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All Upcoming Programs
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: National Velvet
Tuesday, August 31 | 1 pm
A British farm girl fights to train a difficult horse for the Grand National Steeplechase.
1945/color /125 min. | Scr: Theodore Reeves, Helen Deutsch; dir: Clarence Brown ; w/ Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Kamasi Washington and the Next Step
Friday, September 3 | 6 pm
Bandleader and saxophonist Kamasi Washington is one of the exciting young players on the jazz scene today. The award-winning saxophonist is also a member of such leading groups as the Gerald Wilson Big Band and Luckman Jazz Orchestra, and has performed with artists ranging from Billy Higgins and Wayne Shorter to Snoop Dog, Mos Def, and Raphael Saadiq. Washington has performed at such festivals as the Playboy Jazz Festival, Detroit Jazz Festival and Radio Music Awards.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Latin Sounds: Susie Hansen
Saturday, September 4 | 5 pm
Violinist Susie Hansen and her nine-piece band perform high-energy Afro-Cuban Latin jazz, music that brings audiences to their feet and has them dancing in the aisles. "It's a sizzling, swinging salsa band and Hansen can solo like her bow was afire." —San Francisco Examiner "Her violin speaks the language of Latin jazz with total fluency." —JAZZIZ Magazine
Hancock Park | Free, no reservations
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: Sports & Art
Sunday, September 5 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all-have fun! Sports and art do go together! Be inspired by artists who share your love of sports. Check out the action in an ancient Americas ballgame, photos of football players, or paintings of a crew of rowers. Then make your own sports-inspired art in artist-led workshops with Lisa Oxley, Josh Peters, Joe Pelayo, and Beatriz Jaramillo.
LATCC | Free, no reservations
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live: Endre Balogh (violin), Steven Gordon (viola), Dennis Karmazyn (cello), and Genevieve Feiwen Lee (piano)
Sunday, September 5 | 6 pm
Endre Balogh (violin), Steven Gordon (viola), Dennis Karmazyn (cello), and Genevieve Feiwen Lee (piano) perform Beethoven: String Trio in C minor, Opus 9, No. 3, and Brahms: Piano Trio in C major, Opus 87.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Target Free Holiday Monday: Labor Day
Monday, September 6 | 12–8 pm
Join us for a free day at the museum (all day!) and enjoy a live performance.
LACMA | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tuesday, September 7 | 1 pm
A Southern house is divided by patriarchal dominance and the marital problems between one of the sons, a heavy drinker, and his wife.
1958/color/108 min. | Scr: Richard Brooks, James Poe; dir: Richard Brooks; w/ Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking
Thursday, September 9 | 12:30 pm
Join educator Mary Lenihan as she offers one-hour facilitated gallery discussions on the permanent collection. On September 9, explore nineteenth-century French paintings.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: "L.A. Jazz Treasure Award" —Les McCann featuring the Javon Jackson Quintet with Les McCann
Friday, September 10 | 6 pm
LACMA and the Los Angeles Jazz Society proudly present the 2nd annual "L.A. Jazz Treasure Award" to jazz keyboard pioneer Les McCann. The evening features saxophonist Jovan Jackson and his band who have toured the world with McCann and recently featured on NPR's "JazzSet." McCann is best known as an innovator in the soul jazz style, merging jazz with funk, soul and world rhythms and his classic recordings include "Compared to What" and "With These Hands." McCann has worked closely with Eddie Harris, Benny Bailey, Stanley Turrentine, The Memphis Horns, Freddie Jackson, Joan Baez and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and his music has influenced a generation of performers and composers.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
Persona
Friday, September 10 | 7:30 pm
Blessed with two extraordinary actresses whose faces in close-up reveal the subtlest of emotions, Bergman's most audacious and enigmatic film focuses on two women—Elizabeth, a traumatized actress who has lost the ability to speak, and her extraverted but insecure nurse Alma—whose relationship evolves from affection and intimacy into resentment and hostility over the course of one summer. In this exploration of identity and representation, Bergman moved beyond psychology dissolving the line between reality and fantasy, and challenging the relationship between the spectator and the filmmaker: at the moment that Alma's emotions spill over into violence, the film we are watching "burns" in the projector. On release, Persona was acclaimed for its austere beauty and modernist ambitions, and recognized as a new chapter in Bergman's career, but few could agree on which scenes were real, or define the meaning. Some saw Elizabeth and Alma as two halves of the same personality; others read the relationship as that of a psychoanalyst and his patient. Susan Sontag called it "a masterpiece" and cautioned against the urge to interpret the film when she wrote: "The Latin word persona, from which the English 'person' derives, means the mask worn by an actor. To be a person then is to possess a mask; and in Persona, both women wear masks. Elizabeth's mask is her muteness. Alma's mask is her health, her optimism, her normal life. In the course of the film, both masks crack."
1966/b&w/81 min. | Scr/dir; Ingmar Bergman; w/ Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
Cries and Whispers
Friday, September 10 | 9 pm
In a turn of the century villa, Bergman lays bare the souls of four women: Agnes who is dying of tuberculosis, her two emotionally distant sisters-Karin, a hate-filled, cold person, and Maria, a narcissistic, childish one-and the family maid, who is the only one able to deal with the mortality that they are all forced to confront. The concluding scene, depicting the moment when one can confront death and achieve grace, is both shattering and comforting. Evoking the paintings of Edvard Munch and the plays of August Strindberg, Cries and Whispers is one of Bergman's most provocative and intimate films: the dialogue is precise yet restrained, the music of Bach and Chopin is used sparingly but to overwhelming effect, and the cinematography, in shades of crimson, won Bergman's longtime collaborator Sven Nykvist an Academy Award.
1972/color/91 min. | Scr/dir; Ingmar Bergman; w/ Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann.
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Course: European Art at LACMA
Saturday, September 11 | 9 am
This behind-the-scenes look at the museum's newly reinstalled galleries of European art will focus on Italian and French neo-classicism. Artists covered will range from Canaletto, whose views of Venice became widely popular, and Jacques-Louis David, whose great talent and political connections influenced the French art world as never before.
Brown Auditorium | Members $30, nonmembers $35 (refreshments and parking fees included.) Reservations: 323 857-6010.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
The Magic Flute
Saturday, September 11 | 4 pm
The themes of Mozart's comic opera-in which Tamino must overcome the forces of darkness to find true love with the princess Pamina-infuse much of Bergman's work; an excerpt even appears as a demonic puppet show in Hour of the Wolf. Bergman finally realized his dream of filming the opera when this enchanting and idiosyncratic production, commissioned by Swedish television and made on a modest budget, was released into theaters. Shooting on sets that replicated the intimate Drotningsteater in Stockholm, whose scale is in keeping with the probable first production, Bergman captures the excitement of live theater by pointing his camera both backstage and into the audience. Twenty-five years after its first appearance, it is still considered the finest screen version of an opera ever produced. "By reminding us that The Magic Flute is a fairy tale whose 'childish magic and exalted mystery' can appeal to spectators of all ages, Bergman neither betrayed nor merely reproduced Mozart's magic; rather, it is filtered through the Swedish maestro's own metaphysical vision in a remarkable act of homage."—Peter Cowie.
1975/color/135 min. | Scr/ dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård,
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
Hour of the Wolf
Saturday, September 11 | 7:30 pm
Bergman plunders the iconography of classic horror films like Nosferatu, Vampyr and Dracula to find a visual correlative for the demons-real and fantastical-that visit Johan Borg, an artist who has moved with his wife Alma to an island in order to paint. Plagued by insomnia, Johan waits in terror nightly for the "hour of the wolf'—the hour just before dawn when most babies are born and most people die—as his hallucinations, shared by Alma, pour forth. But as his diary reveals, worse was to come: nocturnal visits to a castle populated by demons and ghosts where a sinister count oversees evenings of debauchery and violence. Made at a time of personal stress, Hour of the Wolf is clearly Bergman's most extreme depiction of the struggles an artist must endure when giving birth to his art. "A dazzling flow of surrealism, expressionism and full-blooded Gothic horror."—The Observer
1967/b&w/89 min. | Scr/ dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Erland Josephson
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
The Magician
Saturday, September 11 | 9:10 pm
Sweden, 1846. Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater, a travelling show led by the charismatic and mute magician Albert Vogler arrives in a small town to give a performance. But the local authorities have heard of the troupe's dubious reputation and are determined to prove that Vogler and associates are charlatans. The magic of theater versus the forces of rationalism is Bergman's theme in this darkly humorous film in which Vogler, a sexually charismatic von Sydow, turns the tables on the petit bourgeoisie that are persecuting him in a tour de force finale derived from horror movie conventions. "Widely underrated, probably because of its strong comic elements, Bergman's chilling exploration of charlatanism is in fact one of his most genuinely enjoyable films."—Time Out
1958/b&w/100 min. | Scr/ dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: Sports & Art
Sunday, September 12 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all-have fun! Sports and art do go together! Be inspired by artists who share your love of sports. Check out the action in an ancient Americas ballgame, photos of football players, or paintings of a crew of rowers. Then make your own sports-inspired art in artist-led workshops with Lisa Oxley, Josh Peters, Joe Pelayo, and Beatriz Jaramillo.
LATCC | Free, no reservations
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
DOCUMENTARY FILM
David Hockney—A Bigger Picture
Sunday, September 12 | 2 pm
See Bruno Wollheim's award-winning documentary about David Hockney. Filmed over three years with unprecedented access, the film captures Hockney's return to England after living for many years in Southern California. As he approached the age of 70, the artist reinvents his painting, working through the seasons and in all weather out in the Yorkshire countryside near his childhood home. The film is at once the story of an unusual homecoming and also an intimate portrait of what inspires Hockney. Wollheim, whose earlier film Hockney: Double Portrait, also garnered rave reviews, is a noted British filmmaker and documentarian.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live: The Debussy Trio
Sunday, September 12 | 6 pm
The Debussy Trio - Marcia Dickstein (harp), Angela Wiegand (flute), and David Walther (viola) perform works by Nicky Carligeanu, Don Davis, Paul Gibson, Sidney Hodkinson, David Lefkowitz, John Anthony Lennon, and Stephen Andrew Taylor.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: It's Always Fair Weather
Tuesday, September 14 | 1 pm
World War II buddies get mixed up with gangsters and an egotistical TV star when they hold a 10-year reunion.
1955/color/102 min./Scope | Scr: Betty Comden, Adolph Green; dir: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen; w/ Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
The Touch
Thursday, September 16 | 7:30 pm | In person: Elliott Gould
In this low-key, intimate drama set on the island of Gotland, just south of the filmmaker's home in Fårö, Karin, a Swedish housewife lives quietly with her husband. a surgeon. Into her harmonious life comes an impetuous and engaging Jewish American archaeologist with whom Karin, perhaps affected by the recent death of her mother, begins an affair. And this new passion with which she is 'touched', like the medieval statue of Mary unearthed by the archaeologist, self-destructs from within. Bergman's first film in English reflects a larger world-touching on the holocaust-and Gould, cast as the "intruder", paints a vivid portrait of an uncompromising man tormented by inner contradictions and compulsions. "Andersson creates a finely tuned portrayal of a woman facing a midlife crisis, and the sparsely lit, claustrophobic interiors and subdued autumnal exteriors are beautifully photographed by cinematographer Sven Nykvist"—Jon Wengström NOTE: The Touch, a Swedish-U.S. coproduction, was shot and released in two versions: one with Swedish and English dialogue, and one entirely in English. The original bilingual version—the version released in Sweden—is presented in this series in a restored print courtesy of the Swedish Film Institute.
1970/color/113 min. | Scr/ dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Bob Mintzer Canyon Cove Trio
Friday, September 17 | 6 pm
Saxophonist, bass clarinetist, composer, arranger, leader of a Grammy Award winning big band, member of the Yellowjackets, and educator, Bob Mintzer makes his LACMA debut with an all-star trio that includes Larry Goldings on organ and Peter Erskine on drums. Bob has recorded 26 solo recordings with both big band and small jazz ensembles and is an 18-year member of the legendary Yellowjackets, and has recorded 12 cds with them.
LA Times Central Court | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
The Seventh Seal
Friday, September 17 | 7:30 pm
Returning home from a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess. Keeping Death at bay, the knight encounters bubonic plague, superstition and witch burnings, as he journeys through a land from which God is absent. Only a young troupe of commedia dell'arte jugglers and acrobats offers some joy in a world of pain and suffering. Much studied, imitated, even parodied, but never outdone, Bergman's stunning allegory of man's search for meaning was one of the benchmark foreign imports of America's 1950s art-house heyday, ushering in a new era of movie going. "Did God create man or did man create God, and does it matter once the bond of faith is accepted? The Seventh Seal embraces doubt the way other films embrace piety, futility, or melodrama. Nor have Bergman's moral concerns dated-not in the film's disdain for religious persecution, trumped-up wars, and the deals most of us desperately make with Death to delay the inevitable."—Gary Giddens.
1956/b&w/95 min. | Scr/ dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bibi Andersson,
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
The Silence
Friday, September 17 | 9:15 pm
Bergman's search for the presence of God in The Seventh Seal reached its bleak conclusion is The Silence, the third in a trilogy comprised of Through a Glass Darkly and Winter Light. Two sisters—Ester an intellectual and a translator, with a pathological need to control and Anna, younger, sensual and instinctive—are travelling with Anna's son Johan by train through a strange war-torn country during a heat wave when they are forced to disembark due to Ester's illness. Trapped in an old hotel, unable to speak the language, each character expresses loneliness in starkly different ways: Ester, bickering with Anna, drowns her despair in alcohol; Anna, restless, neglects her son to seek out anonymous sex in a local bar; while Johan prowls the hotel encountering an anachronistic old porter and a troupe of circus dwarves. Reflecting the inner angst of the characters in a series of striking images—the long empty corridors down which the camera tracks, the tanks rolling through the streets at night, the claustrophobic room with its baroque ceiling and ornate metal beds, the probing close-ups of the women's faces and bodies-Bergman created one of his most disturbing films, and one that would leave a mark on the future films of Kubrick and Lynch. "This harrowing study is Bergman's definitive allegory on human isolation and the absence of God."—J. Hoberman, The Village Voice.
1963/b&w/90 min. | Scr/ dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
…but Film is My Mistress
Saturday, September 18 | 4 pm | In person: Stig Björkman
This new documentary which premiered at the Cannes Festival last May features interviews with Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Olivier Assayas, Martin Scorsese, Arnaud Desplechin, Lars von Trier and Liv Ullmann.
2010/color/66 min. | Scr/dir: Stig Björkman.
Bing Theater | Free, tickets required
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Psychological Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
Fanny & Alexander
Saturday, September 18 | 7:30 pm
As a child, Bergman was given a magic lantern that he credits with his earliest creative impulses; and so it is fitting that youthful imagination is at the core of his final film, an artistic summing up that depicts the coming of age of 10 year-old Alexander. The film begins as the loving Ekdahl family, a financially comfortable clan in turn-of-the-century Sweden, gathers to celebrate Christmas; but tragedy soon strikes when the patriarch Oscar dies, and his widow, the mother of Alexander and his eight-year-old sister Fanny, marries a clergyman who turns out to be a sadistic tyrant. It takes the efforts of their indomitable grandmother, her eccentric Jewish friend and the ghost of Oscar to liberate the children. With its opulent design and languid, confident pacing, Fanny and Alexander realistically evokes a specific time and place while bathing Alexander's adventures in the light of a fairy tale: on the one hand, there's an ebullient sense of wonder; on the other, a gothic sensibility reminiscent of such tales as Jane Eyre. "Fanny and Alexander is a big, exciting, ambitious film-one of the most detailed and specific he's ever made, and therefore one of the most universal."—Roger Ebert
1982/color/189 min. | Scr/dir: Ingmar Bergman; w/ Börje Ahlstedt, Allan Edwall, Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Erland Josephson, Pernilla August, Harriet Andersson
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: Sports & Art
Sunday, September 19 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all-have fun! Sports and art do go together! Be inspired by artists who share your love of sports. Check out the action in an ancient Americas ballgame, photos of football players, or paintings of a crew of rowers. Then make your own sports-inspired art in artist-led workshops with Lisa Oxley, Josh Peters, Joe Pelayo, and Beatriz Jaramillo.
LATCC | Free, no reservations
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
TALKS & COURSES
Artist Talk: Tom McCarthy
Sunday, September 19 | 4–6 pm
Please join us for a reception and book signing to meet author Tom McCarthy, whose new novel, C, was just longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize. Tom will read from his new book and chat with author Chris Kraus about it and the many forms of communication that it proposes—appropriating, transmission, repetition, and recontextualizing. Free drinks and appetizers will be provided. Talk begins promptly at 4:15 pm.
Art Catalogues Bookstore, Ahmanson Building | Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live: Latitude 41
Sunday, September 19 | 6 pm
Latitude 41 - Bernadene Blaha (piano), Livia Sohn (violin), and Luigi Piovano (cello) perform Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929, and Notturno, D. 897.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: Without Love
Tuesday, September 21 | 1 pm
A World War II housing shortage inspires a widow to propose a marriage of convenience with an inventor.
1945/b&w/111 min. | Scr: Donald Ogden Stewart; dir: Harold S. Bucquet; w/ Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Kristin Korb
Friday, September 24 | 6 pm
Vocalist/bassist Kristin Korb tours internationally as a performer, clinician, and guest artist with numerous jazz ensembles. While studying privately with jazz bass icon Ray Brown, he arranged for her first recording with his trio, Introducing Kristin Korb, on Telarc Records. Her new release, In The Meantime, features her innovative arrangements of jazz standards with the help of jazz greats Bob Sheppard, Nick Mancini, Llew Matthews, Steve Barnes and Larry Koonse.
LA Times Central Court | Free, no reservations
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: Sports & Art
Sunday, September 26 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all-have fun! Sports and art do go together! Be inspired by artists who share your love of sports. Check out the action in an ancient Americas ballgame, photos of football players, or paintings of a crew of rowers. Then make your own sports-inspired art in artist-led workshops with Lisa Oxley, Josh Peters, Joe Pelayo, and Beatriz Jaramillo.
LATCC | Free, no reservations | Reduced activities on Sunday, September 26.
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live: No Program
Sunday, September 26 | 6 pm
Sundays Live holiday; No live concert.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: Dark Passage
Tuesday, September 28 | 1 pm
A man falsely accused of his wife's murder escapes to search for the real killer.
1947/b&w/106 min. | Scr/dir: Delmer Daves; w/Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Tom Rizzo Quartet
Friday, October 1 | 6 pm
With his signature sweet tone and driving rhythmic pulse, guitarist Tom Rizzo plays not only bebop based jazz, but has also spent much of his career playing funk, pop, folk, R&B, and alternative music. Rizzo has recorded and performed with a wide range of musicians including Maynard Ferguson, Johnny Mathis, The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, along with numerous recordings under his own name.
LA Time Central Court | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: Spotlight on Marco Bellocchio
Fists in the Pocket
Friday, October 1 | 7:30 pm
Belloccio's debut feature is an audacious portrait of dysfunctional upper class family whose crazed, epileptic teenage son plots to kill his mother and brother. "From the moment Lou Castel literally falls from the sky into the film, one knows that one has signed up for one darn crazy ride…This [film] spells y-o-u-t-h with the greatest virulence. It captures its never abetted sense of social claustrophobia and, its consequence, its recurrent fantasies of murder and mayhem. For anyone, anywhere, at any time, who uttered, 'Families, I hate you!' this film should be the Bible. Nervy, hilarious, and bleaker than bleak, it manages to make you believe the impossible, namely that a filmmaker could take a trip on the Rimbaud side of the street and not come out looking ridiculous. And, as an added bonus, for those who want to understand the sixties beyond the banalities that are ritually uttered about them, every scene of Fists in the Pocket, with the convulsive beauty of its framing and composition, amply proves how much this period was made by people so steeped in classical culture that they fantasized it could be solid beyond its fragility, shaking it to the core and ultimately ushering in a world they could themselves hardly live in."—Jean-Pierre Gorin
1965/b&w/105 min. | Scr/dir: Marco Bellocchio; w/ Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: Spotlight on Marco Bellocchio
China is Near
Friday, October 1 | 9:30 pm
This biting satire about sex, religion and politics, that ranges in tone from farce to dead earnest, "concerns a rather doltish Italian aristocrat, a professor of political science who has been, by his own account, a member of 'all four parties of the Italian center-left', and a young Maoist, a student who is having an affair with the professor's secretary, and a leading candidate for the local Socialist Council. But because the professor is rich, the Socialists nominate the professor, who in turn hires the cynical student as a campaign assistant. While touring tour the countryside, where they address sparse groups of toothless and old men and packs of delinquent boys, they are set upon by Stalinists, and nearly blown up by a time bomb placed in their headquarters by the Maoists… The student begins an affair with the professor's sister; the student's former girlfriend becomes involved with the professor. And the two young people on the left, having grown more fond of money and social position than of each other, resolve to marry the two aristocrats."—Renata Adler, The New York Times
1968/b&w/108 min. | Scr: Elda Tattoli, Marco Bellocchio; dir: Marco Bellocchio; w/ Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: Spotlight on Marco Bellocchio
The Devil in the Flesh
Saturday, October 2 | 7:30 pm
"Raymond Radiguet began his masterpiece—the romantic novel Le Diable au Corps—when he was 17 or 18 and published it in 1923, the year he died of typhoid fever at the age of 20. Helped no doubt by Radiguet's liaison with Jean Cocteau, Le Diable au Corps was an instant success. It's also been an enduring one, at least in France: a classic to be discovered by youthful readers with the same kind of excitement that American college students come upon Ernest Hemingway, J. D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut. Its World War I story, about the passionate affair of an adolescent boy and an older woman married to a French soldier at the front, is no longer as shocking as it once was. However, its cynicism (early critics found it unpatriotic) continues to speak to successive generations of restless young people at odds with inherited tradition. In 1947, Claude Autant-Lara directed the definitive film version (starring newcomer Gérard Philipe), but Marco Bellocchio has made no attempt to adapt the Radiguet original. Instead, he uses it loosely, more or less as inspiration for a contemporary romantic drama in which he once again explores his favorite themes- family relationships and the individual's relationship to the society that represses him. Photographed in bright, shiny, primary colors, which (intentionally, I suspect) give everything, even the characters, the look of plastic, it is also more studiously erotic than anything Radiguet (or Autant-Lara) would have dared. "—Vincent Canby, The New York Times
1987/color/114 min. | Scr: Enrico Palandri, Ennio De Concini, Marco Bellocchio; dir: Marco Bellocchio; w/ Maruschka Detmers, Federico Pitzalis, Anita Laurenzi
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID. | Please note: No one under the age of 18 will be permitted into this screening.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: Spotlight on Marco Bellocchio
La Balia/The Nanny
Saturday, October 2 | 9:40 pm
A Pirandello adaptation set in pre-World War I Rome, The Nanny examines the subject of motherhood, a theme that runs throughout Bellocchio's work. A fraught relationship develops when a stern psychiatrist and his estranged wife hire a wet nurse to care for their new-born child. The matriarch is dejected; she is incapable of bonding with her baby, even less feed it. But the illiterate, country girl who's usurped her has abandoned her own infant son in order to take the job. All around them the bourgeois order of Rome is collapsing amid proletarian riots, red flags and Socialist strikes. "This time Bellocchio is not encumbered by auto-biographical concerns and is free to take advantage of more opportunities. In a dramatic birth scene, the 'mother figure' is dismantled into a series of characters, of different gender and social class. Although inspired by the text of Luigi Pirandello, The Nanny is not particularly Pirandellian. The Sicilian writer is more cynical and his short story features a greater dose of evil and pessimism. Bellocchio's characters have been softened through greater complexity; there is more room given to the contrast between the world of men and women, wealth and poverty, origins and culture. Non-Italians will also enjoy the brilliance with which Bellocchio reveal aspects of Sicilian culture that have heretofore remained mysterious."—Alessandro Bruno
1999/color/106 min. | Scr: Daniela Ceselli, Marco Bellocchio; dir: Marco Bellocchio; w/ Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Maya Sansa
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: You're Invited
Sunday, October 3 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all—have fun! Celebrate the opening of the Resnick Pavilion all month! Check out LACMA's newest building and make your own art inspired by the innovative architecture and by the stunning debut special exhibitions.
North Piazza | Free, no reservations | Expanded activities in conjunction with the opening of the Resnick Pavilion
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
MUSIC PROGRAMS
Sundays Live: Guest Artists from NEC
Sunday, October 3 | 6 pm
Guest pianists from New England Conservatory perform works in commemoration of Robert Schumann's bicentennial.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: Follow the Fleet
Tuesday, October 5 | 1 pm
Two sailors on leave romance a dance-hall hostess and her prim sister.
1936/b&w/110 min. | Scr: Dwight Taylor, Allan Scott; dir: Mark Sandrich; w/ Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Betty Grable, Lucille Ball
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Conversations with Artists: Hito Steyerl and George Baker
Wednesday, October 6 | 7 pm
Berlin-based artist Hito Steyerl’s practice as a filmmaker and theorist presents some of the most challenging and thought provoking observations on documentary and image production today. Join Steyerl for a presentation of her work, followed by a conversation with art historian George Baker, Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA. A related program of Steyerl’s videos will be screened at the California Institute of the Arts on Thursday, October 7, 2010.
Brown Auditorium | Free, tickets required and available the day of the event
This program is supported in part by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.
TALKS & COURSES
Point-of-View Gallery Talks
Thursday, October 7 | 12:30 pm
In this quarterly series, curators, conservators, exhibition designers and educators offer insights about LACMA’s collections and galleries. The October 7 talk features curator Austen Bailly. While touring the American Art galleries, she will share the curatorial perspective about adding new works of art to the collection.
BP Grand Entrance| Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Ernie Watts Quartet
Friday, October 8 | 6 pm
Two-time Grammy Award winner Ernie Watts is one of the most versatile and prolific saxophone players on the music scene. In a diverse career that has spanned more than 40 years, he has been featured on over 500 recordings by artists ranging from Cannonball Adderley to Frank Zappa, always exhibiting his unforgettable trademark sound. A staple on the international jazz festivals and clubs, Watts latest project was collaboration with vocalist Kurt Elling entitled the Music of Coltrane and Hartman.
LA Time Central Court | Free, no reservations
TALKS & COURSES
Symposium—Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Pictures of Thomas Eakins
Saturday, October 9 | 1 pm
This series of talks and discussions features scholars and curators, who offer their views on the remarkable work of Thomas Eakins, one of America’s greatest painters. Eakins was able to combine three of his passions, painting, science, and sports in the works now on display in the special exhibition Manly Pursuits: The Sporting Pictures of Thomas Eakins.
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: You're Invited
Sunday, October 10 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all—have fun! Celebrate the opening of the Resnick Pavilion all month! Check out LACMA's newest building and make your own art inspired by the innovative architecture and by the stunning debut special exhibitions.
North Piazza | Free, no reservations
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
TALKS & COURSES
Lecture: Lucknow through the Lens of Bollywood
Sunday, October 10 | 2 pm
In advance of LACMA’s forthcoming exhibition India’s Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow (December 12, 2010–February 27, 2011), join us for a presentation on the culture of Lucknow in films produced by directors of Hindi and Bollywood Cinema from the 1960s to the present. The lecture will examine, through a range of film clips and live tabla (hand drum) performance, the musical heritage of Lucknow and the romanticized portrayal of the city’s courtesans, Muslim nobility, and colonial history. Robin Sukhadia is a tabla player who trained under Pandit Swapan Chadhuri, a master of the Lucknow musical tradition. He regularly lectures on the history of Bollywood film and music.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
Sponsored by the Southern Asian Art Council.
MUSIC PROGRAMS
Sundays Live: Guest Artists from NEC
Sunday, October 10 | 6 pm
Guest Artists from NEC perform Schumann (Guest pianists from New England Conservatory perform works in commemoration of Robert Schumann's bicentennial).
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: The Swan
Tuesday, October 12 | 1 pm
On the eve of her marriage to a prince, a noblewoman falls for her brother's tutor.
1956/color108 min./Scope | Scr: John Dighton; dir: Charles Vidor; w/ Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Brian Aherne, Van Dyke Parks
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking
Thursday, October 14 | 12:30 pm
Join educator Mary Lenihan as she offers one-hour facilitated gallery discussions on the permanent collection. On October 14, look at Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
BP Grand Entrance| Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Peter Erskine Quartet
Friday, October 15 | 6 pm
The Peter Erskine Quartet featuring drummer Peter Erskine, pianist Alan Pasqua, saxophonist Bob Mintzer and bassist Darek Oles play "Standards 2, Movie Music." This is the follow-up CD to last year's Grammy-nominated "Standards" album by Peter Erskine and Alan Pasqua. This new audiophile recording explores timeless melodies from the world of film, tunes that inspire great memories and jazz performances. This concert celebrates the CD's release.
LA Time Central Court | Free, no reservations
TALKS & COURSES
The Art of Wine: Celebrate the Senses!
Saturday, October 16 | 7 pm
Celebrate the opening of the new Lynda and Stewart Resnick Exhibition Pavilion with a festive evening of Champagne and other sparkling wines. Wine historian Barbara Baxter of Planet Wine will introduce the wines following educator Mary Lenihan’s tour of the pavilion and an overview of its three exhibitions. Tasting notes will be provided.
LACMA West, 5th floor | Tickets: $65 members; $70 nonmembers (wine, appetizers, and parking fee included) | Reservations: 323 857-6010
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: You're Invited
Sunday, October 17 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all—have fun! Celebrate the opening of the Resnick Pavilion all month! Check out LACMA's newest building and make your own art inspired by the innovative architecture and by the stunning debut special exhibitions.
North Piazza | Free, no reservations
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
MUSIC PROGRAMS
Sundays Live: Soprano Jacqueline Fontaine
Sunday, October 17 | 6 pm
Soprano Jacqueline Fontaine performs Robert Schumann: Frauenlieben und Leben
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: Arsenic and Old Lace
Tuesday, October 19 | 1 pm
A young man about to be married discovers his two aunts are poisoning lonely old men.
1944/b&w/118 min. | Scr: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein; dir: Frank Capra; w/ Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Gustav Stickley and the American Arts and Crafts Movement
Thursday, October 21 | 7 pm
Kevin Tucker, the Margot B. Perot Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, Dallas Museum of Art, will discuss his upcoming exhibition on Gustav Stickley, a pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement in America. This will be the first nationally touring exhibition and major catalogue about Stickley and will offer a comprehensive view of the life and work of this seminal figure in early twentieth-century design.
Brown Auditorium | $20 general admission, $15 LACMA members, free for Decorative Arts and Design Council members and students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6528 or email decartscouncil@lacma.org
These lectures were made possible by the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Louis Van Taylor Band
Friday, October 22 | 6 pm
Saxophone and woodwind specialist Louis Van Taylor has been performing the world over that began with a 20 year association with Ray Charles, as well as the Gap Band, Kool and the Gang, Gerald Wilson, Jimmie and Jeannie Cheatham, Phil Ranelin, and many others. Louis added teaching and mentoring to his activities including 7yrs at USC Jazz Studies Dept., and Washington Rucker's Jazz for Wee People sponsored by The Los Angeles Jazz Society.
LA Time Central Court | Free, no reservations
TALKS & COURSES
Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
Friday, October 22 & Saturday October 23
This two-day program focuses on recent research and new discoveries about the nature and extent of the Olmec style. It is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico, on view October 2, 2010 through January 9, 2011. For a detailed program listing, please click here.
Panel Discussion: The Cascajal Block and Other Evidence of Early Writing in the New World
Friday, October 22 | 6 pm
Discussion will be moderated by Virginia Fields, senior curator, Art of the Ancient Americas. Speakers include: Dr. Michael Coe, Professor Emeritus, Yale University; Dr. Martha Macri, University of California, Davis; Dr. Mary Pohl, Florida State University; and Dr. Margaret Jackson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
Symposium: New Discoveries
Saturday, October 23 | 9 am
This day-long program features noted scholars including: Dr. Karl Taube, University of California Riverside; Dr. Kent Reilly, Texas State University at San Marcos; Dr. Carl Wendt, California State University, Fullerton; Dr. John Clark, Brigham Young University; and Dr. Christopher Pool, University of Kentucky.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
This program was made possible by a generous grant from the Arvey Foundation.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: You're Invited
Sunday, October 31 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all—have fun! Celebrate the opening of the Resnick Pavilion all month! Check out LACMA's newest building and make your own art inspired by the innovative architecture and by the stunning debut special exhibitions.
North Piazza | Free, no reservations
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
TALKS & COURSES
Exquisite Beauty: In Search of the Delicate Techniques of Goryeo Buddhist Painting
Sunday, October 24 | 2 pm
The beauty of Buddhist painting from the Goryeo period (918-1392) is derived from its diverse patterning and delicate expression. Often painted in gold, these exquisite drawings and patterns are extremely intricate. In this lecture, Buddhist painting specialist Professor Chung Woo Thak of Dongguk University, will explore the highly detailed and mysterious techniques artists used to produce these beautiful and deeply spiritual paintings.
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations
Sponsored by the East Asian Art Council
MUSIC PROGRAMS
Sundays Live: Amstel Saxophone Quartet
Sunday, October 24 | 6 pm
Back from Holland by popular demand: the prestigious Amstel Saxophone Quartet—Remco Jak: soprano axophone, Olivier Sliepen: alto saxophone, Bas Apswoude: tenor saxophone, Ties Mellema: baritone saxophone
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Tuesday, October 26 | 1 pm
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a scientist who unleashes the beast within.
1932/b&w/98 min. | Scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Percy Heath; dir: Rouben Mamoulian; w/ Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Curatorial Conversation: Lynne Cooke
Tuesday, October 26 | 7:30 pm
Lynne Cooke, Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, in conversation with artist Michael Asher. This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977, organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Jazz at LACMA: Harold Land Jr. Trio with vocalist Rita Edmond
Friday, October 29 | 6 pm
Renowned pianist and keyboardist, Harold Land returns to LACMA joined by vocalist Rita Edmond. Land has performed in concerts and festivals around the world and has recorded with Bobby Hutcherson, Dwight Trible, Joe Henderson, Ray Brown Jr. as well as his father, saxophonist Harold Land, Sr. Christopher Loudon of JazzTimes writes of Rita Edmond, "It's not often that a debut vocal album suggests the near-certitude of future greatness, but Rita Edmond's Sketches of a Dream, is of that rare ilk."
LA Time Central Court | Free, no reservations
TALKS & COURSES
Conversation and Screening: David LaChapelle and Josh Azzarella
Saturday, October 30 | 2 pm
Celebrate Halloween at the museum with a conversation between photographer David LaChapelle and artist Josh Azzarella, moderated by Edward Robinson, associate curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department. The discussion will focus on themes such as imaging celebrity. Includes a screening of Azzarella’s Untitled #100 (Fantasia) (2007-9, 12:06 min.), a haunting investigation of Michael Jackson’s iconic music video Thriller (1983).
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Andell Family Sundays: You're Invited
Sunday, October 31 | 12:30–3:30 pm
Join us on Sundays for programs designed especially for families. Make art, explore the museum, or join a bilingual gallery tour. Most of all—have fun! Celebrate the opening of the Resnick Pavilion all month! Check out LACMA's newest building and make your own art inspired by the innovative architecture and by the stunning debut special exhibitions.
North Piazza | Free, no reservations
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Andell Family Sundays is supported by Andrew and Ellen Hauptman and the Hauptman Family Foundation.
TALKS & COURSES
Screening & Conversation: William Eggleston in the Real World
Sunday, October 31 | 1:30 pm | Filmmaker Michael Almerevda in person
On the occasion of the exhibition William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs, and Video, 1961-2008, join acclaimed filmmaker Michael Almereyda for a screening of his documentary on William Eggleston. After the film, Almereyda, writer Lloyd Fonvielle, and Edward Robinson, associate curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, will discuss Almereyda’s new book, For Now. A book signing will follow.
(2005/color/sound/87 min.)
Bing Theater| Tickets: $7 general admission; $5 museum members, seniors (62+) and students with valid ID.
MUSIC PROGRAMS
Sundays Live: Bernadene Blaha (piano), Judith Farmer (bassoon), Brian Head (guitar), Michele Zukovsky (clarinet)
Sunday, October 31 | 6 pm
Bernadene Blaha (piano), Judith Farmer (bassoon), Brian Head (guitar), Michele Zukovsky (clarinet) perform works by Poulenc, Beethoven, and Mozart.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
Gallery Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays & Sundays | 1–4 pm
Introducing a new way to experience LACMA! Drop by the modern and contemporary art galleries for informative and informal conversations about works of art with gallery educators.
BCAM level 3 and Ahmanson Building, level 2 | Free, no reservations
Pathways to Art
LACMA has created a dynamic multimedia visitor tour offering a wealth of audio, video, still images, and text to enrich your knowledge of artworks from the museum's collection. Pathways to Art is available now via personal digital assistants (PDAs) with full-color screens and simple controls—that can be checked out free of charge from the museum's welcome centers.
Available for checkout at the BP Grand Entrance Welcome Centers with valid ID | Free | Available in English, Spanish, and Korean
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS
tel 323-857-6512
educate@lacma.org
Education programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are supported in part by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Arts Education.
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