I’d rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll. -Ginger Baker Downtown Independent Presents BEWARE OF MR. BAKER Rating: Unrated | Runtime: 92 Minutes | Year: 2012 | Trailer: Beware Friday, January 25th, 2013 – Thursday, February 7th, 2013 | Showtimes Here Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Parking Tips: Street, Parking […]

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Before you break up with Skye, give her her belt back. -Kevin Conway Downtown Independent Presents ONLY THE YOUNG Rating: Unrated | Runtime: 72 Minutes | Year: 2012 | Trailer: Only Friday, January 4th, 2013 – Thursday, January 10th, 2013 | Showtimes Here Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90012 Parking Tips: Street, […]

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Ultimately, this is a film about an artist by two artists. We set out to use a very lyrical approach to tell the story and based upon what we have been told by audiences, we have achieved this goal. -Burt Sun & André Costantini Downtown Independent Presents BEL BORBA AQUI Rating: Unrated | Runtime: 95 […]

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I get asked a lot what do you want people to feel at the end, I don’t care what they feel, as long as they feel something. -Ava DuVernay Downtown Independent Presents MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 102 Minutes | Year: 2011 | Trailer: Middle Monday, November 12th, 2012 | 8:30 & 10:30 PM […]

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The best way to show it is on a huge screen, so you can get into these images. And the other fifty-percent of it is the music, the soundtrack, which is sort of the emotional dialogue, the emotional impact. -Ron Fricke Downtown Independent Presents SAMSARA Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 102 Minutes | Year: 2011 | […]

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Go ahead, Jesse. Try it on for size. -Freddy Krueger Downtown Independent Presents A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET PART 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE Rating: R | Runtime: 87 Minutes | Year: 1985 | Trailer: Nightmare Wednesday October 10th, 2012 | 9:00 PM Filmmaker Daniel Farrands, who will discuss the movie and present clips from his acclaimed […]

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“My nephew, who lives in Montreal, told me that his other uncle – Nasyr Abdul Al-Khabyyr – was cooking up this drum camp on a 300-acre farm just west of Montreal. I’d been to the farm before, and when my nephew told me about the lineup of drummers that were coming, I instantly knew I […]

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Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat… college. -Alvy Singer Downtown Independent Presents ANNIE HALL Rating: PG | Runtime: 93 Minutes | Year: 1977 | Trailer: Annie Monday, June 11th, 2012 | 9:00 PM ANNIE HALL won against BLUE VELVET for Cinema Deathmatch! Downtown Independent 251 S. Main St. […]

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