Films


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  • Mulholland Drive Film Poster
    Mulholland Drive
    Directed by David Lynch
    (USA, 2001, 146 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    David Lynch’s seductive and surreal vision of Los Angeles’s dream factory is a tale of love, jealousy, and revenge that earned Lynch the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.  

    Friday, February 7, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, February 9, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary
    (2025, 180 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater and Lynn Wyatt Theater

    View 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!

    Thursday, February 13, 2025
    6 p.m.
    Thursday, February 20, 2025
    6 p.m.
    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Thursday, February 27, 2025
    6 p.m.
  • Love & Basketball Film Poster
    Love & Basketball
    Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood
    (USA, 2000, 124 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    All is fair in Love & Basketball. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, this romance and sports genre film serves as a landmark for Black women filmmaking for its authentic representation of female athletes, Black love, and female independence.

    Friday, February 14, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, February 16, 2025
    2 p.m.
  • Dahomey Film Poster
    Dahomey
    Directed by Mati Diop
    (France/Senegal/Benin , 2024, 68 minutes, in English, French, and Fon with English subtitles)
    Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

    Mati Diop’s hypnotic documentary explores the journey of 26 historical artifacts being returned from French museums to present-day Benin (formerly the West African Kingdom of Dahomey), from where they were plundered during colonial times.

    Saturday, February 15, 2025
    7 p.m.
  • Daughters of the Dust Film Poster
    Daughters of the Dust
    Directed by Julie Dash
    (USA, 1991, 113 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Julie Dash’s rapturous vision of Black womanhood and vanishing ways of life in the turn-of-the-century South was the first film directed by an African American woman to receive a wide release. Set in 1902, it follows a multigenerational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands near South Carolina as they struggle to maintain their heritage. 

    Sunday, February 16, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Film Poster
    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
    Directed by Howard Hawks
    (USA, 1953, 91 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Howard 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.
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
    (2025, 120 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    View 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!

    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, February 23, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Friday, February 28, 2025
    7:30 p.m.
    Saturday, March 1, 2025
    Noon
  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
    Directed by Various
    (2025, 90 minutes)
    Brown Auditorium Theater

    View 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!

    Sunday, February 23, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Thursday, February 27, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Friday, February 28, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Saturday, March 1, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, March 2, 2025
    2 p.m.
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