Apologies

Hi folks. This week's listings'll be a bit late. Long week of work and a trip up north made getting the list together impossible. I'm typing this post on my Blackberry seated in front of the Guava and Java in San Francisco International Airport...I wish my thumbs could take the punishment a new posting would require, but alas, you'll have to use the links to the right for now.

SCREENINGS: Monday, February 2 - Sunday, February 8, 2009

Pictured above: Vanessa Redgrave in The Devils, screening at Midnight at the Nuart Theater on Friday. The same day I fly out to San Francisco for the weekend, dammit dammit dammit!


AERO THEATRE
1328 Montana Ave. (@ 14th St.)
Santa Monica, CA

Thursday, February 5

7:30 PM -- Frankenstein (dir. James Whale, 1931)

Followed by -- The Mummy (dir. Karl Freund, 1932)


Friday, February 6

7:30 PM -- Sons of the Desert (dir. William A Seiter, 1933)

Followed by -- It's a Gift (dir. Norman Z. McLeod, 1934)


Saturday, February 7

7:30 PM -- Roberta (dir. William A. Seiter, 1935)

Followed by -- Follow the Fleet (dir. Mark Sandrich, 1936)


Sunday, February 8

7:30 PM -- Topper (dir. Norman Z. McLeod, 1937)

Followed by -- Holiday (dir. George Cukor, 1938)


ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD
6360 W. Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, CA


Wednesday, February 4

8:00 PM -- The Princess Bride (dir. Rob Reiner, 1987)


ARCLIGHT SHERMAN OAKS
15301 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403


Monday, February 2

7:30 PM -- Sabrina (dir. Billy Wilder, 1954)


BILLY WILDER THEATER
Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Here's what the Archive's got in store this week:

Monday, February 2

7:30 PM -- Among the Clouds (dir. Rouhollah Hejazi, 2008)


Saturday, February 7

7:30 PM -- Crime Without Passion (dirs. Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, 1934)

Followed by -- Back Door to Heaven (dir. William K. Howard, 1939)


Sunday, February 8

7:00 PM -- A Light in the Fog (dir. Panahbarkhoda Rezaee, 2008)


CINEFAMILY @ THE SILENT MOVIE THEATER
611 N Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036


Tuesday, February 3

8:00 PM -- The Cocoa Screenings: Founding Fathers of Found Footage Films


Wednesday, February 4

8:00 PM -- When a Man Loves (dir. Alan Crosland, 1927)


Thursday, February 5

8:00 PM -- The Merry Widow (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1934)


Friday, February 6

7:30 PM -- Laura (dir. Otto Preminger, 1944)

Followed by -- Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Midnight -- The Hunger (dir. Tony Scott, 1983)


Saturday, February 7

6:30 PM -- The Thin Man (dir. W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)

Followed by -- After the Thin Man (dir. W.S. Van Dyke, 1936)

10:30 PM -- Rhinestone (dir. Bob Clark, 1984)


Sunday, February 8

8:00 PM -- Lovefilm (dir. Istvan Szabo, 1970)

Film will be introduced and discussed by artist/designer/filmmaker Mike Mills.


EGYPTIAN THEATER
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA


Thursday, February 5

7:30 PM -- Los Campeones de la Lucha Libre (dir. Eddie Mort, 2008)

Followed by -- A SURPRISE SECOND FEATURE!


Friday, February 6

7:30 PM -- The Human Condition - No Greater Love (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)


Saturday, February 7

7:30 PM -- The Human Condition - The Road to Eternity (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1959)


Sunday, February 8

7:30 PM -- The Human Condition - A Soldier's Prayer (dir. Masaki Kobayashi, 1961)


LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA


Tuesday, February 3

1:00 PM -- Ninotchka (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1939)


Friday, February 6

7:30 PM -- Berlin-Schönhauser Corner (dir. Gerhard Klein, 1957)

Followed by -- The Second Track (dir. Joachim Kunert, 1962)


Saturday, February 7

7:30 PM -- Lola (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1981)

Followed by -- East Side Story (dir. Dana Ranga, 1997)



NEW BEVERLY CINEMA
7165 West Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Monday, February 2 & Tuesday, February 3

7:30 PM -- Trouble the Water (dirs. Carl Deal & Tia Lessin, 2008)

9:25 PM -- Up the Yangtze (dir. Yung Chang, 2007)


Wednesday, February 4 & Thursday, February 5

7:30 PM -- Patti Smith: Dream of Life (dir. Steven Sebring, 2008)

9:40 PM -- The Nomi Song (dir. Andrew Horn, 2004)


Friday, February 6 & Saturday, February 7

Fri 7:30 PM & Sat. 2:50 PM & 7:30 PM -- The Fortune Cookie (dir. Billy Wilder, 1966)

Fri 9:55 PM & Sat. 5:15 PM & 9:55 PM -- One, Two, Three (dir. Billy Wilder, 1961)

Saturday @ Midnight -- 10 Things I Hate About You (dir. Gil Junger, 1999)


Sunday, February 8

2:45 PM & 7:30 PM -- Il Decameron (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)

5:00 PM & 9:45 PM -- Arabian Nights (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974)


NUART THEATER
11272 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90025

Friday, February 6

Midnight -- The Devils (dir. Ken Russell, 1971)


OLD TOWN MUSIC HALL
140 Richmond St.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Friday, February 6 - Sunday, February 8

I'll Be Yours (dir. William A. Seiter, 1947)

Fri. & Sat. @ 8:15 PM
Sat. & Sun. @ 2:30 PM


REGENCY FAIRFAX
7907 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90048


Friday, February 6

Midnight -- Bedknobs and Broomsticks (dir. Robert Stevenson, 1971)


SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Tuesday, February 3

1:30 PM -- Inherit the Wind (dir. Stanley Kramer, 1960)


Sunday, February 8

2:00 PM -- In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel (dir. Petra Seeger, 2008)

Discussion following with Eric Kandel and Petra Seeger.

SCREENINGS: Monday, January 26 - Sunday, February 1, 2009

It was a sad story how we became two lonely two-legged creatures, and you can hear all about it when Hedwig and the Angry Inch plays this Friday at midnight at the Nuart Theater! The video above is "The Origin of Love", a song to give one chills.

AERO THEATRE
1328 Montana Ave. (@ 14th St.)
Santa Monica, CA

Wednesday, January 28

7:30 PM -- Psycho (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

Followed by -- The Birds (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)


Thursday, January 29

7:30 PM -- I Confess (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1950)

Followed by -- Stage Fright (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1953)


Friday, January 30

7:30 PM -- Westworld (dir. Michael Crichton, 1977)

Followed by -- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1997)


Saturday, January 31

6:30 PM -- Mad Max (dir. George Miller, 1979)

Followed by -- The Road Warrior (dir. George Miller, 1981)

Followed by -- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (dir. George Miller, 1985)


ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD
6360 Sunset Blvd.
Hollywood, CA

Monday, January 26

8:00 PM -- The Phantom of the Opera (dir. Joel Schumacher, 2004)


ARCLIGHT SHERMAN OAKS
15301 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA

Monday, January 26

7:30 PM -- Singin' in the Rain (dirs. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952)


BILLY WILDER THEATER
Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024

Thursday, January 29

HAMMER SCREENING - 8:00 PM -- What Manner of Person Art Thou? (dir. Erin Cosgrove)


Here's what the UCLA Archive has in store this week:

Friday, January 30

7:30 PM -- Zaza (dir. Alan Dwan, 1923)

Followed by -- The Green Goddess (dir. Sidney Olcott, 1923)


Saturday, January 31

7:30 PM -- Lonely Tunes of Tehran (dir. Saman Salour, 2008)


Sunday, February 1

7:00 PM -- One Third of a Nation (dir. Dudley Murphy, 1939)

Followed by -- Cuore D'Emigrante (dir. Harold Godsoe, 1932)


CINEFAMILY @ THE SILENT MOVIE THEATER
611 N Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Tuesday, January 27

8:00 PM -- T.V. Tuesday: True Crime Edition


Wednesday, January 28

8:00 PM -- A Page of Madness (dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)

with a live score by The Gaslamp Killer


Thursday, January 29

8:00 PM -- Riot on Sunset Strip (dir. Arthur Dreifuss, 1967)

Followed by -- Bummer (dir. William Allen Castleman, 1973)


Friday, January 30

7:30 PM -- The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer (dir. David R. Bowen, 1993)

Followed by -- Deranged (dirs. Jeff Gillen & Alan Ormsby, 1974)

Midnight -- Dangerous Men (dir. John S. Rad, 2005)


Saturday, January 31

7:30 PM -- An Evening with the Prelinger Archives

10:00 PM -- Lost in the Desert (dir. Jamie Uys, 1970)


EGYPTIAN THEATER
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA

Wednesday, January 28

7:30 PM -- Trinidad (dirs. PJ Raval & Jay Hodges)


Thursday, January 29

7:30 PM -- The Sterile Cuckoo (dir. Alan J. Pakula, 1969)

Followed by -- The Swimmer (dir. Frank Perry, 1968)


Friday, January 30

7:30 PM -- F.T.A. (dir. Francine Parker, 1972)

Followed by -- Coming Home (dir. Hal Ashby, 1978)


Saturday, January 31

7:30 PM -- Secret Ceremony (dir. Joseph Losey, 1968)

Followed by -- Deep End (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski, 1971)


LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Tuesday, January 27

1:00 PM -- Gunga Din (dir. George Stevens, 1939)

Friday, January 30

7:30 PM -- The Murderers Are Among Us (dir. Wolfgang Staudte, 1946)

9:15 PM -- In Those Days (dir. Helmut Kautner, 1947)


Saturday, January 31

4:00 PM -- The Reader (dir. Stephen Daldry, 2008)

Free admission.

7:30 PM -- A Foreign Affair (dir. Billy Wilder, 1948)

9:40 PM -- Berlin Express (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1948)


NEW BEVERLY CINEMA
7165 West Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Monday, January 26 & Tuesday, January 27

7:30 PM -- North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

10:00 PM -- To Have and Have Not (dir. Howard Hawks, 1944)


Wednesday, January 28 & Thursday, January 29

7:30 PM -- Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958)

9:45 PM -- Rio Bravo (dir. Howard Hawks, 1959)


Friday, January 30 & Saturday, January 31

Fri. 7:30 PM, Sat. 3:15 & 7:30 PM -- High Sierra (dir. Raoul Walsh, 1941)

Fri. 9:30 PM, Sat. 5:15 & 9:30 PM -- Gaslight (dir. George Cukor, 1944)

Saturday @ Midnight -- Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1992)


Sunday, February 1

3:40 PM & 7:30 PM -- Trouble the Water (dirs. Carl Deal & Tia Lessin, 2008)

5:35 PM & 9:25 PM -- Up the Yangtze (dir. Yung Chang, 2007)


NUART THEATER
11272 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90025

Friday, January 30

Midnight -- Hedwig and the Angry Inch (dir. John Cameron Mitchell, 2001)


OLD TOWN MUSIC HALL
140 Richmond St.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Friday, January 30 & Saturday, January 31

All Star Comedy Festival - Silent & Sound Comedies

Friday @ 8:15 PM
Saturday @ 2:30 PM & 8:15 PM


REGENCY FAIRFAX
7907 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90048

Friday, January 30

Midnight -- The Big Lebowski (dirs. Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998)

SCREENINGS: Monday, January 19 - Sunday, January 25

Pictured above: Hey, Cary. Quit running away. He's just trying to tell you that you dropped your wallet. North by Northwest plays at both the Aero and the New Beverly this week.


AERO THEATRE
1328 Montana Ave. (@ 14th St.)
Santa Monica, CA

Wednesday, January 21

7:30 PM -- Confidentially Yours (dir. Francois Truffaut, 1983)


Thursday, January 22

7:30 PM -- North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)


Friday, January 23

7:30 PM -- The Man Who Knew Too Much (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)

Followed by -- To Catch a Thief (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1955)


Saturday, January 24

7:30 PM -- Rebecca (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)

Followed by -- Notorious (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)


Sunday, January 25

7:30 PM -- Rear Window (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)

Followed by -- Dial M for Murder (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)


ARCLIGHT SHERMAN OAKS
15301 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA

Monday, January 19

7:30 PM -- Guys and Dolls (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1955)


BILLY WILDER THEATER
Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024

This week, the Archive presents:

Wednesday, January 21

7:30 PM -- Essential Visual Music: Rare Classics

Tonight's program is a collection of short films which "highlight the evolving technology and artistic sophistication of visual music and experimental animation."


Thursday, January 22

7:00 PM -- They Always Say Time Changes Things...

A collection of short films that "studies how time has been interpreted by experimental film artists from 1963 to the present." Works by Andy Warhol, Annika Larson and Jorgen Leth are included.


Friday, January 23

7:30 PM -- Serbis (dir. Brillante Mendoza, 2008)

Followed by -- Slingshot (dir. Brillante Mendoza, 2007)


Saturday, January 24

7:30 PM -- The Masseur (dir. Brillante Mendoza, 2005)

Followed by -- Foster Child (dir. Brillante Mendoza, 2007)


Sunday, January 25

7:00 PM -- The Smiling Lieutenant (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1931)

Followed by -- Moonlight and Pretzels (dir. Karl Freund, 1933)


CINEFAMILY @ THE SILENT MOVIE THEATER
611 N Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036


Wednesday, January 21

8:00 PM -- The Man with the Movie Camera (dir. Dziga Vertov, 1929)

with live musical accompaniment by Thavius Beck.


Thursday, January 22

8:00 PM -- 1960s Garage Mix Night


Friday, January 23

7:30 PM -- Star 80 (dir. Bob Fosse, 1983)

Followed by a feature TBA.

Midnight -- Mind Game (dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 2004)


Saturday, January 24

7:30 PM -- Bill Morrison Shorts (1996-2006)

10:00 PM -- The Peanut Butter Solution (dir. Michael Rubbo, 1985)


EGYPTIAN THEATER
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA

Thursday, January 22

7:30 PM -- In Cold Blood (dir. Richard Brooks, 1967)

Friday, January 23

7:30 PM -- The Friends of Eddie Coyle (dir. Peter Yates, 1973)

Followed by -- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1974)


Satuday, January 24

7:30 PM -- Freebie and the Bean (dir. Richard Rush, 1974)

Followed by -- Hickey & Boggs (dir. Robert Culp, 1972)


Sunday, January 25

7:30 PM -- Play It As It Lays (dir. Frank Perry, 1972)

Followed by -- Puzzle of a Downfall Child (dir. Jerry Schatzberg, 1970)


LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Tuesday, January 20

1:00 PM -- Bachelor in Paradise (dir. Jack Arnold, 1961)


Friday, January 23

7:30 PM & 9:00 PM -- British Television Advertising Awards

"This compilation presents approximately one hundred British television, Internet, and cinema commercials cited for excellence by the advertising industry’s top executives. The 2008 selection includes spots by such directors as Harmony Korine and Martin Scorsese."


NEW BEVERLY CINEMA
7165 West Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Monday, January 19

7:30 PM -- JCVD (dir. Mabrouk El Mechri, 2008)

9:35 PM -- Double Impact (dir. Sheldon Lettich, 1991)


Tuesday, January 20

7:30 PM -- Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (dir. William Crain, 1976)

10:00 PM -- Feature TBA


Wednesday January 21 & Thursday, January 22

7:30 PM -- The Last Picture Show - director's cut (dir. Peter Bogdonavich, 1971)

9:55 PM -- What's Up, Doc? (dir. Peter Bogdonavich, 1972)


Friday, January 23 & Saturday, January 24

Fri 7:30 PM, Sat. 3 PM & 7:30 PM -- Paper Moon (dir. Peter Bogdonavich, 1973)

Fri 9:40 PM, Sat. 5 PM & 9:40 PM -- Mask - director's cut (dir. Peter Bogdonavich, 1985)

Sat, @ Midnight -- Targets (dir. Peter Bogdonavich, 1968)


Sunday, January 25

3 PM & 7:30 PM -- North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

5:30 PM & 10:00 PM -- To Have and Have Not (dir. Howard Hawks, 1944)


NUART THEATER
11272 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90025

Friday, January 23

Midnight -- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (dir. Steve Barron, 1990)


OLD TOWN MUSIC HALL
140 Richmond St.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Friday, January 23 - Sunday, January 25

Hands Across the Table (dir. Mitchell Leisen, 1935)

Friday & Saturday @ 8:15 PM
Saturday & Sunday @ 2:30 PM


REDCAT
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Monday, January 19

8:30 PM -- Manhatta and Other Restored Treasures


REGENCY FAIRFAX
7907 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90048

Friday, January 23

Midnight -- Robocop (dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1987)


THAI FILM FESTIVAL

Begins January 25th. Get all info here.

SCREENINGS: Monday, January 12 - Sunday, January 18

Pictured above: Paul Robeson stars in The Emperor Jones, playing at the Billy Wilder Theater this week as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archives's HOLLYWOOD ON THE HUDSON: FILMMAKING IN NEW YORK 1920–39 series. The film initially suffered heavy cuts by censors when it was made, but the bulk of the excised dialogue has been restored by the Library of Congress.

Was it just me, or did the first week back from the holidays drag on endlessly? Here's hoping for a speedier, more enjoyable week two. Mayhaps the loads of available screenings in Los Angeles will help:


AERO THEATRE
1328 Montana Ave. (@ 14th St.)
Santa Monica, CA

It's all Francois Truffaut at the Aero this week:

Friday, January 16

7:30 PM -- Jules and Jim (1962)

Followed by -- Two English Girls (1971)


Saturday, January 17

7:30 PM -- The 400 Blows (1959)

Followed by -- Antoine & Collette (1962)

Followed by -- Stolen Kisses (1968)


Sunday, January 18

7:30 PM -- Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Followed by -- The Last Metro (1980)


ARCLIGHT SHERMAN OAKS
15301 Ventura Blvd.
Sherman Oaks, CA

Monday, January 12

7:30 PM -- On the Town (dirs. Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1949)


BILLY WILDER THEATER
Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024

This week at the Archive:

Friday, January 16

7:30 PM -- Applause (dir. Rouben Mamoulian, 1929)

Followed by -- Glorifying the American Girl (dir. Millard Webb, 1929)


Saturday, January 17

7:30 PM -- His Nibs (dir. Gregory La Cava, 1921)

Followed by -- While New York Sleeps (dir. Charles Brabin, 1920)

Preceded by -- The Four Orphans (dir. Gregory La Cava, 1920)


Sunday, January 18

7:00 PM -- The Emperor Jones (dir. Dudley Murphy, 1933)

Followed by -- Paradise in Harlem (dir. Joseph Seiden, 1939)


CINEFAMILY @ THE SILENT MOVIE THEATER
611 N Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Tuesday, January 13

8:00 PM -- Jerry Beck presents Juvenile Mindrot: Inappropriate and Disturbing Kids' Cartoons


Wednesday, January 14

8:00 PM -- Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (dir. Walter Ruttman, 1927)

with live score performed by Free Moral Agents.


Thursday, January 15

8:00 PM -- Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback (dirs. Dietmar Post & Lucia Palacios, 2006)


Friday, January 16

7:15 PM -- Vengeance Is Mine (dir. Shohei Imamura, 1979)

Followed by -- The Todd Killings (dir. Barry Shear, 1971)

Midnight -- Belladonna of Sadness (dir. Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973)


Saturday, January 17

7:30 PM -- Phantom of the Operator (dir. Caroline Martel, 2004)

10:00 PM -- Mondo Kiddo -- featuring The Great Land of Small (dir. Vojtech Jasny, 1987)


EGYPTIAN THEATER
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA

Tuesday, January 13

7:30 PM -- The Magic Flute (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1974)


Friday, January 16

7:30 PM -- The Magnificent Seven (dir. John Sturges, 1960)

In the Spielberg Theatre:

7:30 PM -- Fetish Film Night - Inserts (dir. John Byrum, 1974)


Saturday, January 17

7:30 PM -- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (dir. John Sturges, 1957)

Followed by -- Hour of the Gun (dir. John Sturges, 1967)


Sunday, January 18

7:30 PM -- Bad Day at Black Rock (dir. John Sturges, 1955)

Followed by -- The Law and Jake Wade (dir. John Sturges, 1958)


LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Tuesday, January 13

1:00 PM -- Les Girls (dir. George Cukor, 1957)

Friday, January 16

7:30 PM -- The Emigrants (dir. Jan Troell, 1971)


Saturday, January 17

7:30 PM -- The New Land (dir. Jan Troell, 1972)


NEW BEVERLY CINEMA
7165 West Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Monday, January 12 & Tuesday, January 13

7:30 PM -- For a Few Dollars More (dir. Sergio Leone, 1965)

10:00 PM -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone, 1966)


Wednesday, January 14 - Friday, January 16

7:30 PM -- Badlands (dir. Terence Malick, 1973)

9:25 PM -- The Sugarland Express (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1974)

Friday @ Midnight -- Reservoir Dogs (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1992)


Saturday, January 17

Festival of Swords and Sorcery

4:00 PM -- Barbarian Queen (dir. Hector Olivera, 1985)

5:30 PM -- The Sword and the Sorcerer (dir. Albert Pyun, 1982)

7:30 PM -- Conan the Barbarian (dir. John Milius, 1982)

10:00 PM -- Deathstalker II (dir. Jim Wynorski, 1987)

Midnight -- Yor, the Hunter from the Future (dir. Antonio Margheriti, 1983)


Sunday, January 18

3:05 PM & 7:30 PM -- JCVD (dir. Mabrouk El Mechri, 2008)

5:10 PM & 9:35 PM -- Double Impact (dir. Sheldon Lettich, 1991)


NUART THEATER
11272 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90025

Friday, January 16

Midnight -- Jawbreaker (dir. Darren Stein, 1999)

REMINDER: Monday thru Thursday this week, the Nuart's presentation of Francois Truffaut's The Wild Child (1970) continues.


OLD TOWN MUSIC HALL
140 Richmond St.
El Segundo, CA 90245

Friday, January 16 - Sunday, January 18

Laurel & Hardy Festival

Fri. & Sat. @ 8:15 PM
Sat. & Sun. @ 2:30 PM


REGENCY FAIRFAX
7907 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90048

Friday, January 16

Midnight -- Dick Tracy (dir. Warren Beatty, 1990)


REDCAT
at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
631 West 2nd St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Monday, January 12

8:30 PM -- Chère Louise (dir. Brigitte Cornand, 1995)

Brigitte Cornand in person.


SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Tuesday, January 13

1:30 PM -- Murders in the Rue Morgue (dir. Robert Florey, 1932)

Free admission!

Best of 2008

Hey folks!

You can scroll on down to this week's film screening list if you want, but for those interested, I've posted my favorites in film and music of 2008 over at my other blog. Click here for all the fun.

Enjoy!
Mike Doc

SCREENINGS: Monday, January 5 - Sunday, January 11, 2009

Pictured above: Wheelers! AAAGGH! The disturbing and wonderful Return to Oz screens Saturday the 10th at the Silent Movie Theater.

Happy New Year, all! I hope everyone's holiday season was joyous and merry and disgustingly happy. I was able to see friends I hadn't spoken to in years, and was in close proximity to a national news sensation. On Christmas night, I went to see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (by the way: meh!) at the Riverview Stadium in Philadelphia. That's correct. The very same theater complex in which someone was shot in the arm for talking during The Curious Case of Benjamin Button on Christmas night. No, I was not the shooter or the shootee. In fact, it happened in a different showing from mine. My screening went undisturbed by gunfire, though I heard ushers discussing the situation as we left. Merry Christmas, indeed!

Now that we're all back in Los Angeles, where no one ever shoots anyone (cough), the special screenings are returning in full force. This week's got all kinds of goodness. I'm most excited for the Dennis Hopper directorial double feature at the Aero, but take a look at the lineup and see what strikes your fancy. And for god's sake, leave the guns at home.

AERO THEATRE
1328 Montana Ave. (@ 14th St.)
Santa Monica, CA

Wednesday, January 7

7:30 PM -- Golden Globe Nominee: The Baader-Meinhoff Complex (dir. Uli Edel, 2008)

Discussion following with director Uli Edel and writer/producer Bernd Eichinger.


Thursday, January 8

7:30 PM -- Golden Globe Nominee Double Feature: Everlasting Moments (dir. Jan Troell, 2008)

Followed by -- Waltz with Bashir (dir. Ari Folman, 2008)


Friday, January 9

7:30 PM -- Golden Globe Nominee Double Feature: I've Loved You So Long (dir. Philippe Claudel, 2008)

Followed by -- Gomorra (dir. Matteo Garrone, 2008)


Saturday, January 10

7:30 PM -- Elegy (dir. Isabel Coixet, 2008)

Discussion following with Dennis Hopper


Sunday, January 11

7:30 PM -- The Last Movie (dir. Dennis Hopper, 1971)

Followed by -- Backtrack (dir. Dennis Hopper, 1990) -- director's cut!



CINEFAMILY @ THE SILENT MOVIE THEATER
611 N Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036


Wednesday, January 7

8:00 PM & 10:15 PM -- Tom Verlaine & Jimmy Rip: Music For Experimental Film


Thursday, January 8

8:00 PM -- Wholpin No. 7 DVD Release Party


Friday, January 9

7:30 PM -- 10 Rillington Place (dir. Richard Fleischer, 1971)

Followed by -- The Boston Strangler (dir. Richard Flesicher,1968)

Midnight -- Paprika (dir. Satoshi Kon, 2006)


Saturday, January 10

7:00 PM -- Film Ist (Parts 1 -12) (dir. Gustav Deutsch, 1996 & 1998)

10:00 PM -- Return to Oz (dir. Walter Murch, 1985)



EGYPTIAN THEATER
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA

Wednesday, January 7

7:30 PM -- 4th Annual Focus on Female Directors Shorts Program

Short films directed by Kirsten Dunst, Isabella Rossellini, Patricia Riggen, Amy Axelson & Kimberly M. Wetherell, Lana Kim & Andy Bruntel, Nicole Mitchell, Ioana Uricaru and Myna Joseph.

Discussion following screening with Axelson, Wetherell and Mitchell.


Friday, January 9

7:30 PM -- The Towering Inferno (dirs. John Guillerman & Irwin Allen, 1974)


Saturday, January 10

1:00 PM -- Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film Seminar with the Nominated Directors

FREE round-table discussion with Philippe Claudel (I've Loved You So Long), Uli Edel (The Baader-Meinhoff Complex), Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), Matteo Garrone (Gomorra) and Jan Troell (Everlasting Moments). Moderated by Mike Goodridge of Screen International.

7:30 PM -- The China Syndrome (dir. James Bridges, 1979)


Sunday, January 11

7:30 PM -- Black Sunday (dir. John Frankenheimer, 1977)


LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

Tuesday, January 6

1:00 PM -- Tortilla Flat (dir. Victor Fleming, 1942)


Friday, January 9

7:30 PM -- Everlasting Moments (dir. Jan Troell, 2008)

Jan Troell in person.


Sunday, January 11

1:00 PM -- Grey Gardens (dirs. Albert & David Maysles, 1976)

Q&A following with Albert Maysles and Liz Goldwyn.


NEW BEVERLY CINEMA
7165 West Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Monday, January 5

7:30 PM -- Vera Cruz (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1954)

9:25 PM -- A Fistful of Dollars (dir. Sergio Leone, 1964)


Tuesday, January 6

7:30 PM -- I Love Maria (dirs. David Chung & Tsui Hark, 1988)

10:00 PM -- Return of the Demon (dir. Ying Wong, 1987)


Thursday, January 8 & Friday, January 9

7:30 PM -- Murmur of the Heart (dir. Louis Malle, 1971)

9:50 PM -- The Fire Within (dir. Louis Malle, 1963)


Saturday, January 10

7:30 PM -- box[ur] shorts film fest awards night. All seats $10. Visit boxurshorts.com for more info.

Midnight -- Footloose (dir. Herbert Ross, 1984)


Sunday, January 11

4:00 PM -- For a Few Dollars More (dir. Sergio Leone, 1965)

6:30 PM -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (dir. Sergio Leone, 1966)


NUART THEATER
11272 Santa Monica Blvd.
West Los Angeles, CA 90025

Friday, January 9

Midnight -- Alien (dir. Ridley Scott, 1979)

Also, beginning Friday the 9th, the Nuart plays Francois Truffaut's The Wild Child (1970) several times a day for one week only!


REGENCY FAIRFAX
7907 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA. 90048

Friday, January 9

Midnight -- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (dir. Terry Gilliam, 1998)


SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

Tuesday, January 6

1:30 PM -- Planet of the Apes (dir. Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)

Free admission!