Get ready for a brick-tastic adventure as we bring The Lego Movie to the big screen on April 11! Join Emmet, Wyldstyle, and Batman on an action-packed journey where imagination knows no limits.
When: April 11 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: ASU MIX Center | 50 N. Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ
What to Bring: Blankets, chairs and your master builder skills!
A trio of celebrated American Cinema Editors – Kelley Dixon, Maura Corey and Molly Shock – joins The Sidney Poitier New American Film School for an insightful industry panel discussion about what it takes to build a career in editing across mediums including feature films, television dramas, documentaries and live telecasts.
Academy Award winner and visual effects supervisor Brian Connor has over two decades’ experience in high-end visual effects for film and television and is the winner of an Oscar for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi blockbuster “Dune: Part One.” Connor joins The Sidney Poitier New American Film School for a deep dive into the world of computer graphics and visual effects, featuring the incredible VFX work that brought the world of “Dune” to life, and shares what it takes to be a successful VFX artist.
What happens when you combine the world’s greatest athlete with some of the world’s most beloved cartoon characters? Movie magic. Bring the whole family for The Sidney Poitier New American Film School’s special Black History Month outdoor screening of the original 1996 sports movie classic “Space Jam,” starring NBA legend Michael Jordan alongside animated Looney Tunes characters as they team up to play against invading aliens intent on capturing the toons.
Kino Nights is a new curated series of themed monthly screenings and conversations hosted by the Melikian Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. The series features present-day groundbreaking documentary and narrative cinema from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, contextualized in timely conversations with scholars and artists. The screenings and conversations are free and open to all to attend.
The hum of a light saber, the painterly backgrounds of “Star Wars,” the robotic chirp of Pixar’s “WALL-E.” So many details that make the movies you love memorable were created by two men: Ben Burtt and Craig Barron.
The Classics at the MIX series continues with an early and often overlooked Steven Spielberg masterpiece, “Empire of the Sun.” A 12-year-old Christian Bale stars in his big Hollywood debut as Jamie "Jim" Graham, a young British boy who gets separated from his wealthy family in Shanghai during WWII and comes of age in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. This international epic is an underrated gem that touches on themes that recur throughout Spielberg’s filmography and offers an emotionally stirring child’s-eye view of war.
Some films demand to be seen on the big screen, and “Lawrence of Arabia” is at the top of that list. The Classics at the MIX series continues with a favorite from The Poitier Film School’s founding director Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the 1962 best picture-winning historical epic directed by cinematic master David Lean and starring Peter O’Toole. The sweeping tale follows British writer and adventurer T.E. Lawrence through the Middle East as he fights alongside Arab guerilla forces.
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Celebrate the life and legacy of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. on MLK Day with a special screening of Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated 2014 film “Selma,” starring David Oyelowo and Oprah Winfrey. This stirring historical drama focuses on the months in 1965, when King helped organize peaceful protest marches from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights for Black Americans. The film earned a best picture nomination, and musicians John Legend and Common won the Oscar for best original song for “Glory.”