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FILM CALENDAR THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES STANDARDS SCREENING FRIDAY, MAY 8, 7:30 PM SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATER Featuring the Restored Version in 70 mm MY FAIR LADY Live Flesh is as tender a romance as any of Almoddvar's movies. His goofy lyricism makes a paraplegic basketball game look as sexy as a lesson in lovemaking (University Village 3, Sat 10 am HU) LOST IN SPACE Director Stephen Hopkins and writer Akiva Goldsman layer a ridiculous time-travel tale with the story of a dysfunctional family Robinson, impressive special effects and IKEA-does-Sfar Wars production design. The basic premise carries over from the original '60s series' A family of space pioneers is launched on a journey to a faraway planet, then thrown hopelessly off course by a stowaway saboteur. In this adventure, however, they encounter difficulties of a more '90s nature, including metallic monster spiders with Aten jaws and, for maximum merchandising effect, a cute li'l cartoon space monkey As macho pilot Don West Matt LeBlanc is pretty; so is Heather Graham as Robinson daughter Judy Mimi Rogers is easy on the eyes, and William Hurt sulks as Robinson dad John, whose neglectful ways are particularly injurious to young computer whiz Will (Jack Johnson) and rebel girl Penny (Lacey Chabert). Gary Oldman as the perfidious Dr.

Smith rises deliciously above the material, but that's to be expected. (Citywide) (HDD) LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND British director Richard Kwietniowski's delightful first feature riffs with wry tenderness and a touch of slapstick on the bulldozing power of desire to make clowns out of even the most desiccated among us When widowed English writer Giles DeAth (John Hurt) falls in love with the image of beautiful American beefcake Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley), he pur sues his obsession to the Long Island home of Ronnie and his girlfriend (Fiona Loewi). With karma like this Giles can't tell a telly from a microwave, while the object of his affection doesn't know his Rimbaud from his Rambo the stage is set for farce. Yet Kwietmowski never allows the sitcom moments to overwhelm Love and Death on Long Islands rueful gentleness. Hurt, usually so over the top, brings a quiet grace to this man who's spent his life buried in the arcane arts and, waking up to life, confuses the two.

(Monica 4 Plex; Sat. 11 am.) El THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK Going down with the Titanic ms a picnic compared to what Leonardo DiCaprio weathers as Louis XIV in this nutso adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' novel. So busy is the king screwing maids and kvetching to his retainer D'Artagnon (Gabriel Byrne) about revolting Jesuits, he cares not a fig for the starving poor of Paris. Up rise the retired Musketeers (John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons and Gerard Depardieu, geezerish in grisly hair) to teach the royal thug a lesson, which entails rescuing a mystery man in an iron mask from jail. Fetchingly filmed by Peter Suschitzky, The Man in the Iron Mask is endearing fun wtien it least means to be and ineffably dumb when it strives for laughs.

Director Randall Wallace has imported the dialogue ('Get me a general!) from his screenplay for Braveheart, but who cares? Not the teen millions who would flock to see DiCaprio in Daffy Duck, die Sequel. (Gardena Cinema. UA Warner Center) (ET) MEN WITH GUNS From the beginning of his filmmaking career, John Sayles has been concerned with the A special reel of Audrey Hepburn singing Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" in her own voice. 1964 Academy Award Winner for Best Picture. Special viewing hours 6:30 7:30 pm BOB WILLOUGHBYS PERSISTENCE OF VISION exhibition in the Academy Galleries.

Includes on-set photos from MY FAIR lady nmbm Tickets $5.00. Unreserved seating. Available in advance or at the door Friday, beginning at 6:30 pm. 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills INFORMATION (310) 247-3600 FREE EVENT PARKING AT 8920 WILSHIRE s. 5 A 'WINNER 1 ACADEMY AWARDS' this book, brightens any outing (Beverly Center Cineplcxj (H-DD) JUNK MAIL 'Nordic farce may be a contradiction in terms, but Junk Mail qualifies though, it must be stressed, the fun takes a while to thaw For its first third, we seem trapped in a Scandinavian hell, where the bleak and the meek walk in lock step Roy Amundsen (Robert Skjaerstad) is a postal worker steeped in the killing loneliness of his trade.

He'll steal mail to spite a mean stranger, and when given a chance to spy on an attractive blond (Andrme Saether), who's accidentally left her house keys in reach, he doesn't hesitate The tension as he explores her apartment is so nerve-racking that one may wish to escape one's seat and pace at the back of the theater But director Pal Sletaune, who co-wrote with Jonny Halberg, has a number of refreshing surprises in store and these pack a punch that is all the more dryly funny because the buildup has been so relentlessly truthful. Some films are called 'sleepers' because they take a while to find their audience. Junk Mail which won the International Critics' Week last year at Cannes has the brass to sleep, even snore, in your face, only to pinch itself awake with a winning vengeance. (Sunset 5, Sat -Sun, 10 a.m.l( FXF) KURT AND COURTNEY Nick Broomfield's latest encounter with scary women explores the controversy surrounding the death of Kurt Cobain, specifically Courtney Love's alleged involvement. Wielding his trademark microphone and icy hauteur, Broomfield hooks up various tabloid types and fringe dwellers, including Love's father, an opportunist whose exploitation of his daughter goes a long way toward explaining her bad attitude.

It's no surprise that Love herself comes off as monstrous no surprise because everyone who's interviewed seems to bear her a deep grudge Perhaps sensing that Broomfield is less than sympathetic. Love shows up just once in front of his camera, caught on her way to an ACLU dinner even while she is, according to Broomfield, attempting to put the kibosh on his film. That makes for a nice touch of irony, though not half as nice or half as ironic as the fact that, by the film's end. Love emerges as fairly sympathetic (Selected theaters) MD) LES MISERABLES In this newest film version of the Victor Hugo novel, Liam Neeson stars as the reformed thief Valjean and a fine Geoffrey Rush is Javert. his tormentor As might be expected from Bille August, the director who turned The House of the Spirits into a house of wax.

there's an analgesic quality to this historical epic, an emotional numbness Rush cuts loose in his last scene, but his character is too intangible to make either an impression or much sense. Neeson, who tends to emote through his looming physicality, either charges through a scene like a bull or hesitates meaningfully midframe His Valjean seems less haunted and hunted than slow Claire Danes, as Valjean's adopted daughter Cosette, snivels through her role and, like everyone in the cast, speaks her lines with an English accent. Perhaps that explains why the Parisian mob looks so polite when someone squeaks. 'To the (Citywide) W) LIVE FLESH Based on a novel by Ruth Rendell with allusions to Franco's fascism. Pedro Almoddvars new movie begins in fear and loathing and moves to a kind of redemption A thriller in form only.

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