{"id":955525,"date":"2026-07-24T05:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/955525\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:07:24","slug":"lucas-museums-film-programming-plans-include-nonstop-screenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/955525\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Museum’s film programming plans include nonstop screenings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Thursday announced its inaugural film programming<\/a>, which will be screened nonstop during museum hours in two dedicated 299-seat theaters. Entry to the theaters is included with each general admission ticket, and visitors can enter and exit at any time, creating a free-flowing set of ancillary exhibition spaces with a goal of furthering the museum\u2019s mission of exploring storytelling in its many forms.<\/p>\n

One of the theaters will play museum co-founder George Lucas\u2019 student films, made between 1965 and 1969, among other rare offerings. A schedule of screenings will be provided to visitors as they enter so they can plan their day around what they\u2019d like to see, and programming will be changed periodically through the year. The theaters will also be used for special events.<\/p>\n

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The Slavko Vorkapich Theater at Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts has 299 seats and will screen experimental film.<\/p>\n

(Lou Caltabiano)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe film program, like so much in the museum, is unique in its structure and content. It is an open-door program that runs continuously throughout the day, allowing people to come and go at their leisure,\u201d Ryan Linkof, senior curator and head of the museum\u2019s film programs, wrote in an email. The news was first revealed Thursday during a Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con. \u201cIn this way, it fits within the larger mission of the museum to allow visitors to choose their own path through the museum and discover content at their own pace. It is also a varied and diverse program that includes everything from the earliest cinema experiments to avant-garde film, documentaries and animation, providing a platform for many underrecognized and rarely seen films and filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adjacent to each other on the ground floor, off the north lobby of the $1-billion museum<\/a>, the theaters are named after two giants of film history: Robert J. Flaherty, whose 1922 silent film \u201cNanook of the North\u201d revolutionized documentary filmmaking; and early Hollywood montagist, cinematic artist and experimental filmmaker Slavko Vorkapich, who also served as chair of the USC film department from 1948 to 1950, more than a decade before Lucas enrolled in the program.<\/p>\n

\"Gardens <\/p>\n

Two 299-seat theaters will be located on the ground floor of the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which opens to the public Sept. 22.<\/p>\n

(Jason Armond \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

The Flaherty theater will be dedicated to documentaries, including those that chronicle the work and artistic process of many of the artists and storytellers featured in the museum\u2019s opening exhibitions<\/a> such as Norman Rockwell, Jim Lee, Charles M. Schulz<\/a>, Maurice Sendak, Diego Rivera, J.C. Leyendecker and Weegee. The museum will also screen \u201cSeeing Is Believing: The Story of Narrative Art,\u201d a new documentary series it commissioned from Robin Dashwood. It will also show episodes of the 2024 television series \u201cThe Power of Film,\u201d created by Howard Suber and directed by Laura Gabbert, and the 1988 Ron Mann-directed doc \u201cComic Book Confidential.\u201d <\/p>\n

The experience will be more avant-garde in the Vorkapich theater, which will contain programming \u201cshowcasing cinematic innovation and imagination through experimental and formally inventive short films that speak to the essence of cinema: the magic of seeing still images come to life,\u201d wrote Linkof. <\/p>\n

Offerings include Lucas\u2019 student films, as well as montage sequences by Vorkapich for movies like \u201cMr. Smith Goes to Washington\u201d; silent films by Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, \u00c9mile Cohl, W.K.L. Dickson, Edwin S. Porter and more; early animations by Winsor McCay; experimental films created by Man Ray and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy; early sound animations by Walt Disney and Fleischer Studios; experimental films by Canadian animator Norman McLaren; Looney Tunes cartoons; abstract \u201cvisual music\u201d works by Mary Ellen Bute, Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson and others; excerpts from Busby Berkeley musicals; experimental films from the 1960s by Stan Brakhage and Kenneth Anger; experimental animation by Vince Collins; \u201cCowboy Bebop\u201d; and an episode of \u201cStar Wars: Visions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lucas Museum opens Sept. 22<\/a>. Tickets went on sale Tuesday and were going briskly, with digital wait times reported<\/a> of more than four hours in queues with as many as 13,000 guests. Museum representatives declined to comment on how many sold that first day, noting, \u201cWe\u2019re grateful for the response and early enthusiasm from our Founding Member community and first wave of visitors. We look forward to welcoming them in September.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on Thursday announced its inaugural film programming, which will be screened nonstop…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":955526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[384408,1582,276,384413,3192,384410,384407,384411,2961,224,5337,180176,11365,198195,384409,384412,149059,1148,15708,8066],"class_list":["post-955525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-avant-garde-film","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-cinematic-artist","tag-documentary","tag-early-animation","tag-experimental-film","tag-film-programming-plan","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-lucas-museum","tag-museum","tag-narrative-art","tag-nonstop-screening","tag-ryan-linkof","tag-silent-film","tag-theater","tag-visitor","tag-work"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116973225350056435","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}