Upcoming Events

• Metropolitan Opera HD Satellite Broadcast Schedule September 18, 2011 - April 28, 2012, Varied Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall The USC School of Cinematic Arts, The Metropolitan Opera and Visions and Voices: The USC Arts & Humanities Initiative, invite you to selected screenings from the 2010/2011 HD Broadcast Series, presented in HD and 5.1 sound from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
  
• Outside the Box [Office]: Spring 2012 January 7, 2012 - May 13, 2012, Varied The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Outside the Box [Office] is SCA's ongoing weekly showcase for upcoming international, documentary and independent cinema. The series draws from around the globe to present movies that may challenge, inspire or simply entertain and often features recent award-winning films from Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, SXSW and Venice Film Festivals. All screenings are free of charge and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. All screenings will be OVERBOOKED to ensure capacity.
  
• SCA Alumni Screening Series: Spring 2012 January 18, 2012 - May 15, 2012, Varied Varied The School of Cinematic Arts invites you to a free screening series featuring a selection of new films by SCA alumni and faculty throughout the Spring 2012 semester.
  
• AN AFRICAN ELECTION February 22, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 A suspenseful political drama that follows the twists and turns of the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa. A drama of national proportions, it is told at a human scale through the eyes of its director, Jarreth Merz.
  
• SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA! February 23, 2012, 9:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Nick Broomfield's quest for the real Sarah Palin. This involves battling the icy snows of Alaska in mid winter, the school friends, family, and Republican colleagues that in previous days gave their heart, soul and belief, to the charismatic, charming, intoxicating ex hockey mum. But it's not all plain sailing. People are frightened to talk, Wasilla makes Twin Peaks look like a walk in the park.
  
• THE UNDEFEATED February 23, 2012, 6:30 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Alaska in mid-decade was a land of vast natural resources fought over by the largest companies in the world and governed by a corrupt and compromised political class. Rampant crony-capitalism stood in the way of the people of Alaska reaping the benefits of their natural birthright. Enter a galvanizing reformer, a small town mayor who took on her own political party and brought on "sudden and relentless reform." An epic two-hour feature documentary film, "The Undefeated" chronicles the rise from obscurity of one of America’s new generation of leaders: Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska.
  
• SILENT HOUSE February 24, 2012, 8:30 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 In "Silent House", Sarah, along with her uncle and father, prepare their long-time family summer home, recently violated by squatters, for sale. But broken windows and cracks in the plaster are the least of their problems when they discover they are not alone, and there's more than just mold concealed behind the walls. Over the course of 85 harrowing minutes, their idyllic isolated retreat is transformed into a site of horror as the family’s past returns to taunt then terrorize them, exposing a hidden and distorted history.
  
• THE STRIKING TRUTH February 24, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 "The Striking Truth" is the exclusive documentary for charismatic Ultimate Fighting Champion Georges St-Pierre and dynamic MMA fighter David "The Crow" Loiseau. The movie follows the two fighters over the past four years, starting with UFC 58 USA vs. Canada where Loiseau was fighting for the championship against Rich Franklin and St-Pierre was the co-main event against BJ Penn. The film juxtaposes their two careers with St-Pierre's meteoric rise to UFC champion and Loiseau facing personal challenges, charting their respective ups and downs as they follow their paths.
  
• VES Immersive Experiences: The Future of Entertainment February 25, 2012, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM USC Institute for Creative Technologies - Playa Vista, CA

  On February 25^th 2012, The VES Vision Committee & VES Education Committee Present: Immersive Experiences – The Future of Entertainment.

  
  
• DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX February 27, 2012, 3:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 From the creators of "Despicable Me" and the imagination of Dr. Seuss comes the much anticipated feature "Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax", a CG adaptation of the classic tale of a forest guardian who shares the enduring power of hope. The animated adventure follows the journey of a 12-year-old as he searches for a real Truffula Tree, the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To get it he must find the story of the Lorax, the acerbic yet charming character who fights to protect his world.
  
• BEHIND THE SCENES: Jurassic Park, The Lost World & A.I.: Artificial Intelligence February 28, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 From the USC/Rick Carter Archive, editor Allan Holzman has assembled a series of three informal videos which document the 'behind the scenes' dialogue between director Steven Spielberg, production designer Rick Carter and other members of his creative team.
  
• THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS February 28, 2012, 9:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Based on the horrifying crimes discovered in Snowtown, Australia in 1999, where police found dismembered bodies rotting in barrels, "Snowtown", which marks Justin Kurzel's directorial debut is a stark journey into the feral subculture of welfare dependence, addiction, domestic violence, brutality and sexual abuse.
  
• TIM & ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE February 29, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 An all new feature film from the twisted minds of cult comedy heroes Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ("Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!") Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to make a movie, but squander every dime… and the sinister Schlaaang corporation is pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip town in search of a way to pay the money back. When they happen upon a chance to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of vagrants, bizarre stores and a man-eating wolf that stalks the food court, they see dollar signs—a billion of them.
  
• CAST ME IF YOU CAN March 1, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Hiroshi is an actor who always plays supporting roles and lives in the shadow of his famous playwright father, Kenta. Hiroshi has the virtue of being helpful to strangers, but as a result, like a chameleon, he is always mistaken for someone else: a sales clerk, a policeman, and even a kidnapper. When the lead role of Hiroshi’s dreams finally seems within reach, his contract is canceled after he is mistaken for another man having an affair with the wife of an MP.
  
• 21 JUMP STREET March 2, 2012, 7:00 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall In the action-comedy "21 Jump Street", Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) are more than ready to leave their adolescent problems behind. Joining the police force and the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go undercover in a local high school. As they trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, Schmidt and Jenko risk their lives to investigate a violent and dangerous drug ring. But they find that high school is nothing like they left it just a few years earlier - and neither expects that they will have to confront the terror and anxiety of being a teenager again and all the issues they thought they had left behind.
  
• GOTTERDAMMERUNG March 4, 2012, 12:00 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall With its cataclysmic climax, the Met’s new "Ring" cycle, directed by Robert Lepage, comes to its resolution. Deborah Voigt stars as Brünnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris is Siegfried—the star-crossed lovers doomed by fate. Fabio Luisi conducts. Pre-opera discussion hosted by Dr. James Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Chair in English and Professor of English.
  
• LEAVE IT ON THE FLOOR March 4, 2012, 7:30 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall "Leave It On The Floor" tells the story of an outsider, Brad, who’s been thrown out of his own dysfunctional family onto the mean streets of LA. By chance, like Alice down the rabbit hole, he stumbles into a ball, a startling underground scene populated by a ragtag assortment of strays. Brad’s journey is the journey of the film to where he ultimately will find home, love and acceptance in this new, most unlikely of places.
  
• TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN March 4, 2012, 4:30 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 "To Whom Much is Given" documents the journey of one man and his students as they struggle to change their futures from being locked up or dead in the street. Located in South Central LA, New West Tech Academy is a non-public, special education school that provides a more restrictive environment for kids who have been removed from public school. Aside from learning disabilities, these kids deal with drugs, gangs, and broken homes.
  
• WHITE WASH March 4, 2012, 2:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 "White Wash" explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery, civil rights wade-ins to surfing in contemporary times. In examining the history of world water culture, and the history of black identity as it triumphs and evolves in the minds of black surfers, we learn about the power of transcending race as a constructive phenomenon.
  
• ASTRAL CITY: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY March 6, 2012, 3:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Based on the best selling book by medium Chico Xavier, the film tells the story of Andre Luiz, a successful doctor who experiences an enlightening spiritual awakening after his death. When he wakes up in the spiritual world, he embarks on a new journey of self-discovery and transformation, from his first days in a dimension of pain and suffering, until when he is rescued and taken to the spiritual Astral City.
  
• JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME March 6, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life... and if he's lucky, pick up the wood glue as well. Starring Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer and Susan Sarandon.
  
• POETRY March 7, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Albert and Dana Broccoli Theatre, SCA 112, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival, "Poetry" is an "achingly exquisite portrait" (Philadelphia Inquirer) of a woman's brave fight against Alzheimer's, and against her guilt over a relative's brutal crime. Mija is an aging part-time maid and full-time guardian of her apathetic grandson. Concerned by her frequent forgetfulness, she takes a poetry class at the local arts center to sharpen her mind. She begins to appreciate the wonders of the natural world, but a schoolgirl's suicide initiates a chain of tragic events that will change her life forever.
  
• Production Perks: A Workshop With Actress/Director Christine Lahti March 7, 2012, 4:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. SCE Building, Stage 2 Join us for a directing seminar devoted to rehearsing with actors on set, in the brief minutes you have before the shooting starts. Moderated by SCA Production Professor Jennifer Warren.
  
• CASA DE MI PADRE March 9, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna), shows up with his new fiancee, Sonia (Genesis Rodriguez). It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over as he pledges to settle all debts his father has incurred. But when Armando falls for Sonia, and Raul's business dealings turn out to be less than legit, all hell breaks loose as they find themselves in a war with Mexico's most feared drug lord, the mighty Onza (Gael Garcia Bernal).
  
• IN SEARCH OF HAYDN March 19, 2012, 3:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Award-winning filmmaker Phil Grabsky offers the eagerly awaited final part of his trilogy of films about the great composers, with his latest feature-length documentary, "In Search of Haydn". As with the two previous international hits, Grabsky’s biographical account of the life of Haydn is a visual and aural extravaganza, including breath-taking performances by some of the world’s most celebrated and contemporary musicians.
  
• LA STRADA March 20, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Federico Fellini's neorealist masterpiece about a young woman, Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina), who is sold by her mother to Zampano (Anthony Quinn), an abusive performer who takes Gelsomina on the road (“la strada”) to assist him with his act. Along the way Gelsomina tries to break out of her tortured fate and falls for another performer Il Matto, but she struggles to leave Zampano’s grasp. Producers Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti received Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1957 Academy Awards.
  
• DETACHMENT March 21, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Director Tony Kaye's ("American History X") long-awaited film stars Academy Award® winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he’s not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.
  
• DUNE March 27, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 When Duke Atreides is killed by family rival Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor’s men for posing as a threat to his rule, his son Paul (played by Kyle MacLachlan) and his wife flee to a desert planet. There, they meet a group of enslaved natives, the Arrakis or “Fremen.” Paul forms an army of Fremen and leads them into battle against the corrupt Emperor and Baron Harkonnen to free the Arrakis and avenge his father’s murder.
  
• MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE March 28, 2012, 9:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Based on the short story "Trucks" from the Night Shift collection. After a rogue comet which hides the presence of a UFO passes by, trucks and other machines come alive and begin killing people. The story takes place at the Dixie Boy truck stop where honeymooners, Connie (Yeardley Smith) and Curt (John Short) and several other travelers have gone to try to escape the carnage. Short-order cook, Bill Robinson (Emilio Estevez), and the other diners soon find themselves trapped. The restaurant owner, Bubba Hendershot (Pat Hingle) convinces Robinson to try to lead the group against the killing machines. King, who directed the film, also plays a cameo as a man attempting to use an ATM.
  
• ORCA March 28, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Captain Nolan (Richard Harris) tries to capture a pregnant orca whale in order to pay off the mortgage of his ship. However, when he accidentally kills the fetus, the orca’s mate takes revenge on the Captain and the fishing town, causing death and destruction. Nolan must face the whale one-on-one in a fatal battle of man versus mammal.
  
• BARBARELLA: QUEEN OF THE GALAXY March 30, 2012, 7:00 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Roger Vadim's science fiction epic based on Jean-Claude Forrest’s comics. In a futuristic world, Earth is a peaceful planet where weapons do not exist. However, when rival planet Tau Ceti is about to get its hands on a Positronic Ray, the President of Earth sends Barbarella (Jane Fonda) to intercept the weapon’s inventor, Doctor Durand Durand. Barbarella must get to Durand Durand before it is too late.
  
• CONAN THE BARBARIAN March 30, 2012, 9:00 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 John Millius's fantasy epic based on the stories by Robert E. Howard takes place thousands of years ago in the “Hyborian Age” when corrupt leader Thulsa Doom massacres the Cimmerians. Conan’s father is killed and his family is captured. While enslaved, Conan builds up muscle and becomes a gladiator. Once freed, he sets off on a quest to find Doom and avenge his family’s imprisonment and his father’s death.
  
• A Tribute to Dino De Laurentiis March 30, 2012 - April 1, 2012, Varied Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Hollywood icon and international legend Dino De Laurentiis was one of the most prolific and respected producers in film history when he passed away in 2010 at the age of 91. From his early neorealist masterpieces, "Bitter Rice" and Fellini’s "Nights of Cabiria" and La Strada, for which he received an Academy Award, to big-budget spectaculars like "Barbarella", "King Kong", "Dune" and "Conan the Barbarian", to his recent reinvention of the Hannibal Lecter franchise, De Laurentiis’s career spanned 73 years in the film industry. With the support and guidance of the De Laurentiis family, the School of Cinematic Arts will pay homage to the exceptional variety and longevity that marked his career with screenings of his films and a panel discussion featuring his friends, family and colleagues.
  
• ARMY OF DARKNESS March 31, 2012, 9:30 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with "The Evil Dead" (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword-and-sorcery-style action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a supermarket employee ("Shop Smart...Shop S-Mart") who is transported by the powers of a mysterious book back in time with his Oldsmobile '88 to the 14th century medieval era.
  
• BITTER RICE (RISO AMARO) March 31, 2012, 10:30 A.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Originally released as "Riso Amaro", "Bitter Rice" was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Silvana Mangano portrays one of hundreds of women toiling slavishly in the Po Valley rice fields. She is courted by two men: respectable Raf Vallone and no-good fugitive from justice Vittorio Gassman. Mangano chooses Gassman, a decision which brings disaster not only to her but to her co-workers. The rice-field scenes are realistic enough to pass muster as documentary footage.
  
• DEATH WISH March 31, 2012, 5:15 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is a liberal architect living in New York City. One day, a group of drug-crazed thugs break into his apartment while he's gone, killing his wife Joanna (Hope Lange) and brutally raping his married daughter, leaving her comatose. When the police are unable to find the culprits, Kersey arms himself and begins patrolling the streets, killing muggers and thieves as he encounters them.
  
• KING KONG March 31, 2012, 7:00 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 A big budget adaptation of the 1933 classic, "King Kong" follows Fred Wilson (Charles Grodin), a big-shot oil magnate from Petrox Oil, looking for new petroleum deposits on a recently discovered Pacific island. Jack Prescott (Jeff Bridges) is a counter-culture paleontologist, stowing away on Wilson's ship, who warns that they are headed for "Skull Island," where prehistoric monsters still live and roam free.
  
• SERPICO March 31, 2012, 3:00 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Neophyte officer Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is determined not to let his job get in the way of his individuality. Despite his colleagues' leery reactions, he keeps one foot firmly planted in the counterculture, sporting a beard and love beads and living in bohemian Greenwich Village, while he performs his police duties with dispatch. Serpico's peers genuinely ostracize him, however, when he refuses to take bribes like everybody else. Appalled by the extent of police corruption, Serpico goes to his superiors, but when he discovers that they have ignored his charges, he takes the potentially fatal step of breaking the blue wall of silence and going public with his exposé.
  
• THE GREAT WAR (LA GRANDE GUERRA) March 31, 2012, 12:30 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Directed by Mario Monicelli, "The Great War" tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was an Academy Award nominee as Best Foreign Film.
  
• BLUE VELVET April 1, 2012, 12:15 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his picture-perfect small town when his father suffers a stroke. Walking through a field near his home, Jeff discovers a severed human ear, which he immediately brings to the police. Their disinterest sparks Jeff's curiosity, and he is soon drawn into a dangerous drama that's being played out by a lounge singer, Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini) and the ether-addicted Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper).
  
• HANNIBAL April 1, 2012, 7:30 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Based on the controversial sequel novel of the same name, "Hannibal" is the much-anticipated follow-up to the Oscar-winning "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991). Anthony Hopkins returns as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, one of the world's most cunning and feared serial killers, who resurfaces after a decade in hiding to toy with FBI agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore). As Starling's career flounders thanks to a drug bust gone wrong, Lecter attempts to elude a greedy Italian police detective (Giancarlo Giannini) who's willing to alert the authorities to his presence in Florence for a price. In the meantime, a maimed but wealthy former victim of Lecter's named Mason Verger (Gary Oldman) plots to get his revenge on the doctor in a most unusual and grisly fashion.
  
• MANHUNTER April 1, 2012, 2:30 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 Ace criminal profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) has the ability to make himself think like the killers he tracks. In retirement since catching Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Brian Cox), Will is convinced by his former boss Jack Crawford to assist in the investigation of a new killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" (Tom Noonan). In order to test his mental strength, Will visits Hannibal in his prison cell. Adding to the already substantial mental stress Will experiences when he returns to the job are nosy tabloid reporter Freddy Lounds (Stephen Lang), as well as Hannibal's attempts at seeking revenge through the Tooth Fairy.
  
• U-571 April 1, 2012, 10:00 A.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall, 3507 Trousdale Pkwy., Los Angeles, CA 90007 In this World War II action thriller, American reconnaissance agents learn that a German submarine is sinking. The doomed ship carries an Enigma Machine, a special coding device that allows high-level Axis forces to send messages that can't be read without a similar encryption mechanism. Obtaining a working Enigma device would be invaluable for the Allied war effort, so a U.S. sub is sent out to rescue the machine. However, German forces have already picked up the sub's distress signal and are en route to rescue their comrades.
  
• DUST: THE GREAT ASBESTOS TRIAL April 4, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Charges: intentional disaster. Applicable punishment: 12 year sentence. Defendants: n. 142 and n. 243 in the world’s richest men chart. Witnesses for the prosecution: 800 relatives of the victims from Casale Monferrato, representing the tens of thousands of people who worked in Eternit factories around the world for over a century. Most people believe that Asbestos is a problem of the past, but this is far from the truth. Asbestos production has once again begun to rise in the world, due to the great extent of its consumption in countries like India, China and Russia.
  
• MANON April 7, 2012, 10:00 A.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr Beczala and Paulo Szot also star, with the Met’s Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi on the podium.
  
• TOWNSHIP TO THE STAGE April 10, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 In South Africa's emerging world of stand-up comedy, comedians of color have only recently started performing on stage. With the opportunity to finally command the attention of a large audience, they go beyond just settling for easy laughs and confront the legacy of apartheid head on in their material. Against the backdrop of this volatile environment, twenty-five year old Trevor Noah ambitiously pursues his passion to entertain. Yet his fledgling career as a comedian is largely relegated to headlining at corporate events due to the country's comedy scene being so small.
  
• BINDLESTIFFS April 27, 2012, 9:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Three underage, virgin, prep-school misfits, suspended on a bogus graffiti charge, flee to the inner city in an attempt to live the plot of "The Catcher in the Rye" – a book they have neither read, much less understand. This motion picture graphically portrays their noble quest to surrender their virginities (as well as shed their sobriety and sanity) to the encountered gatekeepers of “real experience”: vagrants, prostitutes, and crack fiends. Hot on their tail is Charlie, a paranoid, deranged security guard, who, convinced that they plan to stage a school shooting, aims to shut them down and save his piece of America.
  
• LA TRAVIATA April 28, 2012, 12:00 P.M. Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall Natalie Dessay will put on the red dress in Willy Decker’s stunning production, in her first Violetta at the Met. Matthew Polenzani sings Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is Germont, and Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
  
• dublab presents... A LABRAT MATINEE 10: the light bends May 2, 2012, 7:00 P.M. The Ray Stark Family Theatre, SCA 108, George Lucas Building, USC School of Cinematic Arts Complex, 900 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007 Open your pupils wide and join us for rarely seen music videos, comedy clips, out-there animation, new dublab films, and other eye-melting magic.