SIDESHOW SUMMER

At SideShow Books, we revel in the summer months as a time to celebrate our community of friends and fiends: book fiends, film fiends, music fiends, curious and creative adventurers of all stripes.

A summer culinary highlight will be BANGERS & MASH & BEANS provided by JOLLY POSH FOODS which will be available at all the Wednesday British Film Nights and the GET KLINGER sidebar on Saturday July 12. $FEE 15$

Week of July 7-12 Doors at 8pm:

Tuesday July 8th 8:30pm screening: Sam ElBaz presents AMELIE (2001) D. Jean-Pierre Jeunet.  Pastries.

Wednesday July 9th 8:30 pm Screening: Film historian Tom Newth presents British post war crime films: COSH BOY (1953) D. Lewis Gilbert; followed by THE BOYS (1963) D. Sidney J. Furie

Thursday, July 10th 8:30pm screening: The Los Angeles Premiere of SIDE BY SIDE (2025) D. Alan Borunda 19min;
followed by Rainer-Werner Fassbinder’s KATZELMACHER (1969)

Friday, July 11th 8PM: SIDESHOW CRAFT NIGHT: Participants will create “The Rock Concert” a time-honored favorite made with wooden blocks, found-rocks, google-eyes and colored fuzz!
There is a $20 fee to cover the above-provided materials. Limited to 15 people. RSVP in advance. $FEE 20$

Saturday, July 12th, 8:30pm screening: A side-bar to the British postwar crime film series, we present an Evening entitled GET KLINGER in which we celebrate Michael Klinger, British film producer, showman and entrepreneur, by screening one of his best productions: GET CARTER (1971) D. Mike Hodges 
followed by the 2018 documentary THE MAN WHO GOT CARTER (2018) about Klinger produced by his talented son Tony Klinger.

Looking ahead, here is some upcoming evenings:

Tuesdays, Sam ElBaz continues her presentation of French Films which begin at 8:40 PM, as follows:July 15:

LA HAINE (1995) D. Mathieu Kassovitz
July 22: A WOMAN IS A WOMAN (1961) D. Jean-Luc Godard
July 29: THE DINNER GAME (aka Le Diner de Cons) (1999) D. Francis Veber

Wine and Pastries on hand. $5 donation is suggested.

Wednesdays, we continue British film historian Tom Newth’s series of British postwar crime films. Most of the film selection have short running times and so look out for double- and triple-features! We have arranged with British food purveyors JOLLY POSH FOODS to provide guests with Darts, Beer, Bangers & Mash & Beans all available for at $5-$18. Doors open 8pm, & Screening at 8:30

July 16: NEVER LET GO (1960) D. John Guillermin, 90m with Peter Sellars!
THE UNSTOPPABLE MAN (1960) Terry Bishop, 68m
ESCAPE BY NIGHT (1953) D. John Gilling, 79m
July 23: A Tripe-Feature Program of “Bad Women”(?)

DAYBREAK (1948) D. Compton Bennett, 75m with Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Jane Hylton. Actually the best of the season: poetic, mist-shrouded barge hosts a doomy love triangle full of self-guilt – Portman has a terrific secret. Two great actors at their best, and giant Maxwell Reed who’s always welcome.
MARILYN (aka Roadhouse Girl) (1953) D. Wolf Rilla, 70m with Sandra Dorne, Maxwell Reed, Reginald Dwyer, Ferdy Mayne, Vida Hope. This woman is definitely bad. It’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, with hulking man Reed, a welcome role of substance for Dwyer, good and slimy Mayne, and the captivating Dorne.
DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) D. Lance Comfort, 91mwith Siobhán McKenna, Maxwell Reed, Ann Crawford, Honor Blackman. Is she a witch or just horny? McKenna is just fantastic, particularly when she slips out to play the church organ in the middle of the night.

July 30 An Edgar Wallace Quadruple Feature
NEVER BACK LOSERS (1961) D. Robert Tronson, 61m with Patrick Magee, Jack Hedley, Jacqueline Ellis. It’s all about Patrick Magee as the kingpin bookie gangster. But also rather good otherwise.
CLUE OF THE NEW PIN (1961) D. Philip Mackie, 58m with James Villers, Paul Daneman, Katherine Woodville. Fantastic to see Villers in a meaty role, wonderfully posh and unflappable; Daneman is just as good; and the mystery is a tough one.
ACCIDENTAL DEATH (1963) D. Geoffrey Nethercott, 55m with John Carson, Jacquline Ellis, John Vernon. Weird relationships and weird revenge in a country house. Good and tense despite the fact no-one is very likable. A good representation of the typical quality of the 50-film WALLACE series, which is above average.
THE MAIN CHANCE (1964) D. John Knight, 59m with Grégoire Aslan, Edward de Souza, Tracy Reed. Getting all high-tech in the early sixties under the suave fingertips of Aslan, but of course there’s a young buck who wants to grab his share.

Thursdays at 8:30pm, Producer/Director Bianca Cockrell will continue her presentation of SIDESHOW BELIEVES IN LOVE:
July 17: THE HANDMAIDEN (2106) D. Park Chan-Work
July 24: WAITRESS (2007) D. Adrienne Shelly
July 31: HAPPY TOGETHER (1997) D. Wong Kar-Wai

Saturday July 19th — A MUSICAL EVENING WITH SUN FLANGE AND FRIENDS!