AVATAR at Cinematheque

avatar_posterLocation: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica, CA 90403

Description: The American Cinematheque presents a screening of James Cameron’s science fiction epic, a ground-breaking technical tour-de-force in terms of motion-capture and 3-D.

Tickets: $13 General, $11 Student/Senior, $9 Member.

AVATAR
2009, 20th Century Fox, 162 min, USA. Director James Cameron reinvents 3-D, science fiction and the Hollywood epic in this film that quickly became the most successful movie of all time upon its release in 2009. Sam Worthington stars as Jake, a paraplegic soldier who operates an “avatar” to explore the biosphere of the planet Pandora, a potential site for mining and corporate exploitation. Before long, Jake falls in love with one of the planet’s inhabitants and realizes that preserving Pandora’s natural resources is a cause worth fighting for. With Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver. Screening format: DCP | No passes accepted for this or any specially-priced program.

Date: August 31, 2012, at 7:30pm

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Steve Biodrowski owns and operates Hollywood Gothique. Since graduating from the University of Southern California's School of Cinema, Steve has worked as a film critic, script analyst, journalist, and interviewer. As a film journalist, his work has appeared in Movieline, Premiere, Le Cinephage (in France) and The Dark Side (in England). He served as the West Coast Editor of Cinefantastique magazine in the 1990s, then worked as the Vice President of Editorial Content at Fandom.com and, more recently, as the Executive Editor at Cinescape Online. He is currently the Managing Editor of Cinefantastique Online, the website incarnation of Cinefantastique magazine.

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