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The landmark 1982 adventure TRON will screen at the Egyptian tomorrow, at 7:30p. The original 1982 movie TRON will screen with a panel following with the filmmakers and VFX technicians. No passes accepted. Discussion following with writer-director Steven Lisberger, visual effects supervisors Richard Taylor and Harrison Ellenshaw, director of photography Bruce Logan, A.S.C., VFX computer … Continue reading
Mamma mia, it’s a veritable Leone fest! Okay, look out, this 1984 film runs 229 minutes. You might want to bring a sleeping bag and a bedpan. Leone was distraught when the picture was–unsurprisingly–heavily recut for its American release. He never made another movie before his death in 1989. (This 229-min. version is Leone’s skinniest … Continue reading
Mamma mia, it’s a veritable Leone fest! This time it’s Once Upon a Time in the West, the most hauntingly poetic and stylishly violent ode to the mythology of the American West I’ve ever seen. Almost certainly Leone’s finest. Charles Bronson is a soft-spoken, harmonica-playing gunslinger bent on revenge against brutal assassin Henry Fonda. Co-starring … Continue reading
Mamma mia, it’s a veritable Leone fest! From the opening whistle and whipcrack theme, to the final images of a vast cemetery stretching almost to infinity, THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY is surely one of the bloodiest, funniest and most wickedly entertaining portraits of human corruption ever made. Leone’s surreal masterpiece of the … Continue reading
Playing in Pasadena, it’s the post-Adam-West, pre-Chris-Nolan gothy take on everyone’s favorite caped crusader. Some have argued it’s not a film that’s aged well, but what can be more timeless than Jack Nicholson cranking Prince tunes on a ghetto blaster while destroying priceless artworks of antiquity? Location: The Academy Cinemas Pasadena, 1003 East Colorado Boulevard, … Continue reading
Steven Spielberg’s freshman feature, Duel. Part of a double feature (preceded by Walter Hill’s The Driver at 7:30p). From Wikipedia: Duel is a 1971television film about a terrified motorist (played by Dennis Weaver) on a remote and lonely road being chased and stalked by a huge tanker truck and its unseen, psychotic driver. It was the first feature film … Continue reading
Roman Polanski double bill at the Egyptian: CHINATOWN, 1974, Paramount, 131 min. Dir. Roman Polanski. Jack Nicholson gives his greatest performance as 1930s private eye J.J. Gittes, maneuvering through a nightmarish L.A. netherworld of cheating husbands, stolen water rights, incest and murder, as he desperately tries to save beautiful Faye Dunaway from her raptor-like father John … Continue reading
Where: Egyptian Theatre Friday, January 14 – 7:30 PM Double Feature: REAR WINDOW, 1954, Universal, 112 min. James Stewart is L.B. Jeffries, an ace photographer stuck in a wheelchair after breaking his leg. Despite receiving visits from his high-fashion sweetheart, Lisa (Grace Kelly), Jeffries is bored and soon resorts to spying on his tenement neighbors … Continue reading
Where: The New Beverly From site: Fri: 11:59pm (Midnight) 1994, USA, 154 minutes All Tickets $7. written & directed by Quentin Tarantino; starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Uma Thurman Trailer (Source)
An awesome, landmark fantasy film. To be presented by Edgar Wright, director of Shaun of the Dead and Scott Pilgrim. Where: The New Beverly 1985, UK, 142 minutes Edgar Wright will appear IN PERSON, schedule permitting, Sunday the 16th to introduce the films! directed by Terry Gilliam, written by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard & Charles … Continue reading
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