MOVIES - May 26, 1989

After years in the works and a few false starts, the American Cinematheque will open to the public, in temporary quarters, on June 9. The Cinematheque--to be housed in the Directors Guild of America theater complex in Hollywood--will feature film and video screenings on the second weekend of every month and continue until the construction of the permanent home of the Cinematheque--on Hollywood Boulevard next to the Chinese Theater--is completed in late 1991. Two screenings are scheduled for each Friday and Saturday evening, as are matinee and evening screenings on Sundays. The program will kick off with films on human rights to be introduced by exiled writers from South Africa and Haiti and by directors John Frankenheimer and Sharon Sopher and actors Richard Gere and Buck Henry.