HELLBOY, Guillermo Navarro at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2008

Los Angeles Film Festival 2008: Saturday, June 28

Produced by Run Run Shaw, directed by Zhang Che, and written by Qiu Gangjian, the 1969 romp The Singing Thief (Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 1 pm) follows the musical travails of a thief-turned-cabaret singer who is accused of a series of robberies.

Kodak Focus: Guillermo Navarro (The Landmark 3, 1:30 pm) will feature a conversation with Guillermo del Toro's frequent cinematographer, who won an Oscar for Pan's Labyrinth last year. Among Navarro's other credits are Cronos, Jackie Brown, The Devil's Backbone, Hellboy, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Free event, but a ticket is required. Tickets may be requested in person only at the Festival Ticket Office or at the door, while supplies last.

Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army (The Regent, 6:30 pm) is a summer flick about a war of the worlds and humankind's last hope: the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense's Hellboy. In the cast: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss, Anna Walton, Seth MacFarlane, and John Hurt. The screening will be followed by a party on Broxton Ave.

Directed by Jerry Schatzberg from a screenplay by Harold Pinter, the 1989 drama Reunion (Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 4 pm) chronicles a (German) Jewish man's (Jason Robards) search for his (non-Jewish) German boyhood friend.

Robert Kramer and John Douglas' 1975 effort Milestones (Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, 8 pm) is described as a "'scripted documentary' about the small triumphs and significant failures of the American radical movement." Co-presented by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

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