Seven Days Of Valentines!
Cinefamily's 100 Most Outrageous Fucks!
THIS SHOW IS NOW SOLD OUT, BUT YOU CAN NOW CATCH OUR NEWLY-SCHEDULED ENCORE SHOW, Friday, February 24th, 10:15pm!
If you’ve ever been to a showing of Cinefamily’s “The 100 Most Outrageous Kills” around Halloween time, then you KNOW that it’s a mind-blowing mix night of some of the craziest clips on the subject you’ve ever seen. Join us for a late-night Valentine’s Day premiere of its brand-new sister show “The 100 Most Outrageous Fucks!”
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for “The 100 Most Outrageous Fucks”! NSFW to the max!
Watch an outrageous sex scene from “Bad Teacher!
SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY SHOW: Sunrise
NOTE: all couch seating to this show is now sold out.
Join us for an ultimate film date night, as we screen one of the most visually sumptuous and emotionally rewarding films from silent Hollywood. In F.W. Murnau’s classic melodrama, Anses (George O’Brien), a sensitive and easily-swayed farmer, falls under the spell of The Woman From The City (Margaret Livingston), a jezebel who convinces him to run off with her — but only after he murders his innocent wife Indre (Janet Gaynor). Murnau used his expert German Expressionist techniques to craft a fairytale ride through the tortured mental landscape of a man caught between devotion and seduction, making Sunrise (widely regarded as one of the best films ever made) the most vibrant of all his Hollywood productions. For those who purchase reserved couch seating for this very special show, your ticket price includes complimentary champagne, a romantic snack assortment, and pre-show concession service at your seat!
Dir. F. W. Murnau, 1927, 35mm, 95 min.
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for “Sunrise”!
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”!
"The Thin Man" Cocktail Party!
4:30pm – COCKTAIL PARTY/LIVE JAZZ ON BACK PATIO
5:15pm – “THE THIN MAN” SCREENING
Fortified with ebullient chemistry, razor-sharp wits and drinks ever-at-the-ready, it’s impossible not to fall for the cheerfully hard-drinking, fast-talking, always-charming husband-wife detective team of Nick and Nora Charles. Played by the perfectly-paired William Powell and Myrna Loy (in equally career-defining turns alongside Asta, their wire-haired wonder dog), the couple and their brilliant rapport was famously based “Thin Man” author Dashiell Hammett’s relationship with firecracker playwright Lillian Hellman — and that pairing takes on a smashing life of its own in this first installment of the beloved film series. Here we’re first introduced to retired detective Nick, jostled back into a career in crime-solving by the disappearance of a close friend suspected of murder. With a martini always in hand, and lovely, sharp-tongued socialite wife Nora always at his side, Nick stumbles with alarming wit and charisma from clue to clue. We couldn’t think of a better way to spend this Sunday afternoon than with one of cinema’s most beguiling couples presented in a de-lovely 35mm print, plus live jazz by the Jack Hale Trio and martinis a’plenty on our back patio!
The Thin Man Dir. W.S. Van Dyke, 1934, 35mm, 93 min.
Watch a montage of boozy moments from the “Thin Man” series!
Grunge-Tastic "Singles" Mixer ('90s Party featuring "Singles"!)
Break out that belly shirt, put on your toe rings, and tie that flannel around your waist as you join Cinefamily for a grunge-tastic time machine evening back to the year 1992 — a time when even a yuppie and a burnout can find love together! Whether you’re a metalhead, femi-Nazi, diva, activist, hipster or original gangsta, we all just want someone to love — and no other rom-com from the Naughty Nineties bridges that epic subbacultural divide than Singles, Cameron Crowe’s slammin’ time capsule about six sweet Seattle solos working through the dating jungle. The cast is completely rad (Matt Dillon, Bridget Fonda, Eric Stoltz, Eddie Vedder, Jeremy Piven, Bill Pullman, Kyra Sedgwick, James LeGros and a ton more), the soundtrack is a definitive document of the era — and it’s the perfect launching point for you to mingle amongst other singles! After the film, come hang on the back patio for an authentic ‘90s coffee shop experience, video dating booth, photo booth by Snap Yourself!, craft table by Paw Paw-Club, and more!!
Singles Dir. Cameron Crowe, 1992, 35mm, 99 min.
Watch the trailer for “Singles”!
Minnie And Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel in person!)
With a heart as big, weird, and unwieldy as its protagonist’s Yosemite Sam moustache, John Cassavetes’ cracked love story Minnie and Moskowitz mixes his trademark character-driven raw emotionalism with the crowd-pleasing formula of the screwball rom-com to concoct his warmest and most endearing film. Seymour Cassel (at his most rollicking and passionate) stars as a scruffy, longhaired parking attendant with no ambition, who, by way of fist-fight, tumbles into the life of Gena Rowlands, a reserved LACMA curator who anxiously hides from the world behind her octagonal shades. Both of them love ice cream and Casablanca, but Minnie is so terrified of being hurt it takes a Moskowitz (a veritable bulldozer of love) to break down her walls, and open her heart. Cassel’s increasingly awkward attempts are both heartbreaking and hilarious, and his quirky inhabitation of such a charmingly desperate man hits a deep chord with anyone who’s ever felt inexplicably drawn towards the romantically unobtainable. We’re excited to welcome back for the always-exuberant Seymour Cassel for a post-screening Q&A, to talk about a film dear to both his heart and ours!
Dir. John Cassavetes, 1971, 35mm, 114 min.
Watch the trailer for “Minnie and Moskowitz”!
SPECIAL THURSDAY JERRY BECK SHOW: Valentoons!
In the egalitarian cartoon world, marriage is not exclusively for one man and one woman. It can be between two mice, two wabbits — even a skunk and a pussycat! Animation historian Jerry Beck (CartoonBrew.com) opens the film vault and presents a collection of love-obsessed cartoon classics starring all your favorites, from the sex-starved Pepe LePew to Tex Avery’s luscious Red Riding Hood. As usual, the program features rare 35mm and 16mm Technicolor film prints, as well as cartoons suitable for cartoon lovers of all ages! Bring a date — and don’t be late! DJ Nanny Cantaloupe (Dublab) will be here to spin tunes before and after the show!
Watch Cinefamily’s original trailer for “Valentoons”!
Wholphin Valentine's Show
Out of all the types of love in the world (true love, forbidden love, young love, eros, pragma, and something called “storge” which you are free to google), none is more wonderfully ridiculous than Wholphin Love. Come celebrate the most uniquely odd and profoundly amusing expressions of love with a night of Wholphin shorts, featuring films from the soon-to-be-released Wholphin No. 15 DVD. Watch Selma Blair and Jeremy Davies have an animalistic encounter, Lizzy Caplan and TJ Miller hit bottom, Amy Grappell’s award-winning exploration of her parents’ polyamorous past, the most poignantly beautiful animation ever made about a cat and mouse, Jonathan Lisecki’s hilarious Gayby, a lonely fox and a mysterious rabbit, a couple who eat each other’s pain, and seven contestants going neuron-to-neuron in the world’s first love competition. Wholphin editors Brent Hoff and Malcolm Pullinger will be in attendance, along with filmmakers Mollie Jones (director of Animal Love) and Jordan Vogt-Roberts (director of Successful Alcoholics), along with some other very special guests!!
Watch the trailer for “Animal Love”!
Watch the trailer for “Gayby”!
Watch the trailer for “Tord And Tord”!
