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During the day, the Nuart will still play the usual weeklong runs of first-run arthouse fare, but when the clock strikes midnight, they have an eclectic lineup of films: Arthur Hiller’s killer bat flick “Nightwing” (February 27), The Flaming Lips’ “Christmas on Mars” [pictured right] (March 6), F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” with live accompaniment by local electronica artist Bonjon (March 13), “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” (March 20), “A Clockwork Orange” (March 27), “Labyrinth” (April 3), and “The Last Temptation of Christ” (April 10)
After “The Brothers Bloom” writer/director Rian Johnson concludes his “Festival of Fakery,” the New Beverly will host three more guest programmers in the coming months: “The History of Violence” screenwriter Josh Olson will be stopping by from March 8 through 14 to present some of his favorite films, beginning with a double bill of “Violence” and “Straw Dogs” [pictured right]… Blaxploitation and horror vet Sid Haig will be showing some of his favorites as part of the Grindhouse Film Festival, starting with a double bill of Haig classics on March 24, followed by a week of his own picks from March 25-31…And fans of Harlan Ellison will want to mark down the week of April 24 through 30, when the prolific sci-fi writer will hold court at the New Bev to introduce some of his favorite films. Details are still to be confirmed…Meanwhile, other highlights in the coming months include a double feature of new prints of Milos Forman’s early work, “The Loves of a Blonde” and “The Fireman’s Ball” (March 6-7), a triple feature of all three “Mad Max” films (March 20-21), and a John Cassevetes double bill of “Minnie & Moskowitz” and “Love Streams” (April 8-9).
UCLA Film and Television Archive
The fruits of the world-renowned film preservation department will be on full display for the 14th installment of the Festival of Preservation, which runs at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum from March 13 through April 26. The festival features a diverse group of fully restored classics including John Cassavetes’ “A Woman Under the Influence” [pictured right] (March 13), Josef von Sternberg’s first film “The Salvation Hunters” (March 14, with live music), the Frank Borzage double bill of 1932′s “Young America” and 1930′s “Song O’ My Heart” (March 15), J. Stuart Blackton’s incredibly early history of film, 1934′s “The Film Parade,” accompanied by a pair of Vitagraph shorts (“Her Crowning Glory,” “A Tale of Two Cities”) (March 18, with live music), a double feature of Joseph Losey’s 1951 thriller “The Prowler” and Max Nossek’s 1951 noir “The Hoodlum” (March 20, with writers James Ellroy and Eddie Muller in attendance), John Sayles’ 1984 sci-fi tinged social drama “Brother from Another Planet” and his 1980 reunion dramedy “Return of the Secaucus Seven” (March 21), a collection of Hal Roach-produced comedy shorts (March 22 with live music), Louis Clyde Stoumen’s 1950s documentaries “The Naked Eye,” “The Bridge: A True Story of a Troubled Child,” and “Wedlock” (March 26), Bill Sherwood’s groundbreaking 1986 AIDS drama “Parting Glances,” the 1963 Emile de Antonio doc “Point of Order” (April 3, paired with Dan Drasin’s 1961 Washington Square doc short “Sunday”), Fritz Lang’s 1948 melodrama “Secret Beyond the Door” (April 4), the double feature of silents “Lena Rivers” and “He Fell in Love With His Wife” (April 5, with live music), a double feature of the 1930 “Amos ‘n’ Andy” comedy “Check and Double Check” and the William Powell-Fay Wray 1929 starrer “Pointed Heels” (April 6), a showcase of eclectic newsreels, screen tests and home movies called “Behind the Scenes in Hollywood” (April 10), a double feature of Raoul Walsh’s pre-code comedy “Women of All Nations” and Benjamin Stoloff’s 1931 western “Not Exactly Gentlemen” (April 11), Chicano filmmaking pioneer Efraín Gutiérrez’s 1979 low-budget drama “Run Tecato, Run” (April 15), the first Sri Lankan independent film, 1964′s “Gamperaliya” (April 17), Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1948 noir “Ruthless” (April 18), a matinee of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1938 War of 1812 drama “The Buccaneer” and the short “Gretchen Comes Across” (April 19), an evening of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives’ collection of rare short films (April 19), Nancy Adair’s 1977 coming-out documentary “Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives” (April 24, with Adair in attendance), “Vitagraph Varieties: 1927-1931″ (April 25), and Edward S. Curtis’ 1914 fictional documentary of Native American life “In the Land of the Head Hunters” (April 26).
