Here’s what's in store for LA 35mm film screening lovers this week! (Well, 35mm and some regular digital.)
This is just what's on my personal radar. There’s also a series of recent German films at the Egyptian, rare films about
Berlin at UCLA, and more than I can list going on in 35mm at the New Beverly.
So browse the LA Film Calendars links on my
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As usual, a couple of these choices are
tonight, FYI, and not necessarily listed first.
Egyptian Theatre (part of Beyond Fest)
Miracles aka Mr.
Canton and Lady Rose (1989, Jackie Chan) Jackie
Chan In Person!
and
Police Story 3
aka Supercop (1993, Stanley Tong)
and
Police Story
(1985, Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen)
Fri. (tonight) Oct. 6 7:00 pm
Police
Story honestly is one
of my absolute favorite Jackie Chan films. Both for exciting plot, humor,
performances (him and Maggie Cheung), and some incredible action sequences,
including in a mall with a shitload of glass breaking. And Supercop ain’t no slouch either! Both Police Story films are
in 35mm! Did I mention Jackie was in person?! (Miracles DCP.)
Aero Theatre
Battleship Potemkin
(1925, Sergei Eisenstein)
and
The Man with the
Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
Sat. Oct. 7 7:30pm
Silent Film Nerd
Alert! Okay, first, never miss an opportunity to see Battleship Potemkin
on the big screen! (And certainly not when it's 35mm!) Second, never miss an
opportunity to see The Man with the Movie Camera on the big screen! Okay, that’s all I can say to advertise this
one, you’re on your own! (Battleship in 35mm, Man with the Movie
Camera is DCP.) (Musical score not notated. Presumably it's soundtrack on
the prints since no live music indicated.)
New Beverly
Pan’s Labyrinth
(2006, Guillermo Del Toro)
and
Crimson Peak (2015,
Guillermo Del Toro)
Fri. (tonight) 6:30 pm/9:00 pm
Well, curses, the
New Bev added tons of stuff after my last week’s rundown! But I did warn you that
their calendar was not yet posted at least. These are 35mm prints.
So if you like the Guillermo Del Toro stuff, this is a pretty essential
screening for you, as he donated his own print of the first film to the New
Bev!
Downtown Independent
Allá en el rancho
grande (Out on the Big Ranch) (1936,
Fernando de Fuentes)
and
María Elena
(She-Devil Island) (1936, Fernando de Fuentes)
Fri. (tonight) Oct. 6 7:30 pm
Both in 35mm! Two
classics (?maybe?) from Mexico. The description of the second film alone has me
kind of sold:
"María
Elena makes a “bad” choice, allowing sexual desire to trump a sensible
marriage, thus sending her faithful fisherman suitor across the sea.
There he learns of a mysterious island inhabited only by women."
Downtown Independent
La otra
(1946, Roberto Gavaldón)
and
En la palma de tu
mano (1951, Roberto Gavaldón)
Sat. Oct. 7 7:30pm
First a noirish
crime film starring Dolores Del Río and then a film the site calls “One of the
best movies of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema”, also a film noir, sounds like
a can’t-miss! (This screening DCP).
Egyptian
Theatre
The Beyond Fest
Various Dates
The Beyond Fest
continues! I won’t go in-depth on this, because so many sell out, and it's a
bit more fangirl/fanboy-centric than I would get into myself. Some things are
DCP (although notably 4k restorations). But check it out! I noticed they added
an exquisite Jackie Chan triple feature tonight!
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
"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. 9 –
Frankenstein (1931) – Pasadena
Oct. 10 – The Thing
– Hollywood
Oct. 10 –
Rosemary’s Baby – Sherman Oaks
Oct. 11 – Alien –
Hollywood
Oct. 13 – Friday the
13th – Hollywood
Oct. 16 – The Mummy
(1932) – Pasadena
Oct. 17 – The Monster
Squad – Sherman Oaks
Oct. 18 –
Nightmare on Elm Street – Hollywood
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
Egyptian Theatre
The Gleaners
& I (2001, Agnès Varda) Agnès Varda In Person
and
Vagabond
(1985, Agnès Varda)
Thur. Oct. 12 7:30 pm
Agnès Varda comes
into Los Angeles (does she live here already anyway?) to appear with two fairly
high profile films of hers in person. Gleaners
& I, on 35mm, is a fun labor of love documentary about people who pick up the
cast-offs of others. Vagabond is a
pretty wonderful film starring the always amazing Sandrine Bonnaire. It’s a
very interesting film, very artsy (unlike today’s films!) so I think it’s worth
an outing, even if it’s not my number one favorite
film of hers. I’m partial to La Pointe
Courte and Cléo from 5 to 7.
Although I actually haven’t seen Vagabond
in quite a long time, so maybe I'm not doing it justice. Go see! (Gleaners in 35mm, Vagabond DCP.)
Aero Theatre
Metropolitan
(1990, Whit Stillman) Whit Stillman in
Person
Sun. Oct. 8 7:30pm
This is a great
Whit Stillman movie! It’s the first and most well-known one. I feel like I knew
and hated some of these people as I one time attended a boarding school, and it
all rings so horribly true. (They're on break in Manhattan here.) But then some of the people are nice. Are they?
Wait, maybe they're all awful. Chris Eigeman is always a marvel in pretty much
everything, but this is his first the original star-making appearance and
career best. Oh, how I hated the rich snobs at my school yet love this movie.
Thanks, Whit!
(This screening
DCP.)
New Beverly
All-Night Horror Show
Sat Oct. 7 7:30 pm
I guess I’d be
remiss to not mention this. Not personally a huge horror fan myself, but this
must be every horror cinephile fan’s wettest of wet dreams. Enjoy! Oops, it’s
sold out already, guess you guys already knew about this one.
New
Beverly
Werewolf of London (1935, Stuart Walker)
and
The Wolf Man (1941,
George Waggoner)
Wed.
Oct. 11 2:00 pm
Yes, another wonderful October double feature
from the New Bev as part of their new Afternoon Classics time slot. 35mm of
course! Good films here!
Coming Next Week
Aero Theatre
Andrei Rublev
(1969, Andrei Tarkovsky)
Sat. Oct. 14 7:30 pm
The master
Tarkovsky is back (you may remember the Stalker
[1979] revival screenings a few weeks back). This is how a cinephile gets their
membership badge. They watch this on film, in 35mm, in a theater. So go do it.
It’s a beautiful re-creation of a medieval era of a notable icon painter, and
nothing will make you think about art and life the same way again. Commiserate
with confused fellow filmgoers in the foyer afterward and receive your
membership badge in the cinephile guild. Did I mention it’s in 35mm! Did I
mention it’s somewhat lengthy? Good, getting your badge shouldn’t be easy.
Aero Theatre
Come and See
(1985, Elem Klimov)
Sun. Oct. 15 7:30 pm
Oh, man, I just
watched another film by this guy, his The
Adventures of a Dentist (1965) on Film Struck. (Kind of like a slightly
less sharp Dušan Makevejev style.) And I did that because this film here is a balls-out masterpiece. One of the most
harrowing World War II films ever. Did you think the Nazis were bad yet? Well,
just in case you missed anything, this will pretty close to make you feel they
were even worse. Because they were. (And watch Shoah [1985, Claude Lanzmann] also, since this is only one aspect, set in Belarus.) This is
in the Landmarks of Soviet Cinema series for a really big reason. It’s fricking
shocking and incredible. Worth seeing. In 35mm!
Downtown Independent
La casa de los
millones (1942, Luis Bayón Herrera)
and
La dama duende
(1945, Luis Saslavsky)
Fri. Oct. 13 7:30 pm
These two in DCP,
but oh so rare..! This time we have films from Argentina in this ongoing Latin
American film series. La casa de los millions
is a comedy, with puns and slapstick about a noveau riche widow who is driving
all her servants away. La dama duende
is the story of woman (yet another widow?!) trying to win a man by pretending to
be a ghost, so I have a feeling this might be a comedy. Was voted the best
Argentine film of 1945! (This screening DCP.)
Downtown Independent
Ahí está el
detalle (You’re Missing the Point) (1940,
Juan Bustillo Oro)
and
Calabacitas
tiernas (1949, Gilberto Martínez Solares)
Sat. Oct. 14 7:30 pm
And now it’s back
to 35mm in the series, yay! 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 Calabacitas tiernas features Tin-Tan
putting on an international music show to alleviate financial woes.
New Beverly
Easy Rider
(1969, Dennis Hopper)
and
Chasers
(1994, Dennis Hopper)
Sun Oct. 15 6:30 pm/8:35 pm and Mon.
Oct. 16 7:30 pm/9:35 pm
There is no
situation under which I would ever watch Chasers
ever… except this one. Where I will have just sat through the masterpiece Easy Rider on 35mm at the New Bev, which
I incidentally just watched the blu-ray of and, man, it holds up and gives again
and again on every viewing. So to then sit through the curiosity that is Chasers, I’m totally on board, should be
fun, might even be a rollicking good time. Seriously Easy Rider is one of the greatest films ever, the film that started
the entire “New American Cinema” of the ’70s, and it personally demands you see
it on 35mm!
LACMA
The Mummy (1932,
Karl Freund)
Tue. Oct. 17 1:00 pm
I have to list
this because with all the October horror fests going on, this is probably the only
one playing The Mummy in beautiful
35mm. It’s a weird crowd, lot of retirees, but you’ll see a wonderful film in
35mm for only $4 and have a better October than everybody else.
New Beverly
The Omen
(1976, Richard Donner)
and
Holocaust 2000
(1977, Albert De Martino)
Fri. Oct. 13 and Sat. Oct. 14 7:00
pm/9:20 pm
Seeing the Omen
in 35mm should be required viewing right?! The second film sounds intriguing as
heck. It has a similar plot line with a child, but add a nuclear power plant in
the Middle East and Kirk Douglas! Should be good?? Or since I’ve literally
never heard of this film, I’m hoping very awful in the best way. (Second film
16mm.)
New Beverly
The Bride of Frankenstein
(1935, James Whale)
and
Son of
Frankenstein (1939, Rowland V. Lee)
Wed. Oct. 18 2:00 pm
Frankenstein had
a son?! Whoa, I had no idea. Better rectify that and watch this film! Plus,
seriously, Bride of Frankenstein definitely
should be seen in 35mm, and while it has a few other showings in October, this
is the only one guaranteed to be 35mm!
New Beverly
The Hired Hand
(1971, Peter Fonda)
And
Kid Blue
(1973, James Frawley)
Wed. Oct. 18 and Thur. Oct. 19 7:30
pm/9:35 pm
Answers the
question, what did Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper (separately) do right after
they made Easy Rider? While my
favorite answer to that question is Dennis Hopper’s totally awesome The Last Movie (1971), this double
feature of two westerns they made sounds like a great investigation into how
they “blew it”? haha little joke there, but maybe true, depending on how bad these
films are! The Hired Hand is directed
by Fonda, who had more than a hand in creating Easy Rider if memory serves, and Kid Blue stars Hopper as a hapless outlaw,
and features Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson and Leo Purcell. In 35mm, this
sounds like you’re browsing around an archive and their screening stuff for you
personally as you search for buried treasure.
Egyptian Theatre (in the Spielberg
Theatre)
Outside the Law
(1920, Tod Browning)
Sat. Oct. 14 7:30 pm
Silent film nerd alert!
This is a retro-format screening in 8mm. (Not even “super,” just regular 8mm!) So
watch the way many rich people saw films on their fancy projectors at home in
the old days. Live musical accompaniment and a short film selection! You
know director Tod Browning from Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932), but now you know he also directed a ton of silent films, often starring Lon Chaney (star of the original Phantom of the Opera [1925, Rupert Julian]), including this one in dual roles!
Aero
Theatre
Suspiria
(1977, Dario Argento)
Fri.
Oct. 13 7:30 pm
A wonderful heartwarming film starring the
amazing actress Jessica Harper. Warm your cockles on a Friday the 13th
in October with this loving ode to suspense. This is a 4K restoration. Yeah, I
prefer 35mm film, but maybe this will look great. (This screening DCP.)
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