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SELECT SCREENINGS (editor’s picks in red; confirm showtimes with venue)

Thursday, September 15th

• 7:30 pm, The Greek Tycoon / The Ambassador (1978 / 1984, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Powerful men are the subjects of these two Thompson films peppered with the provocative sleaze and great movie acting the director was skilled at conjuring.  With Anthony Quinn as Aristotle Onassis is The Greek Tycoon. 
• 7:30 pm, Howl’s Moving Castle / Porco Rosso (2004 / 1992, Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of the Studio Ghibli films produced by Miyazaki that fly under the radar a bit in discussions of the master animator’s filmography (although both have their ardent admirers).
• 7:30 pm, Satan’s Little Helper (2004, Jeff Lieberman)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Cinematic Void screening)
  • A little boy who plays a video game called “Satan’s Little Helper” is met in real life by none other than Satan himself.

Wednesday, September 14th

• 7:30 pm, The Greek Tycoon / The Ambassador (1978 / 1984, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Powerful men are the subjects of these two Thompson films peppered with the provocative sleaze and great movie acting the director was skilled at conjuring.  With Anthony Quinn as Aristotle Onassis is The Greek Tycoon. 

Tuesday, September 13th

• 7:30 pm, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects / 10 to Midnight (1989 / 1983, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Raw, sadistic, and often racist, these are some of the most provocative and problematic of director Thompson’s late-career run alongside Charles Bronson.  Both films are prototypical products of the Golan/Globus production team at Cannon Films.
• 7:30 pm, Dekalog VII / Dekalog VIII (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Two of the meatiest of all moral problems–stealing and lying–are the subjects of these two characteristically complex films in Kieślowski’s beloved Dekalog. 
• 10:30 pm, Dekalog IX / Dekalog X (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods” and “Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife” are the commandments undertaken in these two final installments of The Dekalog.  As with all of the films in the series, Kieślowski’s goal is not to moralize but to lay bare the state of humanity in the modern world.

Monday, September 12th

• 7:30 pm, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot / Desperate Hours (1974 / 1990, Michael Cimino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was the highly effective directorial debut of wunderkind Cimino, while Desperate Hours (a remake of a 1955 Humphrey Bogart film) finds him on the other side of Hollywood success, delivering a stylish suspense film that ultimately lacked enough meat to reverse the downward trend of his career. With a great cast–Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Kelly Lynch, and Mimi Rogers–headlining Desperate Hours. 
• 7:30 pm, My Own Private Idaho (1991, Gus Van Sant)
  • Samuel Goldwyn Theater, the Academy (screened with two Van Sant shorts)
  • Now-classic Van Sant indie film about down-and-out hustlers in the Pacific Northwest–one of them’s a narcoleptic, the other primed to receive a large inheritance. With period icons River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.
• 7:30 pm, Dekalog III / Dekalog IV (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Parts III and IV of The Dekalog continue Kieślowski systematic exploration of modern life vis-a-vis the Ten Commandments. Here, adultery and a father-daughter relationship are the subjects.
• 10:30 pm, Dekalog V / Dekalog VI (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Parts V and VI of The Dekalog (each part runs just under an hour) return us to what has now become a familiar Polish housing complex in order to explore two themes dear to cinema: murder and voyeurism.

Sunday, September 11th

• 11:00 am, Matilda (1996, Danny Devito)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Precocious child genius (and budding telekinetic) Matilda is smarter than all the adults around her. Based on a characteristically droll and dark Roald Dahl book.
• 1:00 pm, French Cancan (1954, Jean Renoir)
  • Cinefamily
  • This late-period Renoir film (his first French effort in fifteen years) is a candy-colored musical about a producer’s attempt to revive the dancehall atmosphere of the Moulin Rouge.  Done in a splashy Hollywood style but with touches of insight into the human condition that only the French can communicate.
• 2:00 pm,  Huckleberry Finn (1974, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Following on the heels of Tom Sawyer, this musical adaptation of the Twain classic, follows Huck and Jim (played by Paul Winfield) down the Mississippi on their epic journey into the heart of 19th century America.
• 4:00 pm, Dekalog VII / Dekalog VIII (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Two of the meatiest of all moral problems–stealing and lying–are the subjects of these two characteristically complex films in Kieślowski’s beloved Dekalog. 
• 6:30 pm, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot / Desperate Hours (1974 / 1990, Michael Cimino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Thunderbolt and Lightfoot was the highly effective directorial debut of wunderkind Cimino, while Desperate Hours (a remake of a 1955 Humphrey Bogart film) finds him on the other side of Hollywood success, delivering a stylish suspense film that ultimately lacked enough meat to reverse the downward trend of his career. With a great cast–Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Kelly Lynch, and Mimi Rogers–headlining Desperate Hours. 
• 7:00 pm, Dekalog IX / Dekalog X (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods” and “Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife” are the commandments undertaken in these two final installments of The Dekalog.  As with all of the films in the series, Kieślowski’s goal is not to moralize but to lay bare the state of humanity in the modern world.
• 7:00 pm, The Indian Fighter / Last Train from Gun Hill (1955 / 1959, Andre de Toth / John Sturges)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Kirk Douglas westerns in which the morals of the classic cowboys vs. Indians scenario are re-examined. John Sturges considered Last Train from Gun Hill to be one of his finest efforts, right alongside Bad Day at Black Rock.
• 7:30 pm, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1982 / 1984, Nicholas Meyer / Leonard Nimoy)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Widely regarded as the best of all the Star Trek films (although the first of J.J. Abrams’ recent reboots has its admirers), The Wrath of Khan is a rip-roaring adventure film with one of the great sci-fi villains–Ricardo Montalban’s Khan.  The Search for Spock didn’t reach the same heights of popcorn fun, but remains a solid entry in the series.
• 7:30 pm, Trading Places / Bowfinger (1983 / 1999, John Landis / Frank Oz)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • This Eddie Murphy double-feature finds the great comedian at his career peak in Trading Places and in comeback mode in the entertaining Hollywood satire Bowfinger. 
• 10:00 pm, Dekalog I / Dekalog II (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • The DCP restorations of The Dekalog films, Kieślowski’s ten-part series based on the Bible’s Ten Commandments, are showing at Cinefamily.  Parts I and II, which introduce viewers to the sprawling housing complex in which each of the films is set, showcase the depths of the filmmaker’s commitment to rich characters and humanistic ethics.

Saturday, September 10th

• 2:00 pm,  Huckleberry Finn (1974, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Following on the heels of Tom Sawyer, this musical adaptation of the Twain classic follows Huck and Jim (played by Paul Winfield) down the Mississippi on their epic journey into the heart of 19th century America.
• 2:00 pm, Chicago (1927, Frank Urson)
  • Cinefamily
  • Based on the same play that spawned the hit Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film, this silent version of the story of “Chicago’s most beautiful murderess” was produced by Cecil B. Demille.
• 5:00 pm, Law and Order (1969, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • All of Wiseman’s films are well worth checking out, but this one, in which he portrays the inner workings of the Kansas City police department, is particularly haunting and relevant.  Originally broadcast on television, the film won a 1969 Emmy for Best News Documentary.
• 7:30 pm, The Guns of Navarone / The Passage (1961 / 1979, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Guns of Navarone, a big budget ensemble adventure set in and around the Greek island of Navarone, was one of the bigger hits of director Thompson, the subject of a month-long tribute at the New Beverly; The Passage, another action-packed WW2 ensemble, was less successful but has its charms, including a special treat for fans of Malcolm McDowell.
• 7:30 pm, Dekalog V / Dekalog VI (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Parts V and VI of The Dekalog (each part runs just under an hour) return us to what has now become a familiar Polish housing complex in order to explore two themes dear to cinema: murder and voyeurism.
• Midnight, Murphy’s Law (1986, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • One of the ten films pairing director Thompson with star Charles Bronson that the pair made together in the waning days of each of their respective careers. Here Bronson teams with cult actress Kathleen Wilhoite in a tense thrill ride through the streets of L.A.

Friday, September 9th

• 7:30 pm, The Guns of Navarone / The Passage (1961 / 1979, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Guns of Navarone, a big budget ensemble adventure set in and around the Greek island of Navarone, was one of the bigger hits of director Thompson, the subject of a month-long tribute at the New Beverly; The Passage, another action-packed WW2 ensemble, was less successful but has its charms, including a special treat for fans of Malcolm McDowell.
• 7:30 pm, Dekalog I / Dekalog II (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • The DCP restorations of The Dekalog films, Kieślowski’s ten-part series based on the Bible’s Ten Commandments, are showing at Cinefamily.  Parts I and II, which introduce viewers to the sprawling housing complex in which each of the films is set, showcase the depths of the filmmaker’s commitment to rich characters and humanistic ethics.
• 7:30 pm, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979, Robert Wise)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • The first full-length feature to emerge from the cult show of all cult shows is this entertaining, at times philosophical, at times uninspired story about the gang getting back together for one last adventure.
• 10:30 pm, Dekalog III / Dekalog IV (1988, Krzysztof Kieślowski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Parts III and IV of The Dekalog continue Kieślowski systematic exploration of modern life vis-a-vis the Ten Commandments. Here, adultery and a father-daughter relationship are the subjects.
• Midnight, Inglorious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Tarantino’s nod to epic, star-studded WW2 action films such The Guns of Navarone and The Dirty Dozen delivers the tension, violence, sick humor, and cinematic style that have made him a household name, along with one of the most twisted, crowd-pleasing final gestures in the history of movies.

Thursday, September 8th

• 7:30 pm, The Guns of Navarone / The Passage (1961 / 1979, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Guns of Navarone, a big budget ensemble adventure set in and around the Greek island of Navarone, was one of the bigger hits of director Thompson, the subject of a month-long tribute at the New Beverly; The Passage, another action-packed WW2 ensemble, was less successful but has its charms, including a special treat for fans of Malcolm McDowell.

Wednesday, September 7th

• 7:30 pm, The Guns of Navarone / The Passage (1961 / 1979, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Guns of Navarone, a big budget ensemble adventure set in and around the Greek island of Navarone, was one of the bigger hits of director Thompson, the subject of a month-long tribute at the New Beverly; The Passage, another action-packed WW2 ensemble, was less successful but has its charms, including a special treat for fans of Malcolm McDowell.
• 7:30 pm, High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s trademark fly-on-the-wall documentary style covers a middle-class, mostly white high school in Philadelphia. One of his shorter and sweeter films.
• 10:30 pm, “Lost and Found Film Club: Frame by Frame”
  • Cinefamily
  • Curated program of animation shorts by commercial and avant-garde practitioners, all of which were produced through painstaking frame-by-frame techniques.

Tuesday, September 6th

• 7:30 pm, The Ambushers / Murderer’s Row (1967 / 1968, Henry Levin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two vintage “Matt Helm” spy comedy films starring Dean Martin.  Before Austin Powers spoofed James Bond (which was, of course, often spoofing itself), there was Dino with a drink in his hand and lines of scantily clad women at his service.
• 9:45 pm, The Devil (1972, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • This characteristically intense early Zulawski film about a man driven to mass murder by 18th century Polish society sets the stage for his masterwork Possession.  The Devil was censored in Poland and not released until 1988.

Monday, September 5th

• 6:30 pm, Jet Pilot / Reap the Wild Wind (1957 / 1942, Josef von Sternberg / Cecil B. Demille)
  • The New Beverly
  • Lesser known John Wayne epics by well-known cinematic giants.  Jet Pilot was von Sternberg’s final film and was, in fact, completed by other hands, including Howard Hughes, resulting in a bizarrely bizarre Cold War fly boy love story.
• 10:15 pm, High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s trademark fly-on-the-wall documentary style covers a middle-class, mostly white high school in Philadelphia. One of his shorter and sweeter films.

Sunday, September 4th

• 1:00 pm, Zouzou (1934, Marc Allégret)
  • Cinefamily
  • Given the evolution of the conversation around race since 1934, this film is highly problematic in the way it depicts black bodies, but it was nonetheless the first film to star an African-American woman and is admirably freewheeling in its display of interracial desire.  Perhaps the signature vehicle of the inimitable Josephine Baker.
• 2:00 pm, Tom Sawyer (1973, Don Taylor)
  • The New Beverly
  • Musical version of the famous Mark Twain novel.  With Warren Oates and Jodie Foster in a cast that seems to be enjoying itself.
• 6:30 pm, Jet Pilot / Reap the Wild Wind (1957 / 1942, Josef von Sternberg / Cecil B. Demille)
  • The New Beverly
  • Lesser known John Wayne epics by well-known cinematic giants.  Jet Pilot was von Sternberg’s final film and was, in fact, completed by other hands, including Howard Hughes, resulting in a bizarrely bizarre Cold War fly boy love story.
• 7:30 pm, Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Anderson)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Must-see viewing for anyone interested in the history of Los Angeles and the intersection of Hollywood and social reality in our city.

Saturday, September 3rd

• 11:00 am, “Saturday Morning Cartoons: Sports”
  • Cinefamily
  • Variety of classic cartoons revolving around the theme of sports.  Sugary breakfast cereals are served alongside the films.
• 1:00 pm, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001/2002/2003, Peter Jackson)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Peter Jackson’s labor-of-love adaptations of the famous Tokien novels put most of the popcorn fare made for the screen in the past few years to shame.  Its moments of excess are balanced by the touches of genuine emotion, tension, and storytelling bravado.
• 2:00 pm, Tom Sawyer (1973, Don Taylor)
  • The New Beverly
  • Musical version of the famous Mark Twain novel.  With Warren Oates and Jodie Foster in a cast that seems to be enjoying itself.
• 3:00 pm, High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s trademark fly-on-the-wall documentary style covers a middle-class, mostly white high school in Philadelphia. One of his shorter and sweeter films.
• 6:30 pm, The Sicilian / Year of the Dragon (1987 / 1985, Michael Cimino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Michael Cimino action films from the post-Heaven’s Gate period–each of which may be worth a second look.  With Mickey Rourke in the super-atmospheric Year of the Dragon. 
• 9:00 pm, The Killing of America (1981, Sheldon Renan and Leonard Schrader)
  • Cinefamily
  • This provocative montage of news clips and other sourced video of killings and general violence is relevant to the political issues of the day.  Leonard Schrader is Paul Schrader’s brother.
• Midnight, The Evil that Men Do (1984, J. Lee Thompson)
  • The New Beverly
  • There’s something about Charles Bronson as a loner killer in 1980s action cheese that’s compelling enough for him to have done it on repeat many times.  The Evil that Men Do is a hinge point between the stylized and reasonably thoughtful films of this ilk such as, of course, Death Wish and the bottom-of-the-barrel exploitation fare that would come as the ’80s continued to grind on.

Friday, September 2nd

• 6:30 pm, The Sicilian / Year of the Dragon (1987 / 1985, Michael Cimino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Michael Cimino action films from the post-Heaven’s Gate period–each of which may be worth a second look.  With Mickey Rourke in the super-atmospheric Year of the Dragon. 
• 7:30 pm, High School (1968, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s trademark fly-on-the-wall documentary style covers a middle-class, mostly white high school in Philadelphia. One of his shorter and sweeter (yet still utterly penetrating and truthful) films.
• 7:30 pm, Casablanca / Chinatown (1942 / 1974, Michael Curtiz / Roman Polanski)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of the greats.  Seeing either of them on the Aero’s big screen with a crowd is a treat for film lovers.
• 10:00 pm, Spookies (1986, Thomas Doran / Brendan Faulkner / Eugenine Joseph)
  • Cinefamily
  • Spookies was made by splicing two other films and the result is confusing 1980s camp horror at its worst (or best).

Thursday, September 1st

• 7:30 pm, The Manchurian Candidate / A Face in the Crowd (1962 / 1957, John Frankenheimer / Elia Kazan)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two cynical political films that each seem to speak directly to the issues around a certain Republican party Presidential candidate.  With Andy Griffith (in his film debut) as the seemingly naive but actually conniving entertainer turned populist politician in A Face in the Crowd. 
• 7:30 pm, Silent Running / Magnum Force (1972 / 1973, Douglas Trumbull / Ted Post)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two films co-written by Michael Cimino representing the two poles of American culture: Silent Running is a surprisingly powerful film about a nature-loving hippie on a spaceship; Magnum Force is about a no-nonsense right wing cop (although, as the first sequel to Dirty Harry, it also examines the dark side of vigilantism).

Wednesday, August 31st

• 7:30 pm, Cave of the Silken Web (1927, Dan Duyu)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • Rarely screened silent film (once thought lost) based on the fantastical Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. With a live soundtrack by Discotan.
• 7:30 pm, Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s debut is one of the crucial documentaries of the 20th century. The auteur’s fly-on-a-wall observational style allows the institution of The Bridgewater State Hospital for the Mentally Insane to tell its own (often horrific) story.
• 7:30 pm, Silent Running / Magnum Force (1972 / 1973, Douglas Trumbull / Ted Post)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two films co-written by Michael Cimino representing the two poles of American culture: Silent Running is a surprisingly powerful film about a nature-loving hippie on a spaceship; Magnum Force is about a no-nonsense right wing cop (although, as the first sequel to Dirty Harry, it also examines the dark side of vigilantism).
• 10:00 pm, Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zulawski’s final film is this little-seen piece of surrealist chaos set in a bed and breakfast.

Tuesday, August 30th

• 7:30 pm, Recount (2008, Jay Roach)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • Dramatization of the events in Florida that led to George W. Bush’s unlawful 2000 Presidential victory. With Kevin Spacey.
• 7:30 pm, Death Rage / Bare Knuckles (1976 / 1977, Antonio Margheriti / Don Edmonds)
  • The New Beverly
  • Hard-nosed 1970s crime action films.  Dean Cundey photographed the L.A.-set Bare Knuckles.  
• 7:30 pm, Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s debut is one of the crucial documentaries of the 20th century. The auteur’s fly-on-a-wall observational style allows the institution of The Bridgewater State Hospital for the Mentally Insane to tell its own (often horrific) story.
• 7:30 pm, Bullitt (1968, Peter Yates)
  • Arclight Hollywood (in 35mm)
  • Influential high-octane action as Steve McQueen battles through a web involving the mob and the highest levels of government. One of the most famous car chases in film history.
• 10:00 pm, Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zulawski’s final film is this little-seen piece of surrealist chaos set in a bed and breakfast.

Monday, August 29th

• 7:30 pm, Robin and Marian / Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1976 / 1979, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Lester’s characteristically askew takes on the central relationships in well-known source material. With Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn as the aging Robin Hood and Maid Marian in the elegiac Robin and Marian. 
• 7:30 pm, Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s debut is one of the crucial documentaries of the 20th century. The auteur’s fly-on-a-wall observational style allows the institution of The Bridgewater State Hospital for the Mentally Insane to tell its own (often horrific) story.
• 8:00 pm, Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
  • The Frog, Frogtown
  • Lushly photographed, meditative but highly emotional–this story of man’s inhumanity to man is perhaps Mizoguchi’s masterpiece.
• 8:20 pm, Jumanji (1995, Joe Johnston)
  • Arclight Pasadena
  • 1990s kids film about a pesky, occasionally (surprisingly) violent bored game that sucks its players into its reality. With Robin Williams as a man who’s been stuck in the game since he was a kid.
• 10:00 pm, Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zulawski’s final film is this little-seen piece of surrealist chaos set in a bed and breakfast.

Sunday, August 28th

• 2:00 pm, Safety Last (1923, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
  • The New Beverly
  • Bespectacled silent comedian Harold Lloyd goes to the city to impress his sweetheart and gets into one slapstick situation after another, culminating in the famous shot of him hanging from the hand of a clock above the streets of Los Angeles.
• 3:00 pm, Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
  • Arclight Hollywood (in the Dome)
  • One of the hallmarks of Hollywood cinema.  Peter O’Toole stars in David Lean’s lavishing epic.
• 4:00 pm, Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s debut is one of the crucial documentaries of the 20th century. The auteur’s fly-on-a-wall observational style allows the institution of The Bridgewater State Hospital for the Mentally Insane to tell its own (often horrific) story.
• 6:30 pm, Robin and Marian / Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1976 / 1979, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Lester’s characteristically askew takes on the central relationships in well-known source material. With Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn as the aging Robin Hood and Maid Marian in the elegiac Robin and Marian. 
• 7:00 pm, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea / The Vikings (1954 / 1958, Richard Fleischer)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Kirk Douglas stars in these rousing adventure films.  The Vikings was shot in Norway by Jack Cardiff.
• 7:00 pm, “The Phantasmagoric Films of Piotr Kamler”
  • Cinefamily
  • Collection of hauntingly dreamlike animated films by Polish filmmaker Kamler. An influence on The Brothers Quay and Jan Svankmajer.
• 7:30 pm, Artists and Models / Hollywood or Bust (1955 / 1956, Frank Tashlin)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of Martin & Lewis’s final collaborations were these films directed by one-time animator (and Lewis’s directorial mentor) Frank Tashlin.  With Anita Ekberg as a muse in both films.

• 10:00 pm, Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zulawski’s final film is this little-seen piece of surrealist chaos set in a bed and breakfast.

Saturday, August 27th

• 2:00 pm, Safety Last (1923, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
  • The New Beverly
  • Bespectacled silent comedian Harold Lloyd goes to the city to impress his sweetheart and gets into one slapstick situation after another, culminating in the famous shot of him hanging from the hand of a clock above the streets of Los Angeles.
• 2:00 pm, A Woman of the World (1925, Malcolm St. Clair)
  • Cinefamily
  • A cosmopolitan continental comes to hick America and trouble ensues.  With the iconic Pola Negri in the starring role.
• 7:00 pm, Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wiseman’s debut is one of the crucial documentaries of the 20th century. The auteur’s fly-on-a-wall observational style allows the institution of The Bridgewater State Hospital for the Mentally Insane to tell its own (often horrific) story.
• 7:30 pm, The Knack…And How to Get it / Petulia (1965 / 1968, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Early Richard Lester with much of the same counter-cultural energy as his Beatles films. Petulia features performance footage of The Grateful Dead and Janice Joplin.
• 7:30 pm, The Juggler / Paths of Glory (1953 / 1958, Edward Dmytryk / Stanley Kubrick)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • The horrors of war are explored in these two black-and-white Kirk Douglas films from the 1950s.  Paths of Glory has one of the most affecting endings of any film from that period.
• 7:30 pm, The King of Comedy / Funny Bones (1982 / 1995, Martin Scorsese / Peter Chelsom)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Non-comedy Jerry Lewis films about the nature of comedy.  With comedian Sandra Bernhard in a great supporting role in Scorsese’s King of Comedy.  
• 8:00 pm, “New Works Salon XXXV: Braunschweiler, Levin, O’Dwyer, Vargas, Verdin”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • New video works by emerging artists.
• Midnight, The Wicker Man (2006, Neil LaBute)
  • The New Beverly
  • Considered a misfire and pale imitiation of the British original upon its release, this Wicker Man remake with Nicholas Cage has emerged as a cult comedy.

Friday, August 26th

• 7:30 pm, The Knack…And How to Get it / Petulia (1965 / 1968, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Early Richard Lester with much of the same counter-cultural energy as his Beatles films. Petulia features performance footage of The Grateful Dead and Janice Joplin.
• 7:30 pm, The Nutty Professor / The Ladies Man (1963 / 1961, Jerry Lewis)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of Lewis’s best candy-colored screwball comedies.  The Ladies Man is famous for Lewis’s gliding camera movements through the massive, multi-floored mansion set.
• 7:30 pm, Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zulawski’s final film is this little-seen piece of surrealist chaos set in a bed and breakfast.
• Midnight, Cat in the Brain (1990, Lugio Fulci)
  • Cinefamily
  • Italian gore-master Fulci’s late meta film in which he plays himself going through his gruesome filmography. A new restoration.

Thursday, August 25th

• 7:30 pm, The Freshman / The Kid Brother (1925 / 1927, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor / Ted Wilde and J.A. Howe)
  • The New Beverly
  • Outside of Chaplin and Keaton, Harold Lloyd is the best remembered of the silent slapstick comedians. Here are two of his finest features.
• 7:30 pm, “Plastic Realities: Films by Suzan Pitt and Pat O’Neill”
  • Pickford Center, Hollywood (an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences screening)
  • “Artistic contemporaries and longtime friends, Suzan Pitt and Pat O’Neill have each created large and diverse bodies of work in a wide variety of mediums, though none perhaps more visibly than in film.  The Academy is proud to host these two visionary artists in person with a program of their radical and visually stunning short films, newly preserved by the Academy Film Archive.”
• 8:00 pm, “Almodovar vis-a-vis Mona Hatoum”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Complex portraits of the love between mothers and daughters are compared in Almodovar’s High Heels (1991) and visual artist Hatoum’s Measures of Distance (1988). Hatoum’s celebrated video features the Arabic text of her daughter’s emotional letters running down the screen over still images of Hatoum in the shower.

Wednesday, August 24th

• 7:30 pm, The Freshman / The Kid Brother (1925 / 1927, Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor / Ted Wilde and J.A. Howe)
  • The New Beverly
  • Outside of Chaplin and Keaton, Harold Lloyd is the best remembered of the silent slapstick comedians. Here are two of his finest features.
• 7:30 pm, Cosmos (2015, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zulawski’s final film is this little-seen piece of surrealist chaos set in a bed and breakfast.

Tuesday, August 23rd

• 7:30 pm, “TRAILER APOCALYPSE REDUX + SECRET BONUS FEATURE”
  • The New Beverly
  • A feature length run of trailers followed by a secret feature, which was one of the films just previewed.
• 7:30  pm, The Third Part of the Night (1971, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Nightmarish story set in a Nazi camp in which the protagonist must evade not only the Nazis but a series of surreal, logic-defying traps.  Zulawski’s debut.

Monday, August 22nd

• 7:00 pm, The Fifth Element (1997, Luc Besson)
  • Arclight Santa Monica
  • Originally met with a muddled response, this pop sci-fi epic from the great French action director Besson looks better every year. With Milla Jovovich as an alien messiah.
• 7:30 pm, Juggernaut / Cuba (1974 / 1979, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Richard Lester is best known for kinetic comedies but here are two more straight-faced films. Juggernaut is known for being one of the best films to emerge from the “disaster film” trend exemplified by The Poseidon Adventure; Cuba, meanwhile, is a complex political film about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 8:00 pm, The Baby of Macon (1993, Peter Greenaway)
  • The Frog, Frogtown
  • Greenaway’s indictment of religious hysteria depicts a 17th century community in which the desire for a second-coming overwhelms reason, resulting in notoriously violent repercussions.

Sunday, August 21st

• 2:00 pm, In Search of Noah’s Ark (1976, James L. Conway)
  • The New Beverly
  • Independently produced documentary asserting that Noah’s Ark has been found in Turkey. Around all the cheesily-staged experts and reenactments is a portrait of a particular middle-brow taste level that would have been familiar to viewers of American television at the time.
• 3:00 pm, The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Prototypical 1980s boy adventure film.  Many memorable characters and lines.
• 6:30 pm, Juggernaut / Cuba (1974 / 1979, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Richard Lester is best known for kinetic comedies but here are two more straight-faced films. Juggernaut is known for being one of the best films to emerge from the “disaster film” trend exemplified by The Poseidon Adventure; Cuba, meanwhile, is a complex political film about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
• 7:00 pm, Trembling Before G-D (2001, Sandi Simcha DuBowski)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at The Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Documentary about the difficult internal debate within the orthodox Jewish community surrounding homosexuality. With a score by the great John Zorn.
• 7:00 pm, “High Water Scores Early Harry Smith Abstractions”
  • Cinefamily (films shown digitally, not film prints)
  • Pioneering avant-garde films by Harry Smith and Jordan Belson are accompanied by a live score courtesy of New York musician High Water.
• 7:30 pm, Mysterious Island / Earth Vs. Flying Saucers (1961 / 1956, Cy Endfield / Fred F. Sears)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Period fantasy & sci-fi with Ray Harryhausen special effects. Myterious Island director Endfield was a protege of Orson Welles before making out his own territory.
• 7:30 pm, Our Man Flint / Modesty Blaise (1966, Daniel Mann / Joseph Losey)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Double-feature of jokey, swingin’ James Bond knockoffs from 1966.  It’s more films like Our Man Flint (which is already parodic in tone) that inspired Mike Myers’ later Austin Powers spoof films.

Saturday, August 20th

• 2:00 pm, In Search of Noah’s Ark (1976, James L. Conway)
  • The New Beverly
  • Independently produced documentary asserting that Noah’s Ark has been found in Turkey. Around all the cheesily-staged experts and reenactments is a portrait of a particular middle-brow taste level that would have been familiar to viewers of American television at the time.
• 5:00 pm, “Jackass Trilogy”
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Jackass emerged from the culture of skateboard videos to become a successful MTV show about young men doing very stupid, dangerous, often laugh-out-loud funny things.  These three spinoff films attempt to capture the spirit of the show, utilizing the slightly higher production values afforded movies.
• 7:00 pm, The Bad News Bears / The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1976 / 1977, Michael Ritchie / Michael Pressman)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Bad News Bears is a classic little league comedy about a team of foul-mouthed misfits and their surly coach, played by Walter Matthau.  Bad News Bears in Breaking Training is the less classic, but still entertaining sequel, with William Devane in the Matthau role.
• 7:30 pm, Lonely are the Brave / Strangers When we Meet (1962 / 1960, David Miller / Richard Quine)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Two of the more world-weary films Kirk Douglas was involved in from the height of his stardom.  Lonely are the Brave is an existential western with a script by Dalton Trumbo (and based on a novel by Edward Abbey); Strangers When We Meet is a story of disaffected suburbanites with a script by Evan Hunter.
• 7:30 pm, Cul-de-Sac / Lord Love a Duck (1966, Roman Polanski / George Axelrod)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Hip black comedies from the cultural moment just before the Summer of Love and the political chaos of 1968 paved the way for the progressive 1970s.  Lord Love a Duck is one of only two films directed by arch-satirist dramatist & screenwriter Axelrod.
• Midnight, Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)
  • The New Beverly
  • Verhoeven satires the fetishism of authority and nationalism present in the source novel by right-wing science fiction author Robert Heinlein. Misunderstood at the time, the film has emerged as a bonafide cult classic.

Friday, August 19th

• 7:00 pm, The Bad News Bears / The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1976 / 1977, Michael Ritchie / Michael Pressman)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Bad News Bears is a classic little league comedy about a team of foul-mouthed misfits and their surly coach, played by Walter Matthau.  Bad News Bears in Breaking Training is the less classic, but still entertaining sequel, with William Devane in the Matthau role.
• 7:30 pm, Friday the 13th /Summer Camp Nightmare / Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1980 / 1987 / 1988, Sean S. Cunningham / Bert L. Dragin / Michael A. Simpson)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Slasher films with “summer camp” settings, including one of the cornerstone’s of the genre, Friday the 13th, which introduced the world to Jason.
• 7:30 pm, Jason and the Argonauts / The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1963 / 1958, Don Chaffey / Nathan Juran)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Ray Harryhausen’s special effects are (deservedly) what sells these vintage Hollywood fantasy films, but their stories are a lot of fun too.  Bernard Hermann did the score for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
• 7:30 pm, The Heroes of Telemark (1965, Anthony Mann)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Kirk Douglas stars in this handsome World War II story about resistance fighters in Norway. One of Anthony Mann’s final films.
• 11:00 pm, Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the most nightmarish of all films. Argento’s most famous fright-fest finds an American ballet dancer (Jessica Harper) attending a prestigious academy in Germany that’s home to a coven of perverse witches.  With an A+ electronic score by Goblin pounding through Argento’s series of twisted set pieces.
• Midnight, Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Virtuostic Tarantino film criss-crossing genres and tones but ultimately centering on an iconic Uma Thurman performance.

Thursday, August 18th

• 7:00 pm, Clown / Hausu (1991 / 1977, Luther Price / Nobuhiko Obayashi)
  • The Broad
  • High-key psychedelic insanity in this double feature. Price’s film is a Super 8 sampling of him inhabiting the persona of various clowns; Hausu is a wild haunted house film loaded with mindbending animation effects.
• 7:30 pm, Fun on a Weekend / Sensations of 1945 (1947 / 1944, Andrew L. Stone)
  • The New Beverly
  • Reviving interest in the films of American director Andrew L. Stone has become a pet project of Quentin Tarantino and The New Beverly. Here are two very rare examples of Stone’s screwball comedic work.
• 7:30 pm, The Fugitive (1993, Andrew Davis)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Harrison Ford stars as a doctor falsely accused of murdering his wife and Tommy Lee Jones is the US Marshall obsessed with tracking him down in this tense box office smash.
• 7:30 pm, Ugly, Dirty, and Bad (1976, Ettore Scola)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Director Scola won the Best Director award at Cannes for this dark Italian comedy about a grossly offensive family living in a Roman ghetto.
• 7:30 pm, Miracle Mile / Cherry 2000 (1988 / 1987, Steve de Jarnatt)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Low-budget / high-concept L.A. sci-fi from director de Jarnatt. With Melanie Griffith in Cherry 2000. 
• 8:00 pm, “VHS Video Social: Ghost World and Daria”
  • Echo Park Film Center (films shown on intentionally degraded VHS)
  • 1990s teen girl goth angst in the Daniel Clowes graphic novel adaptation Ghost World and the MTV animated series Daria. 

Wednesday, August 17th

• 7:30 pm, Swing Vote (2008, Joshua Michael Stern)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • In this satire with heart, Kevin Costner plays a blue collar American who ends up playing a pivotal role in the Presidential election.
• 7:30 pm, Fun on a Weekend / Sensations of 1945 (1947 / 1944, Andrew L. Stone)
  • The New Beverly
  • Reviving interest in the films of American director Andrew L. Stone has become a pet project of Quentin Tarantino and The New Beverly. Here are two very rare examples of Stone’s screwball comedic work.
• 8:00 pm, Lust, Caution (2007, Ang Lee)
  • The Frog, Frogtown
  • This story of political crisscrossing in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai received an NC-17 rating in the U.S. due to its racy sex scenes but Lee’s characteristically subtle handling of complex material makes the boundary-pushing emotional rather than obscene.
• 9:00 pm, A Thousand Clowns (1965, Fred Coe)
  • Mandatory Viewing, Atwater Village
  • Jason Robards reprises his well-received stage role as a children’s TV writer who quits his job and develops a quirkily complex relationship with the nephew that lives in his messy apartment and the social workers trying to separate them.  Despite its  freewheeling spirit, the film ultimately endorses a pragmatic viewpoint that would have been particularly meaningful in the cultural crossroads of mid-1960s America.

Tuesday, August 16th

• 7:30 pm, History of the World: Part 1 (1981, Mel Brooks)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Brooks episodic film spoofs and lovingly recreates various film genres, from sword & sandal historical spectacles to 2001: A Space Odyssey. 
• 7:30 pm, The Boss / Mr. Scarface (1973 /  1976, Fernando di Leo)
  • The New Beverly
  • Italian poliziotteschi films by cult filmmaker di Leo. With Jack Palance starring in Mr. Scarface.
• 7:30 pm, The Devil (1972, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Not to be confused with Derek Jarman’s film The Devils (1971) (which also played at Cinefamily recently), this early Zulawski film about a man driven to mass murder by 18th century Polish society sets the stage for his masterwork Possession.  The Devil was censored in Poland and not released until 1988.

Monday, August 15th

• 7:30 pm, Royal Flash / How I Won the War (1975 / 1967, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Bracingly satirical anti-war films from Richard Lester. With Malcolm McDowell as the lead in Royal Flash. 
• 7:30 pm, The Front Page / Cock of the Air (1931 / 1932)
  • Samuel Goldwyn Theater (an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences screening)
  • Eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes was heavily involved in the production of both of these Depression-era films.  The Front Page was adapted from a stage play but it proved to be one of the best early adaptations of dialogue specifically for film.
• 11:00 pm, Multiple Maniacs (1970, John Waters)
  • Cinefamily
  • This early but rarely screened John Waters film is possibly even more twisted than the better-known Pink Flamingos.  Despite Waters’ later entry into Hollywood, this is authentic American avant-garde filmmaking stemming from the tradition of Jack Smith.

Sunday, August 14th

• 2:00 pm, Invisible Agent (1942 / Edward L. Marin)
  • The New Beverly
  • The fourth film in Universal’s Invisible Man series is a World War II story in which the original Invisible Man’s grandson uses the secret family invisibility formula to beat the Nazis
• 6:30 pm, Royal Flash / How I Won the War (1975 / 1967, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Bracingly satirical anti-war films from Richard Lester. With Malcolm McDowell as the lead in Royal Flash. 
• 7:00 pm, “Adventures in Rajasthan”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “Through words and images, Yuval Ron and Carolyne Aycaguer will share an introduction to the tribal musical culture and the special inhabitants of the Rajasthan desert. A screening of Lacho Drom, Tony Gatlif’s stunning 1993 documentary about the music of the Romani people, follows Yuval and Carolyne’s presentation.”
• 7:00 pm, Posse / Tough Guys (1975 / 1986, Kirk Douglas / Jeff Kanew)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Later Kirk Douglas crime movies with a sense of humor.  Burt Lancaster stars with Douglas in Tough Guys. 
• 7:30 pm, Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Koyaanisqatsi cinematographer Fricke creates a similarly hypnotic, epically-scaled documentary, but focuses on more positive/spiritual themes than the critique of society at the core of the earlier film.
• 7:30 pm, Lady Snowblood / Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1973 / 1974, Toshiya Fujita)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Cult classic samurai films with a bloodthirsty female lead played by the great Meiko Kaji. One of the key influences of Tarantino’s Kill Bill films.
• 10:30 pm, Multiple Maniacs (1970, John Waters)
  • Cinefamily
  • This early but rarely screened John Waters film is possibly even more twisted than the better-known Pink Flamingos.  Despite Waters’ later entry into Hollywood, this is authentic American avant-garde filmmaking stemming from the tradition of Jack Smith.

Saturday, August 13th

• 12:00 pm – 12:00 am, “Bollywood Marathon”
  • Echo Park Film Center & Machine Project (see Echo Park Film Center website for more details.
  • Bollywood fanatic Robin Sukhadia curates three of Bollywood’s greatest films, with a sprinkling of live music, literary interpretations, lectures, and samosas in between.
• 2:00 pm, Invisible Agent (1942 / Edward L. Marin)
  • The New Beverly
  • The fourth film in Universal’s Invisible Man series is a World War II story in which the original Invisible Man’s grandson uses the secret family invisibility formula to beat the Nazis
• 6:30 pm, Superman II  / Superman III (1980 / 1983, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • For some, these Richard Lester takes on the Man of Steel, with their occasionally crazy humor and dips into gritty darkness, are the best ever made. With Richard Pryor in Superman III. 
• 7:30 pm, “Time-Lapse Film Festival”
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • “Join us for the inaugural installment of this showcase of time-lapse shorts, celebrating a growing art form that crosses all language barriers.”
• 7:30 pm, Don’t Go Near the Park / Young Warriors (1979 / 1983, Lawrence D. Foldes)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Violent teenagers, camp humor, and undercurrents of thoughtfullness are on hand in this double-feature of films by Lawrence D. Foldes.
• 7:30 pm, Leave Her to Heaven / Nightmare Alley (1945 / 1947, John M. Stahl / Edmund Goulding)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Films at the fringe of the film noir genre. Leave Her to Heaven is, famously, in color and Nightmare Alley takes on an atypical subject matter: the psychology of a carnival huckster.
• 10:00 pm, Multiple Maniacs (1970, John Waters)
  • Cinefamily
  • This early but rarely screened John Waters film is possibly even more twisted than the better-known Pink Flamingos.  Despite Waters’ later entry into Hollywood, this is authentic American avant-garde filmmaking stemming from the tradition of Jack Smith.
• Midnight, The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986, Michael Chapman)
  • The New Beverly
  • Written by John Sayles, starring Daryl Hannah at her peak, and directed by the famed cinematographer Michael Chapman, this almost wordless story about a rivalry between early ancestors of homo sapiens has long been mocked but is perhaps worth a closer look.

Friday, August 12th

• 6:30 pm, Superman II  / Superman III (1980 / 1983, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • For some, these Richard Lester takes on the Man of Steel, with their occasionally crazy humor and dips into gritty darkness, are the best ever made. With Richard Pryor in Superman III. 
• 7:30 pm, Pà negre (2010, Agusti Villaronga)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at The Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Spoken in Catalan, as opposed to Spanish, this film explores the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of children.
• 7:30 pm, Touki Bouki (1973, Djibril Diop Mambéty)
  • Cinefamily
  • This French New Wave-inspired Senegalese film about young lovers who dream of leaving West Africa for Paris is one of the cornerstones of African cinema. Winner of the 1973 International Critics Prize at Cannes.
• 7:30 pm, Koyaanisqatsi / Visitors (1982 / 2013, Godfrey Reggio)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Koyaanisqatsi, Reggio’s hypnotic, non-narrative portrait of humanity exploiting nature, is paired with his more recent Visitors, in which technology is shown to be even more fundamentally disruptive to the natural world. Both include Philip Glass scores.
• 7:30 pm, Fantastic Planet / Heavy Metal (1973 / 1981, René Laloux / Gerald Potterton)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Cult classics of the druggy animation subgenre.  Not all of Heavy Metal‘s segments work perfectly, but some, like Taarna, which appears near the end, capture the aesthetic and D&D gravitas of 1970s rock album covers.
• 7:30 pm, The Human Tornado / Disco Godfather (1976 / 1979, Cliff Roquemore /
  J. Robert Wagoner)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Rudy Ray Moore, best known for his role as Dolemite, appears in these two blaxploitation classics.
• 10:30 pm, Multiple Maniacs (1970, John Waters)
  • Cinefamily
  • This early but rarely screened John Waters film is possibly even more twisted than the better-known Pink Flamingos.  Despite Waters’ later entry into Hollywood, this is authentic American avant-garde filmmaking stemming from the tradition of Jack Smith.
• Midnight, Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004, Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Tarantino split up the Kill Bill story into two “volumes.” In this latter one, the wild genre-bending mayhem winds down to a surprisingly emotional conclusion.

Thursday, August 11th

• 7:00 pm, “Docunight #29: Kiarostami”
  • Santa Monica Public Library
  • The Art of Living, a documentary about Iranian filmmaking legend Abbas Kiarostami, is paired with Kiarostami’s own Roads of Kiarostami, in which the filmmaker discusses his work.
• 7:30 pm, The Pope of Greenwich Village / The Color of Money (1984 / 1986, Stuart Rosenberg / Martin Scorsese)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Pope of Greenwich Village is a sort of reprisal of Scorsese’s Mean Streets with Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts in the Harvey Keitel and Robert Deniro roles; The Color of Money, meanwhile, is Scorsese’s reprisal of The Hustler, with Tom Cruise and Paul Newman in the Paul Newman and George C. Scott roles.
• 7:30 pm, “Constance Talmudge Restored”
  • Pickford Center, Hollywood (with a newly restored “Fotoplayer” organ peformance)
  • Two recently restored silent films starring Constance Talmudge: The Perfect Woman (1920) and Good Night, Paul (1918).

• 7:30 pm, Boiling Point (1990, Takeshi Kitano)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Kitano, aka Beat Takeshi, followed-up Violent Cop with this Yakuza film that hits similar tonal notes.
• 7:30 pm, Murder, My Sweet / The Locket (1944 / 1946, Edward Dmytryk / John Brahm)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • 1940s film noir double-feature. Murder, My Sweet is one of the best Raymond Chandler adaptations and The Locket is a curious psychodrama about a woman dangerously obsessed with a childhood incident in which she was falsely accused of stealing a locket.
• 7:30 pm, Merry-Go-Round (1981, Jacques Rivette)
  • Bob Baker Marionette Theater (a Cinefamily screening)
  • Rivette’s exploration of dreamlike narrative structures continues strong in this mindbending film about two strangers who meet and become involved in an exceptionally complex (and ultimately unfollowable) thriller plot.

Wednesday, August 10th

• 7:30 pm, Medium Cool (1968, Haskell Wexler)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • Wexler’s potent directorial debut follows a television news cameraman (played by the great Robert Forster) as his personal life intersects with the breakdown of the American political system.
• 7:30 pm, The Pope of Greenwich Village / The Color of Money (1984 / 1986, Stuart Rosenberg / Martin Scorsese)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Pope of Greenwich Village is a sort of reprisal of Scorsese’s Mean Streets with Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts in the Harvey Keitel and Robert Deniro roles; The Color of Money, meanwhile, is Scorsese’s reprisal of The Hustler, with Tom Cruise and Paul Newman in the Paul Newman and George C. Scott roles.
• 7:30 pm, In the Shadow of the Sun (1981, Derek Jarman)
  • Cinefamily (with a live score by Psychic TV)
  • Jarman’s little-known experimental collage film is comprised of Super 8 footage he shot between 1972 and 1975. The original Throbbing Gristle score is reimagined and played live for this screening by Genesis P-Orridge’s Psychic TV.
• 7:30 pm, Hellboy (2004, Guillermo del Toro)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • A creature from Hell comes to Earth to fight evil in the form of Nazis. The first entry in one of the best of all the modern super hero series.
• 9:00 pm, La Libertad (2001, Lisandro Alonso)
  • Mandatory Viewing, Atwater Village
  • A minimal film about an Argentine woodcutter that eventually settles into a hypnotic, almost profound pacing.

Tuesday, August 9th

• 1:00 pm, La Belle et La Bete (1946, Jean Cocteau)
  • LACMA
  • One of the dreamiest, lushest films ever made. Cocteau’s surreal take on the classic tale is a warm bath of cinematic experience.
• 7:30 pm, Manson (1973, Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick)
  • The New Beverly (director Robert Hendrickson in person, also screening at 10:15)
  • Feature documentary about the Manson family, including a series of chilling interviews with his followers. Despite being nominated for a 1973 Academy Award for Best Documentary, the film was at one point taken out of circulation and remains difficult to view.
• 7:30 pm, Muriel’s Wedding (1994, PJ Hogan)
  • Cinefamily (introduced by John Early and Claudia O’Doherty)
  • Very charming Australian indie rom-com which introduced actress Toni Collette to international audiences. Notable, too, for the fact that you will most likely be humming one or more ABBA songs as you leave the theater.

Monday, August 8th

• 7:30 pm, Fearless Vampire Killers / Wrecking Crew (1967 / 1968, Roman Polanski / Phil Karlson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Sharon Tate double-feature. Tate, who was killed by the Manson Family in perhaps the darkest episode of Southern California hippie culture, appears here in two lightly comedic roles: a village innkeeper’s daughter in Fearless Vampire Killers and the aid to a spy in the Dean Martin vehicle Wrecking Crew.
• 7:30 pm, On the Silver Globe (1977 / 1988, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Once feared to be lost after Polish officials destroyed the print, Zulawski’s philosophical / phantasmagorical sci-fi epic was reconstructed and ultimately restored in the new DCP version
• 7:30 pm, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
  • Arclight Santa Monica
  • Rollicking western with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.  William Goldman researched the story for eight years before writing the screenplay.
• 7:30 pm, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981, George Miller)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Mel Gibson’s post-apocalyptic Australian hero returns in one of what is very nearly a perfect action film.
• 7:45 pm, The Hunt for Red October (1990, John McTiernan)
  • Arclight Pasadena
  • Tense submarine film directed by action master McTiernan. The first appearance of the Jack Ryan character from Tom Clancy’s widely popular thriller novels.

Sunday, August 7th

• 11:00 am, The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005, Byambasuren Davaa)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Poetic film set in Mongolian highlands about a young girl who (despite local superstition urging agains it) befriends a dog she found in a cave.
• 1:00 pm, Ladies of Leisure (1930, Frank Capra)
  • Cinefamily
  • Barbara Stanwyck became a bona fide star with the release of this Capra tale about a boozing dilettante who must convince the wealthy man of her dreams that she’s gone straight.
• 2:00 pm, The Circus (1928, Charlie Chaplin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Secretly one of Chaplin’s finest films, this silent comedy is loaded with ingenious gags and set pieces all circling around the Tramp’s fatalistic world view.
• 6:30  pm, Fearless Vampire Killers / Wrecking Crew (1967 / 1968, Roman Polanski / Phil Karlson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Sharon Tate double-feature. Tate, who was killed by the Manson Family in perhaps the darkest episode of Southern California hippie culture, appears here in two lightly comedic roles: a village innkeeper’s daughter in Fearless Vampire Killers and the aid to a spy in the Dean Martin vehicle Wrecking Crew.
• 7:00 pm, Raza (1941, Spain)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • A pro-fascist film, purportedly written by Francisco Franco, about a family deciding to side with nationalism in Spain. Fascinating historical document.

• 7:30 pm, Speculation Nation (2014, Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • “In this impressionistic documentary film, Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown travel across Spain to explore the consequences of the housing crisis.”
• 7:30 pm, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot / Magnum Force (1974 / 1973, Michael Cimino / Ted Post)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • The Clint Eastwood films where Cimino made his early Hollywood splash. Cimino co-wrote the Dirty Harry film Magnum Force with John Milius.
• 7:30 pm, “Spectrum Reverse Spectrum & Color Correction: Two Films by Margaret Honda“
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “Spectrum Reverse Spectrum is a cameraless film, made by exposing 70mm print stock to colored light in a film printer. The result is a uniform field of color on screen that moves gradually through the light spectrum, from violet to red and back to violet. Color Correction was made using only the color correction timing tapes for an unknown Hollywood feature without the corresponding negative. The result is a film without images or sound that consists of a succession of different colors of unpredictable duration. The duration of each color corresponds to the length of a shot, but the story that determined those shots has disappeared.”
• 7:30 pm, Bigger than Life / No Down Payment (1956 / 1957, Nicholas Ray / Martin Ritt)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Cynicism about Post-War suburban life abounds in these 1950s American films. Bigger than Life is gothic in its treatment of a mild-mannered father’s growing prescription drug addiction.
• 8:00 pm, Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974, Jacques Rivette)
  • Cinefamily
  • Many consider this to be one of the greatest films ever made. Rivette’s playfully trippy, multi-layered exploration of storytellers getting lost in their time-travelling stories is an intellectual and sensual delight.

Saturday, August 6th

• 11:00 am, “Animation Breakdown: Rivals”
  • Cinefamily (served with sugary breakfast cereals)
  • Cartoons featuring classic rivalries such as Tom & Jerry and the Road Runner & Wile. E. Coyote.
• 2:00 pm, The Circus (1928, Charlie Chaplin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Secretly one of Chaplin’s finest films, this silent comedy is loaded with ingenious gags and set pieces all circling around the Tramp’s fatalistic world view.
• 4:00 pm, On the Silver Globe (1977 / 1988, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Once feared to be lost after Polish officials destroyed the print, Zulawski’s philosophical / phantasmagorical sci-fi epic was reconstructed and ultimately restored in the new DCP version
• 7:00 pm, The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers (1973 / 1974, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Lester combined a slapstick sensibility with rousing sword fight action and powerhouse movie star acting in these highly entertaining films. Originally, they were intended to be shown as one epic but were later broken into two.
• 7:30 pm, “The Transformation of Mike and More Films from 1911-1912″
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Early D.W. Griffith films document his gradual, almost single-handed development of cinematic grammar.
• 7:30 pm, Heaven’s Gate (1980, Michael Cimino)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Best known as one of the great financial disasters in Hollywood and the effective end of the director-driven creative freedom that rose during the 1970s, Heaven’s Gate can now be viewed on its own majestic, elegiac terms.
• 7:30 pm, The Shooting / Ride in the Whirlwind (1966, Monte Hellman)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Shot at the same time for a combined budget of $150,000 these two downbeat existential westerns starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Monte Hellman capture the disillusionment many Americans were beginning to feel about the colonization of the American West.
• 7:30 pm, Loulou / Under the Sun of Satan (1980 / 1987, Maurice Pialat)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Gerard Depardieu plays two very different characters–a hypersexual drunk and a country priest, respectively–in these Pialat films that nonetheless end up asking similar questions about the loneliness of human experience.
• 8:00 pm, “Plug + Mechanical Eye”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “Please join us as we celebrate 2 sister microcinemas bringing the love to the people many miles away. We are honored to host Caitlin Horsmon (from Plug Cinema in Kansas City Missouri) and Charlotte Taylor (from Mechanical Eye in Asheville, North Carolina) as they wind their way through Los Angeles.”
• 8:00 pm to 3:00 am, “Toons with ‘Tude Marathon”
  • Cinefamily (free)
  • Seven hour marathon of bad-boy animation, including a sneak-peek of the upcoming Sausage Party. 
• Midnight, Crossed Swords (1977, Richard Fleischer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper is adapted here in this lavish British production which employed many of the actors in The Three Musketeers. 

Friday, August 5th

• 7:00 pm, The Three Musketeers / The Four Musketeers (1973 / 1974, Richard Lester)
  • The New Beverly
  • Lester combined a slapstick sensibility with rousing sword fight action and powerhouse movie star acting in these highly entertaining films. Originally, they were intended to be shown as one epic but were later broken into two.
• 7:30 pm, The Burning / Sleepaway Camp / Twisted Nightmare (1981 / 1983 / 1987, Tony Maylam / Robert Hiltzik / Paul Hunt)
  • Aero, Santa Monica (a Cinematic Void screening)
  • Summer camp themed slasher film triple-feature. Sleepaway Camp (Hiltzik’s only film) is considered one of the most inventive films from this period of gross-out horror.
• 7:30 pm, The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Cimino’s great triumph. A fantastic cast led by Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken explore the way insane sadistic violence experienced during war comes home.
• 7:30 pm, On the Silver Globe (1977 / 1988, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Once feared to be lost after Polish officials destroyed the print, Zulawski’s philosophical / phantasmagorical sci-fi epic was reconstructed and ultimately restored in the new DCP version screening here.  A rare opportunity.
• 7:30 pm, Champion / Young Man with a Horn (1949 / 1950, Mark Robson / Michael Curtiz)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Kirk Douglas solidified his driven yet conflicted screen persona in these two solid outings. Champion, a boxing film, was a labor of love independent project for which Douglas received his first Oscar nomination.
• Midnight, Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Virtuostic Tarantino film criss-crossing genres and tones but ultimately centering on an iconic Uma Thurman performance.

Thursday, August 4th

• 7:00 pm, Tourist Trap (1979, David Schmoeller)
  • The Broad (shown with Paul McCarthy’s 1987 short Cultural Soup)
  •  Wild slasher film set in a doll factory. Its sicko humor is aligned with Tobe Hooper and cult films like Motel Hell (1980).
• 7:30 pm, Hobson’s Choice / Passage to India (1954 / 1984, David Lean)
  • The New Beverly
  • Character-driven David Lean double-feature. A Passage to India effectively captures the mystical, incomprehensible, even erotic depths of Indian culture while also exploring the racism inherent in presenting the country that way.
• 7:30 pm, Year of the Dragon / Desperate Hours (1985 / 1990, Michael Cimino)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Sumptuous visual style and conflicted tough guy action in this Cimino / Mickey Rourke crime film double-feature.  Year of the Dragon was scripted by Oliver Stone.
• 7:30 pm, Kamikaze ’89 (1982, Wolf Gremm)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final appearance is this wild dystopian comedy/nightmare which was, in fact, not directed by the great New German Cinema filmmaker but by his friend Wolf Gremm. Once thought to be lost, this is a new 35mm restoration.
• 7:30 pm, Noroit (1976, Jacques Rivette)
  • Bob Baker Marionette Theater (a Cinefamily screening)
  • Epic combination of improvisatory and highly ritualized performance in this mesmerizing, loosely epic film set in a 12th century castle where time functions differently than it does in the 21st century.

Wednesday, August 3rd

• 7:30 pm, Heaven’s Gate (1980, Michael Cimino)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Best known as one of the great financial disasters in Hollywood and the effective end of the director-driven creative freedom that rose during the 1970s, Heaven’s Gate can now be viewed on its own majestic, elegiac terms.
• 7:30 pm, Hobson’s Choice / Passage to India (1954 / 1984, David Lean)
  • The New Beverly
  • • Character-driven David Lean double-feature. A Passage to India effectively captures the mystical, incomprehensible, even erotic depths of Indian culture while also exploring the racism inherent in presenting the country that way.
• 7:30 pm, Fantastic Planet (1973, René Laloux)
  • Cinefamily
  • Cult classic from France with some of the most memorably hallucinatory sequences in the history of animation.
• 7:30 pm, New Beijing: Reinventing a City (2009, Georgia Wallace-Crabbe”
  • Fowler Museum at UCLA
  • “Working with a Chinese crew, Australian filmmaker Georgia Wallace-Crabbe captures the dilemma that exists when development confronts preservation.”
• 7:30 pm, Predator (1987, John McTiernan)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • One of the great Arnold Schwarzenegger action films. Here he plays a commando in the jungle who’s team is being stalked by a nightmarish space alien.
• 10:30 pm, “Queen of the Underground: The Films of Sarah Jacobson”
  • Cinefamily (a Lost and Found Film Club screening)
  • Underground post-Kuchar Brothers 1990s zine riot girrrrl feminism black and white intellectual anarchist punk coolness.

Tuesday, August 2nd

• 1:00 pm, Jane Eyre (1944, Robert Stevenson)
  • LACMA
  • Charlotte Bronte’s famous gothic heroine is brought to the silver screen in this handsome adaptation scripted by director Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, and John Houseman. With Orson Welles as Rochester.
• 7:30 pm, Bloodfist / Bloodfist II (1989 / 1990, Terence H. Winkless / Andy Blumenthal)
  • The New Beverly (with Don “The Dragon” Wilson in person)
  • Don “The Dragon” Wilson stars in these two martial arts films, classics within the kickboxing subgenre.
• 7:30 pm, Ruins (1999, Jesse Lerner)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “Jesse Lerner’s Ruins mixes real and fabricated archival footage to document the restoration of artifacts and monuments from Mexico’s precolonial era.” Lerner will discuss the film with visual artist Gala Porras-Kim.
• 8:00 pm, Save the Green Planet! (2003, Jang Joon-hwan)
  • The Frog
  • Genre-bending South Korean insanity involving a beekeeper, his tightrope-walking girlfriend, and a businessman who may be from Andromeda.
• 10:30 pm, Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • A film that looks better every year. Zulawski’s horrific, operatic portrayal of a disintegrating marriage is a highly personal tour-de-force.

Monday, August 1st

• 7:00 pm, Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)
  • Arclight, Santa Monica
  • Time travel back to 1985 to see how 1985 time traveled back to 1955 in this sci-fi comedy classic.
• 7:15 pm, Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
  • Arclight Pasadena
  • Famed Charlton Heston epic with amazing chariot race scene.  Won eleven Oscars.
• 7:30 pm, National Velvet / International Velvet (1944 / 1978, Clarence Brown / Brian Forbes)
  • The New Beverly
  • Girls and horses abound in these two heartwarming family classics.
• 7:30 pm, Batman: The Movie (1966, Leslie Martinson)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Before Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan gave Batman a darker gloss, he was most famously portrayed in the camp comedy / pop action light of this mid-1960s film, itself based on a successful TV show.
• 7:30 pm, Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • A film that looks better every year. Zulawski’s horrific, operatic portrayal of a disintegrating marriage is a highly personal tour-de-force.
• 10:30 pm, Fantastic Planet (1973, René Laloux)
  • Cinefamily
  • Cult classic from France with some of the most memorably hallucinatory sequences in the history of animation.

Sunday, July 31st

• 1:00 pm, Hard to Handle (1933, Mervyn LeRoy)
  • Cinefamily
  • James Cagney plays an enterprising young man who’s always got his eye on the next fad and the next sucker to rip off.
• 2:00 pm, The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)
  • The New Beverly
  • Prototypical 1980s boy adventure film.  Many memorable characters and lines.
• 3:00 pm, “The Films of Ed Ruscha: Premium and Miracle”
  • MoCA, Grand Avenue
  • Two short films by visual artist Ruscha are accompanied by a new documentary about the artist.
• 6:30 pm, National Velvet / International Velvet (1944 / 1978, Clarence Brown / Brian Forbes)
  • The New Beverly
  • Girls and horses abound in these two heartwarming family classics.
• 7:00 pm, Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
  • Cinefamily (with a live score)
  • For some, this is as good at it gets in a movie theater. Murnau’s wordless cinematic storytelling reached some sort of artistic peak just at the moment that sound would forever change film.
• 7:00 pm, Van Gogh (1991, Maurice Pialat)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Pialat’s meditative look at the last year of the great Dutch painter’s life. Unlike so many other characterizations, Van Gogh is presented here as a more or less sane and stable, if not a deeply melancholy, lost soul.
• 10:30 pm, Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • A film that looks better every year. Zulawski’s horrific, operatic portrayal of a disintegrating marriage is a highly personal tour-de-force.

Saturday, July 30th

• 2:00 pm, The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)
  • The New Beverly
  • Prototypical 1980s boy adventure film.  Many memorable characters and lines.
• 6:30 pm, Public Enemies / Young Dillinger (2009 / 1965, Michael Mann / Terry O. Morse)
  • The New Beverly
  • John Dillinger double-feature. With, respectively, Johnny Depp and Nick Adams as the tommy-gun-toting gangster.
• 7:00 pm, Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • A film that looks better every year. Zulawski’s horrific, operatic portrayal of a disintegrating marriage is a highly personal tour-de-force.
• 7:00 pm, Like Water for Chocolate (1992, Alfonso Arau)
  • La Plaza de Cultura y Artes (various food vendors will be on hand)
  • A film about the sensuality, even magic of food.  One of the most successful foreign films in the history of the U.S. box office.
• 7:30 pm, “Jake and Dinos Chapman”
  • The Box
  • A screening of visual artist Jake Chapman’s feature film The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (2015) and Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Fucking Hell, a montage of the artists collaborative videos.
• 7:30 pm, Spartacus (1960, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hamme (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Kirk Douglas plays the eponymous hero, a slave in ancient Rome who rises to lead a revolt, in one of the greatest of all Hollywood epics. With a script by Dalton Trumbo, who was blacklisted at that time.
• 8:00 pm, Raw Force (1982, Edward D. Murphy)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Kung fu horror madness in this early 1980s schlock fest.
• 10:30 pm, Syngenor (1990, George Elanjian, Jr.)
  • Cinefamily (a Shock Feature Theater event)
  • Oops, the perfect killing machine has escaped from its corporate lab and is now running amuck in this wild action horror film.
• Midnight, Faster Pussycat!  Kill!  Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Equal parts crude male fantasy and feminist provocation, this is the prototypical Russ Meyer film. Cartoonishly busty women with penchants for violence and clever one-liners rev their hot rods through the desert and dominate all men in their way.

Friday, July 29th

• 6:00 pm, “Collection”
  • Getty Center (a Veggie Cloud screening)
  • Series of short avant-garde and experimental films, all dealing with the theme of “collection.”
• 6:30 pm, Public Enemies / Young Dillinger (2009 / 1965, Michael Mann / Terry O. Morse)
  • The New Beverly
  • John Dillinger double-feature. With, respectively, Johnny Depp and Nick Adams as the tommy-gun-toting gangster.
• 7:30 pm, The Devil’s Backbone (2001, Guillermo del Toro)
  • LACMA (introduced by Guillermo del Toro)
  • Lush and atmosphericly creepy horror film based around a child’s experiences in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. Del Toro considers it to be the “brother film” to his Pan’s Labyrinth. 
• 7:30 pm, À Nos Amours / The Mouth Agape (1983 / 1974, Maurice Pialat)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Typically unflinching looks at the pleasures and deep pains of family life in these films by Pialat. À Nos Amours was the debut film of Sandrine Bonnaire, one of the great French actresses of her generation.
• 7:30 pm, “Jake and Dinos Chapman”
  • The Box
  • A screening of visual artist Jake Chapman’s feature film The Marriage of Reason and Squalor (2015) and Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Fucking Hell, a montage of the artists collaborative videos.
• 7:30 pm, Violent Cop (1989, Takeshi “Beat” Kitano)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Kitano is a well-known filmmaker now, but when this (as the title suggests) violent cop film was released with him as a first-time director & star, he was best known as a TV comedian. Spare and brutal.
• 10:30 pm, Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • A film that looks better every year. Zulawski’s horrific, operatic portrayal of a disintegrating marriage is a highly personal tour-de-force.

Thursday, July 28th

• 7:00 pm, “Moyra Davey: Les Goddesses”
  • 356 Mission
  • A screening of Davey’s 2012 video art work.
• 7:30 pm, Law and Disorder / Cops and Robbers (1974 / 1973, Ivan Passer / Aram Avakian)
  • The New Beverly
  • New York City cop comedies with a characteristically early-1970s mix of cynicism and naturalistic realism. Cops and Robbers was based on a crime novel by Donald Westlake.
• 7:30 pm, The Young Girls of Rochefort / Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1967 / 1964, Jacques Demy)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Candy-colored 1960s Parisian musical goodness from the great auteur Demy.  With scores by Michel Legrand.
• 7:30 pm, Duelle (1975, Jacques Rivette)
  • Bob Baker Marionette Theater (a Cinefamily screening)
  • The first of Rivette’s “Girls of Fire” series.  This mystically tongue-in-cheek film works more as a trip into another realm than a conventional narrative.
• 7:30 pm, Full Metal Jacket (1987, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Kubrick’s Vietnam War film focuses on the psychological impact of war, of war being the force that turns men into killers.  One of the highlights is real-life military drill instructor R. Lee Ermy’s intense breaking-down of a slow-witted private played by Vincent D’Onofrio.

Wednesday, July 27th

• 7:30 pm, Law and Disorder / Cops and Robbers (1974 / 1973, Ivan Passer / Aram Avakian)
  • The New Beverly
  • New York City cop comedies with a characteristically early-1970s mix of cynicism and naturalistic realism. Cops and Robbers was based on a crime novel by Donald Westlake.
• 7:30 pm, Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
  • Cinefamily
  • A film that looks better every year. Zulawski’s horrific, operatic portrayal of a disintegrating marriage is a highly personal tour-de-force.
• 7:30 pm, The American Friend / The Story of a Cheat (1977 / 1936, Wim Wenders / Sacha Guitry)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • European films about con men and chance.  Hardboiled American filmmakers Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray appear in cameos in The American Friend.  
• 7:30 pm, American Graffiti (1973, George Lucas)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Classic teen nostalgia with a great early 1960s pop soundtrack. Lucas’s early smash hit gave him the clout to make the far bigger budgeted Star Wars. 

Tuesday, July 26th

• 1:00 pm, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, Wes Anderson)
  • LACMA
  • Anderson’s stop-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book is one of his most humorous and engaging works. Co-written with Noah Baumbach.
• 7:30 pm, Cool Hand Luke (1967, Stuart Rosenberg)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Paul Newman plays one of American film’s great symbols of anti-authoritarianism who’s sentenced to work on a southern chain gang. With Strother Martin as the authoritarian chain gang captain who delivered the famous “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” speech.
• 7:30 pm, The Pit and the Pendulum (1961, Roger Corman)
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
  • One of Corman’s triumphs, this loose adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe stars Vincent Price and a lot of effectively generated atmosphere from the sets, costumes, and camerawork.
• 7:30 pm, Valium High / The Swinging Cheerleaders (1976 / 1974, Gus Trikonis / Jack Hill)
  • The New Beverly
  • This is the grindhouse double-feature that the two suspects in Errol Morris’s Thin Blue Line attended before the central murder in that film. The Swinging Cheerleaders’ director Jack Hill is one of the great filmmakers to have worked the exploitation scene during the 1970s.

• 8:00 pm, “La Jetée vis-a-vis Sadie Benning”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Chris Marker’s landmark sci-fi film composed solely of still images is paired with a slate of films by artist and experimental filmmaker Benning.

Monday, July 25th

• 7:30 pm, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Leone pushes the conventions of the American western film even further into the realm of Italian opera than he did with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966). With a fantastic cast, insane Morricone score, rhythmic editing, and mythic narrative, Once Upon a Time in the West is a treat for lovers of the cinematic experience.
• 7:30 pm, God’s Little Acre / Thunder Road (1958, Anthony Mann / Arthur Ripley)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two gritty black and white movies displaying the moral fringes of late 1950s American cinema. The great Robert Mitchum produced, starred in, and co-wrote Thunder Road. 

Sunday, July 24th

• 1:00 pm, The Miracle Woman (1931, Frank Capra)
  • Cinefamily
  • Based loosely on the true story of Aimee Semple McPherson, the early 20th century revivalist preacher based in Echo Park, Los Angeles, The Miracle Woman follows Barbara Stanwyck’s entry into religion as a huckster and her subsequent conversion.
• 2:00 pm, The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
  • The New Beverly
  • One of the great movies.  Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow” transcends the screen.
• 7:00 pm, For Whom the Bell Tolls / The Spanish Earth (1943 / 1937, Sam Wood / Joris Ivens)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman star in For Whom the Bell Tolls, a story based on Ernest Hemingway’s experience during the production of the second film on this bill, the landmark documentary The Spanish Earth.
• 7:30 pm, “Where You Thought You Were”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “This show highlights four superb recent works, made around the world, that stretch our normal notions of documentary and fiction, while finding ways to make apparent some of the many ways  that place and landscape are conceived.”
• 7:30 pm, God’s Little Acre / Thunder Road (1958, Anthony Mann / Arthur Ripley)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two gritty black and white movies displaying the moral fringes of late 1950s American cinema. The great Robert Mitchum produced, starred in, and co-wrote Thunder Road. 
• 7:30 pm, Bullfighter and the Lady / Ride Lonesome (1951 / 1958, Budd Boetticher)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The two poles of Boetticher’s cinematic world: Bullfighter and the Lady is the earliest of his films focused on bullfighting in Spain, while Ride Lonesome is one of the finest of his psychological western collaborations with actor Randolph Scott.
• 7:30 pm, The Girl on the Broomstick (1972, Václav Vorlícek)
  • Cinefamily
  • A sort of Czech hippie Harry Potter about a teen girl sorcerer and her magical (mis)education.
• 7:30 pm, The Hustler / Night and the City (1961 / 1950, Robert Rossen / Jules Dassin)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Solid double-feature of anti-hero male leads, equal parts desparate and arrogant, trying to make it through the night for one big score.

Saturday, July 23rd

• 2:00 pm,  The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
  • The New Beverly
  • One of the great movies.  Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow” transcends the screen.
• 4:00 pm, Day of Wrath (1943, Carl Theodore Dreyer)
  • Cinefamily
  • Classic Dreyer film (filmed during Nazi occupation) about a 17th century Danish woman whose illicit love affair may or may not be possessed by the supernatural.
• 7:00 pm, Edge of Tomorrow / Robot Jox (2014 / 1989, Doug Liman / Stuart Gordon)
  • The New Beverly
  • Humans roam around in giant killer robot machines in these two sci-fi films. Edge of Tomorrow was an enjoyably crafty big-budget Hollywood Tom Cruise vehicle while Robot Jox was a modestly-budgeted independent movie that ace genre director Gordon (Re-Animator) skillfully shepherded to the screen.
• 7:30 pm, “Felix the Cat’s Silent Animation Spectacular”
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Program of silent animated comedies featuring the still-popular icon Felix the Cat.
• 7:30 pm, Trouble in Paradise / The Lady Eve / The Major and the Minor (1932 / 1941 / 1942, Ernst Lubitsch / Preston Sturges / Billy Wilder)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Trouble in Paradise and The Lady Eve are two of the most elegant and movingly funny of all Hollywood comedies. The Major and the Minor (Wilder’s directorial debut) is not so far behind.
• 7:30 pm, We Won’t Grow Old Together / Maurice Pialat, Love Exists (1972, 2007)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Maurice Pialat double-feature. The first film is a bleakly autobiographical story about an equally abusive and loving relationship; the second is a documentary about the notoriously demanding filmmaker.

• 10:00 pm, Fantastic Planet (1973, René Laloux)
  • Cinefamily
  • Cult classic from France with some of the most memorably hallucinatory sequences in the history of animation.
• Midnight, Faster Pussycat!  Kill!  Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Equal parts crude male fantasy and feminist provocation, this is the prototypical Russ Meyer film. Cartoonishly busty women with penchants for violence and clever one-liners rev their hot rods through the desert and dominate all men in their way.

Friday, July 22nd

• 7:00 pm, Edge of Tomorrow / Robot Jox (2014 / 1989, Doug Liman / Stuart Gordon)
  • The New Beverly
  • Humans roam around in giant killer robot machines in these two sci-fi films. Edge of Tomorrow was an enjoyably crafty big-budget Hollywood Tom Cruise vehicle while Robot Jox was a modestly-budgeted independent b-movie that ace genre director Gordon (Re-Animator) skillfully shepherded to the screen.
• 7:30 pm, Leave Her to Heaven / The Bride of Frankenstein (1946 / 1935, John Stahl / James Whale)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Essential Hollywood films.  Leave Her to Heaven is famous for being a technicolor film noir with a jet black heart, while the Frankenstein sequel The Bride of Frankenstein is often championed by fans and critics as an improvement on the original.
• 7:30 pm, The Boy Friend (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily (guests are encouraged to dress in period styles)
  • A young actress in 1920s Britain is vaulted into the limelight in this typically Russell-ian extravaganza.  The first starring role of British model-turned-actress Twiggy.
• 7:30 pm, The Sting / Paper Moon (1973, George Roy Hill / Peter Bogdanovich)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • As the country was melting down and many of its movies offered pessimism & violence, these two light-hearted (but well-made) con-artist comedies set in more innocent times received large audiences.
• 7:30 pm, Naked Childhood / Graduate First (1968 / 1978, Maurice Pialat)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • An heir to Jean Renoir and in dialogue with Francois Truffaut, Pialat was a director committed to an unflinchingly naturalistic realism. Here are films examining, respectively, youth and the rocky transition to adulthood.
• 8:00 pm, Without You I’m Nothing (1990, John Boskovich)
  • Echo Park Film Center (screened as part of the Filmmobile project.  Check with EPFC for exact location)
  • Film based on a seminal late-1980s comedy/one-woman-show by the inimitable Sandra Bernhard. Director Boskovich chose to push the cinematic elements of the film version, which, to some critics, lessened the overall impact of Bernhard’s work.
• Midnight, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995, Ernest Dickerson)
  • Cinefamily
  • Laughs and gross-out scares abound in this feature based on the Tales from the Crypt TV show and classic EC comics.  With Billy Zane in a great camp role.

Thursday, July 21st 

• 7:00 pm, Gabriel (1976, Agnes Martin)
  • 356 Mission (Co-presented with LACMA in conjunction with the exhibition “Agnes Martin”)
  • “The film loosely follows the wanderings of a ten year old boy in rural New Mexico, near to where Martin lived and worked.Gabriel is a contemplative and fragmentary study of landscape, vision and perceptions of nature.” (from the Tate website)
• 7:00 pm, Yellow Sequence / Arabian Nights (1963-65 / 1974, Jack Smith / Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  • The Broad
  • Smith’s experimental short film starring Francis Francine is paired with a classic Pasolini epic filled with exoticism, eroticism, and dirty humor. Arabian Nights was the final film of Pasolini’s literary cycle, which consisted of two other similarly episodic sources: The Canterbury Tales and The Decameron. 
• 7:30 pm, The Steel Trap / Highway 301 (1952/ 1950, Andrew L. Stone)
  • The New Beverly
  • Gritty Andrew L. Stone noir films shot largely in actual locations, including, in the case of Highway 301, the sides of a busy east coast interstate freeway. In The Steel Trap a mild-mannered bank employee (the always great Joseph Cotten) steals money from his job, assuming they won’t realize until everyone returns after the weekend, but before he can execute his getaway to Brazil, his wife leaves him, and, unsure of what to do, he decides he has to go back home and return the money before his co-workers show up on Monday morning.
• 7:30 pm, The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • An iconic Jack Nicholson performance and some of the most haunting imagery ever captured on film anchor this all-time classic horror film.
• 7:30 pm, Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels / A Fish Called Wanda (1988, Frank Oz / Charles Crichton)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Cynical, bitingly funny con-artist comedies from the late 1980s. A Fish Called Wanda director Crichton was at the time best known for Ealing Comedies from decades before, such as The Lavender Hill Mob (1951).
• 7:30 pm, Seven Men From Now / Buchanan Rides Alone (1956 / 1958, Budd Boetticher)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Actor Randolph Scott and director Budd Boetticher formed a partnership in the western film genre that ticks a few degrees darker and more minimal than the better-known John Wayne and John Ford collaborations (or Jimmy Stewart and Anthony Mann collaborations).  Here are the two of the best: Seven Men From Now was long believed to be lost, but in 2000 the print was restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
• 8:00 pm, Spice World (1997, Bob Spiers)
  • Echo Park Film Center (shown on intentionally degraded VHS)
  • The hugely successful pop group The Spice Girls starred in this appropriately cheesy feature film from the late 1990s.

Wednesday, July 20th

• 7:30 pm, The Steel Trap / Highway 301 (1952/ 1950, Andrew L. Stone)
  • The New Beverly
  • Gritty Andrew L. Stone noir films shot largely in actual locations, including, in the case of Highway 301, the sides of a busy east coast interstate freeway. In The Steel Trap a mild-mannered bank employee (the always great Joseph Cotten) steals money from his job, assuming they won’t realize until everyone returns after the weekend, but before he can execute his getaway to Brazil, his wife leaves him, and, unsure of what to do, he decides he has to go back home and return the money before his co-workers show up on Monday morning.

Tuesday, July 19th

• 1:00 pm, James and the Giant Peach (1996, Henry Selick)
  • LACMA
  • Adaptation of Roald Dahl’s well-known children’s book by Nightmare Before Christmas director Selick. With two repulsive aunt characters voiced by Miriam Margolyes and Joanna Lumley of the British television show Absolutely Fabulous. 
• 7:30 pm, The Naked Cage / Sex Life in a Woman’s Prison (1986 / 1974, Paul Nicholas / Brunello Rondi)
  • The New Beverly
  • Women in prison exploitation films in the style of Caged Heat.  The Naked Cage (directed by Nicholas, who also helmed the women-in-prison standout Chained Heat) pushes the scenario and familiar tropes into the realm of classic camp comedy.
• 7:30 pm, Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed (2004, Shoa Lynch)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • Documentary about Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress and to run for President.
• 7:30 pm, Wet Hot American Summer (2001, David Wain)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Hip, surreal, and often outrageously funny, this cult comedy about a Jewish summer camp in the 1980s felt groundbreaking when it was released in 2001 and holds up pretty well to this day.  With a great cast of comedy vets and newcomers who went on to substantial careers.

Monday, July 18th

• 7:30 pm, Harakiri / Samurai Rebellion (1962 / 1967, Masaki Kobayashi)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of the great Japanese samurai films.  In the wake of the trauma of World War II, director Kobayashi explores the baroquely ritualized violence and contradictory social constructions that led to the downfall of the Shogunate.
• 7:30 pm, Galaxy Quest (1999, Dean Parisot)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Clever sci-fi comedy about the washed-up cast of a Star Trek-style TV show, the broadcast signal of which has reached an alien race.  When the aliens think the show is real, they enlist the cast for an actual space mission.
• 7:30 pm, La doble vida del faquir / Els nens de Rússia (2005 / 2001, Elisabet Cabeza, Esteve Riambau / Jaime Camino)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive)
  • Recent Spanish documentary features which revisit the Spanish Civil War through illuminating frameworks.
• 7:30 pm, West Side Story (70mm)
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
  • Wonderful American musical in which the scenario of Romeo & Juliet is transported to rough and tumble (but still happily innocent) New York City gang life.

Sunday, July 17th

• 1:00 pm, The Wild Party (1929, Dorothy Azner)
  • Cinefamily
  • “It girl” Clara Bow’s first sound film portrays a group of frivolous women at a university more interested in finding a man than attending to their studies.  This was also the first sound film of female film directing pioneer Azner.
• 2:00 pm, Grease (1978, Randal Kleiser)
  • The New Beverly
  • Now-classic musical set in the 1950s about summer lovin’ between Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta and what happens when they return to high school in the fall.
• 7:00 pm, The Big Sky / Man Without a Star (1952 / 1955, Howard Hawks / King Vidor)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Moody Kirk Douglas westerns from the 1950s.  Hawks’ The Big Sky features a famously comedic finger amputation scene that pushed the envelope of good taste in its day.
• 7:30 pm, Lord of the Flies / Battle Royale (1963 / 2000, Peter Brook / Kinji Fukasaku)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Separated by almost forty years, these two stories of desperate teens turning violent on each other each continue to resonate. Filmmaker Beat Takeshi appears as an actor in the bloodier of the two, Battle Royale. 
• 7:30 pm, “Machine Gun or Typewriter, by Travis Wilkerson”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “Filmforum is delighted to host Travis Wilkerson again with the city’s premiere of his latest feature film.  Machine Gun or Typewriter? In the tradition of An Injury to One, Wilkerson mixes genres in his unique exploration of places, economic systems, and injustice.”
• 7:30 pm, Harakiri / Samurai Rebellion (1962 / 1967, Masaki Kobayashi)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of the great Japanese samurai films.  In the wake of the trauma of World War II, director Kobayashi explores the baroquely ritualized violence and contradictory social constructions that led to the downfall of the Shogunate.
• 8:00 pm, Dancing Mothers / The Son of the Sheik (1926, Herbert Brenon / George Fitzmaurice)
  • Paramount Ranch, Agoura Hills
  • Silent films with mega-stars of the era: Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers and Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik. The Son of the Sheik was, famously, Valentino’s final film.

Saturday, July 16th

• 2:00 pm, Grease (1978, Randal Kleiser)
  • The New Beverly
  • Now-classic musical set in the 1950s about summer lovin’ between Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta and what happens when they return to high school in the fall.
• 4:00 pm, Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989, Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the great cinematic storytellers to work with animation, Miyazaki produced this adorably winning and ever-so-playfully dark story of a young witch at the peak of his career.
• 7:00 pm, Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène)
  • Cinefamily
  • The seminal film of Sub-Saharan African cinema. Sembène expanded his short story about a Senegalese girl who goes to France to work in the home of a bourgeois couple who collect African art.
• 7:00 pm, Double Indemnity / Body Heat (1944 / 1981, Billy Wilder / Lawrence Kasdan)
  • The New Beverly
  • Double Indemnity, with its rich blacks and whites, cynicism, and oozing sinfulness, is perhaps the single most enduring of all the classic film noirs.  Body Heat is the New Hollywood riff on Double Indemnity with Kathleen Turner delivering a fantastic take on Barbara Stanwyck’s femme fatale.
• 7:30 pm, “Catalogne Martyr  /  Hearst Newsreels  /  The Spanish Earth”
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Rare documentaries & newsreels produced in both Spain and the U.S. during the Spanish Civil War. In The Spanish Earth (1937), Orson Welles narrates a script by Ernest Hemingway.

• 7:30 pm, Little Annie Rooney (1925, William Beaudine)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • The great star of the silent screen Mary Pickford stars in this newly restored version of Little Annie Rooney. 
• 7:30 pm, Pierrot Le Fou / Contempt (1963 / 1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of Godard’s most classic films from his mid-1960s heyday in which he was almost single-handedly reinventing the possibilities of film. Revolutionary politics, cinephilia, glamour, anarchic humor, and beautiful color cinematography.
• 8:00 pm, “Primary Stimulus: A Robert Russett Memorial Retrospective”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “To celebrate the life and work of the singular artist and animation historian Robert Russett (1935-2015), guest curator Mark Toscano has assembled this nearly complete retrospective of Russett’s 16mm films.”
• 8:00 pm, No Skin Off My Ass (1990, Bruce LaBruce)
  • REDCAT
  • “In his debut feature, beloved provocateur LaBruce stars as a hairdresser who falls for a handsome young skinhead he tricked with in the park. An extension of the Toronto Homocore scene, the film establishes LaBruce’s signature mix of explicit sex, wry humor, and radical politics.”
• Midnight, Sugar Hill (1974, Paul Maslansky)
  • Cinefamily
  • Blaxploitation meets zombie horror in this well-plotted, effectively tongue-in-cheek grindhouse film from the 1970s.
• Midnight, Faster Pussycat!  Kill!  Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Equal parts crude male fantasy and feminist provocation, this is the prototypical Russ Meyer film. Cartoonishly busty women with penchants for violence and clever one-liners rev their hot rods through the desert and dominate all men in their way.

Friday, July 15th

• 7:00 pm, Double Indemnity / Body Heat (1944 / 1981, Billy Wilder / Lawrence Kasdan)
  • The New Beverly
  • Double Indemnity, with its rich blacks and whites, cynicism, and oozing sinfulness, is perhaps the single most enduring of all the classic film noirs.  Body Heat is the New Hollywood riff on Double Indemnity with Kathleen Turner delivering a fantastic take on Barbara Stanwyck’s femme fatale.
• 7:30 pm, Kamikaze ’89 (1982, Wolf Gremm)
  • Cinefamily
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final appearance is this wild dystopian comedy/nightmare which was, in fact, not directed by the great New German Cinema filmmaker but by his friend Wolf Gremm. Once thought to be lost, this is a new 35mm restoration.
• 7:30 pm, A Life in the Shadows (1949, Llorenç Llobet Gràcia)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Produced in Spain during fascist rule, this recently rediscovered film about an impassioned filmmaker is one of the rare features to have not suffered from strict government interference.  Shown alongside two documentary shorts produced in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
• 7:30 pm, Demonoid / The Bees (1981 / 1978, Alfredo Zacarias)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Classically campy horror from cult director Zacarias, who will be in attendance.
• 7:30 pm, Citizen Kane / Lady from Shanghai (1941 / 1948, Orson Welles)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Citizen Kane remains one of the great wonders of the art of filmmaking; Lady from Shanghai, meanwhile, finds Welles in good form, including a mind-bending “hall of mirrors” finale. Viewing these classics on the Egyptian’s large screen is a treat for film fans.
• 7:30 pm, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Inferno / The Truth (2009 / 1960, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea / Henri-Georges Clouzot)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The Inferno was an unfinished Clouzot film which is explored in this documentary and paired with a the filmmaker’s The Truth, starring the incomparable Brigitte Bardot.
• 8:00 pm, Mur Murs (1981, Agnes Varda)
  • Echo Park Film Center (screened as part of the Filmmobile project.  Check with EPFC for exact location)
  • Little-seen Varda documentary about murals through Los Angeles.
• 10:00 pm, Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989, Hayao Miyazaki)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the great cinematic storytellers to work with animation, Miyazaki produced this adorably winning and ever-so-playfully dark story of a young witch at the peak of his career.
• Midnight, Pieces (1982, Juan Piquer Simón)
  • Cinefamily
  • Over-the-top grindhouse horror from Spain about a little boy with a thing for transforming bodies into jigsaw puzzles.

Thursday, July 14th

• 7:00 pm, “Geography of the Body of the World”
  • MoCA Grand Avenue (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “Four films that use the poetic as a means to investigate the real: Bruce Baillie’s Mass for the Dakota Sioux (1964); Sky Hopinka’s Jáaji Approximately (2015); and two by Brigid McCaffrey, who will be present for conversation after the films.”
• 7:30 pm, The Big Day / M. Hulot’s Holiday (1949 / 1953, Jacques Tati)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Early comedy masterpieces by the legendary Tati.  The Big Day is less well-known but features Tati building the cinematic techniques and character touches that would come to full blossom in M. Hulot’s Holiday. 
• 7:30 pm, Restaurant / Daltry Calhoun (1998 / 2005, Eric Bross / Katrina Holden Bronson)
  • The New Beverly
  • American indie films overlooked upon their initial release. With Adrien Brody leading a great ensemble case in Restaurant and Johnny Knoxville and the great Elizabeth Banks in Daltry Calhoun. 
• 7:30 pm, Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Bruce Lee’s most popular film.  His screen presence remains one of the most compelling in cinematic history.
• 7:30 pm, A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Laemmle, NoHo
  • Kubrick’s highly original and disturbing vision of control and anarchy in a future version of England. With Malcolm McDowell in one of film’s most iconic performances.
• 8:00 pm, “From Echo Street to the Echo Park Film Center: Feminist Films by Susan Mogul”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “Artist/Filmmaker Susan Mogul presents an evening of her short non-fiction films from 1993 to the present. Four of these films – decidedly feminist – feature all female casts comprised of women from the Los Angeles arts community…”

Wednesday, July 13th

• 7:30 pm, Restaurant / Daltry Calhoun (1998 / 2005, Eric Bross / Katrina Holden Bronson)
  • The New Beverly
  • American indie films overlooked upon their initial release. With Adrien Brody leading a great ensemble case in Restaurant and Johnny Knoxville and Elizabeth Banks in Daltry Calhoun. 
• 7:30 pm, I Walk Alone / The Devil’s Disciple (1948 / 1959, Byron Haskin / Guy Hamilton)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Two Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas pairings.  I Walk Alone is a solid noir following two rival rum-runners; The Devil’s Disciple is a biting George Bernard Shaw satire set during the American Revolution that’s best known for one of Laurence Olivier’s finest turns on the silver screen.
• 9:00 pm, “3 Experimental Shorts (presented by Trent Gidaro)”
  • Mandatory Viewing, Atwater Village
  • The End (1953) by Christopher Maclaine, The Man Who Invented Gold (1957) by Christopher Maclaine, and Anamnesis (1969) by Frans Zwartjes.  61 minute total running time.
• 10:00 pm, Vali (1967, Sheldon Rochlin)
  • Cinefamily
  • Rarely-screened documentary about Vali Myers, a mystical figure who was known in counter-cultural circles in the late 1960s and ’70s.

Tuesday, July 12th

• 1:00 pm, Matilda (1996, Danny Devito)
  • LACMA
  • Precocious child genius (and budding telekinetic) Matilda is smarter than all the adults around her. Based on a characteristically droll and dark Roald Dahl book.
• 7:30 pm, Five Minutes to Live / Killers Three (1961 / 1968, Bill Karn / Bruce Kessler)
  • The New Beverly
  • Rare low budget genre films featuring country music stars in feature roles–Johnny Cash in Five Minutes to Live and Merle Haggard in Killers Three.  Dick Clark of American Bandstand and seemingly endless New Years Eve telecasts also stars in (and co-produced) Killers Three.
• 7:30 pm, Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène)
  • Cinefamily
  • The seminal film of Sub-Saharan African cinema. Sembène expanded his short story about a Senegalese girl who goes to France to work in the home of a bourgeois couple who collect African art.
• 7:30 pm, Knight’s Tale (2001, Brian Helgeland)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • The film that launched Heath Ledger to stardom is this enjoyable story about a peasant that rises to become a knight.
• 8:00 pm, “Interwoven: Films by Kipervaser and Cunningham”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “Anna Kipervaser and Alex Cunningham take their recent short films on the road together in the experimental cinema salon tradition. Showing recent experimental film and video work. Alex and Anna explore intersections between realities, between abstraction and translation, structure and poetry, internal and external.”

Monday, July 11th

• 7:30 pm, Breathless / Band of Outsiders (1960/1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of Godard’s more accessible films are these early features based on low-budget American crime pictures (Breathless was famously “dedicated to Monogram Pictures”–Monogram being the lowest of the low genre film studio in Hollywood).  Breathless helped inaugurate the French New Wave.
• 7:30 pm, A Star is Born (1976, Frank Pierson)
  • LACMA
  • John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion worked on the screenplay for this post-1960s remake of the Judy Garland original.  With Barbara Streisand and Kris Kristofferson as the leads.

Sunday, July 10th

• 11:00 am, Angels in the Outfield (1951, Clarence Brown)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Kids baseball comedy about a little girl who manages to get some divine assistance for her favorite baseball team in return for not swearing and fighting.
• 1:00 pm, Ladies They Talk About (1933, William Keighley & Howard Bretherton)
  • Cinefamily (shown digitally)
  • The progenitor of the “women in prison” genre, this film features the great Barbara Stanwyck as a hard-nosed San Quentin inmate.
• 2:00 pm, Pirates of the Caribbean (2003, Gore Verbinski)
  • The New Beverly
  • One of the biggest box office smashes ever is this adventure comedy with Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
• 6:30 pm, Breathless / Band of Outsiders (1960/1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of Godard’s more accessible films are these early features based on low-budget American crime pictures (Breathless was famously “dedicated to Monogram Pictures”–Monogram being the lowest of the low genre film studio in Hollywood).  Breathless helped inaugurate the French New Wave.
• 7:30 pm, News From Home (1977, Chantal Akerman)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • A portrait of New York City from the point of view of a European exile filmmaker.  Experimental but accessible, this is one of Akerman’s best works.
• 7:30 pm, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia / Dillinger (1974 / 1973, Sam Peckinpah / John Milius)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Artful 1970s Warren Oates crime films.  Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is one of Peckinpah’s most despairing outings while Dillinger is a lean, engaging biopic that served as Milius’s directorial debut.
• 7:30 pm, Funny Girl / Funny Lady (1968 / 1975, William Wyler / Herbert Ross)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Barbara Streisand’s star-making turn as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and its entertaining sequel.
• 9:00 pm, The Hunger (1983, Tony Scott)
  • Director’s Guild of America
  • David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve play centuries-old vampires preying on New York’s punk underground in this stylish debut from director Scott.

Saturday, July 9th

• 2:00 pm, Pirates of the Caribbean (2003, Gore Verbinski)
  • The New Beverly
  • One of the biggest box office smashes ever is this adventure comedy with Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
• 2:00 pm, So This is Paris (1926, Ernst Lubitsch)
  • Cinefamily
  • Great “Lubitsch Touch” sex comedy filmed at the tail end of the silent era.
• 7:00 pm, Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 (1977 / 2004, E.W. Swackhamer / Sam Raimi)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two feature-length film versions of the webbed-warrior’s adventures.  Spider-Man was the pilot to a campy TV show; Spider-Man 2 takes a more psychologically complex look at the hero.
• 7:00 pm, Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, Jack Arnold)
  • Pasadena Central Park
  • Hokey but effective monster movie about a “gill man” who captures a young woman on an Amazonian expedition.  The film reinvigorated the monster movie brand that Universal had famously developed in the 1930s with films featuring Frankenstein, Dracula, the Wolf Man, etc.
• 7:30 pm, Back to the Future Trilogy (1985 / 1989 / 1990, Robert Zemeckis)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • The classic sci-fi comedy series featuring Marty McFly and Doc Brown criss-crossing historical eras.
• 7:30 pm, The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
  • Aero, Santa Monica.
  • Peckinpah takes the optimistic but worn-out western genre and introduces it to the violence and cynicism of the 1970s.
• 7:30 pm, Ace in the Hole / Detective Story (1951, Billy Wilder / William Wyler)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Egyptian (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Kirk Douglas plays an anti-hero in these two hard-nosed post-WWII films.  Ace in the Hole, in particular, holds up well due to its unrelenting cynicism about the role of the media in tragedies.
• 7:30 pm, Drive-In Massacre / Bag Boy Lover Boy / Beyond the Darkness (1977 / 2014 / 1979, Stu Seagall, Andrea Torres, Joe D’Amato)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Triple-feature of grade-Z exploitation fare from Severin Films, on the company’s 10th anniversary.
• 8:00 pm, “Bandini International Film Festival”
  • Arturo Bandini, Highland Park
  • Video art and films by a diverse group of artists.
• 9:30 pm, Outfitumentary (2016, K8 Hardy)
  • REDCAT
  • “For 10 years, artist and Riot Grrrl darling K8 Hardy documented her flamboyant outerwear using a shitty digital camera, until it died, ending the project. The resulting work of haute structuralist filmmaking is much more than a sum of its parts.”
• Midnight, Faster Pussycat!  Kill!  Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Equal parts crude male fantasy and feminist provocation, this is the prototypical Russ Meyer film. Cartoonishly busty women with penchants for violence and clever one-liners rev their hot rods through the desert and dominate all men in their way.

Friday, July 8th

• 7:00 pm, Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 (1977 / 2004, E.W. Swackhamer / Sam Raimi)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two feature-length film versions of the webbed-warrior’s adventures.  Spider-Man was the pilot to a campy TV show; Spider-Man 2 takes a more psychologically complex look at the hero.
• 7:30 pm, 2 Days in the Valley (1996, John Hertzfeld)
  • Cinefamily (with cast and crew presentations)
  • Post-Tarantino L.A. neo-noir from director Hertzfeld. Featuring a who’s who of mid-1990s indie film talent.
• 7:30 pm, Escape From New York / Escape From L.A. (1981 / 1996, John Carpenter)
  • Egyptian Theater.
  • Carpenter and star Kurt Russell’s two Snake Plissken films.  The earlier is the superior one.
• 7:30 pm, Lust for Life (1956, Vincente Minnelli)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Kirk Douglas plays Van Gogh in this lush biopic.  Based on Van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo.
• 7:30 pm, Two-Lane Blacktop / Cockfighter (1971 / 1974, Monte Hellman)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Classic 1970s cinema.  Director Hellman teams up with Warren Oates in both films to portray the existential loneliness of the road and American life.
• 8:00 pm, Salome (1923, Charles Bryant)
  • Echo Park Film Center (screened as part of the Filmmobile project.  Check with EPFC for exact location)
  • Russian silent stat Alla Nazimova starred-in and produced this artsy, boundary-pushing take on the legend of Salome, who demanded the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter and performed a dance around it before being crushed by her father Herod’s guards. Nazimova worked with an almost entirely gay crew in order to bring a properly avant-garde feel to the project.
• 8:00 pm, “Bandini International Film Festival”
  • Arturo Bandini, Highland Park
  • Video art and films by a diverse group of artists.
• Midnight, Inglorious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Tarantino’s World War II pastiche is as entertaining, intricately plotted, and stylized as fans could have hoped for. The final gesture with the Nazi mastermind looking for empathy is about as good as it gets.

Thursday, July 7th

• 7:00 pm, Meshes of the Afternoon / Eyes Without a Face (1943 / 1960, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid / Georges Franju)
  • The Broad
  • Deren’s seminal avant-garde film is paired with Franju’s classic psychodrama.
• 7:30 pm, The Lives of Others / Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (2006 / 1997, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck / Thomas Jahn)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two recent-ish German crossover hits. Knockin On Heaven’s Door is a wild road movie comedy about two terminally ill men who decide to go on a lawless last adventure but get into more than they bargained for.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.
• 7:30 pm, Private Property (1960, Leslie Stevens)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The debut film by Stevens, based on his play.  With the great Warren Oates as a latent homosexual whose buddy is trying to fix him up with a bored housewife.
• 8:00 pm, Score (1974, Radley Metzger)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • “…Score is a softcore art house sex romp by erotic auteur cult director Radley Metzger (Camille 2000, The Lickerish Quartet, Therese and Isabelle). The film was originally based on an off-Broadway play and adapted as a stylish adult fairy tale with a great theme song and a Russ Meyer vibe, albeit more elegant and Euro….”

Wednesday, July 6th

• 7:30 pm, The Lives of Others / Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (2006 / 1997, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck / Thomas Jahn)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two recent-ish German crossover hits. Knockin On Heaven’s Door is a wild road movie comedy about two terminally ill men who decide to go on a lawless last adventure but get into more than they bargained for.
• 7:30 pm, The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wild film about a 17th century French priest who whips a convent of nuns into a sexual frenzy and is subsequently tortured and burned at the stake. Peak Ken Russell with deservedly famous production design by Derek Jarman.
• 7:30 pm, “Spectrum Reverse Spectrum & Color Correction: Two Films by Margaret Honda“
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “Spectrum Reverse Spectrum is a cameraless film, made by exposing 70mm print stock to colored light in a film printer. The result is a uniform field of color on screen that moves gradually through the light spectrum, from violet to red and back to violet. Color Correction was made using only the color correction timing tapes for an unknown Hollywood feature without the corresponding negative. The result is a film without images or sound that consists of a succession of different colors of unpredictable duration. The duration of each color corresponds to the length of a shot, but the story that determined those shots has disappeared.”
• 10:30 pm, “Sexperiments 2 feat. Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus“
  • Cinefamily (co-presented by Mubi)
  • 1990s indie and art films exploring sex and the presentation of sex in cinema.  Tscherkassky’s handcrafted film is composed solely of erotic and pornographic film from the 1960s-1980s.

Tuesday, July 5th

• 7:30 pm, Commandos / Underground (1968 / 1970, Armando Crispino / Arthur H. Nadel)
  • The New Beverly
  • Low budget World War II action. Commandos is an Italian Lee Van Cleef film about taking over a North African airbase (with a script co-written by a young Dario Argento); Underground was a vehicle for Robert Goulet in which the singer plays a disgraced soldier who joins a resistance group to redeem himself.

Monday, July 4th

• 2:00 pm, “Lost and Found Film Club: All Summer in a Day”
  • Cinefamily
  • Collection of rare 16mm shorts from the worlds of industrial/educational/ephemeral film, each of which has to do with American summertime traditions.
• 7:30 pm, Hi Diddle Diddle / The Bachelor’s Daughter’s (1943 / 1946, Andrew L. Stone)
  • The New Beverly
  • Screwball comedies from director Stone that take that genre’s zaniness and push it about as far as it will go.  Too wild for their time, these films can perhaps now be appreciated as works of art in their own right.

Sunday, July 3rd

• 1:00 pm, Millie (1931, John Frances Dillon)
  • Cinefamily
  • Melodrama about Millie, a woman who never gets a break but is almost redeemed when she protects her daughter from a scoundrel.
• 2:00 pm, The Sandlot (1993, David Mickey Evans)
  • The New Beverly
  • Kids baseball film with a lot of laughs and emotions.
• 6:30 pm, Hi Diddle Diddle / The Bachelor’s Daughter’s (1943 / 1946, Andrew L. Stone)
  • The New Beverly
  • Screwball comedies from director Stone that take that genre’s zaniness and push it about as far as it will go.  Too wild for their time, these films can perhaps now be appreciated as works of art in their own right.
• 7:00 pm, The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wild film about a 17th century French priest who whips a convent of nuns into a sexual frenzy and is subsequently tortured and burned at the stake. Peak Ken Russell with deservedly famous production design by Derek Jarman.
• 7:30 pm, Purple Rain / Sign O’ the Times (1984 / 1987, Albert Magnoli, Prince)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Double-feature honoring the late pop star Prince.  Purple Rain is a narrative loosely based on Prince’s own life; Sign O’ the Times is a concert film.
• 10:00 pm, Hellywood (1982, Takafumi Nagamine)
  • Cinefamily
  • Japanese film virtually unknown in the U.S. combines elements of sci-fi, psychedelia, musical, and horror to tell a wild story about the lust for fame.

Saturday, July 2nd

• 2:00 pm, The Sandlot (1993, David Mickey Evans)
  • The New Beverly
  • Kids baseball film with a lot of laughs and emotions.
• 5:00 pm, The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wild film about a 17th century French priest who whips a convent of nuns into a sexual frenzy and is subsequently tortured and burned at the stake. Peak Ken Russell with deservedly famous production design by Derek Jarman.
• 7:00 pm, Dr. Syn, Alias, the Scarecrow / Sleepy Hollow (1963 / 1999, James Neilson / Tim Burton)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two historical stories featuring gothic visuals presented in a family friendly manner.
• 7:30 pm, “Sexperiments 2 feat. Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus“
  • Cinefamily (co-presented by Mubi)
  • 1990s indie and art films exploring sex and the presentation of sex in cinema.  Tscherkassky’s handcrafted film is composed solely of erotic and pornographic film from the 1960s-1980s.
• 7:30 pm, Gone With the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • An American cultural landmark.  This romance with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh dramatizes the death of the Old South.
• 7:30 pm, Burial Ground (1981, Andrea Bianchi)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Italian gore/zombie film in the style of Lucio Fulci.
• 7:30 pm, Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • With Jaws, Spielberg ushered in the era of big budget summer blockbusters while also offering something of a throwback to old-school adventure yarns.
• Midnight, Faster Pussycat!  Kill!  Kill! (1965, Russ Meyer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Equal parts crude male fantasy and feminist vision, this is the prototypical Russ Meyer film.  Cartoonishly busty women with penchants for violence and clever one-liners rev their hot rods through the desert and dominate all men in their way.

Friday, July 1st

• 7:00 pm, Dr. Syn, Alias, the Scarecrow / Sleepy Hollow (1963 / 1999, James Neilson / Tim Burton)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two historical stories with gothic visuals presented in a popular, family friendly style. Dry Syn, Alias is a live-action Disney film set in 18th century England about a man who dresses up as a scarecrow to fight for oppressed people.
• 7:30 pm, “Sexperiments 2 feat. Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus“
  • Cinefamily (co-presented by Mubi)
  • 1990s indie and art films exploring sex and the presentation of sex in cinema.  Tscherkassky’s handcrafted film is composed solely of erotic and pornographic film from the 1960s-1980s.
• 7:30 pm, Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • With Jaws, Spielberg ushered in the era of big budget summer blockbusters while also offering something of a throwback to old-school adventure yarns.
• 7:30 pm, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Clint Eastwood stars in what is perhaps the all-around greatest of Leone’s spaghetti westerns.  The Morricone score; the iconic performances by Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef; the Mexican standoff at the conclusion…it’s all great.
• 10:00 pm, Inferno (1980, Dario Argento)
  • Cinefamily
  • Despite the confusion of the plot, this is one of the great Argento films, featuring more cinematic style than most director’s can capture over an entire career.  With several set pieces designed by Argento’s great predecessor Mario Bava, who died not long after the film was released.

Thursday, June 30th

• 7:00 pm, My Name is Lutz (2013, Lutz Bacher)
  • 356 Mission
  • A film about the mysterious artist Lutz Bacher.
• 7:30 pm, Black Girl (1966, Ousmane Sembène)
  • Cinefamily
  • The seminal film of Sub-Saharan African cinema. Sembène expanded his short story about a Senegalese girl who goes to France to work in the home of a bourgeois couple who collect African art.
• 7:30 pm, Day of the Animals / Wild Beasts (1977 / 1984, William Girdler / Franco E. Prosperi)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Two low-budget movies showing what happens when animals attack. Wild Beasts deals with zoo animals who go nuts after the water supply is spiked with PCP.
• 7:30 pm, Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, Michael Curtiz, William Keighley)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • One of the great Hollywood adventure films.  This technicolor telling of the Robin Hood legend is thoroughly entertaining and charming.
• 7:30 pm, Auntie Mame (1958, Morton DaCosta)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Rosalind Russell’s famous portrayal of an eccentric aunt raising a young millionaire. Feel good Hollywood entertainment that’s developed a second life as an iconic film in gay culture.
• 7:30 pm, A Fistful of Dollars / For a Few Dollars More (1964 / 1965, Sergio Leone)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The first two films in Leone’s great “Man With No Name” trilogy starring the young Clint Eastwood. These two were based, respectively, on Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sanjuro. 
• 7:30 pm, Duel of the Titans / The Man who Laughs (1963 / 1966, Sergio Corbucci)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two b-movies by the great Italian director Corbucci. Duel of the Titans is a prototypical sword & sandal epic starring Steve Reeves; The Man who Laughs is a debaucherous tale of the Borgias (and a remake of a more famous 1928 Paul Leni film).
• 10:30 pm, Season of the Witch (1972, George A. Romero)
  • Cinefamily
  • Little-seen domestic horror film from director Romero (coming after the smash success of Night of the Living Dead). A bored housewife caught in a patriarchal society finds in witchcraft the possibility of power–a uniquely feminine power–in the practice of witchcraft.

Wednesday, June 29th

• 7:30 pm, Duel of the Titans / The Man who Laughs (1963 / 1966, Sergio Corbucci)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two b-movies by the great Italian director Corbucci. Duel of the Titans is a prototypical sword & sandal epic starring Steve Reeves; The Man who Laughs is a debaucherous tale of the Borgias (and a remake of a more famous 1928 Paul Leni film).
• 7:30 pm, King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Shoedsack)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • One of the most iconic characters in film history is also one of its most tragic.  Groundbreaking special effects by Willis O’Brien.
• 8:00 pm, Chunking Express / Sherlock Jr. (1994 / 1924, Wong Kar Wai / Buster Keaton)
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Double feature of films separatedby seventy years, each of which redefined cinema.

Tuesday, June 28th

• 7:30 pm, Soul Brothers of Kung Fu / Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (1977 / 1976, Yi-Jung Hua / Tso Nam Lee)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two kung fu films starring Bruce Li, the energetic star who unfortunately is of course best known as a Bruce Lee clone. In Soul Brothers of Kung Fu he teams with Carl Scott, another strong but lesser known star who never gained as much traction as black martial artists like Jim Kelly or Ron van Clief.
• 7:30 pm, The Poseidon Adventure (1972, Ronald Neame)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Iconic 1970s disaster film about a group of people from all walks of life who band together to survive after the Poseidon luxury liner is knocked over by a tsunami.
• 10:30 pm, Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the most visually sumptuous and nightmarish of all films. Argento’s most famous fright-fest finds an American ballet dancer (Jessica Harper) attending a prestigious academy in Germany that’s home to a coven of perverse witches.  With an A+ electronic score by Goblin pounding through Argento’s series of twisted set pieces.

Monday, June 27th

• 6:30 pm, My Little Chickadee / The Bank Dick (1940, Edward F. Cline)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of W.C. Fields’ biggest hits from the height of his career. My Little Chickadee pairs him with Mae West in a film that best known for not being as funny as it could have been; meanwhile The Bank Dick is one of the greatest of all screen comedies.

Sunday, June 26th

• 9:00 am, “Kevin Jerome Everson: Park Lanes”
  • MoCA, Grand Avenue (note: this is an 8 hour film, running 9 am to 5 pm)
  • “…a workday-length documentary that is both epic and quotidian, (Everson) patiently examines the material conditions of labor at a factory in Virginia that produces bowling alley supplies. Purely observational, Park Lanes is an eight-hour day experienced in real time. Everson will be present to introduce and discuss the work. This screening will be the west coast premiere of the film.
• 2:00 pm, My Neighbor Totoro (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
  • The New Beverly (note: screening in Japanese with English subtitles)
  • This family film follows two young sisters who encounter a giant forest creature called Totoro. While the story could be cloying in some hands, Miyazaki makes it nothing less than magical.
• 5:30 pm, On the Waterfront (1954, Elia Kazan)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Classic story of an ex-boxer trying to do the right thing.  Marlon Brando delivers one of Hollywood’s most legendary characterizations.
• 6:30 pm, My Little Chickadee / The Bank Dick (1940, Edward F. Cline)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of W.C. Fields’ biggest hits from the height of his career. My Little Chickadee pairs him with Mae West in a film that best known for not being as funny as it could have been; meanwhile The Bank Dick is one of the greatest of all screen comedies.
• 7:00 pm, Cinema Paradiso (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA film & Television Archive screening)
  • Perhaps the most loving tribute to the communal value of going to the movies.
• 7:30 pm, Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Kubrick’s epic, obsessively detailed period piece about the rise and fall of a the eponymous hero as he finds his way through the social structures of 18th century England.  There are few films that develop hypnotic rhythms so perfectly considered and executed as Barry Lyndon. 

Saturday, June 25th

• 2:00 pm, My Neighbor Totoro (1986, Hayao Miyazaki)
  • The New Beverly (note: screening in Japanese with English subtitles)
  • This family film follows two young sisters who encounter a giant forest creature called Totoro. While the story could be cloying in some hands, Miyazaki makes it nothing less than magical.
• 3:00 pm, His Nibs / The Smallest Show on Earth (1921 / 1957, Gregory La Cava / Basil Drearden)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening
  • Comedies about what happens behind-the-scenes at a movie theater. Look out for Peter Sellers as an alcoholic ticket-taker in The Smallest Show on Earth. 
• 7:00 pm, Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the most visually sumptuous and cinematically bravado of all films. Argento’s most famous fright-fest finds an American ballet dancer (Jessica Harper) attending a prestigious academy in Germany that is, in fact, home to a coven of perverse witches.  With an A+ electronic score by Goblin pounding through Argento’s series of twisted set pieces.
• 7:30 pm, The T.A.M.I Show / Elvis: That’s the Way it Is (1964 / 1970, Steve Binder / Denis Sanders)
  • The New Beverly
  • Concert films from the height of the rock n’ roll era. Elvis: That’s the Way it Is is a candid, entertaining document finding the King embracing the kitsch/Vegas persona that would define the remainder of his career.
• 7:30 pm, First Blood (1982, Ted Kotcheff)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The first Rambo film. Sylvester Stallone stars in this thrilling, surprisingly emotional story of a Vietnam vet being relentlessly chased by Federal and local law enforcement upon his return home.
• 7:30 pm, The Shining (1980, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • An iconic Jack Nicholson performance and some of the most haunting imagery ever captured on film anchor this all-time classic horror film.
• 7:30 pm, Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (1985)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Now-classic documentary about the gay movement in the United States before the flashpoint of the Stonewall riots.

• Midnight, Rust Never Sleeps (1979, Neil Young)
  • The New Beverly
  • Film of Neil Young’s October 22, 1978 concert performance at the Cow Palace, San Francisco. Known for capturing the essence of a live 1970s rock show as well as any other film of the era.

Friday, June 24th

• 7:00 pm, Going Places (1974, Bertrand Blier)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wildly funny look at two French horn-balls (Gerard Depardieu and the late Patrick Dewaere) as they crack jokes, get in trouble, and screw women during a road trip.  Blier is one of the unheralded filmmakers of his generation and this film (based on his own novel) is perhaps his greatest work.
• 7:30 pm, The T.A.M.I Show / Elvis: That’s the Way it Is (1964 / 1970, Steve Binder / Denis Sanders)
  • The New Beverly
  • Concert films from the height of the rock n’ roll era. Elvis: That’s the Way it Is is a candid, entertaining document finding the King embracing the kitsch/Vegas persona that would define the remainder of his career.
• 7:30 pm, Wake in Fright / The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1971 / 1974, Ted Kotcheff)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Early films by director Kotcheff, both of which feel alive to their respective cultural moments.  Wake in Fright is a particularly effective little nightmare about a mild-mannered Australian schoolteacher who takes an assignment in the Outback and finds trouble with the local hooligans.  
• 7:30 pm, Demons / Anguish (Lamberto Bava / Bigas Luna)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Two clever horror films set in movie theaters. Anguish starts off as a horror film about a mother who controls her son; it’s only later that we pull back to reveal an audience watching the film and being just as influenced by the mother’s evil commands as the son.
• 7:30 pm, Full Metal Jacket / Eyes Wide Shut (1987 / 1999, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Kubrick’s final two films–both of them masterpieces. Eyes Wide Shut was best known at the time of its release as a sort of pervy window into the private lives of its stars, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, but over the years its difficult-to-nail-down tone and inimitable visual style have made it one of the most beguiling films of the great director’s catalog.
• Midnight, Suspiria (1977, Dario Argento)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the most visually sumptuous and cinematically bravado of all films. Argento’s most famous fright-fest finds an American ballet dancer (Jessica Harper) attending a prestigious academy in Germany that is, in fact, home to a coven of perverse witches.  With an A+ electronic score by Goblin pounding through Argento’s series of twisted set pieces.

Thursday, June 23rd

• 7:00 pm, “Doll Parts: Doll Clothes, Doll Parts, Office Killer”
  • The Broad (note: this screening is sold out)
  • Presented in conjunction with the Cindy Sherman retrospective exhibition, this screening presents an early short film by Sherman, a music video for the band Hole inspired by Sherman’s video, and Sherman’s sole feature-length film, Office Killer (1997), featuring a script by Todd Haynes and Tom Kalin.
• 7:30 pm, The Carey Treatment / Waterhole #3 (1972 / 1967, Blake Edwards / William A. Graham)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of the James Coburn vehicles the star produced during his In Like Flint-era heyday.  Michael Crichton had a hand in the hospital-set screenplay of The Carey Treatment. 
• 7:30 pm, Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994, Stephen Elliot)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • A trio of drag performers from Sydney head to the Australian outback and proceed to shock the locals in this warmhearted road movie with a cult following.
• 7:30 pm, Weekend at Bernie’s / Fun with Dick and Jane (1989 / 1977, Ted Kotcheff)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two hit comedies directed by Ted Kotcheff.  Weekend at Bernie’s is some sort of perfect capstone to the culture of the 1980s.

• 8:00 pm, “Notions of the Buddy Film: 3 Films Programmed by Finn Paul”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Three experimental works exploring the Hollywood genre of the “buddy film.” Including Harry Dodge’s The Time Eaters (2014).

Wednesday, June 22nd

• 7:00 pm, The Fast and the Furious (2001, Rob Cohen)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • The first installment of the long-running car chase gang series.  With Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Michelle Rodriguez.
• 7:30 pm, The Carey Treatment / Waterhole #3 (1972 / 1967, Blake Edwards / William A. Graham)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of the James Coburn vehicles the star produced during his In Like Flint-era heyday.  Michael Crichton had a hand in the hospital-set screenplay of The Carey Treatment. 

Tuesday, June 21st

• 7:30 pm, Valley Girl / Wicker Man (1983 / 2006, Martha Coolidge / Neil LaBute)
  • The New Beverly
  • Interesting pairing of Nicolas Cage films that, although very different, each perhaps deserve larger audiences. Valley Girl is a prototypical 1980s Southern California teen film in the vein of Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Wicker Man is LaBute’s updating of the classic 1973 horror film in which the cult is driven not by religious fervor, but by anti-male feminism.
• 7:30 pm, Planet of the Apes (1968, Franklin J. Schafner)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Classic Charlton Heston sci-fi about an astronaut who loses course and arrives on a world in which primates have become hyper intelligent.  One of the great twist endings in movie history.

Monday, June 20th

• 7:30 pm, Rough Night in Jericho / Assault on a Queen (1967 / 1966, Arnold Laven / Jack Donohue)
  • The New Beverly
  • Rat packers Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra star, respectively, in these two action/adventure films. Assault on a Queen (about a plot to rob the luxury liner The Queen Mary) was penned by The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling, based on a novel by Jack Finney.
• 7:30 pm, Welcome to the Dollhouse / Palindromes (1995 / 2004, Todd Solondz)
  • Cinefamily
  • In Welcome to the Dollhouse Solondz introduced his bitterly funny take on suburban life to film audiences. In Palindromes he opens with the funeral of Welcome’s protagonist, Dawn Weiner, and proceeds to follow her cousin Aviva (played by eight different actors) on an allegorical journey through America.

Sunday, June 19th 

• 1:00 pm, Bell, Book, and Candle (1958, Richard Quine)
  • Cinefamily
  • Kim Novak, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon (and a very watchful cat) co-star in this playful comedy about a witch attempting to bewitch the object of her affection.
• 2:00 pm, The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
  • The New Beverly
  • Fairy tale with a modern-day framework that continues to cultivate an audience.  William Goldman wrote the screenplay, based on his novel.
• 5:00 pm, Horse Feathers / A Day at the Races (1932 / 1937, Norman Z. McLeod / Sam Wood)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The final double feature in the Aero’s Marx Brothers series leads off with one of their most beloved efforts, 1932’s Horse Feathers, which features some of Groucho’s most inspired wordplay.
• 6:30 pm, Rough Night in Jericho / Assault on a Queen (1967 / 1966, Arnold Laven / Jack Donohue)
  • The New Beverly
  • Rat packers Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra star, respectively, in these two action/adventure films. Assault on a Queen (about a plot to rob the luxury liner The Queen Mary) was penned by The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling, based on a novel by Jack Finney.
• 7:00 pm, Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Fantasma (2003 / 2006, Tsai Ming-liang / Lisandro Alonso )
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Two films which explore the cinematic experience through a hypnotic, ritualisitc lens.  In the beautiful Goodbye, Dragon Inn a Taipei cinema on the verge of closing projects the 1967 martial arts classic Dragon Inn as patrons wander in and out and the staff goes about their day.

Saturday, June 18th

• 2:00 pm, The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
  • The New Beverly
  • Fairy tale with a modern-day framework that continues to cultivate an audience.  William Goldman wrote the screenplay, based on his novel.
• 3:00 pm, Moros y Cristianos (2007, Matías Meyer)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Documentary by Meyer about an annual festival in which a battle between Moors and Christians is staged.

• 6:30 pm, Rainbow Bridge / Sign O’ The Times / Jimi Plays Berkeley (1972 / 1987 / 1971, Chuck Wein / Prince / Peter Pilafian)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two Jimi Hendrix concert films bookend a classic Prince concert film.
• 7:30 pm, The Last Cristeros / The Cramp (2011 / 2009, Matías Meyer)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Sparse, haunting, and spiritually rich, these are the two films that best introduce Meyer’s brand of Mexican New Wave cinema.

• 8:00 pm, “Jon Clark Presents Spectrum Hunter”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Trippy/campy horror film about a media-savvy cult.  By Los Angeles-based experimental filmmaker Clark.
• 7:30 pm, Animal Crackers / Monkey Business (1930 / 1931, Victor Heerman / Norman Z. McLeod)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of the Marx Brothers’ best. Monkey Business features the bit where they all claim to be Maurice Chevalier in order to get through customs.
• 10:30 pm, Blood of Heroes (1989, David Peoples)
  • Cinefamily
  • Bladerunner alum Peoples and Rutger Hauer collaborated on this dystopian sci-fi film about a master of the deadly future sport called “jugging.”
• Midnight, Purple Rain (1984, Albert Magnoli)
  • The New Beverly
  • Prince’s persona and music remain gripping to this day.  He stars here in this musical fantasy/melodrama based very loosely on aspects of his own life.

Friday, June 17th

• 6:30 pm, Rainbow Bridge / Sign O’ The Times / Jimi Plays Berkeley (1972 / 1987 / 1971, Chuck Wein / Prince / Peter Pilafian)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two Jimi Hendrix concert films bookend a classic Prince concert film.
• 7:30 pm, Duck Soup / Coconuts (1933 / 1929, Leo McCarey / Joseph Santley)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Although A Night at the Opera may possibly have more outright laughs than Duck Soup, the earlier film stands the test of time a bit better: it’s famously anarchic style and biting geopolitical satire lend it a depth and cultural significance that push it to a higher place.
• 7:30 pm, Yo / Wadley (2015 / 2008, Matías Meyer)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • The first and most recent narrative features produced by the idiosyncratic Mexican filmmaker Meyer.
• Midnight, The Craft (1996, Andrew Fleming)
  • Cinefamily
  • The new girl at school find herself drawn to a trio of outsiders who turn out to be burgeoning witches in this entertaining, very 1990s teen film. With a great cast including Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Skeet Ulrich.

Thursday, June 16th

• 7:30 pm, The Mad Executioners / The Monster of London City (1963 / 1964, Edwin Zbonek)
  • The New Beverly
  • These German “krimi” films based on crime novels by Edgar Wallace have recently been getting more attention from film enthusiasts. Highly visual, they sit somewhere between moody horror and murder mystery, setting the scene for the more violent Italian Giallo films.
• 7:30 pm, A Night at the Opera / Room Service (1935 / 1938, Sam Wood / William A. Seiter)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Marx Brothers double feature, including what some fans consider their greatest outing, A Night at the Opera, in which Groucho’s Otis B. Driftwood leads the Brothers through some of their most famous set pieces.
• 7:30 pm, Mommie Dearest (1981, Frank Perry)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Classically trashy biopic of Joan Crawford as seen through the eyes of her thoroughly traumatized daughter, Christine Crawford.  With Faye Dunaway as Crawford.
• 8:00 pm, “Phillipine New Wave Cinema Night: Lukas Nino by John Torres”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • A new film about the intersection of a young man’s coming of age with a nearby film shoot.

Wednesday, June 15th

• 7:30 pm, The Mad Executioners / The Monster of London City (1963 / 1964, Edwin Zbonek)
  • The New Beverly
  • These German “krimi” films based on crime novels by Edgar Wallace have recently been getting more attention from film enthusiasts. Highly visual, they sit somewhere between moody horror and murder mystery, setting the scene for the more violent Italian Giallo films.
• 7:30 pm, North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • ArcLight Culver City
  • Cary Grant stars in this all-time classic Hitchcock mistaken-identity/chase film.
• 7:30 pm, A Useful Life / The Seats of the Alcazar (2010 / 1989, Federico Veiroj / Luc Moullet)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Crises of cinema-viewing are the subjects of these two films set largely in movie theaters.
• 7:30 pm, Willow (1988, Ron Howard)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Big-budget fantasy film about a little guy named Willow who finds himself launched into an epic adventure. With Warwick Davis as Willow and Val Kilmer as his swordsman buddy.

Tuesday, June 14th

• 7:30 pm, The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wild film about a 17th century French priest who whips a convent of nuns into a sexual frenzy and is subsequently tortured and burned at the stake. Peak Ken Russell with deservedly famous production design by Derek Jarman.
• 7:30 pm, The Mad Executioners / The Monster of London City (1963 / 1964, Edwin Zbonek)
  • The New Beverly
  • These German “krimi” films based on crime novels by Edgar Wallace have recently been getting more attention from film enthusiasts. Highly visual, they sit somewhere between moody horror and murder mystery, setting the scene for the more violent Italian Giallo films.
• 7:30 pm, Blues Brothers (1980, John Landis)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Based on an SNL skit with John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, this big budget action/musical/comedy follows two white guys with soul as they get into adventures and sing classic 1960s songs.
• 10:30 pm, Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Chilling horror film whose edges of humor add to the sense that Polanski has tapped into something genuinely evil.

Monday, June 13th

• 7:30 pm, The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wild film about a 17th century French priest who whips a convent of nuns into a sexual frenzy and is subsequently tortured and burned at the stake. Peak Ken Russell with deservedly famous production design by Derek Jarman.
• 7:30 pm, Phantom Lady / The Suspect (1944, Robert Siodmak)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of the best films by German emigre Siodmak are these two murky, dreamlike noirs. One of the  most wild scenes in 1940s cinema is the Gene Krupa-style drum solo performed in Phantom Lady by the great character actor Elisha Cook Jr.
• 10:30 pm, Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Chilling horror film whose edges of humor add to the sense that Polanski has tapped into something genuinely evil.

Monday, June 13th

• 7:30 pm, The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wild film about a 17th century French priest who whips a convent of nuns into a sexual frenzy and is subsequently tortured and burned at the stake. Peak Ken Russell with deservedly famous production design by Derek Jarman.
• 7:30 pm, Phantom Lady / The Suspect (1944, Robert Siodmak)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of the best films by German emigre Siodmak are these two murky, dreamlike noirs. One of the  most wild scenes in 1940s cinema is the Gene Krupa-style drum solo performed in Phantom Lady by the great character actor Elisha Cook Jr.
• 10:30 pm, Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Chilling horror film whose edges of humor add to the sense that Polanski has tapped into something genuinely evil.

Sunday, June 12th

• 11:00 am, Labyrinth (1986, Jim Henson)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Dark children’s fantasy film.  With David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, and Jim Henson’s puppets.
• 1:00 pm, War of the Worlds (1953, Byron Haskin)
  • Cinefamily
  • Technicolor sci-fi film about an alien invasion.  Based on H.G. Wells’ famous novel.
• 2:00 pm, Snoopy, Come Home! (1972, Bill Melendez)
  • The New Beverly
  • Alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking, this classic animated feature focuses on Snoopy, joined by his companion Woodstock, as he weighs whether or not to return to his former owner.
• 4:30 pm, Rosemary’s Baby (1968, Roman Polanski)
  • Cinefamily
  • Chilling horror film whose edges of black humor add to the sense that Polanski has tapped into something genuinely evil.
• 6:30 pm, Phantom Lady / The Suspect (1944, Robert Siodmak)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of the best films by German emigre Siodmak are these two murky, dreamlike noirs. One of the  most wild scenes in 1940s cinema is the Gene Krupa style drum solo performed in Phantom Lady by the great character actor Elisha Cook Jr.
• 7:00 pm, Footlight Parade / This Way Please (1933 / 1937, Lloyd Bacon, Robert Florey)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Two 1930s musicals dealing with the making of musicals in Hollywood. Both feature several spectacular musical set pieces.
• 7:30 pm, Coraline / Stardust (2009 / 2007, Henry Selick / Matthew Vaughn)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Adaptations of Neil Gaiman books about characters who travel to parallel worlds. Coraline is an animated film and will be presented in 3D; Stardust is a somewhat under-appreciated live-action film along the lines of The Princess Bride (1987).
• 7:30 pm, “Convergence and Cacophony: Experimental Documents from Dustin Zemel”
  • Echo Park Film Center (a Los Angeles Film Forum Screening)
  • “Filmforum welcomes Dustin Zemel from Louisiana for his first show in Los Angeles with his array of digital works that fracture and distill images and sounds with dizzying ease and delightful humor.”

Saturday, June 11th

• 2:00 pm, Snoopy, Come Home! (1972, Bill Melendez)
  • The New Beverly
  • Alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking, this classic animated feature focuses on Snoopy, joined by his companion Woodstock, as he weighs whether or not to return to his former owner.
• 2:00 pm, The Four Feathers (1929, Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the last silent films to score well at the box office. A soldier is branded a coward and vows to prove his courage.
• 7:30 pm, Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
  • The New Beverly
  • Concert film about the mother of all rock festivals. Intermixing classic performance footage with interviews and features on the burgeoning hippie lifestyle, Woodstock stands as an iconic document of 20th century American history.
• 8:00 pm, “4 Experiments: Altering an Image”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • This program includes three new works from east coast artist Zach Hart and one live video transmission from artist Colby Makin. Both artists’ work is directed towards chance operations, absurdity, performance and alternative filmmaking techniques. All four pieces focus on visual effects with an emphasis on non-traditional ways to alter an image, both live and in post-production.
• 10:30 pm, The Devils (1971, Ken Russell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wild film about a 17th century French priest who whips a convent of nuns into a sexual frenzy and is subsequently tortured and burned at the stake. Peak Ken Russell with deservedly famous production design by Derek Jarman.

• Midnight, Reefer Madness (1936, Louis J. Gasnier)
  • New Beverly
  • Classic so-bad-it’s-good propaganda film about the dangers of smoking weed.

Friday, June 10th

• 6:00 pm, “Tram”
  • Getty Center (organized by Veggie Cloud)
  • Short avant-garde films and video art from a variety of cultures and thematic perspectives–all of which revolve around trains, cable cars, or trams.
• 7:30 pm, Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
  • The New Beverly
  • Concert film about the mother of all rock festivals. Intermixing classic performance footage with interviews and features on the burgeoning hippie lifestyle, Woodstock stands as an iconic document of 20th century American history.
• 7:30 pm, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Sergio Leone)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Leone pushes the conventions of the American western film even further into the realm of Italian opera than he did with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966). With a fantastic cast, insane Morricone score, rhythmic editing, and mythic narrative, Once Upon a Time in the West is a treat for lovers of the cinematic experience.
• 7:30 pm, Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976, Barbara Kopple)
  • Cinefamily
  • Kopple (in her debut film) spent over a year with Kentucky miners on strike. A moving film that may inspire nostalgia for the left wing politics that have largely evaporated from the region in the age of Donald Trump.
• Midnight, The Witches (1990, Nicholas Roeg)
  • Cinefamily
  • Dark kids film based on a Roald Dahl book. Some memorable imagery, including a little girl trapped in an oil painting.

Thursday, June 9th

• 7:00 pm, “Open Window”
  • MoCA, Grand Avenue
  • Selection of videos by visual artists who use the computer desktop in their work. With, among others, Devin Kenny, Sondra Perry, Hito Steyrl, and Martine Syms; organized by Marco Kane Braunschweiler.
• 7:30 pm, Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
  • The New Beverly
  • Concert film about the mother of all rock festivals. Intermixing classic performance footage with interviews and features on the burgeoning hippie lifestyle, Woodstock stands as an iconic document of 20th century American history.
• 7:30 pm, Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Ingenious and  entertaining musical surrounding the transition in Hollywood from silents to talkies. Rarely does a film generate such joy.
• 7:30 pm, Female Trouble (1975, John Waters)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Cult classic following Dawn Davenport (Divine) as she goes from a Baltimore go-go dancer to her death in the electric chair.  One of Waters’ most characteristically “bad taste” camp epics.
• 8:00 pm, “Yatta! A Night of Japanese Film”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “Join us for the return of Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr from their trip to Japan. They’ll be screening the brand new Sound We See: Tokyo (24-hour city symphony) as well as a program of films of colleagues and friends from Japan.”

Wednesday, June 8th

• 7:30 pm, Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
  • The New Beverly
  • Concert film about the mother of all rock festivals. Intermixing classic performance footage with interviews and features on the burgeoning hippie lifestyle, Woodstock stands as an iconic document of 20th century American history.

Tuesday, June 7th

• 1:00 pm, Sylvia Scarlett (1935, George Cukor)
  • Bing Theater, LACMA
  • Katherine Hepburn in drag. This engaging story of a female con-artist forced to pose as a man was perhaps too gender-bender-y for its day, but feels fresher in the 21st Century.
• 7:30 pm, Mandingo / Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1975 / 1965, Richard Fleischer / Géza von Radványi)
  • New Beverly
  • Idiosyncratic films dealing with American slavery. This version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was produced in Germany by Hungarian filmmaker von Radványi.
• 7:30 pm, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
  • Cinefamily (with live score by White Magic)
  • Notorious Swedish documentary/horror show about witch-hysteria during the Inquisition. Truly surreal black and white cinematic imagery that could only have been shot during this period of the silent era.

Monday, June 6th

• 7:30 pm, Narrow Margin / Midnight Run (1990 / 1988, Peter Hyams / Martin Brest)
  • New Beverly
  • Unlikely duos find themselves on the run in these chase films. The less well-remembered Narrow Margin features Gene Hackman and Anne Archer in a remake of a classic 1952 noir.

• 7:30 pm, Splendor (1989, Ettore Scola)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Marcello Mastroianni stars in this portrait of moviegoing in a small Italian town. Little-known today because of its similarities to the more popular Cinema Paradiso (1988), which was released around the same time.

Sunday, June 5th

• 2:00 pm, Big (1988, Penny Marshall)
  • New Beverly
  • Classic story of a short kid who wishes he was big and magically wakes up to find his wish, along with all the ensuing problems, have come true.
• 6:30 pm, Narrow Margin / Midnight Run (1990 / 1988, Peter Hyams / Martin Brest)
  • New Beverly
  • Unlikely duos find themselves on the run in these chase films. The less well-remembered Narrow Margin features Gene Hackman and Anne Archer in a remake of a classic 1952 noir.
• 7:00 pm, ‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013, Wang Bing)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a Los Angeles Film Forum Screening)
  • “West Coast Premiere of Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing’s 2013 monumental documentary, which chronicles the lived experience of inmates in a decrepit mental institution in China’s Yunan province.”

• 7:30 pm, The Squid and the Whale (2005, Noah Baumbach)
  • Cinefamily (presented by Emma Straub)
  • Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical film about growing up in Brooklyn in a family of intellectuals.

Saturday, June 4th

• 2:00 pm, Big (1988, Penny Marshall)
  • New Beverly
  • Classic story of a short kid who wishes he was big and magically wakes up to find his wish, along with all the ensuing problems, have come true.
• 7:30 pm, The Purple Rose of Cairo / Escape from Liberty Cinema (1985 / 1990, Woody Allen / Wojciech Marczewski)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Two films with differing perspectives each revolve around the trope of a movie character stepping off the screen, into real life. Escape from Liberty Cinema was director Marczewski’s critique of official, state-sponsored cinema in Poland.
• 7:30 pm, Scarface / Carlito’s Way (1983 / 1993, Brian De Palma)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The two excellent Al Pacino / De Palma collaborations. Carlito’s Way is lesser known, but stands as De Palma’s most emotionally involved work.
• 7:30 pm, Fillmore / Monterey Pop (1972 / 1968, Richard T. Heffron / D.A. Pennebaker)
  • The New Beverly
  • Pop music performances from the psychedelic San Francisco scene and beyond are captured in these two concert films.

• 8:00 pm, The Cassandra Cat (1963, Vojtech Jasny)
  • Cinefamily (shown with curated selection of cat videos)
  • Czech New Wave film about a sunglasses-wearing cat. Largely forgotten, the film won two awards at Cannes upon its release and holds up to this day.
• Midnight, Reefer Madness (1936, Louis J. Gasnier)
  • New Beverly
  • Classic so-bad-it’s-good propaganda film about the dangers of smoking weed.

Friday, June 3rd

• 7:30 pm, Matinee (1993, Joe Dante)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Loving tribute to classic movie showmen in the mold of William Castle. With John Goodman.
• 7:30 pm, Body Double / Femme Fatale (1984 / 2002, Brian De Palma)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of De Palma’s steamier outings. Body Double is the odd but enjoyable end to his overt homages to Hitchcock; Femme Fatale is one of the best of his “comeback” films, featuring a few fantastic set pieces.
• 7:30 pm, Fillmore / Monterey Pop (1972 / 1968, Richard T. Heffron / D.A. Pennebaker)
  • The New Beverly
  • Pop music performances from the psychedelic San Francisco scene and beyond are captured in these two concert films.
• Midnight, Black Sunday (1960, Mario Bava)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the great horror films. Bava’s black and white breakthrough about about a centuries-old witch who returns from the dead is drenched in atmosphere.

Thursday, June 2nd

• 7:30 pm, Viy (1967, Georgi Kropachyov & Konstantin Yershov)
  • Cinefamily
  • A rare horror film produced in the Soviet Union. Based on a novella by Gogol (itself inspired by Ukranian folklore), Yiy follows a young philosophy student being menaced by a witch.
• 7:30 pm, Dressed to Kill / Obsession (1980 / 1976, Brian De Palma)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of De Palma’s riffs on Hitchcock. Dressed to Kill, with its incredible suspense set pieces, is perhaps the filmmaker’s masterpiece.
• 7:30 pm, Any Number Can Win / The Sicillian Clan (1963 / 1969, Henri Verneuil)
  • New Beverly
  • Two well-constructed, atmospheric heist films directed by Verneuil and featuring the great French screen icons Alain Delon and Jean Gabin. Echoes of plot and style are audible in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven films.

Wednesday, June 1st

• 7:30 pm, Idiocracy (2006, Mike Judge)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • Disturbingly accurate sci-fi comedy about the corporate, mind-numbingly stupid American society of the future.
• 7:30 pm, Lost and Found Film Club Presents: Witches
  • Cinefamily
  • Selection of 16mm avant-garde films dealing with witches and witchcraft. With work by Maya Daren, Stan Brakhage, and Barbara Hammer, among others.
• 7:30 pm, Carrie (1976, Brian De Palma)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • “They’re all gonna laugh at you!” Sissy Spacek delivers an iconic performance in this jet black comedy/horror film about the nightmare that is American high school.
• 7:30 pm, Any Number Can Win / The Sicillian Clan (1963 / 1969, Henri Verneuil)
  • New Beverly
  • Two well-constructed, atmospheric heist films directed by Verneuil and featuring the great French screen icons Alain Delon and Jean Gabin. Echoes of plot and style are audible in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven films.

Tuesday, May 31st

• 1:00 pm, Raintree Country (1957, Edward Dmytryk)
  • LACMA
  • Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor reunite in this dramatic love story set in the Old South during the onset of the Civil War.
• 7:30 pm, Hot Summer in Barefoot County / Preacherman (1974 / 1971, Will Zens / Albert Viola)
  • The New Beverly
  • Regional exploitation films that traveled around the Southern drive-in circuit in the 1970s.

Monday, May 30th

• 7:30 pm, Tropical Heat Wave / Panama Sal (1953 / 1957, R.G. Springsteen / William Witney)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two enjoyable cheapies from the 1950s starring Latina ingenues.

Sunday, May 29th

• 1:00 pm, The Green Slime (1968, Kinji Fukasaku)
  • Cinefamily
  • Psychedelic Japanese sci-fi madness.
• 2:00 pm, The African Lion (1955, James Algar)
  • The New Beverly
  • Disney live-action documentary about the “king of beasts.”
• 4:00 pm, A Touch of Zen (1969, King Hu)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the acknowledged early masterpieces of martial arts cinema. King Hu’s 14th Century epic was a key influence on Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
• 6:30 pm, Tropical Heat Wave / Panama Sal (1953 / 1957, R.G. Springsteen / William Witney)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two enjoyable cheapies from the 1950s starring Latina ingenues.
• 7:30 pm, Dial M for Murder (1954, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Hitchcock’s only 3D film is a fun suspense story adapted from a stage play.
• 7:30 pm, Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • One of the hallmarks of Hollywood cinema.  Peter O’Toole stars in David Lean’s lavishing epic.

Saturday, May 28th

• 2:00 pm, The African Lion (1955, James Algar)
  • The New Beverly
  • Disney live-action documentary about the “king of beasts.”
• 2:30 pm, Pippi in the South Seas (1970, Olle Hellbom)
  • Bob Baker Marionette Theater
  • Pippi Longstocking travels to the islands in the children’s classic.
• 4:00 pm, A Touch of Zen (1969, King Hu)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the acknowledged early masterpieces of martial arts cinema. King Hu’s 14th Century epic was a key influence on Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
• 7:30 pm, “Indiana Jones Triple Feature”
  • Egyptian Theater
  • The first three films in the Indiana Jones series screen as part of an ongoing tribute to cinematographer Douglas Slocombe. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade screens in 70 mm.
• 7:30 pm, Rear Window / Psycho (1954 / 1960, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of Hitchcock’s best. Two of the best films from any auteur, period.
• 7:30 pm, Bug / Killer Joe (2006 / 2011, William Freidkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of Friedkin’s comeback films from the oughts. Both were based on plays by Tracy Letts.
• 8:15 pm, Blue Velvet (1986, David Lynch)
  • Cinefamily (screening regularly at Cinefamily through June 2nd)
  • One of the iconic American films of the 1980s. Lynch’s surreal twist on a small town murder mystery plumbs the dark side of the American unconscious.
• 11:00 pm, Teen Witch / The Worst Witch (1989 /1986, Dorian Walker / Robert Young)
  • Cinefamily
  • 1980s supernatural with comedies aimed at teens and pre-teens. With a young Fairuza Balk as the protagonist of The Worst Witch. 
• Midnight, The Hunted (2003, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro star in this minimalist action film about a rogue U.S. soldier being pursued by his former mentor.

Friday, May 27th

• 7:00 pm, A Touch of Zen (1969, King Hu)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the acknowledged early masterpieces of martial arts cinema. King Hu’s 14th Century epic was a key influence on Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000).
• 7:30 pm, Thirteen (2013, Catherine Hardwicke)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Hardwicke’s unflinching portrayal of a good thirteen-year-old girl gone bad is one of the best directorial debuts of the decade.
• 7:30 pm, North by Northwest / To Catch a Thief (1959 / 1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Classic Hitchcock films blending suspense and laughs. Cary Grant’s portrayal of Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest is one of his signature roles.
• 7:30 pm, The Fearless Vampire Killers / Scream of Fear / Circus of Horrors (1967 / 1961 / 1960, Roman Polanski / Seth Holt / Sidney Hayers)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Three horror films from the 1960s with cinematography by the late Douglas Slocombe. The Fearless Vampire Killers has a darkly funny tone that’s never been duplicated.
• 7:30 pm, Bug / Killer Joe (2006 / 2011, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two of Friedkin’s comeback films from the oughts. Both were based on plays by Tracy Letts.
• 8:00 pm, Pippi in the South Seas (1970, Olle Hellbom)
  • Bob Baker Marionette Theater
  • Pippi Longstocking travels to the islands in the children’s classic.

Thursday, May 26th

• 5:30 pm, Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Lavender Hill Mob (1949 / 1951, Robert Hamer / Charles Crichton)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of the greatest British comedies from the legendary Ealing Studios. Alec Guiness stars in both (in Kind Hearts and Coronets he plays eight distinct characters)
• 7:30 pm, Machete / Hell Ride (2010 / 2008, Ethan Maniquis & Robert Rodriguez / Larry Bishop)
  • The New Beverly
  • Contemporary films inspired by 1970s grindhouse cinema. Director Larry Bishop starred in many of the trashy biker films from the 1960s that inspired Hell Ride. 
• 7:30 pm, Belle du Jour / “Lucy is Envious” (1967 / 1953, Luis Buñuel / William Asher)
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Buñuel’s classic tale of a bored housewife turning to prostitution is paired with an iconic episode from the TV show I Love Lucy. Together they paint a portrait of female anxities in the post-World War II era.
• 7:30 pm, To Be or Not to Be / In Name Only (1942 / 1939, Ernst Lubitsch / John Cromwell)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Two Carole Lombard Vehicles. To Be or Not to Be, with its satire of Nazism, is one of the key films produced in Hollywood during World War II.
• 7:30 pm, American Me (1992, Edward James Olmos)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Edward James Olmost directs and stars in this dramatic crime film set between Folsom Prison and the streets of East L.A.
• 8:00 pm, In the Realm of the Senses (1976, Nagisa Oshima)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Oshima’s equally hypnotic and uncomfortably provocative portrait of obsessive, often violent love in the rapidly militarizing Japan of the 1930s.

Wednesday, May 25th

• 7:30 pm, Bigger than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)
  • Cinefamily
  • Ray’s scathing portrayal of mental breakdown in everyday American life. Starring James Mason.
• 7:30 pm, Machete / Hell Ride (2010 / 2008, Ethan Maniquis & Robert Rodriguez / Larry Bishop)
  • The New Beverly
  • Contemporary films inspired by 1970s grindhouse cinema. Director Larry Bishop starred in many of the trashy biker films from the 1960s that inspired Hell Ride. 
• 10:30 pm, Eyes of Fire (1984, Avery Crounse)
  • Cinefamily
  • Early American pioneers are haunted by the ghosts of Native Americans in this cult classic.

Tuesday, May 24th

• 1:00 pm, From Here to Eternity (1953, Fred Zinnemann)
  • LACMA
  • Prestige picture adaptation of James Jones’ World War II novel set on a base in Hawaii. Male insecurity at every turn.
• 7:30 pm, Amuck! / The Blood Spattered Bride (1972, Silvio Amadio / Vincente Aranda)
  • The New Beverly
  • Erotic Italian suspense films. Amuck! is a thriller with plenty of nudie scenes while The Blood Spattered Bride is supernatural horror.

Monday, May 23rd

• 7:00 pm, Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuaron)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • A future where procreation has ceased is the set-up for this emerging science-fiction classic. The dark vision of a world with no future is appropriately chilling.
• 7:30 pm, Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Four men on the run end up driving trucks filled with explosive nitroglycerin through treacherous South American roads. Quasi-remake of Wages of Fear (1953).
• 7:30 pm, Mission Impossible (1996, Brian de Palma)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Tom Cruise stars in this expertly crafted thrill ride in which, in the most bravado sequence, he breaks into the CIA headquarters to steal a computer disk.
• 7:30 pm, All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Classic behind-the-scenes tail of the rivalry between an aging actress and a beautiful, young up-and-comer. Some of the great lines in film history.

Sunday, May 22nd

• 1:00 pm, Forbidden Planet (1956, Fred M. Wilcox)
  • Cinefamily
  • A spaceship from Earth lands on a distant planet and roughly plays out the story of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. With the classic Robby the Robot as the equivalent to Shakespeare’s character Ariel.
• 2:00 pm, Who’s Minding the Mint? (1967, Howard Morris)
  • The New Beverly
  • U.S. Treasury employees accidentally destroy $50,000 in a pudding mishap and try to secretly reprint it.
• 5:30 pm, The Beloved Rogue (1927, Alan Crosland)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Silent adventure comedy starring John Barrymore and featuring set designs by the great William Cameron Menzies.
• 6:30 pm, Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Four men on the run end up driving trucks filled with explosive nitroglycerin through treacherous South American roads. Quasi-remake of Wages of Fear (1953).
• 7:30 pm, Haxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (1922, Benjamin Christensen)
  • Cinefamily (silent film presented with live score by White Magic)
  • Haunting horror film/documentary in which scenes of witchcraft and other demonic rituals are recreated for the camera.

Saturday, May 21st

• 2:00 pm, Who’s Minding the Mint? (1967, Howard Morris)
  • The New Beverly
  • U.S. Treasury employees accidentally destroy $50,000 in a pudding mishap and try to secretly reprint it.
• 7:30 pm, Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Four men on the run end up driving trucks filled with explosive nitroglycerin through treacherous South American roads. Quasi-remake of Wages of Fear (1953).
• Midnight, Killer Joe (2011, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • A hitman played by Matthew McConaughey holds his client’s sister hostage until his payment is received in this tense thriller. Friedkin’s most recent film.

Friday, May 20th

• 7:30 pm, Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Four men on the run end up driving trucks filled with explosive nitroglycerin through treacherous South American roads. Quasi-remake of Wages of Fear (1953).
• 7:30 pm, Superstar (1999, Bruce McCulloch)
  • The Egyptian Theater (discussion with Molly Shannon)
  • Molly Shannon’s recurring SNL character Mary Katherine Gallagher, an oddball, armpit-smelling Catholic Schoolgirl, made the transition to the big screen in this film which went on to develop a cult audience.
• 7:30 pm, Pickpocket (1959, Robert Bresson)
  • Cinefamily
  • Bresson’s meditative portrayal of a young man who, because he imagines himself above Christian morality, trains himself in the art of pickpocketing. As with much Bresson, the arc of the film circles the protagonist back to God.
• 7:30 pm, The Godfather / The Godfather Part II (1972 / 1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Double feature of the classic Godfather films.
• Midnight, Venom (1981, Piers Haggard)
  • Cinefamily
  • After a little boy is kidnapped, his deadly snake begins picking off the kidnappers one by one.

Thursday, May 19th

• 7:00 pm, “Bodies in Nature: Rediscovering Mid-Century Nudist Films”
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • “Jennifer Peterson explores how nature was spatialized in nudist films of the 1950s and 60s such as Garden of Eden(Max Nosseck, 1954), Naked Venus (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1958), and Diary of a Nudist (Doris Wishman, 1961) and expands the potential meanings of these seemingly light-hearted idealistic romps.”
• 7:30 pm, Taxi Driver / The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976, Martin Scorsese / John Cassavetes)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two gritty films steeped in the margins of urban life–Taxi Driver in New York; Chinese Bookie in L.A..  Cult actor Timothy Carey appears as a Hollywood mobster in the latter film.
• 7:30 pm, Mi Familia (1995, Gregory Nava)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Complex story of three generations of Mexican-Americans living in East Los Angeles. With Edward James Olmos, Jimmy Smits, and Esai Morales as the patriarchs of each respective generation.
• 7:30 pm, Zoot Suit (1981, Luis Valez)
  • Fowler Museum at UCLA
  • Valdez’ portrayal of the events that led to the violent Zoot Suit Riots in the 1940s, in which largely white American military personnel attacked Hispanic men in Los Angeles wearing the “pachuco” zoot suit style.
•  7:30 pm, Cancel My Reservation / The Cat and the Canary (1972 / 1939, Paul Bogart / Elliott Nugent)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two Bob Hope vehicles-one from the tail end of his career, one from the beginning.
• 8:00 pm, “PXL THIS 25”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Festival of films made with with toy cameras, including the Fisher-Price PXL-2000.
• 8:00 pm, Brazil (1985, Terry Gilliam)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Gilliam’s imagination and Kafka-esque satirical vision shine better here than perhaps any of his other outings. One of the key films of the 1980s.

Wednesday, May 18th

• 7:30 pm, Cancel My Reservation / The Cat and the Canary (1972 / 1939, Paul Bogart / Elliott Nugent)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two Bob Hope vehicles-one from the tail end of his career, one from the beginning.

Tuesday, May 17th

• 1:00 pm, A Place in the Sun (1951, George Stevens)
  • LACMA
  • Intoxicating cinema. This Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor film is one of classic Hollywood’s finest productions.
• 7:00 pm, The Seven-Per-cent Solution (1976, Herbert Ross)
  • Laemmle Royal
  • Nicholas Meyer won an Oscar for the adaption of his own best-selling novel about Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud teaming up to solve a crime. The title refers to the dosage of cocaine taken by Holmes, who’s depicted as a full-blown addict at the start of the film.
• 7:30 pm, Hollywood Boulevard / Hollywood Man (1976, Allan Arkush & Joe Dante / Jack Starrett)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two exploitation films that take a meta-view of working in low budget genre films during this period.
• 7:30 pm, Five Corners (1987, Tony Bill)
  • Cinefamily
  • A great young cast populates this story set during the social ferment of the 1960s.

Monday, May 16th

• 7:30 pm, Jailhouse Rock / Purple Rain (1957 / 1974, Richard Thorpe / Albert Magnoli)
  • The New Beverly
  • The best of all the Elvis films is paired with the best of the late pop star Prince’s films.
• 7:30 pm, Top Gun (1986, Tony Scott)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Perhaps the most quintessential Tom Cruise film. Here he plays a Maverick, a fighter jet pilot who continually lives on the edge.
• 7:30 pm, A Clockwork Orange (1971, Stanley Kubrick)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • Kubrick’s highly original and disturbing vision of control and anarchy in a future version of England. With Malcolm McDowell in one of film’s most iconic performances.

Sunday, May 15th

• 11:00 am, The Great Race (1965, Blake Edwards)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • A long distance car race from New York to Paris is the setup for this zany comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.
• 1:00 pm, Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964, Byron Haskin)
  • Cinefamily
  • An astronaut is stranded on barren Mars in this widescreen technicolor sci-fi outing.
• 2:00 pm, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
  • The New Beverly
  • The thrill-ride sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark finds Indiana Jones in India looking for jewels and saving blonde women from dark forces.
• 6:30 pm, Jailhouse Rock / Purple Rain (1957 / 1974, Richard Thorpe / Albert Magnoli)
  • The New Beverly
  • The best of all the Elvis films is paired with the best of the late pop star Prince’s films.
• 7:00 pm, Daughter of Shanghai / Madame Du Barry (1937 / 1934, Robert Florey / William Dieterle)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Two Hollywood films about the struggles of women from more exotic cultures.
• 7:30 pm, The Pirates of Penzance / Jesus Christ Superstar (1983 / 1973, Wilford Leach / Norman Jewison)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two musicals shot by the late DP Douglas Slocombe.
• 7:30 pm, “The Death Film”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “The Death Film will feature a selection of American experimental films dealing in various modes and moods with the subject of death and dying, including films by Barbara Hammer, Martha Colburn, Stan Brakhage, Vanessa Renwick, Gus Van Sant, and more.”

Saturday, May 14th

• 1:00 pm, Sally of the Sawdust (1925, D.W. Griffith)
  • Cinefamily
  • A rare comedy from D.W. Griffith, this film effectively kicked off the career of W.C. Fields.
• 2:00 pm, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984, Steven Spielberg)
  • The New Beverly
  • The thrill-ride sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark finds Indiana Jones in India looking for jewels and saving blonde women from dark forces.
• 7:00 pm, The French Connection / The French Connection II (1974 / 1975, William Friedkin / John Frankenheimer)
  • The New Beverly
  • The classic New York City cop thriller and its enjoyable, Marseilles-set sequel.
• 7:30 pm, Sparrows / The Black Pirate (1926, William Beaudine / Albert Parker)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • The two silent films that played the first night the Egyptian opened. With Mary Pickford in Sparrows and Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate.
• 7:30 pm, The Story of Temple Drake / Call Her Savage (1933, Stephen Roberts / John Francis Dillon)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Egyptian (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Two pre-code stories of young women involved in sexually suggestive scenarios.
• Midnight, The Guardian (1990, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Wild horror film (Friedkin’s first since The Exorcist) about a British nanny in L.A. who’s planning on sacrificing the infant she’s watching in a Druid tree-god worship ceremony.

Friday, May 13th

• 7:30 pm, Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • This adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel has emerged as one of the top three or four science fiction films ever produced.
• 7:30 pm, The Cow (1969, Dariush Mehrjui)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Beautiful humanistic tale about the complex aftermath following the death of a farmer’s cow. One of the seminal films of Iranian cinema.
• 7:30 pm, “An All-Nighter on Elm Street”
  • The New Beverly
  • On this Friday the 13th, The New Beverly presents the first seven films in the Nightmare on Elm Street  franchise.
• 7:30 pm, No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily (screening regularly at Cinefamily through May 19th)
  • Akerman’s final film is comprised of interactions with her mother intercut with long shots taken in Belgium and New York City.

Thursday, May 12th

• 7:00 pm, “Tacita Dean: Presence / Absences”
  • MoCA Grand Avenue (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “Tacita Dean in person presents several short films in a theatrical setting, featuring the Los Angeles premiere of her latest film, Portraits (2016)”
• 7:30 pm, Caravan to Vacares / Fear is the Key (1974/1973)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two middle-brow action films from the mid-1970s based on p0pular novels by Alistair MacLean
• 7:30 pm, Leviathan (2014, Andrey Zvyagintsev)
  • Armer Theater, CSUN
  • Local politics in a remote Russian town lead to misfortune for a man standing up for his family.
• 7:30 pm, Belladonna of Sadness (1973, Eiichi Yamamoto)
  • Cinefamily (screening regularly at Cinefamily through May 19th)
  • Beautifully animated psychedelic erotica.
• 7:30 pm, Born in East L.A. (1987, Cheech Marin)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Marin wrote, starred, and directed in this story of a Mexican-American repairman who is mistaken for an illegal immigrant and shipped to Mexico, despite the fact that he hardly speaks Spanish.
• 8:00 pm, “Los Angeles Plays New York: A Night of Films by John Wilson”
  • Night Gallery (presented by Eugene Kotlyarekno)
  • Experimental filmmaker Wilson works with conventions from amateur smart phone videos to postmodern literary narration. This is the first survey of his work.
• 8:30 pm, Alien (1979, Ridley Scott)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Science fiction horror classic with virtually every aspect perfectly tuned. H.R. Giger’s vision for the alien and its home world retains its slickly organic sense of evil to this day.

Wednesday, May 11th

• Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  • Nuart Theater (screening regularly through the day)
  • Martial arts film that helped establish the Shaw Brothers storytelling, editing, and fight choreography templates. It’s perhaps best known as the film within a film playing throughout Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003).
• 7:00 pm, The Thomas Crown Affair (1999, John McTiernan)
  • Ray Stark Theater, USC
  • Pierce Brosnan stars in this remake of the classic Steve McQueen art thief caper film. With Faye Dunaway, who starred in the original, now playing Crown’s analyst.
• 7:30 pm, Caravan to Vacares / Fear is the Key (1974/1973)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two middle-brow action films from the mid-1970s based on p0pular novels by Alistair MacLean

Tuesday, May 10th

• Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  • Nuart Theater (screening regularly through the day)
  • Martial arts film that helped establish the Shaw Brothers storytelling, editing, and fight choreography templates. It’s perhaps best known as the film within a film playing throughout Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003).
• 1:00 pm, The Heiress (1949, William Wyler)
  • LACMA
  • Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift star in this emotionally and psychologically penetrating adaptation of Henry James’ novel Washington Square.  
• 7:00 pm, Lethal Weapon (1987, Richard Donner)
  • Ray Stark Theater, USC
  • Prototypical buddy cop movie with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. From a now-classic Shane Black screenplay.
• 7:30 pm, The Ultimate Thrill / Night of the Juggler (1974/1980, Robert Butler)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two violent exploitation revenge films directed by Robert Butler.

Monday, May 9th

• Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  • Nuart Theater (screening regularly through the day)
  • Martial arts film that helped establish the Shaw Brothers storytelling, editing, and fight choreography templates. It’s perhaps best known as the film within a film playing throughout Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003).
• 7:30 pm, The Racing Scene / Grand Prix (1969 / 1966, Andy Sidaris / John Frankenheimer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Grand Prix is a big budget spectacle with James Garner as a race car driver; The Racing Scene is a documentary following Garner as he actually tries to compete in the racing world.
• 7:30 pm, Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Ingenious and  entertaining musical surrounding the transition in Hollywood from silents to talkies. Rarely does a film generate such joy.
• 7:00 pm, E.T. (1982, Steven Spielberg)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • Classic family-friendly science fiction from Steven Spielberg. A little brown alien lands in suburban California and befriends a young boy.

Sunday, May 8th

• Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  • Nuart Theater (screening regularly through the day)
  • Martial arts film that helped establish the Shaw Brothers storytelling, editing, and fight choreography templates. It’s perhaps best known as the film within a film playing throughout Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003).
• 2:00 pm, Barbarella (1968, Roger Vadim)
  • Cinefamily
  • Jane Fonda stars in this ironic and druggy yet loving homage to classic space opera sci-fi.
• 5:00 pm, “Another Nice Mess: The Restored Laurel and Hardy, Volume 3 / WAY OUT WEST”
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Laurel and Hardy shorts plus perhaps their greatest feature, Way Out West.
• 6:30 pm, The Racing Scene / Grand Prix (1969 / 1966, Andy Sidaris / John Frankenheimer)
  • The New Beverly
  • Grand Prix is a big budget spectacle with James Garner as a race car driver; The Racing Scene is a documentary following Garner as he actually tries to compete in the racing world.
• 7:00 pm, Gallant Lady / Ann Vickers (1933, Gregory La Cava / John Cromwell)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Films about powerful, independent women starring, respectively, Ann Harding and Irene Dunn.
• 7:30 pm, Rosemary’s Baby / The Brood (1968 / 1979, Roman Polanksi / David Cronenberg)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • For Mother’s Day, two of the great horror films featuring mothers in peril.
• 7:30 pm, “The Birth Film”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “A special selection of historical experimental films engaging with the subject of birth, from filmmakers Stan Brakhage, Marjorie Keller, and Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid.”

Saturday, May 7th

• Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  • Nuart Theater (screening regularly through the day)
  • Martial arts film that helped establish the Shaw Brothers storytelling, editing, and fight choreography templates. It’s perhaps best known as the film within a film playing throughout Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003).

• 2:00 pm, Mad Monster Party (1967, Jules Bass)
  • The New Beverly
  • The classic movie monsters (Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolf Man, etc) get together in this druggy and comedic children’s film from the late 60s.
• 4:00 pm, “Another Nice Mess: The Restored Laurel and Hardy, Volume 2”
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Laurel and Hardy shorts from the peak of their careers.
• 7:00 pm, To Live and Die in L.A. / Rampage (1985 / 1987, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Mid-1980s Friedkin crime films.The less well-known Rampage is about a District Attorney prosecuting a Sacramento serial killer who cynically pleads the insanity defense in court.
• 7:30 pm, Savage Streets (1983, Danny Steinmann)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Linda Blair plays a Charles Bronson-esque vigilante in this campy revenge exploitation film.
• 7:30 pm, The Music Lovers / Freud (1970 / 1962, Ken Russell / John Huston)
  • The Egyptian
  • Two films shot by the late DP Douglas Slocombe. The Music Lovers, a freewheeling bio of Tchaikovsky, is one of the better of Ken Russell’s films focused on the great composers.
• 7:30 pm, Bonnie Scotland / The Devil’s Brother (1935 / 1933)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two lesser known, but still often funny Laurel and Hardy features.
• 8:00 pm, “New Works Salon”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • New films by a variety of L.A.’s best experimental practitioners, including the premiere of Thom Anderson’s latest video.
• Midnight, Cruising (1980, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Al Pacino plays a cop going undercover in the gay s&m world of New York’s meatpacking district. Through its fever dream mood, it offers what remains one of the best cinematic descents into a subculture.

Friday, May 6th

• Dragon Inn (1967, King Hu)
  • Nuart Theater (screening regularly through the day)
  • Martial arts film that helped establish the Shaw Brothers storytelling, editing, and fight choreography templates. It’s perhaps best known as the film within a film playing throughout Tsai Ming-Liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003).

• 7:00 pm, To Live and Die in L.A. / Rampage (1985 / 1987, William Friedkin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Mid-1980s Friedkin crime films. The less well-known Rampage is about a District Attorney prosecuting a Sacramento serial killer who cynically pleads the insanity defense in court.

• 7:30 pm, “Another Nice Mess: The Restored Laurel and Hardy / THE FLYING DEUCES”
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Laurel and Hardy shorts, including the classic The Music Box accompanied by their “late” 1939 foreign legion-themed feature film The Flying Deuces. 
• 7:30 pm, Chimes at Midnight / F for Fake (1965 / 1974, Orson Welles)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Orson Welles double feature. Chimes at Midnight features perhaps Welles’ greatest role–as Shakespeare’s warm-hearted, hard-drinking Falstaff.
• 7:30 pm, Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
  • Cinefamily
  • Linklater’s debut is synonymous with the development of American independent cinema in the 1990s. An entertaining, lyrical, and intellectually sophisticated classic.

Thursday, May 5th

• 6:00 pm, “Public Fiction: the missing”
  • MoCA Grand Avenue
  • “the missing will present four film and video works, beginning with The Attendant (1993) by Isaac Julien and The Last Clean Shirt(1964) by Alfred Leslie and Frank O’Hara, and ending with Domestic Tourism II (2009) by Maha Maamoun.”
• 7:00 pm, The Turin Horse (2011, Béla Tarr)
  • Armer Theater, CSUN
  • The protagonist of Tarr’s final film is none other than the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who watches the abuse of a horse and is forced to spend several days on a divan before ultimately losing his mind.
• 7:30 pm, Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Cinefamily (screening at Cinefamily regularly through May 12th)
  • In some ways, this early Godard film which was overlooked at the time has become one of his most accessible. Critic Pauline Kael: “It’s as if a French poet took an ordinary banal American crime novel and told it to us in terms of the romance and beauty he read between the lines…”
• 7:30 pm, Selena (1997)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • The tragic story of Tejano pop star Selena, who was murdered by the president of her fan club in 1995. Jennifer Lopez’s breakout role.
•  7:30 pm, The Divine Nymph / The Innocent (1975, Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi / Luchino Visconti)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two artsy Italian films reveling in the last days of the old aristocracy.

Wednesday, May 4th

• 7:00 pm, Real Genius (1985, Martha Coolidge)
  • Ray Stark Theater, USC
  • Comedy about two brilliant college students who dabble in science and partying.
• 7:30 pm, The Falls (1980, Peter Greenaway)
  • Cinefamily (including a potluck dinner)
  • Greenaway’s epic fake documentary tying together the lives of ninety-two fictional characters.
• 7:30 pm, The Divine Nymph / The Innocent (1975, Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi / Luchino Visconti)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two artsy Italian films reveling in the last days of the old aristocracy.
• 7:30 pm, Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Cameron’s kinetic sequel to Alien is one of the great action thrill rides of the 1980s.

Tuesday, May 3rd

• 7:30 pm, Delta Force / Lone Wolf McQuade (1986 / 1983, Menahem Golan / Steve Carver)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two campy Chuck Norris action flicks from the peak of the star’s career.

Monday, May 2nd

• 7:30 pm, Avanti! / Fedora (1972 / 1978, Billy Wilder)
  • The New Beverly
  • Late Billy Wilder films, each of which examines aging characters in Mediterranean settings.

Sunday, May 1st

• 2:00 pm, The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958, Karel Zeman)
  • Cinefamily
  • This merger of several works by science-fiction novelist Jules Verne is the most successful Czech film of all time (in terms of box office).
• 4:30 pm, The Stolen Airship (1967, Karel Zeman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zeman continues his exploration of Jules Verne style stories and groundbreaking visual effects in this film produced at the height of political stirrings in the former Czechoslovakia. 
• 6:30 pm, Avanti! / Fedora (1972 / 1978, Billy Wilder)
  • The New Beverly
  • Late Billy Wilder films, each of which examines aging characters in Mediterranean settings.
• 7:30 pm, The Big Heat / Gilda (1953 / 1946, Fritz Lang / Charles Vidor)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Glenn Ford double-feature. The Big Heat is a first-rate crime noir and Gilda is a melodrama with a great performance opposite Ford from Rita Hayworth.
• 9:30  pm, “Jonathan Demme Presents: Made in Texas”
  • Cinefamily
  • Jonathan Demme originally organized this screening of shorts in New York in 1981 after visiting the vibrant Austin, Texas film community and liking what he saw. A rare opportunity.

Saturday, April 30th 

• 2:00 pm, A Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955, Karel Zeman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Zeman’s classic children’s fantasy film follows a group of boys who are transported from the Museum of Natural History in New York to the age of dinosaurs and back to the Museum to discover it was all just a dream.
• 2:00 pm, Super Fuzz (1981, Sergio Corbucci)
  • The New Beverly
  • Spaghetti western filmmaker Corbucci teams with other vets of the genre (Terence Hill and Ernest Borgnine) on this zany kids cop movie set in Miami.

• 7:00, The Mask of Zorro / Zorro Rides Again (1998 / 1959, Martin Campbell / William Witney & John English)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Mask of Zorro is the 1990s reboot of the classic Zorro films, as typified by Zorro Rides Again.

• 7:30 pm, The Naked Gun / The Naked Gun 2 1/2 / The Naked Gun 33 1/3 (1988 / 1991 /1994, David Zucker / David Zucker/ Peter Segal)
  • The Aero, Santa Monica
  • All three installments of the hilarious dragnet style spoof series with Leslie Nielsen are presented.
• 8:00 pm, “IOTASALON: EYECANDY – METHODS OF ABSTRACTION IN VISUAL MUSIC”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “…includes underexposed works from the classic age of abstract film (50s, 60s, 70s) by filmmakers Adam Beckett, Sky David, Hy Hirsh, Mary Ellen Bute and more.”

Friday, April 29th

• 7:00, The Mask of Zorro / Zorro Rides Again (1998 / 1959, Martin Campbell / William Witney & John English)
  • The New Beverly
  • The Mask of Zorro is the 1990s reboot of the classic Zorro films, as typified by Zorro Rides Again.
• 7:30 pm, The Hard Way / What Price Hollywood? (1943/1932, Vincent Sherman, George Cukor)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive screening)
  • Proto-feminist films about women trying to rise in their respective fields.  What Price Hollywood? was inspired, in part, by experiences undergone by its star Constance Bennett.
• 7:30 pm, The Dirty Dozen / Earthquake (1967/1974, Robert Aldrich / Mark Robson)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Another double feature in the Aero’s tribute to George Kennedy.  The Dirty Dozen has a great premise: a suicide mission no ordinary soldier could be ordered to take is offered to a motley group of military prisoners serving life sentences.
• 10:00 pm, Inspiration / The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1949 / 1962, Karel Zeman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Two of Karel Zeman’s most magical works.  The Fabulous Baron Munchausen inspired Terry Gilliam’s big-budget 1989 American film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. 
• Midnight, Combat Shock (1984, Buddy Giovaninazzo)
  • Cinefamily
  • This portrait of a Vietnam vet after he’s returned home is equally nightmarish & psychedelic.

Thursday, April 28th

• 7:00 pm, Meek’s Cutoff (2010, Kelly Reichardt)
  • Armer Theater, Cal State Northridge
  • Reichardt’s story of 19th century pioneers who’ve lost their way on the Oregon Trail is simultaneously tense and meditative.

• 7:30 pm, Inspiration / The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1949 / 1962, Karel Zeman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Two of Karel Zeman’s most magical works.  The Fabulous Baron Munchausen inspired Terry Gilliam’s big-budget 1989 American film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. 
• 7:30 pm, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot / The Eiger Sanction (1974 / 1975, Michael Cimino / Clint Eastwood)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two films celebrating the late actor George Kennedy. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is the film that put director Cimino on the map.
• 7:30 pm, Footlight Parade / Follow the Fleet (1930 / 1936, Lloyd Bacon / Mark Sandrich)
  • The New Beverly
  • 1930s black & white musicals. Footlight Parade is a showcase for the great Busby Berkeley’s choreography.
• 7:30 pm, Zoolander (2001, Ben Stiller)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Stiller stars as male model Derek Zoolander in this very funny and absurd spoof of the fashion industry. With Owen Wilson in a great supporting role as rival model Hansel.

Wednesday, April 27th

• 7:30 pm, Footlight Parade / Follow the Fleet (1930 / 1936, Lloyd Bacon / Mark Sandrich)
  • The New Beverly
  • 1930s black & white musicals. Footlight Parade is a showcase for the great Busby Berkeley’s choreography.
• 7:30 pm, Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • All-time classic about an aging silent film star who hires a younger screenwriter to help her mount a comeback. The results are macabre.

Tuesday, April 26th

• 1:00 pm, The Misfits (1961, John Huston)
  • LACMA
  • Clark Gable plays an aging cowboy and Marilyn Monroe plays a recently divorced woman looking for love in modern day Nevada.  Monroe’s final completed film.
• 7:30 pm, Rock All Night / Ski Troop Attack (1957 / 1960, Roger Corman)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two Roger Corman films. In Rock All Night he transforms the fun rock and roll teenybopper scenario into a tense hostage movie.
• 8:00 pm, “RACE AND SPACE IN LOS ANGELES II: FILMS FROM THE 1960S – 1970s”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Curated selection of documentaries and fiction shorts.  Including Felicia (1965), which follows the eponymous protagonist as she grows up in Watts amidst great social turmoil.

Monday, April 25th

• 7:30 pm, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Utu (1978 / 1984, Fred Schepisi / Geoff Murphy)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two films about natives seeking revenge on the colonial whites who do them wrong.
• 8:30 pm, “Textures of Life: Film and the Art of Tacita Dean”
  • REDCAT
  • Renonowned British fine artist Tacita Dean presents several rare 16mm films.

Sunday, April 24th

• 2:00 pm, Dick Tracy (1990, Warren Beatty)
  • Warren Beatty directs and stars in this update of the classic Dick Tracy cartoons, serials, and feature films. Stunning lighting and makeup effects capture the look and feel of the cartoons.
• 3:00 pm, Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, Wes Anderson)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Anderson’s stop-motion animation adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book is one of his most humorous and engaging works. Co-written with Noah Baumbach.
• 4:15 pm, Jaws (1975, Steven Spielberg)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • With Jaws, Spielberg ushered in the era of big budget summer blockbusters while also offering something of a throwback to old-school adventure yarns.
• 4:30 pm, River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt)
  • Cinefamily
  • Reichardt’s debut is a lyrical crime film set in Florida. With genre filmmaker Larry Fessenden as one of the leads.
• 5:00 pm, Too Late for Tears (1949, Byron Haskin)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • A classic noir about an everyman who finds money that doesn’t belong to him and the ensuing chaos that enters his life.
• 5:00 pm, Army of Darkness (1992, Sam Raimi)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • The final installment of the comedy-horror Evil Dead trilogy finds its protagonist Ash transported to medieval times to do battle with skeleton warriors.
• 6:30 pm, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith / Utu (1978 / 1984, Fred Schepisi / Geoff Murphy)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two films about natives seeking revenge on the colonial whites who do them wrong.
• 7:30 pm, The Captive City / Buy Me That Town (1952 / 1941, Robert Wise / Eugene Ford)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • The Film Noir Festival concludes with these two little-seen films.
• 7:30 pm, La Collectionneuse (1967, Eric Rohmer)
  • Cinefamily (with a party to celebrate the La Collectionneuse series at Cinefamily)
  • A young man travels to the Mediterranean and becomes fascinated with a young woman who he deems a collectionneuse, a collector of men.
• 7:30 pm, Fantastic Voyage (1966, Richard Fleischer)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • An adventure film set inside the human body. With a great Raquel Welch role.
• 7:30 pm, “David Domingo: A Super 8 Odyssey”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Los Angeles Film Forum Screening)
  • Spanish experimental filmmaker Domingo presents an array of his Super 8 collage films.

Saturday, April 23rd

• 2:00 pm, Dick Tracy (1990, Warren Beatty)
  • The New Beverly
  • Warren Beatty directs and stars in this update of the classic Dick Tracy cartoons, serials, and feature films. Stunning lighting and makeup effects capture the look and feel of the cartoons.
• 2:00 pm, River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt)
  • Cinefamily
  • Reichardt’s debut is a lyrical crime film set in Florida. With genre filmmaker Larry Fessenden as one of the leads.
• 7:30 pm, Regrouping (1976, Lizzie Borden)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Borden’s documentary about the sometimes conflicting political interests at play in a woman’s safe space.  Borden herself becomes a character as the women begin to critique her process.
• 7:30 pm, Dick Tracy / Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1990 / 1947, Warren Beatty / John Rawlins)
  • The New Beverly
  • Warren Beatty’s revisionist take on the Dick Tracy mythos is paired one of the original feature films.

• 7:30 pm, Deception / Hollow Triumph (1946 / 1948, Irving Rapper / Steve Sekely)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Noir films starring Paul Henreid.
• 7:30 pm, Where the Boys Are / The Beach Girls (1984 / 1982)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Two trashy 1980s bikini comedies.
• 7:30 pm, Airport / Airport 1975 / Airport ’77 (1970 / 1975 / 1977, George Seaton / Jack Smight / Jerry Jameson)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Triple-feature of the Airport disaster films.

• 8:00 pm, “Film Ruined My Life: New Emergency Films”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Director Mike Formanski presents his new dystopian science fiction film Scrap to the Future.
• Midnight, The Crimson Ghost (1-12) (1946, Fred C. Brannon and William Witney)
  • The New Beverly
  • Perhaps best known for the use of the villain’s mask in the iconography of the punk band The Misfits, The Crimson Ghost holds up as one of the great Republic Pictures serials. In this rare opportunity, the New Beverly presents the entire twelve-part run.

Friday, April 22nd 

• 7:30 pm, Dick Tracy / Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1990 / 1947, Warren Beatty / John Rawlins)
  • The New Beverly
  • Warren Beatty’s revisionist take on the Dick Tracy mythos is paired one of the original feature films.
• 7:30 pm, Baby Face / Female (1933, Alfred E. Green / Michael Curtiz)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Pre-code Hollywood films about women who rise to the top through ruthless means.
• 7:30 pm, “Wild in the Streets: L.A. Punk Rarities”
  • Non Plus Ultra (presented by Alamo Drafthouse LA)
  • “a feature-length mix of blistering, ultra-rare old-school L.A. punk footage. Performance clips, documentary footage, interviews, silly TV news segments, even sillier music videos and more”
• 7:30 pm, Cool Hand Luke / The Human Factor (1967 / 1975, Stuart Rosenberg / Edward Dmytryk)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two films featuring the character actor George Kennedy, who recently passed away.
• 7:30 pm, River of Grass (1994, Kelly Reichardt)
  • Cinefamily
  • Reichardt’s debut is a lyrical crime film set in Florida. With genre filmmaker Larry Fessenden as one of the leads.
• 7:30 pm, Dead Reckoning / Key Witness (1947, John Cromwell / Ross Lederman)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Noir films. Dead Reckoning features a classic Humphrey Bogart performance.

Thursday, April 21st

• 7:00 pm, The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • One of the most engrossing epics in the history of film.  All cylinders were firing in this absolute classic tale of the Corleone crime family.
• 7:00 pm, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
  • Armer Theater, Cal State Northridge
  • Trippy metaphysical drama by genius Thai filmmaker Weerasethakul. Winner of the Palme D’Or prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

• 7:30 pm, Deep Valley / Flaxy Martin(1947 / 1949, Jean Negulesco / Richard L. Bare)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two film noirs with strong female performances. With Ida Lupino in Deep Valley. 
• 7:30 pm, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989, Stephen Herek)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Gradually emerging as a comedy classic, Bill and Ted follows a couple of SoCal high school stoners who are transported to olden times and learn the answers to questions appearing on their upcoming finals.
• 7:30 pm, The Bedroom Window / Bad Influence (1987 / 1990, Curtis Hanson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two Hitchcockian films from Hanson. James Spader and Rob Lowe running around the dark underbelly of LA in Bad Influence paves the way for Hanson’s celebrated LA Confidential.
• 7:30 pm, Aliens (1986, James Cameron)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • Cameron’s kinetic sequel to Alien is one of the great action thrill rides of the 1980s.
• 9:00 pm, Beyond Therapy (1987, Robert Altman)
  • Smart Objects (organized by Eugene Kotlyarenko)
  • Based on a play by Christopher Durang, this farcical look at therapy, families, and urban life features Jeff Goldblum in his prime.

Wednesday, April 20th

• 4:20 pm, Half-Baked (1998, Tamra Davis)
  • The Crest, Westwood (with live music by the Reel Players)
  • Prototypical late-1990s stoner comedy presented to celebrate National Weed Day.
• 7:00 pm, Dazed and Confused (1993, Richard Linklater)
  • The Wiltern
  • Linklater’s laid-back classic about the last day before summer of a Texas high school in 1976.
• 7:30 pm, Meet Danny Wilson / Young Man with a Horn (1952 / 1950, Joseph Pevney / Michael Curtiz)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two jazz-themed noirs. With Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall starring in Young Man with a Horn.
• 7:30 pm, The Bedroom Window / Bad Influence (1987 / 1990, Curtis Hanson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two Hitchcockian films from Hanson. James Spader and Rob Lowe running around the dark underbelly of LA in Bad Influence paves the way for Hanson’s celebrated LA Confidential.
• 8:00 pm, Punishment Park (1971, Peter Watkins)
  • The Frog (part of the JBL Screening Series)
  • A group of left-wing activists are rounded up and sent to the desert. If they survive for seventy-two hours they’re free to go; the thing is, they were never meant to survive.

Tuesday, April 19th

• 1:00 pm, The African Queen (1951, John Huston)
  • LACMA
  • Uptight missionary Katherine Hepburn convinces hard-drinking riverboat captain Humphrey Bogart to attack an enemy warship in WWI Africa.  Bogart and Hepburn generate some of the greatest chemistry in Hollywood history.
• 7:30 pm, La Chambre / Je tu il Elle (1972 / 1974, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • These two films were created in-between Akerman’s years in New York and the production of her masterpiece Jeanne Dielman.
• 7:30 pm, Snake in the Monkey’s Shadow / Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow (1979 / 1978, Cheung Sum / Yuen Woo Ping)
  • The New Beverly
  • Popular martial arts films. Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow is one of the films that launched Jackie Chan’s career.
• 7:30 pm, Flesh and Fury / Outside the Wall (1952 / 1950, Joe Pevney / Crane Wilbur)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two more entries in the Los Angeles Film Noir Festival. Flesh and Fury features Tony Curtis as a deaf boxer.

Monday, April 18th

• 7:30 pm, Ana-ta-han / The King Steps Out (1953 / 1936, Josef Von Sternberg)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two lesser-known but characteristically extravagant Von Sternberg productions. Ana-ta-han (also known as Anatahan) is about Japanese WWII soldiers who refuse to believe they’re side has lost and refuse to give up their posts.
• 7:30 pm, Absolute Beginners (1986, Julien Temple)
  • LACMA
  • Portrait of the many social and cultural conflicts active in mid-1960s London.  With David Bowie.
• 7:30 pm, Paydirt (1981, Penny Allen)
  • Cinefamily
  • Set in the world of illegal marijuana growers in Oregon, Paydirt is part naturalistic hippy narrative, part crime thriller.
• 7:30 pm, Side Street / Dr. Broadway (1949 / 1942, Anthony Mann)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two lesser-known noirs by director Mann.
• 8:30 pm,  “Radical Intimacies: The 8mm Cinema of Saul Levine”
  • REDCAT
  • A selection of films presented by Boston-based avant-garde film legend Saul Levine.  This screening focuses on several key series: Notes, Portrayals, and Light Licks.
• 10:00 pm, Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox)
  • Cinefamily
  • Punk rock sci-fi comedy with Emilio Estevez as Otto, the LA punk who becomes a repo man and gets involved with aliens and the CIA.

Sunday, April 17th

• 2:00 pm, The Lone Ranger (2013, Gore Verbinski)
  • The New Beverly
  • Over-the-top update of the classic Lone Ranger western serials reunites Pirates of the Caribbean filmmaker Verbinski with star Johnny Depp.
• 2:30 pm, Forbidden Planet (1956, Fred M. Wilcox)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • A spaceship from Earth lands on a distant planet and roughly plays out the story of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. With the classic Robby the Robot as the equivalent to Shakespeare’s character Ariel.
• 4:00 pm, D’Est (1993, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Akerman’s documentary of “everything she touched” as she moved through Eastern Europe just after the fall of the Soviet Union.
• 5:00 pm, Fantastic Voyage (1966, Richard Fleischer)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • An adventure film set inside the human body. With a great Raquel Welch role.

• 6:30 pm, Ana-ta-han / The King Steps Out (1953 / 1936, Josef Von Sternberg)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two lesser-known but characteristically extravagant Von Sternberg productions. Ana-ta-han (also known as Anatahan) is about Japanese WWII soldiers who refuse to believe they’re side has lost and refuse to give up their posts.
• 7:00 pm, Theodora Goes Wild / Topper (1936 / 1937)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Classic screwball comedies.  Topper is about a fun-loving, recently-deceased woman who playfully haunts her old friend.
• 7:30 pm, Flesh and Fantasy / Destiny (1943 / 1944, Jules Duvivier)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two Hollywood films by the great French filmmaker Duvivier (best known for his Pepe Le Moko)
• 7:30 pm, Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox)
  • Cinefamily
  • Punk rock sci-fi comedy with Emilio Estevez as Otto, the LA punk who becomes a repo man and gets involved with aliens and the CIA.

Saturday, April 16th

• 2:00 pm, The Lone Ranger (2013, Gore Verbinski)
  • The New Beverly
  • Over-the-top update of the classic Lone Ranger western serials reunites Pirates of the Caribbean filmmaker Verbinski with star Johnny Depp.
• 2:30 pm, The Thing from Another World (1951, Christian Nyby)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Scientists working in remote Antarctica discover an alien life form–something not human, but rather from the carrot family (!). Classic production (famously said to be co-directed by an uncredited Howard Hawks) with great atmosphere.
• 4:00 pm, One Day Pina Asked…On Tour with Pina Bausch (1983, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Akerman’s documentary follows the Pina Bausch dance company on a 5-week tour of Europe.
• 5:00 pm, When Worlds Collide (1951, Rudolph Maté)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Earth is on a collision course with a star. The only hope for mankind is to build a spaceship that will take a select group  to another planet to continue the species. Question is: who gets to go?
• 6:30 pm, The Lone Ranger / Son of Monte Cristo (2013 / 1940, Gore Verbinski / Rowland V. Lee)
  • The New Beverly
  • Gore Verbinski’s recent The Lone Ranger reboot is paired with a classic story of another masked hero.
• 7:00 pm, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988, Penelope Spheeris)
  • Cinefamily
  • Spheeris’s funny portrayal of the 1980s hair metal scene.
• 7:00 pm, Dark Star (1974, John Carpenter)
  • 356 Mission
  • Carpenter’s debut is a jokey sci-fi film about hippy tech nerds who’ve spent way too much time alone on a ship in deep space. The film was also screenwriter Dan O’Bannon’s entree into the movies.
• 7:30 pm, Ball of Fire / True Confession (1941 / 1937, Howard Hawks / Wesley Ruggles)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Two classic Hollywood films with strong leading women.  Barbara Stanwyck delivers one of her most memorable performances in Ball of Fire. 
• 7:30 pm, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Perhaps the high-point of Cold War-era Hollywood sci-fi is this atmospheric story of aliens who replace virile Americans with bland automatons. Can be read as a fear of Communism or of McCarthyism.
• 7:30 pm, Roman Holiday / Designing Women (1953 / 1957, William Wyler / Vincente Minnelli)
  • Aero Santa Monica
  • Two romantic comedies starring Gregory Peck.
• 7:30 pm, All My Sons / Take One False Step (1948 / 1949, Irving Reis / Chester Erskine)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Noir film double-feature. Take One False Step features William Powell in a crime story whose themes run darker than The Thin Man films for which he was best known.
• 10:00 pm, Deadbeat at Dawn / Diary of a Deadbeat (1988 / 2015, Jim van Bebber / Victor Bonacore)
  • Cinefamily
  • Van Bebber’s cult classic micro-budget action film Deadbeat at Dawn is paired with a recent documentary about van Bebber himself.
• Midnight, The Crimson Ghost (7-12) (1946, Fred C. Brannon and William Witney)
  • The New Beverly
  • Perhaps best known for the use of the villain’s mask in the iconography of the punk band The Misfits, The Crimson Ghost holds up as one of the great Republic Pictures serials.

Friday, April 15th

• 6:30 pm, The Lone Ranger / Son of Monte Cristo (2013 / 1940, Gore Verbinski / Rowland V. Lee)
  • The New Beverly
  • Gore Verbinski’s recent The Lone Ranger reboot is paired with a classic story of another masked hero.
• 7:30 pm, The Bitter Stems / Riffraff (1956 / 1947, Fernando Ayala / Ted Tetzlaff)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two little-known but expertly-crafted noirs set in South America kick-off the Los Angeles Festival of Film Noir.
• 7:30 pm, Poto and Cabengo (1980, Jean-Pierre Gorin)
  • The Frog
  • “The first of three films made while teaching film making at UC San Diego, Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin’s Poto And Cabengo (1980) observes the formation of dialect between two twin girls and their family environment.”
• 7:30 pm, The Decameron (1970, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
  • Art Division Library
  • Pasolini’s first adaptation of the Renaissance-era writer Boccaccio. A wild, sexually-charged film featuring Pasolini himself as the great painter Giotto.
• 7:30 pm, Suburbia (1983, Penelope Spheeris)
  • Cinefamily
  • Spheeris’s verite look at aimless, often homeless LA punks adrift in the abandoned housing tracts that would go on to be covered by the 105 Freeway.
• 7:30 pm, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951, Robert Wise)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Classic Cold War-era sci-fi about an alien named Klaatu who arrives on Earth with a message that may save us…from ourselves.
• 7:30 pm, The Producers / The Mating Game (1968 / 1959, Mel Brooks / George Marshall)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two comedies whose plots involve paying taxes are presented on tax day.
• 10:00 pm, Forbidden Zone (1980, Richard Elfman)
  • Cinefamily (with Richard Elfman in person)
  • Cult film based on the live concert spectacles of 1980s new wave band Oingo Boingo.

Thursday, April 14th

• 7:00 pm, Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1997, Chantal Akerman)
  • Fahrenheit (followed by a panel discussion)
  • Akerman’s self-portrait produced for French television. The filmmaker discusses her life and work in candid detail.
• 7:30 pm, Hail the Conquering Hero / Hold that Blonde (1944 / 1945, Preston Sturges / George Marshall)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two mid-1940s films starring Eddie Bracken, who was one of the most broadly popular entertainers of this period. Hail the Conquering Hero is one of the funniest of the great Preston Sturges films.
• 7:30 pm, Raising Arizona (1987, Coen Brothers)
  • Lammle NoHo
  • Comedy crime movie as only the Coens could do it in their brillaint follow-up to Blood Simple. With Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter.

Wednesday, April 13th

• 7:30 pm, Histoires d’Amerique (1989, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • A follow-up to News From Home, this film explores both New York and Akerman’s Jewish identity.
• 7:30 pm, Hail the Conquering Hero / Hold that Blonde (1944 / 1945, Preston Sturges / George Marshall)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two mid-1940s films starring Eddie Bracken, who was one of the most broadly popular entertainers of this period. Hail the Conquering Hero is one of the funniest of the great Preston Sturges films.

Tuesday, April 12th

• 1:00 pm, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
  • LACMA
  • Humphrey Bogart stars as Fred C. Dobbs, a drifter who finds trouble out west.  One of the star’s darkest and most memorable roles.
• 7:30 pm, White-Line Fever / The Great Smokey Roadblock (1975 / 1976 Jonathan Kaplan / John Leone)
  • The New Beverly
  • Stories of truckers fighting back.  White-Line Fever features the great Jan-Michael Vincent; meanwhile Henry Fonda delivers one of his most engaging late performances in the little-seen The Great Smokey Roadblock. 

Monday, April 11th

• 7:30 pm, The Competition / Ice Castles (1979 / 1980, Joel Oliansky / Donald Wyre)
  • The New Beverly
  • Romances set in competitive fields: The Competition in the world of concert pianists; Ice Castles in the world of ice skating.

Sunday, April 10th

• 2:00 pm, I Knew Her Well (1965, Angelo Pietrangelli)
  • Cinefamily
  • A young Italian woman arrives in the city from the country, has some fun, and grows weary of the depravity of urban life.
• 2:00 pm, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
  • The New Beverly
  • One of the key films to emerge from the collective talents of “New Hollywood”–represented here by Spielberg, George Lucas, writer Lawrence Kasdan, actor Harrison Ford, etc.
• 7:30 pm, The Guns of Navarone (1961, J. Lee Thompson)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Action adventure epic set on the coast of Greece during World War II.
• 6:30 pm, The Competition / Ice Castles (1979 / 1980, Joel Oliansky / Donald Wyre)
  • The New Beverly
  • Romances set in competitive fields: The Competition in the world of concert pianists; Ice Castles in the world of ice skating.
• 7:30 pm, The Lady Eve (1941, Preston Sturges)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • One of the most elegant and humorous of all the classic Hollywood films.
• 8:00 pm, “Video Works of Ximena Cuevas”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Works by Mexican video artist Cuevas that explore identity, politics, and mass media in a playful manner.
• 9:00 pm, Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • A young female film director, a version of Akerman, travels through Europe screening her most recent work.  She is adrift, alienated by the cities and their people.

Saturday, April 9th

• 1:00 pm, Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)
  • Cinefamily (Silent; the complete 149 minute version of the film will be screened)
  • One of the greats.  Lang’s dark science fiction vision has inspired countless other films, perhaps most notably Blade Runner. 
• 2:00 pm, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
  • The New Beverly
  • One of the key films to emerge from the collective talents of “New Hollywood”–represented here by Spielberg, George Lucas, writer Lawrence Kasdan, actor Harrison Ford, etc.

• 4:15 pm, Golden Eighties (1986, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • This slyly critical pop musical written by a who’s who of intellectuals on the fringes of European cinema is a enjoyable anomaly in Akerman’s oeuvre.
• 7:00 pm, Raiders of the Lost Ark / Invisible Agent (1981 / 1942, Steven Spielberg / Edwin L. Marin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the key films to emerge from the collective talents of “New Hollywood”–represented here by Spielberg, George Lucas, writer Lawrence Kasdan, actor Harrison Ford, etc.  It’s paired with Invisible Agent, a classically corny WWII film with Nazi bad guys that inspired the later film.

• 7:30 pm, Robocop / The Terminator / R.O.T.O.R (1987 / 1984 / 1987, Paul Verhoeven / James Cameron / Cullen Blaine)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Triple-feature of 1980s robot sci-fi action pulp.  The Terminator only continues to look and feel better with age.
• 8:00 pm, “MEJK AND MOOD: 2 FILMS BY CARLOS PEREZ”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Oaxaca-based filmmaker Perez presents two of his documentaries about life in a Mixe community.
• Midnight, The Crimson Ghost (1-6) (1946, Fred C. Brannon and William Witney)
  • The New Beverly
  • Perhaps best known for the use of the villain’s mask in the iconography of the punk band The Misfits, The Crimson Ghost holds up as one of the great Republic Pictures serials.

Friday, April 8th 

• 7:00 pm, Raiders of the Lost Ark / Invisible Agent (1981 / 1942, Steven Spielberg / Edwin L. Marin)
  • The New Beverly
  • Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of the key films to emerge from the collective talents of the “New Hollywood” movement–represented here by Spielberg, George Lucas, writer Lawrence Kasdan, actor Harrison Ford, etc.  It’s paired with Invisible Agent, a classically corny WWII film with Nazi bad guys that inspired the later film.
• 7:30 pm, Before Sunrise / Before Sunset / Before Midnight (1995 / 2004 / 2013, Richard Linklater)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Trilogy following the evolving relationship of an American man and a French woman.
• 7:30 pm, Dolemite (1975, D’Urville Martin)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • One of the best-remembered of the films from the 1970s blaxploitation heyday.
• Midnight, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986, Tobe Hooper)
  • Cinefamily
  • Underrated horror film from the great Tobe Hooper.  Following on the heels of the iconic original, Hooper brings out the jet black and blood red humor for the sequel.

Thursday, April 7th

• 7:30 pm, Dazed and Confused / School of Rock (1993 / 2003, Richard Linklater)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two funny & moving films by director Linklater.
• 7:30 pm, Kamikaze / The Smashing of the Reich (1961, Perry Wolff)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two documentaries focusing, respectively, on the Pacific and European Theaters of World War II.  Well-executed endeavors made mostly from archival footage.

Wednesday, April 6th

• 7:30 pm, Saute ma Ville / Hotel Monterey (1968 / 1972, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Two lesser-seen Akerman films.   Hotel Monterey (photographed by Babette Mangolte) is a portrait of the eponymous New York City hotel.
• 7:30 pm, Kamikaze / The Smashing of the Reich (1961, Perry Wolff)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two documentaries focusing, respectively, on the Pacific and European Theaters of World War II.  Well-executed endeavors made mostly from archival footage.

Tuesday, April 5th

• 1:00 pm, The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
  • LACMA
  • John Huston’s directorial debut is one of his best.  All-time classic P.I. mystery based on a Dashiell Hammett novel.
• 7:30 pm, Motorcycle Gang / Dragstrip Girl (1957, Edward L. Cahn)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two American International Pictures exploitation films capitalizing on the success of Rebel Without a Cause and The Wild One.   

• 8:00 pm, “Positive Force: More than a Witness”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Documentary about Washington, DC-based punk rock activist collective Positive Force.

Monday, April 4th

• 7:30 pm, Summer of ’42 / Ode to Billy Joe (1971 / 1976, Robert Mulligan / Max Baer Jr.)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two nostalgia-filled romance films with scripts by Herman Raucher.
• 8:30 pm, “Chantal Akerman: Against Oblivion”
  • REDCAT
  • Two shorts and a feature by the late Chantal Akerman.  The feature, La Captive (1999), is based on a novel by Proust.

Sunday, April 3rd

• 1:00 pm, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, Robert Aldrich)
  • Cinefamily
  • Two of the screen’s great divas, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, ramp up the hysterics in this alternately campy and atmospheric melodrama.
• 4:30, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart)
  • Cinefamily (introduced by Doug Benson)
  • Enjoyably twisted children’s film with Gene Wilder.
• 7:30 pm, The New World / To the Wonder (2005 / 2012, Terrence Malick)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of Malick’s more recent films.  The New World reimagines the story of Jamestown, Virginia colonist John Smith and his relationship with Pocahontas.
• 7:30 pm, Taxi Driver / The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976, Martin Scorsese / John Cassavetes)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two gritty films steeped in the margins of urban life–Taxi Driver in New York; Chinese Bookie in L.A..  Cult actor Timothy Carey appears as a Hollywood mobster in the latter film.
• 7:30 pm, The Bad News Bears / The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three (1976 / 1974, Michael Ritchie, Joseph Sargent)
  • Cinefamily (introduced by Patton Oswalt)
  • Double-feature of Walter Matthau films from the peak of his career.  Both inhabit their respective genres with a high level of craftsmanship and humanity.
• 7:30 pm, Summer of ’42 / Ode to Billy Joe (1971 / 1976, Robert Mulligan / Max Baer Jr.)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two nostalgia-filled romance films with scripts by Herman Raucher.

• 7:30 pm, Sud (2016, Chantal Akerman)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • One of Akerman’s final films.  Sud explores the brutal 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas.

Saturday, April 2nd

• 3:00 pm, News From Home / I Don’t Belong Anywhere (1977 / 2015, Chantal Akerman / Marianne Lambert)
  • Cinefamily
  • News From Home is a portrait of New York City from the point of view of a European exile filmmaker; I Don’t Belong Anywhere is a documentary about Akerman’s life and career.
• 7:30 pm, Jaws 2 / Damien: Omen 2 (1978, Jeannot Szwarc / Don Taylor)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two less-successful, albeit not uninteresting sequels to box office smashes.
• 7:30 pm, “Love in the Hills and More”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • A selection of D.W. Griffith shorts.  Silent.
• 7:30 pm, Planet of the Apes / Revenge from Planet Ape (1968 / 1972, Franklin Schaffner / Amando de Ossorio)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • The classic Charlton Heston sci-fi film set in a world of intelligent primates is paired with its Mexican rip-off.
• 7:30 pm, Arthur (1981, Steve Gordon)
  • Cinefamily (introduced by Rob Corddry)
  • Arguably Dudley Moore’s most famous role.  The British comedian plays a drunk man-child who’s driven around New York looking for love.
• 11:00, The ‘Burbs (1989, Joe Dante)
  • Cinefamily (introduced by John Mulaney)
  • Tom Hanks stars in this black comedy about suburban life.

Friday, April 1st

• 7:30 pm, Jaws 2 / Damien: Omen 2 (1978, Jeannot Szwarc / Don Taylor)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two less-successful, albeit not uninteresting sequels to box office smashes.
• 7:30 pm, The Jerk / The Nutty Professor (1979 / 1963, Carl Reiner / Jerry Lewis)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two of the great American comedy films are presented here as an April Fool’s Day double-feature.
• 7:30 pm, To Kill a Mockingbird / The Stalking Moon (1962 / 1968, Robert Mulligan)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two films pairing actor Gregory Peck and director Robert Mulligan.  Of Peck’s many iconic roles, the wise, small town lawyer Atticus Finch may be his most timeless.
• 7:30 pm, Blue Ruin (2013, Jeremy Saulnier)
  • Cinefamily (introduced by Zach Galifianakis)
  • Saulnier’s taut, tense breakout film.  A man returns to his hometown seeking vengeance against a redneck family.
• 10:30, Withnail & I (1987, Bruce Robinson)
  • Cinefamily (introduced by Keegan-Michael Key)
  • Perhaps the great Richard E. Grant performance.  The gaunt & lanky actor plays a drunken hipster roving around late 60s England with his buddy.

Thursday, March 31st

• 7:30 pm, The Godfather Part II (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • All-around great production set in two time periods, with Robert DeNiro as the young Vito Corleone and Al Pacino as his son Michael, who never necessarily wanted to run the family in the first place.  Haunting.
• 7:30 pm, Jezebel / The Flame of New Orleans (1938 / 1941, William Wyler / Rene Clair)
  • The New Beverly
  • Dramatic romances about strong-willed women in the Old South.  With Bette Davis in Jezebel and Marlene Dietrich in The Flame of New Orleans.
• 7:30 pm, Cape Fear / Spellbound (1962 / 1945, J. Lee Thompson / Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two Gregory Peck suspense films.  In Cape Fear, Peck plays a mild-mannered family man who must stand up to the psycho stalking his family played by Robert Mitchum.
• 7:30 pm, From the Other Side (2012, Chantal Akerman)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Late Akerman film exploring the mountains on the border between Arizona and Mexico where those desperate enough can enter the United States illegally.
• 7:30 pm, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998, Terry Gilliam)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Johnny Depp stars in this funny, druggy adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s infamous gonzo journalism novel.

• 8:00 pm, “LA Air: Caitlin Díaz”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Films by Texas filmmaker Díaz, including a new dual film projection work.
• 9:00 pm, Wild Side (1995, Donald Cammell)
  • Smart Objects, Echo Park (a Smart Cinema screening organized by Eugene Kotlyarenko)
  • A crime movie with, as the title suggests, a wild side.  Cult director Cammell’s only film of the 1990s.

Wednesday, March 30th

• 7:30 pm, Jezebel / The Flame of New Orleans (1938 / 1941, William Wyler / Rene Clair)
  • The New Beverly
  • Dramatic romances about strong-willed women in the Old South.  With Bette Davis in Jezebel and Marlene Dietrich in The Flame of New Orleans.
• 7:30 pm, The Big Lebowski (1998, Coen Brothers)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Jeff Bridges stars as “The Dude,” an aging L.A. stoner caught in a whirlwind of plot twists and memorable characters.
• 7:30 pm, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce-1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • One of the most affecting slow burns in the history of film.

Tuesday, March 29th

• 1:00 pm, Lady From Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Intricate, sometimes confounding mystery starring Welles and Rita Hayworth.  Features the famous “hall of mirrors” finale in which the director was given full-range to indulge in his cinematic expressionism.
• 7:30 pm, Last Night at the Alamo (1983, Eagle Pennell)
  • Cinefamily
  • Black and white indie film about the regulars at a Houston bar coming together on the last night before the bar closes.
• 7:30 pm, Midnight Run (1988, Martin Brest)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Comedic action road movie finds odd couple Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin on the run from various government agencies.
• 7:30 pm, Alligator / Dark Age (1980 / 1986, Lewis Teague /Arch Nicholson)
  • The New Beverly
  • Alligator is based on a John Sayles script about alligators in the sewers while the Australian film Dark Age involves a giant alligator that’s worshiped by Aborigines.

Monday, March 28th

• 7:30 pm, The Promise / The Anonymous Venetian (1970, Gilbert Cates / Enrico Maria Salerno)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two tearjerkers from 1970 that revolve around the idea of one-time lovers reuniting many years later.
• 7:30 pm, Blazing Saddles (1974, Mel Brooks)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • Peak Mel Brooks.  This satire of the Western genre goes for big laughs.
• 7:30 pm, Dumb & Dumber (1994, Farrelly Brothers)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Very funny road movie with two lovable but stupid best friends played by Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels.

Sunday, March 27th

• 2:00 pm, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)
  • Cinefamily
  • Hollywood turns the lens on itself in this melodrama about an abusive studio head.  Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner star.
• 2:00 pm, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)
  • Cinemark 18
  • Classic update of old black and white adventure serials.  With Harrison Ford delivering an iconic performance as Indiana Jones.
• 4:45 pm, Sleepwalk / You Are Not I (1986 / 1981, Sara Driver)
  • Cinefamily
  • Hypnotic films by Jarmusch contemporary Driver.  You Art Not I was called one of the best films of the 1980s by Cahiers du Cinema. 
• 6:30 pm, The Promise / The Anonymous Venetian (1970, Gilbert Cates / Enrico Maria Salerno)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two tearjerkers from 1970 that revolve around the idea of one-time lovers reuniting many years later.
• 7:30 pm, Liquid Sky (1983, Slava Tsukerman)
  • Cinefamily
  • 1980s new wave drug sci-fi madness.  Tsukerman and many of the performers were involved in New York’s gritty and envelope-pushing Lower East Side art scene.
• 7:30 pm, Chicken Ranch (1983, Nick Broomfield)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • An early descent by the British filmmaker Broomfield (Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam) into the lurid heart of American culture.  This one looks at a famed legal brother where prostitution is streamlined and professionalized.
• 7:30 pm, Johnny Guitar / Asphalt Jungle (1954 / 1950, Nicholas Ray / John Huston)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Classic Sterling Hayden genre films.  Johnny Guitar is one of the great weird westerns.
• 7:30 pm, The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Despite its tendencies, particularly toward the end, toward cliche poetics, this is one of the films that makes a sincere claim for entry into the western canon.

Saturday, March 26th

• Through the day, Sesión Continua: a porn theater in Echo Park.
  • Machine Project
  • An all-day, all-night selection of vintage gay porn.
• 4:00 pm, The Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris)
  • Cinefamily
  • Errol’s film revolutionized the cinematic possibilities of documentaries and single-handedly re-opened the murder case of Randall Dale Adams.
• 7:00 pm, Stranger than Paradise (1984, Jim Jarmusch)
  • Cinefamily
  • This deadpan, transcendental road movie launched its own unique genre–“the Jim Jarmusch film”.  Starring John Lurie, Ezter Balint, and the great Richard Edson.
• 7:30 pm, Tempest / The Bat (1928 / 1926, Sam Taylor / Roland West)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Moody silent films featuring groundbreaking production design by William Cameron Menzies.
• 7:30 pm, Silent Rage (1982, Michael Miller)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Cult film with Chuck Norris fighting a slasher movie killer in the mold of Michael Myers.
• 7:30 pm, Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Mini double-feature of films inspired by 1970s grindhouse exploitation cinema.
• 7:30 pm, The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • One of the most engrossing epics in the history of film.  All cylinders were firing in this absolute classic tale of the Corleone crime family.
• 7:30 pm, The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
  • Aeros, Santa Monica
  • Grandly poetic and philosophical World War II film set in the Pacific.  Malick’s first directorial effort after a twenty year hiatus.
• 8:00 pm, “Commercial Value: The David Stern Collection — 16MM Works”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Television commercials made by Stern between 1967 and 1980

Friday, March 25th

• 7:30 pm, Born in Flames (1983, Lizzie Borden)
  • Cinefamily
  • Feminist science fiction classic about different groups of women who resolve their differences in order to take down the patriarchy.  With filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow acting in a key role.
• 7:30 pm, Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Mini double-feature of films inspired by 1970s grindhouse exploitation cinema.
• 7:30 pm, Gas Food Lodging (1992, Allison Anders)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Classic American indie about a single mother raising her two daughters in rural New Mexico.
• 7:30 pm, Dr. Strangelove / The Killing (1964 / 1956, Stanley Kubrick)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Classic Kubrick films featuring actor Sterling Hayden.  Crime novelist Jim Thompson wrote the screenplay for The Killing.
• 7:30 pm, Days of Heaven / Badlands (1978 / 1974, Terrence Malick)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two of the best films from perhaps the greatest decade in American filmmaking.  The Nestor Almendros cinematography in Days of Heaven does things few other films have equaled.
• Midnight, Eating Raoul (1982, Paul Bartel)
  • Bartel’s cult classic does for L.A. what John Waters does for Baltimore.
• Midnight, Sesión Continua: a porn theater in Echo Park.
  • Machine Project
  • An all-day, all-night selection of vintage gay porn.

Thursday, March 24th

• Exhibition Opening: Gibson & Recoder: “Still Film”
  • Young Projects, Pacific Design Center (through May 6th)
  • Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, well-known figures in the avant-garde film world, present this expanded cinema installation in which the tools used in the production and projection of film become the subject of various works which are not necessarily films themselves.
• Exhibition Opening: Ezra Johnson, “Painted Animations: 20016-2016”
  • Young Projects Gallery (through May 6th)
  • Artist Johnson uses oil and acrylic paint to produce his animations.
• Exhibition Opening: Femmes Video Art Festival 2
  • LACE
  • Ongoing selection of female-produced films and videos from around the world.  Curated by Micol Hebron.
• 7:30 pm, Vortex (1982, Beth B. and Scott B.)
  • Cinefamily
  • Lydia Lunch stars in this low-budget pastiche of film noir. One of the key documents to emerge from the no-wave punk scene of the early 1980s.
• 7:30 pm, Scarface (1983, Brian DePalma)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Fleeing communist Cuba, Tony Montana (Al Pacino) rises in the Miami drug underworld through the mechanisms of American capitalism.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.
• 7:30 pm, Below Sea Level (2008, Gianfranco Rosi)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park (presented by Helki Franzen)
  • Documentary about a totally off-the-grid community in Slab City, California.
• 7:30 pm, Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Mini double-feature of films inspired by 1970s grindhouse exploitation cinema.
• 7:30 pm, Naked Alibi / Suddenly (1953 / 1954, Jerry Hopper / Lewis Allen)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Two no-nonsense film noirs featuring Sterling Hayden.  Suddenly is a disturbingly prescient account of a would-be assassin who believes killing the President will bring him attention from others.

Wednesday, March 23rd

• 7:30 pm, Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly
  • Mini double-feature of films inspired by 1970s grindhouse exploitation cinema.
• 7:30 pm, Last Samurai (2003, Edward Zwick)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Tom Cruise plays an American military officer in Japan who embraces Samurai ethics and martial arts in this period action/adventure epic.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.

Tuesday, March 22nd

• 1:00 pm, Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • This Rita Hayworth vehicle set in the crime underworld is the star’s most memorable role.  Includes the famous line “Gilda, are you decent?” followed by the equally famous shot of Hayworth flipping her hair back and coyly responding “Me?”
• 7:30 pm, Hollywood Shuffle (1987, Robert Townsend)
  • Cinefamily (Robert Townsend in person)
  • Townsend wrote, starred in, and directed this satire of a black actor’s experience in racist Hollywood.
• 7:30 pm, The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Grandly poetic and philosophical World War II film set in the Pacific.  Malick’s first directorial effort after a twenty year hiatus.

• 7:30 pm, When Women Had Tails / When Women Lost Their Tails (1970 / 1971, Pasquale Festa Campanile)
  • The New Beverly
  • Italian sex comedies set in the time of cavemen.  Senta Berger stars.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.

Monday, March 21st

• 7:30 pm, Bewitched / Crime Doctor’s Manhunt (1945 / 1946, Arch Oboler / William Castle)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Suspense films exploring psychological conditions.  Castle’s Crime Doctor’s Manhunt is based on a Leigh Brackett script.
• 7:30 pm, Darling Lili / Fräulein Doktor (1970 / 1969, Blake Edwards / Alberto Lattuada)
  • The New Beverly
  • WWI spy romances.  Darling Lili was produced as a prestige picture but received notoriously poor reviews.  It’s perhaps only now that it can now be viewed as more of a cult item.
• 7:30 pm, Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Dreams within dreams within dreams, never sure which layer is “real”: this is the world of Nolan’s gripping head trip.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.
• 7:30 pm, Gladiator (2000 Ridley Scott)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • Russell Crowe stars in this rousing, well-made sword-and-sandals epic.

Sunday, March 20th

• 11:00 am, “The Hunger Games Marathon”
  • Egyptian Theater
  • All four dystopian YA epics from the Hunger Games cycle are screened alongside other treats for fans.  Based on the hugely popular Suzanne Collins’ novel series.
• 11:00 am, Nancy Drew, Reporter (1939, William Clemens)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Classic teen sleuth character Nancy Drew appears in this period adaptation.

• 2:00 pm, Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
  • Cinefamily
  • Moving, upsetting, and perplexing, this is one of the great works of art produced in the medium of film.
• 5:00 pm, The Flowers of Saint Francis (1950, Roberto Rossellini)
  • First Congregational Church, Koreatown (an Art Division screening)
  • This Rossellini film–the style of which is inspired by Medieval paintings from the time of St. Francis of Assisi–is one of the director’s most quietly beautiful and spiritually rich works .
• 5:30 pm, My Brother’s Wedding / Illusions (1983 /1982, Charles Burnett / Julie Dash)
  • Cinefamily
  • Films from the L.A. Rebellion movement.  Burnett is best known for Killer of Sheep (1978), but his My Brother’s Wedding, with its light comedic elements, is nearly as affecting.
• 7:00 pm, Calling Dr. Death / The Frozen Ghost (1943 / 1945, Reginald LeBorg / Harold Young)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Two Lon Chaney Jr. mysteries based on radio dramas.
• 7:30 pm, Darling Lili / Fräulein Doktor (1970 / 1969, Blake Edwards / Alberto Lattuada)
  • The New Beverly
  • WWI spy romances.  Darling Lili was produced as a prestige picture but received notoriously poor reviews.  It’s perhaps only now that it can now be viewed as more of a cult item.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.
• 7:30 pm, Beatrice / Voyager (1987 / 1991, Bertrand Tavernier / Volker Schlöndorff)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two European classics featuring a young Julie Delpy.  Beatrice (or La passion Béatrice) delivers a memorably raw portrayal of life in the Middle Ages.

Saturday, March 19th

• 4:00 pm, Bless Their Little Hearts (1984, Billy Woodberry)
  • Cinefamily
  • Shot in a black and white neo-realist style, this film about daily struggles among African-Americans in South Central LA is one of the key works of the L.A. Rebellion movement.
• 7:00 pm, Walker (1987, Alex Cox)
  • Cinefamily (Alex Cox in person)
  • Ed Harris stars in this story of an American who takes over the presidency of Nicaragua by force for several years during 1800s.  Based on actual events.
• 7:30 pm, The Mack / Taxi Driver (1973 / 1976, Michael L. Campus / Martin Scorsese)
  • The New Beverly
  • 1970s films about the gritty world of pimps and prostitutes.  Taxi Driver is one of the greatest films ever made, while the verite-style of the The Mack lends it a surprisingly raw emotional quality. 
• 7:30 pm, Solaris (1972, Andrei Tarkovsky)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Incredible, mind bending science-fiction epic by Russian master Tarkovsky.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.

• 8:00 pm, “Arboreality”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “…a program of short experimental film, video and expanded cinema from Minnesota based artists, loosely organized around the themes of elegy, impermanence, and trees.”
• 8:00 pm, What is it? (2005, Crispin Hellion Glover & David Brothers)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Glover’s mind bending directorial debut features him presiding over a cast of performers with Down’s Syndrome.  Some see it as a mess, others as successful continuation of the midnight movie tradition from Flaming Creatures to El Topo to Eraserhead and so on.
• 10:00 pm, Forbidden Zone (1980, Richard Elfman)
  • Cinefamily (with Richard Elfman in person)
  • Cult film based on the live concert spectacles of 1980s new wave band Oingo Boingo.
• Midnight, Death Wish (1974, Michael Winner)
  • New Beverly
  • Prototypical right wing vigilante film.  With Charles Bronson as an architect who seeks revenge on the street punks who murdered his wife and raped his daughter.

Friday, March 18th

• 7:30 pm, Border Radio (1987, Allison Anders, Dean Lent & Kurt Voss)
  • Cinefamily (with Allison Anders in person)
  • Classic indie production about a punk rocker who robs the club that won’t pay him and flees to Mexico, leaving behind his rock journalist wife.  Featuring many figures from the LA punk scene.
• 7:30 pm, Crashout / Jet Storm (1955 / 1961, Lewis R. Foster, Cy Endfield)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Crashout is a prison breakout film from a Cy Endfield script; Jet Storm is an exploration of mob hysteria directed by Endfield.
• 7:30 pm, The Mack / Taxi Driver (1973 / 1976, Michael L. Campus / Martin Scorsese)
  • The New Beverly
  • 1970s films about the gritty world of pimps and prostitutes.  Taxi Driver is one of the greatest films ever made, while the verite-style of the The Mack lends it a surprisingly raw emotional quality. 
• 7:30 pm, 2 Days in Paris / Skylab (2007 / 2011, Julie Delpy)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two character-driven films by actress, writer, and director Delpy.
• 7:30 pm, Ran (1985, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear is a cinematic feast with some of the most overwhelming set pieces in film history.

• 8:00 pm It is Fine!  Everything is Fine (2007, Crispin Hellion Glover & David Brothers)
  • Egyptian Theater (preceded by an hour long slideshow narrated by Crispin Glover)
  • Surreal film about a man with cerebral palsy (Steven C. Stewart, who also wrote the semi-autobiographical screenplay) who, despite his condition, has women throwing themselves at him.

• 10:30 pm, Repo Man (1984, Alex Cox)
  • Cinefamily (Alex Cox in person)
  • Punk rock sci-fi comedy with Emilio Estevez as Otto, the LA punk who becomes a repo man and gets involved with aliens and the CIA.

Thursday, March 17th

• 7:00 pm, “Black Radical Imagination”
  • MOCA Grand Avenue
  • “Black Radical Imagination is a touring program of experimental short films emphasizing new stories from within the African diaspora.”
• 7:30 pm, Dirty Dancing / Road House (1987 / 1989, Emile Ardolino / Rowdy Herrington)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Two quintessentially Patrick Swayze Patrick Swayze films are presented in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.  With a great performance by Jennifer Grey as his love interest in Dirty Dancing. 
• 7:30 pm, Mean Streets / Family Enforcer (1973 / 1976, Martin Scorsese / Ralph De Vito)
  • The New Beverly
  • From the cinematic heights of Scorsese’s feature-length debut to the enjoyable low budget genre fare of Family Enforcer, these two films explore the intersection of Italian-American family life and the mob.
• 7:30 pm, Star Trek: Generations / Star Trek: First Contact (1994 / 1996, David Carson / Jonathan Frakes)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • The two films in the Star Trek film cycle based on the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series.
• 7:30  pm, Stranger with a Camera (2000, Elizabeth Barret)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Documentary revisiting the murder of a wealthy land owner in the heart of Appalachian coal country.  Preceded by 1928 field footage shot in the deep South by novelist Zora Neale Hurston.

• 7:30 pm, City of God (2002, Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Epic Brazillian crime film indebted to Buñuel’s Los Olvidados (1950) and Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990).

Wednesday, March 16th

• 7:30 pm, The Hustler (1961, Robert Rossen)
  • Laemmle Royal
  • Classic Paul Newman film about a young pool hustler trying to make it to the top.  With Jackie Gleason in a classic supporting role as “Minnesota Fats”
• 7:30 pm, Mean Streets / Family Enforcer (1973 / 1976, Martin Scorsese / Ralph De Vito)
  • The New Beverly
  • From the cinematic heights of Scorsese’s feature-length debut to the enjoyable low budget genre fare of Family Enforcer, these two films explore the intersection of Italian-American family life and the mob.
• 7:30 pm, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, Stanley Kubrick)
  • ArcLight Hollywood (in the Dome)
  • In the genre of profound epic sci-fi, this Kubrick film has still yet to be approached, much less topped.
• 8:00 pm, “Richard Kern Night”
  • Cinefamily (with Richard Kern in person + photo installation)
  • Films by transgressive experimental filmmaker and photographer Kern, who was a fixture in the East Village scene of the 1980s.

Tuesday, March 15th

• 1:00 pm, Cover Girl (1944, Charles Vidor)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Rita Hayworth romance about a dancer who wins a contest to become a cover girl.
• 7:30 pm, Redneck Miller / Black Heat (1977 / 1976, John Clayton / Al Adamson)
  • Grindhouse films.  Redneck Miller is about the country music DJ Miller who gets involved with the wrong people; Black Heat is about a black Vegas cop who gets involved with the wrong people.

Monday, March 14th

• 7:30 pm, Tomorrow / Tender Mercies (1972 / 1983, Joseph Anthony / Bruce Beresford)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two collaborations between screenwriter Horton Foote and actor Robert Duvall.  Touching character-driven stories of rural life.
• 7:30 pm, The Other Side of the Mountain / The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1975 / 1978, Larry Peerce)
  • The New Beverly
  • The true story of an Olympics ski hopeful who’s left paralyzed after a crash is paired with its sequel, in which she finds love.
• 8:30 pm, “Dark Chamber Disclosure: A Projection Performance by Sandra Gibson + Luis Recoder”
  • REDCAT
  • Film projections and colored lights create a dynamic environment suggestive of both cinematic experience and something more primordial.

Sunday, March 13th

• 2:00 pm, The Big Knife (1955, Robert Aldrich)
  • Cinefamily
  • Scathing portrayal of Hollywood by dramatist turned screenwriter Clifford Odets.  With Rod Steiger as a vicious studio boss based on Columbia’s Harry Cohn.
• 2:00 pm, Tom Thumb (1958, George Pal)
  • The New Beverly
  • Tom Thumb, the littlest guy in the world, gets into some fun in this family classic.  With great period special effects by director Pal.
• 3:00 pm, Capone Cries a Lot (1985, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Wild Suzuki film set in a fantasy San Francisco of the 1920s.
• 7:00 pm, Princess Raccoon (2005, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Fantastical children’s story about a princess in a land of shape-shifting raccoons.

• 7:30 pm, Sherman’s March (1985, Ross McElwee)
  • Cinefamily
  • Groundbreaking documentary began as an account of General Sherman’s destructive march through the South during the Civil War, but ended up interweaving personal aspects of McElwee’s life and speculations on the modern world.
• 7:30 pm, The Passenger / Blow-Up (1975 / 1966, Michelangelo Antonioni)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Two classic Antonioni films that inhabit a suspense film milieu.  Despite not being as well known, Antonioni considered The Passenger one of his more successful works.
• 7:30 pm, Baraka (1992, Ron Fricke)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • A rousing 70mm documentary in the vein of Koyaanisqatsi (1982).
• 7:30 pm, The Other Side of the Mountain / The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1975 / 1978, Larry Peerce)
  • The New Beverly
  • The true story of an Olympics ski hopeful who’s left paralyzed after a crash is paired with its sequel, in which she finds love.

Saturday, March 12th

• 2:00 pm, Tom Thumb (1958, George Pal)
  • The New Beverly
  • Tom Thumb, the littlest guy in the world, gets into some fun in this family classic.  With great period special effects by director Pal.
• 2:00 pm, The Goose Woman (1925, Clarence Brown)
  • Cinefamily
  • This rarely screened silent film deals with the real life Hall-Mills murder case, around which was built one of the earliest “media circuses.”
• 5:00 pm, “Early Shorts by Ross McElwee”
  • Cinefamily
  • McElwee honed his highly personal documentary style in these shorts.
• 7:30 pm, Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • This adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel has emerged as one of the top three or four science fiction films ever produced.
• 7:30 pm, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Clint Eastwood stars in what is perhaps the all-around greatest of Leone’s spaghetti westerns.  The Morricone score; the iconic performances by Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef; the Mexican standoff at the conclusion…it’s all great.

• 7:30 pm, Yumeji (1991, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Japanese rock star Kenji Sawada stars as a bohemian in this Suzuki film set in the Taisho-era.

• 7:30 pm, Smokey and the Bandit / Convoy (1977 / 1978, Hal Needham / Sam Peckinpah)
  • The New Beverly
  • Hit the open road in these films from the late 1970s.  Smokey and the Bandit is quintessential Burt Reynolds while Convoy represents director Peckinpah at perhaps the nadir of his alcoholic slump.

• 7:30 pm, Desperately Seeking Susan (1985, Susan Seidelman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Seidelman followed up Smithereens with this somewhat more mainstream account of the Downtown scene in New York.  With Madonna in a key role before her career took off.
• 7:30 pm, Stranger With a Camera (2000, Elizabeth Barret)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Documentary re-visiting the murder of a wealthy land owner in the heart of Appalachian coal country.  Shown alongside film shot in the deep south in 1928 by acclaimed novelist Zora Neale Hurston.
• 8:30 pm, Where the Chocolate Mountains (2015, Pat O’Neil)
  • REDCAT (Preceded by a short O’Neil film from 1967)
  • The Chocolate Mountains on the border between California and Arizona–often used as a bombing range for the military–serve as the jumping off point for avant-garde filmmaker O’Neil’s new, large-scale digital work.
• 10:30 pm, Pigs (1972, Marc Lawrence)
  • Cinefamily
  • Notorious bad-taste horror film about a killer who feeds the remains of her victims to pigs.

Friday, March 11th

• 7:30 pm, Young Frankenstein / Son of Frankenstein (1974 / 1939, Mel Brooks / Rowland V. Lee)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Young Frankenstein is an outrageous, but thoroughly loving spoof of the classic Frankenstein films, as exemplified by Son of Frankenstein.
• 7:30 pm, 88:88 (2015, Isiah Medina)
  • Echo Park Film Center (also screening at 9 pm)
  • This dense, personal collage film by Canadian filmmaker Medina is one of the most-discussed experimental works of the past decade.
• 7:30 pm, Smithereens (1982, Susan Seidelman)
  • Cinefamily
  • Seidelman’s indie gem follows Wren (Susan Berman) from small town New Jersey to New York, where she’s hoping to find the punk rock scene, only to learn it’s migrated to Los Angeles.
• 7:30 pm, Sorry, Wrong Number / The Phantom of Crestwood (1948 / 1932, Anatole Litvak / Walter Ruben)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Two suspense films with strong female protagonists.
• 7:30 pm, Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
  • The Egyptian
  • One of the hallmarks of Hollywood cinema.  Peter O’Toole stars in David Lean’s lavishing epic.

• 7:30 pm, Smokey and the Bandit / Convoy (1977 / 1978, Hal Needham / Sam Peckinpah)
  • The New Beverly
  • Hit the open road in these films from the late 1970s.  Smokey and the Bandit is quintessential Burt Reynolds while Convoy represents director Peckinpah at perhaps the nadir of his alcoholic slump.

• 10:30 pm, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986, John McNaughton)
  • Cinefamily
  • Straight-faced slasher-film about a serial killer active in Chicago.  Brutal in its realism.

Thursday, March 10th

• 7:00 pm, “Carrie Mae Weems: Coming Up For Air”
  • MoCA Grand Avenue (A Los Angeles Filmforum screening)
  • Selection of videos exploring language, memory, and perception by celebrated visual artist Weems.
• 7:30 pm, Talking to Strangers (1988, Rob Tregenza)
  • Cinefamily
  • Godard and Richard Brody count themselves among the admirers of this idiosyncratic film which follows a writer speaking to different strangers on the streets of Baltimore.
• 7:30 pm, Miller’s Crossing (1990, the Coen Brothers)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • The Coen’s early homage to the mob film genre features Gabriel Byrne and John Turturro in stand-out performances.

• 7:30 pm, Smokey and the Bandit / Convoy (1977 / 1978, Hal Needham / Sam Peckinpah)
  • The New Beverly
  • Hit the open road in these films from the late 1970s.  Smokey and the Bandit is quintessential Burt Reynolds while Convoy represents director Peckinpah at perhaps the nadir of his alcoholic slump.

• 8:00 pm, “EZTV For You and Me”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Selection of short videos featured at the pioneering L.A. microcinema EZTV
• 9:00 pm, That Most Important Thing: Love (1975, Andrzej Żuławski)
  • Smart Objects (a Smart Cinema screening organized by Eugene Kotlyarenko)
  • Romy Schneider plays an aging soft core porn actress caught between a photographer and her husband.
• 10:00 pm, Blood Simple (1984, The Coen Brothers)
  • Cinefamily
  • The Coen Brothers’ debut is a wild neo-noir starring the great character actors M. Emmet Walsh, Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, and John Getz.

Wednesday, March 9th

• 7:30 pm, The Times of Harvey Milk (1984, Robert Epstein)
  • Cinefamily
  • Landmark documentary about San Francisco gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
• 7:30 pm, Cage/Cunningham (1991, Elliot Caplan)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • Documentary exploring the intertwining personal and professional lives of John Cage and Merce Cunningham.
• 7:30 pm, Smokey and the Bandit / Convoy (1977 / 1978, Hal Needham / Sam Peckinpah)
  • The New Beverly
  • Hit the open road in these films from the late 1970s.  Smokey and the Bandit is quintessential Burt Reynolds while Convoy represents director Peckinpah at perhaps the nadir of his alcoholic slump.

Tuesday, March 8th

• 1:00 pm, The Strawberry Blonde (1941, Raoul Walsh)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • James Cagney musical set in 1890s New York.  With Rita Hayworth and Olivia de Havilland as his two romantic interests.
• 7:30 pm, Eyes of Fire (1984, Avery Crounse)
  • Cinefamily
  • Early American pioneers are haunted by the ghosts of Native Americans in this cult classic.
• 7:30 pm, Crack House / Disco 9000 (1989 / 1973)
  • The New Beverly
  • Low budget crime movies set in African-American communities of Los Angeles.  Disco 9000 is one of the gems of the blaxploitation genre.

Monday, March 7th

• 7:30 pm, Zagero-Za (1981, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive Screening)
  • Suzuki’s surreal, haunting adaptation of an early twentieth century Japanese novel.
• 7:30 pm, Love Story / Oliver’s Story (1970 / 1978, Arthur Hiller / John Korty)
  • The New Beverly
  • The wildly popular Love Story and its less successful sequel.

Sunday, March 6th

• 2:00 pm, The Biscuit Eater (1972, Vincent McEveety)
  • The New Beverly
  • Disney remake of a beloved 1940 film about two racially mixed boys who train a “biscuit eater”–a hunting dog that only knows how to hunt its own dinner.
• 2:00 pm, In a Lonely Place (1950, Nicholas Ray)
  • Cinefamily
  • Dark noir drama set in Hollywood with Humphrey Bogart as an alcoholic screenwriter framed for murder.  One of auteur director Ray’s finest outings.
• 5:00 pm, The Iron Mask (1929, Allan Dwan)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • From the Alexandre Dumas story of twin heirs to the French monarchy–one of which is secretly rushed away, only to return and ruthlessly hold his brother captive in an iron mask.
• 7:00 pm, Zigeunerweisen (1980, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Suzuki epic named the best film of the 1980s in a poll of Japanese film critics.  The German title comes from a piece of violin music that haunts the protagonists.
• 7:00 pm, “Jesse Jones and Seamus Harahan: Irish artists on Northern Ireland presented by Mariah Garnett”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • “…recent digital videos by Irish artists from both sides of the border whose work depicts, directly and indirectly, the effects of the conflict in Northern Ireland on its population.”
• 7:30 pm, Love Story / Oliver’s Story (1970 / 1978, Arthur Hiller / John Korty)
  • The New Beverly
  • The wildly popular Love Story and its less successful sequel.

Saturday, March 5th

• 2:00 pm, The Biscuit Eater (1972, Vincent McEveety)
  • The New Beverly
  • Disney remake of a beloved 1940 film about two racially mixed boys who train a “biscuit eater”–a hunting dog that only knows how to hunt its own dinner.
• 7:30 pm, Firefox / The Eiger Sanction (1982 / 1975, Clint Eastwood)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two espionage adventure films directed by and starring Eastwood.
• 7:30 pm, Roger & Me (1989, Michael Moore)
  • Cinefamily
  • Moore’s funny and devastating exploration of what happens when capitalism abandons an American town.
• 7:30 pm, Galaxy Quest / The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1999 / 2005, Dean Parisot / Garth Jennings)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Alan Rickman comedy sci-fi films. The Hitchhiker’s Guide…is an adaptation of Douglas Adam’s popular series of novels, which had previously been adapted by the BBC.
• 9:00 pm, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988, Robert Zemeckis)
  • Palace Theater (a Cinespia screening, doors at 7:30)
  • Riotous merger of live action and animation exploring the somewhat-true story of public transportation’s death in Los Angeles in the 1940s.
• 10:00 pm, The Discipline of D.E. / Mala Noche (1982 / 1986, Gus Van Sant)
  • Cinefamily
  • Early Van Sant.  Mala Noche is one of the most affecting debuts of American independent film.

Friday, March 4th

• 7:30 pm, She’s Gotta Have It (1986, Spike Lee)
  • Cinefamily
  • Lee’s breakthrough follows Brooklyn girl Nola (Tracy Camila Johns) as she juggles three men and her independence.
• 7:30 pm, Sands of the Kalahari (1965, Cy Endfield)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (a UCLA Film & Television Archive screening)
  • Following a plane crash in the South African desert, a group of people must maintain their civilized manner in the midst of a primal environment.
• 7:30 pm, Die Hard / Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1988 / 1991, John McTiernan / Kevin Reynolds)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Alan Rickman delivers enjoyable portrayals of villains in these two films.  Die Hard is one of the best action films of the era.
• 7:30 pm, Firefox / The Eiger Sanction (1982 / 1975, Clint Eastwood)
  • The New Beverly
  • Two espionage adventure films directed by and starring Eastwood.

• 11:00 pm, The Evil Dead (1981, Sam Raimi)
  • Cinefamily
  • This comedy-horror classic from director Raimi is a roller coaster of cinematic invention.  Starring the great Bruce Campbell.

Thursday, March 3rd

• 7:30 pm, No Country for Old Men (2007, the Coen Brothers)
  • The Crest, Westwood (with a new original score by composer Matthew Atticus Berger)
  • Regarded as one of the Coen Brother’s finest outings, this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy dramatizes the escalating violence that besieges a small Texas town after Moss (Josh Brolin) finds money connected to a drug deal and decides to keep it.
• 7:30 pm, B.C. Butcher / Lollilove (2016 / 2004, Kansas Bowling / Jenna Fischer)
  • Egyptian Theater (with panel discussion led by Troma Films founder Lloyd Kaufman
  • Two Troma films directed by women.  B.C. Butcher’s Kansas Bowling was seventeen years old at the time of its production.
• 7:30 pm, Sense and Sensibility / Truly, Madly, Deeply (1995 / 1990, Ang Lee / Anthony Minghella)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Part of a tribute to the late actor Alan Rickman, these two romances deliver rich character development and a characteristically British sense of humor.
• 7:30 pm, Big Deal on Madonna Street / Divorce, Italian Style (1958 / 1962, Mario Monicelli / Pietro Germi)
  • The New Beverly
  • Internationally successful Italian comedies starring Marcello Mastroianni.  Divorce, Italian Style features a great black comedy set-up: divorce is illegal in Italy but a man can murder his wife and receive a light sentence if he can prove adultery; the only thing for Mastroianni left to do is get his wife to cheat on him.
• 7:30 pm, Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Arguably Scorsese’s crowning achievement.  This funny, violent & engrossing mob film delivers a master class in cinematic technique.

• 8:00 pm, Tootsie (1982, Sidney Pollack)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Well-made Dustin Hoffman comedy about a struggling actor who reinvents himself as an actress.

Wednesday, March 2nd

• 7:30 pm, McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  • Ahrya Fine Arts
  • Warren Beatty comes to a snowy mining town and opens a brothel with Julie Christie.  All goes well until it all stops going well.  One of the great films.
• 7:30 pm, Big Deal on Madonna Street / Divorce, Italian Style (1958 / 1962, Mario Monicelli / Pietro Germi)
  • The New Beverly
  • Internationally successful Italian comedies starring Marcello Mastroianni.  Divorce, Italian Style features a great black comedy set-up: divorce is illegal in Italy but a man can murder his wife and receive a light sentence if he can prove adultery; the only thing for Mastroianni left to do is get his wife to cheat on him.

• 10:00 pm, Seventeen (1983, Joel DeMott & Jeff Kreines)
  • Cinefamily
  • Documentary about an adolescent mixed-race relationship that has developed a cult following.

Tuesday, March 1st

• 1:00 pm, Only Angels Have Wings (1939, Howard Hawks)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Cary Grant stars in this Hollywood classic about pilots in a South American trading port.  The romantic twist at the end has just the right touch.
• 7:30 pm, Cutthroats Nine (1972, Joaquin Romero Marchent)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8, 2016)
  • Infamously gory paella western about bandits attacking a wagon filled with convicts.

Sunday, February 28th

• 6:00 pm, The Wild Bunch (1969, Sam Peckinpah)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening February 29th at 7:30 pm)
  • Peckinpah takes the optimistic but worn-out western genre and introduces it to the violence and cynicism of the 1970s.
• 6:00 pm, “Video Collective Los Angeles\\ Bring Your Own Video Feat. Ann Hirsch” 
  • Non-Plus Ultra, Silverlake
  • Los Angeles-based Hirsch presents her often humorous videos at the crux of social media and feminism.  With an additional open screening for anyone who wishes to present their work.

Saturday, February 27th

• Exhibition Opening: Nathaniel Mellors: “Prequel Dump”
  • The Box (through April 9th)
  • Wildly surreal and humorous videos by British artist and musician Mellors.  Installed with a large animatronic sculpture and other works.

• 2:00 pm, Castaway Cowboy (1974, Vincent McEveety)
  • The New Beverly (also screening February 28th at 2:00 pm)
  • James Garner stars as a cowboy who washes up in Hawaii in this live-action Disney kids film.

• 7:00 pm, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996, Kelly Makin)
  • Ray Stark Family Theater, USC
  • Theatrical film from the team behind the twisted Canadian sketch comedy television series Kids in the Hall.  A lot of laughs in this story about the irresponsible deregulation of anti-depressants.
• 7:30 pm, The Sleeping Beast Within / Smashing the O-Line (1960, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive screening)
  • Two of the earliest films featured in the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s “Action, Anarchy and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective”

• 7:30 pm, Twentieth Century / The Odd Couple (1934 / 1968, Howard Hawks, Gene Saks)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Fast-paced comedies with back and forth dialogue.  Twentieth Century is often overshadowed by other ’30s screwball comedies, but it remains among the finest of the genre.

• 7:30 pm, “Fatty and Mabel at Keystone”
  • Spielberg Theater at The Egyptian.
  • Collection of silent comedy shorts starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.

• 7:30 pm, Le Révélateur (1968, Philippe Garrel)
  • The Getty Center (preceded by Guy Maddin’s 1995 short film Odilon Redon or the Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity; both films feature live musical accompaniment by Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler)
  • Experimental documentary shot on highly-sensitive film stocks just days after the May 1968 protests in Paris.

• 8:00 pm, “Secret Sixteen”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • Secret Sixteen, a traveling platform for obscure films, presents “a 1960s Technicolor thriller featuring murder, mayhem, and DOLLS! Presented in glorious 16mm CinemaScope.”

Friday, February 26th

• 7:30 pm, “Harun Farocki: Parallel 1-4″ 
  • The Frog (a JB.L screening)
  • This series of videos deals with the logic of computer animation.  It’s among the final works produced by the late Harun Farocki, one of the most politically and aesthetically prescient of all contemporary artists.
• 7:30 pm, I Love a Mystery / The Unknown (1945 / 1946)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive screening)
  • Two mysteries based on period radio productions.

Thursday, February 25th

• 7:30 pm, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972, Samuel Fuller)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Late Fuller film about an American detective in Europe.  Recently restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
• 7:30 pm, Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Bruce Lee’s most popular film.  His screen presence remains one of the most compelling in cinematic history.
• 7:30 pm, The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)
  • Union Station (Zocalo Public Square Screening)
  • Roger Ebert considered this thriller set in post-War Vienna to be perhaps the greatest of all the classic movies.  With a fantastic score performed on a zither.

• 7:30 pm, The Right Stuff (1983, Philip Kaufman)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Follows the true story of U.S. Air Force test pilots who become involved in the earliest space exploration missions.  Based on a book by Tom Wolfe.

• 8:30pm, Ashes and Embers (1983, Haile Gerima)
  • The Broad
  • “A disillusioned veteran of the Vietnam War attempts to come to terms with his past and his current place as a black man in America…”  Introduced by Ava DuVernay.

Wednesday, February 24th

• 7:30 pm, Reservoir Dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening February 25, 26th, and 27th at 7:30 pm)
  • Tarantino’s debut laid the groundwork for everything to come: streetwise wordplay, intra-cinematic referentiality & simmering rhythms punctuated with profane humor and violence.

Tuesday, February 23rd

• 1:00 pm, Suspicion (1941, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Cary Grant stars as a young man who may or may not be plotting to kill his heiress wife.

• 7:30 pm, Giant (1956, George Stevens)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • George Stevens’ Texas epic follows a ranching family through a quarter century.  With some of the great movie stars: Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean.

• 7:30 pm, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966, Mike Nichols)
  • Lammle Royal
  • Edward Albee’s satire of marriage in academia is brought to the screen by Nichols in his directorial debut.  Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton–a real life couple at the time–star.

• 7:30 pm, Boot Hill (1969, Giuseppe Colizzi)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8)
  • Violent spaghetti western involving circus performers.

Monday, February 22nd

• 7:30 pm, Passport to Darkness / Eight Hours of Fear (1959 / 1957, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • These early Suzuki noirs hint at the wild cinematic experiments for which the filmmaker is known.

• 7:30 pm, Sideways (2004, Alexander Payne)
  • Cinefamily (a Greg Proops Film Club screening)
  • Dramedy about two men in their forties who travel from Los Angeles to Napa Valley for a bonding session.  Preceded by a live recording of Greg Proop’s Film Club podcast.

• 7:30 pm, Fast Times at Ridgemont High / Single White Female (1982 / 1992, Amy Hecklering / Barbet Schroeder)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Jennifer Jason Leigh films.  Fast Times at Ridgemont High set the tone for teen movies up to the present; Single White Female remains a classic in the realm of psychological thrillers.

• 8:30pm, “Three Films by Jennifer Reeder”
  • REDCAT Theater
  • Artist Jennifer Reeder based these films on after school specials about teenage girls.

Sunday, February 21st

• Hito Steyerl: “Factory of the Sun”
  • MoCA, Grand Avenue (exhibition ongoing through September 12, 2016)
  • “…Steyerl probes the pleasures and perils of image circulation in a moment defined by the unprecedented global flow of data.”

• 11:00 am, Muppet Treasure Island (1996, Brian Henson)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Enjoyable Muppets film based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson high-seas adventure novel.

• 2:00 pm, Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)
  • Cinefamily
  • All-time classic about an aging silent film star who hires a young screenwriter to help her mount a comeback.

• 5:00 pm, “Chaplin at Mutual”
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Essential viewing.  These early shorts, The Immigrant and The Rink in particular, showcase some of Chaplin’s best gags and his earliest breakthroughs in cinematic art.    

• 6:00 pm, Straw Dogs (1971, Sam Peckinpah)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening February 22nd at 7:30 pm)
  • Peckinpah’s most brutal examination of masculinity in the modern age.  Dustin Hoffman stars.

• 7:00 pm, The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)
  • Cinemark 18, TCL Chinese Theaters (also screening at 2 pm & on Wednesday, February 24th at 2 pm and 7 pm)
  • John Huston’s directorial debut is one of his best.  All-time classic P.I. mystery based on a Dashiell Hammett novel.  Starring Humphrey Bogart.

• 7:00 pm, Pistol Opera / A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (2001 / 1977, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Two later Suzuki films.  Pistol Opera is in some ways the summation of the director’s career.

• 7:30 pm, “The Festival of (In)appropriation #8”
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “…works that appropriate existing film, video, or other media and repurpose it in ‘inappropriate’ and inventive ways.”

• 7:30 pm, Heaven’s Gate (1980, Michael Cimino)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Long known as one of Hollywood’s biggest financial flops, this epic American film is starting to be appreciated on its own majestic terms.

• 7:30 pm, The Last Picture Show (1971, Peter Bogdanovich)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Story of teenagers coming of age in a dying West Texas town.  It captured the post-1960s malaise as well as any other film from the period.

Saturday, February 20th

• 2:00 pm, Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978, Robert Butler)
  • The New Beverly (also screening February 21st at 2:00 pm)
  • Comedic kids western featuring Jim Dale (the British Carry-On films) playing three different roles.

• 7:00 pm, Lianna / Baby It’s You (1983, John Sayles)
  • Cinefamily (Filmmaker in person.  At 2 pm Sayles also screens his City of God following a master-class in DIY filmmaking)
  • Intimate, character-based films dealing with social issues by American independent film legend Sayles.

• 7:30 pm, Viridiana (1961, Luis Buñuel)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Vintage Buñuel.  A nun is seduced by her wealthy uncle but later unleashes packs of poor people onto his estate.

• 7:30 pm, Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Sugarland Express (1977 / 1974, Steven Spielberg)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Two classics from Spielberg’s early period.  Close Encounters features some of his most memorable images.

• 8:00 pm, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998, Terry Gilliam)
  • The Crest, Westwood (with live music)
  • Johnny Depp stars in this funny, druggy adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s infamous gonzo journalism novel.

Friday, February 19th

• 7:30 pm, Brother From Another Planet / Piranha (1984 / 1978, John Sayles / Joe Dante)
  • Cinefamily (filmmaker in person)
  • Brother From Another Planet follows an alien who appears as an African-American in New York; Piranha (based on a John Sayles’ script) is enjoyable post-Jaws schlock.

• 7:30 pm, Escape to Witch Mountain / Return From Witch Mountain (1975 / 1978, John Hough)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Live-action Disney films with playfully dark undercurrents.  Donald Pleasance delivers a great Donald Pleasance performance in Escape to Witch Mountain.  

• 8:00 pm, “Untitled (Just Kidding) Works by Jesse Malmed”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • A selection of Chicago-based Malmed’s conceptual and language-based videos.

Thursday, February 18th

• 7:30 pm, Kung Fu Hustle (2004, Stephen Chow)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • After Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow is the master of kung-fu comedy.  This widely popular film set in the 1940s is Chow at his best.

• 7:30 pm, Blow Out / Obsession (1981 / 1976, Brian DePalma)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two of DePalma’s riffs on Hitchcock.  The end of Blow Out–an otherwise gritty, cynical film–is heartbreaking.  

• 7:30 pm, All That Jazz (1979, Bob Fosse)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Dancer/choreographer/filmmaker Fosse’s surreal & spectacular autobiography.  Some of the greatest musical sequences in film history.

• 7:30 pm, Return of the Secaucus Seven (1979, John Sayles)
  • Cinefamily (preceded by a conversation with the filmmaker)
  • Sayles’ first film is an account of former ’60s radicals reuniting for a weekend.  Pre-dates The Big Chill.

• 7:30 pm, Romeo and Juliet (1968, Franco Zeffirelli)
  • ArcLight Culver City
  • Shakespeare’s classic love story is adapted here by Italian filmmaker Zeffirelli.  One of the most broadly popular adaptations of the Bard.

• 7:30 pm, The Tin Drum (1979, Volker Schlöndorff)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • This adaptation of a Günter Grass novel follows a boy who, amidst the rise of Nazism, refuses to grow up.

• 8:00 pm, “Films of JuanMa Calderon”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • A selection of Calderon’s lively videos, many of which deal with the experience of Latin American exiles in the U.S.

• 8:00 pm, Jacques Rivette, Le Veilleur (The Watchman) (1990, Claire Denis)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Documentary following filmmaker Rivette as he navigates Parisian streets and discusses his filmmaking process.

Wednesday, February 17th

• 6:30 pm, Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening February 18th at 6:30 pm & February 19th and 20th at 5:30 pm)
  • Jamie Foxx stars as a renegade slave in Tarantino’s “Southern-fried spaghetti western.”  With Samuel L. Jackson as a grotesque “Uncle Tom.”

• 7:30 pm, Mysterious Island (1961, Cy Endfield)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive screening)
  • Fantasy film with Ray Harryhausen special effects.  Based on a Jules Verne novel about American Civil War soldiers who fly off in a balloon and end up on the eponymous island.

Tuesday, February 16th

• 1:00 pm, Strangers on a Train (1951, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Classic thriller based on the concept of “trading murders.”  From a Patricia Highsmith novel.

• 7:00 pm, An American in Paris
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • This Gene Kelly musical is one of Hollywood’s triumphs.  A  blend of dreamy artsiness and enjoyable period corn.

• 7:30 pm, La Dolce Vita (1961, Federico Fellini)
  • Monica Film Center
  • Fellini’s stylized epic of ennui & Roman nightlife set the tone for post-Neo-Realist Italian cinema in the decades to come.  With Anita Ekberg in a classic supporting role.

• 7:30 pm, Roman Holiday (1953, William Wyler)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck star in this quintessential 1950s romantic comedy.  Dalton Trumbo is credited with the original story and co-wrote the screenplay.

• 7:30 pm, Charley One-Eye (1973, Don Chaffey)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8)
  • An African-American and Native American hide from a bounty hunter in a Mexican church.  One of Richard Roundtree’s first starring roles after the success of Shaft (1971).

• 8:00 pm, Moonrise Kingdom (2012, Wes Anderson)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Quirkily stylized nostalgia about two kids falling in love in 1965.  One of Anderson’s most warm-hearted outings.

Monday, February 15th

• 7:30 pm, Georgia / Mrs. Parker & The Vicious Circle (1995 / 1994, Ulu Grosbard / Alan Rudolph)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two Jennifer Jason Leigh vehicles from one of the heydays of American independent filmmaking.

Sunday, February 14th

• 1:00 pm, The Thin Man (1934, W.S. Van Dyck)
  • Cinefamily
  • Wisecracking sophisticates solve a mystery in this enjoyable adaptation of a Dashiell Hammett novel.  Co-starring Asta, one of Hollywood’s most famous canine performers.

• 3:30 pm, City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)
  • Cinefamily (proceeded by a live performance from actress Lindsay Benner)
  • Moving and funny, this story of the relationship between a young blind woman and Chaplin’s famous “Tramp” is perhaps the comedian’s masterpiece.

• 6:00 pm, Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening February 15th at 7:00 pm)
  • Aging sheriff John Wayne agrees to work with a drunk (Dean Martin) and a hot shot kid (Ricky Nelson) in order to stop the bad men on their way to shoot up the town.  A fittingly unpretentious yet perfectly constructed capstone to director Hawks’ career.

• 7:00 pm, Pretty in Pink (1986, John Hughes)
  • Cinemark 18, TCL Chinese Theaters (also screening at 2 pm & on Wednesday, February 17th at 2 pm and 7 pm)
  • Actress Molly Ringwald’s collaborations with writer/director Hughes were a genre unto themselves in the 1980s.  Here’s one of the most beloved examples.

• 7:00 pm, Rafter Romance / Double Harness (1933, William Seiter / John Cromwell)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • This Valentine’s Day screening features two early 1930s romances from RKO Radio Pictures.

• 7:30, Love Exposure, (2008, Sion Sono)
  • Cinefamily
  • A young man wrestles with Catholicism and pornography in this Japanese version of a Jodorowsky epic.  From the director of Suicide Club (2001).

• 7:30 pm, Harold and Maude (1971, Hal Ashby)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Cult classic love story between an alienated young man and an eccentric older woman.  Remains as touching and darkly humorous as it did upon its release.

• 7:30 pm, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, Blake Edwards)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • One of the great New York City movies.  Audrey Hepburn stars in this adaptation of a Truman Capote novel.

• 9:00 pm, Moulin Rouge (2001, Baz Luhrmann)
  • Los Angeles Theater (a Cinespia screening)
  • High-octane musical set in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.  Starring Nicole Kidman.

Saturday, February 13th

• 2:00 pm, The Patsy (1928, King Vidor)
  • Cinefamily
  • King Vidor domestic comedy starring Marion Davies.  Silent.

• 2:00 pm, Against a Crooked Sky (1975, Earl Bellamy)
  • The New Beverly (also screening February 14th at 2pm)
  • A boy must pass the Native American “crooked sky” test in order to save his sister.  Co-starring Richard Boone.

• 7:30 pm, King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Shoedsack)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • One of the most iconic characters in film history is also one of its most tragic.  Groundbreaking special effects by Willis O’Brien.

• 7:30 pm, Tattooed Life / Carmen from Kawachi (1965 / 1966, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Suzuki films exploring the director’s typical themes of lust and violence in an anarchic pop style.

• 7:30 pm, The Sinful Dwarf (1973, Vidal Raski)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Notorious Danish film about a very sinful dwarf.

• 7:30 pm, Annie Hall / The Purple Rose of Cairo (1977 / 1985, Woody Allen)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Films featuring Allen’s two cinematic muses: Diane Keaton in Annie Hall; Mia Farrow in The Purple Rose of Cairo.

• 9:00 pm, My Bloody Valentine (1981, George Mihalka)
  • TCL Chinese Theaters
  • Cult classic Canadian slasher film.  Quentin Tarantino cites it as his favorite of the genre.

• 9:00 pm, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
  • Palace Theater, Downtown (a Cinespia screening, doors at 7:30)
  • From a mind-bending Charlie Kaufman script about a man who has his memories erased after a painful breakup.  Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star.

Friday, February 12th

• 7:00 pm, The Notebook (2004, Nick Cassavetes)
  • TCL Chinese Theaters (also screening Saturday, February 17th at 7:30 pm and Sunday, February 14th at 7:30 pm)
  • Tearjerker based on a Nicholas Sparks novel.  Ryan Gosling’s breakout film.

• 7:30 pm, Gate of Flesh / Story of a Prostitute (1964 / 1965, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Two Seijun Suzuki films focused on the oldest profession.   

• 7:30 pm, La Belle et La Bete / Wings of Desire (1946 / 1987, Jean Cocteau / Wim Wenders)
  • Aero Theater, Santa Monica
  • Dreamy fantasy films by two of European cinema’s greatest masters.

• 7:30 pm, The Mother and the Whore (1973, Jean Eustache)
  • Cinefamily
  • Eustache’s alternately banal and sexually-frank masterpiece.  Cahiers du Cinema described it as the greatest film of the 1970s.

• 7:30 pm, Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • This adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel has emerged as one of the top three or four science fiction films ever produced.

• 7:30 pm, X-Ray (1981, Boaz Davidson)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian
  • Over-the-top slasher film set in a hospital.  With former Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton.

Thursday, February 11th

• 7:30 pm, Bloodsport (1986, Newt Arnold)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • The ultimate Jean-Claude Van Damme film was also his debut.  Co-starring kung-fu cinema legend Bolo Yeung as Van Damme’s final opponent.

• 7:30 pm, The Picture of Dorian Gray / The Canterville Ghost (1945 / 1944, Albert Lewin / Jules Dassin)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two adaptations of supernatural-themed Oscar Wilde stories.  A young Angela Lansbury delivers a memorable performance in Dorian Gray. 

• 8:00 pm, Behavior (2016, William Leavitt)
  • LA><ART (a Los Angeles Film Forum Screening)
  • Shot on unfinished stage sets, artist Leavitt explores nuances of everyday language.

• 9:00 pm, Peppermint Candy (1999, Lee Chang-Dong)
  • Smart Objects, Echo Park (a Smart Cinema rooftop screening, organized by Eugene Kotlyarenko)
  • Chang-Dong’s epic begins with the protagonist’s suicide and then progresses backwards through his major life events.  Some have interpreted the film as an allegory of South Korea’s recent history.

Wednesday, February 10th

• 7:00 pm, The Stunt Man (1980, Richard Rush)
  • Ray Stark Family Theater, USC
  • A Hollywood director (Peter O’Toole) allows a young man (Steve Railsback) to hide from the police on his film set.  The catch: the young man has to become the film’s new stunt man, engaging in an increasingly dangerous series of stunts.

• 7:30 pm, The Princess Bride (1987, Rob Reiner)
  • ArcLight Culver City
  • Fairy tale with a modern-day framework that continues to cultivate an audience.  William Goldman wrote the screenplay, based on his novel.

• 7:30 pm, McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening February 11, 12, and 13th at 7:30 pm)
  • Warren Beatty comes to a snowy mining town and opens a brothel with Julie Christie.  All goes well until it all stops going well.  One of the great films.

• 8:30 pm, Love Story (1970, Arthur Hiller)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Wildly popular romance with Ali MacGraw and Ryan O’Neal.  Includes the famous line “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

Tuesday, February 9th

• 1:00 pm, Spellbound (1945, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck star in this thriller based on ideas from Freudian psychotherapy.  Dream sequences feature Salvador Dalí designed sets & paintings.

• 7:00 pm, “Space Oddities Phase II: 2 New Films by Margo Victor”
  • 356 Mission
  • Victor, a minimalist & feminist working primarily in the art world, presents two new films.

• 7:30 pm, The Great Silence (1968, Sergio Corbucci)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8)
  • Some consider this Corbucci film with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski to be the finest example, outside of Sergio Leone, of the spaghetti western genre.

Monday, February 8th

• 7:00 pm, Gone With the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • An American cultural landmark.  This romance with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh dramatizes the death of the Old South.

• 7:00 pm, The Babadook (2014, Jennifer Kent)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Psychological horror about a single mother whose son may or may not be telling the truth about an evil storybook character come alive.

• 7:30 pm, Kanto Wanderer / The Call of Blood (1963 / 1964, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Two early Suzuki outings in which the director’s experimental techniques begin to emerge.

• 7:30 pm, “The Early Films of Phil Niblock”
  • LACE, Hollywood (a Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • Early film works by the composer, filmmaker, and intermedia artist Phil Niblock

• 7:30 pm, Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Paul Thomas Anderson takes the Adam Sandler comedies of the 1990s into the art house.

Sunday, February  7th

• 2:00 pm, To Catch a Thief (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Cinemark 18 (also screening Wednesday, February 10th at 2 pm and 7 pm)
  • Comedy, romance, and thrills combine in this Alfred Hitchcock film set on the French Riviera.  With Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

• 6:00 pm, Stagecoach (1939, John Ford)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening Monday, February 8th at 7:30 pm)
  • Classic Ford western about various “types” traversing dangerous territory in a stagecoach.  John Wayne’s breakout role.

• 7:00 pm, White Homeland Commando (1992, Elizabeth LeCompte / The Wooster Group)
  • 356 Mission
  • The Wooster Group’s first stand-alone video project.  Police procedurals meet far-out avant-garde theater.

• 7:00 pm, Chandu the Magician / Chandu on the Magic Island (1932 / 1934)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  •  Magician and hypnotist Chandu appears in these two adaptations of popular radio dramas.

• 8:00 pm, L.A.X. (1980, Fabrice Ziolkowski)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Before Los Angeles Plays Itself, this cinema essay explored the paradoxical metropolis that the American film industry calls home.

Saturday, February 6th

• 2:00 pm, The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams (1974, Richard Friedenberg)
  • The New Beverly (also screening February 7th at 2pm)
  • Mountain man Grizzly Adams and his pet bear cub Ben live in harmony with nature in this family film.

• 3:00 pm, The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • One of the great movies.  Judy Garland singing “Over the Rainbow” transcends the screen.

• 7:00 pm, The Executioner’s Song (1982, Lawrence Schiller)
  • Cinefamily
  • Based on a fact-based Norman Mailer novel, this film details the exploits of Gary Gilmore, a murderer who demands he receive capital punishment.

• 7:30 pm, Tokyo Drifter / Fighting Elegy (1966, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Tokyo Drifter is a pop parody of yakuza crime stories; Fighting Elegy is about a man whose pent up sexuality can only be satisfied by fighting.

• 7:30 pm, An American in Paris / Band Wagon (1951 / 1953, Vincente Minelli)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Outside of Singin’ in the Rain, these two Minelli-directed musicals vie for the title of greatest in the genre.

• 7:30 pm, The Deer Hunter (1978, Michael Cimino)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • The horrors of the Vietnam War come home in this Oscar-winning tour de force.  Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, and Christopher Walken star.

Friday, February 5th

• 7:30 pm, Branded to Kill / Youth of the Beast (1967 / 1963, Seijun Suzuki)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • Two of the excessive, ultra-stylized films produced by cult filmmaker Suzuki in Japan in the 1960s.  Some of the scenes in Branded to Kill ultimately resulted in his firing from Nikkatsu Studios.

• 7:30 pm, American Dreamer / Last Movie (1971, L.M. Kit Carson & Lawrence Schiller / Dennis Hopper)
  • Cinefamily (American Dreamer also screens Saturday, February 6th at 2:00 pm and 4:30 pm)
  •  Documentary about Dennis Hopper’s quixotic, drug-fueled efforts to make his experimental western The Last Movie.  Paired with the film itself.

• 7:30 pm, Oklahoma! / Show Boat (1955 / 1951, Fred Zinnemann / George Sidney)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals with high-gloss Hollywood production values.

• 7:30 pm, McCabe & Mrs. Miller / The Long Goodbye (1971 / 1973, Robert Altman)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two of Altman’s best.  McCabe & Mrs. Miller is one of the dreamiest films ever made.

• 8:00 pm, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam)
  • The Crest, Westwood
  • Classic satire of the Knights of the Roundtable legends from the Monty Python team.

Thursday, February 4th

• 7:30 pm, Enter the Dragon (1973, Robert Clouse)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Bruce Lee’s most popular film.  His screen presence remains one of the most compelling in cinematic history.

• 7:30 pm, The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975, Bruce Nyznik & Lawrence Schiller)
  • Cinefamily
  • Japanese daredevil skies down Mt. Everest.  Oscar winner for best documentary.

• 7:30 pm, Harvey / The Glenn Miller Story (1950 / 1954, Henry Koster / Anthony Mann)
  • Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two films scripted by Oscar Brodney.  Harvey features Jimmy Stewart playing opposite a giant rabbit.

Wednesday, February 3rd

• 7:00 pm, Doctor Zhivago (1965, David Lean)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Epic romance set during the Bolshevik Revolution.  With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, and Geraldine Chaplin.

• 7:00 pm, Mean Girls (2004, Mark Waters)
  • ArcLight Pasadena, ArcLight Santa Monica
  • This Tina Fey-scripted teen comedy stars Lindsay Lohan.  Funny & touching.

• 7:30 pm, The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8; also screening February 4th, 5th, and 6th at 7:30 pm)
  • Sci-fi horror set in an Antarctic research base.  Carpenter’s bloody remake of the 1951 classic.

Tuesday, February 2nd

• 1:00 pm, Rebecca (1940, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Hitchcock’s first Hollywood film.  Gothic romance based on a Daphne Du Maurier novel.

• 7:30 pm, The Hellbenders (1966, Sergio Corbucci)
  • The New Beverly (followed by Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful 8)
  • A Confederate soldier tries to reignite and then win the Civil War for the South.  Joseph Cotten stars in this spaghetti western.

Monday, February 1st

• 7:30 pm, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima)
  • Cinefamily
  • David Bowie appears as British P.O.W. in Japan during World War II.  Directed by Japanese cinema legend Oshima, famed score by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

• 7:30 pm, Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome / The Shadow (1947 / 1940)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening)
  • A continuation of the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s “Out of the Ether: Radio Mysteries and Thrillers on Screen” series.

• 8:00 pm, Goodfellas (1990, Martin Scorsese)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Arguably Scorsese’s crowning achievement.  This funny, violent & engrossing mob film delivers a master class in cinematic technique.

Sunday, January 31st 

• 2:00 pm, Key Largo (1948, John Huston)
  • Cinefamily
  • Perhaps the original Florida Noir.  Bogart and Bacall’s fourth collaboration.

• 2:00 pm, Blazing Saddles (1974, Mel Brooks)
  • Cinemark 18 (also screening Wednesday, February 3rd at 2 pm and 7 pm)
  • Peak Mel Brooks.  This satire of the Western genre goes for big laughs.

• 7:00 pm, The Limping Man / The Master Plan, (1953 / 1955, Cy Endfield)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film & Televsion Archive screening)
  • Two British crime films by former Orson Welles’ protege Endfield

• 7:30 pm, Mr. Freedom (1969, William Klein)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Klein’s scathing satire of jingoistic American culture where war and mass entertainment merge.

• 7:30 pm, Foreign Correspondent / Bulldog Drummond (1940 / 1929, Alfred Hitchcock / Richard Jones)
  • The Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two thrillers featuring production design by William Cameron Menzies.

• 7:30 pm, “Collage Dada Jukebox: The Animation Films of Run Wrake”
  • The Egyptian (A Los Angeles Film Forum Screening)
  • Films by Wrake, an innovative British animator whose hyperactive collage style came to prominence in the 1990s

•  8:00 pm, The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Nicolas Roeg)
  • Cinefamily (also screening at 4:45 pm)
  • David Bowie appears as an alien who arrives on Earth to take back water to his home planet.  Western culture & capitalism keep him from returning.

Saturday, January 30th 

• 2:00 pm, Superdad (1973, Vincent McKeevety)
  • The New Beverly (also screening Sunday, January 31st at 2 pm)
  • This Kurt Russell teen film focuses on his girlfriend, a young woman who goes to college and finds the counterculture (much to the chagrin of her father).

• 7:30 pm, Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Famed Charlton Heston epic with amazing chariot race scene.  Won eleven Oscars.

• 7:30 pm, Gone With the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)
  • The Aero, Santa Monica
  • An American cultural landmark.  This romance with Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh dramatizes the death of the Old South.

• 7:30 pm, “A Tribute to Penelope Spheeris: UCLA Short Films and Beyond”
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer
  • A selection of Spheeris’s (The Decline of Western Civilization, Wayne’s World) student films accompanied by various later shorts.

Friday, January 29th

• 3:10 pm, Kaos (1986, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts (also screening Saturday, January 30th at 8:30 pm, and Sunday, January 31st at 12:00 pm)
  • Multiple stories set in Sicily intersect in this “voloptuous, naturalistic trip.”  Based on various works by Luigi Pirandello.

• 7:00 pm, Dudes (1988, Penelope Spheeris)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film & Televison Archive screening)
  • Jon Cryer, Daniel Roebuck, and Flea head west in Spheeris’s comedic punk rock road film.

• 7:10 pm, The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts (also screening Saturday, January 30th at 2:45 pm, and Sunday, January 31st at 4:20 pm, and 9:55 pm)
  • Lyrical film set in a small Italian town at the close of World War II.

• 7:30 pm, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963, Stanley Kramer)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Classic 60s widescreen comedy with all-star cast.

• 7:30 pm, Things to Come / Invaders from Mars (1936 / 1953, William Cameron Menzies)
  • The Aero, Santa Monica
  • Two highly visual sci-fi films directed by Menzies.  Invaders from Mars is one of the most surreal in the genre

• 8:00 pm, Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979, Terry Jones)
  • The Crest, Westwood
  • Classic religious satire from the Monty Python team.

• 9:45 pm, Padre Padrone (1977, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
  • Ahrya Fine Arts (also screening at 12:30 pm, Saturday, January 30th at 12:00 pm and 5:40 pm, and Sunday, January 31st at 7:10 pm)
  • Drama of a country shepherd who educates himself to escape his tyrannical father.

Thursday, January 28th 

• 7:30 pm, Faces (1968, John Cassavetes)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Cassavetes’ breakthrough.  Groundbreaking hysterical realism with Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel.

• 7:30 pm, 8 Femmes (2002, François Ozon)
  • Cinefamily
  • A who’s who of French cinema appear in Ozon’s merger of Agatha Christie whodunit and technicolor musical.

• 7:30 pm, Khartoum (1966, Basil Dreardon, Eliot Elisofon)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Charleston Heston epic set in Sudan.  With Laurence Olivier as a jihadist.

• 7:30 pm, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles (1987, John Hughes)
  • Laemmle NoHo
  • Control freak Steve Martin and talkative John Candy find themselves stuck together on planes, trains, & automobiles.

• 7:30 pm, Our Town (1940, Sam Wood)
  • The Aero, Santa Monica
  • Filmed version of the classic American stage production.  Production design by William Cameron Menzies.

• 8 pm, “Facts Make the Difference: Mystery Films of Los Alamos”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • A myserious can of 16mm film titled “Facts Make the Difference” was found near the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory.  It will be screened for the very first time tonight.

Tuesday, January 26th

• 1:00 pm, North by Northwest (1959, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • LACMA, Bing Theater
  • Cary Grant stars in this all-time classic Hitchcock mistaken-identity/chase film.

• 7:30 pm, Poetic Justice (1993, John Singleton)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • Janet Jackson plays a poet and Tupac Shakur plays a musician in this romance.  John Singleton’s follow-up to Boyz n the Hood.

• 8:00 pm, Interview with the Vampire (1994, Neil Jordan)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • This moody, erotic vampire film is based on an Anne Rice novel.  Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt star.

Monday, January 25th

• 7:30 pm, The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Prototypical ’80s boy adventure film.  Many memorable characters.

Sunday, January 24th

Exhibition Closing

• Sille Storihle: “One Man Show”
  • Human Resources, Chinatown
  • Two documentary shorts, The Stonewall Nation (2014) and The Tomorrow Show (2015), by Berlin-based Storihle

Select Screenings

• 2:00 pm, Dark Passage (1947, Delmar Daves)
  • Cinefamily
  • Bogart and Bacall followed-up The Big Sleep with this film, based on a noir novel by David Goodis.

• 2:00 pm, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston)
  • Cinemark 18 (also screening Wednesday, January 27th at 2 pm and 7 pm)
  • Humphrey Bogart stars as Fred C. Dobbs, a drifter who finds trouble out west.  One of the star’s darkest and most memorable roles.

• 4:30, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Mel Stuart)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • Enjoyably twisted children’s film with Gene Wilder.

• 7:30 pm, Red Beard (1965, Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Lesser known Kurosawa samurai epic.  Perhaps the most explicitly humanistic.

• 7:30 pm, Ephraim Asili: Traversing Historic Time (short films, 2009-2015)
  • Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian (Los Angeles Film Forum screening)
  • “…poetic documentaries fuse travelogue to archival investigation in order to explore how history and memory bear on the present..”

• 7:30, Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Aero, Santa Monica (presented in 70mm)
  • Often described as the greatest film ever made.

Saturday, January 23rd 

• Camel Collective: “Something Other Than What You Are”
  • REDCAT Gallery (exhibition ongoing through March 27th)
  • Site-specific, multi-channel video installation by Camel Collective (Anthony Graves and Carla Herrera-Prats).  Focuses on the everyday labor of the lighting designer at REDCAT’s theater space.

• 2:00 pm, The Barefoot Executive (1971, Robert Butler) 
  • The New Beverly (also screening Sunday, January 24th at 2:00 pm)
  • One of the best-remembered of Kurt Russell’s live-action Disney films.  A lot of monkey jokes.

• 2:00 pm, Hinokio (2005, Takahiko Akiyama)
  • The Crest, Westwood (also screening Tuesday, January 26th at 2 pm)
  • Japanese children’s film about a boy and his robot.

• 7:00 pm, “2 Films by George Porcari”
  • Cinefile Video Store, Santa Monica
  • Photojournalist & documentarian Porcari screens Greetings from LA 1978! (1978) and Sunset to Amoeba From Echo Park: A Journey with Daryl Honey (2015)

• 7:30 pm, The General (1926, Buster Keaton)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • In the running for the greatest of all silent comedies.  Features some of Keaton’s most famous physical comedy/stunt set pieces.

• 7:30 pm, Rashomon / Ikiru (1950 / 1952, Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Two of Kurosawa’s most emotionally powerful films.

• 7:30 pm, Lawrence of Arabia (1962, David Lean)
  • Aero, Santa Monica (presented in 70mm)
  • One of the hallmarks of Hollywood cinema.  Peter O’Toole stars in David Lean’s lavishing epic.

• 7:30 pm, The Whistler / The Power of the Whistler (1944 / 1945)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive screening)”
  • One of the most famed radio mystery series is represented in these two film adaptations.

• 8:30 pm, Pineapple Express (2008, David Gordon Green)
  • The Crest, Westwood (with live music, doors at 7:30)
  • A key comedy of the 2000s.  David Gordon Green’s stoner chase film shifts tones and genres with a chill ease.

Friday, January 22nd

• 7:30 pm, High and Low / The Bad Sleep Well (1963 / 1960, Akira Kurosawa)
  • Egyptian Theater
  • Kurosawa’s two most famous explorations of the loss of honor in the modern, corporate world.

• 7:30 pm, Silverado (1985, Lawrence Kasdan)
  • Aero, Santa Monica (presented in 70mm)
  • ’80s New Hollywood take on the classic Ford/Hawks-style Western.

• 7:30 pm, Pierrot Le Fou (1965, Jean-Luc Godard)
  • Screening regularly at Cinefamily through Thursday, January 28th.  See Cinefamily’s website for more details
  • Key film in Godard’s merger of Hollywood crime genre poetics, hard left political smorgasbord, and Jerry Lewis anarchy-comedy.  With Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina.

• 7:30 pm, The Trial of Vivienne Ware / Night Editor (1932 / 1946)
  • Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer (UCLA Film and Television Archive screening)
  • Two films based on radio dramas.  Noir dialogue at the fast pace of radio storytelling.

Thursday, January 21st

• 7:00 pm, Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • Perhaps the apex of the classic Hollywood studio system.  Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman star in this deservedly beloved war-time romance.
• 7:30 pm, The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
  • Aero, Santa Monica (presented in 70mm)
  • Beguiling epic about L. Ron Hubbard style intellectual/huckster and his unhinged protégé.
• 7:30 pm, Salaam Cinema (1995, Mohsen Mahkmalbaf)
  • Veggie Cloud, Highland Park
  • Part documentary, part fictional narrative, this self-reflexive film by Iranian cinema legend Mahkmalbaf  examines the effect of the movies on the public imagination.
• 7:30 pm, Moonstruck (1987, Norman Jewison)
  • Laemlle NoHo
  • Cher and Nicholas Cage star in this story of love and Italian-American culture in New York City.

• 8:00 pm, “Films by Fern Silva”
  • Echo Park Film Center
  • “Fern Silva (b. 1982, USA/Portugal) uses moving image to produce a sonic and cinematographic language for the hybrid mythologies of globalism.”

Wednesday, January 20th

• 7:00 pm, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George Roy Hill)
  • Cinemark 18, TCL Chinese Theaters (also screening at 2 pm)
  • Rollicking western with Paul Newman and Robert Redford.  William Goldman researched the story for eight years before writing the screenplay.

• 7:30 pm, Saving Private Ryan (1998, Steven Spielberg)
  • ArcLight Hollywood
  • The Invasion of Normandy scenes are among the top moments in World War II cinema.  Tom Hanks stars.

• 7:30 pm, Miss Congeniality (2000, Donald Petrie)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • One of Sandra Bullock’s best comedic roles.  Funny & easygoing.

Tuesday, January 19th

• 1:00 pm, Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)
  • LACMA, Bing theater
  • Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains star in classic love triangle thriller.  One of the great endings in Hollywood cinema.

• 7:00 pm, Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott)
  • ArcLight Santa Monica
  • This adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel has emerged as one of the top three or four science fiction films ever produced.

• 7:30 pm, Hairspray (1988, John Waters)
  • ArcLight Culver City
  • The film that made John Waters a household name.  This raunchy, funny look at desegregation in 1960s Baltimore has a lot of heart.

Monday, January 18th

• 7:30 pm & 10:15 pm, Chimes at Midnight (1965, Orson Welles)
  • Cinefamily (Also screening Tuesday, January 19th, 7:30 pm, 10:15 pm)
  • Welles as Shakespeare’s vulgar but goodhearted Falstaff is one of the all-time great screen performances.

• 7:30 pm, Glory (1989, Edward Zwick)
  • Arclight Hollywood
  • Denzel Washington and Matthew Broderick star in this Civil War epic about the first all African-American regiment.

• 8:00 pm, The Matrix (1999, the Wachowskis)
  • ArcLight Pasadena
  • Hugely popular tech-goth sci-fi.  Starring Keanu Reeves.

• 8:30pm, Lewis Klahr: Sixty Six (2002-2015)
  • REDCAT Theater
  • Pop collage filmmaker Klahr screens his most recent cut and paste epic.  Comic book heroes and Romans meet in mid-century L.A.

Sunday, January 17th

• 2:00 pm, The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)
  • Cinefamily
  • Classic Bogart & Bacall noir, based on Raymond Chandler’s novel.

•  7:30 pm, Heaven Can Wait (1978, Warren Beatty & Buck Henry)
  • Cinefamily
  • Remake of 1943 Lubitsch film.  Good times, guardian angel comedy with late 70s atmosphere.

Saturday, January 16th

• 2:00 pm, The Strongest Man in the World (1975, Vincent McEveety)
  • The New Beverly (also screening Sunday, January 17th at 2 pm)
  • One of the live-action Disney films Kurt Russell made as a teenager.  He concocts a breakfast cereal that gives him super strength.

• 7:30 pm, Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)
  • The Egyptian Theater
  • Landmark samurai epic, often cited as one of the top films of the 20th century.  Certainly one of the most influential.  Toshiro Mifune stars.

• 8:30 pm, Labyrinth (1986, Jim Henson)
  • The Crest, Westwood
  • Dark children’s fantasy film.  With David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, and Jim Henson’s puppets.