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Location: Dark Delicacies book store, 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
Date: December 3 at 7pm
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Description: Jim Trombetta signs The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read! (trade paperback). Bernie Wrightson signs Frankenstein (hardback). Steve Niles signs Edge of Doom #1 (comic) and Steve Niles Omnibus (trade paperback).

Location: Dark Delicacies book store, 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
Date: December 4 at 2pm
Description: S. G. Browne signs Fated (trade paperback). Savannah Kline signs Beloved of the Fallen (trade paperback). Nancy Holder signs Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3 (trade paperback). Suzy Witten signs The Afflicted Girls (trade paperback).
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Location: Dark Delicacies book store, 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
Date: December 4 at 6pm
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Description: Director David Slade signs Twilight: Eclipse (WS/2Disc DVD or BR). This is a numbered event and DVD must be purchased at Dark Delicacies.

Date: November 19
Description: The penultimate entry in the Harry Potter film series opens nationwide; advance screenings begin just after Thursday midnight (technically Friday morning.) The film will be available in standard engagements and in IMAX 3-D. Eying the approaching demise of their profitable franchise, Warner Brother has divided the final Harry Potter book into two films. Presumably this is the first time in cinematic history that the 7th installment in a franchise carried the designation “Part 1.” The plot: As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.

[ December 7, 2010; 1:00 pm; ] Location: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 7 @ 1pm
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Description: LACMA presents a Tuesday matinee screening of this 1943 classic, one of a series of subtle horror movies produced by Val Lewton in the 1940s. Overt shocks are few and far between; instead, this [...]

Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: December 17 at 8:00 & 11:00; December 18 at 5:30 & 8:30
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Description: Gaspar Noe’s fantasy film is about the ghost of a drug dealer who continues to watch over his sister after being shot to death by the police. 2009, France/Germany/Italy, [...]

[ November 17, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Date: November 17 at 7:30pm
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Description: The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), marking its 30th anniversary, has selected the 30 Most Significant Independent Films™ from around the world produced over the past three decades. On their list is this 1984 sleeper hit from James [...]

[ November 26, 2010; 11:59 pm; ] Location: The Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles, CA
Date: November 26 at midnight
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Description: When his beloved bike is stolen, Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) sets out on a hilarious cross-country trek that leads him to the basement of the Alamo and the backlot at Warner Bros. Studios. Highlights include Large [...]

Dates: November 19 through 25
Location: The Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles
Description: The Nuart Theatre presents a one-week run of this hard-to-find Japanese horror classic, writer-director Kaneto Shindo’s follow-up to his wonderfully creepy ONIBABA (”Demon Woman,” 1964). I know KURONEKO (”The Black Cat,” 1968) by reputation only, but that reputation is a strong one; by all accounts this is one of the great incarnations of a popular trope in Japanese horror: the ghost cat (i.e., female spirits of murder victims who return in feline form to extract revenge). This film has never been available on Region 1 DVD, so this will be the first opportunity that many Los Angeles residents have had to see the film.

[ December 7, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 7 at 8pm
Description: The latest feature film from Sylvain Chomet, director of the fantastic The Triplettes of Bellville, is a sumptuous tour-de-force of classic 2-D hand-drawn animation! Based on an unproduced original script by Jaqcues Tati, Sylvain tells the story, sans dialogue, [...]

Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 4 at 4:30pm
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Description: Liu Jan’s Piercing 1, the first-ever Chinese independent feature film, is a bold and biting meditation on the dire state of modern-day China’s economy. Jian took it upon himself to singlehandedly finance and bring his [...]

Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 4 at 2pm
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Description: Imagine a dusty, surrealist version of Toy Story where the film’s affable cast has the aged and worn quality of a teddy bear, the delicate allure of a weathered, but still beautiful doll. Czech visionary Jiří [...]

Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 4 at 11:30am
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Description: We’re honored to have Teddy Newton, one of the most revered new members of Pixar’s crackerjack team, for a Q&A and a special screening of Day & Night, Teddy’s remarkable short that preceded Toy Story [...]

[ December 5, 2010; 4:30 pm; ] Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 5 at 4:30pm
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Description: One of the must-see gems making its premiere at our festival, Midori-Ko is adored Japanese animator Keita Kurosaka’s whimsically nightmarish vision of 21st-century Tokyo on the brink of apocalypse. Ten years in the making and entirely, [...]

Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: December 3 at midnight (12:15am) & December 5 at 6:30pm
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Description: On your marks — get set — GO! on the high octane, white-knuckle ride that is Redline, the most talked about anime of the year! Seven years in the making, [...]

[ December 3, 2010; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: December 3 at 7:30pm & December 6 at 10:30pm
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Description: Surviving Life (Theory and Practice), the latest — and if his claims are to be believed, last — offering of madness from Jan Švankmajer (Faust, Little Otik) begins with an [...]

Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Dates: December 3 through 7
Description: The Cinefamily is proud to present The 2nd Los Angeles Animation Festival International. This year’s events include the U.S. premiere of the new Jan Švankmajer feature, Pixar’s Teddy Newton discussing his acclaimed hand drawn/3D/CG short Day & Night, plus guest of honor Will Vinton presenting his short films, specials, commercials and a 25th anniversary screening of his 1985 Claymation feature The Adventures of Mark Twain.

[ December 5, 2010; 8:30 pm; ] Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 5 at 8:30pm
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Description: The Cinefamily kicks off with their awards presentation in all competition categories, bestowing upon Will Vinton an LAAF Lifetime Achievement Award! Then, it’s onto the evening’s show, FANTASTIC PLANET, with a live score by Jesus Makes [...]

[ December 4, 2010; 7:15 pm; ] Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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Date: December 4 at 7:15
Description: The Cinefamily presents this 25th Anniversary Tribute to the cult stop-motion fantasy film, screened in a new 35mm Print, with director Will Vinton In Person!

The world’s first all-Claymation feature film is Will Vinton’s most ambitious, and [...]

On Thanksgiving Weekend & on Christmas Day, the Cinefamily will celebrate the magic of Jim Henson’s Muppets with a weekend of films and clips from SESAME STREET, plus an encore presentation of “Muppet History 101″ and “Muppet History 201″, and a special Christmas Day screening of Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas! This program is open [...]

[ November 27, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Titles: Labyrinth & Return to Oz
Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles
Date: November 27 at 8pm
Description: The Cinefamily requests that all babes, ladies, and girly girls get their finest PJs on, and get ready to party with at the third installment of their Cinefamily Pajama Parties. It’s a night of slumber party [...]

Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: November 26 at 2pm & 7pm
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Description: This unique slate of Muppet rarities examines the origins of Henson’s pioneering puppeteering, and includes early live TV appearances, unusual commercials, guest spots by Rowlf The Dog on The Jimmy Dean Show, Muppet surprises [...]

Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Date: November 26 at 4:15pm & 9:15pm
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Sometimes Muppets can appear in the strangest places! In between “Sesame Street”, “The Muppet Show”, the Muppet feature films and other productions, Jim Henson brought the Muppets to countless television variety and talk shows [...]