Movie Alert - 5/14/2024

Here's all the good shit I highly recommend checking out.

RIP Roger Corman

What a king.

This is gonna be a big week of newsletters for me. Today features the incredible summer schedule from the Academy Museum. We should also see New Beverly and Brain Dead’s June schedules sometime this week. Summer is always when they show the best shit, so keep an eye on your inbox.

The Academy Museum WENT OFF

The Academy Museum’s summer schedule is un-fucking-believable. An entire Powell & Pressburger series! Divine. These are the print highlights from that one, although there are some great 4K restorations too.

• The Red Shoes in 35mm

• Black Narcissus in 35mm nitrate

• Life and Death of Colonel Blimp in 35mm

Other cool ones:

• The Karate Kid in 4K!!!!!

• Boogie Nights in 70mm

• Carol in 35mm

• Slums of Beverly Hills in 35mm

• Double Indemnity in 35mm

• Bless Their Little Hearts in 35mm

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit in 35mm

• The Exiles in 35mm

• Clueless in 35mm

• Swoon in 35mm

• My Own Private Idaho in 35mm

• Jawbreaker in 35mm

• Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm

• Crimson Kimono in 35mm

• William Castle’s Hollywood Story in 35mm

• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in 35mm

There’s also a lot more stuff in 4K but for the sake of not putting like 10000 things in here I’m not gonna shout them all out. 4K restoration highlights: Dr. Strangelove, The Leopard, Gilda, Singin’ in the Rain, Go Fish, It Happened One Night, You Can’t Take It with You, María Candelaria, Young Soul Rebels, Bridge on the River Kwai, Troop Beverly Hills, The Last Picture Show, Mulholland Drive, Rebel Without a Cause, In Cold Blood, Love & Basketball, La Bamba, In a Lonely Place, Chinatown, The Big Lebowski, Escape from LA, and more…

There’s also an 8 1/2 DCP but I bet you anything they get the 35mm.

VHS at the Vista

These are going on right now and seem like fun.

Misc cool stuff

• It’s sold out but this Before Trilogy triple feature on 35mm at the Aero is going to be soooooo titillating

• Gary Oldman’s Dracula in 35mm at the Egyptian

• Harold & Kumar in 35mm at the Aero

• Wild Angels in 35mm at Los Feliz 3 RIP Roger Corman

• 8 1/2 in 35mm at Los Feliz 3… but it’s preceded by a podcast recording

• Good Night and Good Luck in 35mm at the Hammer Museum (free)

• Double Indemnity in 35mm at Hammer Museum (free)

• Robert Redford’s Quiz Show in 35mm at Hammer Museum (free)

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