Tag Archives: Billy Wilder Theater

GOLDEN STING

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Join director Radim Špaček for the U.S. premiere of GOLDEN STING, which follows the young members of a Czechoslovakian basketball team navigating Hitler’s rise, postwar liberation, and the Czech coup d’état of 1948, when the Communist Party took control of the country.

The film stars Filip Březina and Zdeněk Piškula, and opens the UCLA Film and Television Archive series Czech That Film.

GOLDEN STING

Friday, April 5, at 7:30 pm.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

From top: Zdeněk Piškula (right) in Golden Sting (2018); Filip Březina and Piškula; on the court in Golden Sting (2).

THE HOURS AND TIMES

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In the early 1990s, Ian Hart played John Lennon in two movies.* The first—THE HOURS AND TIMES (1991)—imagines Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein engaging in a nascent sexual relationship during a long weekend in Barcelona.

The film—written and directed by Christopher Munch, and co-starring David Angus as Epstein—has been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and will screen on the closing day of their 2019 Festival of Preservation.

THE HOURS AND TIMES

Sunday, February 17, at 8:59 pm.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

*Hart’s second Lennon portrayal was in Backbeat (1994), directed by Iain Softley.

From top: Ian Hart (foreground) as John Lennon and David Angus as Brian Epstein in The Hours and Times; Angus (left) and Hart (2). Images courtesy the filmmaker, Antarctic Pictures, and Good Machine.

COLD WAR AT THE HAMMER

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In COLD WAR—Paweł Pawlikowski’s fleet, intoxicating mix of modern jazz, Paris boîtes, stunning black-and-white cinematography, and reckless abandon—singer Zula (Joanna Kulig) and pianist Wiktor (Tomasz Kot) are border-hopping lovers traversing Europe throughout the 1950s and ’60s. They’ll always have Warsaw… but that will never be enough.

Like the director’s previous feature Ida (2013), COLD WAR was shot in a tight 1:1.33 aspect ratio, a perfect frame for circumscribed lives in fragments.

The film kicks off the Hammer presentation of the special ticketed series MOMA CONTENDERS 2018, which runs through mid-December. Pawlikowski will participate in a post-screening Q & A.

COLD WAR

Monday, December 3, at 7:30 pm.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Note: Tickets for the MOMA Contenders series are $20. general and $10. for Hammer members.

From top: Joanna Kulig in Cold War (2); Kulig and Tomasz Kot. Image credit: Amazon Studios.

BARBARA HAMMER

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Starting this weekend, the celebrated debut feature as well as the short films of Barbara Hammer will screen in Los Angeles this month and next—a continuation of the ongoing retrospectives devoted to this filmmaking pioneer.

The UCLA Film and Television Archive series BARBARA HAMMER—SUPERDYKE includes five nights of programming, and Hammer’s AFI Fest event will feature a new 16mm print of NITRATE KISSES.

Hammer will make personal appearances during both nights of UCLA’s opening weekend—signing copies of the books Hammer!: Making Movies Out of Sex and Life, Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies, and Truant: Photographs 1970–1979—and she’ll be at the Egyptian for AFI.

BARBARA HAMMER—SUPERDYKE

Friday and Saturday, November 9 and 10.

Saturdays, November 17, December 8, and December 15.

All screenings at 7:30 pm.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

NITRATE KISSES

Sunday, November 11, at 8:15 pm.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

See Corrine Fitzpatrick on Hammer’s The Art of Dying or (Palliative Art Making in an Age of Anxiety), and Hammer’s exit interview in The New Yorker.

From top: Barbara Hammer, Audience (1981); Hammer, photograph by Susan Wides; Hammer, with camera, from Truant; Tender Fictions (1998) by Hammer with Florrie Burke, photograph by Joyce Culver; stills from Hammer films (2). Images courtesy Barbara Hammer.

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING

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“I’ve believed that straying from structured acts of seeing can produce the strongest connection with an audience.” — RaMell Ross

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING—a lyrical, experimental documentation of lives in a small Alabama community, directed by RaMell Ross—will screen this week at the Downtown Independent.

Following the film, Ross and Jheanelle Brown, co-curator of Black Radical Imagination, will discuss the writer-director’s work.

Ross will also present the film at the Hammer Museum and the Aero in early 2019

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING

Wednesday, February 6, at 7:30

Aero Theatre

1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica.

Tuesday, January 8, at 7:30.

Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

Thursday, September 20, at 7 pm.

Downtown Independent

251 South Main Street, Los Angeles.

Through Thursday, September 27

Playhouse

673 Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena.

Monica Film Center

1332 2nd Street, Santa Monica.

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018). Image credit: Idiom Film.