Today Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced that director Michael Bay‘s highly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will have its American premiere on Monday, June 22 at the Los Angeles Film Festival, just in advance of its theatrical bow two days later, June 24. The festival runs from Thursday, June 18 to Sunday, June 28.

Police Academy‘s Michael Winslow — yeah, that guy — gets some love when the Silent Movie Theatre celebrates his unique talents of mimicry by giving him center stage to embark on a never-before attempted challenge that only he could possibly fulfill. Yes, on Wednesday, June 10, Winslow will be providing a live music-and-effects track to a varied sampling of classic and not-so-classic shorts from the silent era. Not so silent anymore, it turns out! Festivities kick off at 8 p.m., and tickets are $14. For more
information on the event, and the Silent Movie Theatre in general, click here.