agree with what pawtrax said. also, dunno what to say about the new beverly cinema after it got acquired by tarentino and ONLY plays django unchained.
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How to Be an L.A. Cinephile
With so many indie films and repertory screenings, how do the city's movie buffs manage it all?
He cites the Nuart, New Beverly ("still the best value in town") and ArcLight Hollywood as his favorite venues, though he does wish ArcLight "would try to get more 35mm prints. They seem to be moving away from their boutique quality into a slightly escalated multiplex, but they still pay a good amount of attention to the quality of their presentation."
For Ellison, seeing Killing Them Softly at the ArcLight one night after watching Leos Carax's Mauvais Sang at Cinefamily stuck out to her as emblematic of "the life of an L.A. cinephile in a snapshot: There I was watching a Megan Ellison–financed, Brad Pitt movie on a Monday night in ArcLight's plush stadium seating, while only 24 hours before I'd been taking in a 1986 French film in one of Cinefamily's character-building wooden seats." (Those seats, which a successful Kickstarter campaign aims to correct by the end of the year, weren't enough to stop Overbeck from showing up for Jean Eustache's four-hour The Mother and the Whore.)
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Ellison also fondly recalls seeing Sean Baker's Starlet at the Sundance Sunset 5 last November. As the credits rolled, she was surprised to find that only one other attendee was staying for the postfilm Q&A. Expecting the discussion to be canceled due to lack of participants, Ellison was elated to find that Baker and three others from the cast and crew were more than willing to spend a full 30 minutes answering questions from the two of them. "That's the kind of thing that restores my faith in humankind and keeps me championing deserving cinematic underdogs."
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"With so many indie films and repertory screenings, how do the city's movie buffs manage it all?"
I guess by skipping everything at LACMA, REDCAT, Filmforum, the Academy, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and a half dozen other venues in the city limits? Even if these three "veterans of the local cineaste scene" never venture beyond the four venues cited in this piece, I would have expected Michael Nordine to at least mention these other repertory institutions in town. So  the Weekly spends an entire page in its print edition devoted to the riches of LA film going and then misses two-thirds of the venues in the city. What a joke.Â
Wonderful article, well written, well researched, well thought out by clearly and coming writer. Great job Michael Nordine!
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