Hollywood Gothique

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Terry Gilliam’s elaborate 1988 fantasy-adventure double bills with THE LADY EVE (1941) for a two-night run at the New Beverly Cinema. This imaginative epic was barely released by Columbia Pictures, and it more or less sank Gilliam’s career as an independent auteur: his subsequent films tend to be director-for-hire jobs on other people’s scripts, not [...]

The American Cinematheque presents a 25th anniversary double bill of two science fiction films from the year 1984. Richard Edlund will discuss 2010’s visual effects between the films.
Location: Aero Theatre – 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
Date: Wednesday, February 25 at 7:30pm

The American Cinematheque presents Stanley Kubrick’s classic science fiction film in 70mm. Forty years after its debut, the film remains the Ultimate Trip.
Location: Aero Theatre – 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
Date: Saturday, February 21 at 7:30pm

The American Cinematheque presents a double bill of romantic melodramas imbued with supernatural and/or fantasy overtones. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (with Laurence Olivier as Heathcliff) begins as a ghost story. The titular ENCHANTED COTTAGE (with Robert Young) certainly seems to live up to its name, at least as seen through the eyes of the young lovers at [...]

Director Wolfgang Petersen\’s film version of the childnren\’s fantasy novel screens courtesy of the American Cinematheque.
Location: Aero Theatre – 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
Date: Sunday, February 15 at 4pm

The 1974 cult film screens as part of the Silent Movie Theatre’s on-going Lesbian Vampires series, screening every Friday night at midnight during the month of February. The theatre’s website calls the film the “most savage girl-on-girl vampire movie ever.” Catch it this Friday, Februrary 13, to see if it lives up to its reputation. [...]

This three-part anthology, set in the titular city, opens in the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles and the Edwards Westpark 8 on March 20. With episodes directed by Bong Joon-Ho (THE HOST), Michael Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND), and Leox Carax THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE), the film presents a surreal “fantasy in [...]

The NoHo Arts ensemble offers a “graphic and sexually charged” stage adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel of vampirism. The production contains nudity and is suggested for mature audiences. Performances run on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm, and on Sunday afternoons at 3:00pm, with additional 8:00pm performances on Wednesday and Thursday, February 11-12. Call [...]

Peter Lorre in MAD LOVE
Some great love stories top our list of picks for this week – although, true to form, the love is in some cases twisted and bizarre.
MAD LOVE and EL. Director Karl Fruend’s 1935 reworking of HANDS OF ORLAC features Peter Lorre as a mad scientist who grafts the hands of a [...]

Actor Ray Park (THE PHANTOM MENACE, X-MEN) will be among the guests at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention this weekend. Park, who has a role in the upcoming G.I.JOE film, will sign autographs between noon and 3pm. Other guests inclue the cast of AMERICAN GLADIATORS.
Location: SHRINE HALL, 700 W. 32nd STREET, [...]

The classic comedy about a banker (Roland Young) whose life is altered by a pair of ghosts (Gary Grant and Constance Bennett) trying to earn their way into a happy afterlife. Double billed with the non-genre HOLIDAY, also starring Grant.
Location: Aero Theatre – 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
Date: Sunday, February [...]

The Horror Drunx and Sid Terror present a screening of George A. Romero\’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) (please note that the film will be presented in 16mm).
Location: New Beverly Cinema – 7165 Beverly Blvd – Los Angeles, CA 90036 – (323) 938-4038 www.newbevcinema.com
Date: Friday, February 6 at midnight

The American Cinematheque screens two black-and-white classics as a tribute to the late Forrest J Ackerman. A Memorial to Ackerman will follow on March 3 at the Egyptian Theatre.
Location: Aero Theatre – 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica www.americancinematheque.com/Aero/aeromastercalendar.htm
Date: February 05 at 7:30pm

We’re going slightly off topic with our recommendations this week. Instead of traditional Gothic horror fare, how about some mystery-thrillers and foreign art house films?
LAURA and VERTIGO. On Friday, February 6 at 7:30pm, the Silent Movie Theatre presents a double bill of two classic moody mysteries, . Otto Preminger’s classic 1940s whodunit, LAURA features Dana Andrews [...]

Kane Hodder (Part VII), Richard Brooker (Part III), and Derek Mears (FRIDAY THE 13TH remake) will be among the actors who will step out from behind Jason’s hockey mask to appear together on Tuesday, February 3 to celebrate the DVD release of HIS NAME WAS JASON, a two-dsic “splatter edition” set. 
30 guests from the FRIDAY THE 13TH [...]

Daughters of Darkness
During the month of February, the Cinefamily’s “Friday Midnights” series will be consist of a festival of Lesbian Vampire films. Inspired by the success of Hammer Films’ 1970 effort THE VAMPIRE LOVERS (a racy, colorful adaptation of J. Sheridan LeFanu’s classic tale Carmilla), exploitation filmmakers jumped on the bandwagon, creating a brief wave of [...]