Friday, October 20, 2017

Yummy 35mm LA Film Screening This Week


Here’s what's in store for LA 35mm film screening lovers this week. A lot 35mm and some regular digital.

This is just what's on my personal radar. So browse the LA Film Calendars links on my side bar to find even more!  → → →
(You may want to note the recent Spanish cinema series at the Egyptian, or a Taiwanese spotlight at UCLA.)

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As usual, a couple of these choices are tonight, FYI, and not necessarily listed first.

New Beverly
Magic (1978, Richard Attenborough)
and
The Silence of the Lambs (1991, Jonathan Demme)
Fri. (tonight) Oct. 20 6:30 pm/8:50 pm
Sat. Oct. 21 6:30 pm/8:50 pm
A classic double feature in 35mm—oh, wait, what the hell is Magic? Oh, well, The Silence of the Lambs is playing in 35mm at a great local theater. So that’s worth seeing..! Magic is Anthony Hopkins as failed ventriloquist Corky Withers, from a script by William Goldman, based on his novel. Also, have you not seen Oscar-winner The Silence of the Lambs?!?
 
NuArt Theatre
Halloween (1978, John Carpenter)
Fri (tonight) Oct. 20 Midnight (11:59pm)
It’s Halloween on the big screen at the NuArt. Should be fun, probably DCP.

New Beverly
The Black Cat (1934, Edgar G. Ulmer)
and
The Raven (1935, Lew Landers)
Wed. Oct. 25 2:00 pm
More great Wednesday matinee 35mm goodness at the New Beverly. Never miss a chance to see an Edgar G. Ulmer picture, one of the world’s greatest directors, a master at achieving high-level quality on shoestring budgets. (He had slightly bigger budget on this one.) Plus Black Cat features Karloff and Lugosi together! Actually, so does The Raven!



UCLA Film & Television Archive
La Virgen de la Caridad (1930, Ramón Peón)
and
Casta de roble (1954, Manolo Alonso)
Mon. Oct. 23 7:30 pm
Silent film nerd alert! Wow, a 1930 silent film from Cuba with live musical accompaniment, in 35 mm. Should be unique, definitely rare. The site says:
“This Cuban silent film was highly praised and extremely popular at the time of its release, because of its socially critical view of the plight of peasants, and its religious themes.”

On the second film, the site says:
“A young peasant girl… has a baby by the master of the plantation, which is taken away from her. She marries and has another son, but the loss of the child has scarred her for life. Shot mostly on location in Pinar del Rio, Cuba…”
Both in 35mm!


Egyptian Theatre
Mothra (1961, Ishiro Honda)
and
Battle in Outer Space (1959, Ishiro Honda)
Thur Oct. 26 7:30 pm
Some good ol’ Japanese monster movies on the big screen. Also the next day, Friday, they’ll have the original Godzilla with The H-Man, part of an Ishiro Honda tribute. (Mothra DCP, Battle in Outer Space 35mm.)


Aero Theatre
Twister (1996, Jan De Bont)
and
Minority Report (2002, Spielberg)
Fri. Oct. 20 7:30 pm
Both in 35mm! I never saw either of those, so maybe it's time to rectify that with both being in 35mm. Or I could have seen them when they came out and everything was in 35mm like it should be!



Downtown Independent
La cruz y la espada (1934, Frank Strayer)
and
El rey de los gitanos (1933, Frank Strayer)
Fri (tonight) Oct. 20 7:30 pm
These are two Spanish-language releases from Fox in the US  during the ’30s intended to compete with a burgeoning Mexican film industry. Both starring Mexican tenor José Mojica, I like the description of the first one: “A Franciscan monk in old California rescues his best friend’s fiancée from bandits, but then must battle his reawakened sexual desire.” The first film in 35mm, second in DCP.

Downtown Independent
¡Asegure a su mujer! (Insure Your Wife!) (1935, Lewis Seiler)
and 
Nada más que una mujer (1934, Harry Lachman)
Sat Oct 21 7:30 pm
Two Spanish-language film releases of the 1930s (!) from Fox, something you maybe weren't aware of, in this continuing Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles series. Both 35mm! Originally this played at UCLA, but now it’s a reprise in the type of downtown LA location they would have originally played in.



Aero Theatre
Marjorie Prime (2017, Michael Almereyda)
and
East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan)
Sat. Oct. 21 7:30 pm
Discussion between films with actress Lois Smith. The first is obviously a brand-new film, followed by the classic East of Eden. There’s only a couple James Dean movies, and Lois Smith will have stuff to tell about him. (Both films DCP.)


Aero Theatre
Five Easy Pieces (1970, Bob Rafelson)
and
Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976, Paul Mazursky)
Sun. Oct. 22 7:30 pm
Five Easy Pieces is always a great one to see on the big screen. Must confess haven’t seen the second one. (Both films DCP.)


LACMA
The Invisible Man (1933, James Whale)
Tue. Oct. 24 1:00 pm
More gems in 35mm hidden at the regular 1pm matinee screenings at LACMA. Check it out! Very cheap, $4, for some 35mm goodness. This is a fun one starring Claude Rains, great use of early film technologies.


Arclight Cinemas (Various)
"It's Alive!" -- film's favorite monsters terrorize the big screen
through Oct. 31
There's a pretty good selection here all month at various Arclights. I feel like they're almost definitely all DCP, but click the individual links to see. Some great movies in here and if you live less central to LA, can find some good stuff near you.
ARCLIGHT LINK
Oct. 23 – Alien – Culver City
Oct. 23 – The Exorcist – Pasadena
Oct. 23 – The Thing – La Jolla
Oct. 23 – Halloween – Hollywood
Oct. 24 – Alien – Santa Monica
Oct. 24 – The Exorcist – Beach Cities
Oct. 24 – Suspiria – Hollywood
Oct. 24 – The Blob (1988) – Sherman Oaks
Oct. 25 – The Exorcist – Hollywood
Oct. 30 – The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – Hollywood
Oct. 31 – Halloween – Sherman Oaks


Coming Next Week

New Beverly
Repulsion (1965, Roman Polanski)
and
The Tenant (1976, Roman Polanski)
Tue. Oct. 31 7:30 pm/9:45 pm
A double dose of actual “quality” horror films. More psychological in both cases, and directed by a deft hand at cinema rather than being pure grindhouse. Repulsion is Catherine Deneuve alone with her thoughts and not handling them too well (seeing things?!) and The Tenant is great, kind of overlooked, pretty dark, twisted tale with Polanski himself starring in it with the lovely Isabelle Adjani. I think he's the creepy-ass tenant 'cause it wouldn't be Adjani.


New Beverly
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper)
and
Eaten Alive (1976, Tobe Hooper)
Fri. Oct. 27 7:30 pm/9:25 pm
Sat. Oct. 28 7:30 pm/9:25 pm
Great way to see this in 35mm and pay tribute to recently deceased Tobe Hooper. This is on my radar because I haven’t seen the first, quite famous one. The second sounds like a great twofer of exposure to this director of my least favorite genre, but maybe I’ll give it a go.


UCLA Film & TV Archive
Still Walking (2008, Kore-eda Hirokazu)  Kore-eda Hirokazu in person
Fri. Oct. 27 7:30 pm
Kore-eda Hirokazu is a very interesting filmmaker who has carved out a modest spot in the art film director world, periodically playing Cannes and having a smattering of international awards, and this is one of his older good ones. Check it out, plus he’s in person. And it’s 35mm!

UCLA Film & TV Archive
Maborosi (1995, Kore-eda Hirozaku) Kore-eda Hirozaku in person!
Sat. Oct. 28 7:30 pm
Wait there’s another Hirozaku film with him in person! This one might be even better, I remember this one from a while back. Again this is in 35mm, and this is that arthouse director of some note from Korea. Check him out!


UCLA Film & TV Archive
Air Doll (2009, Kore-eda Hirozaku)
Sun. Oct. 29 7:00 pm
I’ll let their description sell this one:
“Unlike anything else in Kore-eda’s filmography, this story of an inflatable sex doll that comes to life in the middle of Tokyo strikes a whimsical tone that renders its reflections on loneliness, love, the movies and what it really means to be human all the more bittersweet.”
Sounds goooood. Plus in 35mm!

New Beverly
The Invisible Man Returns (1940, Joe May)
and
Invisible Agent (1942, Edwin L. Marin)
Mon. Oct. 30 7:30 pm/9:20 pm
Nothing I like more than the curiosity of obscure sequels to some very famous originals. Here we get a double dose of the continuing story of the Invisible Man, now taken over by Vincent Price (from Claude Rains). Interestingly directed by Joe May of German silent films such as Asphalt (1929). The second film has no Vincent Price, but has a World War II propaganda angle, using the invisible man technology, so might be pretty cool (or pretty awful!).


Downtown Independent
La Virgen de la Caridad (1930, Ramón Peón)
and
Casta de roble (1954, Manolo Alonso)
Fri. Oct. 27 7:30 pm
While this will have just played the prior week at UCLA (see above), it’s silent film nerd alert again! Wow, a 1930 silent film from Cuba with live musical accompaniment, in 35 mm. Should be unique, definitely rare. The site says:
“This Cuban silent film was highly praised and extremely popular at the time of its release, because of its socially critical view of the plight of peasants, and its religious themes.”

On the second film, the site says:
“A young peasant girl… has a baby by the master of the plantation, which is taken away from her. She marries and has another son, but the loss of the child has scarred her for life. Shot mostly on location in Pinar del Rio, Cuba…”
The downtown LA version of these screenings are part of showing them in (or near) the original LA venues they played in way back when. Both in 35mm!


Egyptian Theatre
Godzilla: The Japanese Original (1954, Ishiro Honda)
And
The H-Man (1958, Ishiro Honda)
Fri. Oct. 27 7:30 pm
It’s Godzilla without the Raymond Burr American scenes, all in Japanese with English subtitles. H-Man is a gangster film: “genre-blending sci-fi thriller is a mix of detectives, hoods, radioactive goblins and atomic paranoia.” Sounds like The World’s End? I can’t honestly say I recommend this, as I don’t know anything about it. But H-Man is in 35mm, and Godzilla is a nerd-culture phenomenon to maybe check out. (Godzilla is DCP).


Egyptian Theatre
Ghostbusters (1984, Ivan Reitman)
Sun. Oct. 29 7:30 pm
In 70mm. Probably worse ways to spend your Sunday.

Aero Theatre
All-Night Horrorthon
Sat. Oct. 28 7:30 pm
You horror nerds can knock yourselves out with another all-night horror marathon. Happily the screening format is 35mm for all films except Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. So that’s a lot of awesome 35mm. Films include An American Werewolf in London (1981, John Landis), Popcorn ( 1991, Mark Herrier), The Tingler (1959, William Castle), Hack-O-Lantern (1988, Jag Mundhra), Shocker (1989, Wes Craven), Brainscan (1994, John Flynn). Plus the 40th anniversary of Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977, George Barry), which sounds interesting:
“After a woman dies on a bed while making love to a demon, the bed comes to life with a hunger for human victims (including the film’s narrator, an artist trapped in a painting). Whatever you do, don’t sleep through this surreal cult favorite!”

UCLA Film & TV Archive
El vampiro negro (1953, Román Viñoly Barreto)
and
Los tallos amargos (1956, Fernando Ayala)
Sat. Oct. 28 3:00 pm
An Argentian version of Fritz Lang’s M (1931) as part of the ongoing Latin American Cinema in Los Angeles series spearheaded by UCLA. And nicely, both of these are on 35mm. The second is “a film noir tale of paranoia, shot in stark expressionist images” about a journalist who starts a fake journalism correspondence school (fake news?! How timely) but becomes suspicious of his business partner. The cinematography of the second film is highly acclaimed: It was included in the “Best Shot Films” list in American Cinematographer and was “long available only in substandard prints,” this is now finally a restored version by UCLA Film & Television Archive from the original negative found in a Buenos Aires home in late 2014! Both 35mm. Also Free Admission!


UCLA Film & TV Archive
Ahí está el detalle  (You’re Missing the Point) (1940, Juan Bustillo Oro)
and
Calabacitas tiernas (1949, Gilberto Martínez Solares)
Mon. Oct. 30 7:30 pm
This played recently at Downtown Independent, but West side denizens get a chance to see it at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater. Two from Mexico here, the first with Cantinflas apparently made him the most bankable star in Mexico, and the plot is apparently too convoluted for words, so it might be funny. Then in Calabacitas tiernas Tin-Tan puts on an international music show to alleviate financial woes. Both in 35mm!


LACMA
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954, Jack Arnold)
Tue. Oct. 31 1:00 pm
More 35mm horror classics at LACMA’s $4 matinees. Great deal for 35mm films if you like these old genre standards.

ACADEMY
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, Guillermo del Toro)
Mon. Oct. 30 7:30 pm
In 35mm. This is an amazing huge theater run by the Academy and it’s only $5. Great place to see a movie.
 
NOTE: The Egyptian and Aero’s listings weren’t updated past Oct. 31st  at blog press time, so check their site for more updated info.

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