This Week At The New Beverly
Our March / April calendar is now online!
www.newbevcinema.com/calendar.cfm
Thursday March 18
Two Directed by Adam Green!
The New Beverly Cinema presents "An Evening With Adam Green." Join us for a double feature kicking off with FROZEN in glorious 35mm and featuring special cast appearances and a brief Q&A to follow. After that, it's COFFEE & DONUTS, Green's infamous $400 budget first feature film from 1999. This will be the first time COFFEE & DONUTS will be shown publicly in a theater, so for those fans who have been trying to find a way to find it over the past decade... don't miss this exclusive chance! This event will also include some of Green's favorite short films from over the years and, of course, plenty of stories from Green himself.
Frozen
2010, USA, 94 minutes
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1323045/
written & directed by Adam Green
starring Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers
7:30, Watch The Trailer!
Actors Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers and Emma Bell plus legendary stunt coordinator Kane Hodder will appear IN PERSON, schedules permitting, for a Q&A with director Adam Green.
Calm and jaded as I am, I was left so paralyzed with terror by this movie that I chewed a whole pencil in half watching it. - Rex Reed
- plus on the same bill -
Coffee & Donuts
1999, USA, 90 minutes
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0434857/
written & directed by Adam Green
starring Adam Green, Steven C. DeWitt Jr., Katie Bove
9:30 (please note: digital projection)
Director of photography Will Barratt will appear IN PERSON, schedule permitting, to discuss the film with Adam Green.
Friday & Saturday March 19 & 20
Lust for Life
1956, USA, 122 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049456/
dir. Vincente Minnelli, starring Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane, Henry Daniell
Fri: 7:30; Sat: 2:45 & 7:30, Watch The Trailer!
Academy Award Winner Best Supporting Actor Anthony Quinn plus nominated for 3 other Oscars including Best Actor Kirk Douglas
- plus on the same bill -
Moulin Rouge
1952, UK, 119 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044926/
dir. John Huston, starring José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier, Katherine Kath, Muriel Smith, Mary Clare
Fri: 9:55; Sat: 5:10 & 9:55, Watch The Trailer!
Academy Award Winner for Best Art Direction & Best Costume Design plus nominated for 5 other Oscars including Best Picture & Best Director
John Huston's direction is superb - Variety
Friday March 19
Inglourious Basterds
2009, USA / Germany, 153 minutes
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/
dir. Quentin Tarantino, starring Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Michael Fassbender, Omar Doom & More!
11:59pm, All Tickets $7, Watch The Trailer!
Oscar Winner For Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz
4 Stars - Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights. - Roger Ebert
Saturday March 20
Shock Till You Drop & New Beverly Midnights presents
Co-writer Gary Gerani plus producers Bill Blake & Richard Weinman will appear IN PERSON, schedules permitting, to discuss the film!
Pumpkinhead
1988, USA, minutes
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095925/
dir. Stan Winston, starring Lance Henriksen, Jeff East, John D'Aquino, Kimberly Ross, Kerry Remsen, Florence Schauffler
Midnight, All Tickets $7, Watch The Trailer!
For more information, please visit www.shocktillyoudrop.com
Sunday & Monday March 21 & 22
A Rock Hudson / Doris Day / Tony Randall double bill
Pillow Talk
1959, USA, 102 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053172/
dir. Michael Gordon, starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Sun: 3:15 & 7:30; Mon: 7:30, Watch The Trailer!
Oscar Winner for Best Original Screenplay & nominated for 4 other Academy Awards including Best Actress Doris Day
Pillow Talk remains one of the perfect examples of the 1950s sex comedy. Day is obscenely wholesome, Hudson is the epitome of a suave Neanderthal, and, together, they comprise one of the most perfectly mismatched couples ever captured on celluloid.
- All Movie Guide
- plus on the same bill -
Lover Come Back
1961, USA, 107 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055100/
dir. Delbert Mann, starring Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
Sun: 5:20 & 9:35; Mon: 9:35, Watch The Trailer!
This is a funny, smartly produced show. - Variety
Tuesday March 23
Eric Caidin and Brian Quinn
with Grindhouse Releasing present
The Grindhouse Film Festival : Eastern Grind
80s Hong Kong Cinema
Admission: $8.00
The Occupant
1984, Hong Kong, 96 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087625/
dir. Ronny Yu, starring Yun-Fat Chow, Lieh Lo, Melvin Wong
7:30
- plus on the same bill -
A Tale From The East
1990, Hong Kong, 87 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100104/
dir. Manfred Wong, starring David Ng, Joey Wang, Billy Lau
9:30
For more information, please visit www.myspace.com/grindhouse
Wednesday & Thursday March 24 & 25
Two Phil Karlson / John Payne film noirs!
Kansas City Confidential
1952, USA, 99 minutes
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044789/
dir. Phil Karlson, starring John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam
7:30
Kansas City Confidential is one of the essential heist films, elements of it have reappeared in countless movies since like The Thomas Crown Affair and The Usual Suspects. - Film Noir Of The Week
- plus on the same bill -
99 River Street
1953, USA, 83 minutes - Not Available On DVD!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045465/
dir. Phil Karlson, starring John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen, Peggie Castle, Jay Adler
9:30, Watch The Trailer!
One of the most hardboiled, brutal, and inexplicably forgotten films of the noir cycle. - Film Noir Of The Week
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Advance tickets may be purchased online through Brown Paper Tickets by clicking HERE. Advance tickets are not sold at the box office.
Currently, only general admission tickets may be purchased via this link. Discounted student, senior, etc. tickets may not be purchased in advance at this time. As always, any available tickets will also be sold at the theater box office the day of the event. Purchasing advance tickets is generally unnecessary for most shows, as the only programs that ever come close to selling out are special event shows with special guests, etc. Plenty of tickets are available at the door for nearly all of our programs.
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Coming Soon:
March:
26&27: Costa-Gavras' Z & Battle of Algiers
28-30: The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai with Repo Man
April:
2&3: Rififi & Touchez pas au grisbi
7-9: Mulholland Dr. & Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
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
