Free Movie Screening - Shinjuku Incident Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Free Movie Screening - Jackie Chan's Shinjuku Incident in Santa Monica

You and a guest are cordially invited to a special advanced screening of Derek Yee's Shinjuku Incident, starring Jackie Chan & Daniel Wu.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

7:00PM Doors open

7:30PM Screening

This special evening is presented by Barking Cow Distribution & FILMMATTERS, a national list of innovative films, screenings, festivals and related events that we at Giant Robot find important or worth noting.

RSVP Essential: filmmatters@giantrobot.com

Laemmle Monica 4-plex

1332 2nd Street (between Santa Monica Blvd & Arizona Ave)

Santa Monica CA 90401

310-478-3836

Parking in nearby City Lots on 2nd & 4th Streets

Map

SHINJUKU INCIDENT opens February 5, 2010 at a theatre near you.

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"More in common with The Yakuza Papers than The Young Master." - Martin Wong, Editor, Giant Robot 61

Director Derek Yee's intense, action-packed film about lowly Chinese immigrants taking on the yakuza first gained notice when it was announced that its legendary star Jackie Chan would not be doing martial arts to concentrate on dramatic acting. It made deadlines once more when it was deemed too violent to show in China. Please join us for a special screening of the movie, which also features Hong Kong cinema upstart and Giant Robot contributor Daniel Wu, on Tuesday, February 2nd.

For more information on Shinjuku Incident, please check out their site & follow them on Facebook.

GR interview with John Woo

John Woo - The GR interview previewed

"I always wanted to make a great, epic movie like Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Samurai, or Spartacus. But I was young and that was just a dream to me." - John Woo (Giant Robot 63)

GR63 preview/interview excerpt with John Woo, up at Martin's blog.

Catch RED CLIFF on VOD or in a theatre near you.

GR interview with Louie Psihoyos, director of The Cove

GR63 preview/interview excerpt with director of The Cove and enemy of dolphin killers, Louie Psihoyos, up at Martin's blog.

More fun at JANM - Screening of "The Killing of a Chinese Cookie"

Join us for a special one-night event! Come sample fortune cookie-inspired desserts from the best and brightest of LA-based culinary schools followed by a special free screening of the documentary"The Killing of a Chinese Cookie."

6:30 PM Doors open/tasting
7:30 PM Film begins

There will be a Q&A after the screening with writer/director Derek Shimoda.

Space is limited on a first-come, first-serve basis. For RSVP, please email:contact@thekillingofachinesecookie.com (Please include "RSVP" in the subject line and name of attendees in the body of email)

Special Screening of John Woo's Red Cliff

"I always wanted to make a great, epic movie like Lawrence of Arabia, Seven Samurai, or Spartacus. But I was young and that was just a dream to me." - John Woo (Giant Robot 63)

John Woo's return to Chinese cinema is a massive painted tapestry come to life with Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhao Wei, and thousands of actual solders. The 2-part, 5-hour epic broke box-office records in Asia, and you can be one of the first to witness the streamlined and solid 3-hour version for North America at this special screening presented in association with Flux at The Montalbán, followed by an after party featuring music by DJ Wendy City and specialty cocktails by Belvedere Vodka.

7:00PM Doors open
7:30PM Screening + Reception with DJ Wendy City

This special evening is part of Cinema Tuesdays, a monthly series curated by Flux celebrating innovative film at The Montalbán, Nike Sportswear’s unique retail and special events theatre in Hollywood.

RSVP Essential: http://www.flux.net/gr

Nike Sportswear at The Montalbán
1615 Vine Street
Hollywood, CA

Giant Robot Biennale - Screening of Dirty Hands This Thursday

Come and see the film that sold out 3 nights at the LA Film Festival! Harry Kim’s Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe.

The museum is free from 5-8 pm so you can see the art and then at 7:30 pm (maybe with some leeway), the film will begin. The film is $8 and goes to a good cause -- the under funded Museum. Harry Kim will be there to talk a bit as well. He’ll be selling some Dirty Hands t shirts and nice items. It’s going to be a fun night.

SF International Animation Festival

Giant Robot is proud to sponsor the 4th San Francisco International Animation Festival

San Francisco Film Society Presents
4th Annual SF International Animation Festival

November 11-15 at Landmark’s Embarcadero Center Cinema

The San Francisco International Animation Festival celebrates San Francisco’s prominence as a hub for one of the most creative forms in cinema. In its fourth year, this five-day festival continues to present a wide range of works, including Wes Anderson's new sure-fire blockbuster Fantastic Mr. Fox and the celebrated experimental films of artist Nate Boyce. With a selection of the best shorts from Annecy and a special presentation of Walt Disney’s Alice Comedies, the SF International Animation Festival continues to explore one of the most fertile practices in contemporary film and television in all its forms.

SFIAF kicks off Wednesday, November 11 with a celebration of live music and animation at Mezzanine. American underground avant-garde legend Lawrence Jordan will present live animation based on the live, plaintive musical accompaniment of local duo Pale Hoarse, and Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman of 2 Blessed 2 Be Stressed will unveil a variety of media-defying entertainments.

For tickets and information, please visit SFIAF.

Died Young, Stayed Pretty in LA

Giant Robot is proud to co-present with American Cinematheque the LA screening of Eileen Yaghoobian's DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY at the Aero Theatre.

Wednesday, September 16 - 7:30 PM

Aero Theatre

1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street

Santa Monica, CA 90403

DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY, 2009, 95 min. Dir. Eileen Yaghoobian. A candid look at the underground indie-rock poster subculture in North America that was reborn, post-punk, with the launch of groupie Clayton Hayes’ website Gigposters.com.  With original music by Mark Greenberg and visual effects by Pete Dionne, DIED YOUNG, STAYED PRETTY features posters for Radiohead, White Stripes, Arcade Fire, The Flaming Lips, The Melvins, Nick Cave, Broken Social Scene and Ween, as well as legends Bob Dylan and Marianne Faithful. Discussion following with director Eileen Yaghoobian.

Check out this great slide show of posters | Trailer | Official Website

$10 General Admission, $8 Student/Senior with ID

For more info & tickets, click here.

"Raw -- an outlaw movie about outlaw artists"- PETER RAINER, NPR

"Yaghoobian proves she has a flair for the telling detail every bit as keen as her subjects".
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

"It may be underground art but the film gives a cultural thumbs up to an art form that deserves more space in the foreground."
Tim Basham, Paste Magazine

"Yaghoobian's documentary is unexpectedly excellent, a bracingly free-form group portrait of people who only recently discovered each other's existence when the founding of GigPosters.com showed isolated artists they weren't just working alone in the dark."
Vadim Rizov, Spout.com

"Died Young, Stayed Pretty made me want to seek out the art on display. Strictly as a documentary, it made me want to watch it again, just to soak it all in."
Peter Martin, Twitchfilms.com

"It's a terrific piece of work"
Jeff Monk, Cinematheque.com

Follow us on Twitter to hear more.

Echo Beach

Join Giant Robot at the LA Premiere of Echo Beach -- a film about innovation, individualism, and surfing directed by former pro surfer Jeff Parker. The film establishes 1980's Newport Beach as the center of the surfing industry and worldwide influencer of youth culture.

Laemmle Monica
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica CA 90401

Thursday, August 20, 2009
8 PM
Get your tickets here.






Accompanied by a collection of spectacular still and film images from the era, many of which have previously never been published or seen, set to a seminal 80s soundtrack, Echo Beach includes candid interviews with:

* Danny Kwock
* Jeff Parker
* Preston Murray
* John Gothard
* Peter Schroff
* Jeff Yokoyama
* Shawn Stüssy

AND MANY OTHERS!

Check out the trailer.
And join them on FB.

Kamikaze Girls

Giant Robot is proud to support CAAM's presentation of an outdoor screening of KAMIKAZE GIRLS

Check out the KAMIKAZE GIRLS Fashion Show and Contest


A film by Tetsuya Nakashima
103 mins
Japanese with English Subtitles

Friday August 14, 2009
at 8:15PM
Japantown Peace Plaza
Post Street at Buchanan Street
San Francisco, CA

Early arrival highly suggested
Seating is first-come, first-served.