11th Annual The Greatest Cartoons Ever! on December 26th Film Events November 19, 2023December 6, 2023 Please join us on Boxing Day afternoon, Tuesday, December 26th at the Vidiots Eagle Theater for the 11th annual edition of The Greatest Cartoons Ever! Once again you'll be able to experience the rare treat of seeing a curated program of classic animation featuring all of your favorite cartoon characters on a big theater screen. Showtime and the program lineup will be available here soon.
The Three Stooges® Big Screen Event! – 11/25/23 Film Events October 29, 2023December 6, 2023 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
Harold Lloyd in Safety Last – 10/22/23 Film Events September 16, 2023October 5, 2023 New Date: Harold Lloyd in Safety Last! – Sunday, October 22nd, 6:00 PM Our Summer series of monthly screenings under the stars in Glendale's Brand Park now concludes on a new date: Sunday, October 22nd with a 100th anniversary screening of Harold Lloyd's silent comedy masterpiece, Safety Last!, featuring live, original music by Retroformat Musical Director Cliff Retallick In the film, Harold moves to the big city to seek his fortune so that he can afford to marry his sweetheart. Finding work as a clerk in a department store, Harold soon learns that fortunes are hard to come by, but sends inflated descriptions of his progress back home. Reality sets in as his sweetheart arrives, and he must go to great lengths to create the illusion that he's as successful as he's claimed. In the final set piece, he climbs a 12-story building to win $1,000, resulting in the iconic image of Harold hanging from the hand of the clock with the street far below. Virtual Introduction and Harold Lloyd Home Movies Suzanne Lloyd, granddaughter of Harold Lloyd, will appear onscreen to introduce the film. In addition, she'll be providing "home movies" showing Harold relaxing with friends and family. 35mm Silent Movie Camera on Display Thanks to our friends at the History for Hire prop house, we'll have a Bell & Howell Model 2709 35mm movie camera on display - the same make and model that was used to film Harold Lloyd's silent comedies through Speedy in 1928. These outdoor screenings are being presented on the expansive lawn of the historic Doctors' House in Brand
The Night of the Hunter – 10/8/23 Film Events September 10, 2023October 16, 2023 Screening at the Vidiots Eagle Theater, Eagle Rock Sunday, October 8th at 4:00 PM This program was originally scheduled for Thursday, March 19, 2020, approximately one week after the onset of closures due to COVID-19 – and subsequently cancelled. AFS is pleased to announce that we can finally present The Night of the Hunter at the recently-opened Vidiots Eagle Theater. Please Note: We regret to share the news that Alan K. Rode is convalescing from a mishap and will not be available to introduce the film. The 1955 film adaptation of the 1953 novel by Davis Grubb has, over the decades, developed a reputation as one of the greatest thrillers of American cinema, a masterpiece of sinister ambience and a portrayal of one of the all-time great movie villains with Robert Mitchum's turn as the Reverend Harry Powell. It is the 1930s in West Virginia, and Rev. Powell is a traveling preacher who, while in prison, learns of a stash of stolen money and determines to locate it by wooing the wife of the original thief. Photographed in evocative black-and-white by legendary cinematographer Stanley Cortez (The Magnificent Ambersons), director Charles Laughton manages to conjure both an American idyll with his naturalistic exteriors and a tense, threatening atmosphere with his expressionistic and stylized interiors. Also starring Shelley Winters and silent film queen Lillian Gish, and with a marvelous score by Walter Schumann, The Night of the Hunter is an American classic worthy of the silver screen. Tickets Now on Sale Tickets are now available at the Eagle Theater Web site – click on the 4:00 PM showtime. Please
