Legendary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) spent three decades developing his animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler, only to ultimately have it taken from his control, recut, and released by others without his approval. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first presented this “Moment in Time” restoration of […]

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) ABOUT THE FILMS: CREMASTER 4, 1994, Dir. Matthew Barney, 42 Min, USA The fourth film in the cycle (first in production) most clearly shows Barney’s consistent utilization of landscape as character and establishes many of the themes that the artist weaves through the subsequent films. Shot on the Isle […]

ALADDIN (1992) Imagine if you had three wishes, three hopes, three dreams, and they all could come true. In Disney’s animated, award-winning triumph, a street-smart commoner will have to stop an evil sorcerer with the help of a side-splitting, shape-shifting Genie, unforgettably voiced by the great Robin Williams, all backed by the musical artistry of […]

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) RELEASED IN: 1972 175 MINUTES DIRECTED BY: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA ABOUT THE FILM: Francis Ford Coppola’s epic masterpiece features Marlon Brando in his Oscar-winning role as the patriarch of the Corleone family. Director Coppola paints a chilling portrait of the Sicilian clan’s rise and near fall from power in […]

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 fly-on-the-wall account of John Lennon and The Beatles’s manager Brian Epstein’s single night in a Catalonian hotel room is reimagined within a queer reality by American filmmaker Christopher Münch, morphing an otherwise pedestrian evening into a tantalizing will-they-or-won’t-they set on the brink of the Beatlemania that would change them both forever. Though Münch believed […]

VANISHING POINT It’s the maximum trip… at maximum speed. Kowalski delivers cars faster than anyone. And his newest assignment is to get a 1970 Dodge Challenger from Denver to San Francisco by Monday. With legions of the law in hot pursuit and a disc jockey guiding his fate, the journey will quickly accelerate into the […]

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) RELEASED IN: 1974 200 MINUTES DIRECTED BY: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA ABOUT THE FILM: This brilliant companion piece to the original THE GODFATHER continues the saga of two generations of successive power within the Corleone family. Coppola tells two stories in Part II: the roots and rise of a young […]

Free for Contributor-level and above members The first film to win the “big five” Oscars—Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Directing, and Screenplay—is a rollicking romantic comedy that is as charming and delightful as when it was released nine decades ago. Claudette Colbert is the heiress fleeing her controlling father, and Clark Gable is the […]

Director: Ridley Scott Run Time: 118 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 1982 Starring: Edward James Olmos, Harrison Ford, M. Emmet Walsh, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young Presented in the definitive Final Cut featuring additional scenes and remastered sound and image! In decaying Neo-LA, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) haunts the streets in search of a fugitive gang […]

“With an absolute economy of means, Benning constructed a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dyke such as we’ve never seen before.” – B. Ruby Rich, 1992 Encountering the intimate works of artist Sadie Benning (b. 1973) can evoke the same sensation as thumbing through a stranger’s diary, a feeling that inspires a glance […]

The 2024 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival happens June 19 to June 24, 2024 at various theaters in Los Angeles. You'll find spectacular world premiere special events, thought-provoking filmmakers and celebrities at events all week long, including a special appearance by American rap artist MATISYAHU for his world premiere documentary ``Song of Ascent'' at the […]

Selected by the Directors Branch. The only fiction feature directed by Billy Woodberry is a low-key drama about a man who is unemployed, living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, struggling to help support his wife and children. Woodberry, a member of the L.A. Rebellion group of Black filmmakers who emerged from UCLA, developed […]

The 2024 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival happens June 19 to June 24, 2024 at various theaters in Los Angeles. You'll find spectacular world premiere special events, thought-provoking filmmakers and celebrities at events all week long, including a special appearance by American rap artist MATISYAHU for his world premiere documentary ``Song of Ascent'' at the […]

Cheryl Dunye’s queer cult work of autofiction has become a landmark of American indies—and won the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 1996 Berlin International Film Festival. Dunye herself steps into the role of Cheryl, a young Black filmmaker who spends her days working in a video store. Following Cheryl’s dating life and her […]

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, […]

DUNE (1984) Dazzling special effects, unforgettable images and powerful performances highlight David Lynch’s stunning film version of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction epic about an intergalactic warrior’s messianic rise. Starring Kyle MacLachlan, José Ferrer, Max von Sydow, Oscar winner Linda Hunt and Sting, Dune is the ultimate adventure experience that goes beyond the imagination. (Universal […]

Director: Denis Villeneuve Run Time: 116 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2016 Starring: Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tzi Ma They come in peace — or do they? When twelve spacecrafts appear above Earth’s surface, it’s up to a linguist enlisted by the US Army to decode their intentions and avert global […]

AMARCORD This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period, the most personal film from Federico Fellini, satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota’s classic, nostalgia-tinged score. The Academy Award–winning Amarcord remains one of cinema’s […]

Special guests: Pre-screening conversation with actors Emily Rios and Jesse Garcia. While preparing for her quinceañera, a lavish coming-of-age festivity in Latinx cultures, Magdalena (Emily Rios) discovers she is pregnant. When kicked out of her home, she is taken in by her nurturing great-granduncle Tomas (Chalo González in a heartfelt performance), a beloved street vendor […]

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) RELEASED IN: 1972 124 MINUTES DIRECTED BY: BOB FOSSE ABOUT THE FILM: Berlin, 1931. As Nazism rises in Germany, flamboyant American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) sings in a decadent nightclub and falls in love with a British language teacher (Michael York)–whom she shares with a homosexual German baron. But […]

Director: Abel Ferrara Run Time: 81 min. Release Year: 1981 Starring: Abel Ferrara, Albert Sinkys, Darlene Stuto, Helen McGara, Zoë Lund As the tagline says: she was abused and violated. It will never happen again! A mute seamstress lets violence do the talking as she prowls the streets of New York for vengeance — a […]

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 […]

$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission) Rare archival 70mm print! RELEASED IN: 1965 172 MINUTES DIRECTED BY: ROBERT WISE ABOUT THE FILM: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical inspired this story of the governess who won the heart of the Von Trapp family and whose courage led them across the Alps in their 1938 flight to freedom. […]

History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can’t spell. On the precipice of flunking out of high school, San Dimas dudes Bill & Ted will have to use a phone booth time machine to assemble the ultimate class project, not to mention save the future of humanity. Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, and […]

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 […]

Join Us for a Free Program! Return with us to the rough and tumble Old West when author Michael F. Blake joins us at the Hollywood Heritage Museum to give a talk on John Ford's classic westerns that comprise "The Cavalry Trilogy" - FORT APACHE (1948), SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949) and RIO GRANDE […]

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 […]

$12.00 (member) ; $17.00 (general admission) Rare archival 70mm print! RELEASED IN: 1969 146 MINUTES DIRECTED BY: GENE KELLY ABOUT THE FILM: Dolly Levi uses her matchmaking skills in New York City to orchestrate the love lives of her friends, all the while trying to get the man she likes to fall for her. FORMAT: […]

Admission: Adults $22 | Children $10 RSVP/Reservations: Tickets Required After being dumped by the girl he believes to be his soulmate, hopeless romantic Tom Hansen reflects on their relationship to try and figure out where things went wrong and how he can win her back. During select weekend nights this summer and fall, bring a […]

SMILEY FACE High. How are you? When an endlessly stoned slacker actress eats a full plate of her roommate’s cupcakes against his orders, she’ll soon discover the tasty treats were heavily laced with pot, leading her on a high-larious series of marijuana misadventures across Los Angeles. An incredible Anna Faris stars in director Gregg Araki’s […]

Director: Denis Villeneuve Run Time: 164 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2017 Starring: Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Ryan Gosling Denis Villeneuve reinvents the world of BLADE RUNNER as a dystopian wasteland thirty years after the events of the first film. Ryan Gosling stars as K, a new Blade Runner whose […]

Back by popular demand! Join us for the gleefully bonkers soon-to-be cult classic THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS!! 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 Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) on 6/22 […]

$10.00 (member) ; $15.00 (general admission) Q&A with actor and assistant choreographer Kathryn Doby, featured dancer Sandahl Bergman and first assistant director Wolfgang Glattes 45th Anniversary! RELEASED IN: 1979 123 MINUTES DIRECTED BY: BOB FOSSE ABOUT THE FILM: The preternaturally gifted director and choreographer Bob Fosse turned the camera on his own life for this […]

Directed by Angela Robinson (2004, 90 minutes) Gates - 7:15pm / Film - 9pm With Director Angela Robinson and Sara Foster In Person! Party with diamonds in your eyes this Pride month! It’s a sapphic spectacle when romance blossoms between a secret spy and her mark. Lez be honest: what follows is a queer masterpiece […]

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 […]

The 2024 Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival happens June 19 to June 24, 2024 at various theaters in Los Angeles. You'll find spectacular world premiere special events, thought-provoking filmmakers and celebrities at events all week long, including a special appearance by American rap artist MATISYAHU for his world premiere documentary ``Song of Ascent'' at the […]

Director: Slava Tsukerman Run Time: 112 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1982 Starring: Anne Carlisle, Bob Brady, Otto von Wernherr, Paula E. Sheppard, Susan Doukas Aliens have landed and they’re in search of the “perfect high,” but in the heroin-blitzed streets of ‘80s New York a greater trip awaits: sex. “Post-punk Cinderella” Anne Carlisle stars […]