Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

What’s Up, Doc? Modeled after Hawksian farces and classic Looney Tunes and updated for the Me Generation, Peter Bogdanovich’s pitch-perfect screwball comedy finds a fast-talking Judy Maxwell (an effervescent Barbra […]

Selected by the Visual Effects Branch. Special guest: Introduction by visual effects supervisor Harrison Ellenshaw. Warren Beatty directed and stars in this comic strip adventure about the straight-arrow policeman and his run-ins with a variety of colorful hoodlums—played by a rogues’ gallery of actors in elaborate Academy Award–winning makeup including Supporting Actor nominee Al Pacino […]

From an early stint on The Richard Pryor Show to one-woman stage acts and standup routines to recurring roles on Roseanne, Pose, and American Horror Story, actress Sandra Bernhard has booked just a handful of film roles that truly allow her talents to shine. Bernhard is dangerously electric in her breakout big-screen role as Masha, […]

In person: filmmaker Richard Kelly Richard Kelly’s feature debut as a writer-director, blending teen angst with elements of sci-fi and horror, did not have a successful run during its initial release, but strong word of mouth kept adventurous filmgoers buying tickets as the number of screens showing the film dwindled. After its home video release […]

For centuries, Istanbul has been home to thousands of stray cats who roam freely and live in peace with the locals who see the animals as fellow citizens rather than as pets or nuisances. Director Ceyda Torun spent her childhood in Istanbul and follows seven particular cats over the course of her film; she avoids […]

Two-time Oscar-winner Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) directed this lavish remake of the Nordhoff-Hall classic about the 18th century Royal Navy crew who rebelled against their tyrannical commander. Trevor Howard made a restrained, chilling Captain Bligh, while Marlon Brando’s droll performance as Fletcher Christian took a very different approach from the classic […]

The directorial debut from infamous B-movie auteur Ed Wood, who was posthumously dubbed the Worst Director of All Time, Glen or Glenda is a surprisingly tender, early depiction of a trans woman in 1950s America. Though a contemporary lens finds offensive terminology within this 70-year-old cult classic, Wood’s daring dive into the then-underground world of […]

A New Leaf Daughter of Yiddish theater stars Jack and Ida Berlin, Elaine May began her career in the late 1950s opposite Mike Nichols in their groundbreaking improv comedy team, Nichols and May. After several film roles, May would break further ground directing several movies for major studios, the first of which, A New Leaf, […]

Filmmaking duo Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, known together as “the Daniels,” began helming wildly frenetic music videos before pivoting to independent feature films. Their second feature is a surrealist fantasy-science-fiction-action-comedy-drama about Chinese American laundromat owners Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh) and Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) and their daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu) who learn they must explore […]