tag:flavorpill.com,2005:/losangeles/venues/the-cinefamily 2010-02-09T00:00:00-08:00 tag:flavorpill.com,2005:EventListing/23939690462080 2010-02-10T04:00:00Z 2010-02-10T04:00:00Z Animation Today VIEW CLIP In the cartoon world, marriage is not exclusively for one man and one woman. It can be between two mice, two wabbits, even a skunk and a pussy-cat! Animation historian Jerry Beck (Cartoon Brew.com) opens the film vault and presents a collection of love-obsessed cartoon classics starring all your favorites -- from the sex-starved Pepe LePew, to Tex Avery’s luscious Red Riding Hood. As usual, the program features rare 35mm and 16mm Technicolor film prints -- cartoons suitable for cartoon lovers of all ages! Bring a date, and don’t be late! tag:flavorpill.com,2005:EventListing/23939690343820 2010-02-11T04:00:00Z 2010-02-11T04:00:00Z Tomorrow VIEW CLIP   Blast Phemy! 1 is a kaleidoscope of media/music collaborative potentials, from mid-century experimentations to spontaneous singularities. The program features: Amy Knoles, stretching the limits of expression with solo electronic percussion/interactive video virtuosity; J.Walt’s Spontaneous Fantasia, a solo digital animation performance blasting visuals and music into uncharted territories; F-Stop Serenade’s tapestry of hand-processed film and music featuring filmmaker/organist Mark “Cosmo” Segurson with Heather Lockie, Michael Uhler, James King, Noah Smith, Billy Louviere, and Pilar Diaz; and finally, works by experimental master James Whitney (1921-1981). Over the course of his career, James became increasingly involved in contemplative, spiritual interests -- Jungian psychology, alchemy, yoga, Tao, Krishnamurti and consciousness expansion -- which all became the subject matter of the films on which he labored for over 30 years. Tonight, we'll be screening new restored transfers of Yantra (1957) and Lapis (1966), which were supervised by the Whitney Estate and the Academy Film Archive, and feature scores by Gregg Johnson, a live volcano in virtuosic, percussive eruption. tag:flavorpill.com,2005:EventListing/23939690343440 2010-02-12T04:00:00Z 2010-02-12T04:00:00Z Thursday 2/11 VIEW CLIP Cinefamily presents a cornucopia of deep cuts and other post-punk junk from around the globe. Want a taste? How about Reading Festival '78, a killer short concert doc profiling the punk bands (Sham 69, The Jam, Penetration, a pre-Midge Ure Ultravox) that controversially found themselves on the same festival bill as Foreigner and Status Quo; classic performances from the late '70s/early '80s NYC club circuit that included venues like Danceteria and Hurrah's; and, as the capper for the evening, the Liquid Sky-meets-Salo-meets-Jesus Christ Superstar French post-apocalypse 1983 TV movie Car Cemetery! Directed by Euro master surrealist Fernando Arrabal (Viva La Muerte), the film entirely takes place in a Tim Burton-esque auto junkyard that's the nexus of life after The Bomb goes off; here, mohawked punks party with neon-tinted fashionistas and a Jesus figure in the guise of a synth-pop spiritualist (singer-songwriter Alain Bashung, who also composed the film's rockin' electronic score.) Entirely unseen in the U.S., Car Cemetery will confound, corrode and captivate! Car Cemetery  Dir. Fernando Arrabal, 1983, digital presentation, 90 min. tag:flavorpill.com,2005:EventListing/23939690343140 2010-02-13T04:00:00Z 2010-02-13T04:00:00Z Friday 2/12 VIEW CLIP Fleshpot On 42nd St. - 8:00pm Andy Milligan might not be as renowned or respected as Paul Morrissey, but his films not only cover the same obsession with inner city blight, hustlers, homosexuality, cross dressing, gender bending, and compulsive violence -- they also offer an even more intimate examination of New York’s seamy underground. In what is perhaps Milligan's most seminal effort, Fleshpot On 42nd St. follows hooker/petty criminal Dusty as she wanders around Times Square, eventually shacking up with Cherry Lane, a beleaguered cross-dresser. Starring porn vets Harry Reems and Laura Cannon in career performances, and featuring both Milligan’s trademark low-fi DIY approach to filmmaking and a tenderness to what would normally turn out to be rather squelchy sex scenes, Fleshpot is a crucial cinematic study of the people and culture of the long-lost Deuce. Dir. Andy Milligan, 1973, 35mm, 80 min. The Body Beneath - 9:45pm Most artists have a muse, something that gets their creative juices flowing or gives them inspiration during a mental block. Andy Milligan's muse, one which might be surprising to the uninitiated, was Victorian England, which he usually recreated on his native Long Island. For The Body Beneath, however, Milligan was granted the opportunity to shoot in the land he’d so long been crafting across the Atlantic. Body is well within Milligan’s usual aesthetic -- a combination of gaudy and lurid -- but is also the director's highest budgeted work, and in it he pulls out all the stops with a bloody vampire tale of a fanged Catholic priest that's extremely polished by his usual standards. Nevertheless, his trademark handheld cinematography and bizarre dialogue survive in full force, making the film another deliciously bizarre odyssey into the mind of one of underground cinema’s most intriguing characters. Dir. Sutton Roley, 1972, 35mm, 79 min. tag:flavorpill.com,2005:Giveaway/819 2010-02-04T03:39:52Z 2010-02-08T23:28:09Z Which member of post-punk band Ultravox co-starred in the schlocky 1988 film "The American Scream"? 2010-02-09