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[ May 14, 2010; ] Location: Laemmle Royal Theatre, 11523 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles

Description: The newly restored version of METROPOLIS, German director Fritz Lang’s silent science fiction classic, made its Los Angeles debut on April 25 as part of the Turner Classic Movies film festival. Now it moves into the Royal Theatre for an open-ended engagement.

Touted as the precursor [...]

[ June 11, 2010; 11:59 pm; ] Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA

Description: Tim Burton’s film of the life of Ed Wood, renowned as the director of some of the worst cult sci-fi horror movies ever made, gets a midnight screening. With Johnny Depp as Wood and Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi.

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Date: July 9 at midnight
Description: The Wachowski Brothers’ overblown live-action adaptation of the old anime TV series gets the midnight movie treatment. There is some innovate use of montage to deliver exposition, but overall this is a juvenile effort that thinks of itself as way [...]

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Dates: July 18 at midnight
Description: The entertaining but over-rated post-modern take on the slasher film (the gimmick is that the characters known the rules of slasher films) gets a midnight screening. Directed by Wes Craven from a screenplay by Kevin Williamson.
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[ May 28, 2010 to June 3, 2010. ] Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA

Description: George A. Romero’s follow-up to DIARY OF THE DEAD gets a one-week run at the Nuart, including a midnight screening on Friday. Dread Central calls this one of the best in the series, which stretches all the way back to 1968’s seminal NIGHT OF [...]

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Date: May 21 at midnight
Description: The not-so-fondly remembered ’80s horror flick gets the midnight camp treatment. The screening is timed to tie in with the Nuart’s one-week run of BEST WORST MOVIE, a documentary looking at the people involved in the making of TROLL 2 [...]

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Dates: May 21-27
Description: A hit on the festival circuit last year, this documentary about the TROLL 2 phenomenon gets a limited theatrical release in a handful of calendar houses around the country. The idea of fashioning a tribute to an obscure shlock film from the [...]

Location: Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Dates: May 7 & 14 at midnight
Description: Nuart’s calendar promos this as the Los Angeles “premiere” of the film, but Hollywood Gothique is pretty sure that THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE played at L.A.’s Silent Movie Theatre a month or two ago. In any case, this is [...]

Cinespia has announced the start date for this summer’s series of films screened at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery: May 15. This is not a genre-specific event, but as you can guess from the location, a fair number of appropriately spooky titles show up each year, along with some cult sci-fi and fantasy stuff. No titles have [...]

[ April 23, 2010 7:20 pm to April 24, 2010 10:10 pm. ] Location: The Landmark, 10850 West Pico, West Los Angeles
Dates: Starts April 23; in person guests on April 23-24

Description: MPI Media Group gives a limited platform release to this comedy-drama about a failed novelist (Jeff Daniels), an immature man whose best friend is an imaginary superhero named Captain Excellent (Ryan Reynolds). Lisa Kudrow, Emma Stone (ZOMBIELAND), [...]

Location: Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: Sunday, April 25 at 7pm
Description: Robert Osbourne hosts the Los Angeles premiere of a newly restored print of Fritz Lang’s silent movie science fiction masterpiece, featuring previously lost footage. The Metal Alloy Orchestra provides live musical accompaniment. The closing night event of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival.
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Location: Mann Chinese Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: Saturday, April 24 at 10pm
Description: This classic Hollywood version of the Flying Dutchman – doomed to sail the seas eternally – screens as part of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. James Mason plays the captain; Ava Gardner is the woman who must fall in love with him [...]

Location: Mann Chinese Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: April 25 at 9:30am
Description: The classic musical comedy – about a man who sells his soul to the devil so that he can lead his local baseball team to victory – screens as part of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. Actor Tab Hunter will be in attendance.
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Location: Mann Chinese Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: April 24 at midnight
Description: James Whales 1935 classic black-and-white horror film – starring Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, and Ernest Thesiger – screens as part of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival.
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Location: Mann Chinese Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: Saturday, April 24 at 9am
Description: Billy Wilder’s black comedy classic – with obvious though unacknowledged overtones of the horror genre – screens as part of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. With Nancy Olson in attendance.
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Location: Mann Chinese Theatre, 6801 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: Friday, April 23 at midnight
Description: The 1960s British sci-fi film, about what happens when the Earth’s population is struck blind by a meteor shower, followed by an invasion of extra-terrestrial plants, screens in a newly restored print, with Michael Hyatt, the man responsible for the restoration, in person.
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Location: Hollywood Rosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: Friday, April 23 at 4:30pm
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Description: A tribute to Douglass Trumbull, the cinematic magician behind special effects for 2001, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE, and BLADE RUNNER.

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TCM Classic Film Festival
2001 A Space Odyssey
King Kong
Day of [...]

Location: Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard
Date: Friday, April 23 at 10am
Description: The 1933 original, featuring stop-motion magic by Willis O’Brien, screens as part of the Turner Classics Movies Film Festival
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TCM Classic Film Festival
2001 A Space Odyssey
A Cinematic Odyssey with Douglass [...]

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Date: Friday, April 23 at 8:15am
Description: Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 science fiction masterpiece screens as part of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. Douglas Trumbull, who worked on the Oscar-winning special effects, will be in attendance to discuss the film.
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Dates: April 22-25 in Hollywood
Locations: Egyptian Theatre, Chinese Theatres, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
Turner Classic Movies, the cable channel renowned for keeping the great films of Hollywood’s past alive on the small screen, expands into the theatrical arena with its first-ever film festival. Along with traditional classics like A STAR IS BORN and CASABLANCA, there will be a please platterful of mystery movies, fantasy films, and science fiction cinema, including KING KONG (1933), 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, a restored version of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, and a newly restored version of Fritz Lang’s silent masterpiece METROPOLIS, with musical accompaniment by the Metal Alloy Orchestra.

[ May 21, 2010 2:00 pm to May 23, 2010 7:00 pm. ] Location: Marriot Los Angeles Airport, 5855 West Century Boulevard, Los Angeles

Description: This three-day convention, presented in association with Dark Sky Films, will feature a bloody barrel-full of guests: Dario Argento, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Adam Green, Kane Hodder, Tony Todd, Dick warlock, Richard Brooker, Stuart Gordon, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Carmpton, Bruce Abbot, and Dennis Paoli. There will be films running all weekend; a gruesome art gallery, a zombie ball, musical events, and a costuem contest.

The old Kong attraction
In case you hadn’t heard, King Kong is returning to Universal Studios Hollywood this summer. The giant ape has been missing from the theme park attraction since a fire damaged large parts of the studio a couple years ago, but now he’s coming back, in a brand new attraction. The new Kong [...]