Movies
The UCLA Film Archives series “Produced by Stephane Tchalgadjieff” continues tonight at 7:30 in Melnitz Theater with another of Jacques Rivette’s elegant puzzles, “Merry-Go-Round” (1979), starring Maria Schneider and Joe Dallesandro.
Oct. 19, 1989
Paul Morrissey fest features films that are sexual, poignant, campy.
March 18, 1999
Travel & Experiences
La Jolla: Museum to screen Warhol’s rarely seen ‘San Diego Surf’
Feb. 6, 2013
Steven Soderbergh follows up the critically lauded “Out of Sight” with “The Limey,” a sleek, stylish contemporary L.A. noir, a solid genre film that offers the satisfactions of the familiar while deriving its resonance through its specific and telling references to the ‘60s.
Oct. 8, 1999
Director Paul Morrissey, the fiercely independent director of absurdist films, is the subject of a LACMA retrospective.
March 12, 1999
When Richard Pryor--of “Critical Condition” (citywide)--is on a roll, his eyes take on a strange, fiendish-little-boy mixture of desperation and glee, fear and crazy desire.
Jan. 16, 1987
Passionate women and unstable men, trapped in doomed romances by an uncaring world, have proved an irresistible lure for generations of filmmakers.
Jan. 20, 1993
Screenings in UCLA’s series include ‘Kitchen,’ an early collaboration, and ‘I, a Man.’
Aug. 9, 2001
Thom Fitzgerald’s “Beefcake” is an illuminating and engrossing look at the life and times of pioneer Los Angeles physique photographer Bob Mizer (1922-1992) that combines clips from Mizer’s films, a fictional story and interviews with people who knew or worked with Mizer.
Oct. 29, 1999
The centerpiece of the American Cinematheque’s Nothing Left to Do but Cry: The Films of Massimo Troisi is inevitably the 1995 Oscar-nominated “The Postman” (Il Postino), which will be shown Saturday at the Aero in Santa Monica.
June 9, 2005