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The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) & Innerspace (1987)
Wednesday and Thursday, August 22-23, 2012:
The Association of Moving Image Archivists
Student Chapter at UCLA
and the New Beverly Cinema present
"Something Old, Something New"
55th anniversary!
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
1957, USA, 81 minutes, 35mm, Universal Pictures
Directed by Jack Arnold
Screenplay by Richard Matheson,
Richard Alan Simmons (uncredited)
Based on Richard Matheson's novel
Starring Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent,
Paul Langton, Billy Curtis
Wed & Thu: 7:30 pm
PLUS, on the same program:
25th anniversary!
INNERSPACE
1987, USA, 120 minutes, 35mm, Warner Bros.
Directed by Joe Dante
Screenplay by Jeffrey Boam and Chip Proser
Story by Chip Proser
Music by Jerry Goldsmith
Starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan,
Kevin McCarthy, Vernon Wells, Henry Gibson
Wed: 9:25 pm; Thu: 9:10 pm
Academy Award winner for Best Visual Effects
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This is a double feature:
your ticket admits you to BOTH films.
Screening formats: 35mm
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Wednesday's program will be introduced by members of
the Association of Moving Image Archivists Student Chapter at UCLA. A portion of the proceeds on Wednesday will benefit the AMIA.
Wednesday's program may also have special in person guests -
stay tuned!
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What the critics say about THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN:
"A moving, strangely pantheist assertion of what it really means to be alive. A pulp masterpiece."
- Geoff Andrew, Time Out
"Sparse direction allows the tension to build naturally so that the terror and poignancy of the story work their way into the audience's brain without being forced. A total classic."
- Film4
"Intelligent, serious approach, exceptional effects for the period, and a vigorous leading performance result in a genuine sci-fi classic, unsurpassed by later attempts.'
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide
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Allmovie.com review of INNERSPACE:
"Essentially a visually sophisticated update of Robert Fleischer's Fantastic Voyage (1966), Innerspace is a wacky sci-fi treat that looks like oodles of fun for both the performers and the Oscar-winning special effects department. There's something inherently watchable about the 'oops, we're headed straight for the gall bladder!' emergencies of this story matter, and it gives Martin Short a license to be physically scattershot -- something the audience doesn't always grant him so willingly. Dennis Quaid's hotshot pilot is key to setting Joe Dante's grinning tone; his wisecracks under duress keep the movie humming along at the level of screwball comedy, in which nothing really bad can happen. The giddy 'reality on hold' mindset of Innerspace is a logical offshoot from Dante's Gremlins, though the director is migrating from comic fantasy to fantastic comedy. That he helped direct the episodic parody Amazon Women on the Moon the same year suggests his increasing fondness for the ridiculous."
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LocationNew Beverly Cinema (View)
7165 W. Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States
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