![]() And amid all the gleaming wonder of the many exhibits and installations - look, there’s Bruce the Shark from “Jaws,” R2-D2, one of Bette Davis’ Oscars - the museum opening in September 2021 reflects the real history of film better than the one that would have opened four years earlier. But some films take us on journeys that we have taken pains to avoid, some films, and revelations about the creators and industry that made them, force us to confront realities we might otherwise overlook, or even deny. How the Academy Museum’s Jewish Exclusion Became Exhibit A Gary Baum Maat 8:00 AM 7 min read Producer John Goldwyn turned down his invite to the September 2021 opening gala for. Movies are often magical excursions - one of the museum’s inaugural exhibits, on the work of Hayao Miyazaki, includes a “My Neighbor Totoro” tree that glitters and gleams with all manner of possibilities. There is plenty of such basking to be had in the new museum, as there should be. If the motion picture museum had opened according to plan, which was originally titled “Where Dreams Are Made: A Journey Inside the Movies,” visitors would have found a starry-eyed celebration of the narrow narrative Hollywood has pitched about itself for years: Let us now praise all the famous (white) men and their leading (white) ladies, bask in Classic Hollywood as defined by those fabled ruby slippers and the magical excursions they imply. If the motion picture museum had opened in 2017 or even 2019, it would not have reflected any of that. After spending more time in development hell than any other project in Hollywood, the museum was subsequently plagued by more production and budgetary setbacks than “Apocalypse Now.” Over the last nine years, “Motion picture museum delayed” became such a ubiquitous news item that it barely counted as actual news. Wish-list discussions about a Los Angeles film museum have spanned two millennia, occupying the attention of countless film academy board members. ![]() The Hollywood Museum did what it could, but showcasing the glamour of Hollywood is not the same thing as exploring the history, challenges, impact and failures of cinema.Īnd it is absolutely about time this long-heralded project came to fruition. It is definitely about time Los Angeles had a big, beautiful museum dedicated to the art form that has defined this city for more than a century. Logistically, architecturally and, more important, spiritually about time. ![]() ![]() The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will finally, officially, open Sept. ![]()
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