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Pictures Van Nuys (818) 786-3204 • Wilshire/Highland (323) 939-7661 • Winnetka (818) 700-0509 Expires 6/30/11 Campus Circle 5.25.11 - 5.31.11 3 NEWS FILM MUSIC CULTURE EVENTS DVD GAMING SPORTS MEDIA BLOGS The Channel surfer DvD Dish interviews Movie reviews Projections special Features PROJECTIONS Campus Circle > Film > Projections than 50 movies in a career that spans over six decades. The Birds is another Hitchcock hit that can very well cause an American Cinematheque invites you to bask in the terror that irrational fear of common everyday things, this time winged, SUSPENSE Hitchcock concocted for an ever-present audience, which otherwise cute feathered creatures. Set in a picture-perfect outlasts generational divides and trumps mediocre 3-D Northern California coastal town, the film depicts a sudden, horror films without much competition. unexplained invasion of birds. ACCOUNT: The Egyptian Theatre starts the thrill fest with Rebecca On May 28, the Egyptian Theatre will be playing To Catch and The 39 Steps on May 26. Hitchcock’s first American A Thief and Notorious. To Catch a Thief is a romantic thriller project, Rebecca was awarded Best Picture by the Academy starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. Situated on the French THE FILMS Awards in 1940. It is a gothic romance that stars Joan Riviera, Grant plays a retired thief who falls in love with an Fontaine, a housewife who ventures into entangling the American party girl played by Grace Kelly. With Edith Head’s mystery behind the death of her wealthy husband’s first wife, most beautiful costumes, audacious sexual undertones (for OF ALFRED Rebecca. Inspiring two Bollywood remakes and multiple that time of course) and unsolved robberies, To Catch A Thief radio play adaptations including one by Laurence Olivier and is a lighter yet gripping film that attests to the iconic director’s Vivien Leigh, Rebecca is a must-see for any Hitchcock fan. versatility and genius. HITCHCOCK The 39 Steps on the other hand is a 1935 film loosely based In another Hitchcock movie, Grant graces the screen with on John Buchan’s novel of the same name. Unlike disgruntled his debonair, good looks in Notorious. Instead of playing a May 26-29 @ Egyptian Theatre fans of Dr. Seuss’s books however (see: How The Grinch Stole 1940’s rapper however, he instead stars as an allied agent who Christmas and The Cat in the Hat), Buchan himself said that becomes involved with another party girl, this time played by Hitchcock improved on his novel. With the most recent Ingrid Bergman. As her character is set to marry and spy on by krisTina bravo Broadway adaptation of the novel winning an Olivier award her father’s Nazi friend, their plans are complicated by the for Best New Comedy, seeing this classic spy thriller full of growing romantic relationship between the two, an exciting Next to low water pressure, psycho’s brain twisters and continuous suspense will certainly make plot that can certainly rival the 2009 biopic of the same title. iconic murder scene – permanently seared in the brains of an interesting watch. To close the series, the American Cinematheque will those who have seen it – is one reason why your blood may The next night, Hitchcock enthusiasts of the L.A. area will screen Vertigo. Released in 1958, the thriller features James curdle in terror while in the shower. Despite good reason, a surely flock to see two of the director’s most acclaimed films, Stewart, Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes as the stars of reminder of the screeching violin score that cues a man in Psycho and The Birds. The major propeller of mentioned this French novel adaptation. Met with poor reviews upon drag stabbing the unsuspicious Janet Leigh is enough to make shower paranoia, Psycho is a low-budget project that puts the its release, Vertigo is now hailed by many as Hitchcock’s best you set aside this hygienic bathroom practice every once in absurdly funded horror movies of today. Numerous remakes creation. The “zoom out and track in” effect is also invented a while. and sequels find little success compared to the original, by an uncredited second-unit cameraman in this movie to Very few individuals have this kind of profound effect and seeing it on the big screen may just make your viewing create a vertigo sensation in the audience. in one’s everyday life, and Alfred Hitchcock, unfortunately pleasure of this classic better by epic proportions. for the shower’s reputation, is one of them. Dubbed as “the Seven spots down from Psycho’s No. 1 position on Egyptian Theatre is located at 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Master of Suspense,” the British filmmaker created more the American Film Institute’s list of top 100 thrills, The For more information, visit americancinematheque.com. MOVIEREVIEWS Campus Circle > Film > Movie Reviews Blank City however, appeal to film, art and music fanatics (It gives a great (Insurgent) peek into iconic CBCG acts.). It may not be a must-see to It is hard to imagine that once upon a time Steve Buscemi the rest of the population, but Blank City is nevertheless a could look at you with bright, well-rested eyes and New York charming commemoration of an amusing culture of the past. City had reasonably sized, dirt-cheap apartments. Well, this Grade: B is the world that Celine Danhier showcases in Blank City, a —Kristina Bravo documentary that explores the bygone underground film Blank City releases in select theaters May 27. culture of late 1970’s and early 1980’s downtown Manhattan, a setting which sparked the avant-garde creativity that Dumbstruck exploded within the filmmakers and musicians that followed (Truly Indie/Magnolia) Andy Warhol and prefaced today’s independent films. This Content of character is something everyone strives to refine Mark boone Junior and steve buscemi in The Way It Is, movement came to be called as “No Wave,” a product of throughout his or her life, but what if someone turns out to be featured in Blank City grimy Super 8 films, inexperienced actors, non-musicians a lifeless, empty vessel? Most of the characters in Dumbstruck who played instruments they didn’t know how to play and are just that, literally so – they’re puppets.