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NEW VIDEO: HECUBA "GOOD TIMES" VISION VERSION

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Hear ye, hear ye, Dublab brings back some “Good Times” from Silent Movie Theater. Almost two years ago, Dublab screened videos from its VisionVersion series on a warm summer night—the series in which they take awesome bands to sweet spots around town and tape them singing their song. That night capped with Hecuba performing live [...]

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NIGHT FLIGHT: BORN AGAIN @ SILENT MOVIE THEATER

August 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It’s clear to see that a modern Night Flight has the potential to be greater than ever before. Show pioneer Stuart Shapiro was met with a standing ovation as the titles rolled before announcing an upcoming monthly residency at the Cinefamily along with a New Wave Theatre Night sometime soon. Needless to say but with great relief, Night Flight is officially reborn!

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CINEFAMILY HOSTS A SABBATH ASSEMBLY RITUAL

August 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment

The Cinefamily brings you Satan! On Sunday, August 23, participate in a Sabbath Assembly ritual and learn all there is to know about the Process Church through a multimedia presentation by an expert, while The Sabbath Assembly band sings hymns… From the Silent Movie Theater: Was The Process Church truly “one of the most dangerous [...]

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ZIG ZAG WANDERER: THE OTHER MICHAEL JACKSON +PLUMP DJS + JERRY LEWIS + CHOKE

July 10th, 2009 · 3 Comments

By three the next afternoon, I was slumped exhausted in the back row of the Silent Movie Theater, as the last night of L.A.’s first-ever Jerry Lewis retrospective flickered to giddy life. The three hours of clips shown before the main feature were like a curated tour through a vast and quirky comic universe roughly the scope of those of James Joyce or Flann O’Brien, and (in America at least), about as little understood. The last living heir to the great line of Buster Keaton and Stan Laurel, Lewis remains problematic to American critics and I think I know why.

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L.A. RECORD PRESENTS NISHAT KHAN AND JIMMY RIP PERFORMING LIVE SOUNDTRACK TO A THROW OF DICE

May 10th, 2009 · No Comments

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njnfmIybf5] L.A. RECORD is happy to team up with Cinefamily, dublab, L.A. FilmForum and the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles to present A Throw Of Dice with a live score by world-class sitar player Nishat Khan and Tom Verlaine/Mick Jagger collaborator Jimmy Rip! Via Cinefamily: Nishat Khan, one of the world’s greatest living sitar [...]

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