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The New Beverly Cinema is LA's premier revival movie theater. Running for 30 years, the New Beverly is proud to bring Los Angeles the finest in independent, classic and foreign films.
Every show is a double feature and are all presented on 35mm high quality studio prints.
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February 8, 2010
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Tuesday February 9
Eric Caidin and Brian Quinn
with Grindhouse Releasing present
The Grindhouse Film Festival
- Tribute to Dan O'Bannon!
Special Guests: Tobe Hooper (tentative), Clu Gulager, James Karen (tentative), Don Calfa, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Brian Peck, Allan Trautman and more TBA.
All Tickets $8
Lifeforce
1985, UK, 101 minutes
directed by Tobe Hooper
screenplay by Dan O'Bannon & Don Jakoby
starring Steve Railsback , Peter Firth, Mathilda May, Patrick Stewart
7:30
Winner Best Special Effects John Dykstra at the Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
- plus on the same bill -
The Return of the Living Dead
1985, USA, 91 minutes
written & directed by Dan O'Bannon
starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Brian Peck, Linnea Quigley
9:50
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Lifeforce trailer:
Return Of The Living Dead trailer:
Wednesday - Saturday February 10, 11, 12 & 13
Groundbreaking Independent Filmmaking In L.A.
The Exiles
1961, USA, 72 minutes
written & directed by Kent MacKenzie
starring Mary Donahue, Homer Nish, Yvonne Williams
Wed/Thu/Fri: 7:30; Sat: 4:10 & 7:30
A cinéma vérité look at the rootless Native American community that once upon a time lived in Bunker Hill and hung out in downtown bars such as Club Ritz, this Kent Mackenzie film is a brooding picture of a darkly beautiful, long-gone Los Angeles. - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
An astonishing, heartbreaking viewing experience and, in its new release from Milestone Films, a major work of restoration and rediscovery. - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
For the length of Kent Mackenzie's 1961 feature, the past is not distant: It's vital, concrete, immediate-a record of vanished sites and vanquished dreams suspended in an eternally looped present. Thanks to a superlative UCLA restoration and the efforts of Milestone Film (who partnered last year to release Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep), this 50-year-old film about a Los Angeles neighborhood on the skids and its barely tethered dwellers stands as the freshest movie in theaters.
- Jim Ridley, The Village Voice
- plus on the same bill -
Killer of Sheep
1977, USA, 83 minutes
written & directed by Charles Burnett
starring Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy
Wed/Thu/Fri: 9:05; Sat: 5:45 & 9:05
Added to the National Film Registry in 1990
New York Film Critics Special Award Winner
An American masterpiece, independent to the bone... This may be Mr. Burnett's most radical truth-telling.
- Manohla Dargis, NY Times
Speaks to the enduring power of poetic cinema, of films with genuine artistic vision that create mood and capture emotion in ways only motion pictures can.
- Kenneth Turan, LA Times
Even if you belong to that modest group of film buffs who've actually seen "Killer of Sheep," this restoration feels like an entirely new movie. Burnett is profoundly uninterested in boosterism or propaganda or false optimism. He has belonged to the long tradition of prophets without honor, but he may finally be getting his due. In his peculiar and lonely fashion he's not only the most important African-American director but one of the most distinctive filmmakers this country has ever produced.
- Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
The Exiles trailer:
Killer Of Sheep trailer:
Advance tickets for our complete February calendar 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.
Coming February 18:
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