PAST SCREENINGS
Two Weeks in Another Town on 35mm
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
7:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Los Feliz Theatre
1822 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, lent by an anonymous collector.
After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
The screening will include an introduction by podcaster Karina Longworth.
Day of Wrath on Nitrate
Saturday, June 7, 2025
1:00PM
American Cinematheque
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum. In Danish with English subtitles.
Filmed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, Carl Dreyer’s DAY OF WRATH is a harrowing account of individual helplessness in the face of growing social repression and paranoia. Anna, the young second wife of a well-respected but much older pastor, falls in love with her stepson when he returns to their small seventeenth-century village. Stepping outside the bounds of the village’s harsh moral code has disastrous results.
The screening will include an introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum.
Rich and Famous on 35mm
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
7:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Los Feliz Theatre
1822 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, Gift of Dennis Gaughan.
Liz and Merry Noel become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected “serious” novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: “trash” fiction which becomes enormously successful. Their story begins in college and jumps ahead some years at a time to show their relationship with each other and those in their orbits as they grow and mature.
Introduction by podcaster Karina Longworth.
Mac on 35mm
Thursday, March 20, 2025
7:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Los Feliz Theatre
1822 Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, lent by John Turturro.
Mac is the ambitious, overbearing, irresistible oldest of three brothers who struggle against all odds to scrape together enough money to start their own business in Queens, New York.
William Kentridge’s complete Drawings for Projection (1989–2020)
Friday, February 21, 2025
1:00 PM, 4:00 PM, & 7:30 PM
American Cinematheque
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Join us for a special screening of William Kentridge’s complete Drawings for Projection at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. Drawings for Projection, comprising eleven short films made from 1989 to 2020, is a touchstone of Kentridge’s prolific career. Usually projected in museums’ black-box rooms, this magnum opus—animated by his drawings on paper in charcoal and colored pencil and distinctive use of erasure—is even more powerful on the big screen.
Admission is free with RSVP.
Gone to Earth on Nitrate
Saturday, February 15, 2025
7:00 PM
Sunday, February 16, 2025
3:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Print courtesy of George Eastman Museum collection, gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd.
As part of the American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival, we are pleased to have Gone to Earth, a nitrate print from the George Eastman Museum collection, a gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd., on view. The screenings will include an introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum.
Hazel Woodus is a beautiful but innocent country girl who loves all the creatures around her, especially her pet fox cub. She is given a rough time by her father but can escape to run barefoot through the woods when her harsh life gets too much for her. It is there that she is found by the local squire, Jack Reddin, finds her and is struck by her beauty. The obvious conflict develops when the squire leads the local hunt and tries to kill Hazel’s pet fox.
Portrait of Jennie on Nitrate
Friday, February 14, 2025
7:00 PM
Sunday, February 16, 2025
7:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Print from George Eastman Museum collection, gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd.
As part of the American Cinematheque’s Nitrate Film Festival, we are pleased to have Portrait of Jennie, a nitrate print from the George Eastman Museum collection, a gift of Selznick Properties, Ltd., on view. The screenings will include an introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum.
In Depression-era New York, painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) despairs at his lack of success. One cold winter evening in Central Park, he meets an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl, Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones), who captures his fancy when she asks him to wait for her to grow up. Soon after, Eben sells a sketch of Jennie to kindly art dealer Miss Spinny (Ethel Barrymore) and, as he meets the oddly mutable Jennie in fleeting moments, begins to realize they share a special destiny.
Apocalypse Now on 70mm
Sunday, July 21, 2024
8:00 PM
American Cinematheque
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
7:30 PM
American Cinematheque
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Rare Print Courtesy of the George Eastman Museum and the Martin Scorsese Collection.
American Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen) is assigned to track down and kill Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has reportedly massacred hundreds of innocent people and set up his own fiefdom in the jungle. Willard and his crew encounter strange sights and people on their surreal journey into the heart of darkness.
Introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum.
The Last Emperor on 70mm
Saturday, July 20, 2024
7:15 PM
American Cinematheque
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Monday, July 22, 2024
7:30 PM
American Cinematheque
Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90403
Print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum, lent by an anonymous collector. In English, Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles.
Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE LAST EMPEROR won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated—quite a feat for a challenging, multilayered epic directed by an Italian and starring an international cast. Yet the power and scope of the film was, and remains, undeniable—the life of Emperor Pu Yi, who took the throne at age three, in 1908, before witnessing decades of cultural and political upheaval, within and without the walls of the Forbidden City. Recreating Ching dynasty China with astonishing detail and unparalleled craftsmanship by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, THE LAST EMPEROR is also an intimate character study of one man reconciling personal responsibility and political legacy.
Introduction by Deborah Stoiber, Collection Manager in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum.