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On-Going: Outfest Wednesdays

The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre and Outfest collaborate to present gay and lesbian programming on Wednesdays at the Egyptian. Outfest Wednesdays is the only gay and lesbian-themed weekly screening series in the country. Founded in 1999, the programming features favorites from past festivals, Hollywood revivals, filmmaker retrospectives and sneak preview and word of mouth screenings of upcoming releases. For more information about Outfest see www.outfest.org. Outfest Wednesdays programming will be announced quarterly.

On-Going: Alternative Screen

This bi-monthly (select Thursdays) series showcases the best of new, undistributed American Independent Cinema from the far reaches of the film festival circuit at the Egyptian Theatre. Featured work is provocative, innovative and fiercely independent with an emphasis on filmmaking that displays a strong sense of personal style, spirit and vision. Filmmakers, actors and industry members are encouraged to join us for an opportunity to discover new talent, to offer feedback and to network with the Los Angeles independent film community. Film submissions accepted year round. For details see: www.americancinematheque.com

Director Julian Goldberger (TRANS) adapts the famous novel by Harry Crews (A Feast of Snakes; Scar Lover) into a stunning examination of Florida auto upholsterer George (Paul Giamatti), a middle-aged man on the verge of a midlife crisis. Things are brought to a head by George’s frustrating efforts to tame a wild hawk as well as an out-of-left-field family tragedy, for which he feels partly responsible. Once George goes over the edge, he puts on his falconry glove and keeps the bird literally chained to his arm until he and it come to a meeting of minds. A rigorously intense personal journey into the meaning of one man’s life, Giamatti gives perhaps his best performance ever, one that should have received a slew of awards. A mesmerizing and bewilderingly underrated little masterpiece that deserves to be seen. With exceptional support from Michelle Williams, Michael Pitt and Rusty Schwimmer. This is the film’s only Los Angeles theatrical screening before being released on DVD later in May, and it is your one chance to see it on the big screen. "…one seriously wild and deeply wounded effort from writer-director Julian Goldberger…it may require a leap of faith to succumb to Goldberger's spell. But I leapt, and found it enthralling…" – Nathan Lee, The Village Voice Discussion following with director Julian Goldberger.

Films from the 1970’s - from the best of the New Hollywood revolution to the most mindbending maverick genre and blockbuster productions. Well known classics, trashy guilty pleasures and obscure cult favorites, including FIVE EASY PIECES, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, THE LOVE MACHINE, REAL LIFE, MANDINGO, REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER, KING

OF MARVIN GARDENS, LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, HUSBANDS, STRAIGHT TIME, DOCTORS’ WIVES, BLUE COLLAR, THREE WOMEN, DOC, GUMSHOE, EXECUTIVE ACTION, THE HOSPITAL, FREEBIE AND THE BEAN, THE DON IS DEAD, LEO THE LAST, LADY SINGS THE BLUES, PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT, SAINT JACK a much requested encore double bill of Frank Perry’s PLAY IT AS IT LAYS and DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE and more!

Action adventure spellbinders, including Jack Cardiff’s underrated diamond-mercenaries-on-the-rampage classic DARK OF THE SUN with Rod Taylor & Jim Brown, John Huston’s THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING with Michael Caine & Sean Connery, George Cukor’s tale of love and revolution in postwar 1940s India BHOWANI JUNCTION with Stewart Granger and Ava Gardner, Lewis Gilbert’s excellent sea-going mutiny tale DAMN THE DEFIANT! starring Alec Guinness and Dirk Bogarde, Fritz Lang’s swashbuckler of 18^th century smuggling MOONFLEET with Stewart Granger, shot-on-location African adventure KING SOLOMON’S MINES with Stewart Granger & Deborah Kerr, a Burt Lancaster medieval action-fest double feature of THE FLAME AND THE ARROW & THE CRIMSON PIRATE, adventures in colonial India with Rudyard Kipling’s KIM starring Errol Flynn & a young Dean Stockwell & KING OF THE KHYBER RIFLES with Tyrone Power, Howard Hawks’ stirring frontier saga THE BIG SKY with Kirk Douglas and exploits of aerial derring-do in South Ameerica in ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS with Cary Grant & Jean Arthur, Budd Boetticher’s classic autobiographical bullfighting opus, THE BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY, J. Lee Thompson’s tiger-on-the-loose yarn RAMPAGE with Robert Mitchum, a Tyrone Power double feature of SON OF FURY & SUEZ and more!

New films from Europe in The Rigler and The Spielberg Theatres with filmmakers in person.

"Axelrod speaks with the same musical vocabulary as Burt Bacharach and Ennio Morricone, his art is dreamt in deeper atmospheric shades and, significantly, pays far greater attention to the rhythm section."

The LA Weekly

David Axelrod is an LA native and a legend. His jazz filled with taught strings and sparse often dissonant arrangements have become the raw material of todays hiphop. As a house producer at Capital Records in the sixties he produced many hits for Cannonball Adderley, Lou Rawls and David McCallum. As a solo artist his William Blake inspired trilogy Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience and Earth Rot inspired many from George Lucas to Allen Ginsberg to Rza. DJ Shadow and Lauryn Hill have used his arrangements. Dr. Dre’s biggest hit of the late 90s Next Episode was sampled from his work.The Royal Festival Hall is one of Britain's most remarkable modernist architectural triumphs as such it was a perfect place for David Axelrod to play his debut concert in the UK. It was a once in a lifetime opportunity for the sold out crowd. Most of his music recorded in the studios in Los Angeles, had never been played live. The Orchestra rose to the occasion. Defiantly Axelrod smiled and took the applause. Before the night was through, internet message boards bubbled over with no end of the superlatives to describe what had occurred. Backstage it had been for Axelrod "One hell of a show!" Discussion following with David Axelrod and filmmaker Dana Axelrod. Tribute set by JRocc of the World Famous Beatjunkies in the courtyard will follow the screening

After the phenomenal success of our Tiki Sundays the past two summers, we decided to spread the exotica over a whole weekend with more fun feature films, diverting oddball shorts, vendors, food, music and more! We’ll be screening Raoul Walsh’s saga of sex, sin and evangelical fervor on a tropic isle MISS SADIE THOMPSON with Rita Hayworth, George Roy Hill’s HAWAII with Julie Andrews, Max Von Sydow & Richard Harris as well as the two-fisted Burt Lancaster double feature of HIS MAJESTY O’KEEFE & SOUTH SEAS WOMAN!

"…What makes the film so filmic are all the strange little asides, strange little nothings that capture exactly what it is like to see some cats who have done some really important wilded out music come together and do the same thing together…." -- Alex Wagner The Fader Magazine

Brasilintime is a map that connects the world of Rio de Janeiro of the late teens to the South Bronx of the early seventies. The roads from Samba through Bossa Nova to hip-hop are a complex web of musical whispers and echoes. Brasilintime is a two hour documentary that traverses this journey. In 2000 some of Los Angeles's most revered soul and jazz session drummers came together with some of the city's greatest turntablists. The magic that happened during this first meeting is both homage and discovery. It was filmed and became the acclaimed short "Keepintime: Talking Drums and Whispering Vinyl." In November of 2002, both drummers and DJs travelled to Sao Paulo Brazil. The purpose of the journey was to expand the multi-generational conversation to include their counterparts from the world of Samba, Bossa Nova and Samba Rock, as well as the best new talent from Brasilian hip hop. This show was recorded and became the basis for Brasilintime: Batucada com Discos. Shot in a direct and often experimental way, relying frequently on the use of still photography, Brasilintime speaks the language of the music it addresses. Starring Paul Humphrey, James Gadson Derf Reklaw, Babu, Jrocc, Cut Chemist, Madlib and from Brasil Wilson Das Neves, Ivan Mamao Conti, Joao Parahyba and DJ Nuts. Discussion with Director, cast and crew after the screening.

Cinematic chronicles of great pop and rock music from the sixties and seventies and beyond.

Our annual festival of Fantasy, Horror and Science-Fiction returns with great classics, including more selections from the Golden Age of British Horror (BLOOD ON SAFTAN’S CLAW, CURSE OF THE MUMMY’S TOMB, MANIAC, CURSE OF THE

WEREWOLF, THE PROJECTED MAN, DEVIL DOLL, NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER, HORROR HOTEL, FIEND WITHOUT A FACE), B&W sci-fi/horror films from the 1950’s (THE VAMPIRE, ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU, THE WEREWOLF, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS), the best from overseas (Lamberto Bava’s GHOST SON) as well as a few surprises.

More wild Japanese genre films from the 1950s through the present, including samurai swordfests, yakuza gangster chronicles and spinetingling kaidan.

Presented by American Cinematheque and Cinecittą Holding - Rome

The 22^nd American Cinematheque Award will be presented at the Cinematheque's annual benefit gala. The presentation takes

French filmmakers produced an astounding number of excellent crime films from the 1940’s onwards, many of them drenched in noirish atmosphere. We’ve showcased pantheon directors such as Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jacques Becker before, all auteurs who created some of the most memorable French crime masterpieces. We’ll be screening films by them as well as such maestros as Georges Lautner, Jacques Deray, Claude Chabrol, Rene Clement, Yves Allegret and more!

COMING IN 2007:

More short films And Screening weekly– FOREVER HOLLYWOOD (55 min.) a celebration of 100 years of cinema as told by today’s biggest stars!

AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS/VITAGRAPH FILMS… Our video and DVD label If you would like to review our releases or learn more about our national theatrical release schedule please see www.vitagraphfilms.com. Currently AUDITION & EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER – plus Japanese Outlaw Masters titles are out on DVD and Video. Recently released are: HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS & CITY OF LOST SOULS (dir. Takashi Miike) and Kinji Fukasaku’s BLACK ROSE MANSION.

COMING IN 2007:

More short films and the American independent film showcase, the Alternative Screen (on two Thursdays each month), brings the best of provocative, innovative new cinema from the festival circuit to the Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles, on a bi-monthly basis. Discover new talent! And Screening weekly- FOREVER HOLLYWOOD (55 min.) a celebration of 100 years of cinema as told by today's biggest stars!

AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE PRESENTS/VITAGRAPH FILMS... Our video and DVD label If you would like to review our releases or learn more about our national theatrical release schedule please call us at 323.461.2020, ext.

115 or 310.390.1916. Currently AUDITION & EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER - plus Japanese Outlaw Masters titles are out on DVD and Video. Recently released are: HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS & CITY OF LOST SOULS (dir. Takashi Miike) and Kinji Fukasaku's BLACK ROSE MANSION.

ALL PROGRAMS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

Call 323.466.FILM for more info.

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Programming at the 1940 Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is available at www.aerotheatre.com

The American Cinematheque is a non-profit 501 C (3) organization. All programs at the American Cinematheque's Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre (616 seats) at the Egyptian unless otherwise noted. The Spielberg Theatre seats 78. 6712 Hollywood Boulevard (between McCadden Place & Las Palmas Avenue).

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Cinematheque Press Dept. is converting as much as possible to e-mailed press releases as this gives us the opportunity to appraise you of added guests and press screenings and general updates that occur after we go to print. If you do not already get e-mailed releases, please e-mail your name and affiliation to publicity@americancinematheque.com. Thank You!

Parking is available for a fee in parking lots on McCadden Place and Las Palmas Avenues behind the theatre. There is a municipal lot on Cherokee north of Hollywood Boulevard.

Hollywood & Highland is $2 for 4 hours with validation from the theatre or the mall. The theatre is wheelchair accessible.

Ticket Prices

General Admission: $9.00.

Cinematheque Members $6.00.

Seniors (65+) and Students with valid ID: $7

Tickets can be purchased by fax by the general public. Fax ticket orders (credit card only) to 323.467.0163 with your name as it appears on the card; a phone number and the card number and expiration date. Be sure to include the name of the film, time and date you wish to purchase. There is a $1 service charge on every ticket ordered by fax.

Please indicate in your listings that 24-hour program information is available at 323.466.FILM.

Tickets are available at the Egyptian Theatre Box Office (1:00 PM -4:30 pm Tues-Sun and evenings when there are Cinematheque programs (until 30 min. after last show goes in)

For details of press screenings or any other publicity info.:

Margot Gerber 323.461-2020, ext. 115 or publicity@americancinematheque.com

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HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIAN:

The Egyptian Theatre is newly renovated by the American Cinematheque. It is a state-of-the-art movie theatre housed within Sid Grauman's first grand movie palace on Hollywood Boulevard. The exotic courtyard is fully restored to its 1922 grandeur. The historic Egyptian was the home of the very first Hollywood movie premiere (ROBIN HOOD in 1922 starring Douglas Fairbanks) and was known as the theatre "where the stars see the movies." Vintage and current photos are available upon request as well as complete press kits.

THE AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE NOW HAS A SANTA MONICA BRANCH - THE AERO THEATRE:

The Aero Theatre and its adjoining retail spaces, built in the style of French Norman architecture, by Donald W. Douglas of Douglas Aircraft fame, opened for business on January 10, 1940. The theatre, designed by architect R.M. Woolpert, operated with a small staff, seven nights per week. Aero programming consisted of double features (that changed three times weekly), Kiddie Matinees and drawings for sets of depression glass dishes prior to the Saturday night show. People walked to the Aero 65 years ago, just as they do today. The theatre remained in the Douglas family for quite some time. Jim Rosenfield, President of J.S. Rosenfield & Co, Inc., a Montana Avenue based retail real estate company specializing in renovating unique retail properties, purchased the Aero Theatre with his Chicago-based partner John Bucksbaum, from Sandy Allen in 1997, and they remain the current owners.

MEMBERSHIP/DONATIONS:

Ticket sales only cover a portion of our costs. Membership and donations help make up the difference. For more information about membership: http://egyptiantheatre.com/amcinebiz/jointhe.htm or our seat naming fundraising campaign or other major donor opportunities call Mann Productions at (323) 314-7000.

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The offices of the American Cinematheque are located at: 1800 N. Highland Avenue,