Melnitz Movies Archives
May 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
Frank (Joel Murray) has had it. A soul-crushing cacophony of stupidity surrounds him: his neighbors’ ignorance and their baby’s non-stop bawling; the mindless water-cooler blather of his idiot office mates; a workplace act of kindness that blows up...
May 8, 2012 - 7:30pm
Featuring: ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDREI ARSENEVICH (Chris Marker, 1999) and TO CHRIS MARKER, AN UNSENT LETTER (Emiko Omori, 2012)
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Co-Curated by Marina...
May 3, 2012 - 7:30pm
Alma is a small-town teen with a big imagination. Horny and looking for love, she has only her lively imagination and a kindly phone sex operator to ameliorate her frustratingly lonely and chaste life. But Alma’s active fantasy world and even more...
May 1, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.
Join us after the screening for a Q&A with Suzanne Fletcher (Nicole), Ann Magnuson (Isabelle), and Harvey Perr (Matt)!
YOU ARE NOT I (1981)
In YOU ARE NOT I, Sara Driver’s directorial...
April 26, 2012 - 7:30pm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
12-year old Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in Kagoshima, in the southern region of Kyushu. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their...
April 24, 2012 - 7:30pm
96 MINUTES is the harrowing story of a carjacking and four kids caught in the terrifying maelstrom of one night. Intercutting between the car and the beginning of that day, we follow the separate stories of each kid – where they come from, who they...
April 16, 2012 - 7:30pm
Fox Searchlight & Melnitz Movies present:
A special sneak preview engagement of SOUND OF MY VOICE
Following much preparation, Peter and Lorna are given an address. In the dead of night, they pull off the lonely road and await further...
April 12, 2012 - 7:30pm
Crosstown Rivals
Works from USC and UCLA in the 1960s
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Co-Presented by LA Filmforum's Alternative Projections
Additional short films and guests to be announced...
April 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
Eddie (Kentucker Audley) is a twenty-something loner whose primary goal in life is to one day take the stage at the local comedy club. He spends most of his free time speaking into a handheld recorder, practicing “jokes” (more like monologues...
April 5, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the French Film & TV Office, Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, join us for a Q&A with Jean-Baptiste Leonetti and exec. producer Camille Havard Bourdon!
A suicide survivor works for a nameless corporation, where he...
April 3, 2012 - 7:30pm
No starched lace, no panoramic views, no sweeping score — Andrea Arnold takes Emily Brontë’s classic novel and strips it to the root of youthful passion, restoring its stark power for a contemporary audience. Following her bracing portraits of...
March 29, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Dept. of Classics and Greek Studies
Born and raised in an abandoned mill town built around a single high-rise apartment building, Marina (Ariane Labed) has fallen in love with a failed architectural experiment and forgotten...
March 22, 2012 - 7:30pm
Melnitz Movies, XYZ Films, and Sony Pictures Classics present:
THE RAID: REDEMPTION
Before 2009, few martial arts film fans had ever heard of the traditional Indonesian combat style of silat, let alone seen a film from that part of the world. That...
March 20, 2012 - 7:30pm
How would we spend our final hours on Earth? And what does how we choose to die say about how we have chosen to live? In the hands of the inimitable Abel Ferrara, this thought experiment takes on a visceral immediacy. With the planet on the verge...
March 9, 2012 - 7:30pm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
THE SKETCH OF MUJO is the first documentary to be filmed in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck the Tohoku region of Japan in March...
March 8, 2012 - 7:30pm
An ordinary bank teller turned financial analyst is forced to sell high risk securities to her customers in order to meet her sales target. A small-time thug delves into the futures index hoping to earn easy money to post bail for a buddy in...
March 6, 2012 - 7:30pm
WHORES' GLORY is a cinematic triptych on prostitution: three countries, three languages, three religions. In Thailand, women wait for clients behind glass panes, staring at reflections of themselves. In Bangladesh, men go to a ghetto of love to...
February 29, 2012 - 7:30pm
Co-Curated by Marina Goldovskaya and Samuel B. Prime
A Melnitz Movies and Documentary Salon Co-Presentation
In his latest documentary film, Ross McElwee (SHERMAN’S MARCH, BRIGHT LEAVES) finds himself in frequent conflict with his son, who is no...
February 28, 2012 - 7:30pm
GENERATION P, adapted from the iconic bestseller by Victor Pelevin, is a rude and funny dispatch about Moscow in the '90s, ground zero to the money, terror, and image-driven logic which replaced the Cold War.
The story details the parallel rise of...
February 24, 2012 - 6:30pm
Melnitz Movies is proud to present a double feature of classic films programmed from the UCLA Film & Television Archive by our Alumni Guest Programmer, filmmaker Alex Cox (SID & NANCY, REPO MAN).
Please note: Due to a sudden illness,...
February 23, 2012 - 7:30pm
A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, WALKER, from British director Alex Cox (REPO MAN, SID & NANCY), tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers...
February 21, 2012 - 7:30pm
Cyril, almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children’s home. By chance he meets Samantha, who runs a hairdressing salon and agrees to let him stay with her at weekends. Cyril doesn’t recognize the love...
February 16, 2012 - 7:30pm
New Visions of Japanese Cinema
Sponsored by UCLA's Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
Residing quietly beneath the floorboards are little people who live undetected in a secret world to be discovered, where the smallest may stand tallest of all....
February 10, 2012 - 7:30pm
In the summer of 2006, film directors Dominik Graf, Christian Petzold, and Christoph Hochhäusler began corresponding with each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Germany and the film genre. Two years later they decided to...
February 9, 2012 - 7:30pm
Join us for a screening of this year's Oscar®-nominated short films, presented by Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures.
Linda O. Olszewski, Vice-President of Global Acquisitions for Shorts International will appear in person to introduce the...
February 7, 2012 - 7:30pm
In the summer of 2006, film directors Dominik Graf, Christian Petzold, and Christoph Hochhäusler began corresponding with each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Germany and the film genre. Two years later they decided to...
February 2, 2012 - 7:30pm
In the summer of 2006, film directors Dominik Graf, Christian Petzold, and Christoph Hochhäusler began corresponding with each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Germany and the film genre. Two years later they decided to...
January 31, 2012 - 6:30pm
WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN (1976):
A decade after quitting Hollywood, legendary director Nicholas Ray (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, IN A LONELY PLACE, JOHNNY GUITAR) accepted a teaching position at Harpur College in Binghamton, New York. There, with the...
January 26, 2012 - 7:30pm
A writer with a declining career (Val Kilmer) arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V (Elle Fanning...
January 24, 2012 - 7:30pm
The opening night film at this year's Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival, this exuberant and deeply moving film follows a new couple, Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (Valérie Donzelli), who must face the ultimate test when they discover...