Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Director Chang’s third feature film, Canola, centers on Gye-choon (Youn Yuh-jung) who reunites with her granddaughter who had disappeared 12 years prior. Canola delves into the deep sea of human relationships that overcome complexities of reality and swims through waves of emotions as Gye-choon and her granddaughter struggle to find the connection they once had. […]

Join the Academy Museum for a book signing and conversation with author Neal Gabler in honor of opening day of the Academy Museum’s exhibition, Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital. Academy Museum Director and President Jacqueline Stewart and Associate Curator Dara Jaffe will be in conversation with cultural historian Neal Gabler, […]

Veteran Tollywood filmmaker S. S. Rajamouli believes “the stronger the emotions, the more people love a movie,” which accounts for RRR’s dynamic, sprawling tale of revenge, love, loyalty, and brotherhood that unfolds over its three-hour-plus runtime and continues to draw audiences back for repeat screenings. Songwriters M. M. Keeravani and Chandrabose took home the trophy […]

The Housemaid (하녀) Im Sang-soo’s 2010 The Housemaid is a remarkable remake of the 1960 original, the first feature of Kim Ki-young’s Housemaid Trilogy. Money, love, and power, together, are the base motif which inspires, fuels, flourishes, and destroys housemaid Eun-yi (Jeon Do-yeon) and the family she serves. Youn Yuh-jung depicts Byung-sik, the lead, senior […]

Selected by the Actors Branch. Philip Barry wrote his stage comedy The Philadelphia Story for Katharine Hepburn who helped produce the Broadway production. Its smash success reignited Hepburn’s career and led to director George Cukor’s popular film adaptation, with Hepburn reprising her role as socialite Tracy Lord, Cary Grant as her ex-husband, and James Stewart […]

Youn Yuh-jung’s third collaboration with E J-yong, The Bacchus Lady, centers on So-young, a woman in her 60s who hustles as a sex worker in and around a park popular to elderly men as a hangout. So-young is an embodiment of many lives of the marginalized and disenfranchised in modern Korea and despite her own […]

The First Wives Club A box office smash when it premiered in 1996, this (still!) rare female-driven comedy centers on Elise, Brenda, and Annie (a powerhouse assemblage of Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton), three former college roommates who each finds their marriage in shambles by their mid-forties. Ultimately empowering each other and restoring […]

Perennial midnight fare at repertory theaters around the country to this day, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko’s indescribable psychedelic horror flick was first brought to the attention of the Criterion Collection, who, through their theatrical arm, Janus Films, brought it to the IFC Center in New York, where it had a sustained midnight engagement beginning in 2010 that […]