REGROUPING — LIZZIE BORDEN AND ZACKARY DRUCKER IN CONVERSATION
The Academy Museum program “Present Past: A Celebration of Film Preservation” covers the waterfront with a wide selection of narrative features, shorts, documentaries, and experimental films. From cult classics to the overlooked and forgotten—and each a local, North American, or
REGENERATION — BLACK CINEMA 1898–1971 AT THE ACADEMY MUSEUM
“Regeneration”—in the 1923 silent “race” film that shares its title—is an imaginary island of castaways who have discovered a treasure chest on its beachfront. As a concept, regeneration—which suggests both a renewal of potentialities as well as a return—also informs
UTA BARTH — PERIPHERAL VISION
A retrospective selection of the work of Uta Barth—ranging from her student experimentations to her new commission celebrating the Getty Center’s twentieth anniversary—is now on view in Brentwood. In early December, Russell Ferguson and Jan Tumlir will participate in a
JOE BRAINARD
This month, bringing a focus to the paintings and writings of Joe Brainard, the John Giorno Foundation presents a talk with critic John Yau on the occasion of his new book “Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal.” Next week,
ONE FINE MORNING — MIA HANSEN-LØVE AND LÉA SEYDOUX IN CONVERSATION
For the closing night of this year's festival, Hansen-Løve returns to AFI Fest with ONE FINE MORNING, starring Léa Seydoux as a freelance translator and single mother negotiating a relationship with an old friend-turned-lover (Melvil Poupaud) while arranging for the
SAINT OMER — ALICE DIOP IN CONVERSATION
SAINT OMER—Alice Diop’s feature directorial debut—extends the great documentarian’s range of purview into narrative fiction to explicate the depredations of projection and the right to remain unknown. Based on a famous 2016 French court case, PhD student Laurence Coly (played