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Around Town: ‘Mean Streets’ pays tribute to Fellini film

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‘I Vitelloni,’ a 1953 semi-autobiographical drama about five male friends living in a small Italian town, is considered one of the watershed moments in Federico Fellini’s career. The film is screening Friday through Wednesday at the New Beverly Cinema with a variety of second features that all tip their hats to ‘I Vitelloni.’

Martin Scorsese’s 1973 ‘Mean Streets’ is on tap Friday and Saturday. Another coming-of-age film from 1973, George Lucas’ ‘American Graffiti’ joins the Italian drama on Sunday and Monday. And on Tuesday and Wednesday, Barry Levinson’s nostalgia-tinged 1982 buddy movie ‘Diner,’ screens with the Fellini film. http://www.newbevcinema.com

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The Art Directors Guild Film Society and the American Cinemathque celebrate the guild’s 75th anniversary and its 2012 Film Series with 1929’s ‘The Iron Mask,’ Douglas Fairbanks’ last silent film, early Sunday evening at the Egyptian Theatre.

Allan Dwan helmed this sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers,’ which features the production design of Maurice Leloir. Fairbanks went to Paris to cajole the then-74-year-old Leloir to come to Hollywood to do the film. The only 35-millimeter print known to exist, restored by Kevin Brownlow, is being flown in from London for the event. http://www.americancinematheque.com

On Thursday evening, Film Independent at LACMA’s monthly ‘100 Years of Paramount Pictures’ presents two films starring a young Michael Caine: the original 1969 version of the caper flick ‘The Italian Job’ and 1966’s ‘Funeral in Berlin,’ which marked the British actor’s second outing as British spy Harry Palmer. And on Sunday, Film Independent is presenting a sneak preview of Wes Anderson’s latest film, ‘Moonrise Kingdom.’ This event is sold out, but there will be a stand-by line. http://www.lacma.org

Though critics and audiences weren’t exactly enthused about the Tim Burton-Johnny Depp version of ‘Dark Shadows,’ the director and actor have hit pay dirt with a number of their collaborations. Screenwriters Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander will be chatting about their experiences working with Burton and Depp on the 1994 charmer ‘Ed Wood,’ after a screening of the film Thursday evening at the Egyptian Theatre. Their discussion is followed by a screening of the first collaboration between Burton and Depp -- 1990’s ‘Edward Scissorhands.’

The intimate Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian Theatre presents the 1917 silent serial ‘The Mystery of the Double Cross’ this weekend. The first eight chapters will be shown on Friday evening, the remaining seven on Saturday evening. ‘Double Cross’ is one of just a few serials from the silent era that still exist in complete form.

The Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre continues its ‘The Poetry of Precision: A Robert Bresson Retrospective.’ Two of his earliest films screen Saturday evening: 1943’s ‘Les Anges du Peche,’ based on the Diderot novel, and 1945’s ‘Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne,’ which was penned by Jean Cocteau. http://www.americancinematheque.com

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The Echo Park Film Center presents ‘PXL: This 21’ Thursday night. The 21st annual toy camera film festival features Pixelvision films made with the Fisher-Price PXL 2000 camcorder.http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org.

A traveling exhibition of new Czech films is visiting Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre. The opening night program Thursday evening is 2010’s ‘Walking Too Fast.’ Director Radim Spacek will do a Q&A after the screening of the movie, followed by ‘Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer.’ http://www.cinefamily.org

Historian and author Miles Kruger will chat about the 1936 version of the Oscar Hammerstein II-Jerome Kern musical ‘Showboat’ on Sunday afternoon at the Billy Wilder Theater as part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive’s centennial celebration of Universal. Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Paul Robeson and Helen Morgan star. James Whale of ‘Frankenstein’ fame directed.

The archive’s Wednesday evening programming at the Million Dollar Theater in downtown Los Angeles presents two collaborations between director Nicholas Ray and Humphrey Bogart: 1949’s ‘Knock on Any Day’ and the 1950 film noir classic ‘In a Lonely Place,’ with Gloria Grahame and Frank Lovejoy. http://cinema.ucla.edu

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents ‘The Development of the Digital Animator’ on Monday evening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The 18th Marc Davis Celebration of Animation evening will be moderated by animator and historian Tom Sisto. http://www.oscars.org

REDCAT presents ‘New Day at 40: A Community’s Celebration’ on Monday evening. The program honors the 40th anniversary of indie New Day Films with a screening of work by two of its L.A. members: Anayansi Prado and Adele Horne. http://www.redcat.org

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