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Location: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 857-6000

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Description: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents an exhibition devoted to the work of filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, including THE SHINING, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, and DR. STRANGELOVE. The comprehensive look at Kubrick’s career includes everything from early photographs he took for life magazine, to scripts, costumes, and props from his films. The exhibit is set in the Art of the Americas Building, on Level 2. In the Bing Theatre, the museum will also present 2012: A Kubrick Odyssey, a chronological retrospective of Kubrick’s films, running from November 9 through December 15.

LACMA’s Stanley Kubrick exhibition will take place in conjunction with An Academy Salute to Stanley Kubrick on November 7 at 7:30pm in the Samuel Goldwin Theatre in Beverly Hills. The Academy’s salute will precede a satellite exhibition of posters and images from Kubrick’s work in the Grand Lobby, entitled Stanley Kubrick: The Ultimate Trip, which runs through March 3, 2013.

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Stanley Kubrick was known for exerting complete artistic control over his projects; in doing so, he reconceived the genres in which he worked. The exhibition covers the breadth of Kubrick’s practice, beginning with his early photographs for Look magazine, taken in the 1940s, and continuing with his groundbreaking directorial achievements of the 1950s through the 1990s. His films are represented through a selection of annotated scripts, production photography, lenses and cameras, set models, costumes, and props. In addition, the exhibition explores Napoleon and The Aryan Papers, two projects that Kubrick never completed, as well as the technological advances developed and utilized by Kubrick and his team. By featuring this legendary film auteur and his oeuvre as the focus of his first retrospective in the context of an art museum, the exhibition reevaluates how we define the artist in the 21st century, and simultaneously expands upon LACMA’s commitment to exploring the intersection of art and film.

Conrad Veidt surrounded by Expressionistic settings in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers up an exhibition of artwork derived from two classic examples of German Expressionism, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and METROPOLIS. With its disturbingly unreal approach to cinematic imagery, Expressionism helped give birth to fantasy films, mystery movies, sci-fi cinema, and horror. LACMA’s exhibit, titled “Masterworks of Expressionist Cinema: Caligari and Metropolis,” will illustrate this impressive lineage with “projected sequences, vintage posters, and set stills” from the classic black-and-white silent films.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction a Masterworks of Expressionist Cinema film series, which includes both THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and METROPOLIS, plus FAUST and WAXWORKS. Screenings take place on October 12 & 13.

Location: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Exhibition Dates: September 22, 2012 through March 10, 2013

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Expressionist cinema of the 1920s, so masterfully realized in two iconic examples, Dr. Caligari (1920) and Metropolis (1927), had a lasting impact on visual culture, giving rise to such popular genres as film noir, horror, and science fiction. Filmmakers Robert Wiene and Fritz Lang drew upon the broader Expressionist movement, which emerged in the 1910s and encompassed literature, theater, dance, and the graphic arts. The installation includes projected sequences, vintage posters, and set stills from these two iconic films, as well as selected prints from the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection demonstrating the stark black-and-white contrasts, off-kilter compositions, and exaggerated gestures that found their way from page to screen during the Weimar Republic (1919–33). The Expressionist legacy continues to inspire the imaginations of filmmakers, graphic novelists, and artists today.

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Location: The Promenade Playhouse, 1404 3rd Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401.

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Description: Writer-performer-magician Albie Selnick’s play (which had a seven-week run last year) returns to the Promenade Playhouse for a limited engagement. Directed by Paul Millet (the creative force behind the excellent Wicked Lit Halloween plays), SMOKE AND MIRRORS is “re-imagined autobiography of Selznick,” portraying himself as a boy who uses magic to face the world after the death of his father. The cast includes Betinna Zacar, Yanna Fabian, Cody BUshee, Leeann St. John, Beck Black, and Rob Martinez. Sound and Lighting design by Bettina Zacar, Films by Jay Lee, Costumes by Julianne Dodds and Stage Managed by Maurie Gonzalez.

Dates & Hours: Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7pm, from September 29 through December 16, with a special Halloween show on Wednesday, October 31 at 8pm.

Tickets: $34. Call 800-595-4849.

The show is appropriate for ages 12 and up.

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Description: Hosted by film historian Karen Bible, Cemetery of the Stars Tours take place at semi-regular intervals, usually a couple times a month. Visit the final resting places of such notables as Cecil B. Demille, Marion Davies, Tyrone Power, Rudolph Valentino, Vampira, John Huston, Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, William Desmond Taylor and more. The tour provides a great historic overview of the cemetery and its most famous residents.

Dates:

• Saturday, October 8th – Art Deco Cemetery Tour
• Sunday, October 9th at 2pm
• Saturday, October 15th at 12pm
• Sunday, October 16th at 2pm
• Saturday, October 22nd –Tours are not available due to Day of the Dead
• Sunday, October 23rd at 2pm
• Saturday, October 29th at 12pm & 3pm
• Sunday, October 30th at 2pm
• Saturday, November 5th at 12pm
• Sunday, November 6th at 2pm
• Saturday, November 12th at 12pm
• Saturday, December 3rd at 12pm
• Saturday, December 17th at 12pm
• Sunday, January 1st at 2:00pm
• Saturday, January 7th at 12pm