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Archiving Angeles (AA): RKO Radio Pictures
860 North Gower was home to one of the Big Five – RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. It’s latest film was considered a critical success, but a box office failure. How would history come to remember Citizen Kane? The year was 1941. Photo from the USC... »
Mommy, Mommy, Baby Wants To Go To Cinefamily’s Dennis Hopper Series
Starting tomorrow and running every Friday in July (as well as one Sunday and one Saturday), MOCA and Cinespia are copresenting a Dennis Hopper tribute at the Silent Movie Theater. The series opens with a double feature of Easy Rider (in case you missed it... »
Free screening of “Get him to the Greek” Thursday 6/10 RSVP Now.
Come see a FREE screening of ‘Get Him to the Greek’ at Burbank 16 with Imax Theater Thursday June 10, 2010 at 7.30pm. Seating is limited so get there early. It is first come, first seated. Concessions will not be included. For those of you not paying attention to the whole social media... »
JOHN WATERS!!! and CARRIE FISHER!!! Tuesday!!!
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. !!!! John Waters himself will be at the Aratani/Japan America Theatre downtown on Tuesday to sit down and have a little chat with Princess Leia-turned-author (natch) Carrie... »
7th Annual Los Angeles 3-D Movie Festival This Weekend
This weekend, three of my favorite things are coming together. Downtown L.A., 3-D, and the Downtown Independent Theater. If you haven’t been to this venue yet, you are missing out. Also, you have a great opportunity to visit the theater this weekend for an independent 3-D film festival. The Stereo Club of Southern California is hosting the... »
Learn how to survive a Friday night in Koreatown with ‘Ktown Cowboys’
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. This year’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) has played host to a number of sold-out/standing room only screenings. One of the most highly anticipated... »
Free Screening of Bruce Lee’s ‘The Chinese Connection’ tonight at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
The legendary Bruce Lee, would have turned 70 years old this year. And while it may or may not be difficult to imagine him as a septuagenarian still beating down bad guys, what can’t be denied is decades after his passing, he remains as influential as ever. In tribute to and in celebration... »
LA Plays Itself In The Movies – Fade Out
Hooray for Hollywood! Thanks to all the Metblog authors who joined in the fun of our series about Los Angeles playing her own multi-facted self in the movies. There are so many movies out there that of course we would never be able to cover them all. But the mix and match aspect of the... »
Los Angeles Plays Itself: Mulholland Drive
Our Los Angeles Plays Itself series is winding down to a close, and what better way to end things than with lesbians? You can thank David Lynch and David Lynch’s pompadour. I will actually encourage you to stop reading if you haven’t already seen Mulholland Drive, because 1) you must and 2) you must... »
LA Plays Itself in the Movies: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
I grew up in a small town in the Florida Keys. About as far away from Hollywood glamour and Sunset Boulevard as a girl could get. Flip-flops ruled and TV was a rarity, given that we had no access to cable or satellite. When we did get a signal, there was only... »
LA Plays Itself in the Movies: It’s a Bikini World
(This post is part of the LA Plays Itself in the Movies Series – thanks again to Julia for her organizational skills!) There was no way I was going to make it through this series without covering a beach party movie. Los Angeles made the beach party movie genre happen. And if it weren’t... »
LA Plays Itself In The Movies: Double Indemnity (1944)
(This post is part of LA Plays Itself In The Movies, organized so awesomely by Julia) “How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle.” — Walter Neff For one of the last films in this LA Metblogs series, let’s look at one of the first to document the decadence and decay of the... »
L.A. Plays Itself in the Movies Valley of the Dolls & Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
At one point in the course of Valley of the Dolls, Neely O’hara, the Eve Harrington of the movie, runs away to San Francisco and roams the mean streets of our northern neighbor. Drunkenly making her way past the x-rated theaters and strip clubs, she cries out “Boobies, boobies, boobies. Nothin’ but boobies. Who needs ‘em?” Well, apparently... »
L.A. Plays Itself in the Movies: Swingers (1996)
“Vegas, baby. Vegas.” The film that spawned one of the most overused Vegas quotes of our time isn’t about Las Vegas at all. Swingers is so L.A. Location. Location. Location. For me, the thrill of watching Swingers is noticing all of the familiar locations around town. The characters in this film never stay in... »
L.A. Plays Itself in the Movies: Magnolia
When I saw Magnolia the first time, the sum total of what I knew about the movie, going in to the theater, could fit on an index card: This was a movie by the guys who did Boogie Nights but it was about the 90s not the 70s. That’s it; that was what I... »