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LAist Film Calendar 12/01-12/03: Cinefamily's Animation Breakdown!
Don Hertzfeldt's Academy Award-winning REJECTED. Courtesy Bitter Films.
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The Cinefamily draws us in this weekend with a killer cartoon line-up! Their six-day Animation Breakdown kicks off tomorrow with three screenings of Don Hertzfeldt's shorts: two evening shows on the verge of selling out and a newly minted midnight show. The Austin-based animator (and Gaucho graduate) melds old school techniques (each frame is painstakingly constructed on equipment from the 1920s) with new school absurdist humor and cynical slapstick. As a result, his shorts are acclaimed everywhere from Spike & Mike and Adult Swim to Bravo and the Academy. Hertzfeldt appears in the flesh after each program as part of a roadshow premiere for his latest, It's such a beautiful day, the conclusion to his "Bill Trilogy". Catch up with part one, the Sundance Grand Jury winner Everything Will Be OK, courtesy of Hertzfeldt's Bitter Films:
Speaking of Adult Swim, the late night mainstay wouldn't have stepped into the pool without Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Saturday, the Animation Breakdown hosts a 5 o'clock retrospective reuniting the cast & crew (including - fittingly - George Lowe, the voice of Space Ghost, via disconnected transmission). Adult Swim themselves host a retrospective for web animator Brad Neely at 10 that night. Subtitled From Creased Comics to China, IL, Neely himself is coming for a Q&A and karaoke party with the children (but not the British children).
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Sunday, jump ship from cels to stop-motion for An Evening With Bruce Bickford. The crazed clay creator quickly caught the attention of Frank Zappa, who highlighted his hallucinogenic work in the concert film Baby Snakes. The night caps off with the world premiere of his psychedelic opus, Cas'l, over 20 years in the making.
For a more even-tempered take on the medium, check in at 5:30 on Sunday for Masters of Polish Animation: The Enchanted World of Children's Animation. Fans of Polish movie posters are familiar with brilliant color schemes & bizarre imagery. Now imagine those talents put to service infusing everyday objects with life for vibrant stories for kids of all ages. Screening in mega-rare 35mm prints as part of a sub-festival-within-the-festival (how's that for a breakdown?) celebrating Polish animation, this may be your only opportunity to experience the magic.
We would be remiss without closing on the biggest name of the Breakdown. Pixar's latest short, La Luna, won't hit the big screen until their next feature, Brave, but you can catch a special preview Saturday at 2PM. Some may have been lucky to see its premiere earlier this year at LA Shorts Fest. Cinefamily goes one better by bringing in the man in the moon, director Enrico Casarosa, for a behind-the-scenes panel discussing his storytelling and influences. La Luna will almost certainly be nominated for Best Animated Short, so you can even call it advance research for your Oscar pool!
Full list appears below. We hear other venues are playing movies that were shot in "real life". Whatever that is.
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Alois Nebel (2011) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Beneath the Darkness (2011) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Coriolanus (2011) (The Landmark)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times Of Chogyam Trungpa (2011) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
The Dirty Picture (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
The Ides of March (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
Kinyarwanda (2011) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Lady (2011) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
Melancholia (2011) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Moneyball (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Outrage (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
Redline (2009) (Downtown Independent)
Shame (2011) (Arclight Hollywood) (The Landmark)
The Skin I Live In (2011) (Laemmle's Royal Theatre)
A Warrior's Heart (2011) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) (Arclight Hollywood)
Wish Me Away (2011) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Thursday 12/1
Diner (1982) (w/ Gavin O'Connor and Paul Feig) (LACMA)
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt (w/ Don Hertzfeldt) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
Rushmore (1998) / The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) (New Beverly Cinema)
Sleeping Beauty (2011) (free event) (Melnitz Movies)
Slogan (1961) (free event) (Luckman Fine Arts Complex) (Long Beach Cinematheque)
Tracks (1977) (w/ Henry Jaglom) (Aero Theatre)
Untitled (World AIDS Day) (2011) (free event) (Hammer Museum)
Untitled (World AIDS Day) (2011) (REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney/Calarts Theater)
Friday 12/2
The 400 Blows (1959) / Stolen Kisses (1968) (Egyptian Theatre) (The Film Lover: A François Truffaut Retrospective)
The Best of Animation Block Party 2011 (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
A Cat in Paris (2010) (free event) USC School of Cinematic Arts (Outside the Box (Office))
A Clockwork Orange (1971) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
Christmas Holiday (1944) / Comfort and Joy (1984) (Aero Theatre)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times Of Chogyam Trungpa (2011) (w/ director Johanna Demetrakas) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
A Different Image (1982) / Your Children Come Back to You (1979) (w/ filmmaker Alile Sharon Larkin) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (The Bay Theatre)
Masters of Polish Animation: The Classics + The Brothers Quays' "Maska" (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
Rushmore (1998) / The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) (New Beverly Cinema)
White Christmas (1954) (Old Town Music Hall)
Saturday 12/3
The Addams Family (1991) / Addams Family Values (1993) (Aero Theatre)
Adult Swim Presents Brad Neely: From Creased Comics to China, IL (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
American Fabulous (1991) (w/ filmmaker Reno Dakota) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (The Legacy Project Screening Series)
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
The Bride Wore Black (1968) / Jules and Jim (1962) (Egyptian Theatre) (The Film Lover: A François Truffaut Retrospective)
Center for the Cinematic Arts presents Actor's Gym (Downtown Independent)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times Of Chogyam Trungpa (2011) (w/ director Johanna Demetrakas) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Eames: The Architect & the Painter (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (The Bay Theatre)
La Luna (2011) (w/ Q&A) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
Ridin' on a Rainbow (1944) / The Cowboy and the Indians (1949) (Autry National Center)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Live Shadowcast Midnight Show) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Sins O' The Flesh Midnight Show) (Nuart Theatre)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Midnight Insanity Midnight Show) (South Coast Village Regency Theaters)
Rushmore (1998) / The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) (New Beverly Cinema)
"Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" Cast/Crew Reunion Panel (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
White Christmas (1954) (Old Town Music Hall)
Sunday 12/4
The Adolescent (1979) / Lumiere (1974) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Directed by Jeanne Moreau)
APB's LA Draw (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
Battleship Potemkin (1925) / Metropolis (1927) (New Beverly Cinema)
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times Of Chogyam Trungpa (2011) (w/ director Johanna Demetrakas) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Eames: The Architect & the Painter (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
An Evening With Bruce Bickford (w/ Bruce Bickford) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
Gabi on the Roof in July (2010) USC School of Cinematic Arts (Outside the Box (Office))
Green (2011) (free event) USC School of Cinematic Arts (Outside the Box (Office))
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (The Bay Theatre)
Make a Movie Like Spike (2011) (free event w/ filmmaker Jamil Walker Smith & producer Brittany Ballard) (USC School of Cinematic Arts) (Alumni Screening Series)
Masters of Polish Animation: Children's Animation (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Animation Breakdown 2011)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) (Million Dollar Theatre) (L.A. Conservancy Holiday Matinee)
Revenge of the Electric Car (2011) (w/ director Chris Paine) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960) / The Last Metro (1980) (Egyptian Theatre) (The Film Lover: A François Truffaut Retrospective)
Visual Communications and the Dawn of Asian Pacific American Cinema panel discussion (Downtown Independent)
We Still Live Here (2010) (free event) (Autry National Center) (American Indian Culture Day)
White Christmas (1954) (Old Town Music Hall)
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