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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.
“Somehow, I seduced the public,” María Félix (1914–2002) proclaims in her autobiography, Todas mis guerras (All My Wars), though today it’s hard to believe the legendary actress truly underestimated her own power onscreen. It is precisely her powerful performance in pioneering Mexican director Fernando de Fuentes’s Doña Bárbara that gave Felix her enduring nickname, “La […]
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 […]
Director David Lean’s film based on the Pierre Boulle novel about a World War II Japanese prison camp established the filmmaker as the master of intelligent epics. Best Actor–winner Alec Guinness is the officer who tries to broker an uneasy peace with the Japanese, supporting actor nominee Sessue Hayakawa is the inflexible commandant, and William […]
A key film of the movement, Gus Van Sant’s third feature film draws from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts I and II and is retold through the relationship between two young street hustlers, Mike (River Phoenix) and Scott (Keanu Reeves). The pair form a deep bond, and Mike falls in love with Scott, who is waiting […]
Selected by the Film Editors Branch. Federico Fellini’s fantastical epic about the personal and creative struggles of a successful film director is one of his most iconic movies, inspiring generations of filmmakers as well as a hit Broadway musical. Marcello Mastroianni plays the auteur Guido Anselmi, who reflects on the women in his life as […]
Made during director Luis Buñuel’s prolific yet still under-appreciated two-decade period in Mexico, Los olvidados proved an exception to the downward trend of Mexico’s film industry that began in the early 1950s. The film won Mexico’s second major prize at Cannes, following in the footsteps of María Candelaria’s (1944) landmark win. This against-formula juvenile crime […]
This thirteen-minute film documents a community campaign to change the name of a local peak in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Previously known as a racial slur, the mountain was renamed in 2010 to honor the first Black family to homestead in the Santa Monica Mountains. This community’s actions reverberated across the region, […]
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, […]
Dive into the unique, filthy, and laugh-out-loud world of John Waters with museum educators as they engage on films and objects in brief, 30-minute guided tours. These tours will cover a brief exploration into Waters’s process, style, and films as a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor.
The 2024 Cine Clásico series presented by the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles (LACLA) kicks off with a screening of the classic Mexican film En este pueblo no hay ladrones (There Are No Thieves in This Village) on Saturday, July 13, 2024. The Japanese American National Museum- Democracy Center is located at 100 N. […]
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 […]