Films

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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

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

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.
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

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.
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
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

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 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.
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

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

Directed by Julie Rubio
(USA, 2024, 96 minutes, in English)
Brown Auditorium Theater, digital

Renowned for her sleek Art Deco paintings, Tamara de Lempicka took Paris, Milan, Berlin, and New York by storm in the 1920s. A century later, the story of her life can be told, tracing her 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

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.

Coming Soon

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 (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 (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

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.
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

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.
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

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 (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.