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One of the most beloved movie musicals of all time is also one of the greatest films about moviemaking ever made. Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds star as a trio of performers who weather the transition from silent cinema to talking pictures with humor and a wealth of dazzling musical numbers. Kelly teamed […]
The Education team invites families to join museum educators every month to be inspired by the museum’s exhibitions and screenings to create, learn, and have fun! June’s Drop-in Workshop for Families is inspired by puppetry and celebrates Pride Month! Puppetry has been a staple in filmmaking for iconic characters like the Muppets, variations of the […]
Join the Academy Museum for a special presentation of the Dykstraflex: a computerized camera control system used to film the original Star Wars trilogy. For a limited time, visitors can see the behind-the-scenes innovations that brought thrilling motion to a galaxy far, far away in the original Star Wars trilogy. Groundbreaking special effects company Industrial […]
Directed by Billy Wilder, who teamed with Raymond Chandler to adapt James M. Cain’s classic novel, this twisted tale of love and murder set the bar for film noir. Fred MacMurray stars as a hardened insurance investigator who falls for a married woman (Barbara Stanwyck). The pair conspires to get Stanwyck’s character out of her […]
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 […]
Special guest: Post-screening conversation with writer, director Rose Troche. West Coast Restoration Premiere Lesbian college student Max (Guinevere Turner) is let down by the current state of her love life. Her roommate Kia (T. Wendy McMillan) devises a ruse to get Max on a date with Ely (V.S. Brodie), an older lesbian Max initially disregards. […]
Legendary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) spent three decades developing his animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler, only to ultimately have it taken from his control, recut, and released by others without his approval. In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences first presented this “Moment in Time” restoration of […]
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 […]
A fly-on-the-wall account of John Lennon and The Beatles’s manager Brian Epstein’s single night in a Catalonian hotel room is reimagined within a queer reality by American filmmaker Christopher Münch, morphing an otherwise pedestrian evening into a tantalizing will-they-or-won’t-they set on the brink of the Beatlemania that would change them both forever. Though Münch believed […]
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 […]
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 […]
