer Cinema, Tom Kalin’s feature debut “puts the Homo back in Homicide” with a decidedly queer take on the real-life 1924 case of Leopold and Loeb, two teenage lovers who murdered a […]
Selected by the Documentary Branch. This tribute to Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert (1946–2022) pairs two of her Oscar-nominated documentaries. Union Maids (Documentary Feature nominee), directed with James Klein and Miles Mogulescu, tells the story of female participation in the American labor movement through extensive interviews with three veterans of the movement—Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, and […]
Special guest: Post-screening conversation with writer, director Gregg Araki, moderated by film critic and author Alonso Duralde. Though Gregg Araki’s third feature has been referred to as a “gay Thelma & Louise,” the raw ethos of leads Luke (Mike Dytri) and Jon (Craig Gilmore), both named after key French New Wave filmmakers, make this raucous […]
Join museum educators as they highlight the Inventing Worlds and Characters: Encounters gallery within our Stories of Cinema exhibition. Museum educators will focus on the innovations of costumes, props, and movie magic. These highlighted conversations will range from unique themes, designs, and elements of the moviemaking process. Visitors are encouraged to tango with Harley Quinn, […]
