Fine Arts Theatre Beverly Hills

.89¢ anniversary admissions! The arch-villains of the United Underworld - the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler and the Catwoman - join forces to dispose of Batman and Robin as they launch their fantastic plot to control the entire world. From his submarine, the Penguin and his cohorts hijack a yacht containing a dehydrator, which can extract all moisture from humans and reduce them to dust. The evildoers turn the nine Security Council members in the United World Building into nine vials of multicolored crystals. Batman and Robin track the villains in their Batboat and use Batcharge missiles to force the submarine to surface.

Tim Burton Memorial Day Weekend Series. United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon die, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the kind of father Edward has been to him. One of those stories from Edward's childhood - that he saw his own death in the glass eye of a witch - led to him embracing life since he would not have to fear death knowing when and how it would eventually come. The question is whether Will will be able to reconcile Edward's stories against his real life, either directly from Edward before he dies and/or from other sources, and thus allow Will to come to a new understanding of himself and his life, past, present and future.

.89¢ anniversary admissions! From Warner Bros. Pictures comes the feature film “Blue Beetle,” marking the DC Super Hero’s first time on the big screen. The film, directed by Angel Manuel Soto, stars Xolo Maridueña in the title role as well as his alter ego, Jaime Reyes. Recent college grad Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology: the Scarab. When the Scarab suddenly chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he is bestowed with an incredible suit of armor capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the Super Hero BLUE BEETLE.

Tim Burton memorial Day Weekend Series. Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films.

Tim Burtons Memorial Day Weekend Series When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them that Sparky's still the good, loyal friend he was.

2nd Sunday 70mm.PLUS series, IN PERSON Cinematographer Kees Van Oostrum, Writer/Director Ron Maxwell and other guests to be announced. The four and 1/4 hour depiction of the historical and personal events surrounding and including the decisive American civil war battle features thousands of civil war re-enactors marching over the exact ground that the federal army and the army of North Virginia fought on. The defense of the Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge are highlighted in the actual three day battle which is surrounded by the speeches of the commanding officers and the personal reflections of the fighting men. Based upon the novel 'The Killer Angels

70mm DC Superhero Summer. Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Joker” stars Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, alongside Oscar winner Robert De Niro, and is directed, produced and co-written by Oscar nominee Todd Phillips. “Joker” centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study, but also a broader cautionary tale.

2nd SUNDAY 70mm series. Stunning in scope, visually magnificent, and filled with compelling performances, David Lean's epic masterpiece is one of the great achievements in cinematic history. Peter O'Toole stars as T.E. Lawrence, a British officer who is sent to Arabia in 1917, and becomes a heroic leader in the Arabic rebellion against the Turks. As he grows more integrated into Arab society, his loyalties become conflicted. Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn co-star in this sweeping historical action-adventure classic.

A collection of newly restored 4K Fleischer Cartoons. Titles to be added soon. From the restoration team in person will be Claire Fleischer, Max's great-granddaughter and Mauricio Alvarado.

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES The evil Trade Federation, led by Nute Gunray is planning to take over the peaceful world of Naboo. Jedi Knights Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are sent to confront the leaders. But not everything goes to plan. The two Jedi escape, and along with their new Gungan friend, Jar Jar Binks head to Naboo to warn Queen Amidala, but droids have already started to capture Naboo and the Queen is not safe there. Eventually, they land on Tatooine, where they become friends with a young boy known as Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon is curious about the boy, and sees a bright future for him. The group must now find a way of getting to Coruscant and to finally solve this trade dispute, but there is someone else hiding in the shadows. Are the Sith really extinct? Is the Queen really who she says she is? And what's so special about this young boy?

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES Ten years after the invasion of Naboo, the Galactic Republic is facing a Separatist movement and the former queen and now Senator Padmé Amidala travels to Coruscant to vote on a project to create an army to help the Jedi to protect the Republic. Upon arrival, she escapes from an attempt to kill her, and Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker are assigned to protect her. Who is the leader of the Separatist movement? Will Anakin receive Obi-Wan's message? And will the secret love between Anakin and Amidala succeed?

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES Nearly three years have passed since the beginning of the Clone Wars. The Republic, with the help of the Jedi, take on Count Dooku and the Separatists. With a new threat rising, the Jedi Council sends Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to aid the captured Chancellor. Anakin feels he is ready to be promoted to Jedi Master. Obi-Wan is hunting down the Separatist General, Grievous. When Anakin has future visions of pain and suffering coming Padmé's way, he sees Master Yoda for counsel. When Darth Sidious executes Order 66, it destroys most of all the Jedi have built. Experience the birth of Darth Vader. Feel the betrayal that leads to hatred between two brothers. And witness the power of hope.

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES The Imperial Forces, under orders from cruel Darth Vader, hold Princess Leia hostage in their efforts to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, work together with the companionable droid duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess, help the Rebel Alliance and restore freedom and justice to the Galaxy.

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader.

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES Luke Skywalker battles Jabba the Hutt and Darth Vader to save his comrades in the Rebel Alliance and triumph over the Galactic Empire. Han Solo and Princess Leia reaffirm their love, and team with Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, the Ewoks, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 to aid in the disruption of the Dark Side, and the defeat of the evil emperor

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES 30 years after the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire, Rey, a scavenger from the planet Jakku, finds a BB-8 droid that knows the whereabouts of the long-lost Luke Skywalker. Rey, as well as a rogue stormtrooper and two smugglers, are thrown into the middle of a battle between the Resistance and the daunting legions of the First Order.

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES Jedi Master-in-hiding Luke Skywalker unwillingly attempts to guide young hopeful Rey in the ways of the force, while Leia, former princess turned general, attempts to lead what is left of the Resistance away from the ruthless tyrannical grip of the First Order.

FOURTH ANNUAL STAR WARS SERIES While the First Order continues to ravage the galaxy, Rey finalizes her training as a Jedi. But danger suddenly rises from the ashes as the evil Emperor Palpatine mysteriously returns from the dead. While working with Finn and Poe Dameron to fulfill a new mission, Rey will not only face Kylo Ren once more, but she will also finally discover the truth about her parents as well as a deadly secret that could determine her future and the fate of the ultimate final showdown that is to come.

.89¢ anniversary admissions!The Godfather "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia family in New York. He is at the event of his daughter's wedding. Michael, Vito's youngest son and a decorated WWII Marine is also present at the wedding. Michael seems to be uninterested in being a part of the family business. Vito is a powerful man, and is kind to all those who give him respect but is ruthless against those who do not. But when a powerful and treacherous rival wants to sell drugs and needs the Don's influence for the same, Vito refuses to do it. What follows is a clash between Vito's fading old values and the new ways which may cause Michael to do the thing he was most reluctant in doing and wage a mob war against all the other mafia families which could tear the Corleone family apart.

89¢ anniversary special. The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

.89¢ anniversary admissions! Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

Second Sunday 70mm PLUS series. After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone rules Chicago with an iron fist. Though Prohibition Agent Eliot Ness attempts to take Capone down, even his best efforts fail due to widespread corruption within the Windy City's police force. Recruiting an elite group of lawmen who won't be swayed by bribes or fear, including Irish-American cop Jimmy Malone, Ness renews his determination to bring Capone to justice.

Citizen Kane rewrote the rulebook with bold storytelling, dazzling visual invention, and a gleeful sense of cinematic mischief no one had seen before. When Orson Welles burst onto the screen in 1941 with this audacious debut, he set a standard so high that cinema has been racing to catch up ever since, and now you can see it the way it was meant to be seen, on the big screen. Experience exclusive evenings of intrigue and artistry with Wednesday With Welles, the Fine Arts Theatre's monthly celebration of Orson Welles, cinema's most enigmatic genius. Beneath the velvet glow of Beverly Hills' historic movie palace, you'll witness a classic Welles masterpiece on the big screen, accompanied by untold stories, rare revelations, and a live conversation with filmmaker Stanley Sheff, editor and collaborator who worked with Welles on his final completed production. A gathering as unforgettable, and as unique, as the man himself.

Filmed while Welles was in Brazil on a government mission, the Ambersons' decline mirrors the mutilation of the movie itself, cut to pieces by RKO against his wishes. What survives on screen is a haunting portrait of vanished privilege and changing America, glowing with Bernard Herrmann's last score for Welles and begging to be rediscovered with an audience. Experience exclusive evenings of intrigue and artistry with Wednesday With Welles, the Fine Arts Theatre's monthly celebration of Orson Welles, cinema's most enigmatic genius. Beneath the velvet glow of Beverly Hills' historic movie palace, you'll witness a classic Welles masterpiece on the big screen, accompanied by untold stories, rare revelations, and a live conversation with filmmaker Stanley Sheff, editor and collaborator who worked with Welles on his final completed production. A gathering as unforgettable, and as unique, as the man himself.

Shot on Rita Hayworth's newly shorn platinum hair, an image that shocked Hollywood, the film drifts from Acapulco waters to that legendary funhouse of mirrors at Venice Pier. Its fractured finale reflects the off-screen marriage collapsing even as Welles crafted one of noir's most daring visual experiments. Experience exclusive evenings of intrigue and artistry with Wednesday With Welles, the Fine Arts Theatre's monthly celebration of Orson Welles, cinema's most enigmatic genius. Beneath the velvet glow of Beverly Hills' historic movie palace, you'll witness a classic Welles masterpiece on the big screen, accompanied by untold stories, rare revelations, and a live conversation with filmmaker Stanley Sheff, editor and collaborator who worked with Welles on his final completed production. A gathering as unforgettable, and as unique, as the man himself.

Welles stepped into this tale of a Nazi fugitive to prove he could work within the studio system, creating the first Hollywood film to use actual death-camp footage. Beneath the Connecticut clock tower, his villain meets a fate as sharp and precise as the gears that tick above him. Experience exclusive evenings of intrigue and artistry with Wednesday With Welles, the Fine Arts Theatre's monthly celebration of Orson Welles, cinema's most enigmatic genius. Beneath the velvet glow of Beverly Hills' historic movie palace, you'll witness a classic Welles masterpiece on the big screen, accompanied by untold stories, rare revelations, and a live conversation with filmmaker Stanley Sheff, editor and collaborator who worked with Welles on his final completed production. A gathering as unforgettable, and as unique, as the man himself.

Shot on the border streets of Venice, California, the film's bravura opening, one long swooping take, was nearly discarded by the studio until Welles fought to restore it decades later. Quinlan's downfall, recorded on a wire in an oil-field canal, marks one of cinema's great resurrections, a masterpiece reclaimed from chaos. Experience exclusive evenings of intrigue and artistry with Wednesday With Welles, the Fine Arts Theatre's monthly celebration of Orson Welles, cinema's most enigmatic genius. Beneath the velvet glow of Beverly Hills' historic movie palace, you'll witness a classic Welles masterpiece on the big screen, accompanied by untold stories, rare revelations, and a live conversation with filmmaker Stanley Sheff, editor and collaborator who worked with Welles on his final completed production. A gathering as unforgettable, and as unique, as the man himself.

Filmed partly in Ibiza and Paris, this freewheeling essay resurrects the notorious forger Elmyr de Hory and the hoax biographer Clifford Irving, who himself fooled the world with his fake Howard Hughes autobiography. Welles, ever the magician, ends his film with dazzling cinematic trickery of his own, proudly announcing it the moment the clock strikes midnight. Experience exclusive evenings of intrigue and artistry with Wednesday With Welles, the Fine Arts Theatre's monthly celebration of Orson Welles, cinema's most enigmatic genius. Beneath the velvet glow of Beverly Hills' historic movie palace, you'll witness a classic Welles masterpiece on the big screen, accompanied by untold stories, rare revelations, and a live conversation with filmmaker Stanley Sheff, editor and collaborator who worked with Welles on his final completed production. A gathering as unforgettable, and as unique, as the man himself.

70mm DC Superheroes series. “Wonder Woman” hits movie theaters around the world next summer when Gal Gadot returns as the title character in the epic action adventure from director Patty Jenkins (“Monster,” AMC’s “The Killing”). Joining Gadot in the international cast are Chris Pine (the “Star Trek” films), Robin Wright (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Netflix’s “House of Cards”), Danny Huston (“Clash of the Titans,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”), David Thewlis (the “Harry Potter” films, “The Theory of Everything”), Connie Nielsen (Fox’s “The Following,” “Gladiator”), Elena Anaya (“The Skin I Live In”), Ewen Bremner (“Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “Snowpiercer”), Lucy Davis (“Shaun of the Dead,” FX’s “Better Things”), Lisa Loven Kongsli (upcoming “Ashes in the Snow”), Eugene Brave Rock (AMC’s “Hell on Wheels”) and Saïd Taghmaoui (“American Hustle”). Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside man in a war to end all wars, Diana will discover her full powers…and her true destiny.An Amazonian princess leaves her island home to explore the world and, in doing so, becomes one of the world's greatest heroes.