Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair - Year 3 Festival

Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair - Year 3 Festival

Saturday, Jun 1, 2024 at 1:00pm

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Schedule:

1:00 PM: THE MIDDLEMAN

In Bengali with English subtitles.

A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.

Format: 35mm

Country: India

Restored by the Satyajit Ray Preservation Project in 1996 through a collaboration of the Academy Film Archive, The Merchant-Ivory Foundation and The Film Foundation.

Print courtesy of The Packard Humanities Institute Collection at the Academy Film Archive.

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

2:00 PM: MERRILY WE GO TO HELL

A drunken newspaperman is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Universal

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

4:00 PM: DESTROYER

As a young cop, Erin Bell went under cover to infiltrate a gang in the California desert — with tragic results. Bell continues to work as a detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, but feelings of anger and remorse leave her worn-down and consumed by guilt. When the leader of that gang suddenly re-emerges, Erin embarks on an obsessive quest to find his former associates, bring him to justice and make peace with her tortured past.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Annapurna Pictures

Country: USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

5:00 PM: THE PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK

In 1970s New York, Bobby (Al Pacino in his first major film role) and Helen (Kitty Winn) are young and in love and addicted to heroin. Shot in a loose documentary style, and acted with improvisational rawness, the film shows the young couple’s increasingly desperate habit go from bad to worse. Directed by Jerry Schatzberg and written by Joan Didion, the film portrays characters trapped in a bleak urban lifestyle as they strive to maintain their love for each other.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Disney

Country: USA

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $15.00 (members-only)

7:00 PM: TESTAMENT

TESTAMENT is the dramatic story of the aftermath of a nuclear attack. A nuclear strike has occurred. No one knows who did it. No one knows why. But the unthinkable has happened and nothing can ever be the same again. Jane Alexander stars as Carol Wetherly, a wife and a mother of three children. William Devane portrays her husband, away on a San Francisco trip during the devastating blast. Alone, Carol must hold her family together and, helplessly, she must watch her loved ones become victims of the deadly invisible radiation. A powerfully written and sensitive script, you will feel deeply for each character as they struggle to face and survive the future.

Format: 35mm

Distributor: Paramount

Country: USA

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)

9:00 PM: SE7EN

Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight. Director David Fincher guides the action — physical, mental and spiritual — with a sure understanding of what terrifies us, right up to a stunning denouement that will rip the scar tissue off the most hardened soul.

Format: DCP

Distributor: WARNER BROS.

Country: USA

SE7EN (1995) was filmed in 35mm and released in 2.39 aspect ratio. Motion Picture Imaging scanned the original camera negative in 8k with all restoration work completed by David Fincher’s post production team in 8k. Color by Eric Weidt. The original 5.1 sound elements were restored by Ren Klyce creating a new 5.1 mix.

Location: Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Cost: $12.00 (member); $17.00 (general admission)

10:00 PM: KILLED THE FAMILY AND WENT TO THE MOVIES

In Portuguese with English subtitles.

There are many concurrent plots in this film. The main one being the one in which a desperate guy kills his parents with an open razor and then goes to the movies. At the same time, other violent events happen when two girls realize they are in love with each other.

Format: DCP

Distributor: Afinal Filmes

Country: Brazil

Location: Los Feliz Theatre, 1822 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027

Cost: $8.00 (member); $13.00 (general admission)


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