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  • Oscars 2025
    2025 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary
    Directed by Various
    (175 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 20, 2025
    6 p.m.
    Saturday, February 22, 2025
    2 p.m.
    Thursday, February 27, 2025
    6 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
    Directed by Various
    (104 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
    (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.
  • La La Land Film Poster
    La La Land
    Directed by Damien Chazelle
    (USA, 2016, 128 minutes, in English)
    The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza

    The series “Moonlight Movies” brings you an outdoor viewing experience. In La La Land—a cinematic treasure for the agesEmma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as an actress and a jazz musician pursuing their Hollywood dreams.

    Friday, March 7, 2025
    8 p.m.
  • Every Little Thing Film Poster
    Every Little Thing
    Directed by Sally Aitken
    (Australia, 2024, 93 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Author 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.

    Saturday, March 8, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, March 9, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • The Princess Bride Film Poster
    The Princess Bride
    Directed by Rob Reiner
    (USA, 1987, 98 minutes, in English)
    The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza

    The 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.
  • The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival Film Poster
    The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka & the Art of Survival
    Directed by Julie Rubio
    (USA, 2024, 96 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Art 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.

    Saturday, March 15, 2025
    5 p.m.
    Saturday, April 5, 2025
    7:30 p.m.
  • Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter Film Poster
    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, digital

    Liz 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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  • Rich Crazy Asians Film Poster
    Crazy Rich Asians
    Directed by Jon M. Chu
    (USA, 2018, 120 minutes, in English)
    The Amphitheater of The Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza

    The 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.
  • The Wages Of Fear Film Poster
    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 restoration

    Yves 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.
  • The Blond Boy from the Casbah Film Poster
    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, digital

    Filmmaker 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.
  • Vishniac Film Poster
    Vishniac
    Directed by Laura Bialis
    (USA, 2023, 95 minutes, in English)
    Lynn Wyatt Theater, digital

    Vishniac 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.
  • On Man Band Film Poster
    The One Man Band (L’homme orchestre)
    Directed by Serge Korber
    (France, 1970, 85 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    A 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.
  • Hibernatus Film Poster
    Hibernatus
    Directed by Édouard Molinaro
    (France, 1969, 82 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    After 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.
  • Le Chèvre Film Poster
    La chèvre
    Directed by Francis Veber
    (France, 1981, 91 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    A 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.
  • Les Compères Film Poster
    Les compères
    Directed by Francis Veber
    (France, 1983, 92 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    When 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.
  • The Dinner Game Film Poster
    The Dinner Game (Le dîner de cons)
    Directed by Francis Veber
    (France, 1998, 80 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    In 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.
  • Goldstone Film Poster
    Goldstone
    Directed by Ivan Sen
    (Australia, 2016, 110 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Indigenous 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.
  • Breaking the Waves Film Poster
    Breaking the Waves
    Directed by Lars von Trier
    (Denmark, 1996, 158 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Lars 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.
  • Impossible Town Film Poster
    Impossible Town
    Directed by Meg Griffiths and Scott Faris
    (USA, 2023, 93 minutes, in English)
    Lynn Wyatt Theater

    In 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.
  • The Annihilation of Fish Film Poster
    The Annihilation of Fish
    Directed by Charles Burnett
    (USA, 1999, 108 minutes, in English)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, 35mm

    Poinsettia 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.

    Saturday, April 12, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, April 13, 2025
    5 p.m.
  • When Fall is Coming Film Poster
    When Fall Is Coming (Quand vient l’automne)
    Directed by François Ozon
    (France, 2024, 102 minutes, in French with English subtitles)
    Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

    Loving 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.

    Friday, April 18, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Saturday, April 19, 2025
    7 p.m.
    Sunday, April 20, 2025
    5 p.m.
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