Event: Old Pasadena Film Festival
Synopsis: "American Cinematheque presents the Old Pasadena Film Festival, a three-week free movie series that unites film with urban settings, featuring more than 20 screenings, celebrity appearances and works by emerging filmmakers happening on Fridays and Saturdays, July 11 through 26. In collaboration with Old Pasadena Management District and One Colorado, this district-wide festival will take place in basements, on walls, in courtyards, shops and theaters throughout this famous and historic downtown. All Old Pasadena Film Festival screenings, appearances and events are free and open to the public." - curbedwire
Location: Various Locations in Pasadena, CA
Date: July 11 - 26, 2008
Time: Various Times - see below
More Information: For further information about the OId Pasadena Film Festival, the public is asked to please call (626) 356-9725 or visit www.oldpasadenafilmfestival.com
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Date: Friday, July 11, 2008
Title: EMERGING FILMMAKERS
Synopsis: Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.
Location: Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Friday, July 11, 2008
Title: CLASSIC HEPBURN: BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
Synopsis: "I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face." - So sighs Audrey Hepburn's girl-about-town Holly Golightly, breezing ever-so-gently through the real world with hardly a ripple. But when she meets sober, handsome, nice guy George Peppard, she begins to gradually re-think her “anything-goes,” high-living lifestyle.
Location: One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley
Time: 8:30pm
Date: Friday, July 11, 2008
Title: SCI FI: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)
Synopsis:
Actress Ann Robinson will introduce the screening.
The quintessential 1950's science fiction film, in which scientists and the military join forces to conquer an alien invasion. Even today, few films can match this movie's triumphant blend of special effects and snappy romance (in the form of the relationship between astronomer Gene Barry and his spunky girlfriend Ann Robinson.)
Location: School House Parking structure rooftop, 33 E. Green Street.Time: 10:00pm
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008
Title: EMERGING FILMMAKERS
Synopsis: Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.
Location: Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008
Title: CLASSIC HEPBURN: MY FAIR LADY
Synopsis: This unforgettable musical adaptation is PYGMALION as reinvented by Lerner and Loewe as reinvented by master director George Cukor. Oscar winner Rex Harrison plays Henry Higgins, who teaches lower class, Cockney flower girl Audrey Hepburn to be a lady and falls in love with her in the process.
Location: One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley
Time: 8:30pm
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008
Title: EMERGING FILMMAKERS
Synopsis: Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.
Location: Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008
Title: CLASSIC HEPBURN: CHARADE
Synopsis: Widow Audrey Hepburn finds herself thrust into adventure when her dead husband's war buddies come after her, thinking she has money they stole together during the war. Cary Grant is the stranger who is as mysterious as he is attractive--and whom Hepburn falls for as she runs for her life.
Location: One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley
Time: 8:30pm
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008
Title: HORROR FILM: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
Synopsis:Director Tobe Hooper will introduce the screening.
One of the best American horror films from the 1970s and certainly one of the scariest movies ever made. The unknown actors and real-life locations burn themselves into your memory, assuming a nightmarishly twisted reality that lingers long after you’ve seen the film. After hearing of a cemetery desecration, Marilyn Burns and friends go on a jaunt in the broiling Texas countryside to make sure her grandparents’ graves are okay, only to become stranded at the rural home of a family of inbred cannibals. Director Tobe Hooper expertly escalates the horror until you can’t stand it anymore…then goes one step further. With Gunnar Hansen, Ed Neal.
Location: Basement of Schoolhouse Parking Garage, 33 E. Green Street.Time: 10:00pm
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008
Title: FAMILY MATINEE: MARY POPPINS
Synopsis: Julie Andrews is God’s gift to nanny-dom as Mary Poppins in this classic musical comedy/fantasy. When Poppins comes to work for the Banks family in their turn-of-the-20th-century London household, she uplifts everyone’s spirits and brings magic to their lives. Dick Van Dyke is Bert, the good-natured chimney sweep and the great Jane Darwell, in her last screen appearance, plays the bird lady. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Andrews for Best Actress and Richard M. & Robert B. Sherman for Best Original Song and Best Original Music Score.
Location: Laemmle’s One Colorado Cinemas, 42 Miller Alley
Time: 10:00am
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008
Title: EMERGING FILMMAKERS
Synopsis: Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.
Location: Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Friday, July 18, 2008
Title: CLASSIC HEPBURN: SABRINA
Synopsis: Chauffeur's daughter Audrey Hepburn blooms from ugly duckling to fashion queen as she tries to choose between wealthy, middle-aged Humphrey Bogart (at his sexy, smokey best) and cocky lover-boy William Holden (a Wilder favorite). Billy Wilder's classic romantic triangle.
Location: One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley
Time: 8:30pm
Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008
Title: MENTAL HYGIENE SHORT FILMS
Synopsis:
Presented by Archivist and Historian Rick Prelinger.
For the quarter-century following World War II, a special kind of classroom film received wide circulation. These "mental hygiene" films thrived in a confused and nervous America. The rebellious behavior of young people challenging the social norms struck fear into the hearts of parents and educators, who saw dark futures for teens who broke the rules and refused to fit in with society. These concerned adults embraced the metal hygiene film as a new means of delivering social guidance. The creators of the films took their cues from the wildly successful training and propaganda films of the World War II era. They used the same shock and scare techniques to warn teenagers about substance abuse, venereal disease, juvenile delinquency and the awful fate of kids who drive too fast on prom night.
Location: Mercantile Alley (right behind Coffee Bean at 18 S. Fair Oaks)Time: 10:00pm
Date: Friday, July 25, 2008
Title: EMERGING FILMMAKERS
Synopsis: Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.
Location: Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Friday, July 25, 2008
Title: CLASSIC HEPBURN: ROMAN HOLIDAY
Synopsis: A real-life princess (Audrey Hepburn), weary of her sheltered existence, takes off on her own to see the sights of Rome, only to encounter romance in the form of suave Gregory Peck. But unbeknownst to Hepburn, Peck is really a reporter out for a story, and this inevitably complicates things as the two grow more intimate. This sweet-natured romantic comedy won three Oscars, including Best Actress for Hepburn.
Location: One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley
Time: 8:00pm
Date: Friday, July 25, 2008
Title: CLASSIC FOREIGN FILM: SEVEN SAMURAI
Synopsis: Director Akira Kurosawa's most famous film is certainly one of the finest movies ever made - a huge, sprawling but intimate, character-driven period epic about an aging swordsman (the great Takashi Shimura) who enlists six other warriors-for-hire (amongst them, Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Daisuke Kato, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Inaba) to safeguard a remote village plagued by bandits.
Location: One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley
Time: 10:00pm
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008
Title: EMERGING FILMMAKERS
Synopsis: Films and shorts by students and faculty from the Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College.
Location: Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008
Title: GREASE with guest to be announced
Synopsis: Pompadoured tough-guy John Travolta learns the meaning of true love, 1950's style, from summertime sweetheart Olivia Newton-John, with help from a fantastic supporting cast including Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Eve Arden and Frankie Avalon. A soundtrack of wall-to-wall hits ("You're The One That I Want," "Hopelessly Devoted To You," "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee") in director Randal Kleiser's irresistible teen-dream of a movie musical.
Location: 22 Mills Place
Time: 8:30pm
Date: Saturday, July 26, 2008
Title: LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY
Synopsis:
J.R.R. Tolkien's literary masterpiece The Lord of the Rings has influenced generations of readers worldwide and continues to captivate new fans around the globe. Director Peter Jackson and a brilliantly talented cast and crew have brought to cinematic life the epic adventure of good against evil. The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. Fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood), who inherits the Ring - and undertakes a heroic quest revealing how, through courage, commitment, and determination, even the smallest of us can change the world.
Screening concludes with sunrise Hobbit breakfast.
Location: One Colorado Courtyard, 41 Hugus Alley, Middle EarthTime: 8:30pm till Dawn
