Los Angeles County Museum of Art Articles

Some in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have been trying to build a film museum for a number of years. Earlier in this century, the proposed location of the increasingly ambitious project was going to be a lot next to the Academy's Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study on Vine Street in Hollywood. Funding for the museum, however, fell through when the [...]

Elvis Mitchell The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Film Independent have announced that film critic Elvis Mitchell will be the curator of LACMA's new film programming. Mitchell's resume includes stints at the New York Times and the L.A. Weekly, serving on Film Independent's board of directors and the Spirit Awards nominating committees, and selling tickets at LACMA's Bing Theater. According to Steve Pond [...]

Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Rabbit Hole John Cameron Mitchell is expected to attend a preview screening of Rabbit Hole, a psychological family drama starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 10 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Adapted by David Lindsay-Abaire from his Pulitzer Prize winning play, Rabbit Hole is a potential Oscar contender in the Best Picture category, [...]

Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer in Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (top); Carroll Baker in Elia Kazan's Baby Doll (bottom) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art's 20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation ends this weekend, with a screening of Fritz Lang's Cloak and Dagger (1946), a spy thriller/film noir starring Gary Cooper and Lilli Palmer, and Alfred Hitchcock's personal favorite film, Shadow of a [...]