FilmRadar 619th Edition

Edited by Ray McDermott

October 17th, 2014

In This Issue

Academy-Samuel Goldwyn

Academy-Linwood Dunn & Aero

Egyptian

Art Theatre

Downtown Independent

Echo Park Film Center

Film Forum

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Hollywood Heritage

LACMA

New Beverly

Nuart Theatre

Old Town Music Hall

Red Cat

Silent Movie Theatre/Cinefamily

Skirball

UCLA-Billy Wilder

USC

Other events around town

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LARRY EDMUNDS

BOOKSHOP

PICK OF THE WEEK

AS YOU WISH

Inconceivable Tales From The Making of the Princess Bride

Cary Elwes with Joe Layden

**To see the other upcoming book signings and events, log on to:

http://larryedmunds.com/

PICK OF THE WEEK

THE VINCENT PRICE COLLECTION II

[Blu-ray]

Starring Vincent Price

Laemmle

Pick of the Week

ADVANCED STYLE

ADVANCED STYLE is a documentary that examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers aged 62 to 95 whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Director Lina Plioplyte follows these fashionable ladies' daily adventures of living in the city, capturing their most entertaining and poignant moments. From the instant that Cohen first meets these vibrant characters on the streets of New York, it is evident that they are destined for fame. From a glamorous 81-year-old dancer from the legendary Apollo
theater, to an 80-year-old owner of a storied boutique on the Upper West Side with a penchant for over-the-top accessories, to a 93-year-old West Village artist known for her colorful ensembles and iconic red eyelashes crafted from her own hair, these ladies offer their own unique perspective on overcoming life's obstacles with style and grace, proving that age is merely a state a mind. Advanced Style paints colorful and intimate portraits of independent, stylish women who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, growing old, and Western culture's increasing obsession with youth.

Director Lina Plioplyte and street style photographer Ari Seth Cohen will be at the Music Hall for Q&A's on opening weekend: after the 7:20 PM screening on Friday, October 17 and after the 5 and 7:20 PM screenings on Saturday, October 18.

Landmark

Pick of the Week

WHIPLASH

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, the gripping drama Whiplash stars Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now) as Andrew Neiman, a 19-year-old jazz drummer determined to rise to the top of the country's most elite music conservatory. One night, Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), a conductor equally known for his talent for teaching as he is for the terrifying method of his instruction, discovers Andrew practicing the drums, and the next day requests that he be transferred into his band. At first, Andrew is an "alternate," confined to turning the pages of the "core" drummer, but at the band's next competition, the core drummer's sheet music is misplaced and Andrew gets the opportunity to play. Though the act further alienates him from his fellow musicians, the band nonetheless wins the competition, and he seems poised to become Fletcher's new "favorite son." Andrew's maniacal effort to achieve perfection is further fueled by Fletcher's psychological brinksmanship. The nearer to perfection Andrew gets, the narrower his circle of intimates becomes until he is left only with Fletcher-and even that relationship is jeopardized by the ferocity of Andrew's ambitions. A journey that can be seen alternately as a descent into madness or an ascent to greatness comes to a crescendo on the biggest platform for Andrew's talents-the unforgiving stage of Carnegie Hall.

Star Miles Teller will appear in person on Saturday, October 18 for a Q&A after the7:30pm show.

PICK OF THE WEEK

The 14th Annual Screamfest Film Festival has been a lot of fun so far and continues through the 23rd. On Thursday, they will have encore screenings of all the festival winners so it's a great change to catch up on all the best in new independent horror.

The yearly special Halloween newsletters will not be happening this year. Horror and genre films will be highlighted in the newsletter in orange. For Halloween events information, check out our friends at Creepy LA.

- From Ray & Karie

Academy-Samuel Goldwyn Theatre
(Beverly Hills)

*More events coming soon!

Academy-Linwood Dunn Theatre (Hollywood)

*More events coming soon!

American Cinematheque-Aero

In Spectacular Digital Cinema: Classics And Restorations on The Big Screen

October 17th

PATEMA INVERTED

October 18th

THE OUTER LIMITS

Discussion following with writer Harlan Ellison, moderated by Josh Olson.

October 19th

HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

October 19th

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

October 20th

Live Talks LA: An Evening With Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming In Person!

October 23rd

COWBOYS

October 24th

GHOSTBUSTERS

American Cinematheque-Egyptian

October 17th

Recent Spanish Cinema Round Table

This is a free event - first come, first served.

October 17th

CARMINA AND AMEN / WITCHING AND BITCHING

Discussion between films with CARMINA AND AMEN director Paco Le�n.

October 18th

Historic Egyptian Theatre Tour / FOREVER HOLLYWOOD

October 18th

Dying for Deco / DRACULA'S DAUGHTER

October 18th

SPANISH AFFAIR / THREE MANY WEDDINGS

Discussion between films with SPANISH AFFAIR actress Clara Lago.

October 18th

The Perils of Pauline / The Woman In Grey

October 19th

FAMILY UNITED / ISMAEL

Discussion between films with FAMILY UNITED director Daniel Sanchez Arevalo.

October 22nd

POACHERS / LEO

Introduction by Marsha Kinder and Marvin D'Lugo, who will sign "Border-Crossing With Borau: At Home, Abroad," a special issue of Studies in Spanish and Latin American Cinemas (vol. 12.1), at 6:30 PM in the lobby.

October 23rd

THE FRAME

Discussion following with writer-director Jamin Winans and cast members.

October 24th

PREDATOR / ACTION JACKSON

Discussion following with actor Carl Weathers.

Arclight Cinemas

October 16th - 19th

Hollywood Film Festival

October 17th @ Arclight Hollywood

POLTERGEIST

October 18th @ Arclight Hollywood

FROM DUSK TO DAWN

October 19th @ Arclight Hollywood

MEMENTO

October 19th @ Arclight Pasadena

PSYCHO

October 19th @ Arclight Hollywood

GREMLINS

October 19th @ Arclight Sherman Oaks

CORPSE BRIDE

October 19th @ Arclight Beach Cities

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

October 20th @ Arclight Hollywood

LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

October 20th @ Arclight Pasadena

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

October 20th @ Arclight Sherman Oaks

THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS

October 21st @ Arclight Sherman Oaks

THE SHINING

October 21st @ Arclight Beach Cities

October 21st @ Arclight Pasadena

THE PRESTIGE

October 21st @ Arclight Beach Citiees

October 24th @ Arclight Hollywood

THE THING

October 22nd @ Arclight Sherman Oaks

AMERICAN PSYCHO

Art Theatre Long Beach

October 17th - 23rd

GONE GIRL

October 17th, 18th, 19th @ 11am

20,000 DAYS ON EARTH

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW w/Live LB Orig Shadowcast-Every Saturday-Midnite!

Downtown Independent

October 10th - 23rd

Bjork- Biophilia Live

October 21st

SLEEPAWAY CAMP FREE COMEDY SHOW

Echo Park Film Center

October 18th

WASH ALBUM RELEASE SHOW

October 23rd

FLORIAN CRAMER presents: A NIGHT WITH FILMWERKPLAATS

October 24th

KELMAN DURAN'S TO THE NORTH PT. 1

Film Forum Los Angeles

Sunday October 19, 2014, 7:30 pm

Los Angeles Filmforum presents
Makino Takashi: Entering a Noisy Cosmos

At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028

Makino Takashi in person from Japan!

Among Japan's most prolific and adventurous filmmakers, Takashi Makino is known for hallucinatory, non-linear films that harness techniques from the twin media of film and video, treating both image and sound with equal importance. "Makino Takashi's immersive live media experiences are a transcendence into 'physical unconsciousness.' Hallucinatory and experiential, Takashi creates abstract cinematic worlds immersing the viewer like a grain of emulsion free falling in the corporeality of image forming materials" (Unconscious Archives, London). Often described as being at the forefront of Japanese experimental filmmaking, Takashi himself generally shies from the term "experimental." Rather, his influences include the multiple exposure techniques of 1920s French Surrealist films and a near-death experience at the age of five during which he envisioned "a place filled with lights more brilliant than any image I had ever seen." Takashi's work evolves as he attempts to find the ideal film, "an unshaped, organic, lump-like film that links with the consciousness and mental state of the viewersand never ceases to change."

Tonight he presents Space Noise 3D, an immersive live cinema work for 16mm and video projectors, live soundtrack, and 3D glasses, giving a physical presence to the images beyond the screen. The work is preceded by three short films, two featuring the music of Jim O'Rourke. Cinema and live performance that will fill your senses.

Tickets: $10 general admission; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free for Filmforum members.

For more event information: www.lafilmforum.org, or 323-377-7238

Cinespia at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

*More events coming soon!

Hollywood Heritage

*More events coming soon!

LACMA

October 17th

FAUST (1926)

October 17th

FAUST (1994)

October 18th

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

October 18th

THE BREAKFAST CLUB

October 19th

Nicole Miller: BELIEVING IS SEEING

October 20th

Free Members-Only Screening: BIRDMAN

October 21st @ 1pm

MY MAN GODFREY

October 24th

WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS

New Beverly

October 17th, 18th

LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH / SHOGUN ASSASSIN

October 18th @ midnight

COUNT DRACULA AND HIS VAMPIRE BRIDE

October 19th, 20th

RAGE / THE SAVAGE IS LOOSE

October 21st

FIST OF FURY / FIST OF FURY PART TWO

October 22nd, 23rd

THE GETAWAY / JUNIOR BONNER

October 24th, 25th

Trailer Show By Quentin Tarantino / THE DIRTY DOZEN

Nuart Theatre

October 17th - 23rd

GIUSEPPE MAKES A MOVIE

While the rest of America slept, DIY filmmaker/musician Giuseppe Andrews (a one-time teen actor in Independence Day and Detroit Rock City) has made over 30 experimental features with titles like Doily's Summer of Freak Occurrences, Trailer Town, Utopia Blues and Touch Me in the Morning. Set in some demented alternate universe (i.e. Ventura, California), they are populated by real-life alcoholics and drug addicts, trash-talking senior citizens and trailer park residents dressed in cow outfits and costume-shop wigs, acting out booze-fueled vignettes of severe psychosis filtered through Giuseppe's John Waters-meets-Harmony Korine-meets-Werner Herzog sensibility. Director Adam Rifkin (Look, The Dark Backward) creates a wildly surreal, outrageously funny and strangely touching portrait of a truly Outsider Artist inhabiting a world few of us even know exists, as he follows Giuseppe and his endearing yet seriously impaired troupe on the production of his latest 2-day opus, Garbanzo Gas, starring Vietnam Ron as a Cow given a weekend reprieve from the slaughterhouse at the local motel,

Director Adam Rifkin, producer Mike Plante and actor Miles Dougal will appear in person on Friday, October 17 for a Q&A after the 7:30pm show and to introduce the 9:35pm show. Director Adam Rifkin and producer Mike Plante will appear in person on Saturday, October 18 for a Q&A after the 7:30pm show and to introduce the 9:35pm show.

Cine Insomnia

October 17th at midnight

PSYCHO II

October 18th at midnight

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW screens every Saturday night at midnight at the Nuart.

Old Town Music Hall

October 17th, 18th, 19th

THE MUMMY

Starring Boris Karloff

Directed by Karl Freund

October 19th

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN

Starring Grant Williams

Directed by Jack Arnold

Red Cat

October 20th - 24th

China Onscreen Biennial

Silent Movie Theatre / Cinefamily

October 17th

The All Night Horror Show

October 18th

Chantal Akerman's ONE DAY PINA ASKED...

October 18

Heavy Midnites The Witching Hour: TROLL

October 19th

WETLANDS

October 20th, 21st

NIGHTBREED: DIRECTOR'S CUT

October 22nd

Doug Benson Movie Interruption: DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

October 23rd

Spectrefest: METROPOLIS

October 23rd

Video Nights: ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? Tribute

October 24th

Don't Sleep: An All-Nighter On Elm Street

Skirball

*More events coming soon!

UCLA Film & TV Archive-Billy Wilder Theatre

October 17th

RED AMNESIA

In-person: Wang Xiaoshuai, Liu Xuan

October 18th

Humor In Native American Films

October 18th

THE OLD WELL

In-person: Janet Wu Yanyan, daughter of Wu Tianming; Robert Rosen.

October 19th

KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE / LYE

October 20th

IMAGING INDIANS / TAKE A PICTURE WITH A REAL INDIAN

Free Admission

October 22nd

THE GOLDEN ERA

In-person: Howard Goldblatt (University of Notre Dame; Xiao Hong biographer).

October 24th

Honoring Sundance Institute's Commitment to Native American Cinema

In-person: Sydney Freeland; Billy Luther; Bird Runningwater, director, Native American and Indigenous Program, Sundance Institute.

USC

October 17th

SHOCK VALUE: THE MOVIE

October 19th

WHITE BIRD IN A BLIZZARD

Followed by a Q&A with Gregg Araki

October 19th
YAKONA

October 20th

THE BETTER ANGELS

October 21st

NIGHTCRAWLER
Followed by a Q&A with Dan Gilroy

October 21st

The Weinstein Company Presents: LIFE IS AMAZING Lexus Short Films Series

October 22nd

LINSANITY

Followed by a Q&A with Christopher C. Chen

October 22nd

Tribute to Jose Luis Borau

October 23rd

EXTRATERRESTRIAL

October 24th

A Transsexual and Transnational Spain: Crossing Borders with Jose Luis Borau's Cinema of the 70s

*Please note: All screenings require an RSVP. For a complete schedule, please click visit the official website .

Other film events around town

There are numerous other small film events happening all over Los Angeles and Orange County! Click on the links to see more information! These will also be frequently updates.

October 14th - 23rd

SCREAMFEST

TCL Chinese Theatre

October 16th - 19th

LA Femme Film Festival

Regal LA Live 16

October 17th - 20th

Silent River Film Festival

Various venues

October 17th - 23rd

IMAGINE I'M BEAUTIFUL

Arena Cinema

Director Meredith Edwards and Writer/Lead Actress Naomi McDougall Jones in Attendance for Q&A on Friday, October 17th at 6:40pm; Saturday, October 18th @ 7:30pm and Sunday, October 19th @ 5:20pm

October 17th - 23rd

HOUSEBOUND

Arena Cinema

October 17th - 23rd

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Arena Cinema

October 17th - 23rd

PUMP

Frida Cinema

October 17th

GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL

Front Porch Cinema at the SAnta Monica Pier