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APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX, 1979, American Zoetrope, 202 min. Reluctant assassin Martin Sheen leads a motley crew of soldiers upriver to find unhinged and off-the-map colonel Marlon Brando in director Francis Ford Coppola's wildly surreal Vietnam epic. The film's arresting score incorporates both original music by Coppola and his father, composer Carmine Coppola, and Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung." Adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and co-starring – among many others – Robert Duvall and Dennis Hopper. Introduction by Mitchell Morris, Associate Professor of Musicology at UCLA. Go to the Ring Festival L.A. website http://www.ringfestivalla.com/

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JACKIE BROWN, 1997, Miramax Films, 154 min. Director Quentin Tarantino followed up PULP FICTION with a more subtle and adult but equally entertaining crime film. Adapting Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, Tarantino tells the exciting, funny and ultimately touching story of a tentative romance between a bail bondsman (Robert Forster) and a flight attendant (Pam Grier) whose lives have not gone as planned. When Grier gets caught smuggling cash for arms dealer Samuel L. Jackson, a cycle of double-crosses and betrayals is set into unpredictable motion, expertly staged and written by Tarantino. Co-starring Robert De Niro as Jackson’s hopelessly institutionalized and ill-fated ex-con accomplice. Pam Grier will introduce the screening plus Pam Grier will be signing her autobiography, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts at 6:15 PM in the lobby of the Theatre. Trailer | Buy Tickets

Co-presented with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles: Travel in the Age of Deco Lecture: In the 1930s, in the age of art deco streamline design, people were traveling farther and faster than humans had ever traveled before. Fast cars, streamlined trains, luxury steamships, swift airliners, giant seaplanes and majestic Zeppelins opened up new horizons to those with the money to spend. Walter Nelson will present a program of film, poster art, photographs and music that will bring to life the experience and romance of travel in the years just before World War II. Following at 5:00 PM is a screening of… www.waternelson.com

FLYING DOWN TO RIO, 1933, Warner Bros., 89 min. Dir. Thornton Freeland. Lothario Roger Bond (Gene Raymond) loses a band gig in Miami after he flirts with one too many tempting ladies. When he seriously falls for the Brazilian beauty Belinha (a smoldering Dolores Del Rio), he offers her an air-borne lift down to Rio de Janeiro, but a mechanical breakdown makes the trip a little more complicated than anticipated. This terrific musical set amid the clouds also features an early onscreen pairing of tap-dancing legends Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers! Trailer | Buy Tickets

Digitally Restored! FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, 1953, Sony Repertory, 118 min. Dir. Fred Zinnemann. This 1954 Oscar winner (for Best Picture, Director, Cinematography and more) remains a timeless combination of war movie and love story that's as smart and adult as it is entertaining. James Jones' novel about military life at a Hawaiian army barracks on the brink of World War II is the source for a riveting drama starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Montgomery Clift and many others. This latest restoration from Sony Repertory began with a 4K scan of the single most original picture element that exists - in this case a Fine Grain Master Positive - which was made from the original negative when the film was first released. This element had both physical and inherent printed-in issues to deal with, including long multi-reel scratches and torn frames. These defects were fixed on a frame-by-frame basis, then a new 35mm digital negative and DCP were prepared. Trailer | Buy Tickets

WAH DO DEM, 2009, 76 min. The debut collaboration from young filmmakers Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner is believable, beautiful, uplifting and profound. A comedic OLD JOY set in rural Jamaica, Brooklyn and impoverished Kingston. Max and his girlfriend Willow (played by musicians Sean Bones and Norah Jones), break up two days before a cruise to Jamaica. Max takes to the high seas alone, flirting with the ship photographer and drinking cocktails with a celebrity juggler, and has some odd and hilarious encounters with the only other loner (Kevin Bewersdorf). Once on land, Max embarks on a captivating odyssey, discovering a part of the island unknown to the tourist eye. With Carl Bradshaw (THE HARDER THEY COME). Winner of "Best Narrative Feature" at The Los Angeles Film Festival 2009. READ MORE ON WAH DO DEM | Trailer | Official Website | Buy Tickets

For the total “Old Hollywood” experience take a docent-led tour of the legendary 1922 Egyptian Theatre. See what it would have been like to be in a Grauman stage show with a visit to the dressing rooms and singers' boxes. Check out our state-of-the-art projection booth and more! Discover the painstaking restoration work and the marriage of modern technology with a landmark of Hollywood history. Tours will start promptly at 10:30 AM at the box office. Tours are approximately 60 min. Add the Hollywood history film FOREVER HOLLYWOOD (55 min.) following the tour. Wear your walking shoes! You will see the old dressing rooms, the singer's boxes and the projection booth (not normally included on our tours). Reservations are not required, we have room for everyone. You can check our website or our voicemail for emergency cancellations. Tours will be held rain or shine. Tickets: Tour & movie FOREVER HOLLYWOOD: $10. Buy Tickets

TRIPLEPLAY: A SHOWCASE OF SHORT FILMS FROM THE STUDENTS OF CLEVELAND, HOLLYWOOD AND KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOLS, 2010, 90 min. From three of the top film and video programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District, this collection of narrative short films offers the best of what the digital revolution has brought to L.A. high schools. Discover tomorrow's Hollywood superstar filmmakers at the beginning of their careers. Brian Lowry of Variety writes, "These are the kind of teenagers you actually root for to make it." Special admission price: $5.00. Buy Tickets

WAH DO DEM, 2009, 76 min. Dir. Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner. [see description 6/18 above.]. READ MORE ON WAH DO DEM | Trailer | Official Website | Buy Tickets

For the total “Old Hollywood” experience take a docent-led tour of the legendary 1922 Egyptian Theatre. See what it would have been like to be in a Grauman stage show with a visit to the dressing rooms and singers' boxes. Check out our state-of-the-art projection booth and more! Discover the painstaking restoration work and the marriage of modern technology with a landmark of Hollywood history. Add the Hollywood history film FOREVER HOLLYWOOD (55 min.) following the tour.

Tours will start promptly at 10:30 AM at the box office. Tours are approximately 60 min. Wear your walking shoes! You will see the old dressing rooms, the singer's boxes and the projection booth (not normally included on our tours). Reservations are not required, we have room for everyone. Tours will be held rain or shine. Tickets: $5. Tour & movie FOREVER HOLLYWOOD: $10. Buy Tickets

WAH DO DEM, 2009, 76 min. Dir. Ben Chace and Sam Fleischner. [see description 6/18 above]. READ MORE ON WAH DO DEM | Trailer | Official Website | Buy Tickets

Newly Restored 35mm Print! THE RED SHOES, 1948, MGM Repertory, 136 min. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s urgently colorful and deliriously dream-like masterpiece about the aspirations of a young ballerina and the brilliant composer and passionate ballet impresario she is torn between has mesmerized audiences for generations. We present a special screening of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s celebrated restoration of the film, following its triumphant unveiling at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Trailer | Buy Tickets

RETROFORMAT- IDOLS OF THE SILENT ERA: This fascinating evening of historic films projected in 8mm. Includes: two superb D.W Griffith shorts: Florence Lawrence in "Confidence" (1909, 11 min); and Henry Walthall, Blanche Sweet and Lionel Barrymore in "Death's Marathon" (1913, 17min). "Fox Trot Finesse" (1915) stars the delightful Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Drew (cousins of the Barrymores and namesakes to Drew Barrymore). 1915's stark drama "The Making of Crooks" stars Jack Pickford, Mary's brother, as a juvenile delinquent. For utter camp madness, Pearl White stars in "Lost in the Night" and "The Mad Lover" (1913). Wallace Reid & Dorothy Gish star in "Old Heidleberg" (1916). Buy Tickets

Restored Print! THE RIVER, 1951, Janus Films, 99 min. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden and directed, written and produced by Jean Renoir, this is a moving portrait of an English girl coming of age in Bengal. The film was nominated for two BAFTA awards and was the first film to be shot on location in India using three-strip Technicolor. Restored by The Academy Film Archive in cooperation with The British Film Institute and Janus Films. Restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation and The Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Learn More.  Buy Tickets Clip Reel and PowerPoint presentation preceding the film and discussion in between films with art director John Muto. A panel discussion will be held between screenings with panelist Bernard Glasser, producer of “Crack In The World” and the line producer for "The Day of the Triffids", William Creber,  Production Designer of “Planet of the Apes,” “The Poseidon Adventure,” “The Towering Inferno” and “The Greatest Story Ever Told;” and film historian Michael Hyatt, who restored “The Day of the Triffids” and was part of the team that restored “Sweet Smell of Success” and    “My Fair Lady.”