Email Author Courtney Fitzgerald

2008 Stories by Courtney Fitzgerald

• Schlocky Wonderland

  published December 18, 2008

  The Cinefamily "spoils you rotten" again this year with all the typical holiday schlock, including "veriteacute; footage of department store... More >>

• Monster Toons

  published October 16, 2008

  Animation historian Jerry Beck returns to the Cinefamily with another special show of "the horrific characters, monstrous motifs and the creepiest... More >>

• Restoration Software

  published October 16, 2008

  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the UCLA Film & Television Archive present a 10-week program delving behind the scenes into... More >>

• Tick-Doc

  published October 9, 2008

  A double feature. First, Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (1991), featuring an onstage discussion... More >>

• Preview Screeening

  published October 9, 2008

  Critic Stephen Farber's Monday night series continues with Ballast (2008), about an African-American family's struggle with life in the... More >>

• The Face That Launched a Thousand Flicks

  published September 25, 2008

  There's a definite reason the silent-era actor who sacrificed his own comfort — from contact lenses that ruined his eyesight to costumes that... More >>

• Short Cuts

  published September 25, 2008

  This evening's program features a slew of award-winnings docs, live-action and animated films, including Kate Hudson's Glamour Reel Moments... More >>

• Unbalancing Acts

  published September 18, 2008

  The survey of the work of the director best known for his Qatsi trilogy exploring the "epic clash between the natural and man-made worlds"... More >>

• A Night With Eric

  published September 11, 2008

  Editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinema from 1956 to 1963, Eric Rohmer made his first feature in 1959 and completed his final film at age 87.... More >>

• From the Street to the Screen

  published September 11, 2008

  This cinematic journey through the birth of hip-hop features live DJs pre- and post-screenings. Tonight, a special Sunday double feature: First,... More >>

• Filming About Architecture

  published September 11, 2008

  In conjunction with the Hammer exhibition Between Heaven and Earth: The Architecture of John Lautner, the Archive presents a program of... More >>

• Flies By Night

  published September 4, 2008

  To generate buzz for the LA Opera's production of Howard Shore's The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg, the opera company and American... More >>

• Working Girls

  published September 4, 2008

  (1980, Colin Higgins) . . . "What a way to make a way to make a living" indeed! Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin tell is like it is for... More >>

• City in Lights

  published September 4, 2008

  Los Angeles' movie history is the protagonist in Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003, Thom Andersen), an expansive, clip-laden film that should... More >>

• Unscreened Gems

  published August 28, 2008

  The five-day cinematic celebration, featuring screenings of nearly 30 rare silent and early sound features, focuses on uncommon films seldom given... More >>

• Where the Spin Begins

  published August 28, 2008

  This cinematic journey through the birth of hip-hop features live DJ spinning pre- and post-screenings. Tonight, it all begins with Wild... More >>

• Film and Video Events

  published August 21, 2008

  AERO THEATRE 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica. (323)... More >>