AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center

09/05/2026

Happy birthday to the one and only Beyoncé! ✨ See her Golden Globe-nominated performance in DREAMGIRLS on the big screen at the Silver next weekend.

✨20th Anniversary
📅 Sat, Sept. 12, 3:15 p.m.
📅 Mon, Sept. 14, 6:30 p.m.

Based on the 1981 Broadway show, DREAMGIRLS was inspired by Berry Gordy’s Motown Records and its premiere act, the Supremes. Discovered by a record label executive (Jamie Foxx), the Dreamettes — Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Deena (Beyoncé) and Lorrell (Abuja Noni Rose) — are catapulted to stardom after opening for Jimmy “Thunder” Early (Eddie Murphy). But when they are rebranded as The Dreams, Effie is shown the door as the more conventionally beautiful Deena is promoted to lead singer.

🎟️ AFI Life Achievement Award: Eddie Murphy in bio for tickets.

09/04/2026

"...light-years ahead of any science fiction you have ever seen." Newsday

Only a limited number of tickets remain to tonight's screening of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in 70mm 🎞️!

Get yours 🔜https://tinyurl.com/2001ASpaceOdyssey70mmAFI

09/04/2026

Sound the horns! We've discounted Noir City DC tickets today, but only until 10:00 p.m. Tickets are only $10 and there's no limit to how many you may purchase.

Check the lineup and snag your tickets 🔜

🎺 https://silver.afi.com/noir-city-dc/

09/03/2026

At the annual Noir City DC festival, Eddie Muller and the Film Noir Foundation (FNF) team deliver an impeccably curated selection of films noir. The joint will be jumping in October (8-22), with an exciting program of crime and mystery films featuring musical legends like Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr. and Doris Day performing alongside film noir favorites including Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, Rita Hayworth and Kirk Douglas.

The full lineup has just been announced and tickets are on sale now. Save money by taking advantage of our $10 Ticket One-Day Sale on *TOMORROW*, September 4!

Special Guests: Film Noir Foundation Founder and TCM's Eddie Muller intro films October 8–10
Film historian and Film Noir Foundation board member Foster Hirsch will introduce screenings October 16–18.

🔦🎹 https://silver.afi.com/noir-city-dc/

09/02/2026

"Open AFI.com/Silver, Hal." "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

Our website is experiencing intermittent outages this morning. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve the issue.

09/01/2026

“Not since Black Flag or N.W.A has a SoCal band spooked the powers that be like Dead City Punx.” –Los Angeles Times

The new documentary from Roger Gastman’s Beyond the Streets (THE LEGEND OF COOL DISCO DAN) follows the Los Angeles–based band Dead City Punx, whose massive illegal outdoor shows full of fireworks, fistfights, bonfires and graffiti pit them against the LAPD, LAFD and the mayor, while ultimately resuscitating the Los Angeles music scene. This film forces the viewer to question what DIY and punk really mean when sh*t gets real.

*One Night Only*
Saturday, September 5

Intro by filmmakers Roger Gastman and Joseph Pattisall

👨‍🎤 https://tinyurl.com/DeadCityPunxAFI

*NSFW language ⬇

08/31/2026

🆕🆒

Paul Thomas Anderson's
CAMERON WINTER AT CARNEGIE HALL in 35mm 🎞

Cameron Winter, in December 2025, after a months-long sold-out tour with his band Geese, returned to New York to play a show at Carnegie Hall. One night only. This is the movie. Directed and shot on 35mm and 16mm by Oscar®-winning filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER), the crew includes filmmaker and actor Benny Safdie (THE SMASHING MACHINE) and music producer Ariel Rechtshaid (Grammy® winner for albums with Vampire Weekend and Adele). Winter was one of the youngest people ever to headline Carnegie Hall (at 23), edged out slightly by Bob Dylan (22, in 1963).

*Tickets on sale Sept. 17 at 12:00 p.m.*

08/29/2026

The first of Roger Corman’s many low-budget, high-style adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories became a huge hit in the summer of 1960, leading Corman to make a total of eight Poe films over the coming years. Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon) travels to the Usher family estate to visit his betrothed, Madeline Usher (Myrna Fahey). The family’s imposing Gothic mansion, located in a desolate patch of swampland, makes for a chilling setting, as does Madeline’s creepy, controlling brother Roderick (Vincent Price), who informs his future brother-in-law of the family’s curse, adding to the eerie atmosphere. Cinematographer Floyd Crosby (HIGH NOON, TABU and many Corman titles) makes inventive use of the CinemaScope frame and shadowy settings to create a suitably dread-filled mood.

HOUSE OF USHER
Three shows only – first *tonight*

🔜https://tinyurl.com/HouseOfUsherAFI

Check out this trailer for the Vincent Price masterpiece The Fall o...

08/28/2026

⏳ Only a few hours left in our $10 ticket sale! Hurry and snag yours – tix are going fast.

*Limited tickets* remain for:

Opening Night U.S. Premiere of World Cup doc THE MATCH and the

Closing Night screening of Pedro Almodóvar's BITTER CHRISTMAS

There are many amazing films and events to choose from the 44-film lineup.

Don't miss out – grab your tickets before the sale ends at 10:00 p.m.!

🔜AFI.com/Silver/LAFF