Enjoy an on-going program of classic cinema, documentary, avant-garde and Hollywood spectacle during Cinematic Remembrance: Memory and the Movies.

This selection of films, co-curated by Willie Doherty and Ryan Daly, explores the nature memory and its representation in cinema. Amnesia, lost history, multiple histories, and false memories are a few of themes explored throughout the series. For mature audiences only. Included with Museum admission.

David Lynch’s 2001 neo-noir psychological thriller, , establishes a foreboding but playful narrative in the film's first half before subsuming all of Los Angeles and its corrupt ambitions into his voyeuristic universe of desire. Identities exchange, amnesia proliferates, and nightmare visions are induced, but not before we've become enthralled by the film's two main characters: the dazed and sullen femme fatale, Rita (Laura Elena Harring), and the pert blonde just-arrived from Ontario (played exquisitely by Naomi Watts) who decides to help Rita regain her memory.