Sips on the Terrace

The Academy Museum opens its doors to soccer fans of all ages for a free program packed with food, family-friendly activities, and more.

Not a follower of fútbol? Museum admission is also free; take a lap around our premiere installations, including Jaws: The Exhibition, Studio Ghibli's PONYO, Barbie to Anna Karenina: The Cinematic Worlds of Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, and the iconic ruby slippers in our Identity gallery.

We're also offering three movies showcasing The Beautiful Game, only for Fútbol Free Day. All are in 35mm, and all are free.

Best of all, you don't need to reserve a ticket in advance. Simply show up and let us welcome you.

Ring in the solstice with the smoldering passion of David Lean’s 1955 sumptuous Technicolor romance. Shot on location in Venice, Italy during the sunniest months of the year, Summertime features Katharine Hepburn as a romantic lead. Hepburn is utterly relatable and captivating in her Oscar-nominated turn as Jane Hudson, an unmarried secretary on a long-awaited solo vacation away from her humdrum life in Akron, Ohio.

Featuring leisurely footage of the crowded Piazza San Marco and soothing gondola rides along the Fondamenta San Felice, Lean’s film, for which he received a Directing nomination at the 28th Academy Awards, manifests his understanding of nuanced female interiority through his closeups on Hepburn’s engrossing, dynamic face. Don’t miss this opportunity to see a gorgeous 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive; it was struck in 2004 and has screened no more than three times.

Summertime was restored in 2003 by the Academy Film Archive and the British Film Institute with the support of the David Lean Foundation.

Selected by the Cinematographers Branch

Restoration world premiere

In person: filmmaker Michael Schultz; actors Bill Duke, Antonio Fargas, Henry Kingi, Melanie Mayron, Garrett Morris, Pepe Serna. Moderated by Jacqueline Stewart.

In person: Robert Rodriguez

In person: director Adrian Lyne

Hardboiled San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is assigned to the case of a murdered rock star and gets in over his head when he meets the victim’s lover, Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone). A crime novelist whose latest work mirrors Curran’s case, and past relationships with violent people, Catherine becomes the prime suspect. Confronted by Tramell’s smoldering sensuality and mysterious past, Curran struggles to maintain his professionalism and not give into his carnal instincts.

Paul Verhoeven’s erotic thriller made a huge impact, serving as a pop-culture reference for many years and defining the genre for the 1990s. The recipient of Academy Award nominations for editing (Frank J. Urioste) and Jerry Goldsmith’s original score, Basic Instinct, originally edited for sexual and violent content, has been restored in 4K and is now available in Verhoeven’s original, uncut version.

In person: cinematographer Phedon Papamichael and director Katt Shea

The “reshaping of the human body by modern technology,” in the words of one character, takes center stage in David Cronenberg’s 1996 cult classic Crash, based on the J. G. Ballard novel of the same name. Film producer James Ballard (James Spader) is drawn into an underground community of car-crash fetishists after experiencing a near-fatal collision with one of its members. As Ballard and his wife, Catherine (Deborah Unger), grow more absorbed in this erotic hobby, they will stop at nothing, including death, to reach their next climax. Highly controversial upon release, this cold and clinical exploration of machinery as an extension of the human body, and how destruction begets creation, culminates in one of Cronenberg’s most polarizing films, and what writer-director Bernardo Bertolucci has described as a “religious masterpiece.”

Fresh out of prison and wanting to lay low, Corky (Gina Gershon), takes a job fixing up an old apartment only to be seduced by Violet (Jennifer Tilly), the high-femme girl next door. As their secret affair heats up, they devise a plan to steal $2 million from Violet’s mobster boyfriend. In the Wachowskis’ feature-film directorial debut, they subvert traditional gender roles and genre convention, allowing Corky and Violet to be deeply human as they navigate the boxes society creates for them and take down the oppressive men in their lives. After the Wachowskis refused studio suggestions of changing Corky to a man, they secured financing from Dino De Laurentiis, who supported their original vision and added feminist writer Susie Bright as a lesbian sex consultant to create what has now become a cult classic in queer cinema.