What's On
A Page of Madness: Live Score by Anju Singh / The Nausea
Experimental artist Anju Singh uses her project The Nausea to explore Teinsuke Kinugasa's expressionist horror masterpiece. An asylum janitor wants to help his beloved wife escape, but she doesn't want to leave...
Feven Kidane Quartet: Music Inspired by the Film Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat
Trumpeter Feven Kidane, with Quincy Mayes on keys, Bernie Arai on drums, and Milo Johnson on bass, present a special set of original music inspired by Johan Grimonprez's brilliant essay film on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Jazz, and the Cold War.
The Battle of Algiers
French Colonel Mathieu hunts for Algerian resistance leader Ali la Pointe in Pontecorvo's classic, which draws the battle lines between colonialists and Arab insurrectionists in a pulsating, "fly-on-the-wall" documentary style.
Sullivan's Travels
Continuing his exploration of Hollywood's fascination with itself, Donald Brackett introduces one of the great satires of the Golden Age, Sullivan's Travels. Earnest filmmaker Joel McCrea disguises himself as a hobo to get to know the real America...
Vince Mai Plays Chet Baker + Bruce Weber's Let's Get Lost
A set of smooth, sublime, and smoky jazz from trumpeter Vince Mai backed up by a stellar band with Steve Maddock on vocals. Followed by the first local screening of Bruce Weber's recently restored film about Baker, one of essential films about jazz.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Film scholar Donald Brackett introduces Vincente Minnelli's 1952 Hollywood melodrama--a portrait of a driven producer, Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) that went on to win five Academy Awards.
Brandon Wint: Moving For Love – An Evening of Film, Poetry & Music
Poet and filmmaker Brandon Wint presents two new short films, Moving for Love and Backbone, alongside a live jazz performance with collaborators Feven Kidane, Yoro Noukoussi, and Quincey Mayes, and a poetry reading.
The Day of the Locust
Midnight Cowboy director John Schlesinger turned his gaze on Hollywood in this rich adaptation of Nathanael West's famous satirical novel, in the latest screening in our Film Studies series, Hollywood Through the Looking Glass.
Babylon
Damien Chazelle's second Hollywood on Hollywood movie (after La La Land) follows Margot Robbie as a starlet on the make at the tail end of the silent film era in the late 1920s, and a couple of friends she makes along the way.