Los Angeles (AFP)
A projection of the "Wizard of Oz" will kick off the festivities planned for the inauguration of the highly anticipated Academy of Oscars in Los Angeles, we learned on Wednesday.
Probably one of the best-known films in the United States, the broadcast of "The Wizard of Oz" on September 30 will be accompanied live by an orchestra of the American Youth Symphony.
The songs from the 1939 film, "Over the Rainbow" and "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" are still sung by millions of Americans.
On the program of the museum's first weeks, devoted to the magic of the 7th art, there is also a screening of "Malcolm X", with Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, as well as all the films by Japanese artist Hayao Miyazaki.
A temporary exhibition will be dedicated to the director of "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro".
It took nearly a century for the idea of a museum dedicated to cinema to emerge.
And the building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, due to open in 2017, has fallen behind schedule.
A gigantic sphere of glass, steel and concrete stands on one side of the museum, seeming to float above the ground to embody "the magic of the movies".
Connected by walkways to the main building, it houses a 1,000-seat cinema room equipped with the latest technology.
The museum's mission will be to retrace the history of cinema, its innovations, and show visitors the techniques used to make a film.
Side curiosities, one will find in the windows the famous red pumps of Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz", and other treasures: a dress worn by Claudette Colbert in the "Cleopatra" of 1934, a spacesuit from the film by Stanley Kubrick "2001: A Space Odyssey" ...
Most of the restrictions imposed by California for the pandemic have been lifted, but wearing a mask remains mandatory in Los Angeles, whether or not you are vaccinated.
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