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Schedule of Public Programs
MUSIC PROGRAM
Friday Night Jazz
Larry Nash & the Jazz Symphonics
Friday, July 3 | 6 pm
Renowned pianist Larry Nash is joined by saxoph onist Rickey Woodard and trumpeter Dr. Bobby Rodriguez, along with an all-star rhythm section. For over four decades, Nash has been performing and recording with such artists as Eddie Harris, Joni Mitchell, Tom Scott, Etta James and Bill Withers.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Latin Sounds
Luis Conte & Cuba L.A.
Saturday, July 4 | 5 pm
Grammy Award winning percussionist Luis Conte leads the all-star group Cuba L.A. in a concert sure to be filled with musical fireworks. Conte, a native of Cuba, has had a long and varied career with celebrated collaborations with such varied artists as Madonna, Ray Charles, Phil Collins, Santana, Shakira, Cachao, Buddy Rich, and many others.
Hancock Park | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
Angels with Dirty Faces
Tuesday, July 7 | 1 pm
Childhood friends on opposite sides of the law fight over the future of a street gang.
1938/b&w/105 min. | Scr: John Wexley, Warren Duff; dir: Michael Curtiz; w/ James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking
Thursday, July 9 | 12:30 pm
Join LACMA educator Mary Lenihan for a one-hour facilitated gallery discussion focusing on the permanent collection. To honor France’s Bastille Day (July 14) Mary will lead a discussion on art from the time of the French Revolution.
BP Grand Entrance, by the ticket window | Free, no reservations
MUSIC PROGRAM
Friday Night Jazz
Phil Ranelin Sextet
Friday, July 10 | 6 pm
Legendary trombonist, composer, arranger and band leader Phil Ranelin has shared the bill with Stanley Clarke, Christian McBride, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter and McCoy Tyner. Ranelin has performed around the world at such famous jazz festivals as the Montreux, Kool, Monterey, and Playboy Jazz Festivals.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Special Screening
Ivan the Terrible, Part I & II
Friday, July 10 | 7:30 pm | New 35mm print
This two-part historical epic, Sergei Eisenstein’s final film, depicts the life and murderous exploits of the sixteenth-century Ivan IV, the first czar and unifier of the Russian people. A spectacle of baroque splendor, the film opens with the teenaged ruler's opulent coronation in 1546. As Ivan struggles to consolidate his power by expanding his territory eastward, he attracts the enmity of the Russian nobility—especially his aunt, who plots to put her son, a simpleton, on the throne— and "the boyars," a centuries-old alliance of high-ranking landowners who refuse to swear allegiance to Ivan’s one-year-old son. As the battles rage and the court intrigue plays out, Eisenstein's command of light and shadow creates a series of dynamic, eye-filling scenes. This unique visual quality, featuring ornate set design and costumes, along with a performance style influenced by Russian classicism, grand opera, and Kabuki theater, makes Ivan the Terrible, Parts I & II one of the great masterpieces of world cinema. With a symphonic score by Sergei Prokofiev. "A majestic synthesis of disparate forms…seems to be as much a ballet or an opera or a moving painting (or a mutant kabuki show) as it is a movie."—J. Hoberman.
1944/b&w/96 min. | Scr/dir: Sergei Eisentein; w/ Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Latin Sounds
Freddie Ravel
Saturday, July 11 | 5 pm
Top recording artist Freddie Revel brings his unique blend of tropical rhythms, jazz textures, and rock rhythms back to LACMA. The keyboardist began his career with Sergio Mendes at the age of twenty-three and has gone on to record such radio favorites as Midnight Passion and Sol to Soul. Ravel was recently awarded the Los Angeles Award of Recognition for his Tune Up To Success program and contributions to the city.
Hancock Park | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Special Screening
Ivan the Terrible, Part I & II
Saturday, July 11 | 7:30 pm | New 35mm print
This two-part historical epic, Sergei Eisenstein’s final film, depicts the life and murderous exploits of the sixteenth-century Ivan IV, the first czar and unifier of the Russian people. 1944/b&w/96 min. | Scr/dir: Sergei Eisentein; w/ Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
Jumbo
Tuesday, July 14 | 1 pm
A lavish 1962 adaptation of the legendary Broadway spectacle in which Pop Wonder’s circus, featuring versatile performing elephant Jumbo, battles a rival’s take-over bid.
1962/color/123 min./Panavision | Scr: Sidney Sheldon; dir: Charles Walters; w/ Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, Martha Raye.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
T ALKS & COURSES
Screening and Conversation: tank.tv
The Young and Evil
Tuesday, July 14 | 7 pm
This event, guest curated by Stuart Comer, curator of film, Tate Modern, is a tank.tv initiative. As the digital glow of the Internet begins to replace the dark space of the cinema, the web continues to evolve into an uncanny hybrid of personal longing and collective interaction. Configurations of watching and being watched take on radically new form. To reconsider the historical contours and shifting relationships of sex and community in the digital age, a range of artists was invited to select two works: one historical film from the underground, to be screened at LACMA, and one contemporary video by an emerging artist, to be screened as part of the upcoming Outfest to be held in Los Angeles in July. Selectors include Stuart Comer, William E. Jones, Daria Martin, Carlos Motta, Karol Radziszewski, Akram Zaatari, and Bruce Yonemoto. The LACMA program features works by filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Anna Halprin, Curt McDowell, and Barbara Rubin, and will be followed by an onstage conversation between Stuart Comer and artist William E. Jones. NOTE: This program contains material of an adult nature, which may be inappropriate for some viewers. Discretion is advised. On Friday, July 17, Outfest will host the contemporary program at REDCAT, originally commissioned and presented on www.tank.tv. See www.outfest.orgfor more information.
Bing Theater | Tickets required: $7 general admission, $5 members, seniors 62+ and students with ID.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Friday Night Jazz
Luther Hughes & the Cannonball/Coltrane Project
Friday, July 17 | 6 pm
Initially formed as an homage to the 1959 Cannonball Adderley-John Coltrane landmark album, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago, the Cannonball/Coltrane Project continues to pay tribute to these two jazz giants with arrangements and original compositions related to or inspired by Cannonball and/or Coltrane. The group has released a number of critically acclaimed recordings that are played on leading jazz stations across the country.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
Bigger Than Life
Friday, July 17 | 7:30 pm | New 35mm print
Mason produced and hired Nicholas Ray to direct this striking film based on a New Yorker article about the hallucinatory side-effects of the new miracle drug cortisone. As Ed Avery, upstanding teacher, husband and father turned suburban Jekyll and Hyde, Mason gives one of his best performances, and Ray, using dramatic Rebel Without a Cause-style compositions and lighting, portrays his bedeviled hero with both horror and pathos. Released to indifferent not to say hostile reviews, the film is now acclaimed for its gothic depiction of repression and conformity in mid-century America. "Under Ray’s masterful direction, James Mason is given three or four of the most beautiful close-ups I have had the chance to see since the advent of CinemaScope… An exceptional story, an excellent portrait of marriage. A film of implacable logic and sanity, Bigger than Life uses both those very qualities as targets, and scores a bull’s-eye in every frame."—François Truffaut.
1956/color/95 min./Scope | Scr: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum; dir: Nicholas Ray; w/ James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
Bigger Than Life
Friday, July 17 | 9:30 pm | New 35mm print
Mason produced and hired Nicholas Ray to direct this striking film based on a New Yorker article about the hallucinatory side-effects of the new miracle drug cortisone.
1956/color/95 min./Scope | Scr: Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum; dir: Nicholas Ray; w/ James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
Disney Family Matinee
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Saturday, July 18 | 4 pm | All tickets $5
Jules Verne’s sci-fi fantasy is a story that reverberates for boys of all ages. It is the mid-1800s and a monstrous creature has been sinking ships off San Francisco; an expedition is dispatched to solve the mystery, but the sailors aboard soon discover that the monster is "the Nautilus," a futuristic submarine with a lush Victorian interior, owned by the brooding Captain Nemo, a brilliant messianic scientist who despises humanity and has built his own world under the sea. With its lavish production design and exciting underwater scenes—culminating in a giant squid attack—Disney’s classic adaptation still moves the heart and stirs the imagination even after so many years.
1954/color/127 min./Scope | Scr: Earl Felton; dir: Richard Fleischer; w/ Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre.
Bing Theater | $5 admission
MUSIC PROGRAM
Latin Sounds
Los Compadres
Saturday, July 18 | 5 pm
Formed in 2007 by a collection of long-time friends and colleagues, the eight-piece Los Compadres bring with them a classic sound with a new approach. Mixing original arrangements with some old-school classics, Los Compadres are guaranteed to make you dance over and over again. In a very short time, the group has built a large following performing at leading clubs and festivals throughout the West Coast.
This concert is supported in part by Maury Freidman.
Hancock Park | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Saturday, July 18 | 7:30 pm | New restored 35mm print
This sumptuous color film (shot by Jack Cardiff, the acclaimed cinematographer of The Red Shoes) is a heady mix of romance, fantasy, and poetic fatalism set in quaint Esperanza on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. As the seventeenth-century mariner doomed to sail the seas in search of a woman who will die for him, Mason is a magnificently eerie and brooding presence. Pandora, a willful chanteuse driven by strange passions (Gardner, at the height of her beauty), is his destiny.
1949/color/123 min. | Scr/dir: Albert Lewin; w/ James Mason, Ava Gardner. | Restored by George Eastman House in cooperation with Douris UK Limited. Restoration funded by The Film Foundation and the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of the Directors Guild of America, Societe des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique, the Motion Picture Association of America, and the Writers Guild of America, West.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
Age of Consent
Saturday, July 18 | 9:45 pm | Restored 35mm print courtesy Sony Archive
Powell and Mason, who was himself an accomplished painter and caricaturist, joined forces on this story of an aging painter who retreats to an island off Australia to replenish his creative juices. His muse and lover appears in the form of a young, voluptuous, and frequently nude Helen Mirren in her first major film. "A lovely erotic and idyllic comedy."—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.
1969/color/98 min. | Scr: Peter Yeldham; dir: Michael Powell; w/ James Mason, Helen Mirren.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
The Clock
Tuesday, July 21 | 1 pm
A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.
1945/b&w/90 min. | Scr: Robert Nathan, Joseph Schrank; dir: Vincente Minnelli; w/ Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
MUSIC PROGRAM
Friday Night Jazz
George Kahn Quintet
Friday, July 24 | 6 pm
A major force in the Los Angeles jazz community since the late 1990s, pianist-composer George Kahn recently released his sixth CD, Cover Up! The recording features Kahn's trio with bassist Brian Bromberg and drummer Alex Acuna, plus special guests. Kahn appears regularly at local jazz clubs and generously performs at a number of benefits.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
The Reckless Moment
Friday, July 24 | 7:30 pm
A blend of character study and noir thriller, Ophüls’ last American film centers on a respectable wife and mother (Bennett) whose middle-class life is shattered when she recklessly disposes of the body of her daughter's lowlife boyfriend, who has been accidentally killed in her garage. As she valiantly copes with an intrusive family and an inconvenient blackmailer (Mason at his most tortured and tender), Ophüls’ circling camera further entraps his stoic heroine until she breaks down in a wrenching finale. Mason held Ophuls in high regard as he demonstrated by penning these affectionate lines: "A shot that does not call for tracks is agony for dear old Max. When separated from his dolly, he's wrapped in deepest melancholy."
1949/b&w/82 min. | Scr: Robert W. Soderberg, Henry Garson; dir: Max Ophuls; w/ Joan Bennett, James Mason.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
Odd Man Out
Friday, July 24 | 9 pm
Mason achieved international leading-man status in this harrowing story of an Irish rebel who stumbles through the streets of Belfast until midnight, the object of a citywide manhunt. In the words of critic Pauline Kael: "The tormented, delirious Johnny, bleeding to death, seeks but does not find refuge on his way to the grave… those he encounters see him as a man beyond help; his final denunciation of a world without charity is one of the most memorable scenes on film. Carol Reed has always been at his best when dealing with outsiders—in Odd Man Out, he gives you an experience you can’t shrug off."
1946/b&w/116 min. | Scr: F.L. Green, R.C. Sherriff; dir: Carol Reed; w/ James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Latin Sounds
Gregg Young and the 2nd Street Band
Saturday, July 25 | 5 pm
Award winning guitarist and band leader Gregg Young brings his eclectic band of Latin jazz greats to LACMA. Gregg had the privilege of having guitar legend Carlos Santana as a friend and mentor, and also worked with such stars as Bo Diddley and Sly Stone. Recordings by the 2nd Street Band have featured musicians including Dr. Bobby Rodriguez, Theophilus "T" Coakley, and Jorge Bermudez.
Hancock Park | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
A Star is Born
Saturday, July 25 | 7:30 pm | Restored 35mm print
The part of Norman Maine, an alcoholic actor whose Hollywood star is falling as fast as his young wife’s is rising, provided Mason with one of his signature roles, an Oscar nomination, and trivia fame thanks to the last line of the picture when Vickie Lester declares: "This is Mrs. Norman Maine." This sweeping musical comedy/drama, Cukor’s first in color and CinemaScope, is ravishing to look at, fascinating to listen to, and heartbreaking to experience. At the film’s core is Judy Garland who, despite problems that slowed down production—the shoot lasted ten months!—was at the height of her powers as an actress and singer. As for Mason, "I was having a wonderful time. Judy was a witty, lively, talented, touching, adorable woman. She had a quality which can only be compared to Charlie Chaplin’s: always optimistic, always gay, always inventive."
1954/color/176 min./Scope | Scr: Moss Hart; dir: George Cukor; w/ Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees
Julius Caesar
Tuesday, July 28 | 1 pm
Caesar's former comrades Cassius and Brutus lead the conspirators to murder the self-appointed dictator, and face the wrath of Mark Anthony, his loyal protégé.
1953/b&w/122 min. | Scr: William Shakespeare; dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; w/ Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud, Greer Garson, Deborah Kerr.
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
FILM PROGRAM
Preview Screening
Julie & Julia
Tuesday, July 28 | 7:30pm
Writer-director Nora Ephron’s beguiling new comedy intertwines the true stories of two women: Julia Child (Meryl Streep), a 39 year-old housewife on the road to becoming a chef extraordinaire in 1950s Paris; and Julie Powell (Amy Adams), a 29 year-old Brooklyn secretary at a crossroads in life who vows to make the 564 recipes in Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 365 days. Though separated by time and space, Julie and Julia both discover that the right combination of passion, fearlessness, and butter makes anything possible.
2009/color/ | Scr/dir: Nora Ephron; w/ Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers
MUSIC PROGRAM
Friday Night Jazz
Raya Yarbrough
Friday, July 31 | 6 pm
"Her voice is a pliable, versatile instrument, an effective vehicle for a musical expression that ranges freely from pop-style ballad to surprisingly effective scat singing," declared Los Angeles Times music writer Don Heckman. Raya has opened for Terence Blanchard in New York, and has performed in some of L.A’s finest jazz clubs. As a winner of the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Composition program, she performed her original music on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
5 Fingers
Friday, July 31 | 7:30 pm
Based loosely on a true story, this elegant espionage film set in Ankara in 1944 stars Mason as an Albanian-born valet working at the British embassy who teams up with an unscrupulous countess (Darrieux) to sell secret Allied documents to the Germans. An excellent screenplay made even better by the witty embellishments of Mankiewicz, "The tale becomes an irresistibly cynical comedy of manners in which the crafty gentleman's gentleman (a marvelous performance from Mason), scheming to promote himself as a member of the leisure classes, falls victim to his own pretensions. An irresistible treat."— Time Out.
1952/b&w/108 min. | Scr: Michael Wilson; dir: Joseph Mankiewicz; w/ James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
FILM PROGRAM
Bigger Than Life: James Mason on Film
The Deadly Affair
Friday, July 31 | 9:30 pm
This sophisticated, adult spy thriller, based on a novel by John le Carré, stars Mason as a burnt-out security inspector in the Foreign Office who finds himself threatened by an espionage ring while investigating a colleague's suicide. On display are the genre’s standard ingredients—intrigue, betrayal, and violent death—but Lumet’s primary focus is on a fascinating group of characters brought vividly to life by a stellar international cast including Signoret, who gives gut-wrenching performance as a Holocaust survivor. Master cinematographer Freddie Young, of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago fame, pre-exposed the film to give the images a psychological realism unique to the mid-sixties Cold War era. "Thematically it was a film about life's disappointments. I wanted to get that dreary, lifeless feeling London has in winter. I wanted to desaturate the colors."—Sidney Lumet.
1966/color/107 min. | Scr: Paul Dehn; dir: Sidney Lumet; w/ James Mason, Harriet Andersson, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell.
Bing Theater | $7 members, seniors 62+, students w/ID; $10 nonmembers, $5 second film only of a double-feature; no advance purchase.
TALKS & COURSES
Art Chats: Your Bright Future
Friday, July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 | 7:30 pm
Sunday, July 5, 12*, 19, 26* | 3:30 pm
Join the conversation! Gallery teachers facilitate fifty-minute discussions about special exhibitions. Look closely and learn about selected artworks in the exhibition. Ask questions, share ideas, and consider multiple points of view. From July through September, Art Chats will explore Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea. Meet at the entrance to the exhibition.
BCAM Level 2 | Free, no reservations
*Bilingual Art Chats (English/Korean) | Selected Sundays | 3:30 pm | July 12, 26
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays & Sundays | June | 12:30–3:30pm
Saturdays & Sundays | July & August | 1–4 pm
LACMA introduces a new way to experience the museum with Gallery Conversations, every weekend. For the months of July and August, drop by the modern and contemporary art galleries for informative and informal conversations about works of art with gallery educators.
BCAM Level 3 & Ahmanson Building Level 2 | Free, no reservations
LACMA Launches a New Multimedia Tour
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. The tour 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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EDUCATION
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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.
For more information on education programs, please contact the Education Department at 323-857-6512 or educate@lacma.org(English and Spanish).
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