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You’ll be dying with laughter alongside the dead at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery as Cinespia presents a special Sunday screening of the Coen brothers first comedic classic (and everyone’s favorite Nicholas Cage film), Raising Arizona. Also starring Holly Hunter, John Goodman and that badass lone biker of the apocalypse who hunts men for fun.

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Love is in the air (or is it?) as September’s outdoor movie screenings are back at The Barndall Art Park beginning with the instant classic LA love story 500 Days of Summer directed by our boy Marc Webb, and starring the love lorn Joseph Gordon-Levitt and heartbreaker Zooey Deschanel atop the hill at the in Los Feliz .

Click here for further details and full September screening schedule of films.

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The Warriors, director Walter Hill’s 1979 New York street gang cult classic which, through time, has become a regular classic, hits the streets of LA along with The Orphans, The Lizzies and of course The Baseball Furies for a late night screening of major ass kicking at The Cinefamily on Fairfax. “Warriors…come out to plaaaaaayyy!” indeed.

From The Cinefamily:

“Before it was a video game, before it was name checked by groups as divergent as Twisted Sister and the Wu Tang Clan, and before Shaq adopted “Can you dig it?” as his catch phrase The Warriors was simply the most bad-ass, shit-kicking, take-no-prisoners group action flick this side of the The Dirty Dozen. Walter Hill’s legendary NYC gang quest epic is Greek history by way of 1970s Marvel comics street justice wrapped in a pleather vest: in a Big Apple populated by almost solely by gangs of every human variety imaginable, The Warriors have one night to soldier through the enemy boroughs back to their home territory of Coney Island after being falsely accused of murdering a gang underworld bigwig. Hill worked his way up the ranks working for Sam Peckinpaw, and The Warriors takes that “fables of hard men” aesthetic as far as it will stretch, portraying a world where demonic baseball mimes rule the parks and rollerskating Osh-Kosh-B’gosh-kateers stalk subway bathrooms, while an omniscient velvet-voiced radio DJ calls the play by play between Motown classics. So get your Cinefamily colors on and bop it down to the theater for a midnight rumble. Cinefamilaaaaaay, come out to play-eee-aaaay! DJ Holloway (Dublab) will be here to man the turntables before the film!”

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Ghostbusters, and Goonies, and Gremlins! Oh, my! Fresh off their ultra successful and thriving Crazy 4 Cult 4 group art show, Los Angele’s Gallery 1988 brings another inspired group show to their Melrose gallery with The 3G Show which features artistic odes to the aforementioned Ghostbusters, Goonies and Gremlins. Co-presented by the always artistic Autumn Society.

Click here to see more of what’s in store from Gallery 1988’s The 3G Show and much, much more from Slash Film here.

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My dear friend, do-it-all renaissance woman and quester in arms, Debra Koffler along with her Conscious Youth Media Crew (CMYC), bring the bay area the world premiere of their recently completed film Why I Ride: Low and Slow. The documentary, which tells “the untold history of San Francisco’s unique lowrider culture in the city’s Mission District”, screens free(!) along with other films, live music and art making at the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

From CMYC:

“Mission Media Archives in association with Conscious Youth Media Crew and Burning Wagon productions, proudly presents “Why I Ride: Low and Slow,” our recently finished film documenting the untold history of San Francisco’s unique lowrider culture in the city’s Mission District.

Join us for a night of memories, reunions, and celebration featuring the voices of Mission District street historians: Roberto Hernandez, Valerie Tulier, Felipe Velez, Mitchell Salazar, and Sandy Cuadra.“

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Seth Galifianakis, filling in for his twin brother Zach, puts his own spin on Between Two Ferns when he sits down to speak with the always chatty Sean Penn as they discuss pugs with sailor hats, the Oscars and, of course, Six Flags Haiti.

More of the funny stuff with Zach Galfianakis, chairs, plant life and the occasional obnoxious buzzer:

• Zach Galifianakis Does Steve Carrell Between Two Ferns
• Zach Galifianakis Does Ben Stiller Between Two Ferns
• Zach Galifianakis Does Conan and Andy Between Two Ferns
• Zach Galifianakis Does Charlize Theron Between Two Ferns
• Zach Galifianakis Does Bradley Cooper Between Two Ferns
• Zach Galifianakis Does Natalie Portman Between Two Ferns
  
• Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and Jon Hamm
• Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and Jimmy Kimmel
• Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis and Michael Cera

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In Spike Jonze’s critically acclaimed short film I’m Here young robots with expressive eyes fall in love and sadly break hearts the way humans do: by taking everything they can until there’s nothing left to take. Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood hosts an outdoor screening of the melancholy tale with special live musical performances by our lovely and talented friends ASKA (who’s music helped inspire the short) and Sam Spiegel (DJ Squeak E. Clean of the world famous N.A.S.A. crew) that will surely lift your spirits. Come for the heartache, but be sure to stay for the rebound. Presented by McSweeney’s and Chocolate Industries.

Also…I’m Here soundtrack featuring ASKA, Sam Spiegel, Animal Collective and many more now available through iTunes here.

From Space 15 Twenty:

“I’m Here is a short film by Spike Jonze about two robots living in semi-futuristic Los Angeles where humans and robots coexist. Based on Shel Silverstein’s children’s book, The Giving Tree, the plot revolves around Sheldon, the protagonist, lending his limbs to Francesca when she starts loosing hers. This is true love as it gets…

Throughout I’m Here you can hear L.A. based art musician ASKA, whose beautiful song, “There Are Many of Us,” is featured in the film.  ASKA told us that the inspiration came from the ‘first song I wrote on a guitar in a bathtub. I felt I needed to tell myself that there are many of us and not just the ‘one’, to release myself from being tied up to the one.”

Find more of I’m Here here:

• The Creators Project is Coming
• Spike Jonze’s I’m Here is Here
• I’m Here with Spike Jonze
  

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Always looking to push creative boundaries, my main man Milk (Chris that is) directs a truly unique and groundbreaking music video for Arcade Fire’s single “We Used to Wait” from their latest album The Suburbs, and turns it into the interactive interpretation titled “The Wilderness Downtown”. Part Google web browser Chrome Experiment part personalized nostalgia trip, the immersive, multi-window, next level clip literally takes you home before the music even starts as you’re prompted to “enter the address of the home were you grew up” (which eventually appears on screen at the appropriate part of the track with the help of Google Maps technology).

Driven by the haunting melodies of Arcade Fire, you follow the galloping footsteps of a hooded runner who’s seemingly travelling through your old neighborhood as he passes familiar spots popping up in small windows on your screen. Sweeping street level and aerial views of your old home conjure childhood memories as Milk perfectly choreographs the sentimental imagery which culminates in an outgrowth of birds, trees and wilderness.

Top it all off with another window for writing “a postcard of advice to the younger you that lived there then” and you have yourself a personalized and poignant journey (and maybe even a tear or two) that you’ve yet to experience in a music video.

Click here or the image below to visit “The Wilderness Downtown” (best viewed in Google Chrome or in Apple’s Safari 5)

Read details and more from Google’s blog here.

From Chrome Experiments:

“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.”

More from Chris Milk:

• THURSDAY (June 10): Flux Screening Series @ The Hammer feat. Chris Milk, Alexandre de Bonrepos, Chris Marrs Piliero and Jonas Odell
• Milk’s Last Day Dream
• THIS WEEKEND: N.A.S.A. vs. Japan, Milk Photography, 1000 Days, The Red Balloon Scores, To Catch a Dazed and Confused Thief
  
• Chris Gets Complex With Kanye
• The Best Web Videos of the Year 2008: #5-Gnarls Barkley “Who’s Gonna Save My Soul”
• Milk for Hope
• Gnarlsy
  

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I just couldn’t resist the over-riding urge to post this through the weekend: moustached Euro baby singing the disco club smash hit record “I Was Drunk” by Riva Starr featuring Noze. And with that, I bid you an awesome weekend!

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The greatest hip hop/breakdancing/graffiti/documentary/drama film is alive and well for a special Sunday screening under the stars of the 1983 classic Wild Style starring Fab Five Freddy, Grandmaster Flash and of course graf legend Lee. Presented by Cinespia at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

From the Cinespia hip hop heads:

“Spirited, fun and funky, Wild Style bursts with flavor. Breakdancers, MCs, artists and DJs provide the backdrop for this sweet love story of two graffitti writers. Wild Style has become an invaluable document of the youthful and unaffected scene which became the hip hop movement. Filmed in the South Bronx, it captures the rare moment when these talented kids from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country created the most important artistic movement of a generation. Starring Patti Astor, Lee Quinones, Fab 5 Freddy, Grandmaster Flash and more. With special suprise guests !!

cinespia all star djs spin before and after the screening”

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