Russ Meyer Triple feature!

Some of my film programmer friends have been asking how on earth we got those Russ Meyer prints (um... I called RM Films... they were nice). From what I can tell, most of the films haven't played rep houses in L.A. for seven or eight years--so when it worked out that I could show as many as I wanted, I found myself just wishing we had the timeslots to show more, more, more! That's why this Friday, we're kicking off our Meyer fest by cramming three of 'em into one overstuffed night: The Bosom Buddies Triple Feature!

Besides, what better way to celebrate the friendship between Roger Ebert and Russ Meyer, than a night of cinematic excess. These were men of appetites. When Meyer first took Ebert to dinner at Musso & Frank's, Ebert tried to order fish-he was gonna lose some weight while taking a break from journalism. Meyer forbid it: "when you're working for me you're gonna eat well, because you have to have your energy." Then he ordered Ebert lamb chops and a baked potato. I'm sure that was just the beginning.

So for those of you who think THREE Russ Meyer movies in one night is too much--man up! Or woman up! But not just UP!, even though Kitten Natividad is gonna be there in person. I want to see you guys there the whole night, stumbling out drunk with a triple D on all those great movies.
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One last thing. The "Members Only" screening, originally scheduled for this Monday, is being pushed back a bit, because I'm waiting for a particularly awesome print to show. This is a film that has not been screened in decades, and unless something significant shifts in the world, won't be screened for decades to come...except here. If you want me to tell you what it is, you'll have to learn the secret handshake, or maybe just ask personally.

Your programmer,

Hadrian

World's Greatest Sinner-this Saturday!!!

When we started the theatre, the first movie that came to mind, that we got insanely excited about showing above all else, was World's Greatest Sinner, Timothy Carey's wonderfully crazy and amazing sole directorial effort. It's playing this Saturday night, the first time its played in LA in years, and if it's your first time or the 100th, we promise it'll be the best movie you'll see all year.
For more on this one, here is a good World's Greatest Sinner piece at Brains on Film, and a short but succinct piece at Shock Cinema.
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LA TIMES on Tuesday's Stuntman Appreciation Night.

Read it Here.
its going to be a sick night-mat even promises to barrel through fairfax traffic in a shopping cart with a paper mache cow face over his head (see previous post).
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GOZU TOMORROW!!!

We'll see you there with your eyes melting out of your shoes.
And by the way, did you see what the great Andy Klein had to say on all this?

Ebert on Northern Lights.

Here.
This Camera D'or winner plays this friday, don't forget. Co-director Rob Nilsson and Cinematographer Judy Irola will be in attendance.

Bummer.

His role in Ghost World was minor, but still one of the great teenage performances. He got that uncomfortable-in-his-own-skin thing down perfect. Bummer news.

Best Poster Ever pt.1

The Visitor!

Arthur Presents! Two 93-Minute Films Involving Euphoriants

Monday January 14th at 8pm!
Work Is a 4-Letter Word, about a young man (David Warner) who becomes more interested in his factory job than his new bride (Beatles friend Cilla Black) when he discovers he can grow happiness mushrooms down in the boiler room, has never been screened by this evening's hosts, but comes highly recommended by rising star mycologist Paul Stamets, which should be recommendation enough.
AND
Taking Off-- a lost, gentle Milos Forman film about well-to-do New York runaways and the parents who pursue them-- has to be seen in a theater to... well, to be seen. Buck Henry, Ultra Violet, Vincent Schiavelli, a scorching, libidinous nightclub performance by the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, a young Carly Simon singing "Long Term Physical Effects," a young Kathy Bates singing "Even the Horses Had Wings," and what is perhaps the most charmingly whimsical getting-high-for-the-first-time scene ever filmed, featuring the Incredible String Band's classic "Air": what more do you want? There's probably a reason neither of these two films are on DVD, but we don't know what it is. Smoking is allowed-- nay, encouraged-- in the patio out back before, during and after this bargain priced double-feature, which will include a deejayed intermission and a discussion led by filmmaker Mike Mills, journalist/historian Paul Cullum and Arthur editor Jay Babcock.
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