| Special One Night Events &
Limited Engagements in February:
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Sunday, February 15 –
4:00 PM
Family Matinee – 25th Anniversary:
THE NEVER-ENDING STORY, 1984,
Warner Bros., 102 min. Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. One of the only modern children’s
films that can be mentioned in the same breath as THE WIZARD OF OZ. A true kids classic
about courage, friendship and the magic of reading. Filled with giant turtles, rock
creatures, and furry blue Luck Dragons, it captures kids’ imaginations, plus it has a
theme song you will sing for the rest of your life. Join
us at 3:00 PM at Every Picture Tells a Story bookstore for a free story hour and
exhibit of fantasy artwork. Trailer
Friday, February 20 – 7:30 PM
Emily Hubley In-Person!
Emily Hubley has made acclaimed
animated shorts for thirty years and provided animation to television, fictional and
documentary films for over a decade. Her first feature film THE TOE TACTIC (2008) screened
at film festivals including South by Southwest and New Directors/New Films.
HUBLEY SHORTS PROGRAM Approx. 60 min. This program features award-winning films by
animation pioneers, Faith and John Hubley: (newly restored) "Tender
Game" and "Windy Day", and Faith Hubley's "Rainbows
Of Hawai’i" (1995), followed by some films (made between 1984 and 2000)
by daughter, Emily, whose hand-drawn films explore memory and the turbulence of emotional
life: "The Tower" (a collaboration with her sister Georgia
Hubley), "One Self: Fish/Girl," "Her
Grandmother’s Gift" (a collaboration with her mother, Faith Hubley) and
"Pigeon Within."
L.A. Premiere! THE TOE TACTIC,
2008, Orchard Pictures, 90 min. writer/director/animator Emily Hubley's feature
film debut, brings her great lineage, distinctive hand-drawn style and an entire artistic
community to an offbeat cinematic hybrid that plays both melancholically and mischievously
on the themes of time, memory, loss and yearning. Starring Lily Rabe,Xander Berkeley,
Kevin Corrigan, Daniel London, Sakina Jaffrey, Jane Lynch, Mary Kay Place and Novella
Nelson, with the voices of Don Byron, David Cross, Andrea Martin, Marian Seldes and Eli
Wallach. Original score by Yo La Tengo. Discussion in between
shorts program and feature film with director Emily Hubley. Official Website | More
Saturday, February 21 – 7:30 PM
70mm Print!
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY,
1968, Warner Bros., 139 min. Arthur C. Clarke was the author of more than 100 fiction and
nonfiction books. He achieved his greatest fame in 1968 when his short story The
Sentinel was turned into 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Director Stanley Kubrick’s
mind-blowing meditation on the dangers (and wonders) of technology, the limitless vistas
of space, and the future of the human race itself is one of the Cinematheque’s most
requested movie titles. This is another opportunity to see one of the essential cinema
experiences on the giant screen, in truly psychedelic 6-track stereo sound! Keir Dullea
and Gary Lockwood are two astronauts on a deep space probe who faithfully rely
on onboard computer HAL to navigate and overcome any problems. But then the unthinkable
happens -- HAL develops a paranoid "personality." "I have had a diverse
career as a writer, underwater explorer and space promoter. Of all these, I would like to
be remembered as a writer." Arthur C. Clarke. Trailer
Wednesday, February 25 – 7:30 PM
25th Anniversary Double Feature:
2010, 1984, Warner Bros. 116 min. Roy
Scheider, John Lithgow, and Helen Mirren are among the members of a
joint Soviet-American crew that goes into space to find out what went wrong on the
original Discovery mission. Director Peter Hyams' ambitious sequel to Stanley
Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY is the best kind of sequel, a film that strikes out in its
own original directions rather than repeat the innovations of the original. With
spectacular visual effects by Richard Edlund. Trailer
NINETEEN
EIGHTY-FOUR, 1984, MGM Repertory, 113 min. John Hurt and Suzanna
Hamilton are lovers trapped in an oppressive police state who heroically fight against
the all-powerful "Big Brother." Director Michael Radford's (IL
POSTINO) adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel perfectly captures the book's deep
sense of unease, and Richard Burton gives a great late career performance as an
evil but human government official. Discussion in between
films with 2010 visual effects supervisor Richard Edlund. More
| Trailer
Thursday, February 26 – 7:30 PM
Van Johnson Tribute Double Feature:
After a car accident left him unable to enter the military, Van Johnson spent WWII
serving his country in a different way: by representing American values and heroism on
screen in a series of classic films as an all-American boy. Yet Johnson was also
capable of more complex, serious roles in movies like A GUY NAMED JOE, THE END OF THE
AFFAIR and BATTLEGROUND. Join us for a double feature of two of his best:
THE CAINE MUTINY, 1954, Sony Repertory, 124 min.
Dir. Edward Dmytryk. Van Johnson is part of a superb ensemble cast that
includes Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer and Fred MacMurray in this
classic adaptation of Herman Wouk's novel. Bogart is Captain Queeg, a paranoid
authoritarian whose men (led by Johnson and MacMurray) stage a mutiny in the last days of
WWII. Ferrer is the brilliant military lawyer who takes on the case once the ship
returns to port. Lee Marvin is on hand as a crewman and E.G. Marshall
is a withering prosecutor at the court-martial. More | Trailer
THIRTY SECONDS OVER
TOKYO, 1944, Warner Bros., 138 min. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. Captain Ted Lawson's
memoir of the American military's plans for retaliation after Pearl Harbor forms the basis
for this sincere and exciting wartime action film. Van Johnson plays Lawson
and Spencer Tracy plays James Doolittle, the leader of the dangerous mission; also
on board the bomber is Robert Mitchum. More |
