The Cinefamily (Venue Partner)
611 N Fairfax Avenue
323.655.2510
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Michael Cera
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Sunday Mar 14, 2010 (8pm)
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$14
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“Freebie and the Bean could be the first of the famous run of '80s cop-buddy flicks — only it was made in 1974. James Caan and Alan Arkin star as the delightfully offensive duo, hell-bent on making life miserable for their mobster nemesis. The car-crash caper — co-starring TV icons Loretta "Hot Lips" Swit and Valerie Harper (of Rhoda fame), is officially endorsed tonight by Michael Cera. Following a series of sleeper indie rom-coms like Youth in Revolt, Paper Heart, and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, nice-guy heartthrob Cera remind us why Freebie and the Bean are a team best follwed on the big screen.”
Tanja M. Laden, Flavorpill
For March's CDR night, we welcome one of the most instantly recognizable (and instantly funny) actors of his generation: Michael Cera, whose turns in Superbad, Juno and Youth In Revolt have bumped John Cusack out of the top slot of nerd girl crushes everywhere. His film pick for the evening is a left-field choice from someone so sweet: the mayhem-packed, filthy-mouthed comedy Freebie and The Bean. Michael says: "Filled with car crash sequences, guns, yelling, transvestites and Alan Arkin, Freebie and the Bean has got to be the best buddy-cop film of 1974." It's a veritable "who's who" of '70s film awesomeness, starring James Caan and Alan Arkin, directed by Richard Rush (The Stunt Man, Getting Straight), co-written by Floyd Mutrux (Dusty And Sweets McGee) and shot by Laszlo Kovacs (Easy Rider)! Caan and Arkin are a pair of racist, homophobic and misogynist San Francisco supercops who think nothing of plowing cars into pedestrians, plugging suspects full of lead in toilet stalls and demolishing half the city's free-standing structures in order to nab the bad guy, in this gleefully anarchic ode to kicking ass first, and takin' names later.
Dir. Richard Rush, 1974, 35mm, 113 min.
