Calendar of Events

Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Women Directors of Color Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s third feature (after Love & Basketball and The Secret Life of Bees) stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as pop singer Noni Jean, caught between her burgeoning success and her lost sense of self.

Curator's Choice Erich von Stroheim was able to create a spectacular and lavish film out of any mundane story. And a clichéd plot he would turn into a drama of great psychological complexity.

70 Years of Cinemascope Based on, and using the music of, Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera of Carmen, this Cinemascope marvel is the perfect showcase for its all-Black cast, including Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Brock Peters, and Diahann Carroll.

A Tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman Paul Thomas Anderson’s third feature concerns twenty-four hours in the lives of a varied lot of Los Angelenos. Two dying fathers work to mend broken ties with their estranged children, while two whiz kids, one grown and one young, struggle with the pressures of their intellects.

Born in Mexico, José Ramón Gil Samaniego and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was a teenager to escape the Mexican Revolution. He was acting on film within a decade and adopted the screen name Ramon Novarro at the suggestion of director Rex Ingram, with whom he worked seven times.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Women Directors of Color Based on Madeleine L’Engle’s groundbreaking novel, the film follows young Meg Murry as she travels space and time to rescue her missing father.

Make Mine Musicals Rita Hayworths’ first color musical, she is the Cover Girl of the title in her only pairing with the legendary Gene Kelly.

Pops on Film Just in time for the RPO’s Pops concert performances Decades: Back to the 80s on April 7 and 8, the Dryden features the biggest dance film of the decade.