The Three Stooges® Big Screen Event! – 11/25/23

The Three Stooges

25th Year at Glendale's Historic Alex Theatre On Thanksgiving Weekend, Saturday November 25th, The Alex Film Society will present the 25th Annual Three Stooges Big Screen Event! in association with C3 Entertainment, Inc. This year, in honor of a quarter century of Stooge-inspired mayhem, our A-1 Deluxe Selection Committee has curated the "Best of The Best” from the many Stooges shorts we’ve screened over the years. Again this year, the program will be presented from archival 35mm prints, courtesy of Sony Pictures, projected on the big screen at the Alex. Join Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp and laugh yourself into the Holiday Season with the very best of the most enduring comedy team in motion picture history. This Year's Lineup - "The Best of the Best" Micro-Phonies (1943; Director: Edward Bernds) Moe, Larry and Curly find themselves impersonating a famous opera singer to help a young woman (Christine McIntyre) pursue her career dreams. This film showcases Moe's surly leadership, Curly's engaging physical comedy and Larry's flawless timing, all while delivering hilarious mistaken identities, misunderstandings and chaos. With Symona Boniface and Gino Corrado. Men In Black (1934; Director: Raymond McCarey) "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr, Fine, Dr. Howard!" Moe, Larry, and Curly play bumbling doctors, navigating a chaotic hospital in this Academy Award-nominated short. The trio's physical humor is on full display as they take apart the medical profession, with the supporting cast, including Bud Jamison, Billy Gilbert and Jeanie Roberts adding to the malpractice and mishaps, all in the name of "Duty and Humanity!" Punch Drunks (1934; Director: Lou Breslow) This was the second of 190

AFS Events at Film Week Glendale 10/4/22

Los Angeles Plays Itself and Dawson City: Frozen Time on 10/4/22

The Alex Film Society is honored to participate in Film Week Glendale, which is a sidebar of the Glendale International Film Festival, running from September 29 through October 6 at the Laemmle Glendale 5, just around the corner from the Alex Theatre in downtown Glendale. We’ve selected two outstanding films that transcend their categorization as documentaries, emerging as masterful explorations of the power of cinema to capture reality and preserve it for all time, and to create new realities that often achieve the status of myth. Both films are composed virtually entirely of footage from other films, assembled to reflect the unique vision of their respective directors. Tickets for both films are now available at the following link: Laemmle Glendale 5 Web site Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 2:00 & 7:00 PM “THE BEST DOCUMENTARY EVER MADE ABOUT LOS ANGELES.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen’s encyclopedic exploration of how Los Angeles has been depicted in movies, is as sprawling as the city itself. Featuring clips from more than two hundred films, from well-known titles like Chinatown, L.A. Confidential and Blade Runner, through ‘40s film noir to genre films like Gone in 60 Seconds and more obscure independent titles such as Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, Andersen charts the course of motion picture history in parallel with that of the city. In three chapters spanning close to three hours of screen time – “The City as Background,” The City as Character” and “The City as Subject” – Andersen examines the reality of Los Angeles versus the

The Omen (1976) on Sunday, Oct. 30

The Omen - poster

Richard Donner's modern horror classic The Omen will screen on Sunday, October 30th at 4:00 PM at the Alex Theatre in Glendale as part of the Hocus-Focus Halloween Film Festival. In 1962 Gregory Peck earned an Oscar® for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, in which he protected his children Scout and Jem from both the perceived threat of neighborhood recluse Boo Radley as well as the overt racism prevalent in their small 1930s Alabama town. Fourteen years later Peck returned to the screen as the father of a young son named Damien. Their happy home life in England with wife Lee Remick slowly and terrifyingly unravels as the parents come to the realization that their young son may in fact be the Antichrist. Following a wildly successful theatrical release in the Summer of 1976, the film left an indelible mark on popular culture, introducing the number "666" as the Biblical "mark of the beast" to the general populace, and branding countless social castoffs and playground misfits with the moniker "Damien." The Hocus-Focus Film Festival Presented by The Alex Picture Show, the festival will present seven classic horror films from Friday through Sunday, October 28 - 30 at Glendale's historic Alex Theatre. Titles to be shown: Donnie Darko - Friday at 7:00 & 10:00 PM Hellboy - Saturday at 1:00 PM The Sixth Sense - Saturday at 4:00 PM The Shining - Saturday at 7:00 PM Beetlejuice - Sunday at 1:00 PM The Omen - Sunday at 4:00 PM A Nightmare on Elm Street - Sunday at 7:00 PM For more information regarding both The

The Three Stooges® Big Screen Event! – 11/26/22

The Alex Film Society is pleased to announce that tickets for the twenty-third annual edition of The Three Stooges® Big Screen Event!, presented in association with C3 Entertainment, are now on sale. This annual holiday tradition at Glendale’s historic Alex Theatre returns on Saturday, November 27th with shows at 2:00 and 8:00 PM.

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