HarmonQuest: Live RPGs, Movies And More! (August 3rd - 17th at The Cinefamily)
While many Los Angeles rep cinemas appear to be curiously quiet this first stretch of August, Cinefamily screams one barbaric yelp after another with the assistance of one gnarly bearded beast of a man... Community creator Dan Harmon! A bonafide staple in LA geek culture due to his rabble rousing podcast/live show Harmontown, the man who birthed us Abed takes to the Cinefamily stage to host a fantastic cavalcade of sword n' sorcery flicks, role-playing games, and other fine celebrations of geekdom.
Things kick off good and proper on Saturday August 3rd with a role-playing session and screening of cult film Mazes And Monsters, which just happens to star a D&D mad Tom Hanks.
In between the sessions of HarmonQuest proper, Cinefamily will be screening Dragonslayer (Best dragon on film, yes indeed), Legend and The Last Unicorn. These nights and weekends of gleeful geekery culminate when Harmon presents a screening of the new role-playing doc Zero Charisma and the beefy/breasty/shiny Excalibur. This, of course, after more RPGs, the last round which will be a special Harmontwon offshoot. Oh, and don't be surprised if Patton Oswalt, Rob Schraab and Chris Hardwick make appearances.
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Sturges Ready: Comedy Built For Speed (August 9th - 23rd at The American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater)
Say you need your jollies via some screwball comedy? Preston Sturges is often cited as the first great writer-director of the old studio system (and beyond), and this slew of double features in celebration of the fella's birth all but 115 years ago, will no doubt scratch that itch... and then some.
Things get underway with The Great McGinty and Remember The Night. It only gets funnier (and more socially conscious) from there with Sullivan's Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Lady Eve and more -- all screening in 35mm.
Everything Is Festival IV: The Dreamquest (August 12th - 19th at The Cinefamily)
So it appears Cinefamily is the place to be this month, what with the fourth edition of the multimedia festival rearing its monstrous head and seemingly (hopefully) living up to its far-out subtitle.
Chris Elliot, Mike Judge, Dan Harmon (again), Andy Dick, Paul F. Thompkins (plus many, many more) are set to host screenings of their, and others work, which includes found footage, cult relics and video games anomalies (did someone say Night Trap on Sega CD?)
Really, there's just too much to list here, but one thing to note is the Everything Is Vine... And So Are you screening which will feature works from Vine master craftsmen Steve Agee, Adam Goldberg and my personal favorite James Urbaniak.
Check out all the madness right here.