Bijou Theatre to Open Unconventional Crime Stories Series with KISS KISS BANG BANG, 1/11

The Bijou Theatre will present the Unconventional Crime Stories Series with Patrick McCord, PhD. of "Write Yourself Free." Continuing on the success of the Unconventional Love Stories Series, this series features five crime-related films. Patrick will guide you through the intimate details of each film giving you insight into the writer and director's process as well as showing you some of the hidden wit within each movie.

The Series kicks off on Sunday, January 11th, at 5pm with the Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his HIGH SCHOOL dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role - (via IMDB.com)

Kiss Kiss BANG BANG is a 2005 crime-comedy film written and directed by Shane Black, and starring Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan and Corbin Bernsen. The script is partially based on the Brett Halliday novel Bodies Are Where You Find Them, and interprets the classic hard boiled literary genre in a tongue-in-cheek fashion. The film was produced by Joel Silver, with Susan Downey (credited as Susan Levin) and Steve Richards as executive producers. Shot in Los Angeles between February 24 and May 3, 2004, the film debuted at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival on May 14, and received a limited release in cinemas in October and November 2005.

A new film will show each month on Sunday at 5pm. Tickets are $15.

Sunday, January 11th at 5pm - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Sunday, February 15th at 5pm - Run Lola Run

Sunday, March 8th at 5pm - The Secret in Their Eyes

Sunday, April 12th at 5pm - Croupier

Sunday, May 31st at 5pm - Headhunters

About "Unconventional Stories" Film Series

One Sunday Every Month @5pm: Unconventional Stories Film Series with Patrick McCord, PhD

In the conventional crime film, we usually get a deadly game: cops and/or criminals, a problematic crime, and the serious emphasis on certain basic human problems: greed, tribalism, lust, power, or, oh dear, the serial killer. Unconventional crime films are a bit more ambitious. Often their plots are twistier, their characters quirkier, and their purpose are... to have a little more fun with ideas. These films go beyond simplistic notions of right and wrong, and use crime stories to foreground more sophisticated problems sets while still giving us all the usual thrills of a great crime movie (including good-looking actors), but are sexier, funnier, a lot deeper than the dour violence of the conventional crime film allows.

See them on a big screen with a cinema sound system. Drinks, concession stand, and dinner available.