Melnitz Movies Archives
November 8, 2012 - 7:30pm
Q&A with director Jim Wang!
Sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office
Hollywood has gleefully churned out numerous identical twin comedies of switching places and parent-trapping, and they predictably show the ups and downs and...
November 6, 2012 - 7:30pm
Special Election Day Screening!
Tracey Flick (Reese Witherspoon), an ambitious student, finds her unopposed run for high school president hijacked by teacher (Matthew Broderick), who, in a fit of pique, bribes a popular football player (Chris Klein...
November 4, 2012 - 7:30pm
Q&A with director Joachim Lafosse!
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of France, Los Angeles and UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies
The official entry of Belgium to the Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards 2013...
November 1, 2012 - 7:30pm
35mm Print!
Co-sponsored by the Consulate General of France, Los Angeles
BOY MEETS GIRL is the beautiful debut feature by Leos Carax which was made in 1984. The title alone represents everything that has came to encompass what the Nouvelle Vague...
October 30, 2012 - 7:30pm
RARE 35MM PRINT!
WAIT UNTIL DARK is an innovative, highly entertaining and suspenseful thriller about a blind housewife, Susy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn). Independent and resourceful, Susy is learning to cope with her blindness, which resulted from a...
October 25, 2012 - 7:30pm
Screening followed by Q&A with actor Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule).
Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (...
October 23, 2012 - 7:30pm
A gay coming-of-age tale typically includes heartache or tragedy. Or both. But if it's told with elegance and honesty, then it's worth watching every second of it. That's why Defurne's beautiful tale of a young boy growing up gay in 1960s Belgium is...
October 17, 2012 - 7:30pm
This English language remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 cult classic, tells the story of a week in the life of Frank (Richard Coyle), a big time drug pusher in London. Frank’s life is a fun-filled rollercoaster of a ride that soon spins out of...
October 11, 2012 - 7:30pm
Screening in 35mm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema, Co-sponsored by The Terasaki Center
A staggering work of existential science fiction, The Face of Another dissects identity with the sure hand of a surgeon. Okuyama (Yojimbo's Tatsuya Nakadai), after...
October 9, 2012 - 7:30pm
Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team...Welcome to I.S. 318.
BROOKLYN CASTLE tells the stories of five members of the chess team at a below-the-poverty-line inner city junior high school that has won more national championships...
October 4, 2012 - 7:30pm
"The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling...
October 2, 2012 - 7:30pm
As America remains embroiled in conflict overseas, a less visible war is taking place at home, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. Over the last forty years, the War on Drugs...
September 27, 2012 - 7:30pm
Recently dumped by his girlfriend, underachiever Alex (O’Nan) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his new bandmate, the eccentric Jim (Michael Weston). By channeling their inner children and giving a new meaning to the term “lo-fi,” Alex and Jim...
June 7, 2012 - 7:30pm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Izumi, a headstrong high-school girl with a cheerfully cynical outlook (she routinely “rates” the newspaper by assigning articles positive or negative values)...
June 5, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Iris is both Jack’s best friend and his dead brother’s ex — which makes them almost like siblings. It also complicates the not-so-platonic feelings Iris may have developed for Jack. Lynn...
June 1, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-Curated by Marina Goldovskaya and Samuel B. Prime
A Melnitz Movies and Documentary Salon Co-Presentation
Join us for a post-show Q&A with Battiste Fenwick, Kahlil Hudson, & Alex Jablonski, moderated by Marina Goldovskaya!
ONE MORE CHANCE...
May 31, 2012 - 7:30pm
Please note: seating for this event will be extremely limited.
Ken Russell called it “the greatest science-fiction film since METROPOLIS.” He wasn't kidding. The single greatest American theatrical motion picture experience ever realized,...
May 29, 2012 - 7:30pm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
An appetizing documentary in every sense, JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI follows 85-year-old master sushi chef Jiro Ono, paying lushly photographed homage to the process...
May 24, 2012 - 7:30pm
Just announced! Angeles Woo, John Woo's daughter, will appear in person to introduce and celebrate the film's legacy!
Violence as poetry, rendered by a master – brilliant and passionate, John Woo’s HARD BOILED tells the story of a jaded detective...
May 22, 2012 - 7:30pm
When three longtime friends (Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung, and Waise Lee) become involved in the death of a rival gang member, they are forced to leave Hong Kong in order to escape the police. Their only ticket out is a free ride to Saigon working as...
May 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
Frank (Joel Murray) has had it. A soul-crushing cacophony of stupidity surrounds him: his neighbors’ ignorance and their baby’s non-stop bawling; the mindless water-cooler blather of his idiot office mates; a workplace act of kindness that blows up...
May 8, 2012 - 7:30pm
Featuring: ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDREI ARSENEVICH (Chris Marker, 1999) and TO CHRIS MARKER, AN UNSENT LETTER (Emiko Omori, 2012)
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Co-Curated by Marina...
May 3, 2012 - 7:30pm
Alma is a small-town teen with a big imagination. Horny and looking for love, she has only her lively imagination and a kindly phone sex operator to ameliorate her frustratingly lonely and chaste life. But Alma’s active fantasy world and even more...
May 1, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with Suzanne Fletcher (Nicole), Ann Magnuson (Isabelle), and Harvey Perr (Matt)!
YOU ARE NOT I (1981)
In YOU ARE NOT I, Sara Driver’s directorial...
April 26, 2012 - 7:30pm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
12-year old Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in Kagoshima, in the southern region of Kyushu. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their...
April 24, 2012 - 7:30pm
96 MINUTES is the harrowing story of a carjacking and four kids caught in the terrifying maelstrom of one night. Intercutting between the car and the beginning of that day, we follow the separate stories of each kid – where they come from, who they...
April 16, 2012 - 7:30pm
Fox Searchlight & Melnitz Movies present:
A special sneak preview engagement of SOUND OF MY VOICE
Following much preparation, Peter and Lorna are given an address. In the dead of night, they pull off the lonely road and await further...
April 12, 2012 - 7:30pm
Crosstown Rivals
Works from USC and UCLA in the 1960s
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Co-Presented by LA Filmforum's Alternative Projections
Additional short films and guests to be announced...
April 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
Eddie (Kentucker Audley) is a twenty-something loner whose primary goal in life is to one day take the stage at the local comedy club. He spends most of his free time speaking into a handheld recorder, practicing “jokes” (more like monologues...
April 5, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the French Film & TV Office, Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, join us for a Q&A with Jean-Baptiste Leonetti and exec. producer Camille Havard Bourdon!
A suicide survivor works for a nameless corporation, where he...