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Schedule of Public Programs
TALKS & COURSES
Documentary Film Screening: Song of the Dunes
Thursday, February 4 | 7 pm
A sneak preview of the new feature documentary, Song of the Dunes. Untouchable caste musicians are trapped at the bottom of India's caste system. Battling life's struggles, they keep their spirit alive through music. Featuring His Highness Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur, who is working to save the endangered musical traditions; and the Magnaniyar and Kalbeliya musicians of Rajasthan, India. A panel discussion with scholars in the field will follow the screening.
2009/color/82 min. | dir: Paula Fouce and William Haugse
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
This program is made possible by the Southern Asian Art Council at LACMA
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Apocalyptic Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Friday, February 5 | 7:30 pm
Through film clips, journal entries, and personal musings, renowned French filmmaker Chris Marker pays homage to his friend and colleague Andrei Tarkovsky. Through close readings of Tarkovsky's films-including rare scenes from his student film (an adaptation of Hemingway's The Killers) and a practically unknown production of Boris Godunov-Marker draws parallels between Tarkovsky's tumultuous life and his films. Personal anecdotes from Tarkovsky's writings-from his prophetic meeting with Boris Pasternak (author of Dr. Zhivago) to an encounter with the KGB on the streets of Paris (he thought they were coming to kill him)—pepper the film. With behind-the-scenes footage of Tarkovsky obsessively commanding his entire crew for his final film, The Sacrifice, and candid moments of the director with his friends and family, bedridden but still editing the film, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich is a personal and loving portrait of the monumental filmmaker. "The best single piece of Tarkovsky criticism I know of, clarifying the overall coherence of [Tarkovsky's] oeuvre while leaving all the mysteries of his films intact."-Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader.
2000/color/55 min./beta | Scr/dir: Chris Marker
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Apocalyptic Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky
The Sacrifice
Friday, February 5 | 8:40 pm
As a Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch-Bergman fixture Erland Josephson—on their windswept Baltic island, the celebratory moods dissipates as news of World War III's outbreak blares from a television screen. With his arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the austere landscape—shot by another Bergman regular, cinematographer Sven Nykvist—Tarkovsky conveys a family's psychological devastation and Josephson's Faustian pact in order to save his loved ones. Tarkovsky's final film, made as he was dying of cancer, is a profoundly moving account of redemption whose final movement offers a virtuoso long take of intricately choreographed splendor. "To see The Sacrifice after a junk-food diet of Hollywood movies is like ducking out of a carnival to visit a medieval crypt. You are pulled out of time and into a sacred stillness. The images, handsomely sculpted, address themes of life and death and life after death… Compared with The Sacrifice's art, the formal sophistication of even the best Hollywood movies seems superficially applied, like press-on nails and a styling gel…It is not surprising that at the twilight of his life, this introspective artist should imagine the last flash of the last night of everybody's life-the end of the world-on film."—Richard Corliss, Time.
1986/color/145 min. | Scr/dir: Andrei Tarkovsky; w/ Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
TALKS & COURSES
Plant the Perimeter Fruit Tree Giveaway
Saturday, February 6 | 12–3 pm
Artist collective Fallen Fruit kicks off a yearlong project, EATLACMA, with a fruit tree giveaway. Come pick up a free fruit tree along with planting instructions for your garden. This is the first in a series of events, which will include an exhibition, opening in June, and a series of food-related events throughout the year. EATLACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. EATLACMA's projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EATLACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). EATLACMA is curated by Fallen Fruit—David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young—and LACMA curator Michele Urton.
OFFSITE | Watts Towers Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center | Free, no reservations | Limited quantity, please plan to arrive early. The event will end by 3 pm or when all trees have been given away.
EATLACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by a Museum and Community Connections Grant from MetLife Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund. Watts Towers Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center tree distribution sponsored by Tree People and Paramount Citrus, the world's largest grower of California Cuties.
FILM PROGRAM
Preview Screening: Vincere
Saturday, February 6 | 7:30 pm
One of Italy's most highly regarded directors, Bellocchio was dubbed a master of "baroque" filmmaking in the mid-sixties with his first feature, Fists in the Pocket, a corrosive portrait of a dysfunctional upper-class family whose crazed, epileptic teenage son plots the death of his mother and brother. Though he directed thirty films during the next four decades, only a handful made it onto American screens, among them: China is Near, a stinging political satire that predicts the student revolutions of '68; The Devil in the Flesh, a sexually explicit adaptation of the Stendahl novel updated to 1980s Italy; and Good Morning, Night, a stark depiction of the 1978 kidnapping of Prime Minister Aldo Moro as seen through the eyes of a young female terrorist. His newest film Vincere ("To Win") was hailed as a masterpiece and a return to form following its premiere at the 2009 Cannes Festival. By bringing to light the horrifying—and little-known-story of Ida Dalser, the young Mussolini's first "wife," who is thrown into an asylum by Black Shirts when she demands official recognition for herself and their son, Bellocchio takes the audience on a descent into the black hole of fascism. With its striking style that combines newsreels, silent films, and expressionistic graphics, and highlighted by a harrowing performance by Giovanna Mezzogiorno, the film brilliantly evokes the madness that gripped Italy under "Il Duce."
2009/color/128 min. | Scr/dir: Marco Bellocchio; w/ Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi. | Screening courtesy of IFC Films.
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
TALKS & COURSES
Plant the Perimeter Fruit Tree Giveaway
Sunday, February 7 | 12–3 pm
Artist collective Fallen Fruit kicks off a year-long project, EATLACMA, with a fruit tree giveaway. Come pick up a free fruit tree along with planting instructions for your garden. This is the first in a series of events, which will include an exhibition, opening in June, and a series of food-related events throughout the year. EATLACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. EATLACMA is a year-long investigation into food, art, culture and politics. EATLACMA's projects consider food as a common ground that explores the social role of art and ritual in community and human relationships. EATLACMA unfolds seasonally, with artist's gardens planted and harvested on the museum campus, hands-on public events, and a concurrent exhibition, Fallen Fruit Presents The Fruit of LACMA (June 27-November 7, 2010). EATLACMA is curated by Fallen Fruit—David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young—and LACMA curator Michele Urton.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations | Limited quantity, please plan to arrive early. The event will end by 3 pm or when all trees have been given away.
EATLACMA was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and made possible by a Museum and Community Connections Grant from MetLife Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund. LACMA tree distribution sponsored by Paramount Citrus, the world's largest grower of California Cuties.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live: Duo pianists Lhiam Liam Viney and Anna Grinberg
Sunday, February 7 | 6 pm
Duo pianists Lhiam Liam Viney and Anna Grinberg perform Schubert: Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 for piano 4 hands, Carl Vine: Piano Sonata No. 1, Janácek: Sonata I.X.1905, and Debussy: Selections from "Petite Suite" for piano 4 hands.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: The Bridges of Madison County
Tuesday, February 9 | 1 pm
A photojournalist and a farmer's wife share a four-day romance.
1995/color/135 min. | Scr: Richard LaGravenese; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Meryl Streep, Eastwood
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
TALKS & COURSES
Gallery Discussion: The Art of Looking
Thursday, February 11 | 12:30 pm
Join LACMA Educator Toni Guglielmo for a one-hour facilitated gallery discussion on seventeenth-century European art.
BP Grand Entrance | Free, no reservations
TALKS & COURSES
Decorative Arts and Design Council Lecture—A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today
Thursday, February 11 | 7 pm
Christopher Monkhouse, Eloise W. Martin Curator and Chairman, Department of European Decorative Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, will discuss his recent exhibition, A Case for Wine: From King Tut to Today. A Case for Wine explores the cultivation of the grape and its transformation into wine, followed by its storage in barrels, bottles, and even cardboard boxes. In addition to placing wine consumption in context, both its sacred and secular settings will also be considered. Together with works of art by modern and contemporary artists, sculptors, and photographers, the lecture will discuss the historical and geographical range of wine production and consumption, suggesting that wine still serves as a stimulus and source of inspiration for artistic endeavors.
Brown Auditorium | $20 General Admission, $15 LACMA members, free for Decorative Arts and Design Council members and students with ID | Tickets: 323 857-6528 or email decartscouncil@lacma.org
This lecture was made possible by the Elsie de Wolfe Foundation.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry
Friday, February 12 | 7:30 pm
In the first and best of a cycle of seventies vigilante films that critic Pauline Kael dubbed "a stunningly well-made genre piece," Eastwood plays a driven San Francisco cop who flaunts the law in his pursuit of "Scorpio," a crazed serial sniper. Eastwood's terse, righteous Harry became an iconic character that spawned five sequels. "Raymond Chandler's famous description of his private eye applies to Harry Callahan as well as it did to Philip Marlowe: 'He is neither tarnished nor afraid… He is a relatively poor man or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could not go among common people. He has a sense of character or he would not know his job… He will take no man's insolence without due and dispassionate revenge. He is a lonely man.'"—Richard Schickel, Clint Eastwood.
1971/color/102 min./Panavision | Scr: Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink, Dean Riesner dir: Don Siegel; w/ Clint
Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santori, John Vernon
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
Tightrope
Friday, February 12 | 9:25 pm
In this nocturnal thriller, a cop with a taste for S&M pursues a psychopath who is killing hookers into the sexual underworld of New Orleans. Eastwood is compelling as a flawed man and single father who turns to a female self-defense instructor for help. "A throwback to the great cop movies of the 1940s—when the hero wrestled with his conscience as much as with the killer… Tightrope may appeal to the Dirty Harry fans, with its sex and violence. But it's a lot more ambitious than the Harry movies…Think how unusual it is for a major male star to appear in a commercial cop picture in which the plot hinges on his ability to accept and respect a woman. Eastwood continues to change and experiment, and that makes him the most interesting of the box-office megastars."—Roger Ebert.
1984/color/117 min. | Scr/dir: Richard Tuggle; w/ Clint Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Saturday, February 13 | 7 pm
In this epic road movie set in post-Civil War America, Eastwood plays a taciturn Confederate rebel who journeys through the monumental landscapes and changing seasons of the West in search of the Union scum that massacred his family. Released during the bicentennial, Josey Wales is a mélange of classic western motifs and "New Hollywood" anti-authoritarian politics; according to Eastwood, the film is "a saga… rather than just having a mysterious hero appear on the plains and get involved with other people's problems; you can see how Josey Wales gets to where he is."
1976/136 min./color/Panavision | Scr: Philip Kaufman, Sonia Chernus; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
Pale Rider
Saturday, February 13 | 9:25 pm
In this haunting tale set in Gold Rush-era California, a preacher man with no name mysteriously appears astride a white horse to defend a small community of prospectors against a greedy mining company. "Much like his allegorical protagonist in Pale Rider, director/star Eastwood rode to the rescue when the Hollywood Western genre was at its lowest ebb… After Heaven's Gate, the major studios wanted nothing to do with sagebrush sagas, but Eastwood, having known nothing but success with oaters, went into the production of Pale Rider regarding the project as a safe gamble. 'It's not possible,' Eastwood remarked in an 1984 interview, 'that Josey Wales could be the last Western to be a commercial success. You can still talk about sweat and hard work, about the spirit, about love for the land and ecology in the Western, in the classic mythological form.'"—Turner Classic Movies.
1985/color/115 min./Panavision | Scr: Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
TALKS & COURSES
Discussion: Late Renoir and the Eternal Feminine
Sunday, February 14 | 2 pm
Jim Herbert, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, UC Irvine, will discuss how the great French impressionist devoted the latter years of his career to creating paintings, drawings, and sculpture that were both traditional and modern. While he revived older motifs, such as the classical nude, he did so with an eye to modernity, inspiring artists from Picasso, Matisse, and Bonnard to Maillol.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
This lecture was made possible in part through the Brotman Foundation Special Exhibitions Lecture Fund.
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: A Perfect World
Tuesday, February 16 | 1 pm
Set in the 1960s, a story about the relationship that develops on the road between an escaped convict and the young boy he has kidnapped.
1993/color/138 min./Panavision | Scr: John Lee Hancock; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Kevin Costner, Eastwood, Laura Dern
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
Bronco Billy
Friday, February 19 | 7:30 pm
A shoe salesman turned Wild West performer, Billy takes his show on the road with a troupe of misfits including a disbarred doctor, a draft dodger, a one-handed embezzler, and a stranded heiress. A charming and uplifting endorsement of the American Dream and a personal favorite of the director. "Both a satirical self-portrait and a fond evocation of a lost ideal. Through Billy's naive belief in the Western code of honor, Eastwood pays tribute to exactly the kind of Western that his own revolutionary, searingly cynical work with Sergio Leone had destroyed."—Dave Kehr, The New York Times.
1980/color/116 min. | Scr: Dennis Hackin; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
Honkytonk Man
Friday, February 19 | 9:40 pm
An alcoholic Depression-era country singer with little talent travels to Nashville, his nephew and grandpa in tow. Unfashionable and unappreciated in '82, Honkytonk remains Eastwood's most unconventional film and features his most audacious performance. "One of the most heroically oddball superstar vehicles ever contrived. Only Eastwood could have the audacity to play a comparatively odious and untalented country singer dying of consumption on a picaresque pilgrimage to a Nashville audition…during which the singer nearly coughs himself to death. The whole thing veers wildly in quality, but few lovers of American cinema could fail to be moved by a venture conceived so recklessly against the spirit of its times."—Time Out.
1982/color/122 min. | Scr: Clancy Carlile; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Verna Bloom
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
Unforgiven
Saturday, February 20 | 7 pm
In this dark, violent film—a primal morality tale in the form of a classic Western -a prostitute, angered by the release of a sadistic cowhand who has mutilated the face of another working girl, raises $1,000 as a reward for anyone who will avenge this atrocity. Nominated for nine Academy Awards and winner of four, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Hackman). "The film deals with violence and its consequences a lot more than those I've done before. In the past, there were a lot of people killed gratuitously in my pictures, and what I liked about this story was that people aren't killed, and acts of violence aren't perpetrated, without there being certain consequences. That's a problem I thought was important to talk about today, it takes on proportions it didn't have in the past, even if it's always been present through the ages."—Clint Eastwood.
1992/color/132 min./Panavision | Scr: David Peoples; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
White Hunter, Black Heart
Saturday, February 20 | 9:25 pm
Eastwood crafts a semi-comic high adventure from a fictionalized account of larger-than-life director John Huston, whose work on a film shooting in Africa is compromised by his obsession with hunting and killing an elephant. "In a daring departure from his usual roles, Eastwood doesn't so much impersonate Huston as offer a commentary on him and on macho bluster in general. Thanks to the beautifully structured script by Viertel, Bridges, and Kennedy—which also has a lot of interesting things to say about colonialism and Hollywood, both separately and in conjunction with one another—the film is a devastating portrait of self-deceiving obsession."—Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Chicago Reader.
1990/color/114 min. | Scr: James Bridges, Burt Kennedy, Peter Viertel; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live: Fortepianist Malcolm Bilson
Sunday, February 21 | 6 pm
Fortepianist Malcolm Bilson performs Haydn: Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI:50, Cramer: Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from Mozart's Magic Flute, Dussek: Fantasy and Fugue in F minor, and Mozart: Sonata in F major, K. 332.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
FILM PROGRAM
Tuesday Matinees: Million Dollar Baby
Tuesday, February 23 | 1 pm
In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, boxing trainer Frankie Dunn has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time-until budding pugilist Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym.
2004/color/132 min./Panavision | Scr: Paul Haggis; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman
Bing Theater | $2 general admission; $1 seniors 62+
FILM PROGRAM
Weekend Series: The Essential Clint Eastwood
Bird
Friday, February 26 | 7:30 pm
Drugs, alcohol, race, and racism were lifelong companions to alto-sax player Charlie Parker, defining the ups and downs of this gifted musician, but Eastwood's ambitious film goes beyond tragedy to celebrate an artist who was hailed as a jazz original and whose improvisations changed the face of American jazz. Eschewing the chronology of a typical bio-pic, the film uses fragments from Parker's life to depict the professional, legal and emotional conflicts—in particular, the volatile relationship with his white common-law wife—that dogged him until his death at thirty-four. A labor of love for aficionado Eastwood, who accessed restored master tracks of Parker's solos, Bird stirs with great musical performances while brilliantly evoking the jazz milieu of post-war New York. "In Bird, Eastwood shows talents that were never even hinted at in his earlier pictures. He has succeeded so thoroughly in communicating his love of his subject, and there's such vitality in the performances, that we walk out elated, juiced on the actors and the music. The young Forest Whitaker's brilliance is the force that holds the scattered pieces of Bird together. Only rarely in movies do characters achieve this sort of palpability, and then only when presented to us by a remarkable performer. And this is a remarkable performer giving a gentle, exuberant, charismatic performance… The image of Bird standing dead still on the bandstand, with only his fingers moving over the buttons of his horn, is hauntingly definitive, yet somehow shadowy and enigmatic, like a figure drawn in smoke."—Hal Hinson, Washington Post.
1988/color/161 min. | Scr: Joel Oliansky; dir: Clint Eastwood; w/ Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David
Bing Theater | $10 general admission. $7 museum members, seniors (62+), students with valid ID.
MUSIC PROGRAM
Sundays Live: Pianist Andrew Brownell
Sunday, February 28 | 6 pm
Pianist Andrew Brownell performs Hummel: Sonata in F-sharp minor, Opus 81, plus works by Bach and Chopin.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
Gallery Conversations: Modern and Contemporary Art
Saturdays & Sundays | February & March | 1–4 pm
Introducing a new way to experience LACMA! Drop by the modern and contemporary art galleries for informative and informal conversations about works of art with gallery educators.
BCAM level 3 and Ahmanson Building, level 2 | Free, no reservations
Docent Slide Talks
Thursday, February 18 & 25 | 2 pm
Sunday, February 21 & 28 | 3 pm
Museum docents present slide talks including the highlights of the special exhibition Renoir in the 20th Century.
Thursday, March 4, 18 | 2 pm
Sunday, March 7, 21 | 3 pm
Museum docents present slide talks including the highlights of the special exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915.
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations
LACMA 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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