Jun–Aug 2024 Film Calendar

Ice Age with The Cat Came Back and Animal Behaviour Wed, Aug 28 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Animation Branch.

Costner, and Danny Glover as four strangers who join forces against an assortment of evil ranchers and gunfighters. Bruce Broughton’s rousing symphonic score and the sound team of Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O’Connell, and David Ronne earned Oscar nominations. Other key creative contributions included John Bailey’s widescreen cinematography, Carol Littleton’s crisp editing, and Ida Random’s period-perfect production design. As the film’s posters promised, “Get ready for the ride of your life.” DIRECTED BY: Lawrence Kasdan. WRITTEN BY: Lawrence Kasdan, Mark Kasdan. WITH: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese. 1985. 133 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated PG-13. DCP.

A wooly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, and a sloth make an unlikely trio of prehistoric travelers in this computer-animated comedy directed by Chris Wedge, an Oscar winner for his 1998 short Bunny. Ray Romano, Denis Leary, and John Leguizamo provide peerless voice work as the protagonists, and the Animated Feature nominee would go on to inspire four big-screen sequels as well as several shorts starring the luckless squirrel Scrat. Ice Age will be preceded by two Oscar-nominated, animated shorts— The Cat Came Back and Animal Behaviour . Ice Age DIRECTED BY: Chris Wedge. WRITTEN BY: Michael Berg, Michael J. Wilson, Peter Ackerman. STORY BY: Michael J. Wilson. WITH: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic. 2002. 81 min. USA. English. Color. Rated PG. DCP. Preceded by The Cat Came Back DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Cordell Barker. WITH: Richard Condie. 1988. 8 min. Canada. Color. English. DCP. and Animal Behaviour DIRECTED/WRITEN BY: Alison Snowden, David Fine. WITH: Ryan Beil, Taz Van Rassel, Leah Juel, Andrea Libman. 2018. 14 min. Canada. Color. English. DCP.

CHINATOWN

Chinatown in 4K Wed, Aug 21 | 7:30pm | DGT Selected by the Production Design Branch. Free for Museum Members. Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning original screenplay wove Los Angeles history into an intricate mystery plot. Private detective J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson in one of his most effortlessly charismatic performances) discovers that what seems to be a simple divorce case is just one thread in a complex web that puts him in physical and emotional danger. The film earned 11 nominations including Best Picture and Art Direction, with the legendary production designer Richard Sylbert (aided by art director W. Stewart Campbell and set decorator Ruby Levitt) creating an indelible vision of 1937 Los Angeles that combined studio sets and memorable locations. DIRECTED BY: Roman Polanski. WRITTEN BY: Robert Towne. WITH: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Hillerman, John Huston. 1974. 130 min. USA. Color. Scope. English. Rated R. 4K DCP.

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