Dan O'Bannon, R.I.P.

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's Ladies Night!

On Thursday, January 7th, The Cinefamily will be hosting a night with Will Oldham, who has curated a night of excellent movies that explore the the wonder and the mystery of the fairer sex. Oldham will be appearing in person, introducing the films, and as is always the case with him, it's sure to be an eye opener of an evening.

The evening will open with Nicholas Ray's soapy noir A Woman's Secret (1949), starring the ravishing Maureen O'Hara as a singing teacher blamed for the shooting of her smarmy protégé (Gloria Grahame), "a trollop-minded chirp she has coached into the bigtime." (Variety) Scripted by Herman J. Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), the film is a chance for Ray to take what could have been an average "woman's picture" and tweak it to suit his slightly perverse sensibilities.

Next, Wim Wenders' Alice In The Cities (1974). This German New Wave gem finds a roving reporter who reluctantly takes on the guardianship of Alice, a little girl who needs to be delivered to her grandmother -- a woman whose name and address she doesn't remember, and whose house can only be identified by a single photo of an unmarked front door. Yella Röttlander's stellar performance as the young girl whose journey's end is always one more step away is framed terrifically by Robby Mueller's B&W cinematography, and a moody score by Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli (half of Krautrock legends Can).
A great movie night with one of the real living legends of music as your host-YOU CAN'T GO WRONG!
More info here.
Buy tickets here

DJ Kramorhaim at Dub Lab's Give Up

Me and Sarah are playing music that'll make you feel worse than you already feel by reading this blog - at Give Up.



SUNDAY, December 20th

GIVE UP…stop dancing and cry

It’s the season for sadness so join these us for cheer crushing songs from…

Dntel
Katie Byron
DJ Kramorhaim

Fully bummed out film projections from the Masses will dash your holiday hopes.

FREE / 21+ / 9pm-2am

The Hyperion Tavern
1941 Hyperion Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
http://www.hyperiontavern.com

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Here are some photos of the show that's up in the back room right now. Come check it next time you're here, same hours as the shop!

Take My Treasures Fundraiser

New strip in Vice.

I have a four page strip in the new issue of Vice, the Fiction Issue. It printed well-more people should print their comics on glossy paper.
We have copies in the store, but if you can't get a hold of the actual object, you can read it here.

MOUNTAINS AND FLOWERS BY SUSAN CIANCIOLO

December 12, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Opening Reception
Saturday, December 12
4-6p

Aska will be playing a solo set at 5. Then afterward come to Family for the opening of Group Show One!

Saturday Night and Sunday Night

Saturday:
Group Show One in the back room gallery
Sunday:
Dear JD Salinger, I Forgive You Signed, Yoko Launch



Group Show One is the first in a series of group exhibitions in FAMILY's new Back Room Gallery

Artist Bios:
Ashley Snow Macomber is represented by Kavi Gupta Gallery (Chicago) and has shown at Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City) New Image Art (LA) Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art (Athens), White Box Gallery (NYC). She has been included in publications such as Revisionaries, ANP Quarterly Issue #9. Her most recent book is We Are What We Are Not
ashleymacomber.com

Kevin Christy is represented by Monya Rowe gallery (New York), and has shown at Jack Hanley gallery (San Francisco), Hope gallery (Los Angeles), New Image Art gallery (Los Angeles), White Columns (New York), Loyal gallery (Sweden), and Space 1026 (Philadelphia). He has a catalogue with Cederteg, and his work was inluded in 'dear new girl, or whatever your name is' by McSweeneys, and is a regular contributor to Stop Smiling magazine. He is a co-founder of the Broken Wrist Project
kevinsayshi.com

Nicholas Haggard has exhibited at Peter Hey Halpert gallery (NYC), Rogues gallery (Portland) and Family (LA). He has a zine with Cederteg, and his editorial work has appeared in Dazed & Confused, Pig, and Sang Bleu
nicholashaggard.com

Sarah Soquel Morhaim's films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts, CineVegas, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Philadelphia Independent, the Austin Film Society and others. Her photography has appeared in Arkitip, and received awards from the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts
sarahsoquel.com



Launch of Dear JD Salinger, I Forgive You Signed, Yoko
New poems by Spencer Moody and Anthony Anzalone
Published by Teenage Teardrops

Insecurities:
Don't worry!
We all know
what you do
not like
about yourself
-AA

There will be readings by Spencer Moody, Anthony Anzalone, and Deanna Uribe



Bios:

Spencer Moody is the vocalist for Seattle-based noise rock group Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death. He was previously the vocalist for the Murder City Devils

Anthony Anzalone is the vocalist for Mikki and the Mauses. He was previously vocalist for the Mean Reds. He maintains the blog: iveheardworseshit.blogspot.com/

Deanna Uribe's latest poetry zines include: Grog Head 2, and The Skeleton

Last Weekend for Main Street Show at Space 15Twenty

If you haven't seen the Main Street show at Space15Twenty, Saturday is the last day. It's a perfect opportunity to pick up the DVD compilation which is finally finished and available at the gallery. It will be at Family next week - I'll take some photos of it and put them on the blog soon. If you pre-bought a copy at the gallery already they'll be sent out Friday.

On Saturday Girls are playing a free show in the gallery courtyard at 3PM, plus a bunch of DJs, so what else can you ask for? What a great day you will have!

Couple new things came in today, stop by this weekend to check it all
out!

Cinefamily Screening of interest

This Saturday night, at 7:30, guest curator Aron Rose has put together an impressive roster of short films by (and sometimes about) some of our favorite artists, like Harmony Korine, Cheryl Dunn, Chris Johanson, Spike Jonze, Thomas Campbell, Ed Templeton, and Geoff McFetridge. Special guests, drinks, rarely screened and hard to find picks, it's going to be a good movie night.
Co-presented by Oscilloscope Labs and Amoeba Records.
Tickets and other info here.