In a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre,” legendary horror producer Val Lewton teams up with Jacques Tourneur (“Cat People”) in the 1943 film “I Walked with a Zombie.” A Canadian nurse is hired to take care of the lifeless wife of a plantation owner. Resorting to voodoo in order to find a cure, she soon realizes the terrifying truth about her situation. RKO Radio Pictures, 69 mins.
WHEN: 7pm
ADMISSION: Free, seating limited
WHERE: Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
ADDRESS: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
PHONE: (310) 443-7000
WEBSITE: www.hammer.ucla.edu
Multiple Grammy winner and revered violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall as part of the LA Philharmonic Association’s Colburn Celebrity Recital series. Appearing with her is pianist Lambert Orkis, in his Walt Disney Concert Hall debut, for a program of Brahms Violin Sonatas that includes No. 2 in A major, Op. 100, No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 and No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108. 
An inscription inside the entrance gates to the Huntington’s Garden of Flowing Fragrance reads “another world lies beyond.” The words allude to a well-known tale in Chinese literature about a hidden utopian land. Louise Yuhas, professor of art history and Asian studies at Occidental College, will discuss the many kinds of “other worlds” that are evoked in traditional Chinese gardens.
