The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launches its 27th annual "Contemporary Documentaries" series with two widely praised Iraq War films: Alex Gibney’s Academy Award winner Taxi to the Dark Side and Charles Ferguson’s Academy Award-nominated No End in Sight. The screenings will take place on Wednesday, September 24, at 7 p.m. at the [...]
"Spend 5 days in the dark this Labor Day weekend at Cinecon 44," suggests the Cinecon website. That sounds like a very good idea, indeed.
First of all, the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. has a good air-conditioning system. Second, the seats are quite comfortable. Third, the screen and projection are first-rate. And last [...]
A rare screening of Marcel Ophüls‘ 1988 Oscar-winning documentary feature Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie will kick off the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Oscar’s Docs, Part Four: Academy Award-winning Documentaries from 1988–1997" on Saturday, September 20, at 6:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The series [...]
Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 Best Picture nominee There Will Be Blood, the final feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series, will be screened on Monday, August 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Considered by many film critics the best [...]
Bill Condon’s Dreamgirls, a shoo-in for one of the five Best Picture slots in 2006 (a shoo-in that failed to make the cut), will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series on Monday, August 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s [...]
A week of rock ‘n roll features and documentaries will be presented at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica beginning August 28. Among those are Jonathan Demme’s Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Richard Lester’s A Hard Day’s Night, and the Los Angeles premiere of Patti Smith: Dream of Life (above), directed by Steven [...]
In Variety, John Dempsey reports that Warner Bros. has remastered — at a reported "healthy seven figures" — MGM’s Academy Award-nominated Western How the West Was Won (1963), which was originally shot in the three-panel Cinerama format.
The film is composed of five separate segments directed by John Ford ("The Civil War"), Henry Hathaway ("The Rivers," [...]
Two Wayne Wang double features will be screened on Wednesday/Thursday, August 16–17, at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.
The four features consist of two sneak previews and two "revised versions" of older Wang efforts. The sneak previews are A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, winner of the best film award at the [...]
Ernest Borgnine, the 91-year-old veteran of nearly 200 films and TV shows, will show up at the American Cinematheque’s screening of Marty (1955), for which Borgnine won a best actor Academy Award, and The Catered Affair (1956) on Friday, August 8, at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. The show starts at 7:30 pm.
"Everything is [...]
The Art Directors Guild Film Society will be screening George Cukor’s extravagant 1960 Western Heller in Pink Tights, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, in tribute to production designer Gene Allen. The screening will take place on Sunday, August 24 at 5:30 pm at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.
Heller in Pink [...]
"Sex and the Single Girl: The Escapades of Busby Berkeley" is a mini-retrospective currently being presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater in Westwood.
Busby Berkeley went from directing stiff military parades to directing spiffy civilian babes in numerous musicals of the 1930s and 1940s, most notably at the [...]
The 2006 Best Picture nominee Babel is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series. Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s multi-language, globe-spanning drama will be screened on Monday, August 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Following [...]
Sergio Leone’s epic Western Once Upon a Time in the West will be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Gold Standard screening series on Friday, June 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The screening will mark the West Coast premiere of a new [...]
Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, a 1994 Best Picture nominee (and, in my view, one of the most overrated movies of all time), will be screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series on Monday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
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The Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters will celebrate the birth centennial of Mexican actor-singer superstar Tito Guízar (1908–1999) with a screening of the 1936 cowboy musical ("charro") Alla en el rancho grande / Over at the Big Ranch this evening at 7pm at USC’s Leavey Library Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. Free admission. (Parking [...]
"This film reflects my inner experience," says Iranian artist/director Mania Akbari about 10 + 4, a documentary that chronicles her battle against cancer in a society where gender roles are strictly enforced. "It is vitally important to expose deep inner truths no matter how difficult and painful they are. 10 + 4 depicts a part [...]
Even though I’ve never been an Alfred Hitchcock fan, I do find the vast majority of his films at least watchable. A Hitchcock flick that I particularly like happens to be one of his least-renowned efforts, the 1944 adventure drama Lifeboat. So, it’s good to see that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences [...]
