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Double Bill: Hitchcock & Psycho at Cinematheque
Date: November 10 at 7:30pm
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a double bill of HITCHCOCK and PSYCHO – a perfect pairing, as the former is a docudrama about the making of the latter. Over five decades after its release, PSYCHO remains a classic horror-thriller; the [...]
Harry Houdini Night at Cinematheque
Date: October 21 at 7:30pm
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
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Description: See a double feature of films starring world-famous magician and a multimedia presentation on Houdini, featuring rare photographs and footage. Professional magician Mark Paskell will give an illustrated lecture on the famous escape artist, concluding with an attempted escape [...]
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings: Nosferatu at Cinematheque
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
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Description: As part of its 2012 Halloween horror events, the American Cinematheque presents a 90th anniversary screening of 1922’s NOSFERATU, the black-and-white, silent adaptation of DRACULA, produced by Albin Grau and directed by F.W. Murnau. Although widely hailed among critics and film historians, NOSFERATU [...]
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings: Mummy Movie Marathon at Cinematheque
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Description: Brendan Fraser is nowhere in sight as the American Cinematheque rolls out – or should that be “unravels” – a quartet of 1940s black-and-white movies from the vaults of Universal Studios: THE MUMMY’S HAND, THE MUMMY’S TOMB, THE MUMMY’S GHOST, and THE MUMMY’S CURSE. Universal’s [...]
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings at the American Cinematheque
This October, the American Cinematheque will be screening a month’s worth of horror films in celebration of the Halloween season, providing a great way for Los Angeles fright fans to enjoy some visceral thrills without walking through a haunted house attraction. If you prefer your screams on screen, and if you prefer shuddery spooks to grizzly gore, you should head on down to Hollywood this Halloween. Highlights include THE CAT PEOPLE, I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, PSYCHO, DRESSED TO KILL, DRACULA, HORROR OF DRACULA, GHOSTBUSTERS, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), and the 7th Annual Dusk-to-Dawn Horrorthon.
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings: Ghosts and Other Silent Shorts
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
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Description: The American Cinematheque launches a month’s worth of Halloween horror events with a program of silent films, featuring live musical accompaniment. This screening takes place inside the Spielberg Theatre, a screening room within the larger Egyptian Theatre.
Date: 2012, October 6 at 7:30pm
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA at Cinematheque
As part of their Kirk Douglas festival, the American Cinematheque screens Walt Disney Pictures’ 1954 classic, based on the novel by Jules Verne. Douglas plays Ned, a whaler drafted to harpoon a sea beast that has been sinking warships – but the “monster” turns out to be the Nautilus, a submarine created and commanded by Captain Nemo (James Mason).
LA JETEE at Cinematheque
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Description: The famous science fiction short subject – remade as 12 MONKEYS – screens as part of a tribute to French filmmaker Chris Marker. The mind-bending time-travel dream (composed almost entire of still images that dissolve into each other to create the illusion of movement) precedes Marker’s [...]
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings: Ghostusters in 70mm
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Description: The American Cinematheque offers two screenings of this 1984 laugh fest – which also features fine special effects and awesome apparitions, on par with the best that serious horror films could offer at the time.
Parapsychologists Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd start Ghostbusters, a company [...]
2012 Halloween Horror Screenings: The Selling with guests in person
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
Description: The American Cinematheque presents a screening of this 2011 comedy horror film. Too-nice real estate agent Richard Scarry (Gabriel Diani) talks people out of buying houses they can’t afford. When his business partner Dave Ross (Jonathan Klein) schemes a plan to flip a decrepit house for [...]
CHILDREN OF MEN & NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR at Cinematheque
The American Cinematheque presents a double bill of dystopian science fiction. CHILDREN OF MEN is a brilliant piece of work set in a future world in which the human race is doomed to extinction when women cease to give birth. NINETEEN EIGHT-FOUR is a dreary depressing tale of big government oppressing the population.
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
STARMAN at Cinematheque
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a screening of this 1984 science fiction film, directed by John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN). Jeff Bridges earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of an alien, opposite Karen Allan.
Date: September 9, 2012 at 7:30pm
STAR TREK Program with Walter Koenig in person
In honor of actor Walter Koenig (Chekov in STAR TREK) receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (ceremony on Monday, September 10), the American Cinematheque presents this program of TREK-related material. Koenig will be on hand to introduce the films and answer questions.
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA
