Welcome to the Buzz’s community calendar – please explore our list of local-ish events…and please feel free to add your own.
We invite visitors to our Calm Mornings program on Saturday, June 29, from 9am to 1pm, inspired by the film Onward (2020). ASL interpretation will be provided. SCHEDULE: 9–10am | Early Gallery Access Explore the Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation and Effects galleries in our Stories of Cinema exhibition on Level 3, where sound and lighting […]
*This is an accommodative screening where we offer open captioning, keep the theater dimly lit, and maintain a lower volume specifically for neurodivergent viewers.* Director Dan Scanlon (Monsters University) was inspired by the loss of his own father to write (with Jason Headley and Keith Bunin) this original animated story about two elf brothers (voiced […]
Join the Academy Museum for a special presentation of the Dykstraflex: a computerized camera control system used to film the original Star Wars trilogy. For a limited time, visitors can see the behind-the-scenes innovations that brought thrilling motion to a galaxy far, far away in the original Star Wars trilogy. Groundbreaking special effects company Industrial […]
Drawing on Greek drama and modern dance to interpret Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play, scholar B. Ruby Rich notes that “Jarman’s time travel” in Edward II “insist(s) on carrying the court into today’s gay world.” British filmmaker Derek Jarman’s output is as varied and rich as the movements within which his films are positioned. Considered at […]
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 the most absolutely wild films of the 70s (...thereby of all time) comes to PRS! Do not miss one of the most fun theater experiences! Calling all lovers of the weird and wonderful! On the last two Saturdays of June we are presenting two brilliantly bonkers cinematic marvels— the outrageous & gleeful The […]
Directed by Robert Aldrich (1962, 134 minutes) Gates - 7:15pm / Film - 9pm There’s a special bond between sisters Joan Crawford and Bette Davis—hatred! Family can be torture, but a picnic under the stars is golden. Watch Hollywood’s gothic masterpiece, creepy and camp all at once. Write a letter to daddy about all the […]
Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, adapted from his novel of the same name, was chosen by the Academy Museum Teen Council because the story offers an uncensored view into the semi-horrific but beautiful lives of modern teenagers. The movie captures the roller coaster ride that is high school by following introverted freshman […]
Robert Aldrich’s film version of Mickey Spillane’s pulp novel is one of the most memorably brutal noirs ever produced during what some refer to as the Golden Age of Hollywood. Ralph Meeker plays Spillane’s iconic tough guy private eye Mike Hammer, who finds himself embroiled in a complicated case involving a woman on the run […]
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 […]
Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel—inspired by the rise and fall of Huey P. Long, the controversial governor and senator from Louisiana—became a gripping political thriller that won Best Picture. The film also won Oscars for the career-making performance of Broderick Crawford as Willie Stark (the film’s character based on Long) and Mercedes McCambridge’s tough, […]
Introduction by filmmaker Roberto Fiesco. Brilliant filmmaker Roberto Gavaldón collaborated with screenwriter José Revueltas to create this distinctly Mexican variant on the time-honored Evil Twin plot: this time, it’s the great Dolores del Río as both a meek, bespectacled manicurist and her mercenary, man-eating sister. But in this case, envy proves to be a greater […]
