Melnitz Movies Archives
February 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
In the summer of 2006, film directors Dominik Graf, Christian Petzold, and Christoph Hochhäusler began corresponding with each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Germany and the film genre. Two years later they decided to...
February 9, 2012 - 7:30pm
Join us for a screening of this year's Oscar®-nominated short films, presented by Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures.
Linda O. Olszewski, Vice-President of Global Acquisitions for Shorts International will appear in person to introduce the...
February 7, 2012 - 7:30pm
In the summer of 2006, film directors Dominik Graf, Christian Petzold, and Christoph Hochhäusler began corresponding with each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Germany and the film genre. Two years later they decided to...
February 2, 2012 - 7:30pm
In the summer of 2006, film directors Dominik Graf, Christian Petzold, and Christoph Hochhäusler began corresponding with each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Germany and the film genre. Two years later they decided to...
January 31, 2012 - 6:30pm
WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN (1976):
A decade after quitting Hollywood, legendary director Nicholas Ray (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, IN A LONELY PLACE, JOHNNY GUITAR) accepted a teaching position at Harpur College in Binghamton, New York. There, with the...
January 26, 2012 - 7:30pm
A writer with a declining career (Val Kilmer) arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V (Elle Fanning...
January 24, 2012 - 7:30pm
The opening night film at this year's Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, this exuberant and deeply moving film follows a new couple, Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (Valérie Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover...
January 14, 2012 - 3:00pm
Opens in Los Angeles on Friday, January 20th, 2012!
Eva (Tilda Swinton) puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin. The relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15 , he does something...
January 12, 2012 - 7:30pm
Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (two-time Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing "the people's dirty work" and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between...
January 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
MISS BALA, Mexico's submission in the Best Foreign Film category of the upcoming 2012 Academy Awards, tells the story of Laura, a young woman whose aspirations of becoming a beauty queen turn against her, delivering her into the hands of a gang...
December 3, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Director of Melnitz Movies, Samuel B. Prime:
Ever since hearing of Ken Russell's passing on Nov. 27th, 2011, I've been working to locate an available print on extremely short notice. I'm happy to say that thanks to the assistance of several...
December 1, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Director of Melnitz Movies, Samuel B. Prime:
Formally reminiscent of Michael Haneke's meticulously composed CACHÉ (2005) and with a narrative mirroring the most breathtaking salacious scenes in Stanley Kubrick's EYES WIDE SHUT (1999),...
November 29, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Director of Melnitz Movies, Samuel B. Prime:
OUTRAGE is a return to form for celebrated Japanese actor/director Takeshi Kitano. While he made his name with stories of hard-boiled cops and ruthless yakuza in VIOLENT COP (1989) and BOILING...
November 22, 2011 - 6:30pm
From the Melnitz Movies Director, Samuel B. Prime:
In anticipation of David Cronenberg's upcoming release, A Dangerous Method, on Nov. 23rd, Melnitz Movies presents a classic Cronenberg double feature. A 25th anniversary screening of The Fly,...
November 10, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Melnitz Movies Director, Samuel B. Prime:
In the first ten minutes of TYRANNOSAUR, I was in tears. For a debut feature, Paddy Considine's film is easily one of the most powerfully affecting narratives produced in recent history. Its...
November 8, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Melnitz Movies Director, Samuel B. Prime:
Melnitz Movies is honored to present this wonderfully forward-looking career retrospective of independent NY filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, including his newest film THE COLOR WHEEL (2011), and the LA...
November 3, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Director of Melnitz Movies, Samuel B. Prime:
A USEFUL LIFE is a story about the decline in public film exhibition. As art house theaters around the world become increasingly rare and audiences choose the comfort of their homes over the...
October 27, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Melnitz Movies Director, Samuel B. Prime:
Dick Maas is the far too oft-unrecognized maven of 1980s horror films. Cut from the same stuff as cult canon favorites such as John Carpenter & Wes Craven, but by comparison lacking mainstream,...
October 25, 2011 - 7:30pm
From the Melnitz Movies Director, Samuel B. Prime:
Is our democratized 21st century digital culture a good thing or a bad thing? Does it allow creativity to rise to the top or engender media culture by leaving it awash in a sea of garbage? With...
October 24, 2011 - 7:30pm
DARWIN is a documentary film about an isolated community at the end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. Propelled from society by tragic turns, the people of Darwin (population 35) must now find ways to coexist in a place without...
October 13, 2011 - 7:30pm
Rintaro (Chavetaro Ishizaki) is a lonely guy who lives with a life-size sex doll named Ibuki (played, at times, by Rin Sakuragi). As far as Rintaro is concerned, his relationship is completely normal. He eats with the doll, goes on dates and enjoys...
October 12, 2011 - 7:30pm
This documentary film centers on a group of expatriates from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu, most returning to the island for the first time in years. Eagerly anticipating arriving in their beloved homeland, their nostalgia quickly gives way to...
October 7, 2011 - 6:30pm
GEORGE HARRISON: LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD focuses the imaginative and inspired eye of one of cinema’s most preeminent filmmakers on one of the world’s most influential men. The film takes viewers on the musical and spiritual voyage that was...
October 6, 2011 - 7:30pm
"Dirty Girl" is the story of Danielle (Juno Temple), the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke (Jeremy...
September 29, 2011 - 7:30pm
Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and their six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah’s healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and...
May 31, 2011 - 7:30pm
Directors Peter Bo Rappmund and Thom Andersen in person!
The final Melnitz Movies screening of the 2010-2011 series showcases three exceptional works by Los Angeles filmmakers.
HAND HELD DAY (1975)
Director: Gary Beydler
6 minutes, 16mm
Beydler's...
May 26, 2011 - 7:30pm
The latest film from Jean-Luc Godard, a symphony in three movements:
THINGS SUCH AS: A Mediterranean cruise. Numerous conversations, in numerous languages, between the passengers, almost all of whom are on holiday...
OUR EUROPE: At night, a sister...
May 24, 2011 - 7:30pm
Director Djo Tunda Wa Munga in person for a Q&A following the screening!
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash...
May 23, 2011 - 7:30pm
Director Daniel Cockburn in person for a Q&A following the screening!
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A SPECIAL MONDAY NIGHT MELNITZ MOVIES SCREENING
YOU ARE HERE is a Borgesian fantasy composed of multiple worlds, circling and weaving around each...
May 19, 2011 - 7:30pm
Evan Glodell, Taylor Dawson and Jessie Wiseman in person for a Q&A following the screening!
Best friends Woodrow (Evan Glodell) and Aiden (Tyler Dawson) spend all of their free time building Mad Max-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in...