@ LACMA - Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Thursday, November 10th.

Director Alex Stapleton’s fascinating and entertaining documentary on Roger Corman, one of the American cinema’s most compelling—and likable—figures, world-premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Corman’s World not only explores the producer-director’s vast body of work—over three hundred titles and counting—but also offers insight from both expected luminaries who flourished under Corman’s tutelage—including Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Joe Dante, Ron Howard, and Pam Grier—to Corman graduates who seldom do interviews—Jack Nicholson, to name just one. This documentary offers a complete look at the complete filmmaker.

Film Independent at LACMA

2011/color & b&w/95 min.

Scr: Gregory Locklear, Alex Stapleton; dir: Alex Stapleton.

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DENNIS HOPPER & PETER FONDA - "THE TRIP" (1967) from Woody Braun on Vimeo.

Bruce Dern will be @ CINEFAMILY this Saturday 1.15.11.

An Evening With Bruce Dern
Featuring 'The King of Marvin Gardens' & 'Tattoo'

“I've played more psychotics and freaks and dopers than anyone.” -- Bruce Dern

Specializing in villains and heavies, but bringing to them the sensitivity and complexity that makes them truly memorable, Dern has been the premier psychotic-neurotic of the past forty years. First burning his way into our consciousness as the man who shot John Wayne (The Cowboys, 1972), he was quickly typecast in a way that belied his considerable acting skill. His close friend Jack Nicholson called him the best of the new breed of actors to emerge in the 1970s, and the force of his performances truly show the power that a supporting character or villain can have. “Dernsie” is also an inveterate storyteller of Hollywood lore; his fascinating memoir “Things I’ve Said, But Probably Shouldn’t Have” is made up of 88 hours of juicy stream-of-consciousness and interview hours. This Saturday night we look forward to touring through those memories with him, as Cinefamily will showcase clips from his career, and discuss everything: his formative days at the Actors Studio, his gobs of ‘60s TV work, his formative film work at AIP, and his collaborations with some of the great creative film minds (Hitchcock, Rafelson, Ashby)! Our discussion will be followed with a screening of the seminal ‘70s classic (and one of Dern’s best dramatic performances) The King of Marvin Gardens.

The King of Marvin Gardens Dir. Bob Rafelson, 1972, 35mm, 103 min.

Starts @ 7p

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Friday Night at The Egyptian Theater - Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING with Actor Joe Turkel in person

THE SHINING, 1980, Warner Bros., 142 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. A brilliant exercise in pure supernatural terror, THE SHINING stars Jack Nicholson as a frustrated writer who takes the job of winter caretaker (along with wife Shelley Duvall and son Danny Lloyd) at an enormous mountain hotel, in the hope that snow and solitude will bring him peace of mind. He finds just the opposite, however, as the hotel’s horrific past quickly overtakes him in this soul-chilling adaptation of Stephen King’s novel. Discussion following with Joe Turkel

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