Tonight @ Skylight Books

Skylight Author Instore

STEVE ABEE
Great Balls of Flowers

Steve Abee is the author of the novel The Bus: Cosmic Ejaculations of the Daily Mind in Transit (Phony Lid Books), and a collection of short stories and poems King Planet (Incommunicado). Beck Hansen has called Abee "The love powered bull horn blasting down from the altitudes," and Lydia Lunch has remarked that his "savage poetry demands the reader devour passage after passage, only to be left soul seared and simultaneously re-invigorated."

Time: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 7:30p
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Tonight @ the SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER

Classic Films: Summer Road Trips

Road to Singapore

Today @ 1:30p

FREE!

In this first of the popular "Road to..." series of pictures, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope star as two American playboys in Singapore trying to get their minds off previous romances-that is, until they meet a gorgeous local, played memorably by Dorothy Lamour. Although scripted, much of the action is made even richer by material ad-libbed by Hope and Crosby. (1940, 83 min.)

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Tomorrow Night @ Cinefamily - Jerry Beck presents: Frank Tashlin Cartoons

"Some people say I'm crazy, some say that I'm insane, please pass the ketchup, I think it's going to rain..." Back in the 1980's I had a brain-melting night at the Nuart when Jerry Beck gave a talk and projected some of his favorite rare and unusual cartoons from the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies productions. I had always loved those cartoons and thought they were bursting with the wittiest wisecracks and the most suave sight gags I had ever seen and here was Jerry Beck showing me the historical context behind the mayhem. I bought his encyclopedic guide book The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons (now out of print) and thought he had the coolest job in the whole world.

This week he will be appearing at the Cinefamily to celebrate a master of cartoons: Frank Tashlin. Over his career Frank directed and wrote some of the craziest and most original cartoons ever created and also worked with people like Tex Avery, Walt Disney, the Marx Brothers, Lucille Ball, Chuck Jones, Phyllis Diller, Bob Hope, and Jerry Lewis. Mr. Beck is just the expert to guide us through a screening of Tashlin's best and rarest work.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 8:00 P.M.
The Cinefamily
611 N.Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA
90036
(323) 655-2510
$13

What's going on this WEEKEND?

@ MOCA

ROBERT FRANK’S “THE AMERICANS”

Now through - October 19

In 1955, the Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation grant to photograph American people and places. For two years, Frank traveled by car throughout the United States, amassing over 20,000 negatives. The edited portfolio of 83 photographs was published in book form as Les Américains by Robert Delpire in France in 1958, and as The Americans in 1959 by Grove Press in New York. The American edition included an introduction by Jack Kerouac, the Beat writer most famous for his novel On the Road.

Describing the emotional scope of Frank’s portfolio, Kerouac wrote: “After seeing these pictures you end up finally not knowing whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin.” Frank’s photographs, which have become landmarks in the history of photography, were created with a hand-held Leica camera, often with a wide-angle lens, resulting in compositions that appear unplanned, spontaneous, and are ultimately revealing.

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@ LACMA

Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea

Now Through September 20, 2009

LACMA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will present the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on contemporary art from South Korea. The exhibition features work by a generation of artists who have emerged since the mid-1980s—some well-known and others on the brink of recognition—working on the cutting edge of international art trends and within a distinctly Korean context. Featuring site-specific installations as well as video, computer animation, and sculpture, the exhibition represents each artist through a large-scale installation piece or substantial body of work. Curators: Lynn Zelevansky, Contemporary Art, LACMA; Christine Starkman, Curator of Asian Art, MFAH; and Kim Sunjung, Director Samuso, Seoul, South Korea

ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE - High and Low

Laemmle Theatres and Emerging Cinema continue their ongoing summer series ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE, with Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku).

Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in Adapting Ed McBain’s detective novel King’s Ransom, Kurosawa moves effortlessly from compelling race-against-time thriller to exacting social commentary, creating a penetrating portrait of contemporary Japanese society.

ESSENTIAL ARTHOUSE, is a summer weekend morning series of classic world cinema from the peerless Janus Films Library.

Laemmle Theatres screens all the movies in this series via digital cinema projection at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., (310) 274-6869, the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena (673 E. Colorado Blvd., (626) 844-6500) and the Town Center in Encino (17200 Ventura Blvd., (818) 981-9811) simultaneously. All screenings begin at 11 a.m. except SEVEN SAMURAI, which starts at 10 a.m.

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Tonight! at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica - Stanley Kubricks 'Dr. Strangelove'

Tonight @ 7:30P

New 35mm Print! New Restoration!

DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, Berserk military honcho Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) sends off the code to Strategic Air Command bombers to start WWIII. Against a gallery of unforgettable comic grotesques, including Hayden’s fluoride-hating general and George C. Scott’s oversexed Commie killer, Peter Sellers stands out in arguably his greatest role(s) – as the befuddled U.S. president, the veddy British commander Mandrake and the maniacal Dr. Strangelove. (Interestingly, Sellers was supposed to play a fourth role – Slim Pickens’ B-52 pilot – before illness forced him to drop out!)

1964, Sony Repertory, 93 min. Dir. Stanley Kubrick.

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