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Mindful Awareness Meditation

Thursdays, 12:30–1 PM PDT

Mindful Awareness Meditation will be ONLINE ONLY on May 1, May 8, & May 15. Free weekly drop-in sessions are open to all who are interested in learning how to live more presently.

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The Suspended Step of the Stork / The Beekeeper

The first film in Theo Angelopoulos’s "Trilogy of Borders may be his sharpest assault on the moral and political failures of the West.

Sun Oct 30 7:00 PM

Still from the film "The Panic in Needle Park" (1971)

The Panic in Needle Park

Adapted for the screen by Joan Didion, this harrowing chronicle of addiction marked the debut of a young Al Pacino.

Thu Nov 3 7:30 PM

Part of the series Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

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Alexander the Great

A bandit leader sparks an international incident by kidnapping a group of English tourists to force economic reforms.

Fri Nov 4 7:30 PM

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The Hunters

When a hunting party finds the body of a communist partisan perfectly preserved in the snow, they carry it back to their lakeside lodge to open a formal inquest.

Sun Nov 6 7:30 PM

Still from the film "The Third Man" (1949)

The Third Man

Carol Reed’s tenebrous thriller, about a writer investigating a friend’s death in postwar Vienna, was a favorite of Joan Didion.

Sat Nov 12 7:30 PM

Part of the series Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

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Kids Screenings

Family Flicks: Wizard Of Oz

After a tornado transports Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog Toto to the magical land of Oz, they follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, encountering a ragtag group of friends and a wicked witch along the way.

Sun Nov 13 11:00 AM

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The Weeping Meadow

A political assassination kicks off Theo Angelopoulos’s portrait of one Greek dictatorship made under the shadow of another.

Sun Nov 13 7:00 PM

Still from the film "The Searchers" (1956)

The Searchers

In this keystone of director John Ford’s inquiry into the psychosis of American racism, John Wayne gives one of his finest performances.

Tue Nov 15 7:30 PM

Part of the series Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

Still from the film "The Night of the Iguana" (1964)

The Night of the Iguana

An adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play about the unraveling of a defrocked clergyman working as a tour guide in Mexico.

Fri Nov 18 7:30 PM

Part of the series Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

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Lost African American TV: Robert L. Goodwin’s “The Upper Chamber”

The UCLA Film & Television Archive presents a screening of Robert L. Goodwin's highly accomplished video drama.

Sat Nov 19 7:30 PM