Los Angeles Screenings / Film Events Articles

Joseph H. Lewis‘ The Big Combo (1955) and André De Toth’s Pitfall (1948, right, with Dick Powell) will be screened as a film noir double bill at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at downtown Los Angeles’ historic Million Dollar Theater. I haven’t watched either movie, but the Los Angeles Times‘ Kenneth Turan’s warns: The Big Combo’s "big, dark shadows … will eat you alive." [...]

Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, The Last Picture Show The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show with the Los Angeles premiere of the digitally restored “Definitive Director’s Cut” of the 1971 black-and-white classic. Additionally, there will be an onstage discussion with members of the cast and crew. Those include Bogdanovich, Academy Award winner [...]

Steven Soderbergh’s action-thriller Haywire, starring Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Angarano, Antonio Banderas, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton and martial arts star Gina Carano (photo) is AFI FEST 2011’s “Secret Screening.” Haywire will be presented tonight at 9:30 p.m. The synopsis below is from the AFI FEST press release: … Haywire tells the story of Mallory Kane, a highly trained operative who works for [...]

Cam Gigandet, 5 Star Day Directed by Danny Buday (photo), and starring Twilight’s Cam Gigandet and Sucker Punch’s Jena Malone,the psychological drama 5 Star Day opened via Breaking Glass Pictures on Wednesday in select theaters (in the Los Angeles area: the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood and the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena). [Watch the trailer. Official website.] Writer-director Buday’s first feature film, 5 Star [...]