We just got word that Joe Dante will be screening a few of his favorite films at the New Beverly in LA. See below for the announcement with some tentative titles, including a rare screening of THE MOVIE ORGY. Who knows who you may wind up sitting next to?

April 9 + 10 MONDO CANE and ZULU

April 11 + 12 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD and TRUCK TURNER

HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD Producer Jon Davison, co-director Allan Arkush and stars Mary Woronov and Dick Miller are scheduled to appear.

TRUCK TURNER director Jonathan Kaplan will introduce.

April 13, 14, 15 THE SADIST and CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER

Vilmos Zsigmond will appear in person on the 15th.

April 16 + 17 THE SECRET INVASION and TOMB OF LIGEIA

April 18 + 19 WRONG IS RIGHT and Mystery Movie

John Saxon in person!

Plus another movie in the same vein TBA with guest

April 20 + 21 BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW and HORROR EXPRESS

April 22 THE MOVIE ORGY

From Joe Dante: This is the first, one nite only public showing in many years of my first project. In 1968 when "camp" was king, Jon Davison and I put together a counterculture compendium of 16mm bits and pieces (tv show openings, commercials, parts of features, old serials etc.), physically spliced them in ironic juxtapositions and ran the result at the Philadelphia College of Art interspersed with parts of a Bela Lugosi serial. The reaction was phenomenal. This led to The Movie Orgy, a 7-hour marathon of old movie clips and stuff with a crowd-pleasing anti-war, anti-military, anti-establishment slant that played the Fillmore East and on college campuses all over the country for years -- always the one print. We called it a 2001-splice odyssey. We kept adding and subtracting material over time so this, alas, is not the original version-- it's the later cutdown, running a mere 4 hours and 19 minutes! But it's still a pop time capsule that will bring many a nostalgic chuckle from baby boomers and dazed expressions of WTF?! from anyone else.

Admission is free, so buy plenty of concession stand items!