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Dates: December 29, 2010 to January 6, 2011
Location: AMC Century City 15, 10250 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA – (888) 262-4386
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Description: Liddle Entertainment and Roadside Attractions team up to offer an exclusive Oscar-qualifying theatrical run (Los Angeles and New York) to this Spanish production, starring Javier Bardem as Uxbal, a “dour man [...]

[ January 12, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Agoura Hills 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, CA. 91301
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Description: Insomniac Cinema presents a midnight screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror classic, starring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in [...]

Title: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Date: January 2, 2011 at 3pm
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents the first three Indiana Jones movies. What a way to start the New Year – it’s [...]

This January, the American Cinematheque presents a four-day tribute to the great writer-director at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Amongst diverse credits, Polanski has crafted some of cinema’s most memorable horror films and surreal thrillers. Not all of the films screened are genre, but at least one title in each double bill is essential viewing for genuine horror fans. MACBETH may be based on Shakespeare’s play, but Polanski’s handling is sheer splatter film in its nihilistic excess. THE TENANT is a great demented deconstruction of a man losing his identity, becoming the previous tenant who lived in his apartment (never a good thing but especially bad when said tenant committed suicide by jumping out of the room’s window). REPULSION is an early example of Polanski delving into madness and paranoia with horrific results. And ROSEMARY’S BABY is, by common agreement, one of the classics of the horror genre.

[ January 16, 2011; 4:00 pm; ] Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Description: The Cinefamily presents director Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 ecological-friendly science fiction film in the middle of a triple bill devoted to star Bruce Dern, who will appear for a Q&A session. Also on the bill: SMILE and DIGGSTOWN.

[ January 4, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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Description: The Cinefamily and Aquarium Drunkard present a screening of the French animated science fiction film, backed by a live score from Jesus Makes the Shotgun Sound (a rather eccentric tactic, considering that this is not a silent movie). From the [...]

Location: The Academy Cinemas Pasadena, 1003 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA
Date: December 31 at midnight
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Description: Marty McFly helps out his friend Doc Brown, and ends up being taken back in time by Doc’s time-machine. Marty, a boy of the 80’s, has to come to grips with being in the 50’s and get [...]

[ January 7, 2011; 11:59 pm; ] Location: The Academy Cinemas Pasadena, 1003 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA
Description: Insomniac Cinema presents a midnight screening of producer-director Stanely Kubick’s classic film, perhaps the greatest cinematic science fiction effort of all time, with an enigmatic narrative that leads from the Dawn of Man to Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite. With Keir Dullea. Co-written by [...]

[ January 21, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: January 21, 2011 at 7:30pm
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Description: With its stunning visuals and gripping characters, director Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological suspense masterpiece VERTIGO continues to entrance audiences. Retired San Francisco police detective “Scottie” Ferguson (James Stewart) becomes obsessed with Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak), a [...]

[ January 21, 2011 7:00 pm to January 22, 2011 11:00 pm. ] Location: The Downtown Independent, 251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA
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Description: The Downtown Independent Theatre presents the Los Angeles premiere of Alex Cox’s follow-up (not a sequel) to his cult classic REPO MAN. There will be two screenings on two consecutive nights, followed by rooftop parties.
The film, starring Jaclyn Jonet, Miguel Sandoval, [...]

[ January 23, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents the 1973 horror classic on the bottom half of a double bill with SORCERER (1977), both directed by William Friedkin, who will appear between screenings to discuss the films.

Friedkin adapted William Peter Blatty’s bone-chilling best-seller into the classic [...]

Location: Arclight Beach Cities Cinema, 831 South Nash Street, El Segundo
Date: December 29 at 7:30pm
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Description: As part of their month-long series of holiday classics, Arclight Cinemas presents the ghastly motion-capture holiday film directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks in multiple roles. Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one [...]

Location: The Academy Cinemas Pasadena, 1003 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA
Date: December 24 at midnight
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Description: The love of Pee-wee Herman’s life is his bicycle. When it is stolen, he is send on a wild cross country adventure after a fortune teller tells him his bicycle is in the basement of the Alamo. [...]

Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: December 23 at 7:30pm
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Description: As part of their series of holiday screenings the American Cinematheque presents this 2003 comedy staring Will Ferrell at his hilarious best as Buddy, a human who has been raised among Santa’s elves at the North Pole. All [...]

Location: Arclight Beach Cities Cinema, 831 South Nash Street, El Segundo
Date: December 22 at 7:30pm
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Description: As part of their holiday cinema series, the Arclight Cinemas presents this 2003 comedy starring Will Ferrell. Directed by Jon Favreau (IRON MAN), ELF tells the tale of a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa’s [...]

Titles: Christmas Evil & New Year’s Evil
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 21 at 7:30pm & 10pm
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Description: The Grindhouse Film Fest offers another double bill of holiday horror. Lewis Jackson, writer director of CHRISTMAS EVIL, will appear in person, schedule permitting.
Christmas Evil Tues: 7:30
1980, USA, 100 [...]

Date: December 17 to January 6
Location: Laemmle’s Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, 90211
Description: Laemmle’s Theatre presents a run of Martin Scorsese’s Gothic mystery-thrilller, with Leonardo DiCaprio as a Federal Marshal investigating a disappearance at an asylum for the criminally insane.
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Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
Date: December 18 at midnight
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Description: The New Beverly offers a midnight screening of this craptacular French horror film, which starts out as a tense thriller before descending into a pointless and self-defeating welter of blood.
Inside aka À l’intérieur. 2007, France, 83 minutes. [...]

Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA
Date: December 18 at 4pm
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Description: Join The American Cinematheque for a screening of the first animated Christmas special, which premiered on NBC in 1962. With music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill and the voices of Jim Backus, Jack Cassidy, Jane Kean [...]

Location: Nationwide
Date: December 17
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Description: Hoping for a success along the lines of ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, Warner Brothers Pictures releases this live-action film version of the old television cartoon. Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake provide the voices of the computer-generated Yogi and Boo-boo. Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh, T.J. Miller , Nathan Corddry, and [...]

Location: The Arclight Sherman Oaks, 15301 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA
Date: December 15 at 8pm
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Description: As part of their month-long series of holiday classics, Arclight Cinemas presents a screening of this live-action adaptation of the children’s story by Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live [...]

[ January 16, 2011; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Location: Shrine Hall, 700 W. 32nd Street , Los Angeles, CA 90007
Date: Sunday, January 16th, 2011, 10:00am – 5:00pm
Description: The special guest at this month’s Los Angeles Comic Book & Sci-Fi Convention is Billy Dee Williams. Williams is best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars films: THE [...]

Location: The Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Dates: December 21-27; no show Dec 25.
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Description: The Relevant Stage returns with its “…annual holiday family tradition…”, based on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. A first-rate cast, carolers singing old English carols and intriguing staging bring this ultimately uplifting [...]