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Location: The Billy Wilder Theatre, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90024 (310) 206-8013
Description: The UCLA Film & Television Archives presents a Halloween screening of this colorful Fant-Asia film, which recently received a small theatrical release. PAINTED SKIN: THE RESURRECTION is a sort of semi-sequel to PAINTED SKIN (2008): most of the original [...]

Date: October 30 at 11am
Location: The Billy Wilder Theatre at The Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90024
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Description: The Hammer Museum presents a family flick suitable for the Halloween season. The screening is free. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Hammer members receive priority seating, subject to [...]

Location: Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Date: April 13 at 7pm
Description: This is a little bit off the beaten path for Hollywood Gothique but still interesting: part of a “a citywide series of special exhibitions, performances, symposia, and events centered on LA Opera’s upcoming presentation of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, the first [...]

Spend a spooky Halloween evening at the Billy Wilder Theater with films from the vaults to chill and thrill! Founded by two Americans, Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg, in 1964, Amicus Productions was Britain’s other horror studio for almost two decades. Tonight’s program presents two classics produced by Subotsky and Rosenberg and featuring two of [...]

Beginning August 14, the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive join forces to present Aztec Mummies & Martian Invaders: Mexican Sci-Fi Classics, a three-weekend series of black-and-white films from the ’50s and ’60s that must be seen to be believed. Not often screened north of the border, Mexican sci-fi and horror films [...]

Benjamin Christiansen’s excellent silent docu-drama about the history of belief in witchcraft screens as part of the series “The Witching Hour: Three Screenings Co-curated by Francesca Gabbiani.” Although it gets off to a slow start (the first section feels like a filmed lecture), this is an absolutely incredible film that uses dramatic re-enactments to illustrate [...]

A trio of must-see classic movies are screening around Los Angeles this week: HAXEN at the Hammer Museum, VERTIGO at the Egyptian, and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) at the New Beverly. Unfortunately, the first two are screening at the same time, which leaves you with a Hobson’s Choice; fortunately, the latter is launching a [...]

Kick off Mother’s Day with the ultimate mother-daughter movie: the original Freaky Friday! Thirteen-year-old Annabelle Andrews (Jodi Foster) and her mother, Ellen (Barbra Harris), don’t always see eye-to-eye, to say the least. But on this Friday the Thirteenth, they get a freaky chance to see life from each other’s perspective. This Walk Disney family film was [...]

The Hammer Museum presents an exhibition of artwork related to witchcraft and sorcery. Concurrent with the exhibtion is a series of three screenings, entitled “The Witching Hour,” which includes DAY OF WRATH, HAXEN, and a set of short subjects titled DANSE MACABRE. This is the second exhibition in Houseguest, a new series in which artist [...]

DANSE MACABRE is a compilation of short films focusing on the occult, sorcery and the macabre, with works ranging from the silent era through the 1960s, including Carl Theodor Dreyer’s haunting road safety film, They Caught the Ferry (De nåede færgen) (1948) and avant-garde master Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969), a mesmerizing [...]

Benjamin Christiansen’s excellent silent docu-drama about the history of belief in witchcraft screens in conjuction with the current Houseguest exhibition at the Hammer Museum. This is the secoond in the series “The Witching Hour: Three Screenings Co-curated by Francesca Gabbiani.” Los Angeles-based artist Francesca Gabbiani has selected an eclectic range of works on paper, many [...]

Carl Theodore Dryer’s films screens in conjuction with the current Houseguest exhibition, a new series of artist-curated shows at the Hammer Museum. This is the third in the series “The Witching Hour: Three Screenings Co-curated by Francesca Gabbiani.” Los Angeles-based artist Francesca Gabbiani has selected an eclectic range of works on paper, many from UCLA’s [...]

Location: Billy Wilder Theater – Hammer Museum – 10899 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90024 310.206.8013
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Description: Kick off Mother’s Day with the ultimate mother-daughter movie: the original Freaky Friday! Thirteen-year-old Annabelle Andrews (Foster) and her mother, Ellen (Harris), don’t always see eye-to-eye, to say the least. But on this Friday the Thirteenth, [...]