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ROMA IN 70MM

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“ROMA is designed to be meaningful whether experienced at home or on the big screen, but offering cinema lovers the opportunity to see it in theaters is incredibly important to me.

“The 70mm print of ROMA shows unique details not available on any other version. Being shot in 65mm, these prints bring live detail and contrast only possible using a big format film. It is for sure the most organic way to experience ROMA.” — Alfonso Cuarón

You’ve seen it on Netflix, and maybe the DCP.

Now audiences in Los Angeles, Chicago, Brooklyn, and Toronto have the chance to see ROMA in 70mm.

ROMA

Thursday, January 31, Friday, February 15, and Sunday, February 17.

All shows at 7:30 pm.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Through January 10.

TIFF Bell Lightbox

350 King St W, Toronto.

January 9 through 13.

Music Box Theatre

3733 North Southport Avenue, Chicago.

January 11 through 16.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn.

From top: Alfonso Cuarón and Yalitza Aparicio during the Roma shoot; Aparicio and her charges in Roma; Cuarón with cast and crew; Aparicio and Marina de Tavira (right) in a scene from the film. Image credit: Netflix.

MALCOLM X IN 70MM

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On Saturday night, Spike Lee will introduce the screening of a rare 70mm print of his magnum opus MALCOLM X, starring Denzel Washington in the title role.

This American Cinematheque presentation is part of a brief weekend series of Lee films at the Egyptian, and the director will be on hand for discussion on both days.

MALCOLM X

Saturday, December 8, at 7:30 pm.

DO THE RIGHT THING and CROOKLYN

Sunday, December 9, at 7:30 pm.

Discussion with Spike Lee between films.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Top: Denzel Washington and Spike Lee in Malcolm X.; Washington; Delroy Lindo (left) and Washington.

EL ANGEL AT THE EGYPTIAN

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Queer partners-in-crime stories are not a common cinematic genre, but in the 1940s and ’50s there were Rope and Compulsion—and in 1992 their “remake” Swoon, as well as Gregg Araki’s The Living End.

In 2000, from Argentina, came Plata Quemada (Burnt Money), and now—as that country’s Academy Award selection—we have Luis Ortega’s EL ANGEL, screening this weekend in Hollywood.

Starring Lorenzo Ferro, EL ANGEL tells the tale of teenaged killer Carlitos and his addictions to thrills, theft, and Ramón—his reform school buddy, played by Chino Darín. Once Ramón’s ex-con father shows the boys the ropes, they’re off and running in Ortega’s flashy, fast-paced drama, based on the life of Carlos Robledo Puch, the longest-serving inmate in Argentina.

EL ANGEL

Friday, November 30, at 7:30 pm.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

From top: Lorenzo Ferro in El Angel; poster image courtesy K & S Films; Chino Darín (left) and Ferro; Ferro. Image credit: The Orchard.

NEVER LOOK AWAY

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Inspired by the youth of a colossus of contemporary art, NEVER LOOK AWAY is Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s fictional take on the early life of Gerhard Richter—who grew up under the Nazis (and in the GDR after the war), studied and practiced Socialist Realism at Dresden’s Art Academy, and escaped to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf just before the Wall went up.

The film stars Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Sebastian Koch—who was in Henckel von Donnersmarck’s remarkable debut feature The Lives of Others—and Oliver Masucci plays a character based on Joseph Beuys.

AFI Fest 2018 presents the Los Angeles premiere of NEVER LOOK AWAY this weekend at the Egyptian, with an encore screening on Wednesday at the Chinese. The director will be present on Sunday in Hollywood, as well as at LACMA for a January, 2019 screening.

NEVER LOOK AWAY

Sunday, November 11, at 7:30 pm.

Egyptian Theatre

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Wednesday, November 14, at 2:45 pm.

Chinese Theatre

6925 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Friday, January 18, at 7:30 pm.

Bing Theater, LACMA

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

See Dana Goodyear on the Richter-Donnersmarck dynamic, and Morgan Falconer, “Photo-Painting,” in Painting After Pollock (London: Phaidon, 2015), 232–247.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Never Look Away, from top: Tom Schilling (2); Shilling and Paula Beer. Images courtesy and © the filmmaker, the actors, and Sony Pictures Classics.

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.