My favorite fanzine (a magazine devoted to movements with a fan following) of the moment is Dumb Angel Magazine - an LA publication dedicated to all the fun post-war modernist stuff in California like surf movies and '60s beatnik culture. You can virtually leaf through the blog or order issues online. This week hosted a bunch of obscure Jan & Dean recordings.

Tonight Dumb Angel's editors Dominic Priore & Brian Chidester host a very special screening of a very anomalous film. 1961's Night Tide stars a young, rebellious Dennis Hopper as a wayward sailor strolling Venice beach. He meets a girl (Linda Lawson) who might be an actual mermaid but for the time being plays one in a circus sideshow. Apart from the plotline which flies off the mainstream radar, the film depicts life in Santa Monica as it was in the '60s - a sleepy counterculture community now taken for granted. Filmmaker Curtis Harrington and Dennis Hopper will be at The Egyptian for a Q & A.
Also plays with a short "Venice in the Sixties" plus a slideshow of rare shots from the Beatnik era.

Friday, Mar. 30 7:30pm
Egyptian Theater
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
$10 General Admission

Beatnik Beach Nite continues at the Egyptian Cinemateque...

Saturday, Mar. 31 7:30pm
Double Feature: The Beat Generation & The Connection (A very loose adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "The Subterraneans" - not available on DVD)
In person: Mamie Van Doren
$10 General Admission

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