Welcome to the Buzz’s community calendar – please explore our list of local-ish events…and please feel free to add your own.
Free for Contributor-level and above members The first film to win the “big five” Oscars—Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Directing, and Screenplay—is a rollicking romantic comedy that is as charming and delightful as when it was released nine decades ago. Claudette Colbert is the heiress fleeing her controlling father, and Clark Gable is the […]
“With an absolute economy of means, Benning constructed a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dyke such as we’ve never seen before.” – B. Ruby Rich, 1992 Encountering the intimate works of artist Sadie Benning (b. 1973) can evoke the same sensation as thumbing through a stranger’s diary, a feeling that inspires a glance […]
Selected by the Directors Branch. The only fiction feature directed by Billy Woodberry is a low-key drama about a man who is unemployed, living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, struggling to help support his wife and children. Woodberry, a member of the L.A. Rebellion group of Black filmmakers who emerged from UCLA, developed […]
Cheryl Dunye’s queer cult work of autofiction has become a landmark of American indies—and won the Teddy Award for Best Feature at the 1996 Berlin International Film Festival. Dunye herself steps into the role of Cheryl, a young Black filmmaker who spends her days working in a video store. Following Cheryl’s dating life and her […]
Join the Academy Museum in a conversation with Pickle, West Hollywood’s Drag Laureate, and Stephanie Samera, Manager, In-Gallery Programs, as they celebrate and discuss gallery influences and film inspirations connected to drag artistry and drag education. The talk will highlight the museum's partnership with Pickle's work in education and cultural institutions across Los Angeles and […]
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, […]
Join museum educators every Friday for 30-minute guided tours of select galleries in the special exhibition John Waters: Pope of Trash. A separate museum admission ticket is required to visit the galleries. Children 17 and under are free. Dive into the unique, filthy, and laugh-out-loud world of John Waters with museum educators every Friday as […]
Special guests: Pre-screening conversation with actors Emily Rios and Jesse Garcia. While preparing for her quinceañera, a lavish coming-of-age festivity in Latinx cultures, Magdalena (Emily Rios) discovers she is pregnant. When kicked out of her home, she is taken in by her nurturing great-granduncle Tomas (Chalo González in a heartfelt performance), a beloved street vendor […]
We will have a series of drag queen story hours this June hosted by Pickle, the director of Drag Story Hour Los Angeles. Pickle will be joined by fellow drag artists for readings of The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish by Lil Miss Hot Mess, Feminist Baby by Loryn Brantz, and It's Okay […]
Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is a private eye in 1930s Los Angeles who gains an unexpected client—Roger Rabbit, a cartoon film star, for Eddie lives in a world where cartoon characters are as real as humans. Director Robert Zemeckis’s wittily scripted comedy-mystery is a dazzling mix of live-action and animation, incorporating beloved cartoon characters from […]
Join a museum educator and ASL interpreter for an ASL interpreted tour of the galleries. American Sign Language (ASL) tours are always offered on the same day as our monthly Calm Morning program and accommodative Family Matinee film screening. Stories of Cinema galleries will be featured on tours at noon. Join a museum educator and […]
Director Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 innovative, genre-bending feature, The Exiles, surveys the lives of Indigenous folks who had been displaced from their reservation and are now living in and around what was then Bunker Hill in Downtown LA. Mackenzie employs minimal intent in the formation of his cinematic language, utilizing negative space in his shots, which […]
