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The George Stevens Lecture on Directing presents The Greatest Story Ever Told with Guillermo Del Toro
In person: Guillermo Del Toro, George Stevens, Jr.
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Sat, Jan 17, 2026
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Amores Perros in 4K with Alejandro G. Iñárritu
In celebration of the opening of LACMA’s exhibition SUEÑO PERRO: Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, marking the 25th anniversary of Amores Perros (2000), Iñárritu’s landmark Academy Award–nominated film, please join us for a screening and conversation with Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Michael Govan, LACMA Director.
The feature directorial debut of Alejandro González Iñárritu—winner of back-to-back Oscars for directing Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Revenant (2015)—Amores Perros tells three unsettling tales linked by a car accident, involving dog fighting, an injured model, and a hired killer. Experience the anniversary celebration with a meticulously restored 4K version, sponsored by Criterion and supervised by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, and sound designer Martín Hernández.
As he revisits the film through this new installation, Iñárritu notes: “Over a million feet of film was left on the cutting room floor during the editing of Amores Perros. These intensely charged images, 16 million still frames, were buried in the UNAM film archive for 25 years.” SUEÑO PERRO brings to light never-before-seen footage that speaks to the film’s enduring themes of love, betrayal, and violence. It’s a sensorial and analog installation that, through 35mm projectors and non-narrative fragments, becomes a true statement on lost cinema.
This program is a co-presentation of LACMA and the Academy Museum, and is presented in conjunction with LACMA’s SUEÑO PERRO: Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
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A delight for audiences of all ages, Ponyo focuses on the friendship between 5-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Brunhilde, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After wandering away from her father’s four-flippered submarine, Brunhilde washes ashore and is discovered by curious Sosuke. Now renamed Ponyo, she yearns to be a real girl and join Sosuke’s family. Touching on classic Hayao Miyazaki themes about balance in nature and how friendships can blossom anywhere—even in the ocean’s depths―Ponyo is one of the director’s most charming features.
This screening celebrates the opening of Studio Ghibli’s PONYO, a new Academy Museum exhibition highlighting the film’s traditional, hand-drawn animation. We invite audiences to dive into the world of Ponyo on the big screen before embarking on a voyage through the Level 2 Wanda Gallery.
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Program and note by Academy Film Archive film preservationists Cassie Blake and Tessa Idlewine. Trailers courtesy of the Packard Humanities Institute Collection. Courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
Total program runtime: 70 min.
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Join us for a free and heartfelt program presented jointly by the Academy Museum’s education department and the Academy’s film archive and public access department. The Academy Museum’s Ted Mann Theater will host this celebration of rare, candid moments, all brought to life with a live DJ set from musician Jeff Parker and live narration from the Academy Film Archive staff with very special guest Tony Nicholas, son of Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers.
Programmed by: Film Archive Associate Director Taylor Morales and Senior Archive Video Producer Daniel Brantley, with Film Education Manager Tuni Chatterji and Film Education Specialist André Martinez.
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Amores Perros in 4K with Alejandro G. Iñárritu
In celebration of the opening of LACMA’s exhibition SUEÑO PERRO: Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, marking the 25th anniversary of Amores Perros (2000), Iñárritu’s landmark Academy Award–nominated film, please join us for a screening and conversation with Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Michael Govan, LACMA Director.
The feature directorial debut of Alejandro González Iñárritu—winner of back-to-back Oscars for directing Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) and The Revenant (2015)—Amores Perros tells three unsettling tales linked by a car accident, involving dog fighting, an injured model, and a hired killer. Experience the anniversary celebration with a meticulously restored 4K version, sponsored by Criterion and supervised by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, and sound designer Martín Hernández.
As he revisits the film through this new installation, Iñárritu notes: “Over a million feet of film was left on the cutting room floor during the editing of Amores Perros. These intensely charged images, 16 million still frames, were buried in the UNAM film archive for 25 years.” SUEÑO PERRO brings to light never-before-seen footage that speaks to the film’s enduring themes of love, betrayal, and violence. It’s a sensorial and analog installation that, through 35mm projectors and non-narrative fragments, becomes a true statement on lost cinema.
This program is a co-presentation of LACMA and the Academy Museum, and is presented in conjunction with LACMA’s SUEÑO PERRO: Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
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