LAist Film Calendar 02/03-02/06: Iranian Vengeance, Acts of Violence & The Puppy Bowl

Packers. Steelers. Who will prevail? Biff knows. Watch him abuse the privilege - and McFly - Thursday in Back to the Future II, playing alongside the timeless original at the New Beverly. It's part of a touchdown weekend that packs in two thrillers from the French Hitchcock, Henri-George Cluzot (the masterful Diabolique & the unfinished, psychedelia-tinged Inferno) and the return of the steeliest balls of all, Phantasm II.

Should you lack a big enough screen to properly appreciate the Big Game, hike it to Downtown Independent, where the Super Bowl screens for free and the beer & wine are flowing! Should you lack any interest in football to properly appreciate the Big Game, the Cinefamily's live-broadcasting Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl VII, with a bitchin' BBQ & doggie diplomats from Bark 'n Bitches' pet adoption program. If you'd rather watch a down & dirty dogfight, hit them up the night before for Acts of Violence. The explosive blend of brutal action, screwball comedy & marital drama kicks off February's HFS 2010 line-up (what, no Serbian Film?)!

Elsewhere, Payback keeps the heat on. The Iranian women's revenge picture opens UCLA Film & Television Archives' 11th annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema. Payback's writer/director Tahmineh Milani boils down the film's themes - and controversy - thusly: "a society that reduces women to mere sexual objects has to pay a very high price for it." Milani appears for Friday's screening of the film, as well as Saturday's symposim Iranian Cinema Today, which precedes a screening of addiction drama Salve.

Hollywood films from the '30s are rare enough (bless Old Town Music Hall for putting one up every week!), but UCLA pulls off a truly one-of-a-kind event Sunday with two pioneering Iranian films from that period. The Lor Girl is Iran's first talkie, and may be the oldest surviving Iranian film. Co-feature Mr. Haji, The Movie Actor will be projected from a digital source, but accompanied by a live score from Michael Mortilla, so it all evens out. UCLA's Celebration of Iranian Cinema continues through the rest of the week & month, so keep your eyes peeled.

Full list appears below. See you at the movies!

All Week

• Another Year (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Biutiful (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Dogtooth (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Exorcismus (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Kaboom (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• The Other Woman (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
  
• Rabbit Hole (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Troubadours (2011) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Twelve Thirty (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Zenith (2010) (Downtown Independent)

Thursday 2/3

• 100 Voices (2010) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Audrey the Trainwreck (2010) (free event) (Melnitz Movies)
  
• Back to the Future (1985) / Back to the Future II (1989) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Barney's Version (2010) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ screening)
  
• Becoming a Popular Song (Korean Cultural Center)
  
• Contempt (1963) / Shoot the Piano Player (1960) (Egyptian Theatre) (Spotlight on Composers)
  
• Short Films from Long Beach's YMCA Youth Institute / Ulama: The Game of Life and Death (1986) (w/ filmmaker Roberto Rochín) (Long Beach Cinematheque) (Museum of Latin American Art)
  
• No Strings Attached (2010) (Arclight Beach Cities) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
  
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) (w/ opening night party, vintage musical Scopitones, & the Little Frenchie food truck) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Vive l'amour!)
  
• Until the Violence Stops (2003) (Echo Park Film Center)

Friday 2/4

• Citizen Ruth (1996) / Flirting With Disaster (1996) (w/ directors Alexander Payne & David O. Russell) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (When Indies Rocked)
  
• Les cousins (1959) / Les bonnes femmes (1960) (LACMA) (Eight Thrillers by Chabrol)
  
• Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009) / Diabolique (1955) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• House (1977) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
  
• Inside Planet Earth (Ramo Auditorium @ Caltech)
  
• In the Tracks of Georges Delerue (2010) (free event w/ introduction & refreshments) (Egyptian Theatre) (Spotlight on Composers)
  
• Kaboom (2010) (w/ filmmaker Gregg Araki and actors Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett & Roxane Mesquila at the 7:30pm & 9:50pm shows) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Music Composer Seminar (free event) (Egyptian Theatre) (Spotlight on Composers)
  
• Payback (2010) (w/ filmmaker Tahmineh Milani) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
  
• The Pink Panther (1964) / A Shot in the Dark (1964) (Aero Theatre) (Life of the Party: A Blake Edwards Tribute)
  
• Sante Sangre (1989) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
  
• Seventh Heaven (1927) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Troubadours (2011) (w/ director Morgan Neville, producer Eddie Schmidt and special guests at 7:40pm & 10:10pm shows) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)

Saturday 2/5

• Acts of Violence (2010) (w/ director Il Lim) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (HFS: 2010)
  
• Applause (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Beauty and the Beast (1946) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Vive l'amour!)
  
• The Fighter (2010) (w/ David O. Russell & other guests) (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• The Goonies (1985) (Alex Theatre)
  
• Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009) / Diabolique (1955) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• The Housemaid (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Kaboom (2010) (w/ filmmaker Gregg Araki and actors Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett & Roxane Mesquila at the 7:30pm & 9:50pm shows) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Lemmy (2010) (late night show w/ special drink menu) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
  
• Lose With English (2010) (Downtown Independent)
  
• Merci pour le chocolat (2000) / This Man Must Die (1969) (LACMA) (Eight Thrillers by Chabrol)
  
• Nora's Will (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• The Party (1968) / S.O.B. (1981) (Aero Theatre) (Life of the Party: A Blake Edwards Tribute)
  
• Phantasm II (1988) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights) (Horror Movie a Day)
  
• Queen of the Lot (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Sins O' The Flesh Midnight Show) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Midnight Insanity Midnight Show) (South Coast Village Regency Theaters)
  
• Salve (2010) (w/ symposium on Iranian cinema and filmmakers Tahmineh Milani, Alireza Davoodnejad & Reza Davoodnejad) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
  
• Seventh Heaven (1927) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Shooting High (1940) / Sioux City Sue (1946) (Autry National Center) (Saturday Matinees)
  
• Troubadours (2011) (w/ director Morgan Neville, producer Eddie Schmidt & special guests at 7:40pm & 10:10pm shows) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• When We Leave (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winter's Bone (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

Sunday 2/6

• Applause (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• The Housemaid (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• The Lor Girl (1933) / Mr. Haji, the Movie Actor (1932) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
  
• Nora's Will (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Puppy Bowl VII / Feature Film TBA (w/ dog adoption) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• Queen of the Lot (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Seventh Heaven (1927) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Soccer Like Never Before (1971) (Echo Park Film Center) (Los Angeles Filmforum)
  
• Super Bowl XIV (free event) (Downtown Independent)
  
• When We Leave (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winter's Bone (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

That's all for this week. If you've got 15 seconds to spare, here's a clip from Acts of Violence: