Noah Purifoy, Black, Brown and Beige (After Duke Ellington) (detail), 1989, Sue A. Welsh Collection, © Noah Purifoy Foundation, photo courtesy Noah Purifoy Foundation, by Seamus O'Dubslaine

This Weekend at LACMA

December 11, 2015
Katie Antonsson, USC Annenberg Journalism Fellow

It's a weekend for film fans at LACMA. Kicking things off on Friday night is Fritz Lang's M (1931) at 7:30 pm in the Bing Theater. The screening is in conjunction with the exhibition New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933, so stop in at the exhibition in the afternoon and swing by for the screening after dinner! M is the story of a manhunt for a murderer in a German city; when the police fail to catch the murderer, other city criminals join the search. Saturday brings a second New Objectivity screening with F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924), complete with live musical accompaniment and original score by Michael Mortilla. Follow the story of an aging doorman whose job loss leads him to face the ridicule of his family, neighbors, and society. The film begins at 7:30 pm in the Bing Theater.

On Saturday and Sunday, LACMA is hosting the 11th Los Angeles International Children's Festival, screening over 100 films—full-lengths and shorts alike. The festival begins with Lisa Belcher's short The Gift at 10 am on Saturday in the Brown Auditorium. Things wrap up on Sunday afternoon with "Shorts for All Ages," a collection of short films to top off the weekend. Highlights of the festival include Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's Me, Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) and Disney's Inside Out (2015). Explore the LACMA calendar for the full list of programming.

Sundays Live features the Mojave Trio. Composed of violinist Sarak Parkins, cellist Margaret Parkins, and pianist Genevieve Lee, the Mojave Trio plays a range of classical music—from 18th century to contemporary works. The trio will be accompanied by Alma Fernandez on viola to perform Beethoven's Piano Trio in D major, Op 70, No. 1 "Ghost" and Schumann's Piano Quartet in E flat major Op. 47. The performance begins at 6 pm in the Bing Theater.

Tours this weekend include 20th Century Latin American Art on Friday at 2 pm, Art of the Americas on Saturday at 12 pm, and Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada on Sunday at 1 pm.