| Special Events in July:
Thursday, July 7 - 7:30 PM ALTERNATIVE SCREEN INDEPENDENT
FILM SHOWCASE
Los Angeles Premiere!!! THE LOSS OF NAMELESS THINGS, 2004, USA, 103
min. At 28, enfant terrible playwright Oakley Hall III (son of novelist Oakley Hall, Warlock,
Downhill Racer) was on the brink of national recognition -- his work just optioned
by New York’s famed Public Theatre. Then one night in 1978 this charasmatic leader of
the Lexington Conservatory Theatre mysteriously fell from a bridge and sustained a serious
brain injury. Bill Rose’s unbelieveably moving and insightful documentary on the
immortality of youth, the artistic impulse and love, also fittingly poses a classic
literary question, ‘What happens to the hero who discovers his tragic flaw and
lives?’ Winner of the 2005 San Francisco Docfest Documentary Film Festival. BEST DOC
- SF DOC FEST
BEST DOC - Sedona Intl film Festival
BEST DOC - Sidewalk (Birmingham Indie Film Festival)
WINNER - Milagro Award Santa Fe Film Festival
Official website.
Preceded by the short animated film "Andy" (2004, 5 min., USA) directed by
Terrence Healy. An animated profile of short, bald character actor who has found his niche
in the appearance conscience world of show business. Discussion
following with director Bill Rose.
Wednesday, July 13 – 8:00 PM
Motion Picture Sound Editors Present:
THE FOLEY SHOW
Big Movie Sound Returns!!! After the success of last year's
show on the sound design of JURASSIC PARK and THE MATRIX, the American Cinematheque and
Motion Picture Sound Editors re-team to co-present a special show on Foley Sound Effects.
See a live demonstration by Foley Supervisors, Mixers, Editors -- and the Foley Artists
themselves with their countless shoes and props -- as they reveal secrets of their craft.
Then you can impress your friends when they ask what "Foley" means in those end
credits.
Foley sound effects were first 'created' by Jack
Foley on Stage 10 of the Universal lot (just over the Hollywood Hills from the Egyptian)
for the 1929 production of Show Boat. The movie was originally a silent
adaptation of the successful Broadway musical(!) Following the success of The Jazz
Singer, the studio decided that this silent movie had to become a talkie. Some scenes
were reshot with sound, but mostly sound was added to the original footage. Not just
talking, but music and sound effects. For those sounds, Jack Foley and his team
"performed" a variety of sound effects while watching the projected film during
the orchestra's recording session.
For this summer's presentation, a Foley stage with multiple floor
surfaces and variety of props will be recreated in the front of the Lloyd E. Rigler
Theater. A couple of brief action-packed scenes will be projected and you will see
professional Foley Artists creating the sound effects before your eyes. The rest of the
Foley effects team will demonstrate what they do to make these specialized effects
perfect.
The Foley artists will be creating sounds for sequences
from a Cinematheque favorite, BLACK TIGHT KILLERS, a groovy Japanese movie from the '60s
featuring a gang of go-go dancing ninja assassins. The show will be like an "Iron
Chef" show of movie sound effects."
[Please note that the ESPY
Awards will also be held that night at the nearby Kodak Theater. Allow extra time to get
Hollywood. Enter from the south BEHIND the Egyptian to avoid street closures.]
An Egyptian Exclusive!
Saturday, July 16 - 10:30 AM
HISTORIC TOUR Egyptian Theatre Historic
Tours & FOREVER HOLLYWOOD
10:30 AM Behind the Scenes Tour
11:30 AM, 2:00 PM & 3:30 PM FOREVER
HOLLYWOOD
Sunday, July 17 - 10:30 AM
Historic Hollywood Tour
Egyptian Theatre Historic Tours &
FOREVER HOLLYWOOD
10:30 AM Behind the Scenes Tour
11:30 AM, 2:00 PM & 3:30 PM FOREVER HOLLYWOOD
Thursday, July 21 - 7:30 PM ALTERNATIVE
SCREEN INDEPENDENT FILM SHOWCASE
Sneak Preview! DUCK, 2005, 99
min., USA. Its the year 2009 and the city of Los Angeles -- along with the rest of the
nation (now under the presidential power of Jeb Bush) has lost its parks, its social
service programs and its common sense. Philip Baker Hall is a man without social security
or a family, who finds himself without a home… but he does have a duck and together
they travel the city in search of water and meaning in a decaying world. www.duckthemovie.com
Director Nic Bettauer will appear for
discussion with stars Philip Baker Hall & The Duck, Producer Domini Hofmann and other
cast & crew.
Wednesday, July 27 -
8:00 PM
This event is co-presented with
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as part of the ongoing 'Legendary Performers
Series'
A Night With Claudia Cardinale
Please join us for the first event in this ongoing series sponsored
by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a rare opportunity for Los Angeles audiences
to see the finest work by some of the leading performers of international and American
cinema, and to hear these actors and actresses discuss their craft in a relaxed and
informal setting. We’re thrilled to welcome to the Egyptian Theatre legendary Italian
actress Claudia Cardinale, whose career over nearly five decades includes such
classics as Sergio Leone’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, Luchino
Visconti’s THE LEOPARD and ROCCO & HIS BROTHERS, Federico
Fellini’s 8-1/2, Werner Herzog’s FITZCARRALDO, Blake Edwards’
THE PINK PANTHER and many, many more. Ms. Cardinale will join us in between
the screenings of:
Double Feature!
New 35 mm print! SANDRA (VAGHE STELLE DELL'ORSA), (1965,
Columbia, 95 min.) directed by Luchini Visconti. Sandra (Claudia Cardinale) returns to her home in Tuscany
to honor her father's death. This intense and rarely screened psychological drama comes
from the master filmmaker who gave us THE LEOPARD and ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS. *Please note that this
information has been updated from what appeared on our printed calendar. This film has
been added and the order of films has changed.
Next on the same bill is
DON'T MAKE WAVES (1967, MGM (Warner
Bros.), 97 min.). Director Alexander MacKendrick's (SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS) sunshine
satire of 60's Malibu beach-culture. East Coast schlep Tony Curtis reinvents himself as a
swimming pool salesman who falls in love with madcap Italian girl, Laura (Claudia
Cardinale in one of her best English-speaking roles), all amid a carnival of muscle boys,
surfer girls, astrologers and more. One of the great lost comedies of the 60's. Discussion in between films with Claudia Cardinale.
Sunday, July 31 - 5:00
PM
TIKI LUAU
NIGHT
Join Tikinut King Kukulele, author/filmmaker BeachBum Berry, tiki
carvers Tiki Diablo, Crazy Al & Disney artist Kevin Kidney! The pre-show will include
the short film "Secret of Easter Island" by BeachBum Berry followed by other
short surprises in Tiki Cinema and the feature film:
Rare 35 mm. Print!
BIRD OF PARADISE, 1951, 20th Century
Fox/Criterion, 100 min. Starring Deborah Paget (Fritz Lang's THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR) in
all her luscious beauty as Polynesian princess "Kalua," opposite Louis Jourdan
(GIGI) and Jeff Chandler. Director Delmer Daves (3:10 TO YUMA) creates a wildly
entertaining piece of 1950's Exotica laden with gorgeous locales (Hawaii doubles for the
fictional South Seas island), volcanic danger and charming depictions of daily island
life. NOT ON VIDEO! Join us after the film in the Courtyard for a concert
by your host King Kukulele and the Friki Tikis with live hula dancers, a luau dinner and
much, much more!! Dinner tickets: $12. Dinner tickets
should be ordered in advance (by Friday, July 29 at noon) as a guarantee must be given to
the caterer. A limited number of dinner tickets will be sold onsite at the event.
Film Only tickets are $9
general admission. If you want to see the film ($9) and attend the dinner ($12) it is $21
total. There is no member discount on the dinner. Member Film ONLY tickets are $6 and
student/senior for Film ONLY are $7. Add $12 to that if you want dinner too. |
