July 2; 7:30pm – Lisandro Alonso Retrospective: Liverpool @ Billy Wilder
Lisandro Alonso in person. Very excited about this ongoing retrospective. Along with Reygadas and Martel; Alonso stands out as one of the most unique filmmakers in South American Cinema.

July 2; 7:30pm – Kubrick’s The Shining @ Egyptian

July 2; 8:00pm – Billy Jack and Born Losers with Director/Actor Tom Loughlin in person @ Cinefamily

July 3; 5:00pm – The Matrix Trilogy @ Egyptian

July 3; 8:00pm – Tom Loughlin’s The Trial of Billy Jack @ Cinefamily

July 3; 9:00pm – Easy Rider @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery

July 6 & 7– Bong Joon-Ho Double Feature: Mother and Memories of Murder @ New Beverly

July 8, 9 & 10 – Alejandro Jorodowski Double Feature: El Topo and The Holy Mountain @ New Beverly
If you’ve never seen The Holy Mountain, do not miss it. It’s cinematic-acid.

July 8; 7:30pm – Rosemary’s Baby and A Reflection of Fear @ Egyptian

July 9 – Angela Ismailos’ Great Directors for One Week @ Nuart

July 9; 7:30pm – De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves and Umberto D @ Egyptian

July 9; 7:30pm – A Tribute to Dennis Hopper: Easy Rider and The American Dreamer @ Cinefamily

July 9; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise and Desire @ LACMA

July 9; 7:30pm – Lisandro Alonso Retrospective: Los Muertos and Fantasma @ Billy Wilder

July 10; 7:30pm – Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey @ Egyptian

July 10; 7:30pm – Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat Dans L’Ile @ Cinefamily

July 10; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch: Ninotchka and Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife @ LACMA

July 10; 9:00pm – Arsenic and Old Lace @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery

July 11; 7:30pm – Melville’s Army of Shadows and Bob Le Flambeur @ Egyptian

July 11; 6:30pm & 9:30pm – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916 Version) with live score by Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields @ Cinefamily

July 11; 7:00pm – Lisandro Alonso Retrospective: La Libertad @ Billy Wilder

July 12; 7:00pm – Robert Siodmak’s The Dark Mirror @ A.M.P.A.S Samuel Goldwyn Theater

July 13; 8pm – Daddy Longlegs and Safdie Bros. Shorts with Ben and Joshua Safdie in person @ Cinefamily

July 14; 8:00pm – G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box with live score by Cabeza De Vaca Arcestra @ Cinefamily

July 16; 7:30pm – Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s and Claire’s Knee @ Aero

July 16; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch:Design for Living and The Smiling Lieutenant @ LACMA

July 16; 7:30pm – A Tribute to Dennis Hopper: Mad Dog Morgan and Kid Blue @ Cinefamily
Mad Dog Morgan Director Philippe Mora in Person

July 17; 7:30pm – Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse and Chole in the Afternoon @ Aero

July 17; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch:The Shop Around the Corner and Angel @ LACMA

July 17; 9:00pm – Saturday Night Fever @ Hollywood Forever Cemetary

July 18; 7:30pm – Happiness and Life During Wartime with Todd Solondz in person@ Egyptian
Alongside The White Ribbon, A Prophet and Fish Tank, Life During Wartime was one of the best films I saw at last year’s Telluride Film Festival. Amazing cast, hysterical and poignant script; I think it’s Solondz’s best film. Also, it’s beautifully shot on the RED by Ed Lachman.

July 19; 7:00pm – The Blue Dahlia @ A.M.P.A.S Samuel Goldwyn Theater

July 21; 7:30pm – Dossier K @ Egyptian

July 22; 7:30pm – Wilder’s Sunset Blvd and Stalag 17 @ Aero

July 23; 7:30pm – Wilder’s Some Like it Hot and Avanti @ Aero

July 23; 7:30pm – A Tribute to Dennis Hopper: Night Tide and Tracks @ Cinefamily
Tracks Director Henry Jaglom in Person

July 23; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch: One Hour with You and The Merry Widow @ LACMA

July 23 & 24 – Preston Sturges Double Feature: Christmas in July and Hail the Conquering Hero @ New Beverly

July 24; 7:30pm – Wilder’s The Apartment and Irma La Douce @ Aero

July 24; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch: To Be or Not to Be and A Royal Scandal @ LACMA

July 24; 9:00pm – High Noon @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery

July 25; 7:30pm – Wilder’s Double Indemnity and Ace in the Hole @ Aero

July 25; 6:00pm – A Tribute to Dennis Hopper: Blue Velvet, Hoosiers and River’s Edge @ Cinefamily
Cinefamily will also be hosting a BBQ for this triple feature.

July 25; 7:30pm – Blazing Saddles and Silent Movie with Mel Brooks in person @ Egyptian

July 26; 7:00pm – Orson Welles’s The Stranger @ A.M.P.A.S Samuel Goldwyn Theater

July 28; 7:30pm – Young Frankenstein and The Man with Two Brains @ Egyptian

July 29; 7:30pm – Stones in Exile and Gimme Shelter @ Aero

July 29; 7:30pm – Robert Altman’s The Player @ LACMA

July 30; 7:30pm – Monterey Pop and Wattstax @ Aero

July 30; 7:30pm – Pal Joey and Book & Candle with Kim Novack in person @ Egyptian

July 30; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch: The Marriage Circle and So This is Paris @ LACMA

July 30; 8:00pm – A Tribute to Dennis Hopper: Restored 35mm print of Out of the Blue and White Star @ Cinefamily

July 31; 7:30pm – Woodstock: The Director’s Cut @ Aero

July 31; 7:30pm – Picnic and Middle of the Night @ Egyptian

July 31; 7:30pm – The American Comedies of Ernst Lubitsch: Heaven Can Wait and Cluny Brown @ LACMA

July 31; 7:30pm – A Tribute to Dennis Hopper: The Last Movie and Colors @ Cinefamily

July 31; 9:00pm – Airplane! @ Hollywood Forever Cemetery

This list comes from fellow UCLA TFT classmate Richard Parkin.

June 1(also on May 30 &31) – Leone & Peckinpah: Duck You Sucker (aka Fistfull of Dynamite) and Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia @ New Beverly

June 2; 7:30pm – Rebel Without a Cause and East of Eden @ Egyptian

June 2 &3 – Derek Jarman Double Feature: Caravaggio and Wittgenstein @ New Beverly

June 4; 7:30pm – Apocalypse Now Redux @ Egyptian

June 4 – 12 – Ferzan Ozpetek Retrospective @ Billy Wilder

June 4; 7:30pm – Naked Lunch and The New Age with Peter Weller (aka Robocop) in Person @ Aero

June 4; 7:30pm – Nicholas Roeg’s Performance and Donald Cammell’s White of the Eye @ LACMA

June 5; 7:30pm – West Side Story @ Aero

June 5; 7:30pm – Foxy Brown and Jacky Brown w/ Pam Grier in person @ Egyptian

June 5; 7:30 pm – Donald Cammell’s Wild Side and Demon Seed @ LACMA

June 7; 7:00pm – Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity @ A.M.P.A.S Samuel Goldwyn Theater

Already Sold Out.

June 8 – Brian De Palma Double Feature: Blow Out and Femme Fatale @ New Beverly

June 9; 7:00pm – Ellen Kura’s The Betrayal preceded by Ruby Yang’s Tongzhi in Love @ A.M.P.A.S Linwood Dunn Theatre

Free

June 9; 7:30pm – Baraka @ Egyptian

June 10; 7:30pm – Bonne and Clyde and Alice’s Restaurant @ Aero

June 10; 7:30pm – Digital Restoration of From Here To Eternity @ Egyptian

June 10; 7:30 pm – Preview Screening of Alain Resnais’s Wild Grass @ LACMA

June 11 – The Cremaster Cycle and De Lama Lamina @ Nuart

Plays for one week.

June 11; 8:00pm – Kentucky Fried Move and Amazon Women On The Moon @ Silent Film Theatre

June 11; 7:30pm – Bertolucci’s The Conformist @ LACMA

June 11, 12 – Cries and Whispers and Interiors @ New Beverly

June 12; 7:30pm – Bertolucci’s The Conformist @ LACMA

June 12; 7:30pm – The Red Shoes @ Aero

June 14; 7:00pm – Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Peirce @ A.M.P.A.S Samuel Goldwyn Theater

$3 for students. Likely to sell out

June 16, 17; 7:30pm – Two by Park Chan-wook: Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance @ New Beverly

June 17 – Los Angeles Film Festival Begins

June 17; 7:30pm – Chaplin’s The Circus @ Aero

June 17; 7:30pm – The Magnificent Seven and Junior Bonner @ Egyptian

June 18; 7:30pm – Chaplin’s City Lights and A Woman In Paris @ Aero

June 18; 8:00pm – The Heartbreak Kid and Bone @ Silent Film Thearte

June 19; 7:30pm – Chaplin’s The Gold Rush @ Aero

June 19; 7:30pm – Papillion @ Egyptian

June 20; 11:00am – Technicolor: One Vision From Set to Screen with Nancy Richardson @ Los Angeles Film Festival

June 20; 1:00pm – Kodak Focus: Conversation with Rodrigo Prieto @ Los Angeles Film Festival

June 20; 2pm – Chaplin’s The Kid @ Silent Film Theatre

June 20; 3pm – Chaplin’s The Kid @ Aero

June 20; 7pm – A Live Tribute to Fred Willard @ Silent Film Theatre

June 20; 7:30pm – The Great Escape @ Egyptian

June 20 & 21 – Point Blank and The Outfit @ New Beverly

If you have never seen Point Blank, it is an absolute must. One of the best crime films ever made. It is an early blending of 60′s Hollywood filmmaking with European cinema. It also serves as a precursor to Soderberg’s The Limey and is an inspiration for almost all of Jim Jarmush’s work. Don’t miss it. The Outfit is also supposed to be exceptional but is widely unknown since it is very hard to find on home video.

June 21; 7:00pm – Robert Siodamak’s The Killers @ A.M.P.A.S Samuel Goldwyn Theater

June 22 & 23; 7:30pm – Bagdad Cafe and Gas Food Lodging @ New Beverly

June 23; 8:00pm – An Evening with Sylvester Stallone! @ Los Angeles Film Festival

June 23; 7:30pm – Chaplin’s Limelight @ Aero

June 24; 7:30pm – Chaplin’s Modern Times and A King in New York @ Aero

June 24; 7:30pm – The Red Shoes @ Egyptian

This will be the screening where I finally see The Red Shoes.

June 25; 7:30pm – Chaplin’s The Circus and The Gold Rush @ Aero

June 25 – Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me @ Nuart

Plays for one week.

June 26; 6:00pm – Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard at The Orpheum Theatre @ Los Angeles Film Festival

June 26; 7:30pm – Chaplin’s The Pilgrim and The Great Dictator @ Aero

June 27; 3:00pm – Chaplin’s Shorts Program

June 28; 7:00pm – The Strange Love of Martha Ivers @ A.M.P.A.S Samuel Goldwyn Theater

$3 for students. Likely to sell out.

Lots of great offerings!

• UCLA focuses on showbiz 101 – Entertainment News, Brian Lowry, Media – Variety
  UCLA and USC often engage in spirited competition, although at times the scales have appeared almost as one-sided in the media and film realm as they have been on the football field.

When We Leave was the last feature I worked on before I left Berlin. I was so happy to see it win Tribeca. Congratulations to Feo!

Tribeca Fest Honors ‘When We Leave’ & ‘Monica and David’ – indieWIRe

Expressing “gratitude” and “surprise,” German director Feo Aladag’s “When We Leave” (Die Fremde) took the Tribeca Film Festival’s Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature, while American director Alexandra Codina’s “Monica & David” won Best Documentary Feature at a ceremony in Manhattan’s Union Square Thursday evening. Both winner received $25,000 in cash and their respective original pieces of art.

• The New Dating Game by Charlotte Allen
  Welcome to the New Paleolithic, where tens of thousands of years of human mating practices have swirled into oblivion like shampoo down the shower drain and Cro-Magnons once again drag women by the hair into their caves—and the women love every minute of it. Louts who might as well be clad in bearskins and wielding spears trample over every nicety developed over millennia to mark out a ritual of courtship as a prelude to sex: Not just marriage (that went years ago with the sexual revolution and the mass-marketing of the birth-control pill) or formal dating (the hookup culture finished that)—but amorous preliminaries and other civilities once regarded as elementary, at least among the college-educated classes.

• Don’t make the feature version of your short – Johnaugust.com

  I had coffee today with a writer-director whose acclaimed short film got him many awards and meetings all over town. And deservedly: it’s terrific, a labor of love that took several years to make.

  He said he was finishing up the screenplay for the feature version. I told him to focus on something else instead. You shouldn’t make the feature version of your short.