The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived With The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Lebanese director Heiny Srour (b. 1945) became the first Arab female filmmaker to see her film screened in competition at Cannes. Centering the feminist guerrilla movement of the Dhofar Rebellion in Oman, Srour and her small crew trekked deep within the conflict…
Mar
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1:00 pm Drop-In Tours: Stories of Cinema—I Am Somebody @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
The Education and Public Engagement team invites visitors to explore Stories of Cinema, the Academy Museum’s ongoing core exhibition that presents diverse, international, and complex stories of moviemakers and the works they create. Join museum educators on Friday afternoons to explore highlights on moviemakers and movie objects. In March, our Drop-In Tours will focus on…
Mar
24
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3:00 pm All Ages Chess Club @ Memorial Branch Library
Do you play chess? Interested in learning? Then join Stephen and Avi every Friday afternoon to learn and play chess with other people. All ages and levels of play are welcome!
Mar
24
Fri
7:30 pm The Adversary (Pratidwandi) with Company Limited (Seemabaddha) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
The Adversary (Pratidwandi) Satyajit Ray’s first film of the 1970s starts boldly with a series of hallucinatory negative-printed sequences. The opening chapter in Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy, The Adversary depicts medical student Siddhartha’s travails in the bustling West Bengal capital as he tries and fails to find work. Explosions rock the streets as random, communist ideology…
Mar
25
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9:00 am Calm Morning: Foley Art @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Join us for sensory-friendly gallery exploration and a family workshop inspired by the accommodative screening of Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Calm Morning is a free program with the purchase of general admission. Museum admission for children ages 17 and under is always free. We invite visitors to our Calm Morning program on Saturday, March 25,…
Mar
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11:00 am Singin' in the Rain @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Accommodative Screening One of the most beloved movie musicals of all time is also one of the greatest films about moviemaking ever made, with Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds starring as a trio of performers who weather the transition from silent cinema to talking pictures with humor and a wealth of dazzling musical…
Mar
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2:00 pm The Middleman (Jana Aranya) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Satyajit Ray concludes the Calcutta Trilogy by tracing the downward spiral of a promising young man. After failing to enter the corporate workforce, Somnath (Pradip Mukherjee) strikes out on his own as a “middleman” and quickly discovers how much greasing is needed to turn the wheels of commerce. A panoramic underworld film, The Middleman starkly…
Mar
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3:00 pm Book Sale @ Memorial Branch Library
The Friends of Memorial Branch Library have lots of gently used books for sale. Stop by to pick up something good to read!
Mar
25
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7:30 pm Oklahoma! @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Though best known for her noir roles, Gloria Grahame shines in this pastoral Rodgers & Hammerstein classic as the coquettish Ado Annie. The sole musical directed by Academy Award–winning Austrian émigré Fred Zinnemann, Oklahoma! tracks the romance between cowboy Curly (Gordon MacRae) and farm girl Laurey (20-year-old Shirley Jones in her film debut) in the…
Mar
26
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2:00 pm Diary of an African Nun with Hester Street @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Diary of an African Nun Based on a short story by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker, Julie Dash’s (b. 1952) student film, made while attending UCLA’s MFA program during the groundbreaking L.A. Rebellion period—which saw a massive surge in films made by Black students at the university—explores the interior, spiritual life of a young Black…
Mar
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7:30 pm Blazing Saddles @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
A Black railroad laborer (Cleavon Little) becomes the sheriff of a Western town in the first of Mel Brooks’s parody films—still one of the best of the genre. Brooks satirizes racism in what is arguably his most taboo-breaking film, full of dialogue both unprintable and endlessly quotable. Blazing Saddles earned nominations for its Film Editing,…
