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I said Caribbean Pirates, not Pirates of the...forget it. | Photo courtesy of Joe Penniston via Flickr
A fun bit of trivia for film snobs & martial arts fans: Jackie Chan's Supercop was originally released on laserdisc by the prestigious Criterion Collection . The Nuart pays tribute to this cinematic masterwork with a midnight screening on Friday. The New Beverly features fellow Criterion alum, Krysztof Kieslowski , with two out of Three Colors , and the Aero has yet another with a Citizen Kane replay. For Overlooked Auteurs , visit the Cinefamily for a deadly double featuring director Ted Kotcheff (who? Mr. Rambo: First Blood & Weekend At Bernie's , that's who!).
All right, enough prestige. The Art Theatre has drive-in classic Blacula , while Echo Park Film Center has Dino's Drive-In, featuring ultra-rare reels of silent icon Pearl White . Cinefamily balances out their obscure director program with two even more obscure shorts programs, 8-Bit Alchemy (think NES on shrooms) and Sects Drugs & Mind Control (you wash your body, why not wash your brain too?). REDCAT peels back the pirate mythos, melding frigate sculptures with the friggin' awesome for Caribbean Pirates , and Downtown Independent obliterates identity & sanity for Saddam-Hussein-impersonation-comedy Mr. Sadman & 16mm-Japanese-splatter-punk Blitzkrieg Bop .
Full list appears below. See you at the movies!
You can't spell homeless friend without O-I-L | Photo courtesy of Empire and Sleep Pictures
All Week
Blood Equity (2009) (
Laemmle's Sunset 5
)
La Danse (2009) (
Laemmle's Music Hall 3
) (
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
) (
Laemmle's Town Center 5
)
Defamation (2009) (
Laemmle's Music Hall 3
) (
Laemmle's Town Center 5
)
That Evening Sun (2009) (
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
) (
Laemmle's Royal Theatre
) (
Laemmle's Sunset 5
) (
Laemmle's Town Center 5
)
Farzaneh (
Laemmle's Town Center 5
)
The Messenger (2009) (
Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex
) (
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
) (
Laemmle's Sunset 5
) (
Laemmle's Town Center 5
)
Skin (2008) (
Laemmle's Fallbrook 7
)
Staten Island (2009) (
Laemmle's Sunset 5
)
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009) (
Nuart Theatre
)
Thursday 11/19
8-Bit Alchemy [Fast Forward] (
Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre
) (
8-Bit Alchemy
)
Dino's Drive-In: A Salute to Pearl White (w/ Dino Everett) (
Echo Park Film Center
)
Double Tide (2009) (free event) (
Hammer Museum
)
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) (free event w/ director Tsai Ming-liang and star Lee Kang-sheng) (
Melnitz Movies
)
Oh My God? (2009) (
Nuart Theatre
)
Shorts from the Palm Springs Film Festival (
Egyptian Theatre
)
An Unmarried Woman (1978) / Tempest (1982) (w/ Paul Mazursky) (
Aero Theatre
) (
Paul Mazursky Tribute
)
White (1994) / Red (1994) (
New Beverly Cinema
)
Friday 11/20
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) / Wake In Fright (1970) (w/ Ted Kotcheff) (
Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre
) (
Overlooked Auteurs
)
Blacula (1972) (
Art Theatre of Long Beach
) (
Mondo Fridays
)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) / Harry and Tonto (1974) (w/ Paul Mazursky, Dyan Cannon and Robert Culp) (
Aero Theatre
) (
Paul Mazursky Tribute
)
Caribbean Pirates
(2005) (w/ Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy) (
REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney/Calarts Theater
)
Easy Rider (1969) (
Regency Fairfax
) (
Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie
)
That Evening Sun (2009) (w/ Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter at the early evening screening) (
Laemmle's Royal Theatre
)
Inglourious Basterds (2009) (midnight screening) (
New Beverly Cinema
)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) / Murder! (1930) (
LACMA
) (Hitchcock: The British Thrillers)
Mr. Sadman (2009) (
Downtown Independent
)
Naughty Marietta (1935) (
Old Town Music Hall
)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) (
Egyptian Theatre
) (
Argentina: New Cinema '09
)
Supercop (1992) (
Nuart Theatre
) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
Sweet Emma, Dear Bˆbe (1992) (
UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum
) (
Beyond the Iron Curtain: Hungarian Cinema Observes the Fall of Communism
)
White (1994) / Red (1994) (
New Beverly Cinema
)
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009) (w/ filmmakers Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstle at 7:30pm and 9:50pm screenings) (
Nuart Theatre
)
Saturday 11/21
Blitzkrieg Bop (2006) (w/ Q&A with filmmakers via Skype) (
Downtown Independent
)
The BQE (2009) (w/ panel discussion) (
Egyptian Theatre
) (
Los Angeles Filmforum
)
Caribbean Pirates
(2005) (w/ Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy) (
REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney/Calarts Theater
)
Citizen Kane (1941) / The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (
Aero Theatre
) (
Orson Welles Revisted
)
Hollyshorts Film Festival
(w/ filmmakers) (
Echo Park Film Center
)
Idiocracy (2006) (
New Beverly Cinema
) (
New Beverly Midnights
)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) (free event) (
Getty Center
) (
Four Angry Young Men
)
Love in Transit (2008) (w/ director Lucas Blanco) (
Egyptian Theatre
) (
Argentina: New Cinema '09
)
Oliver! (1968) (free event) (
Hammer Museum
)
Mr. Sadman (2009) (
Downtown Independent
)
Music on Hold (2009) / Anita (2009) (w/ director Hernan Golfrid and director Marcos Carnevale) (
Egyptian Theatre
) (
Argentina: New Cinema '09
)
Naughty Marietta (1935) (
Old Town Music Hall
)
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo and Vilmos (2008) (w/ James Chressanthis & Vilmos Zsigmond) (
UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum
) (
Beyond the Iron Curtain: Hungarian Cinema Observes the Fall of Communism
)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (
Sins O' The Flesh
Midnight Show) (
Nuart Theatre
)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (
Midnight Insanity
Midnight Show) (
Warner Grand Theatre
)
Sabotage (1936) / Secret Agent (1936) (
LACMA
) (Hitchcock: The British Thrillers)
Sects, Drugs and Mind Control featuring Moonchild (
Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre
) (
HFS: That's Godsploitation
!)
Superman (1978) (
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
)
This Sporting Life (1963) (free event) (
Getty Center
) (
Four Angry Young Men
)
Violated Angels (1967) / Violent Virgin (1969) (
Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre
) (
Koji Wakamatsu: Sexfilmrevolution
)
Visual Acoustics (The Modernism of Julius Shulman) (2008) (weekend morning show) (
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
)
White (1994) / Red (1994) (
New Beverly Cinema
)
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2009) (w/ filmmakers Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstle at 7:30pm and 9:50pm screenings) (
Nuart Theatre
)
Sunday 11/22
Ann Arbor Film Festival (Program 2)
(
Echo Park Film Center
) (
Los Angeles Filmforum
)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) / Armored Car Robbery (1950) (
New Beverly Cinema
)
Caribbean Pirates
(2005) (w/ Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy) (
REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney/Calarts Theater
)
Jane Eyre (1944) / Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) (
Aero Theatre
) (
Orson Welles Revisted
)
The Fish Child (2009) / Love By Accident (2008) (
Egyptian Theatre
) (
Argentina: New Cinema '09
)
In Name Only (1939) / Remember? (1939) (
UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum
) (
1939 Redux: Digging Deeper Into "Hollywood's Greatest Year"
)
Men In Black (1997) (
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
)
Mr. Sadman (2009) (
Downtown Independent
)
Naughty Marietta (1935) (
Old Town Music Hall
)
Network (1976) (
The Bay Theatre
)
Noises Off! (1992) (
Warner Grand Theatre
)
Nollywood Babylon (2008) (
Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre
)
Orfeo Negro (1959) (
Downtown Independent
)
Visual Acoustics (The Modernism of Julius Shulman) (2008) (weekend morning show) (
Laemmle's Playhouse 7
)
That's all for this week. Disturb your universe.
Compiled, as always, by the amazing and diligent Edward Yerke-Robins (and family!)
