PICK OF THE WEEK

The Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo is one of Southern California's unique cinema treasures. With it's mighty Wurlitzer organ, it is an especially appropriate place to see silent films such as this weekend's program, THE MERRY WIDOW. This legendary Erich von Stroheim production is known for it's out of control budget and the conflict with lead actress Mae Murray (who decades later served as the inspiration for Morma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.) So head on don't this weekend and take a trip back to 1925.

Next week, begins the start of the Halloween season and the first of our special Film Radar Halloween Special Issues. Besides keep you to to date on the latest horror film happenings, you'll get the scoop on spooky parks, attractions, theatres and more.

- From Ray & Karie

Academy-Samuel Goldwyn Theatre
(Beverly Hills)   

American Cinematheque-Egyptian

Arclight Cinemas

September 21st @ Arclight Hollywood

HEAVENLY CREATURES

September 21st @ Arclight Hollywood

CITY OF GOD

September 21st @ Arclight Pasadena

LA DOLCE VITA

September 21st @ Arclight Sherman Oaks

September 23rd @ Arclight Beach Cities

M

September 22nd @ Arclight Hollywood

THE 400 BLOWS

September 23rd @ Arclight Hollywood

DAVID BOWIE IS

September 24th @ Arclight Sherman Oaks

AMELIE

Art Theatre Long Beach   

September 19th - 25th

LOVE IS STRANGE

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW w/Live LB Orig Shadowcast-Every Saturday-Midnite! 

Echo Park Film Center    

September 20th

VINEGAR SYNDROME! Selections from the EPFC Film Library 

September 25th

LA AIR: AMY LEE KETCHUM
 

Film Forum Los Angeles

Tom Leeser in person!

We cannot perceive the future directly or 'remember' it.
- Oesten Dahl "Tense and Aspect Systems"

Future is a word we use to describe a time that has not yet occurred, but is imagined to occur. Tense refers to time as well, but it can also be a mental or nervous condition, a state of anxiety.

The works chosen for this show are not a singular reference to the future, instead, they are framed as multiple "time and spatial shifts."  These shifts run in parallel to form simultaneous futures that represent our current condition of displacement, complexity and instability.  

Curated by Tom Leeser, Future Tense is a collection of video and sonic works that can be seen to represent these parallel futures through abstraction, performance and narrative. These eight time based works consist of animation, found footage, spoken word, performance, electronic music and sound.  Included in the Filmforum show are three works by sound artists and composers, Justin Asher, Stephanie Cheng Smith, and Gregory Lenczycki. Each of these three sound artists used NASA footage as a basis for creating new electronic music compositions. There are two works by visual artist and composer Kadet Kuhne that incorporates the elements of body performance, endurance and electronic music. Kerstin Larissa Hovland's two works employ computer animation to produce a synthesis of  "visual movement with a musical impulse."  The final video fuses Claire Phillips' science fiction short story with Tom Leeser's manipulation of found footage from a NASA shuttle launch. All the work share a common interest and critique of technology and its role in fostering impossible futures that can only be imagined.  Never realized.   

Future Tense originally was a collaboration between the Centre for Living Arts in Mobile, Alabama and the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts. It included twenty artists and was part of a larger exhibition at the Centre for the Living Arts called the Futures Project. The Centre's director, Robert Sain curated the exhibit, which ran from May 2013- February 2014. The project also included paintings, sculpture and installations by Kenny Scharf, Candy Chang, Dawn DeDeaux and Nina Waisman. 

Tickets: $10 general, $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.  Available by credit card in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at or at the door.

For more event information: www.lafilmforum.org, or 323-377-7238 

Cinespia at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

September 20th  SOLD OUT!

ROSEMARY'S BABY

Outdoor Screening

*More events coming soon!

New Beverly

Nuart Theatre   

September 19th - 25th

LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM

Award-winning independent filmmaker Rory Kennedy (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Ethel) dares to reopen the books on a war that scarred our national psyche. Chronicling a story few of us know, Kennedy's potent documentary may both shock you and restore your faith in humanity. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. The United States has only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. As Communist victory becomes inevitable and the U.S. readies to withdraw, some Americans begin to consider the certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, co-workers and friends. Meanwhile, the prospect of an official evacuation of South Vietnamese becomes terminally delayed by Congressional gridlock and the inexplicably optimistic U.S. Ambassador. With the clock ticking and the city under fire, a number of heroic Americans take matters into their own hands, engaging in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible. 

Filmmaker Rory Kennedy will appear in person on Friday, September 19 for a Q&A after the 7:30pm show. 

Cine Insomnia

September 19th at midnight 

September 20th at midnight    

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW screens every Saturday night at midnight at the Nuart.   

Old Town Music Hall

September 19th, 20th, 21st

THE MERRY WIDOW

Starring Mae Murray

Directed by Erich von Stroheim 

Silent Movie Theatre / Cinefamily     

Skirball 

*More events coming soon!

Other film events around town 

There are numerous other small film events happening all over Los Angeles and Orange County!  Click on the links to see more information!  These will also be frequently updates.

September 12th - 25th

GOD HELP THE GIRL

Frida Cinema

September 18th - 25th

WHEELS

The Crest

September 19th - 25th

KELLY AND CAL

Arena Cinema

Q&A immediately following Friday, Sept 19th 6:30pm screening with writer Amy Lowe Starbin. 

September 19th - 25th

WE ARE KINGS

Arena Cinema

September 19th - 25th

ROGER AND ME

Regent Theatre

September 19th - 25th

THE SCRIBBLER

Arena Cinema

September 19th

Friday Night Flicks: BENNY AND JOON

Pershing Square Park

Outdoor Screening

September 19th

BEETLEJUICE

Pierce College Farm Center

Outdoor Screening

September 19th @ midnight

HOWARD THE DUCK (Needs Like Us)

Vista Theatre

September 20th, 21st 

STAND BY ME

Frida Cinema

September 20th

THE FORGOTTEN EAGLES

Frida Cinema

September 20th

DEMON'S ROOK

Jumpcut Cafe

September 20th

ALIENS

September 20th

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

Electric Dusk Drive-In

Outdoor Screening 

September 21st 

Secret Sixteen Lost Horror Film

Jumpcut Cafe

September 23rd

PRETTY WOMAN

Regency Foothill Cinema 10

September 23rd

PARADE

Hammer Museum

September 23rd

CESAR CHAVEZ

Santa Monica Public Library

September 23rd

THE WONDER BOYS

Santa Monica Public Library

September 24th

CASABLANCA

Regency South Coast Village

September 24th

SOME LIKE IT HOT

City Cinema Theatres

September 24th

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

Regency Janss Marketplace 9

September 24th

MEASURING THE WORLD

Goethe Institute
 

September 25th

DOCUMENTED

Frida Cinema

September 25th

BORN TO FLY: ELIZABETH STREB VS GRAVITY

Hammer Museum

A Q&A with Elizabeth Streb and Catherine Gundfollows the screening.
 

September 25th

SIXTEEN CANDLES

Regency Buenaventura 6

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