Kiss Me Deadly Sun, Jun 30 | 2pm | TMT
cars, Mackenzie’s film positions his subjects as very much part of American culture, not as the outsiders many then considered them to be. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Kent Mackenzie. WITH: Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tommy Reynolds, Rico Rodriguez. 1961. 72 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with the USC Moving Image Archive, and in partnership with Milestone Films. Major funding provided by the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Robert Aldrich’s film version of Mickey Spillane’s pulp novel is one of the most memorably brutal noirs ever produced during what some refer to as the Golden Age of Hollywood. Ralph Meeker plays Spillane’s iconic tough guy private eye Mike Hammer, who finds himself embroiled in a complicated case involving a woman on the run (Cloris Leachman), a femme fatale (Gaby Rodgers), and a mysterious suitcase. Vivid Los Angeles location filming includes many scenes in downtown’s Bunker Hill area, before the neighborhood’s controversial redevelopment. DIRECTED BY: Robert Aldrich. WRITTEN BY: A. I. Bezzerides. WITH: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez. 1955. 105 min. USA. B&W. English. DCP.
Xanadu Thu, Jul 4 | 7:30pm | TMT
A former big band leader (screen musical legend Gene Kelly) and a frustrated painter ( The Warriors star Michael Beck) team up to create the roller disco of their dreams in LA’s Pan Pacific Park with the help of none other than the muse of dance (pop icon Olivia Newton-John). The imaginative musical fantasy has developed a loyal fan base in the four decades since its release, helped by its colorful visual effects and the catchy original songs performed by Newton-John and Electric Light Orchestra. DIRECTED BY: Robert Greenwald. WRITTEN BY: Richard Christian Danus, Marc Reid Rubel. WITH: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck, James Sloyan. 1980. 93 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG. DCP.
CLUELESS
Clueless in 35mm Sat, Jun 22 | 7:30pm | DGT A Millennial cinematic classic, Clueless not only popularized famous catchphrases like “As if!” but also set new trends in pop culture which linger to this day. The film follows Cher (Alicia Silverstone), a rich and popular teenager from Beverly Hills, who, with the help of her best friend, Dionne (Stacey Dash), engineers a successful matchmaking mission for two teachers, as well as a complete makeover for Tai (Brittany Murphy), the new girl in school. While the film primarily takes place in Beverly Hills, it has also elevated locations around the city, such as Circus Liquor in North Hollywood, into geographic icons. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Amy Heckerling. WITH: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy. 1995. 97 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Tim Hunter Collection at the Academy Film Archive.
Smog in 4K Sun, Jun 23 | 2pm | TMT
One of many international filmmakers drawn to Hollywood in the 1960s, Franco Rossi brought his cast and crew to Los Angeles to shoot the city’s first-ever Italian-American co-production. As an Italian attorney’s vapid pursuits during a 24-hour layover take him between architectural marvels and anonymous locations, his encounters offer a darker take on the sunbaked vision typically manufactured by Tinseltown—and per the film’s title, his view is anything but rose-tinted. Never officially released in the US, and newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, fans of LA’s architectural history will find much to discover under the film’s often cynical microscope. DIRECTED BY: Franco Rossi. WRITTEN BY: Franco Rossi, Pier Maria Pasinetti, Gian Domenico Giagni, Franco Brusati, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Ugo Guerra. WITH: Enrico Maria Salerno, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori, Max Showalter. 1962. 100 min. Italy. B&W. Italian. 4K DCP. Restored by Fondazione Cineteca Di Bologna and the UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Restoration funding provided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
THE CRIMSON KIMONO
The Crimson Kimono in 35mm Sun, Jul 21 | 2pm | TMT
James Shigeta and Glenn Corbett depict two Los Angeles detectives who fall in love with the same woman, Christine (Victoria Shaw), in Samuel Fuller’s 1959 noir The Crimson Kimono . Fuller’s groundbreaking feature stimulates more than a sensational thrill anticipated by its genre; he dares depict a love story between an Asian man and a white woman in the 1950s, which carries its own intensity incorporated in the narrative of a murder investigation taking place in the Little Tokyo district of LA. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Samuel Fuller. WITH: Victoria Shaw, James Shigeta, Glenn Corbett, Anna Lee. 1959. 82 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm.
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