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Mission Statement My goal is to bring the virtually endless world of specialty film-going in Los Angeles right to your fingertips. This site covers revival, repertory, and special film events and the venues which house them. Whether your taste is classic Hollywood, documentary, avant-garde, foreign films, silent films, or cult classics ... FILMRADAR has it covered! About the creator, Karie Bible (Written by R. Johnson) Born a heterochromatic baby (put down the medical reference book—it means she’s got two different colored eyes) with the last name "Bible" on Halloween night, Karie was destined to be nothing if not unique. At the tender age of five she flipped on the family TV set, and her life was transformed.  Flickering in the darkness was the Horror Movie Matinee, featuring an old film you might have heard of in passing: Dracula, starring one Bela Lugosi. From that moment on her fate was sealed. She was helplessly, hopelessly, madly in love ... with movies. While other neighborhood girls played in the sandbox with their Barbie dolls, our heroine preferred to sit in her parents’ darkened living room and watch Frankenstein. She created FILMRADAR as an e-newsletter and now a website to inform the masses about all of the great screenings available in Los Angeles. Karie justifies her madness as such: “I really don’t understand people who work in this business and don’t know anything about its past. To me that’s like being a baseball player and not knowing who Babe Ruth was. I think that having at least a basic knowledge of film history is absolutely vital. To me, you can’t really understand anything about filmmaking and storytelling in the present or the future without knowing about the past.” In addition to her work in present-day Hollywood, she is also an aspiring film historian. She has lectured at LA’s Silent Movie Theatre, The Old Town Music Hall, and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery where she has spoken about the life of silent film star Rudolph Valentino and appeared as the new “Lady in Black.” Karie also leads private tours of the historic Hollywood Forever Cemetery and occasionally the Egyptian theatre as well. She is actively involved as a volunteer with the American Cinematheque and the Los Angeles Conservancy. She has attended the prestigious Silent Film Festival in San Francisco, the New York City Film Forum and the La Cin?math?que Fran?aise in Paris.  She also hosted and introduced films for The Art Deco Film Festival aboard the Queen Mary this past fall. Karie made her television debut as a guest film critic on AMC’s THE MOVIE CLUB with John Ridley and appears in a segment called “Hollywood Hideaways” for Turner Classic Movies.  She has also been a guest panelist on G4/Tech TV’s “Attack of the Show.” In addition to the FILMRADAR project, Karie writes short stories and is developing ideas for a film history book. In her free time she can be found in her lovely 1940s bungalow enjoying her favorite pastime… sleep.  You can e-mail her at:  karie *at* filmradar[dot]com About the design The FILMRADAR logo was designed by New York illustrator and performance artist A.V. Phibes. The typeface Saturday’s Girl is courtesy of Dinc Type.  Disclaimer FILMRADAR is not responsible for any changes or differences in programming, schedules, or admission prices at any of the theatres listed. As always, call ahead to confirm the information.

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“Screenings on Screen”
Back in film school, sometime last century, I had friends who would pick every rep theater calendar and sit for hours, carefully figuring out how to see the greatest range of films in the least time. Years later, at the old Los Angeles Reader ? R.I.P. ? I had a dream: I envisioned a list of all the special screenings, rep house, and one-shot film events, spread out in a calendar format, so that My People ? i.e., obsessive film geeks ? could see exactly what their options were for the whole week ? at a glance! And could circle them! And plan their itineraries in advance! That was so Old Media. The Internet changes everything; and Karie Bible at Filmradar.com is able to present a much grander version of that old dream. I mean, you can view an entire month at a glance if you want. And of course, instead of making you turn pages back and forth between a calendar and an alphabetical listing of the titles (as in my dream), you can just click to get specifics. (Andy Klein)

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