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Film Program
The Woman with the Knife, preceded by Borom Sarret
Friday, February 24, 2023
7:30pm
After a spell in Europe, a young man returns to Côte d’Ivoire. Navigating the dual consciousness of Africans returning home, The Woman with the Knife is a multilayered tale of a man haunted by a woman with a dagger pointed at his sexual inhibition and hope for romantic pursuits.
Film Program
Sepia Cinderella with Short Films
Thursday, February 23, 2023
7:30pm
In his first film appearance, Duke Ellington plays a down-on-his-luck composer hoping to create his next masterpiece.
Film Program
Ten Minutes to Live with Short Films
Sunday, February 19, 2023
3pm
Believed to be the earliest cinematic display of Black affection, this joyous embrace of tenderness between a well-suited man and a woman in an ornate dress reminds us all about the urgency of love and film preservation.
Film Program
The Flying Ace with Midnight Shadow
Saturday, February 18, 2023
7:30pm
In this fantastical whodunit of intrigue, a World War I pilot (Laurence Criner) returns home to find romance and mystery. Returning to his pre-war roots as a railroad detective, the flying ace investigates a large payroll robbery.
Film Program
Esse Mundo é Meu with That Man of Mine
Friday, February 17, 2023
7:30pm PT
Esse Mundo é Meu finds poetry in the everyday through multilayered imagery of two parallel romantic stories and the distinctive sounds of director Sérgio Ricardo’s music.
Film Program
Several Friends with Nothing But a Man
Thursday, February 16, 2023
7:30pm
Charles Burnett’s first student film is a day-in-the-life story that captures the poetry and tenderness of the mundane among a group of Black friends from South Central LA.
Film Program
For Love of Ivy with Anna Lucasta
Saturday, February 11, 2023
7:30pm
With a story concocted by the film’s leading man Sidney Poitier, For Love of Ivy centers on the titular character (Abbey Lincoln), hoping to give up her role as a white family’s domestic and begin anew in a city.
Film Program
Paris Blues with A Man Called Adam
Friday, February 10, 2023
7:30pm
Set in Paris to the sounds of a Duke Ellington sonic lullaby, this jazz-infused drama starring Sidney Poitier takes the A-train to your heart.
Regeneration Summit
Free Family Fun Day
Sunday, February 5, 2023
10am – 6pm
Are you ready for a FREE museum day? As part of SoCal Museums’ Annual Free for All Day, the Academy Museum will host a Family Fun Day for visitors to participate in the Regeneration Summit for free all day. There will be a variety of engaging activities for visitors of all ages to learn, collaborate, and continue the celebration of our groundbreaking exhibition.
Regeneration Summit
Saturday Symposium
Saturday, February 4, 2023
10am – 6:30pm
How can we work together to preserve the history and future legacy of Black people’s participation in American cinema? To answer this question, we’re convening some of Black cinema’s brightest stars and those dedicated to protecting its history for a full-day symposium.
Regeneration Summit
Around the Block Party
Friday, February 3, 2023
6pm –10pm
Head “around the block” to Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue as the Regeneration Summit opens with an evening block party experience. The entire Academy Museum will come alive with activities inspired by the museum’s exhibition Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898–1971. Check out the schedule below and come celebrate with us!
Film Program
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song with Black Chariot
Thursday, September 29, 2022
7:30pm
A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song was Melvin Van Peebles’s second feature film.
Film Program
La Permission (The Story of a Three-Day Pass) with Nothing But a Man
Saturday, September 24, 2022
7:30pm
Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in the United States.
Film Program
A Raisin in the Sun with The Learning Tree
Friday, September 23, 2022
7:30pm
Lorraine Hansberry’s play about a family’s struggles to improve their status after the death of their patriarch was the first work by a Black female playwright to be produced on Broadway.
Film Program
Odds Against Tomorrow with The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Saturday, September 10, 2022
7:30pm
Harry Belafonte stars in this stylish widescreen noir that finds him squaring off against Robert Ryan, a tightly wound racist with a sadistic streak and dark pas
Film Program
No Way Out with Native Son
Friday, September 9, 2022
7:30pm
Sidney Poitier was in his early 20s when he made his big - screen debut in this searing drama about a Black doctor who must provide treatment to a pair of racist brothers shot while committing a robbery.
Film Program
Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. with The Girl from Chicago
Thursday, September 8, 2022
7:30pm
Spencer Williams imagines W. Somerset Maugham's "Miss Thompson” as a Caribbean cabaret fable.
Film Program
Stormy Weather with The Duke is Tops
Saturday, September 3, 2022
7:30pm
Nearly retired tap dancer Bill "Corky" Williamson (screen and stage legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson ) recounts the welcome that he and his 15th New York Regiment band received when they returned from Europe after World War I
Film Program
The Blood of Jesus with Hell-Bound Train
Friday, September 2, 2022
7:30pm
The prolific screen actor Spencer Williams also wrote, produced, and directed a series of independent films, shot in and around Dallas, with all-Black casts
Film Program
Dark Manhattan with Murder in Harlem
Thursday, September 1, 2022
7:30pm
The first true Black gangster film, Dark Manhattan is the brainchild of its star and uncredited co-director, Ralph Cooper, also the founder of the Apollo Theater’s legendary Amateur Night
Film Program
The Emperor Jones with Princess Tam Tam
Saturday, August 27, 2022
7:30pm
Paul Robeson is pure magnetism in this fascinating film adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s one-act play about a Caribbean dictator reflecting on his past as a Pullman porter in America.
Film Program
The Flying Ace
Saturday, August 27, 2022
5pm
The charismatic Laurence Criner stars as Captain Billy Stokes—a World War I pilot who returns home to find both romance and a plot involving a gang of payroll thieves.
Film Program
Reform School
Thursday, August 25, 2022
7:30pm
Louise Beavers gives a commanding lead performance as the crusading Mother Barton in this race film long believed to be lost, also known by its misleading re-release title Prison Bait. Beavers plays a probation officer who comes to the defense of young inmate Freddie (Reginald Fenderson) and his pals (the Harlem Tuff Kids) who are subject to constant harassment at a corrupt reform school.