Jane Seymour and Stephen Farber at our sold-out screening of Somewhere in Time

February 17 at 7 PM:  SHAFT (1971), the movie that launched the Blaxploitation cycle of hit movies of the 70s, also reinvented the urban crime thriller.  Richard Roundtree plays John Shaft, the cool private eye who knows the score in the big bad city.  Celebrated photographer Gordon Parks had his first big hit as director. But perhaps most influential was the score by Isaac Hayes.  He shattered Oscar precedents when his “Theme from Shaft” was named the year’s best song. Film music historian Jon Burlingame will join to discuss the movie.

For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit www.laemmle.com/ac.

Our past Anniversary screenings have included:

HENRY & JUNE (1990), the first movie to earn an NC-17 rating, with award-winning director Philip Kaufman

NIXON (1995) with award-winning director Oliver Stone and Tim Greiving, author of a definitive biography of composer John Williams

DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN (1985) with producers Midge Sanford and Sarah Pillsbury and executive producer Michael Peyser

CROUPIER (2000) with star Clive Owen and producing consultant Mike Kaplan

GHOST (1990) with director Jerry Zucker

CHOOSE ME (1984) with co-stars Lesley Ann Warren and Keith Carradine and producer David Blocker

SIDEWAYS (2004), with producer Michael London, Oscar-nominated actress Virginia Madsen, and Kirk and Mira Honeycutt, authors of the new book Sideways Uncorked: The Perfect Pairing of Film & Wine.

WILD AT HEART (1990), a tribute to director David Lynch

BREAKING AWAY (1979) with actors Paul Dooley and Dennis Christopher

LEGENDS OF THE FALL (1994) with director Ed Zwick and film editor Steven Rosenblum

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989) with Oscar-winning screenwriter Tom Schulman and actor Kurtwood Smith

Claude Chabrol’s LA CEREMONIE (1995) with co-star Jacqueline Bisset in person

APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) with co-star Colleen Camp and Sam Wasson, author of a new book about Francis Ford Coppola

RUNNING ON EMPTY (1988) with co-stars Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti

SOYLENT GREEN (1973) with co-star Leigh Taylor-Young

MATINEE (1993), with director Joe Dante

RISKY BUSINESS (1983), a full cast-and-crew reunion, with actors Rebecca De Mornay, Curtis Armstrong, Bronson Pinchot, Raphael Sbarge; writer-director Paul Brickman and producer Jon Avnet.

Blake Edwards’ EXPERIMENT IN TERROR (1962), with actress Stefanie Powers

Billy Wilder’s film of Agatha Christie’s courtroom classic WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957), with sole surviving cast member Ruta Lee in person

A sold-out screening of Stanley Kubrick’s FULL METAL JACKET (1987), with actor Vincent D’Onofrio in person

PRESSURE POINT (1962), a tribute to Sidney Poitier, with actor Barry Gordon in person

AIRPORT (1970) with composer David Newman, son of Oscar-winning composer Alfred Newman

RIO BRAVO (1959) with actress Angie Dickinson

THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT (1964) with actress Paula Prentiss

EASY RIDER (1969), our tribute to the late Peter Fonda, featured discussion with co-stars Toni Basil and Sabrina Scharf.

THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (1954) plus a special introductory slide show by humorist Charles Phoenix

THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS (1959) with actress Barbara Rush

GOODBYE, COLUMBUS (1969) with stars Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw and director Larry Peerce

GREMLINS (1984) with director Joe Dante

CHINATOWN (1974) with assistant director/producer Hawk Koch, actors Bruce Glover and Burt Young, and author Sam Wasson

THE TERMINATOR (1984) with co-star Michael Biehn

SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (1954) with co-star Russ Tamblyn

MEDIUM COOL (1969) with star Robert Forster in person

KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979) with actors Justin Henry and JoBeth Williams

YENTL (1983) with Oscar-winning songwriter Alan Bergman

DON’T LOOK NOW (1973) with cinematographer Anthony Richmond

THE LAST OF SHEILA (1973) with co-stars Dyan Cannon and Richard Benjamin

DEATH ON THE NILE (1978), with Angela Lansbury as special guest at our sold-out screening.

AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) with co-writer Willard Huyck and co-stars Candy Clark and Charles Martin Smith.

PETULIA (1968) with actors Shirley Knight and Richard Chamberlain

AUNTIE MAME (1958) with actress Pippa Scott

OLIVER! (1968) with actress Shani Wallis

IT’S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (1963) with Karen and Kat Kramer, widow and daughter of producer-director Stanley Kramer, and special surprise guest Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker), who described the film as his childhood favorite.

THE DEER HUNTER (1978) with actor John Savage

DAY FOR NIGHT (1973) with actress Jacqueline Bisset

I LOVE YOU, ALICE B. TOKLAS (1968) with actress Leigh Taylor-Young

THE LATE SHOW (1977) with co-star Lily Tomlin and actors Joanna Cassidy and Bill Macy

CAPRICORN ONE (1978), with writer-director Peter Hyams and actors Elliott Gould and James Brolin

DIE HARD (1988), with screenwriter Steven de Souza and co-stars Bonnie Bedelia and Reginald VelJohnson

Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 (1963) with actress Barbara Steele

SILENT RUNNING (1972) with director Douglas Trumbull and producer Michael Gruskoff

POINT BLANK (1967) with actress Angie Dickinson

LETHAL WEAPON (1987) with director Richard Donner and co-star Mitchell Ryan.

TWO FOR THE ROAD (1967) with co-stars William Daniels and Jacqueline Bisset.

VICTOR VICTORIA (1982) with co-star Lesley Ann Warren

MY FAVORITE YEAR (1982) with director Richard Benjamin, producer Michael Gruskoff, co-stars Joe Bologna and Lainie Kazan

PEYTON PLACE (1957) with co-star Terry Moore

MAKING LOVE (1982) with screenwriter Barry Sandler, author A. Scott Berg, and actor Harry Hamlin

DINER (1982) with Academy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997) with actors Kim Basinger and Guy Pearce

Billy Wilder’s AVANTI! (1972) with actors Juliet Mills and Clive Revill

IN COLD BLOOD (1967) with actor Scott Wilson

THE FOUR SEASONS (1981) with writer-director-actor Alan Alda, actress Carol Burnett, actress Bess Armstrong

THE TURNING POINT (1977) with actress Shirley MacLaine

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) with director Peter Bogdanovich

CARRIE (1976) with actors Piper Laurie, Nancy Allen, William Katt, P.J. Soles, and Oscar-winning film editor Paul Hirsch

THE GROUP (1966) with actors Shirley Knight and Hal Holbrook

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) with Karen Kramer, widow of award-winning producer-director Stanley Kramer

WEST SIDE STORY (1961) with co-star Russ Tamblyn

THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) with Oscar-winning director William Friedkin

THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION (1976) with best-selling author and screenwriter Nicholas Meyer

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961) with Ginny and Monica Mancini, widow and daughter of Oscar-winning composer Henry Mancini

THE HUSTLER (1961) with actress Piper Laurie

MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971) with actors Keith Carradine and William Devane and Kathryn Altman, the widow of director Robert Altman

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966) with actor George Segal

RIO GRANDE (1950) with actor Claude Jarman

SOMEWHERE IN TIME (1980) with Jane Seymour and director Jeannot Szwarc

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1940) with 98-year-old actress Marsha Hunt in person

THE GREAT SANTINI (1980) with actress Blythe Danner, writer-director Lewis John Carlino, and co-star Lisa Jane Persky

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) with Sara Karloff, the only daughter of Boris Karloff

SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) with actress Nancy Olson

WILD RIVER (1960) with actor Bruce Dern

EXODUS (1960) with actress Eva Marie Saint