Members-Only Screenings
Sometimes we plan to screen something so rarefied, so special, so freakin’ awesome, that we want to show it for free…but only for the chosen few. So, once every month or two, The Cinefamily presents a “members-only” screening for the inner circle — those who have officially joined The Cinefamily through a complicated series of rites: filling out a form, showing us an ID, and purchasing a membership. To find out more about Cinefamily membership, click here.
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: An Evening With Cheech & Chong (feat. "Cheech & Chong's Animated Movie"!)
NOTE: Admission to this show is for current Cinefamily members +1 only (first-come, first-serve). Admission to this event is first-come, first-served for Cinefamily members ONLY. As well, it is indeed a potluck; dishes that are “munchies”-oriented — impress us with your creativity!
To help us track attendance and limit waiting line size, you must pre-register for admission. One registration per person. Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended. Doors will open 30 min. before showtime.
It doesn’t get any more iconic — or downright awesome — than having Cheech AND Chong together in the building. Having only reunited in the last few years, these gods of counterculture comedy are back to being just as irreverent, and just as incredibly smart about being stupid as ever. Plus, Tommy Chong’s directorial career is one that we’ve personally been obsessed with for years — with films like Cheech and Chong’s Next Movie and Cheech and Chong’s Nice Dreams blowing our minds as prime examples of totally unique, surreal cinematic events that also make you laugh for days. Taking acid with Timothy Leary in a mental hospital? Check. Chong being whisked away in a UFO to sample “space coke”? Double check. Stacy Keach slowly mutating into a giant, freaked-out lizard? BINGO! Join us for a guided tour through their career together, with them in person on the Cinefamily stage — plus a sneak preview of Cheech and Chong’s Animated Movie, their latest feature film foray. We can’t wait to take this highly lively jaunt through the memories — what’s left of them!
Cheech and Chong’s Animated Movie Dir. Eric D. Chambers & Branden Chambers, 2013, digital presentation.
Tickets – for current Cinefamily members only +1 (first-come, first-serve with pre-registration)
Watch Cinefaily’s original trailer for “An Evening With Cheech & Chong”!
Watch the trailer for “Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie”!
MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT: Upstream Color (filmmaker Shane Carruth in person, Q&A moderated by Rian Johnson!)
NOTE: Admission to this show is for current Cinefamily members +1 only (first-come, first-serve). To help us track attendance and limit waiting line size, you must pre-register for admission. One registration per person. Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended. Doors will open 30 min. before showtime.
The most highly anticipated and controversial film from Sundance 2013 comes to the Cinefamily for a very special sneak preview, with filmmaker/star Shane Carruth in person for a Q&A after the screening (moderated by Looper director Rian Johnson!) Every single quality of Upstream Color, Shane Carruth’s first feature in almost a decade after his smash debut Primer (winner of the 2004 Sundance Grand Jury Prize), will simultaneously push your emotional buttons and give your ganglia a thorough workout. The following synopsis of this push-pull theatrical happening’s sci-fi/love story/philosophical strands doesn’t even begin to reveal the film’s thousand-fold permutations: after finding her life destroyed by scam artists who drug her with a mysterious substance, Kris (Amy Seimetz) connects with Jeff (Carruth), whose past is similarly scarred; as their backstories bleed into one, they must wrangle a recovery from their shared chaos. “With its muscular cinematic language rooted in the powerful yearnings felt before words can be formed, Upstream Color is an entirely original, mythic, romantic thriller that goes in search of truths that lie just beyond our reach.” (Sundance)
Dir. Shane Carruth, 2012, digital presentation, 96 min.
Tickets – for current Cinefamily members only +1 (first-come, first-serve with pre-registration)
Watch the trailer for “Upstream Color”!
MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT - An Evening With Jerry Lewis: The Total Filmmaker
Co-presented by the Friends Of Max Rose
NOTE: This show is free for current Cinefamily members +1 (first-come, first-serve). To help us track attendance and limit waiting line size, you must pre-register for “first-come, first-serve” admission. One registration per person. Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended.
We get quite excited about a great many things that happen on the Cinefamily stage — but we’re pretty beside ourselves over this one. Jerry Lewis — not only one of the greatest comedians of the last century, but also one of cinema’s most impeccable and creative craftsmen, and one of the world’s most driven charitable fundraisers — will be here LIVE at the Cinefamily to discuss an incredible range of topics relating to his work both in front of and behind the camera. Preceding the long-form Q&A will be a 30-minute video presentation of highlights from Jerry’s career in film and television.
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: An Evening With Claudio Simonetti (feat. Tenebrae)
NOTE: This show is free (first-come, first-serve). To help us track attendance for this limited-seating event, you must pre-register for “first-come, first-serve” admission. One registration per person. Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended.
SCHEDULE:
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6:30pm – potluck dinner
7:30pm – An Evening With Claudio Simonetti Q&A
9:30pm – Tenebrae
Fans from Toledo to Timbuktu know in their bones that horror films from Italy are some of the flat-out greatest in the world — and one of the truest alchemic keys to their ascendency is the iconic intonation of their soundtracks. One of the founding members and original keyboardist of Goblin, composer Claudio Simonetti has had a hand in creating of some of Italian horror’s most famous film scores ever — we’re talking not only the Argento classics Suspiria, Deep Red, Opera and Tenebrae, but also the European cut of Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Fulci’s caveman fantasy Conquest, the terrifying movie theater haunt Demons, and a huge list more. A pioneer who has effortlessly blended progressive rock, electro-pop and heavy metal across a body of work entering its fifth decade, Simonetti has done it all, collaborated with the best of them, and has a lifetime’s worth of incredibly cool stories to share. Flying in all the way from Italy just to be with us, Claudio joins the Cinefamily programming team for one of the most in-depth Q&As of his entire career. Come be one of the lucky folks to dine with Claudio for our pre-show potluck dinner, to witness this historic evening’s interview — and to delight in a screening of Argento’s Tenebrae, originating from one of the world’s few remaining fully-uncut 35mm prints!
Tenebrae Dir. Dario Argento, 1982, 35mm, 101 min.
Tickets – free admission (first-come, first-serve with pre-registration)
Watch the trailer for “Tenebrae”!
MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT: Looper (director Rian Johnson in person!)
NOTE: This show is free (first-come, first-serve). To help us track attendance to this extremely limited-seating event, you must pre-register for “first-come, first-serve” admission. One registration per person. All current Cinefamily members get first entry (and +1). Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended. Doors will open 30 min. before showtime. No one will be admitted after the film has begun.
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel has been invented — but it is illegal, and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they send their target thirty years into the past, where a “looper” — a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) — is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good — until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.
Dir. Rian Johnson, 2012, 35mm, 118 min.
Watch the trailer for “Looper”!
Tickets – free admission (first-come, first-serve with registration)
NOTE: This show is free (first-come, first-serve). To help us track attendance and limit waiting line size, you must pre-register for “first-come, first-serve” admission. One registration per person. All current Cinefamily members get first entry (and +1). Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended. Doors will open 30 min. before showtime. No one will be admitted after the film has begun.
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: Fritz Lang's "The Tiger of Eschnapur" & "The Indian Tomb"!
Co-presented by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
NOTE: This event is only for current Cinefamily members +1 and Goethe-Institut members +1. As well, the entire event starts out with a potluck luncheon; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish. Impress us! To inquire about Cinefamily membership, go to cinefamily.org/membership.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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1:00-2:00pm – potluck lunch
2:00-3:45pm – The Tiger of Eschnapur
3:45-4:00pm – intermission
4:00-5:45pm – The Indian Tomb
A rarely-screened jungle adventure from one of Germany’s greatest early filmmakers — and one of Hollywood’s great Golden Era storytellers! After two decades of crafting stark thrillers like The Big Heat and Fury, Fritz Lang returned to Deustchland in 1957 to embark on a massive production rivaling the grandeur of his early spectaculars like Metropolis and Woman in the Moon. Between its breathtaking location exteriors and the glittering surfaces of its lavish sets, Lang’s three-and-a-half-hour “Indian Epic” (comprised of the two feature films The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb) is the stuff of pure Technicolor fantasy; nothing else in Lang’s oeuvre can compare with its mastery of space and color. With the same adventurous spirit of early serials that would later inform the Indiana Jones films, and within dreamlike temples and catacombs, Lang tells a delirious tale of forbidden love between a hunky German architect and a Shiva dancer (Debra Paget, whose scintillating temple dances are legendary.) Until now, only the severely truncated 90-minute stateside version has been theatrically available to Los Angeles audiences — but thanks to the Goethe Institut-Los Angeles, the Cinefamily is thrilled to present the entirety of Lang’s mystical, larger-than-life tableau in its original German-language 35mm format!
The Tiger of Eschnapur Dir. Fritz Lang, 1959, 35mm, 102 min.
The Indian Tomb Dir. Fritz Lang, 1959, 35mm, 102 min.
Watch Cinefamily’s trailer for Fritz Lang’s “Indian Epic”!
MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT: Super-Secret Vintage Musical "Long-Lost 35mm" show!
NOTE: First-come, first-served admission to this event is only for current Cinefamily members +1
After the grand fun of Everything Is Festival’s super-secret archival 35mm horror film show — one which featured a newly-discovered vintage print that shocked the flock and wowed the crowd — it’s time to bring a little bit o’ that enigmatic celluloid magic to September. Since we’re showing the brand-new 35mm of Busby Berkeley’s riotously fun musical The Gang’s All Here, we figured it’s time to also bring you a certain musical in particular we’ve been dying to show since we opened our Cinefamily doors five years ago. The chance to screen an archival print of this über-zany madhouse of mirth and melody very recently fell into our lap, and we’re grabbing it by the neck and taking it. We can’t tell you what the title of the film is, but rest completely assured: it’s a real barnburner, a lugubrious lunatic lulu — in a word, it’s nuts. Come join us as we revel in one of the funnest of rare studio musicals from the Golden Age of such stuff — CAN YOU HANDLE THE EXCITEMENT?!?!
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: Bela Tarr's "Satantango"
NOTE: This event is only for current Cinefamily members +1. As well, the entire event starts out with a potluck luncheon; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish. Impress us! To inquire about Cinefamily membership, click here!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
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12:00-12:30PM – potluck lunch
12:30-3:00PM-ish – Satantango, Part 1
3:00-3:30PM-ish – intermission
3:30-6:00PM-ish – Satantango, Part 2
6:00-6:30PM-ish – intermission
6:30-9:00PM-ish – Satantango, Part 3
“Devastating, enthralling for every minute of its seven hours. I’d be glad to see it every year for the rest of my life.” — Susan Sontag
The word “masterpiece” is used often enough in our societal discourse to the point where it’s lost most of its meaning — but there are times when the word is not only appropriate, but necessary. On the surface, the very idea of Satantango’s formal conceit — an examination of the collapse of a rural farming collective, told over the course of a day-long running time, and filmed in nothing but long, unbroken takes that frequently last upwards of ten minutes — gives the impression of a difficult experience, but nothing can be further from the truth. This is not just the MASTERPIECE of Bela Tarr’s career, but one of the world’s greatest cinematic achievements: an effortless viewing experience that continually amazes throughout its epic running time. With the plot of a taut 72-minute noir elongated to seven hours, and told in an ever-unfolding Rashomon mode of Rubik’s Cube-like visual and narrative surprises, not one single moment or shot seems extraneous or out-of-place. Due to the prohibitive nature of screening a film at such a length, and since this 35mm print is soon leaving the country, this might be your only chance this decade to see it on the big screen. See it with us NOW — it will change you.
Dir. Bela Tarr, 1994, 35mm, 435 min.
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for “Satantango”!
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: Doug Benson's "The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled"
NOTE: Only current Cinefamily members are eligible +1 to attend this members-only potluck. In order to help us track attendance and limit waiting line size, you must pre-register for “first-come, first-serve” admission. As well, it is indeed a potluck; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish. Impress us!
If this sounds like the kind of event you want to have more of in your life — then consider getting a Cinefamily membership!
Join Doug Benson as he hosts a work-in-progress screening of his brand-new documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled, following him and fellow comedian Graham Elwood as they embark on a seriously memorable weed-soaked stand-up comedy tour across the country!
Watch the trailer for “The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled”!
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: Mad Tea Party (feat. 1966 "Alice", music by Ravi Shankar!)
NOTE: This event is a Cinefamily members-only potluck — but members are welcome to bring as many of their friends/family as they would like. As well, it is indeed a potluck dinner; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish. Impress us! And, if this sounds like the kind of event you want to have more of in your life — then consider getting a Cinefamily membership!
This very dream-like installment of the Cinema Potluck club is rife with Alice-themed shorts that will bonk your noggin and explode your diodes. After the cozy backyard patio dinner (complete with spiked tea and cool-as-a-cucumber sandwiches), you’ll thrill to some of the most impossible interpretations of Lewis Carroll’s classic fantasy tale, culminating in one of Cinefamily’s most favorite trips down the rabbit hole, the ultra-rare 1966 Alice BBC television adaptation (screened from an archival 35mm print!) Featuring one of the greatest ensemble casts in ‘60s British cinema, and boosted by a knockout original score by Ravi Shankar (composed at the height of his Western cultural discovery), the ’66 BBC Alice In Wonderland floats with all the lyserigcally sullen surrealism and Brechtian brattiness of its one-of-a-kind titular character interpretation. Here, our brave little girl is the equivalent of “Darlene” from Roseanne: impudent, irritable and ultimately disenchanted by her enchanted surroundings — as much as any real-life angsty fourteen-year-old would be. As well, this Wonderland eschews the standard SFX and costumes, instead casting its band of Carroll-ian crazies based upon their resemblances to the characters they’re portraying (Sir John Gielgud as the dignified Mock Turtle, and Peter Cook as the tea-drunk Mad Hatter, anyone?) Add to this some breathtakingly rustic B&W scenery, intense dream-freaky cinematography and, OH!, Peter Sellers — and you’ve got what’s possibly the single most stingingly satirical slice of Alice madness ever filmed.
Dir. Jonathan Miller, 1966, 35mm, 72 min. (Archival 35mm print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive)
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for the ’66 BBC “Alice In Wonderland”!
MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT: Jeff, Who Lives At Home (free screening!)
NOTE: Only current Cinefamily members are eligible +1 (as well as any present audience member for the evening’s previous Doug Benson Movie Interruption, no +1s) to attend this first-come, first-serve show. If this sounds like the kind of event you want to have more of in your life — then consider getting a Cinefamily membership!
After the cast and directors of Jeff, Who Lives At Home are guests at the Doug Benson Movie Interruption of Signs at 7:30PM — it’s time for a free screening of Jeff, Who Lives At Home itself, starring Jason Segal, Ed Helms and Susan Sarandon! On his way to the store to buy wood glue, Jeff looks for signs from the universe to determine his path. However, a series of comedic and unexpected events leads him to cross paths with his family in the strangest of locations and circumstances. Jeff just may find the meaning of his life — and if he’s lucky, pick up the wood glue as well.
Dirs. Jay and Mark Duplass, 2012, 35mm, 83 min.
Watch the trailer for “Jeff, Who Lives At Home”!
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: Awards-Watching Party (Interrupted by Doug Benson!)
NOTE: This event is a Cinefamily members-only event — but members are allowed to bring a +1. As well, it is indeed a potluck; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish. Impress us! To sign up for membership, click here! We will also have a membership sign-up station at the box office on the day of the show.
The annual onslaught of film awards telecasts is like a multi-car pileup on the 405 — impossible to ignore, and teeming with celebrity carnage. And, of course, the biggest awards show of them all, the Super Bowl of moviedom, can be a blast in spite of its girth, given the right social setting. So why watch the broadcast streaming on your desktop all by your lonesome, or in some seedy dive where the local reprobates are yammering over the sound of those bizarre musical numbers, when you can catch the whole shebang live at the Cinefamily, on the big screen, with the ULTIMATE reprobate yammering over the ENTIRE SHOW! That’s right: Doug Benson, the King Of Interruption himself, will be at the Cinefamily alongside a selection of his impeccably selected guests chilling on the front row of couches, mics in hand, saying whatever hilarious things that pop into their heads while the awards madness unfolds. Come gossip with Doug & Co. about the gaudy fashions, share in their outrage when they just can’t believe how that film won, and join in their collective hearts being warmed by the underdog sweeping the whole thing when no one expected it!
MEMBERS-ONLY CINEMA POTLUCK: Wendy Clarke's Love Tapes
NOTE: This event is a Cinefamily members-only potluck — but members are welcome to bring as many of their friends/family as they would like. As well, it is indeed a potluck dinner; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish. Impress us! And, if this sounds like the kind of event you want to have more of in your life — then consider getting a Cinefamily membership.
Ah, love! It hath power to bolster, break, or bewilder! It may flit or it may stick, but thanks to the power of film it can last forever — in all its ecstacy and anguish! Tonight we invite you to join us for a visual Valentine’s smorgasbord, replete with our three favorite F’s: Food, Flicks, and Friends (we’re saving our other favorite F for the following night). After the potluck patio dinner, we have a mix of love-laden shorts, music videos and experiments for your hanging and viewing pleasure — and then, our luvvapalooza culminates with The Love Tapes, conceived/collected by acclaimed video artist Wendy Clarke (daughter of filmmaker Shirley Clarke.) For thirty years, Clarke accumulated over 800 short videotapes in which people share their personal experiences with, beliefs about, and definitions of, love. From sentimental to scathing, from hopeful to heartbreaking, these candid musings on amour run the gamut of the human experience and offer incisive glimpses into the peculiar mechanics of the heart. Back in ‘08, Cinefamily inaugurated our very first Valentine’s with a special Love Tapes show — and now, Ms. Clarke has lovingly assembled a new collection of Tapes expressly for Cinefamily’s Valentine’s 2012, including several exclusive new and unseen recordings!
And, what’s more, we’re inviting you to share the love with your very own Love Tapes. That’s right, this night is participatory. We will be hosting a kiosk in the days leading up to the screening to record new Tapes (each roughly three minutes long, with background music of your choosing, saying whatever you want on the subject), so that you can be included!
Watch Cinefamily’s trailer for “The Love Tapes”!
MEMBERS-ONLY POTLUCK: Twinsanity (feat. Poto And Cabengo!)
NOTE: This event is a Cinefamily members-only potluck — but members are welcome to bring as many of their friends/family as they would like. As well, it is indeed a potluck dinner; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish. Impress us! And, if this sounds like the kind of event you want to have more of in your life — then consider getting a Cinefamily membership.
With the big splash that Black Swan made in our cultural consciousness, Cinefamily has decided to take a look at a classic cinematic trope: the stories of doubles, doppelgangers and twins — Siamese, evil and otherwise. After another wonderful backyard patio potluck, we’ll start the night’s screenings with a mondo mix featuring great moments of twinsanity: musical numbers from Chained For Life mingling with trailers for flicks like Sisters, Goodbye Gemini and the like. Then, onto our feature presentation: an ultra-rare L.A. screening of Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin’s fascinating 1980 documentary Poto And Cabengo, which tells the story of two young San Diego twin sisters — entirely sheltered from the outside world — who created their own private language unique to the pair of them. Gorin’s highly entertaining investigation remains a delightful and absorbing study of words and faces, mass media and personal isolation, and America’s odd margins.
Poto & Cabengo Dir. Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980, HDCAM, 73 min.
Watch an excerpt from “Poto and Cabengo”!
Cinefamily Members-Only Potluck Dinner + Little Fugitive (archival 35mm print!)
NOTE: This event is a Cinefamily members-only potluck — but members are welcome to bring as many of their friends as they would like. As well, it is indeed a potluck dinner; things like bags of chips and drinks are not encouraged — please bring a dish! Impress us!
For our inaugural Nite Owl viewing session, we’re adopting September’s calendar theme of childhood, with a finely curated collection of rare short films and various video ephemera that will address the complicated mood mosaic that is youth. After the intermission, we’ll then screen the vastly important and highly fun Little Fugitive. Before Cassavetes, and before the French New Wave, there was this small miracle of a film — a low-budget, shot-without-sound, day-in-the-life portrait of a child that inadvertently started the global indie filmmaking movement. Far from Hollywood, Little Fugitive was born in ‘50s New York when a pair of married photographers (Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin) and a successful children’s book writer (Raymond Abrashkin) picked up a handheld 35mm camera and — without studio support or professional actors, but with an effortless blend of innovation and storytelling that has inspired filmmakers for generations — shot one of cinema’s most influential picaresque gems. Capturing childhood with humorous, compassionate lyricism, Little Fugitive follows an adorable little kid who, after his brother pulls a practical joke, goes on the lam to tough it out amidst the cotton candy and pony rides of Coney Island. It’s an undeniably timeless tale of sibling dynamics, but the proto-guerilla filmmaking techniques of the co-directors also capture the people and landscapes a long-gone Coney Island with such vivid documentary realism, you’ll swear you can smell the carnies.
Little Fugitive Dirs. Ray Ashley, Morris Engel & Ruth Orkin, 1953, 35mm, 80 min.
Watch the trailer for “Little Fugitive”!
"Shaw 'Nuff": A Weird Weekend Shaw Brothers Double Feature (MEMBERS-ONLY SCREENING)
Lars Nilsen of the Alamo Drafthouse concludes his Weird Weekend celebration with a double shot of pure prime ‘70s chop-socky overload! Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers was the source of countless classics of the kung fu genre; they’re the folks behind amazing films like The One-Armed Swordsman, The Five Venoms and Shaolin Master Killer, to name but a very few. While you might’ve enjoyed some of these flicks over the years on TV or on your computer monitor — when’s the last time you soaked up the full electric experience that is a Shaw Brothers film on the big screen, in 35mm? Join us and Lars, as we party with two back-to-back blasts of martial arts madness — film titles to be announced at the start of the show!
Tickets – free for members +1 (first-come, first serve) NOTE: you must have a current Cinefamily membership to gain admission to this show. If you’re not a member, we’ll have staff on-hand at the box office for you to re-up your lapsed membership, or sign up for a new one (hint-hint!)
MEMBERS-ONLY SCREENING: Trailers From Hell -- LIVE!
NOTE: This show is free for Cinefamily members ONLY (first-come, first-serve). To help us track attendance and limit waiting line size, you must pre-register for “first-come, first-serve” admission. One registration per person. All current Cinefamily members get +1 to this show. Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended. Doors will open 30 min. before showtime. No one will be admitted after the film has begun.
The ever-expanding gang behind the Rondo-winning website comes to the Cinefamily stage for a night of incredible movie trailers from the Trailers From Hell archives, live commentaries to the trailers, and in-person appearances (schedules permitting) by movie-mad Trailers From Hell personalities such as:
Allan Arkush
Allison Anders
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Dan Ireland
Dan Waters
Ed Neumeier
Ernest Dickerson
Howard Rodman
Joe Dante
Josh Olson
Larry Cohen
Larry Karaszewski
Roger Corman
Sam Hamm
If you don’t have a current Cinefamily membership, and would like to know more, check out membership benefits here!
Watch the trailer from the previous Trailers From Hell show, held at SXSW ‘09!
Tickets – free admission +1 for current Cinefamily members (first-come, first-serve with registration)
NOTE: This show is free for Cinefamily members ONLY (first-come, first-serve). To help us track attendance and limit waiting line size, you must pre-register for “first-come, first-serve” admission. One registration per person. All current Cinefamily members get +1 to this show. Your registration does not guarantee you a seat. Early arrival is highly recommended. Doors will open 30 min. before showtime. No one will be admitted after the film has begun.
MEMBERS-ONLY/PASSHOLDERS-ONLY 4th of July Party (feat. Joe Dante's "The Movie Orgy"!)
EVERYTHING IS FESTIVAL ODDS ‘N ENDS – 3:00pm
For the first part of the afternoon, we’ll be showing all the different amazing pieces of video that we didn’t manage to sneak into the rest of the fest!
THE MOVIE ORGY – 6:00pm-ish
Way back before mash-up videos and supercuts were the default mode for nascent cinematic obsessives to expess their love, Joe Dante’s epic The Movie Orgy was the found footage film epic! This incredible four hours of gutbusting entertainment is a massive comic collage of educational films, B-movie sci-fi, TV commercials and other glorious and twisted ephemera — all from the pre-VHS era! Originally spliced together from found 16mm prints, this Berlin Alexanderplatz of the genre was toured constantly from one college campus to another (in a campaign paid for by Schlitz Beer!), to the delight of stoned hippies nationwide. What better way to celebrate the 4th of July than to relive those heady days, in a super-rare, miss-it-and-it’s-gone screening!
(NOTE: all current Cinefamily members are permitted +1 to this show. EIF! Passholders are permitted single tickets only.)
Watch an excerpt from Joe Dante’s “The Movie Orgy”!
