with the ineffable Audrey Hepburn for their only screen matchup, shot primarily on location in Paris and the French Alps. With supporting performances from Walter Matthau, James Coburn, and George Kennedy, this rom- com-screwball-thriller, which has been called “the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made” and asks you to “expect the unexpected,” is bolstered by Henry Mancini’s playful score and title song, which bounces along under the film’s groovy animated credits by Maurice Binder ( Dr. No ). DIRECTED BY: Stanley Donen. WRITTEN BY: Peter Stone. WITH: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn. 1963. 113 min. USA. Technicolor. English, French, German, Italian, Spanish. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Paul Rayton Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
Wyoming cowboys Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the romance they must repress, instantly entered the cultural zeitgeist as a work of aching beauty and simmering emotion. This beloved neo-Western was nominated for Best Picture at the 78th Oscars, and won for Directing for Ang Lee, Adapted Screenplay for writers Larry McMurtry ( The Last Picture Show ) and Diana Ossana, who also produced with James Schamus, and Original Score for Gustavo Santaolalla. DIRECTED BY: Ang Lee. WRITTEN BY: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana. WITH: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway. 2005. 134 min. USA/Canada. Color. English, Spanish. Rated R. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
DREAMGIRLS
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
Dreamgirls in 35mm Sun, Feb 11 | 7:30pm | DGT This fictionalization of the career of Motown group The Supremes is studded with incredible milestones in the history of Black cinema. Receiving eight nominations across six categories, the most of any film that year, and the first live- action film to find three tunes nominated for Original Song, Dreamgirls was also the first film to boast Black nominees for both Best Supporting Actor (Eddie Murphy) and Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Hudson). The debut performance by Hudson as Effie White, opposite Beyoncé’s Deena Jones, won her an Oscar, making her, at age 25, the youngest African American to win an Academy Award for acting. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Bill Condon. WITH: Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover. 2006. 130 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG-13. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. Ray in 35mm Sun, Feb 18 | 7:30pm | DGT In an act of remarkable conjuring, Jamie Foxx gives the performance of a lifetime as the foundational, widely influential musician Ray Charles, the revered R&B pianist and singer who lost his sight at the age of 7. This sweeping biopic, which was independently financed, had the support and endorsement of Charles, who was able to view a first cut of the picture before he passed on June 10, 2004, just four months before the film was released. Foxx’s nominations for Best Actor in Ray (which he won) and Best Supporting Actor for Collateral made him the first Black actor to receive two acting nods in the same year. DIRECTED BY: Taylor Hackford. WRITTEN BY: Taylor Hackford, James L. White. WITH: Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington, Regina King, Clifton Powell. 2004. 152 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Buena Vista Social Club in 35mm Sun, Jan 21 | 7:30pm | DGT Added to the National Film Registry in 2020.
Both a time capsule of the tense relations between Cuba and the United States and a stirring showcase of a regional music scene, Wim Wenders’s Oscar-nominated documentary about the popular danzón music of the Caribbean island country was met with universal acclaim upon its release, leading to increased international recognition for musicians like Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, and Rubén González. Wenders’s close friend Ry Cooder, a multi-instrumental American musician, helped gather the eponymous ensemble that would tour to Amsterdam and Carnegie Hall in New York, marking for some the first time these artists were able to travel to the United States. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Wim Wenders. WITH: Octavio Calderon, Joachim Cooder, Ry Cooder, Angel Terry Domech. 1999. 105 min. Germany/USA/UK/France/Cuba. B&W, Color. English, Spanish. Rated G. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
LITTLE BIG MAN
Little Big Man in 35mm Sun, Jan 7 | 7:30pm | DGT Added to the National Film Registry in 2014.
This epic revisionist Western plays out in flashback as recalled by Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman in extreme old age makeup by Dick Smith), a 121-year-old white man who was raised by the Cheyenne nation in the 1800s. Receiving critical praise as a thinly veiled protest against America’s late-1960s involvement in Vietnam, Little Big Man is also one of the earliest Hollywood films to sympathetically consider Indigenous populations and begin to rewrite their representation on screen. The standout is Coast Salish actor Chief Dan George’s portrayal of Old Lodge Skins, for which he received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 43rd Oscars, making him the first Indigenous person nominated in the category. DIRECTED BY: Arthur Penn. WRITTEN BY: Calder Willingham. WITH: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam. 1970. 139 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. A Woman under the Influence in 35mm Sun, Jan 14 | 7:30pm | DGT Added to the National Film Registry in 1990. John Cassavetes’s seventh feature is a heartbreaking portrayal of a frustrated housewife (Gena Rowlands) losing grasp on reality, making it an urgent response to contemporaneous issues of second wave feminism. For their sixth collaboration, the husband-wife duo worked on a meager budget, with Cassavetes shooting in a real 1910s residence in Hollywood and star Rowlands doing her own makeup and hair. For this unmatched relationship drama, the singular Rowlands was nominated for Best Actress (she lost to Ellen Burstyn for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore ) and Cassavetes for Directing, his only nomination in the category. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: John Cassavetes. WITH: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands. 1974. 155 min. USA. Color. English, Italian. Rated R. 35mm. Restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and GUCCI.
MALCOLM X
Malcolm X in 4K Sun, Feb 4 | 7:30pm | DGT Spike Lee’s seminal biographical drama, based on Malcolm X and Alex Haley’s 1965 book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X , follows the legendary revolutionary figure as portrayed by Denzel Washington through key periods in his life up to his assassination in 1965. Washington was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the lead role, and costume designer Ruth Carter became the first Black nominee in the category’s history. Of the film’s various periods and the costumes needed to evoke them, Carter has shared: “each stage in his life deserved a different color palette since his mindset was different in all the stages of his life.” DIRECTED BY: Spike Lee. WRITTEN BY: Spike Lee, Arnold Perl. WITH: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr. 1992. 202 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. 4K DCP.
10 Years After the Win: 12 Years a Slave Sun, Feb 25 | 7:30pm | DGT In person: Steve McQueen.
Recipient of the Vantage Award at the Academy Museum’s 2022 Gala, Steve McQueen has built a varied career challenging dominant narratives around cinema. His third feature, the unflinching story of Solomon Northup who is kidnapped and sold into enslavement, made major history at the 86th Oscars. Lead Chiwetel Ejiofor became the first Black British man to be nominated for Best Actor, Lupita Nyong’o the first Black African to win in any category, and McQueen the first Black man to win Best Picture. We’re revisiting this stunning work with the director-producer in person to reflect on his win 10 years ago. DIRECTED BY: Steve McQueen. WRITTEN BY: John Ridley. WITH: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lupita Nyong’o. 2013. 134 min. USA/UK. Color. English. Rated R. DCP.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Brokeback Mountain in 35mm Sun, Jan 28 | 7:30pm | DGT Added to the National Film Registry in 2018.
One of the first films of the century to usher queer love stories into the mainstream, Ang Lee’s tale of 1960s
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