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Welcome to the Buzz’s community calendar – please explore our list of local-ish events…and please feel free to add your own.
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 […]
Selected by the Executives Branch. A seemingly immature young man insinuates himself into the life of a handsome, charming heir with deadly results in Anthony Minghella’s lavish film version of the first of Patricia Highsmith’s “Ripley” books, previously adapted as the French film Purple Noon (1960). Matt Damon makes a deceptively sympathetic Ripley, supported by […]
Introduction by Gabriel Figueroa Flores, photographer and son of cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa. Llévame en tus brazos (Take Me in Your Arms) Lensed by the renowned Gabriel Figueroa, the magnetic Ninón Sevilla (1921–2015)—who also produced, uncredited, alongside brothers Guillermo Calderón and Pedro Calderón—stars as Rita, a young woman in Veracruz who lives for her family and […]
Directed by John G. Avildsen (1976, 119 minutes) Gates - 7:15pm / Film - 9pm It’s red, white, black and blue this Fourth of July Celebrate Independence Day with a stellar combo: a prizefighter classic, jaw-dropping fireworks, and a sizzling summer party. Italian Stallion Sylvester Stallone tries not to get TKO-ed on the rocky road […]
A former big band leader (screen musical legend Gene Kelly) and a frustrated painter (The Warriors star Michael Beck) team up to create the roller disco of their dreams in LA’s Pan Pacific Park with the help of none other than the muse of dance (pop icon Olivia Newton-John). The imaginative musical fantasy has developed […]
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, […]
Maryam Tafakory radically recontextualizes film, poetry, and archival sound and image to create a vital dialogue with post-Revolution Iranian cinema. Creating and illuminating layers of meaning through digital collage, her video essays and live performances provide a prismatic lens through which to view Iranian cinema and storytelling, without centering a Western gaze. The work is […]
Enjoy a bevy of robots, 3-eyed aliens, Mumu monsters & wonderfully cheezy lightsaber rip-off battles in the courtyard of PRS under the sky! STARCRASH starring Caroline Munro and Marjoe Gortner Presented in association with dublab What better place to enjoy a bevy of robots, 3-eyed aliens, Mumu monsters and wonderfully cheezy lightsaber rip-off battles than […]
Steve Martin is brilliant alongside his iconic castmate Diane Keaton in the remake of the 1950 film of the same name, Father of the Bride, portraying George, a business owner from the small California town of San Marino. He loses his cool when his “little girl,” 22-year-old Annie (Kimberly Williams), returns home from Europe with […]
The Education team invites families to join museum educators every month to be inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and screenings to create, learn, and have fun! July’s Drop-in Workshop for Families is inspired by the art of Claymation! This month’s workshop is inspired by the different forms of animation found in the Inventing Worlds and […]
As B. Ruby Rich notes in her foundational New Queer Cinema essay for The Village Voice, at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, “Isaac Julien was suddenly cast in the role of the older generation” with the premiere of Young Soul Rebels, his narrative feature debut after a career of shorts and documentaries. Set during the […]
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 […]
RUSLAN AND LUDMILA – 1972, Mosfilm, 150 min. The final film from Russian fantasy master Aleksandr Ptushko (ILYA MUROMETS, SAMPO), RUSLAN AND LUDMILA was a glorious and magical summation of his career: a 2-1/2 hour greatest hits package filled with the sweeping lyricism, bejeweled visual F/X and mythic storytelling that put him on par with […]
Following members of New York City’s ballroom scene started by Black and Latinx gay and transgender communities in Harlem, Paris Is Burning documents the inner workings of ball culture from its origins and competitions to the houses and the mothers who founded them. Shot through interviews conducted between the mid- and late-1980s, the film offers […]