This Week At The New Beverly
Our April calendar is now online!
www.newbevcinema.com/calendar.cfm
Friday & Saturday March 26 & 27
Z
1969, France / Algeria, 127 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/
dir. Costa-Gavras, starring Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin
Fri: 7:30; Sat: 2:25 & 7:15
Academy Award Winner Best Foreign Language Film & Best Editing plus nominated for 3 other Oscars including Best Picture & Best Director
4 Stars - "Z" is at the same time a political cry of rage and a brilliant suspense thriller. - Roger Ebert
Z combines the intellectual heft of revolution-themed films like The Battle of Algiers with the drop-dead cool of mod touchstones like Blow Out or Le Samourai. - Dana Stevens, Slate
- plus on the same bill -
The Battle of Algiers
1966, Italy / Algeria, 121 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058946/
dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi, Samia Kerbash
Fri: 10:00; Sat: 4:55 & 9:45
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Director & Best Foreign Language Film
The Battle of Algiers is made with such astonishing, feral realism that it effectively blurs the line between documentary and fiction filmmaking. - All Movie Guide
This technical and dramatic masterclass has lost none of its power to shock and provoke. The most important piece of political filmmaking since Battleship Potemkin. - David Parkinson, Empire
Friday March 26
Quentin Tarantino's Violent Masterpiece
Reservoir Dogs
1992, USA, 99 minutes
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/
dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney
11:59pm, All Tickets $7
Those who survive it emerge in a shell-shocked euphoria -- so good and so blunt is the writing. - Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter
Saturday March 27
JUST ADDED! Dean Cameron, star of ROCKULA & SUMMER SCHOOL (the almighty Chainsaw) will be attending IN PERSON, schedule permitting, and holding a Q&A before this 20th Anniversary screening! Co-presented by MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS with host Jesse Hawthorne Ficks.
Rockula
1990, USA, 87 minutes - Not Available On DVD!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100506/
dir. Luca Bercovici, starring Dean Cameron, Toni Basil, Thomas Dolby, Tawny Fere, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Diddley
11:59pm, All Seats $7
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Sunday, Monday & Tuesday March 28, 29 & 30
On Sunday March 28 actors Harry Dean Stanton & Olivia Barash will appear IN PERSON, schedule permitting, to introduce the 5:35 screening of Repo Man!
On Monday March 29 actor Peter Weller will appear IN PERSON, schedule permitting, to introduce & discuss Buckaroo Banzai!
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
1984, USA, 103 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086856/
dir. W.D. Richter, starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, Lewis Smith, Rosalind Cash
Sun: 3:30 & 7:30; Mon/Tues: 7:30
Buckaroo Banzai is the very oddest good movie in many a full moon. - Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing. - Time Out
- plus on the same bill -
Repo Man
1984, USA, 92 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087995/
written & directed by Alex Cox
starring Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Susan Barnes, Fox Harris, Tom Finnegan
Sun: 5:35 & 9:35; Mon/Tues: 9:35
A highly amusing synthesis of thinking man's science fiction, post-modern humor, and a punk rocker's jaundiced take on a culture at the point of collapse - All Movie Guide
This is the kind of movie that baffles Hollywood, because it isn't made from any known formula and doesn't follow the rules.
- Roger Ebert
Wednesday & Thursday March 31 & April 1
An Alan Rudolph double bill
Remember My Name
1978, USA, 94 minutes - Not Available On DVD!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078150/
written & directed by Alan Rudolph
starring Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson, Jeff Goldblum, Tim Thomerson, Alfre Woodard
7:30
Paris Film Festival & Miami Film Festival Best Actress Award Winner Geraldine Chaplin
What really distinguishes the film are the tremulous, nervy performances - Rudolph's direction is imbued with an admirable generosity towards the characters. - Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Chaplin is magnificent - a study in raw emotion. Rudolph gets right to the heart of his characters and all to a great, bluesy soundtrack with vocals by the great Alberta Hunter. - Film 4
- plus on the same bill -
Choose Me
1984, USA, 106 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087054/
written & directed by Alan Rudolph
starring Geneviève Bujold, Keith Carradine, Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Bauchau, Rae Dawn Chong, John Larroquette
9:25
Toronto International Film Festival International Critics' Award Alan Rudolph
Rudolph here brings his variation on the kaleidoscopic Altman style to perfection - Time Out Film Guide
Apart from its other qualities, which are many, Alan Rudolph's CHOOSE ME is an audaciously intriguing movie. Its main purpose, indeed, may be to intrigue us - as other films aim to thrill or arouse or mystify. There is hardly a moment in the whole film when I knew for sure what was going to happen next, yet I didn't feel manipulated; I felt as if the movie were giving itself the freedom to be completely spontaneous. - Roger Ebert
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Coming Soon:
April:
2&3: Rififi & Touchez pas au grisbi
4&5: The Prisoner of Zenda ('37) & The Prince and the Pauper ('37)
7-9: Mulholland Dr. & Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
14&15: John Milius Double Feature of Wind and the Lion & Devil's 8
16&17: Elevator to the Gallows & Le Cercle Rouge
17: Charles Bronson in 10 to Midnight
18&19: Lee Van Cleef in Death Rides a Horse & Sabata
22: Troma 35th Anniversary w/ Toxic Avenger & Poultrygeist
23&24: Never On Sunday & Irma la douce
24: Terror in the Aisles
25-27: Gone With The Wind
May:
22: George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968)
29: John Frankenheimer's 99 and 44/100% Dead
Schedule subject to change
i'm so excited! so excited! can't wait!!!!