| One Night Special Events in
September:
These events are Egyptian Theatre exclusives!
Wednesday, September 1 – 7:30 PM
Fox 75th Anniversary Double Feature: New Digitally
Restored 35mm Print! VALLEY OF THE
DOLLS, 1967, 20th
Century Fox, 123 min. Dir. Mark Robson. "You know it’s bad to take liquor
with those pills," warns small town girl-turned-supermodel Anne (Barbara Parkins)
to Broadway diva/train wreck Neely (Patty Duke). Neely’s answer: "They work
faster." If you want to see the great, bitchy, booze-angst-sex-drugs-fueled
godmother to the "Real Housewives" franchise, you’ve come to the right
place! Based on Jacqueline Susann’s runaway bestseller - which practically created a
cottage industry in glossy, sex-drenched soap operas on page and screen - VALLEY also
co-stars the tragically beautiful Sharon Tate as B-movie queen Jennifer. Enormous thanks
to our friends at 20th Century Fox for striking a new print of this 1960s classic! Trailer
Pristine 35mm Archive Print!
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, 1970,
20th Century Fox/Criterion, 109 min. Dir. Russ Meyer. Girl-group madness from the director
of FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! Dolly Reed, Marcia McBroom and Cynthia Myers journey from
hicksville to Hollywood, hoping to make it with their rock trio, The Carrie Nations. They
fall prey to the "business" as well as their own inflated ambitions, in what is
arguably Meyer’s most purely entertaining, pop-culture sex-fest (co-written by film
critic Roger Ebert). With additional tunes by The Strawberry Alarm Clock. Clip | trailer
Discussion and meet-and-greet with actors Dolly Read, John Lazar and Harrison Page between
films. More surprises to be announced here! This event is part of the 75th Anniversary celebration of 20th
Century Fox. As part of this nationwide celebration, Fox is presenting "Hometown
Hollywood" events in 15 cities, featuring films being shown in the cities in which
they were shot and by which they were inspired. 
The evening will be emceed by the incomparable Jackie Beat who played Helen Lawson in the
off Broadway NYC production. Photo by Peter
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Tuesday, September 7 – 7:30 PM
GROWTH, 2010, New Artists Alliance, 90 min. Dir. Gabriel
Cowan. Jamie (Mircea Monroe) inherits property on an island. While there with her
boyfriend (Brian Krause), step-brother (Christopher Shand) and best friend (Nora
Kirkpatrick), the group begins to uncover the island’s terrifying, experimental past
in this taut science fiction thriller. Discussion following
with actors Mircea Monroe, Brian Krause, Richard Riehle, Nora Kirkpatrick, Christopher
Shand, writer-director Gabriel Cowan and producer Amiee Clark. Trailer | Buy
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Sunday, September 12 – 7:30 PM
Founded in 1949, the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and
Film is housed in the mansion and gardens that George Eastman, founder of the Eastman
Kodak Company, called home from 1905 to 1932. World-renowned for its photography and
motion picture archives, the museum is also a leader in film preservation and photograph
conservation, educating archivists and conservators from around the world. The GEH Motion
Picture Department now holds more 30,000 titles, including the collections of Martin
Scorsese, Spike Lee, Kathryn Bigelow and Merchant Ivory Productions.
George Eastman’s Attic : "The Skipping Cheeses" (aka
"Les Fromages Automobiles") (1907, 5 min.) Directed by Georges Méliès and
featuring the director’s trademark special effects, this short offers an early 20th
century warning to anyone boarding French public transport who might be sensitive to
smell.
"A Western Girl" (1911, 10 min.)
Starring director John Ford’s influential older brother, Francis Ford, this film is
one of the few surviving films from the lesser-known American outpost of Méliès’
Star Film Company in San Antonio, Texas.
"Early 28mm Animation" (1918,
5 min.) A product of a pioneering animation company, the Bray Studios, this short features
a young character who, as is the case in many cartoons, spends most of his time inciting
havoc and chaos in his neighborhood.
FEAR AND DESIRE, 1953, 72 min. Numerous rumors
surround the creation (and near disappearance) of director Stanley Kubrick’s first
feature film - some true, some less so. Often thought to be a student film, it was later
disavowed and destroyed by its director, but not before it played in a few art house
cinemas at the time of its release. A forgotten film in its day, this 35mm print from the
George Eastman House collection offers a rare opportunity to see a young, self-educated
filmmaker’s first foray into heavy themes - war, gender politics and more. Look for
writer-actor-director Paul Mazursky making his screen debut in this film! Discussion following with Paul Mazursky. Buy Tickets
Wednesday, September 15 – 7:30 PM
Founded in 1935 by executive Herbert J. Yates, independent studio Republic Pictures is fondly remembered today for producing
westerns, serials and B-movies. The studio also launched the careers of such future cowboy
icons as John Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. In the 1940s and 1950s, the company moved
into prestige pictures with the release of MACBETH (1948), THE RED PONY (1949), THE QUIET
MAN (1952) and JOHNNY GUITAR (1954), before disbanding in 1959.
Republic Pictures 75th Anniversary: "Meet
the Stars #7: Meet Roy Rogers," 1941, Republic Pictures, 10 min. Dir. Harriet
Parsons. "It’s a Grand Old Nag," 1947, Republic Pictures, 8 min.
Dir. Robert Clampett.
UNDER WESTERN STARS, 1938, Republic Pictures, 54
min. Dir. Joseph Kane. Roy Rogers is elected to Congress and becomes determined to help
his constituents get water in their district. When he runs up against resistance from one
of his peers, he takes the elder congressmen on an inspection trip and strands him without
water to make his point.
SOUTH OF THE BORDER, 1939, Republic Pictures, 70
min. Dir. George Sherman. It is the eve of World War II, and Federal agents Gene Autry and
Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnett) head to Mexico to foil the schemes of a fleet of foreign
spies at a submarine base). Buy Tickets
Saturday, September 18
Egyptian Theatre
Historic Tour & FOREVER HOLLYWOOD
10:30 AM Behind The Scenes Tour
11:40 AM FOREVER
HOLLYWOOD
 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. Buy
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Wednesday, September 22 – 7:30 PM
CLEOPATRA, 1934, Paramount (Universal), 100 min. Mogul and
architect of epics, Cecil B. DeMille weaves a historical tapestry poised somewhere between
high camp and outlandish spectacle, directing the scintillating Claudette Colbert in her
youthful prime as the wily Egyptian queen. A naughty pre-Code product, the film boasts an
array of scandalous costumes. With Warren William as Julius Caesar and Henry Wilcoxon as
Marc Antony. Discussion following with renowned biographer
Scott Eyman, moderated by film critic Leonard Maltin. There will also be a booksigning of
Eyman’s Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille, the first
authorized biography of DeMille. Buy Tickets
Wednesday, September 22 – 7:30 PM
[Spielberg Theatre] NAVIGATING THE FILM
FESTIVAL WORLD, approx. 180 min. For most emerging filmmakers, the goal of
launching a film on the film festival circuit begins with one singular dream: SUNDANCE!
But what lies beyond Sundance for you and your film? In this informative seminar,
presented just in time for "festival season," film festival programmer/film
consultant Thomas Ethan Harris (former director of programming, Los Angeles Film Festival
and Palm Springs Short Films Festival) offers filmmakers practical skills for navigating
the world of film festivals to maximum effect. $12 Member, $15
Student/Senior, $20 General Admission. Buy Tickets
Tuesday, September 28 – 8:00 PM
HATCHET II, 2010, Dark Sky Films. With even more action,
carnage, gore and fun than the irreverent original, director Adam Green’s follow-up
to 2006’s HATCHET will solidify the nightmarish film and its characters as a
franchise. The sequel picks up where the original leaves off, with heroin Marybeth
escaping the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling killer Victor Crowley. Marybeth
returns to the Louisiana bayou along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her
family… and exact her revenge. Discussion following with
director Adam Green and cast. Website | Buy
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Wednesday, September 29 – 7:30 PM
The Independent Film & Television
Alliance (IFTA) is the trade association of independent producers and distributors of
motion picture and television programming worldwide. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the
organization puts on annual world-class trade show the American Film Market (AFM) and
represents more than 150 member companies from 22 countries. Collectively, IFTA members
produce more than 400 independent films each year and, since 1980, have produced and
distributed more than half of the films that have won the Best Picture Academy Award. The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), marking its
30th anniversary, has selected the 30 Most Significant Independent Films(tm) from around
the world produced over the past three decades. This even launches a screening series of
selections from their "Significant Films" list.
MY LEFT FOOT: THE STORY OF CHRISTY BROWN,
1989, Miramax, 103 min. Dir. Jim Sheridan. In an Oscar-winning performance, Daniel
Day-Lewis plays Christy Brown, a painter with cerebral palsy who can only control
his left foot. In spite of his disability, Brown becomes an important writer and artist in
this heartbreaking yet profoundly inspirational tale. Nominated for a total of 5 Academy
Awards, which also includes Brenda Fricker's win for Best Supporting Actress. "As
magnificently fierce as Day-Lewis is, the film is far from a one-man show. The movie
Sheridan has built around him has a pitch-perfect dryness and simplicity; there's never a
misstep or false note in the way that the director and Jack Conroy, his cinematographer,
re-create this cramped, poverty-stricken Irish-Catholic existence." -Hal Hinson,
The Washington Post Discussion following with
director Jim Sheridan (schedule permitting). Buy Tickets
Wednesday, September 29 – 7:30 PM
[Spielberg Theatre] NAVIGATING THE FILM FESTIVAL WORLD,
approx. 180 min. For most emerging filmmakers, the goal of launching a film on the film
festival circuit begins with one singular dream: SUNDANCE! But what lies beyond Sundance
for you and your film? In this informative seminar, presented just in time for
"festival season," film festival programmer/film consultant Thomas Ethan Harris
(former director of programming, Los Angeles Film Festival and Palm Springs Short Films
Festival) offers filmmakers practical skills for navigating the world of film festivals to
maximum effect. $12 Member, $15 Student/Senior, $20 General
Admission.Buy Tickets
Thursday, September 30 – 8:00 PM
Movie & Concert 70th Birthday Salute to John Lennon! Los
Angeles Premiere! NOWHERE BOY, 2010,
The Weinstein Company, 98 min. Dir. Sam Taylor-Wood. This dramatic and poignant story of a
teenage John Lennon follows his struggles with the complexities of his home life and his
initiative to start the band The Quarrymen (which would later become the Beatles) as his
rock 'n' roll ticket to ride out of his painful circumstances. Starring Aaron Johnson and
Kristin Scott Thomas. Trailer | Buy Tickets Followed by conversation with the film's director Sam
Taylor-Wood, star Aaron Johnson - and John Lennon's childhood friends and band-mates from
The Quarrymen: Rod Davis, Len Garry & Colin Hanton - moderated by Beatles scholar
Martin Lewis. Followed by a live concert by The Quarrymen. Check
out the full schedule of rare Lennon and Beatles films, continuing at the Egyptian Theatre
Friday, October 1 - Sunday, October 3, at www.ModsAndRockers.com
and www.HappyBirthdayJohn.org |
