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Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham, John C. McGinley

All-time favorite Hopper performance (Blue Velvet)

I think he, more than any one person or thing, crafted my mental image of LA when I didn’t live here.

Bidoun and Anthology Film Archives present an encore screening of Ben Hayeem’s unmissable, unfathomable wonder. Born and raised in Bombay, Hayeem (1933-2004) made a number of well-regarded films and was close with experimental film pioneers Maya Deren and Slavko Vorkapich. Early in his career he joined the Living Theater group in New York and became the only Indian Jew to play a Chinese Priest with a Yiddish accent in a Brecht play. This comedic, cross-cultural experience must have set him down the path to the rather incredible and risque happenings in The Black Banana.

The original promotional notes inform us that, “In this zany, ribald Middle Eastern comedy, young Jews, Arabs and Texans revolt against the parental and conventional authority, represented by old-fashioned Jews, Arabs and Texans…Despite its message of peace and good will between Jew and Arab, The Black Banana has the distinction of being the only film ever banned in Israel because its mixture of nudity and religious satire offended the Israeli censorship board.”

The Black Banana will be preceeded by Ben Hayeem short films:
Papillote (1964, 10.5 minutes, 16mm)
Flora (1965, 6 minutes, 16mm)

Tuesday, December 22 at 8:00 PM
Anthology Film Archives: 32 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10003

(This movie absolutely blew my mind, I cannot recommend it enough. DO NOT MISS!)

…from their beautifully put together “Love & Poison” concert tape.

The Golden Age/Edad de Oro is a film that documents a season of the Golden Age League, a soccer league in Corona Park, Queens, New York. Not just any soccer league, the highly competitive Golden Age League is made up of middle-aged former professional players from mostly Central and South America.

Tuesday July 14, 7PM
LACMA Bing Theater

Brought to you by tank.tv, the LACMA film program, The Young and Evil, guest-curated by the Tate Modern’s Stuart Comer, features works by filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Anna Halprin, Curt McDowell, and Barbara Rubin, and will be followed by an onstage conversation between Stuart Comer and artist William E. Jones.

NOTE: This program contains material of an adult nature, which may be inappropriate for some viewers. Discretion is advised.

On Friday, July 17, Outfest will host the contemporary program at REDCAT, originally commissioned and presented on www.tank.tv.

See www.outfest.org for more information.


Bing Theater | Tickets required:
$7 general admission,
$5 members, seniors 62+ and students with ID.

Rudo y Cursi. This special evening is part of Cinema Tuesdays, a new weekly series curated by Flux celebrating innovative film at The Montalbán special events theatre in Hollywood.

Tuesday May 5th, 2009
7pm — Acamonchi art show; Clorofila (Nortec Collective)
8pm — Screening plus Q&A with director Carlos Cuarón

via South Willard

The Box in Chinatown is hosting the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of work by pioneering artist and filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek (1927-1984). The show includes a number of original collage works, as well as a recreation of his Movie Mural (1965) and Panels for the Walls of the World, Telephone/Fax Mural (1970). Not to be missed. On view March 14 - April 18, 2009.

More info here.

This is one of my favorite movies and I know most of it by heart, but it looks like someone loves it even more than me!