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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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Although it appears as though he’s sticking with his signature pink characters, backgrounds and animated landscapes, the ever growing Buff Monster goes Beyond the Pink at Culver City’s Corey Helford Gallery.

From CHG:

“For “Beyond The Pink”, Buff Monster creates a new series of acrylic-on-panel works that radiate with his signature pink neons, Superflat style, and disarmingly subversive characters. The artist’s futuristic playgrounds bounce with creative expression as multi-hued argyle pyramids intermix with melting facades and floating faces.

Presenting his works in a larger and more detailed context than before, Buff Monster revisits his classic ice cream and maraschino cherry imagery with an eyeful of fresh inspiration. Returning from his recent travels to open the “Art From The New World” museum exhibition in Bristol, England, the artist adopts a more experimental approach, blending his iconic graphics with new landscapes, as well as introducing portraits for the first time.

“This new body of work is influenced by the history of Western art that I saw throughout Europe. My time at the Louvre viewing Renaissance paintings was truly inspiring. The National Gallery in London had some amazing pieces as well. And then visiting the Tate Modern was a bit of a shock after seeing nothing but classical paintings, but the pop stars like Lichtenstein and Warhol still get my pulse racing,” Buff Monster adds.

Upstairs in the loft, a vibrant series of flattened metal spray cans customized by Buff Monster will be on display. Open to the public, the reception for “Beyond The Pink” will take place on Saturday, September 4 from 7 to 10pm, and the show will be on view until September 22, 2010.”

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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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Los Angeles’ (via Austarlia) up and coming painting/graf power duo Dabs Myla continue their quest for world dominance with their Japanese inspired show Tokyo Deluxe at Culver City’s Thinkspace Gallery.

Check a preview of Dabs Myla’s Tokyo Deluxe here as well as their recent Juxtapoz interview here.

Also…showing in Thinkspace’s main gallery is Sarah Joncas’ with her latest solo show Siren.

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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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The good chaps at Secret Headquarters answer the age old question, “what happens when you ask a bunch of cartoonists, artists and assorted weirdos to do one panel comics?” as they’re one-of-a-kind comic book shop in Silver Lake hosts the group show Bound & Gagged. “Comedy, horror, navel gazing, abstraction and more” curated by Tom Neely and I Will Destroy You featuring the artists listed below and, of course, comics and booze!

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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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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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