Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Selected by the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch. An adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel of the same title, Wes Anderson’s first animation work, in collaboration with animation director Mark Gustafson (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), is meticulously crafted, utilizing traditional stop-motion techniques such as puppetry and practical effects. In this Academy Award–nominated feature, Mr. […]

In person: filmmaker Patricia Rozema Supported by government funding thanks in part to an endorsement from David Cronenberg, Patricia Rozema’s feature debut centers on Polly Vandersma (Sheila McCarthy), a Girl Friday for the curator of a private art gallery in Toronto. Through a video diary and Polly’s literal flights of fancy that unfold in her […]

Calm Mornings are 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 Mornings program on Saturday, April 27, from 9am to 1pm, inspired by the film He Named Me Malala (2015). ASL interpretation will be provided. SCHEDULE: 9–10am […]

Accessible Screening Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) directed this powerful documentary about Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist who survived a near-fatal Taliban attack at age 15 and went on to become the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history for her efforts to ensure education for children, especially girls. Guggenheim follows Yousafzai in her […]

The smash hit Broadway musical—inspired by the humorous short stories of Damon Runyon—became a lavish CinemaScope musical under the direction of Oscar-winner Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All about Eve). Marlon Brando was cast as the charming gambler Sky Masterson opposite another entertainment legend, Frank Sinatra, as Nathan Detroit. For his only movie musical, Mankiewicz gave the […]

In person: filmmaker Patricia Rozema Called “the best thing to happen to Austen in a long time” by Xtra Magazine, writer-director Patricia Rozema boldly enters the “Austen-mania” of the ’90s (five other Jane Austen adaptations were filmed for the big screen in the decade, and that’s not counting Clueless!) with this loose interpretation of the […]

Based on Tennessee Williams’s 1957 play Orpheus Descending, Sidney Lumet’s drama of drifter Valentine “Snakeskin” Xavier (Marlon Brando) seeking the straight-and-narrow path via a new start in small-town Mississippi could at face value be considered a departure for the director, though only by way of location; the picture’s themes of class divide and social tension […]

Special guests: Pre-screening conversation with Rebecca Brando and actor Penelope Ann Miller. Gangster films were no longer a popular genre when Paramount optioned Mario Puzo’s novel about an aging head of a crime family and the son reluctant to join the family business, but Francis Ford Coppola’s faithful and emotionally resonant film version was a […]