Film
FILM
Wizards
Tuesday, June 4, 1:30 p.m.
Ralph Bakshi’s groundbreaking film about wizards, love, and fighting fascism utilizes traditional cel animation and a modified form of rotoscoping (with help from IBM) to emphasize the dangers of being over-reliant on technology.
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Tuesday, June 11, 1:30 p.m.
Mr. Henry Limpet is a meek bookkeeper who wants more than anything to join the navy but is rejected. When Limpet falls into the water on a vacation, he turns into a fish. With his new abilities, he aids the United States Navy during World War II and finds happiness and contentment.
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
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Tinghir-Jerusalem, Echoes from the Mellah
Thursday, June 13, 8:00 p.m.
L.A. premiere! In this documentary, Moroccan-born filmmaker Kamal Hachkar explores the 2000-year-old mellah (Jewish quarter) in his family’s village of Tinghir, Morocco, and follows the trail of the town’s once substantial Jewish population to its émigrés and descendants in Israel.
Admission:
$6 General; $5 Members and Full-Time Students
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The Philadelphia Story
Tuesday, July 2, 1:30 p.m.
Socialite Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) and playboy C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) married as passionately and hastily as they divorced. On the eve of Tracy's remarriage to a rather ordinary politician, her ex-husband turns up with two friends to report on the "wedding of the year."
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
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The Shop Around the Corner
Tuesday, July 9, 1:30 p.m.
Klara Novak (Margaret Sullivan) and Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) are employees at a small gift shop in Budapest, and just can’t seem to get along.
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
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Teacher’s Pet
Sunday, July 14, 3:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open, the Skirball presents a whole new breed of comedy sprung from the mind of artist Gary Baseman.
Admission:
Included with Museum admission; no reservations
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Tuesday, August 6, 1:30 p.m.
After three years of marital bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Smith discover that they were never really married (legally that is).
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
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American Jerusalem
Sunday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.
American Jerusalem: Jews and the Making of San Francisco is the epic story of the pioneering Jews of San Francisco.
Admission:
$6 General; $5 Students; FREE to Members
FILM
The Awful Truth
Tuesday, August 13, 1:30 p.m.
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star as a husband and wife on the verge of divorce due to speculations of infidelity.
Admission:
FREE; no reservations
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