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!”
“Imagine a weekend where all your fantasies come true. A weekend where you can just be…free. Laugh until your sides literally split open, and feel as cool as a skateboarding, shade-tippin’ dog. We’re talking about the festival to end all film festivals — Everything Is Festival! (aka the 10th Annual Gathering Of The Terribles)! For reasons beyond our control (God’s plan), we at Cinefamily are giving the found footage freaks at Everything Is Terrible! free range of the weekend, and letting them do whatever the hell they want (note: we did have to say “no” to the all-night helicopter foam party). This makes it the official L.A. premiere of their latest mash-up feature-length film, 2Everything 2Terrible 2: Tokyo Drift, not to mention some of EIT!’s favorite movies in their uncut glory, plus dance parties, BBQs, a return of the Cinefamily Found Footage Battle Royal, and top-secret über-rare prints from the vaults of Cinefamily and Austin, TX’s famous Alamo Drafthouse! For more info on becoming a contestant in the Found Footage Battle Royale, click here!”
“Austin TX’s legendary Alamo Drafthouse comes to Los Angeles, as part of their touring Rolling Roadshow extravaganza! This year, the Rolling Roadshow’s L.A. leg takes place at The Proud Bird (near LAX), and features an outdoor screening of Jackie Brown!
A down-on-his-luck bail bondsman (Robert Forester) finds himself wrapped up in a crime plot likely to break his heart and/or end his life. But after falling head-over-heels for gorgeous flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), there’s nowhere to go but straight through the wringer. Quentin Tarantino’s late ’90s masterpiece is a mountain of incredible parts: a crime story, a love story, a tribute to the most sincere cinema of the ’70s, and an unbelievable showcase for the talents of some of Hollywood’s very finest.
To properly celebrate Jackie Brown, we’ll be joining the director and stars (schedules permitting) in the shadow of LAX, where Pam Grier’s flight attendant gets busted by the ATF, kick-starting the high stakes game of double-cross and intrigue. Join us in the grassy rear lawn on the grounds of The Proud Bird (overlooking Los Angeles Int’l Airport). Flanked by vintage airplanes and with a view of the landing strip, this new location is the perfect spot for Tarantino’s airline-centric pot-boiler. Seating is not provided, so please bring your blankets or camping chairs to this event. Winners will also be drawn at random from the crowd to join us at The Proud Bird’s Doolittle Room for a VIP after-party.”
“With its inherent ability to give vibrant life to the inner imaginings of the artist, animation has always been the perfect art form for the doodling of dirty daydreams. With ink and juices flowing, the animator can indulge their salacious inner fantasies frame by frame. Join us as we explore titillating toons from across the ages, from the secret “smutty symphonies” of ’20s studio animators to the raunchy X-rated revelries of the ’60s and ’70s, up through to the naughties of now, climaxing with an ultra-rare 35mm screening of the 1974 feature Down And Dirty Duck! Produced by Roger Corman as a response to Ralph Bakshi’s successful Fritz The Cat and featuring the voices and songs of Flo & Eddie (Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of The Turtles and Mothers of Invention), Duck is a strikingly stylized psychedelic odyssey of sexual frustration, and an off-color oddity that perfectly embodies the raunchy underground élan of the 1970s. Down And Dirty Duck director Charles Swenson will be here for a Q&A after the screening!
Down And Dirty Duck Dir. Charles Swenson, 1974, 35mm, 75 min.”
“Richard E. Grant gives not only one of the greatest comedic performances on film of the last few decades, but also one of the best on-screen drunks ever in Bruce Robinson’s criminally underseen Withnail & I, which comes to the Cinefamily in a rare 35mm screening, hosted by one of our favorite funny people, Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover)! Grant and Paul McGann breathe boozy, riotous life into the duo of Withnail and Marwood, two out-of-work actors in late ’60s London who decide to take a break from their drug-and-drink-riddled squalor, and head out to the country for some R&R — only to encounter something even more distressing in the form of predatory Uncle Monty (a scene-stealing Richard Griffiths). This cracked classic plays like a big screen version of “The Young Ones” as filtered through the cracked sensibilities of late-era Beatles; alternately funny, creepy and poignant, Withnail & I is pure brilliance.
Dir. Bruce Robinson, 1987, 35mm, 107 min.”
The Cinefamily’s month long tribute to an American art icon reaches it’s finale this Saturday evening as the Dennis Hopper film series appropriately ends with Hopper’s 1971 film The Last Movie. Following the film will be an outdoor after party and a special appearance from Hopper collaborator L.M. Kit Carson. The series of Dennis Hopper films was co-presented by the MOCA and Cinespia.
From the Cinefam:
“Following the massive reverberations of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper had carte blanche and a $1 million budget to realize the project of his dreams. The result was The Last Movie, a beautifully raw folk symphony of cinematic romanticism — and his most ambitious effort behind the camera. Hopper plays a movie stuntman who’s working on the set of a Peruvian-shot, Hollywood-funded western. Then, he falls in love. Sound simple? It’s not. Initially conceived and edited as a linear narrative, The Last Movie was obsessively retooled by a haunted Hopper for nearly an entire year, and what emerged was an epic, constantly-in-flux fever dream that lobotomized the Godardian ideals of fiction vs. reality, reality vs. reality, form vs. content, and everything between. Rightly eulogized in Europe upon release (and wrongly reviled in the U.S.), this mesmerizing film is both a benchmark and an epitaph for Hollywood’s unhinged hippies and their uncompromising home movies. You may be challenged, but you’ll never be bored by The Last Movie. L.M. Kit Carson (co-director of The American Dreamer), will be here to tell stories of the making of The Last Movie — and join us on our backyard Spanish patio after the film, for the closing reception in honor of our Dennis Hopper retrospective! Dir. Dennis Hopper, 1971, 35mm, 108 min.”
The Last Movie
Saturday, July 31st, 7:30pm
The Cinefamily
611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, California 90036
Buy tix here!
$12 general admission/$8 MOCA members/free for Cinefamily members
Dennis Hopper Triple Feature & BBQ
(feat. Blue Velvet, Hoosiers and River’s Edge)
Sunday, July 25th, 6pm
The Cinefamily
611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, California 90036
Buy tix here!
$12 general admission/$8 MOCA members/free for Cinefamily members
“Join MOCA and the Southern California community for a special tribute to acclaimed actor, film director, and artist Dennis Hopper at the premiere of Dennis Hopper Double Standard. Curated by Julian Schnabel, Dennis Hopper Double Standard is the first American museum survey exhibition to showcase the remarkable body of work Hopper produced in a formidable career spanning over half a century.”
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