Learn more about the gallery Inventing Worlds and Characters: Animation from Exhibitions Curator Jenny He. 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 us in conversation with Exhibitions Curator…
Mar
31
Fri
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
31
Fri
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
31
Fri
7:30 pm The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
A rarely screened gem in Satyajit Ray’s abundant catalogue and a film beloved to generations of Indian audiences, The Golden Fortress is set in scenic Rajasthan. Ray introduces viewers to charming private investigator Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) and his teenaged cousin sidekick Tapesh (Siddartha Chatterjee). Ray originally presented these characters to young audiences when he was…
Apr
1
Sat
11:00 am FernGully: The Last Rainforest @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
A group of fairies try to save an endangered Australian rainforest in this animated fantasy directed by Bill Kroyer. The rare Hollywood family film to openly address environmental issues, FernGully benefits from an impressive voice cast including Tim Curry as the film’s villain, performing the song “Toxic Love,” and Robin Williams, voicing an animated character…
Apr
1
Sat
11:00 am P.F. Candle Co. x A Good Used Book Pop-up @ P.F. Candle Co. Echo Park Flagship
P.F. Candle Co. is teaming up with their friends at A Good Used Book for an exciting pop-up this weekend! Swing by the Echo Park Flagship on Saturday, April 1st and Sunday, April 2nd from 11AM-7PM to shop a curated selection from A Good Used Book and smell the entire P.F. Candle Co. collection! About…
Apr
1
Sat
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!
Apr
2
Sun
2:00 pm The Elephant God (Joi Baba Felunath) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Satyajit Ray returns to the delightful adventures of detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) and his teen sidekick Tapesh in this lively follow-up to The Golden Fortress. While holidaying in the scenic holy city of Benares (now Varanasi), our stealthy sleuth is approached by a wealthy family to retrieve an invaluable family heirloom, a golden Ganesh statue…
Apr
2
Sun
5:00 pm Sunday Supper @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Every Sunday, Fanny's hosts a weekly Sunday Supper with dishes inspired by The Godfather in conjunction with the Academy Museum's gallery The Art of Moviemaking: The Godfather, dedicated to Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 classic. The family-style menu includes a rotating selection of cheeky specials such as Connie's Crispy Calamari, A Pasta You Can't Refuse, and Sonny's "Bada-Bing!" Ribs, along with a…
Apr
2
Sun
7:30 pm 42nd Street @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
“You’re going out a youngster but you’ve got to come back a star!” Few lines better sum up the Golden Age of the Hollywood musical than theater producer Warner Baxter’s command to ingenue Ruby Keeler in this classic Warner Bros. hit that earned nominations for Best Picture and Sound Recording in the sixth year of…
Apr
3
Mon
3:30 pm Everybody is a Puppeteer! - Children's Workshop @ Memorial Branch Library
EVENT LISTING Photo (attached): Children and their caregivers are invited to make puppets using upcycled materials, such as paper and popsicle sticks, pictured here, at the Memorial Branch Library. Use your imagination to create a puppet out of upcycled materials and other craft supplies on Monday, April 3, from 3:30-5 p.m. at at the…
Apr
4
Tue
12:30 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!
Apr
4
Tue
7:30 pm Disovering Debussy: Impressions of Pelléas @ Ebell of Los Angeles
Based on an enchanting story about a love triangle and an elusive woman found in the forest, Impressions de Pelléas is an abbreviated version of Debussy’s original five-act opera, Pelléas and Mélisande, reimagined on a chamber scale for two pianists and five singers. Under the baton of world-renowned conductor and music director at LA Opera,…
Apr
4
Tue
7:30 pm In the Heat of the Night @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Selected by the Producers Branch. Sidney Poitier secured his position as a top star with his electric portrayal of Virgil Tibbs, a brilliant Philadelphia police detective who finds himself teaming up with a small-town sheriff (Rod Steiger in an Oscar-winning performance) to solve a murder in a Mississippi town in this witty and stylish mystery…
Apr
5
Wed
12:00 pm Book Sale @ Fairfax Branch Library
Apr
5
Wed
6:30 pm Melrose Wednesday Walk @ Intersection of Spaulding & Waring
Would you like to meet some of your neighbors? Maybe you have an issue you'd like to discuss with our LAPD Senior Lead Officer in a non-emergency setting. Maybe you would just like to feel safe with a group walking our neighborhood. We'd like to make this happen! Typically we are joined by a member…
Apr
6
Thu
6:00 pm LAPD Olympic Division Community Police Advisory Board (C-PAB) Meeting @ Online
*Talk to your Senior Lead Officers *Captain’s update *Guest speaker from the Los Angeles Police Department Media Relations Division. *Parking located at Kyro Medical Center on Menlo Ave/11th St. For questions, please contact Olympic Area Community Relations Office at (213) 382-9130
Apr
6
Thu
7:30 pm Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Deshe) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Satyajit Ray revisits the singing nomads Goopy and Bagha, this time in vibrant color. After a decade of life in royal repose, the duo embarks on a journey to the kingdom of Hirak at the invitation of its ruler. During their tuneful cross-country journey—Ray reveling in the grandeur and diversity of India’s landscapes—the pair discover…
Apr
7
Fri
1:00 pm Drop-In Tours: Stories of Cinema—Encounters @ 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 April, our Drop-In Tours will focus on…
Apr
7
Fri
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!
Apr
7
Fri
7:30 pm The Home and the World (Ghare Baire) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Set against the chaotic aftermath of the 1905 British partition of Bengal into Muslim and Hindu states, a love triangle forms between a Hindu landlord (Victor Banerjee), his wife (Swatilekha Chatterjee), and a charismatic revolutionary (Soumitra Chatterjee). This graceful chamber piece was completed by Satyajit Ray with his son’s help after the director suffered two…
Apr
8
Sat
11:00 am Microcosmos @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Oscar nominee Jacques Perrin ( Winged Migration, Z ) produced this eye-popping look at a world rarely seen by human eyes. Directors Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou used groundbreaking macroscopic photography equipment to make a big-screen spectacle out of the tiny plant and animal life of a French meadow. This immersive visual experience features narration…
Apr
8
Sat
2:00 pm Madame X: An Absolute Ruler @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Throughout her over fifty-year career, German surrealist filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger (b. 1942) has forged a new and entirely unique cinematic language for fiction filmmaking. With her unconventional and wildly imaginative approach to form, performance, and visual style evident from her debut feature Madame X: An Absolute Ruler, Ottinger breaks open the traditionally male-led swashbuckling genre…
Apr
8
Sat
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!
Apr
8
Sat
7:30 pm An Enemy of the People (Ganashatru) with Deliverance (Sadgati) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
An Enemy of the People (Ganashatru) In this contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People (En folkefiende), Satyajit Ray offers a scathing commentary on the Indian social system and religious orthodoxies. Ray regular Soumitra Chatterjee stars as a doctor who traces a jaundice outbreak in a West Bengal tourist destination…
Apr
9
Sun
2:00 pm Branches of the Tree (Shakha Proshakha) @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Satyajit Ray returns to the topic of family with his most direct portrait of generational friction in the somber Branches of the Tree. When a self-made industrialist and philanthropist has a heart attack, his sons rush to his bedside. While waiting out their father’s convalescence (or demise), the reunited siblings let old resentments simmer as…
Apr
9
Sun
5:00 pm Sunday Supper @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Every Sunday, Fanny's hosts a weekly Sunday Supper with dishes inspired by The Godfather in conjunction with the Academy Museum's gallery The Art of Moviemaking: The Godfather, dedicated to Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 classic. The family-style menu includes a rotating selection of cheeky specials such as Connie's Crispy Calamari, A Pasta You Can't Refuse, and Sonny's "Bada-Bing!" Ribs, along with a…
Apr
9
Sun
7:30 pm The Maltese Falcon @ Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
This faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s private eye mystery—the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Huston—was actually the third film version that Warner Bros. had produced in 10 years, but was such an immediate classic that no one has dared attempt to film it again in the eight decades since. The film earned nominations for…
Apr
11
Tue
12:30 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!
Apr
11
Tue
6:30 pm Mid-City West Community Council Board Meeting @ Online
All meetings currently being held online, via Zoom. See http://www.midcitywest.org for more information.
Apr
12
Wed
12:00 pm Book Sale @ Fairfax Branch Library
Apr
12
Wed
6:30 pm GWNC Board Meeting @ Online
The monthly meeting of the Greater Wilshire Neighborhood Council. All meetings currently online via Zoom.
Apr
12
Wed
6:30 pm Melrose Wednesday Walk @ Intersection of Spaulding & Waring
Would you like to meet some of your neighbors? Maybe you have an issue you'd like to discuss with our LAPD Senior Lead Officer in a non-emergency setting. Maybe you would just like to feel safe with a group walking our neighborhood. We'd like to make this happen! Typically we are joined by a member…
