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[ February 27, 2010; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Location: 19379 Soledad Canyon Road, Canyon Country, CA 91351

Description: Last month, 2nd Chance Manor (formerly Molar Manor) offered offered a “last chance” to experience their haunted attraction before it moved to a new location. The response was so big that they are offering a second chance this Saturday, from 7 to 11pm. Best of all: [...]

[ March 28, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: Egyptian Theatre – 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA

Description: The American Cinematheque presents a screening of the 1976 science fiction film about a future utopia where life is easy and the pleasures are many. Only one problem: at 30, you die! There will be a discussion after the film with writers William F. Nolan and [...]

[ March 27, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: Egyptian Theatre – 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA

Description: Following up on the Charles Beaumont documentary screening at 3pm, the American Cinematheque presents a pair of films scripted by Beaumont. BURN, WITCH, BURN is an excellent occult thriller, based on the Fritz Leiber novel CONJURE WIFE; Beaumont collaborated on the adaptation with Richard Matheson. Also [...]

Location: Egyptian Theatre – 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Description: The American Cinematheque presents this documentary about the late Charles Beaumont, a talented fantasy author who contributed some of the most memorable TWILIGHT ZONE episodes. Also on the bill, a short film titled “Your Three Minutes Are Up,” and a discussion with other TZ contributors Ray [...]

[ March 26, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: Egyptian Theatre – 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA

Description: The American Cinematheque provides more car chases, crashes and explosions than you can shake a stick at with this presentation of director George Miller’s trilogy, starring Mel Gibson: MAD MAX, MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR, and MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME.

Date: March 26 at 7:30pm

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[ March 25, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: Egyptian Theatre – 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA

Description: The American Cinematheque pays tribute to writer (ALIEN) and sometimes director (RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD) Dan O’Bannon with this double bill of horror and science fiction. THE RESURRECTED – which is presented for the first time in its director’s cut – is an adaptation of [...]

[ March 20, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: Egyptian Theatre – 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA

Description: Werner Herzog’s 1979 sound color remake of the 1922 silent horror film NOSFERATU stars Klaus Kinski as a tormented Count in this adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Screens on a double bill with Herzog’s non-genre COBRA VERDE, as part of the American Cinematheque’s two-day tribute to [...]

[ February 28, 2010; 6:00 pm; ] Location: Bay Theatre, 340 Main Street, Seal Beach, CA 90740

Description: Just in case you missed the Gremlins Double Bill at the Egyptian Theatre earlier this week, director Joe Dante’s original hair-raising horror-comedy – one of the reasons we ended up with a PG-13 rating – screens for three days at the Bay Theatre in Seal [...]

[ March 17, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: March 17 at 7:30pm

Description: Steven Spielberg’s film of Peter Benchley’s novel – about a monstrous shark terrorizing a beach community – screens on a double bill with Spielberg’s earlier SUGARLAND EXPRESS.

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Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: March 12 at 7:30pm
Description: Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery-thriller classic – about a private eye tailing a beautiful mysterious woman who claims to be a reincarnation – screens in 70mm. A must-see for film fans.
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Location: Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date:  March 05 at 7:30pm
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of science fiction – the ultimate trip – screens in a 70mm print. Short of an engagement at the Cinerama Dome, this is best way to enjoy the film.
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Location: El Capitan, 6838 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA
Dates: March 5 through April 20
Tim Burton’s wild film version of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s fantasy tale gets a one-month engagement at the Disney-owned theatre in Hollywood. Next door to the theatre, in the Disney Soda Fountain and Store, there will be Mad Tea Parties every day for [...]

[ February 18, 2010; 7:00 pm; ] Location: Paley Center for Media, 465 North Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA

Description: Join the cast and crew as they discuss their work on the new animated film, which features a “good” Lex Luthor from an alternate universe who comes to our world seeking help to fight supervillains who are more or less the counterparts of [...]

Location: Downtown Independent, 251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The cult sci-fi film, based on a Harlan Ellison story, screens downtown. Don Johnson (long before MIAMI VICE) stars as a young man surviving in a post-apocalyptic future with the help of his telepathic pooch. Director L.Q. Jones will be in attendance to discuss the [...]

Title: Psycho
Location: Alex Theatre, 216 North Brand Boulevard, Glendale, CA
Description: Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic of psychological horror screens twice. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films in the genre PSYCHO stars Anthony Perkins as Norman, with Janet Leigh. Based on the novel by Robert Bloch, adapted for the screen by Joseph Stefano.
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Location: Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Description: This lame 1980 sci-fi comedy, about a beautiful female android who falls in love with the captain of her starship, winds up the Cinefamily’s Stoopid Futures series of late-night screenings on Saturday. Dorothy Stratten (the Playmate of the Year murdered by her husband) plays [...]

Location: Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The Cinefamily’s late-night Saturdays series of Stoopid Futures films continues with this oddball double bill of films that tried – and failed – to cash in on the ’80s rollerblading craze. Rick King, director of PRAYER OF THE ROLLERBOYS, will be on hand to [...]

Location: Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Writer-director Mike Judge’s amusing sci-fi satire (criminally neglected during its contractual-obligation stealth release) screens as part of the Cinefamily’s Late Night Saturdays’ Stoopid Futures series on. Unlike the other Stoopid Futures films, this one is actually about a stupid future (rather than being a stupid film [...]

[ March 6, 2010; 10:15 pm; ] Location: Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

The Cinefamily launches “Stoopid Futures,” a set of films featuring wildly ridiculous visions of the the world of tomorrow, with “TV of Tomorrow” (clips showing predictions of what television would be like in the future), followed by a screening of 1987’s THE RUNNING MAN, starring [...]

For their Friday Night Double Features in March, the Cinefamily presents Post-Apocalypse Now, a series of films that examine what happens when the world as we know it comes to an end. The nine films* on display offer a wild ride, ranging from serious scienc fiction to cult absurdity – both intentional and unintentional. (If [...]

[ March 26, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Location: Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

The Cinefamily winds up their Post-Apocalypse Now series with a triple bill of films detailing what the future might be light if it were overrun with vampires/zombies/mutants. LAST MAN ON EARTH, starring Vincent Price, is a 1960s low-budgeter, based on Richard Matheson’s novel “I Am [...]

Location: Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 
The Cinefamily continues its Post-Apocalypse Now screenings with this double bill, which unlike others films in the series takes an art-house approach to the end of the world as we know it. From the website:
HOTEL OZONE: does not come from the realm of the fantastical [...]

[ March 12, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] The Cinefamily continues their Post-Apocalypse Now series with this double bill of eccentric cult films. Directed by Richard Lester, THE BED-SITTING ROOM is a black comedy that tells the tale of a handful of survivors in post-nuclear England, who try to go about their business as usual, with a British stiff-upper lip attitude, all while [...]