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[ February 1, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: Dark Delicacies book store, 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
Description: The cast and crew of HATCHET II – including writer-director Adam Green and actors Kane Hodder and Danielle Harris – appear in person to sign DVD copies of the film, which hits stores Tuesday.

Location: Dark Delicacies book store, 3512 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
Date: February 12
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Description: Dai Green and Reyna Young, in partnership with Dark Delicacies book store, host an event for Women in Horror Month, which was founded last year by writer Hannah Neurotica (Ax Wound Magazine) as a way to get women [...]

[ March 11, 2011 8:15 pm to March 13, 2011 2:50 pm. ] Location: The Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA
Dates: March 11-13
Description: The venerable revival house screens the classic Universal silent movie, starring Lon Chaney (beneath pounds of makeup, including an uncomfortable rubber hump on his back), Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry.

[ January 28, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: The ArcLight Hollywood, 6360 W. Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood
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Description: Director Alejandro Iñárritu makes two appearances on Friday, January 28 at 7:00pm and 7:50pm, after screenings of his film, which earned an Oscar nomination for lead actor Javier Bardem.

From the website:
BIUTIFUL returns director Alejabdri Gonzalez Inaritu to his native Spanish for the first [...]

Location: Music Hall 3, 9036 Wilshire Blvd. Beverly Hills, 90211 310-478-3836
Opens: March 4
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Description: Laemmle Theatres offers an engagement of this Portuguese film (with English subtitles) from distributor Cinema Guild.
From the Laemmle website:
The new film from master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA, is a magical tale about a young [...]

Location: The Laemmle Royal Theatre, 11523 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles
Opens: March 4
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Description: Laemmle’s Royal books this imported offering from Strand Releasing, directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2010.
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones [...]

Romy Schneider in L'ENFER
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
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Description: The New Beverly presents a double bill of DIABOLIQUE, the famous thriller directed by Clouzot, and HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT’S INFERNO, a documentary about the director’s aborted, obsessive attempt to shoot L’ENFER, with Romy Schneider. DIABOLIQUE is frankly over-rated – [...]

[ February 23, 2011; 7:00 pm; ] Location: Agoura Hills 8, 29045 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, CA 91301
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Description: When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes her dog Toto, to run away. A cyclone appears and carries her to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return, she begins to travel to the [...]

[ February 13, 2011; 6:30 pm; ] Location: The Steve Allen Theatre, 4773 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
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Description: The Clubfoot Orchestra provides scores for the silent films SHERLOCK JR and THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. The former is a comedy starring Buster Keaton; the later is perhaps the great-granddaddy of the horror genre, a 1919 German Expressionist movie about a [...]

Location: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
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Description: As part of their series “Jane Fonda on Film,” the Los Angeles County Museum of Art screens this 1968 sci-fi flick, about the intergalactic adventures of the titular character. The choice is a strange one for inclusion in [...]

[ February 18, 2011; 11:59 pm; ] Location: Academy Cinemas Pasadena, 1003 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA
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Description: The Addams step out of Charles Addams’ cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and [...]

[ February 26, 2011; 2:30 pm; ]

Location: The Samuel Goldwyn Theater, 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA
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Description: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents its fifth annual symposium examining the nominees in the category of makeup and hair styles. This year’s event will be moderated  by Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch Governor Leonard Engelman. Admission is free, [...]

[ February 13, 2011; 11:00 am; ] Location: Billy Wilder Theater, Courtyard Level, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Description: The Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive present a free screening of the 1979 feature film starring Jim Henson’s Muppets.

From the website:

The Muppets’ big-screen debut, a magical, musical road trip across America, tells the [...]

Location: Granada Hills 9, 16830 Devonshire Street, Granada Hills, CA 91344
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Description: After Janet accepts Brad’s marriage proposal, the happy couple drive away from Denton, Ohio, only to get lost in the rain. They stumble upon the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite who is holding the annual convention of visitors from the [...]

Location: Academy Cinemas Pasadena, 1003 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA
Date: February 11 at midnight
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Description: It’s an Insomniac Cinema screening of the 1993 feature-film version of the SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE skit, directed by Steve Barron from a script by Tom Davis and Dan Aykroyd. An alien couple known as Beldar and Prymatt with [...]

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Description: Warner Brothers (the studio behind THE EXORCIST) releases this supernatural thriller through its New Line subsidiary. Allegedly inspired by true events, the plot follows skeptical seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue), who reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While in Rome, he meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony [...]

[ February 19, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a double bill of kaiju eiga (monster movies) from Japan’s Toho Studios. MOTHRA (1962) is the film that forever transformed the Japanese genre from serious science fiction (a la 1954’s GODZILLA) to family-friendly fantasy. GODZILLA, MOTHRA & KING GHIDORAH: [...]

[ January 24, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] Location: The ArcLight Hollywood, 6360 W. Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood
Description: Arclight Cinemas presents a screening of the 1984 comedy classic, followed by a Q&A with actors Ernie Hudson, William Atherton, producer Joe Medjuck, visual effects artist Steve Johson, Mark Bryan Wilson (Stay Puft Marshmellow Man) and Billy Bryan (Slimer)! Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and [...]

[ February 18, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a double bill of great Hammer horror – two films from the British company’s golden era in the 1960s.

SCREAM OF FEAR is a fine, black-and-white Hitchcock-type thriller, starring Susan Strasberg and directed by Seth Holt from a screenplay by [...]

Location: The Arclight Pasadena, 336 E. Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena
Date: January 26 at 8pm
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Description: Arclight Cinemas screens Mel Brooks’ attempt to spoof STAR WARS. Brooks co-stars with John Candy and Bill Pullman. The plot: When the nefarious Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) and steal [...]

Location: The Downtown Independent, 251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA
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Description: The downtown theatre provides a one-week run of th Japanese animated film. Its predecessor EVANGELION: 1.) YOU ARE (NOT) ALONE, screens on Thursday, January 27 at 7pm.

Showtimes:

Friday 1/28/11: 7, 9, 11
Saturday 1/29/11: 12, 2, 4
Sunday 1/30/11: 5, 7
Monday 1/31/11: 7. 9
Tuesday 2/1/11: 4:30, 6:30
Wednesday 2/2/11: 2, 4
Thursday 2/3/11: 7, 9

Location: The Downtown Independent, 251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA
Date: January 27 at 7pm
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Description: The downtown theatre screens the animated Japanese films one day before screening the sequel.

Location: The Old Town Music Hall, 140 Richmond Street, El Segundo, CA
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Description: The venerable revival house – home of the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ and the best place to see silent movies since The Silent Movie Theatre went mondo – screens the 1924 fantasy film starring Douglas Fairbanks.
Dates and Times:

Friday, January 21st @ [...]