Sherrie Li

Friday, Aug. 15 Robert Rodriguez is back in fine form this summer with his El Rey television network, and the American Cinematheque is revisiting some of his hits through Aug. 27 as part of its series Desperado With a Camera: The Cinema of Robert Rodriguez. Kicking things off is a......

Saturday, Aug. 9 Through Aug. 17, UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater hosts a showcase of the work created by American directors, screenwriters and actors who moved to Europe after being blacklisted or voluntarily exiled. Co-curated by Rebecca Prime and highlighting those featured in her book, Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist......

Friday, Aug. 1 If you were a teen during summer in the early 1900s, you might have gone out for a nice trolley ride. That’s what happens in the Judy Garland musical classic Meet Me in St. Louis, where young Esther falls in love with the boy next door and......

Friday, July 25 If you don’t have a VHS or LaserDisc player and were born after 1984, you probably haven’t seen The Wild Life, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Written by Cameron Crowe, Art Linson’s film follows characters played by ’80s teen-flick staple Eric Stoltz, Reservoir Dogs’ Chris Penn......

Friday, July 18 If you missed our Critics’ Pick We Are the Best when it was first released in late May, fret not. On Friday at 8 p.m., Cinefamily will have a special screening of the graphic-novel adaptation, which follows a trio 13-year-old girls in 1980s Stockholm who decide to start a punk......

Friday, July 11 As the World Cup rages on in Brazil, UCLA launches a celebration of contemporary Brazilian documentaries at its Billy Wilder Theater via a film series titled Cruzamentos (Portuguese for “crossings”). On Friday at 7:30 p.m., the series opens with Twenty Years Later, which follows director Eduardo Coutinho......

Friday, July 4 In honor of the holiday, the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre is showing Born on the Fourth of July. Based on Ron Kovic’s autobiography, the film follows Kovic (Tom Cruise) after he returns home paralyzed from a war wound. Schedules permitting, director Oliver Stone and Kovic will introduce the film......

Friday, June 27 If you're a Mad Men fan, you recently saw a clip of Jacques Demy's Model Shop - the movie Don Draper was watching in the theater. Watch the film in its entirety on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Aero Theatre as part of the American Cinematheque's Model of Moviemaking:......

Friday, June 20 In honor of Anthony Breznican's new book, Brutal Youth, about the struggles that accompany growing up, the Aero is showing three coming-of-age double features this weekend. First up, at 7:30 p.m., is Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, in which Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey made their screen debuts as obsessive teens......

Friday, June 13 The only way Friday the 13th should be celebrated is by watching a triple feature of the Friday the 13th series. Starting at 7:30 p.m., Cinefamily is screening the "Tommy Jarvis trilogy," which include The Final Chapter, A New Beginning and Jason Lives. Jason Lives director Tom McLoughlin will......