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The mondo-bizarro rock opera – set in a futuristic world where repo men reclaim transplanted organs from patients who have not paid their bills – gets a midnight screening. Just weird enough to be interesting but not the cult classic intended.
Title: Repo the Genetic Opera
Location: Fairfax Cinemas Los Angeles, 7907 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA
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Lars Von Triers’ oddball and often surreal combo of melodrama and psychological horror (punctuated with brief moments of hardcore sex and violence) screens for one week. Gore-hounds will likely be bored waiting for the bloodshed, which arrives mostly at the end. Art house audiences will be entranced and then shocked (as were critics at Cannes).
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Regency’s Fairfax Cinema L.A. presents this “Insomniac Cinema” screening of the 1991 sci-fi opus starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong [...]

Fairfax Cinemas L.A. presents this 1995 science fiction film, starring Bruce Willis, as part of their Cinema Insomnia series. From their website: “An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James [...]

Duncan Jones’ sophisticated science fiction film, originally released back in June, shows up for a one-week engagement at the Regency Fairfax Cinemas. Sam Rockwell stars as an astronaut completing a lonely three-year mission on the Moon, who learns some disturbing truths about himself after an accident renders him unconscious and he wakes to find… well, [...]

Director Wolfgang Petersen’s misfired adaptation of the self-reflexive fantasy novel screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series. It’s got lots of great production design and colorful character makeups, but the story is pretty lifeless.
From the theatre website:
Pursued by bullies, dreamy Bastian, 10, flees into a used book store where a strange leather-bound volume attracts [...]

The feature film debut of Jim Henson’s Muppets screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series.
From the theatre website:
Story of a frog, a bear and a pig (portraying themselves are Kermit the Frog, Fozzie the Bear and Miss Piggy) on the road to Hollywood. Kermit claims it is “approximately” the way the Muppets began. While [...]

This cult fantasy film from author Neil Gaiman screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series. Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, and Gina McKee star for director David McKean. From the theatre website:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and [...]

Jim Henson’s fantasy film, in which muppet goblins designed by Brian Froud co-star with David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly, screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series. It’s not as good as Henson’s previous feature film, THE DARK CRYSTAL, but it does have some nice goblin designs by artist Brian Froud.
Location: Fairfax Cinemas – 7907 [...]

The second Indiana Jones film screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series. Harrison Ford stars with Kate Capshaw.
Location: Fairfax Cinemas – 7907 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Phone: (323) 655-4010
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Date: Friday, August 21 at midnight

 The latest piece of pretentiousness from Charlie Kaufman (this time starring Jim Carrey as a man who has his memories erased) screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series, at midnight.
Location: Fairfax Cinemas Los Angeles – 7907 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 (323) 655-4010
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Date: July 17 at midnight

 The goofy live-action film version of the animated kidde show screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series. Dolph Lundgren plays He-Man; Frank Langella and Meg Foster liven things up as the villains Skeletor and Evil-Lyn. Billy Barty, Courteney Cox, and Robert Duncan McNeill round out the cast. For some reason, the film doesn’t stick [...]

The feature film version of the animated TV show screens as part of the Insomniac Cinema series.
Location: Fairfax Cinema Los Angeles – 7907 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 (323) 655-4010
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Date: July 03 at midnight