The Lucas Museum Is Turning Film Screenings Into a Drop-In Experience

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art just dropped details on its film program, and it’s not your typical museum screening series.

Instead of timed showings, two theaters will run curated films non-stop all day. Visitors can walk in and out whenever they want, treating cinema like a gallery experience.

The Robert Flaherty Theater focuses on documentary. You’ll find a new commissioned series called Seeing is Believing: The Story of Narrative Art, plus docs on artists like Norman Rockwell, Jim Lee, Charles Schulz, and Diego Rivera.

The Slavko Vorkapich Theater goes experimental. Early silents from Georges Méliès, animations by Winsor McCay and Walt Disney Studios, avant-garde work from the ’60s, Looney Tunes, anime from Cowboy Bebop, and even George Lucas’s student films from 1965-1969.

Both theaters are named after cinema pioneers. Flaherty helped invent documentary filmmaking. Vorkapich created montage sequences for Hollywood in the ’20s through ’40s and later taught film at USC, where Lucas studied.

Films range from a few minutes to 90 minutes. Come and go as you like.

The museum opens September 22 in LA’s Exposition Park. Tickets are on sale now through February 2027.

For filmmakers and film lovers, it’s a chance to see how storytelling through moving images evolved, from cave paintings to screen art.

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