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Enchantresses on Film

Alla Nazimova as Salome. Photo: United Artists / Photofest The films we screen at the Getty go hand in hand with the art on view. Curating film series related to exhibitions is exciting, but it can...

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Silent Cinema’s Slant on the Ancient World

Old media artifacts like silent films are traditionally thought of as being windows into their individual moments in time. But when they portray another era still—like the ancient world—they serve as a...

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To Hell and Back: Dante’s Inferno in Art and Film

UPDATE: The screening of the 1911 film L’Inferno, scheduled for Saturday, June 23, at 3:00 p.m., has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience. The other two films will screen as planned....

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