GET A GLIMPSE OF THE REAL MAX.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski Willem Dafoe plays a pretty creepy-looking Max Schreck Maximilian "Max" Schreck (September 6, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a German actor. He is most often remembered today for his lead role in Nosferatu. Biography There is some confusion as to Schreck's actual date of birth. in the new film ``Shadow of the Vampire.'' Check out the old silent ``Nosferatu'' this weekend, and you'll see his gruesome makeup is not exaggerated. ``Nosferatu'' is the movie within a movie that ``Shadow'' depicts with its darkly comedic suggestion that German director F.W. Murnau cast a real vampire, Schreck, to make his 1922 horror film horror film n → película de terror or miedo horror film horror n → film m d'épouvante horror film horror n more authentic. It also is the main event in the Silent Movie Theatre's current Murnau festival, which runs through Jan. 21. The Silent Movie Theatre (611 N. Fairfax Ave.) has just raised its general admission price to $9. Children, college students and seniors still get in for $6. Information: (323) 655-2520. REEL ME A 'GRAPES': John Steinbeck's classic ``The Grapes of Wrath,'' directed by John Ford, will be shown Saturday by Glendale's Alex Film Society with appearances by three cast members. Dorris Bowden, Darryl Hickman and Shirley Mills will be on hand for the 8 p.m. screening of the 1940 Depression drama about the Joad family's trek from the Oklahoma dustbowl to California farmlands in hopes of a better life. There also will be a 2 p.m. show. The film, which starred Henry Fonda, John Carradine and Charley Grapewin, earned a best director Oscar for Ford and best supporting actress supporting actress n → attrice f non protagonista for Jane Darwell. The Alex Theatre The Alex Theatre is a historic landmark located at 216 North Brand Boulevard in Glendale, California of the United States of America. It is currently owned by the City of Glendale and operated by the Alex Regional Theatre Board. is at 216 N. Brand Blvd. Tickets are $8.50 for the evening show, $7 for the matinee and $6 for AFS A distributed file system for large, widely dispersed Unix and Windows networks from Transarc Corporation, now part of IBM. It is noted for its ease of administration and expandability and stems from Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew File System. AFS - Andrew File System members, and are available through Telecharge at (800) 233-3123. Information: (818) 754-8250 or www.keyconnect.com/alexfilmsoc. PROVERBIAL ROHMER: Eric Rohmer, one of the best-known directors of the French New Wave, is being showcased at the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Film and Television Archive through Jan. 27 in a series titled ``Comedies & Proverbs.'' ``A Good Marriage,'' playing 7:30 p.m. Saturday, stars Beatrice Romand as an impulsive young woman who decides it's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to get married and sets her sights on a man she barely knows who seems like a good candidate. It has been described as ``possibly Rohmer's funniest film.'' The second feature Saturday is ``Summer,'' about a young woman whose profound loneliness is redeemed in the final scenes. Upcoming titles include: ``The Marquise of O,'' ``Claire's Knee,'' ``Chloe in the Afternoon'' and the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. premiere of his 1996 ``Four Seasons'' work, ``A Summer's Tale.'' All are being screened with new prints, in French with English subtitles. Tickets, available at the James Bridges Theater box office, are $6 for general admission and $4 for students. The theater is in Melnitz Hall on the northeast corner of the UCLA campus near Hilgard Avenue and Sunset Boulevard Sunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean in the Pacific Palisades. . Information: (310) 206-3456 or www.cinema.ucla.edu. FINNEY FEST: British actor Albert Finney is getting a retrospective treatment this month at the Laemmle Sunset 5 with a series that includes his screen debut and his latest, ``Erin Brockovich.'' The series of 10 a.m. screenings starts Saturday with Finney's first feature, ``Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Sunday Morning may refer to:
Laemmle Sunset 5 is at 8000 W. Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood. Information: (323) 848-3500. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: This original French poster shows Max Schreck in F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror film ``Nosferatu,'' screening at the Silent Movie Theatre as the main attraction of the theater's Murnau festival, through Jan. 21. Bison Archive |
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