Films
Now Playing
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2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary
Directed by Various
(175 minutes)
Brown Auditorium Theater and Lynn Wyatt TheaterView the nominated short films in the category of Documentary from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Directed by Howard Hawks
(USA, 1953, 91 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mmHoward Hawks’s Technicolor musical comedy is anchored by the performances of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as Jazz Age lounge singers on a Transatlantic ocean liner to Paris.
- Friday, February 21, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Directed by Various
(104 minutes)
Brown Auditorium TheaterView the nominated short films in the category of Live Action from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!
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2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
Directed by Various
(90 minutes)
Brown Auditorium TheaterView the nominated short films in the category of Animation from this year’s Academy Awards, and see if your favorite wins when the Oscars are presented on March 2!
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La La Land
Directed by Damien Chazelle
(USA, 2016, 128 minutes, in English)
The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. PlazaThe series “Moonlight Movies” brings you an outdoor viewing experience. In La La Land—a cinematic treasure for the ages—Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams.
- Friday, March 7, 2025
- 8 p.m.
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Every Little Thing
Directed by Sally Aitken
(Australia, 2024, 93 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalAuthor and wildlife rehabilitator Terry Masear’s goal is to save every injured hummingbird in Los Angeles. This Sundance hit introduces Masear’s diminutive patients through breathtaking slow-motion photography and emotional storytelling.
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The Princess Bride
Directed by Rob Reiner
(USA, 1987, 98 minutes, in English)
The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. PlazaThe series “Moonlight Movies” brings you an outdoor viewing experience. The beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness in this charmingly funny fractured fairy tale that pits true love against inconceivable odds—as you wish.
- Friday, March 14, 2025
- 8 p.m.
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The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival
Directed by Julie Rubio
(USA, 2024, 96 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalArt Deco artist Tamara de Lempicka took Paris, Milan, Berlin, and New York by storm in the 1920s. A century later, this fascinating film tells the story of her life, tracing Lempicka’s flight from persecution, her affairs with men and women, and her hidden Jewish heritage.
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Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter
Directed by Christy Carpenter and Abby Ginzberg
(USA, 2024, 77 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalLiz Carpenter was a feisty Texas woman who became a trailblazing journalist, White House official, author, humorist, political activist, and feminist leader. Often front and center of where history was unfolding, in the 1960s she served as executive assistant to President Lyndon B. Johnson and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson.
- Sunday, March 16, 2025
- 2 p.m.
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Crazy Rich Asians
Directed by Jon M. Chu
(USA, 2018, 120 minutes, in English)
The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. PlazaThe series “Moonlight Movies” brings you an outdoor viewing experience. Crazy Rich Asians follows Rachel as she accompanies her longtime boyfriend Nick to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore. It soon becomes clear to Rachel that the only thing crazier than love is family.
- Friday, March 21, 2025
- 8 p.m.
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The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
(France, 1953, 153 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 4k restorationYves Montand and three other men are hired to transport a nitroglycerine shipment over a treacherous South American mountain route. As they carry their explosive cargo, each bump tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The result is one of the greatest thrillers ever made.
- Saturday, March 22, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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The Blond Boy from the Casbah (Le petit blond de la casbah)
Directed by Alexandre Arcady
(France, 2023, 126 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digitalFilmmaker Antoine grew up in war-torn 1960s Algiers. Revisiting the place as an adult, he remembers emotional moments of his youth, spent between school, friends, and his Jewish family. Coming of age during Algeria’s pre-independence period, the young Antoine discovers a profound fascination with cinema.
- Sunday, March 23, 2025
- 3 p.m.
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Vishniac
Directed by Laura Bialis
(USA, 2023, 95 minutes, in English)
Lynn Wyatt Theater, digitalVishniac follows the artist from his early years in tsarist Russia to his emergence as a modernist photographer in Weimar Berlin, as well as his journeys across Eastern Europe before the war and his family’s dramatic escape to America in 1940.
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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The One Man Band (L’homme orchestre)
Directed by Serge Korber
(France, 1970, 85 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalA woman joins a ballet group whose manager forbids his dancers any distractions outside of dance. Little does he know she has a son in Italy, and the troupe goes to great lengths to create an explanation for the boy’s existence.
- Friday, March 28, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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Hibernatus
Directed by Édouard Molinaro
(France, 1969, 82 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalAfter being awakened from a 65-year-old cryogenic freeze that he entered during an exploration in 1905, a man’s relatives plan an elaborate ruse on their long-lost relative so as not to shock him with his contemporary reality.
- Friday, March 28, 2025
- 9 p.m.
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La chèvre
Directed by Francis Veber
(France, 1981, 91 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalA French tycoon’s accident-prone daughter is kidnapped in Acapulco. Her father hires a private detective to go to Mexico, but realizes he also needs the assistance of an accountant (Pierre Richard), whose entire life has been an endless series of mishaps, to find the girl.
- Saturday, March 29, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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Les compères
Directed by Francis Veber
(France, 1983, 92 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalWhen a mother is dissatisfied with the police not searching for her runaway son, she contacts two former lovers, convincing them to help find her boy by claiming that one of the men is her son’s father.
- Saturday, March 29, 2025
- 9 p.m.
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The Dinner Game (Le dîner de cons)
Directed by Francis Veber
(France, 1998, 80 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalIn Francis Veber’s delightful comedy, a buffoon’s good intentions and bad judgment hilariously wreak havoc upon Thierry Lhermitte and his dinner group’s contest to find the biggest loser.
- Sunday, March 30, 2025
- 5 p.m.
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Goldstone
Directed by Ivan Sen
(Australia, 2016, 110 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalIndigenous detective Jay Swan arrives in Goldstone, Australia, on a missing-persons inquiry that reveals a corrupt investigation. Jay must bury his personal differences with his young partner so that together they can bring justice to Goldstone.
- Friday, April 4, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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Breaking the Waves
Directed by Lars von Trier
(Denmark, 1996, 158 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mmLars von Trier became an international sensation with this galvanizing realist fable about sex and spiritual transcendence. In an Oscar-nominated performance, Emily Watson is a simple, pious newlywed in a tiny Scottish village who gives herself up to a shocking form of martyrdom after her husband is paralyzed in an oil rig accident.
- Sunday, April 6, 2025
- 2 p.m.
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Impossible Town
Directed by Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris
(USA, 2023, 93 minutes, in English)
Lynn Wyatt TheaterIn this timely environmental documentary, Dr. Ayne Amjad, becomes an unlikely heroine when she takes up her late father’s cause, a decades-long struggle to aid a West Virginia town beset by cancer-causing chemicals. Haunted by her father’s mandate to help others, Amjad hatches an audacious plan to relocate the town’s 250 residents and bring closure to her father’s work.
- Friday, April 11, 2025
- 7 p.m.
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The Annihilation of Fish
Directed by Charles Burnett
(USA, 1999, 108 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mmPoinsettia moves into a Los Angeles boarding house where she meets Fish, a Jamaican widower just released from an institution. In the face of personal challenges and differences, they learn new things about themselves through the nuances of romance and happiness.
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When Fall Is Coming (Quand vient l’automne)
Directed by François Ozon
(France, 2024, 102 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digitalLoving grandmother Michelle enjoys a peaceful retirement in a small Burgundy village near her longtime friend Marie-Claude. But when daughter Valérie drops off Michelle’s grandson Lucas for his autumn vacation, nothing goes as planned.
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