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The latest news and announcements of upcoming fantasy films, mystery movies, Halloween horror, and science fiction cinema events in Los Angeles, plus reviews, interviews, recommendations.
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE at Nuart
[ December 2, 2011; 11:59 pm; ] Date: December 2 at midnight
Location: The Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd, West Los Angeles, CA 90025
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Description: The Nuart Theatre presents a midnight screening of Stanley Kubrick’s 1972 masterpiece, adapted from the novel by Anthony Burgess. Malcolm McDowell starts as the young Alex, a violent “droog” in a future fascist society that [...]
BACK TO THE FUTURE at Nuart
Date: November 25 at midnight
Location: The Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd, West Los Angeles, CA 90025
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Description: The Nuart presents a midnight screening of the 1980s time-travel action-comedy, starring Michael J. Fox as the young man whose trip back to the 1950s interferes with his own conception. Robert Zemeckis directed.
The Thing – Movie Review
Horror fans who are looking for a shot of adrenalin to revitalize their spirits now that October’s monster mazes, haunted hayrides, ghost ships, and harvest festivals are have closed their gates, could do worse than taking in THE THING, before it exists from theatres. Although neither a box office nor a critical powerhouse, the film [...]
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 50th Anniversary Screening
[ November 13, 2011; 4:00 pm; ] Date: November 13 at 4pm
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028-4605
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a 50th anniversary screening of the 1961 science-fiction-adventure film; the event doubles as the launch of the new Blu-ray disc, which features a digitally restored transfer.
The legendary Ray Harryhausen provided stop-motion special effects, [...]
WALKABOUT and THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH at New Beverly
[ November 29, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Date: November 29 & 30
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly presents a double bill of films directed by Nicolas Roeg. Both are fascinating and visionary, with interesting use of montage. THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH is quite an unusual science fiction film [...]
Robotrix
Date: November 26 at midnight
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly presents a midnight screening of a Hong Kong action-science-fiction film, selected by Quentin Tarantino. The story involves a madman who transfers his consciousness into the body of a human-looking robot and then proceeds [...]
John Carpenter’s VAMPIRES at New Beverly
Date: November 19 at midnight
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly presents a midnight screening of director John Carpenter’s action-horror film, starring James Woods.
John Carpenter’s Vampires Sat: midnight (11:59 pm)
1998, USA/Japan, 35mm, 108 minutes
All tickets $8
directed by John Carpenter; starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, [...]
THE BIRDS and JAWS at New Beverly
Date: November 20-21
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly presents a double bill of animal-themed horror.
The Birds Sun: 2:40 & 7:30 pm; Mon: 7:30 pm
1963, USA, 35mm, 119 minutes
directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Veronica Cartwright
Jaws Sun: [...]
MOON and SOURCE CODE with director Duncan Jones in person
[ November 18, 2011; 7:30 pm; ] Dates: November 18 & 19
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly presents a double bill of science fiction films directed by Duncan Jones, who will appear between screenings to answer questions from the audience. Both films are worth seeing. MOON, especially, is a fine [...]
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World at New Beverly
Date: November 18 @ midnight
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly Cinema presents a midnight screening of the over-the-top action-comedy-romance, in which the title characters must battle his new girlfriend’s seven evil ex’s.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Fri: midnight (11:59 pm)
2010, USA/UK/Canada, 35mm, 112 [...]
ANGEL-A with HUMAN ZOO at New Beverly
Date: November 11-17
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: ANGEL-A – Luc Besson’s best film, about a small-time hood and loser who hooks up with a fascinating, possibly angelic woman – screens on the bottom half of a double bill with actor Rie Rasmussen’s directorial debut, HUMAN [...]
AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON at New Beverly
Date: November 12 at midnight
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly Cinema presents a midnight screening of the 1987 cult comedy, a grab-bag of comic vignettes spoofing old movies, TV shows, and commercials.
All tickets $8
Amazon Women on the Moon Sat: midnight (11:59 pm)
1987, USA, [...]
Beat Post-Halloween Blues with Wicked Lit’s Immersive Theatrical Horror Shows – at Discount Prices!
So, you’re Halloween high has ended, and you feel your morose soul descending into the abyss of withdrawal. The zombies have returned to their graves. The vampyres have fled to where the ghouls and Afrits rave. The restless spirits have shuttered up their haunted house. The cannibal crazies have disappeared into the maze of the backwoods. The delusions have disappeared, and the ghosts ships have all set sail. What is left? What is left?
Heritage Square Halloween & Mourning Tour 2011: Mini-Review
I just wanted to take a moment to offer a brief, belated review of this year’s Halloween & Mourning Tour at the Heritage Square Museum this weekend. Heritage Square, which preserves Victorian mansions built in Los Angeles near the turn of the previous century, has offered this self-guided tour every Halloween for the past eight [...]
Hollywood Gothique’s Halloween Haunt Awards 2011
Drum roll, please – or should that be a funeral dirge? Whatever soundtrack you choose to play in your mind or on your computer while reading this, it is time to bestow our annual accolades for the Best Los Angeles Halloween Events. As with last year, I will dispense with rigid categories in favor of [...]
Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey 2011: Restless Spirits, Eternal Rest, The Dark Side & Mishap Manor
The final installment of our 2011 Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey takes us to a pair of old favorites, both restless and eternal, and also ventures into previously uncharted realms of mishaps and darkness. The wide spectrum of approaches – from shivers to shocks, from simple to sophisticated – is a remarkable testament to the impressive variety [...]
The Return of the Living Dead at New Beverly
[ November 5, 2011; 11:59 pm; ] Date: November 5 at midnight
Location: The New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The New Beverly Midnights screens one of the theatre’s Employee Picks (Vinny’s). The 1985 punk-rock-comedy-horror film takes up where NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD left off – sort of. What started out as a direct sequel, [...]
Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey 2011: Mourning Rose Manor and Helizondo Haunt
After Burbank, Tarzana, and Woodland Hills, the next leg of Hollywood Gothique’s 2011 Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey takes us from Los Angeles all the way to Simi Valley. The little bedroom community seems quiet and safe, but you never know what sort of hidden terror lies just beneath the placid surface – until now…
Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey 2011: House at Haunted Hill, Haunt with No Name, Fallen Angel Cemetery
The House at Haunted Hill
The previous installment of our annual Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey took us through two terrifying mazes in Burbank, The Backwoods Maze and Rotten Apple 907’s Space Oddessey. Moving on to Tarzana and Woodland Hills, we encounter a trio of Halloween Yard Haunts that are less interested in shocks and surprise than [...]
Halloween Yard Haunt Odyssey 2011: Rotten Apple 907 & Backwoods Maze
Our exploration of 2011’s Halloween Yard Haunts began last week with our trip to Boney Island (reviewed here). Next, we move on to Burbank for a pair of Amateur Halloween Events that display enough skill and imagination to rank along side professional Halloween Haunted Houses & Hayrides in Los Angeles.
The Backwoods Maze (1912 North Pepper [...]
Rango, with Gore Verbinski in person
Date: November 5 at 7:30pm
Location: The Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90403-1710
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Description: The American Cinematheque presents a screening of the motion-capture animated comedy, with the director in person to answer questions after the film.
Raiders of the Lost Ark at Egyptian Theatre
Date: November 20 at 7:30pm
Location: The Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028-4605
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Description: The American Cinematheque invites you to join them for a beautiful new big screen digital presentation on the occasion of the 30th anniversary or RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981, Paramount, 115 min, Dir: Steven Spielberg). Archaeologist [...]
The Beast Within, Phillipe Mora & Paul Clemens in person
Date: November 11 at midnight
Location: The Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Description: The Cinefamily presents a screening of the 1980s horror film – which strives mightily to top THE HOWLING’s transformation effects – with the director and star on hand to answer questions after the film (schedules [...]
