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Wednesday, May 5 – 7:30 PM

Co-presented by the Pump Station & Nurtury: Sneak Preview! BABIES, 2009, Focus Features, 79 min. In this joyful documentary, director Thomas Balmès follows four international babies from birth through first steps. The children come from locales as diverse as Namibia, Japan, Mongolia and the United States, and yet their journeys of development have a transcendent universality. Enter the drawing for a chance to win a gift bag courtesy of the Pump Station & Nurtury. Trailer | Website | Buy Tickets

Thursday, May 6 – 7:30 PM

Double Feature: EFFECTS, 1980, John Harrison, 84 min. Dir. Dusty Nelson. Cameraman Dominic (Joe Pilato from DAY OF THE DEAD) starts to wonder if his sleazy director (John Harrison) is making a horror film or a snuff film. This mind-bending meditation on the very nature of film and reality features great support work from Tom Savini, Charles Hoyes and Bernard McKenna. Too much gore to be an art film and not enough to be a horror film, what your left with plays like a great lost Cronenberg film or a Jon Jost/John Cassavetes slasher movie, and one of the most genuinely CREEPY films ever made.

TEENAGER, 1974, Jack H. Harris, 87 min. Dir. Gerald Seth Sindell. A deranged filmmaker arrives in a small town to shoot a biker movie and encourages his actors to fully live out their parts. Unfortunately, they take method acting to an extreme, turning the production into a snuff film! Great performances by Joe Warfield and Sue Bernard (FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!). NOT ON DVD. Discussion between films with Dusty Nelson, John Harrison, Joseph Pilato, Pasquale Buba, Charles Hoyes, Gerald Sindell, and Sue Bernard! Oscar nominated screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence), will he hosting the event and moderating the Q&A.
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[Spielberg Theatre]

IT CAME FROM KUCHAR, 2009, Tigerlilly Pictures, 86 min. Long before YouTube, there were the outrageous, no-budget movies of underground filmmaking twins George and Mike Kuchar. This hilarious and moving documentary interweaves the brothers' lives, their admirers, a history of underground film and a "greatest hits" of Kuchar clips into a mesmerizing stream of consciousness tale affectionately directed by one of George's former students, Jennifer M. Kroot. An official selection of SXSW 2010. In-person appearances by director Jennifer Kroot and writer-actor Buck Henry. Trailer | Website | Buy Tickets

AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE BLOWS UP THE INTERNET with Tubefilter's BEST OF THE INTERNET: Where do you go for the latest insider news about the online entertainment industry? Tubefilter - where else? Since it's launch in 2007, Tubefilter has become the authority on episodic web television and web series, creating both the Streamy Awards and the International Academy of Web Television. From Felicia Day to Dramatic Hamster or LonelyGirl to the Bannen Way – Tubefilter has everything you need. StrikeTV, funnyordie.com, "Easy to Assemble," Crackle.com, Fearnet, Atom.com will be represented as part of the event. Join us for a very special night with Tubefilter as we screen the BEST OF THE INTERNET, showing clips and episodes selected from the nominees and winners of 2010 Streamy Awards with discussions and celebrity appearances by the biggest and brightest stars on the web. Read more on Tubefilter's website. Host and very special guests including Illeana Douglas, Kevin Pollack, Bud Bundy from Married With Children), Robert Hall (director FEAR CLINIC and Special Effects Make-up Designer), Mark Johnson (producer FEAR CLINIC), Matt Enlow (producer MOUNTAIN MAN), Matthew Mangs (writer/director MOUNTAIN MAN), Zoe Bell (Stuntwoman). 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

[Spielberg Theatre]

Double Feature: IT CAME FROM KUCHAR, 2009, Tigerlilly Pictures, 86 min. [see description 5/7]

Followed by: Kuchar Shorts Program: Join us for a selection of shorts by twin brother filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar. Program includes "Hairy Horror" (2009, 10 min), about a student's encounter with an enigmatic Big Foot; the visual weather journal "Centennial" (2007, 14 min); "Dumped!" (2009, 10 min), about the end of a relationship; "Obsession" (2009, 10 min), about the literal nightmares that can come from erotic fixation; and "Animal" (2009, 20 min) about masked men lurking in bushes. Buy Tickets

FUNNY GIRL, 1968, Sony Repertory, 155 min. Dir. William Wyler. In her Academy-Award winning film debut, Barbra Streisand re-creates her legendary Broadway role as renowned comedienne Fanny Brice, who made the world laugh even as her own world was crumbling. Premiered in 1968 at the Egyptian Theatre! Introduction by "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy, executive producer Dante Di Loreto and series cast member Lea Michele. 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

Mother Day’s Tea Party: MARY POPPINS, 1964, Walt Disney Co., 140 min. Dir. Robert Stevenson. When nanny Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) comes to work for the Banks family in their turn-of-the-20th-century London household, she uplifts everyone’s spirits and brings magic to their lives. Dick Van Dyke is Bert, the good-natured chimney sweep, while the great Jane Darwell, in her last screen appearance, plays the bird lady. Features the classic musical numbers "Chim Chim Chimeree," "A Spoonful of Sugar," "Feed the Birds" and "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Join us for a tea party in the courtyard of the Egyptian Theatre at 3:00 PM prior to the film. The film will begin at 4:00 PM. Film + Tea Party tickets will be sold at the box office first come, first served. Special ticket price includes tea and film. General $15, Student/Senior $12, Cinematheque Member $10. Regular prices apply for film only. Trailer | Buy Tickets

[Spielberg Theatre] IT CAME FROM KUCHAR, 2009, Tigerlilly Pictures, 86 min. [see description 5/7] Buy Tickets

VISUAL ACOUSTICS, 2008, 84 min. Dir. Eric Bricker. Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, this unique film celebrates the life and career of photographer Julius Shulman. Shulman, who died in 2009, captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. Both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images. Discussion after the film with director Eric Bricker, plus a VISUAL ACOUSTICS DVD raffle! Trailer | Website | Buy Tickets

Saturday, May 15 - 6:00 - 9:00 PM

Private Cocktail Party & Tour at Julius Shulman Home Sold Out!

Join the American Cinematheque and the Modern Committee of the Los Angeles Conservancy for an evening at the former home and studio of master photographer Julius Shulman, in conjunction with the screening of the movie Visual Acoustics, the Modernism of Julius Shulman. Ride in a luxury motor coach through the Hollywood Hills with ModCom experts and visit the completely intact and unique residence. Enjoy cocktails and heavy Hors d'œuvres at sunset in the steel and glass house designed by Raphael Soriano in 1950 and in the extensive gardens by visionary mid-century landscape designer Garrett Eckbo. The benefit program will also include a silent auction, guest speakers and a brief visit to the Stahl Home also featured in the film.

The Stah House:
Architect -Pierre Koenig
Case Study House #22, built in 1959

Case Study House #22, aka Stahl House, is a modernist styled house in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, California that was designed by Pierre Koenig. Photographic and anecdotal evidence suggests that the architect's client, Buck Stahl, may have provided an inspiration for the overall cantilevered structure. Built in 1959 and part of the Case Study Houses program, the house is considered an iconic representation of modern architecture in Los Angeles during the 20th century. It was made famous by a photograph by Julius Shulman showing two women leisurely sitting at a corner of the house with a panoramic view of the city through the floor to ceiling glass walls at night

The coach will leave from the Egyptian promptly at 6 pm, and arrive back to the Egyptian at 9:30 pm.

Your $125.00 ticket includes admission to the documentary VISUAL ACCOUSTICS (detailed above) on May 12th and a tour and cocktail party with hors d'ouevres at the Soriano designed home of Julius Shulman in Laurel Canyon on Saturday, May 15th from 6-9 PM. After you purchase your ticket, please contact andrew@americancinematheque.com to get further information about the location.