LAist Film Calendar 01/06-01/09: LACMA Hits The Road, Cinefamily Has Dogteeth

The year's just begun, and LACMA already wants to drop out. Their Golden Age of Road Movies series kicks off this week with counterculture combos Five Easy Pieces & Play It As It Lays (Friday night) and Easy Rider & Zabriskie Point (Saturday night). Actress Karen Black appears in-person after Five Easy Pieces, whereas Saturday's program goes a little easier on the pieces, halving LACMA's standard admission to $5. It's all in conjunction with LACMA's William Eggleston exhibition, which doesn't hit the road until January 16th.

The Egyptian honors a more wholesome icon with Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii, playing on Saturday as part of their That Special Something series, which also includes tributes to Bette Davis (All About Eve & The Man Who Came to Dinner on Thursday) and Humphrey Bogart (In A Lonely Place & The Treasure of Sierra Madre on Friday). You won't need no badges, but you'll definitely need to arrive early on Saturday for a beach-themed bash celebrating Maui & Sons' grand opening in the Egyptian courtyard, Blue Hawaii's 50th anniversary & The King's 76th birthday.

Get in with the new at the Cinefamily, with the LA premiere of Dogtooth, a surrealist Greek satire that has critics a buzzing. In a rare scheduling maneuver, the Cinefamily's booked the film for a full week. Considering all the amazing films they play for a single night, that's quite the endorsement right there. If 94 minutes of weird is too much to handle, the 5th annual box[ur]shorts Film Festival doles out bite-sized cinematic treats, $20K in awards to budding filmmakers, and a complementary cocktail hour featuring Australian wine and Swiss chocolate. That's at the New Beverly, which also sports two tough ones from Charles Bronson: The Mechanic & Hard Times. A Jason Statham remake of the former hits theaters later this month - see the original first!

For another look into the future at the New Beverly, tickets will go on sale this Friday for a triple-feature of Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz & Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Full coverage of this and the rest of Wright's line-up is coming next week, but fans of British comedy, zombies, 360-explosions and punk rock kung fu grip will definitely want to bookmark that link now. Last time a star-studded Scott Pilgrim screened at the New Bev, tickets sold out in an hour. You have been warned!

Full list appears below. See you at the movies!

All Week

• 127 Hours (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Dogtooth (2009) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• The Fighter (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
  
• Frankie and Alice (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• No One Killed Jessica (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Sex Magic (2010) (Q&A w/ filmmakers Eric Liebman and Jonathan Schell after every screening) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• The Social Network (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Summer Wars (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)

Thursday 1/6

• All About Eve (1950) / The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) (Egyptian Theatre) (That Special Something: A Tribute to Great Screen Icons)
  
• The Fighter (2010) (Arclight Beach Cities) (21+ screening)
  
• Playtime (1967) (free event) (Hammer Museum)
  
• Shanghai Express (1932) / Blonde Venus (1932) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Tees Maar Khan (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• The Town (2010) / Gone Baby Gone (2007) (w/ Ben Affleck) (Aero Theatre)
  
• True Grit (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)

Friday 1/7

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
  
• City Island (2009) / The Lost City (2005) (w/ Andy Garcia) (Aero Theatre)
  
• Fight Club (1999) (Long Beach Cinematheque) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
  
• Five Easy Pieces (1970) / Play It As It Lays (1972) (w/ Karen Black) (LACMA) (The Golden Age of Road Movies)
  
• Hollywood Party (1934) / Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) (w/ Janet Klein and The Parlor Boys) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Mixed Nuts: Vaudeville on Film)
  
• In a Lonely Place (1950) / The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) (Egyptian Theatre) (That Special Something: A Tribute to Great Screen Icons)
  
• Little Fockers (2010) (Arclight Pasadena) (21+ screening)
  
• Mean Girls (2004) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
  
• Pulp Fiction (1994) (New Beverly Cinema) (midnight show)
  
• Shanghai Express (1932) / Blonde Venus (1932) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil (2010) (w/ director Eli Craig) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)

Saturday 1/8

• Blue Hawaii (1961) (w/ Elvis Presley birthday celebration) (Egyptian Theatre) (That Special Something: A Tribute to Great Screen Icons)
  
• box[ur]shorts Film Festival (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Cecil B. DeMented (2000) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
  
• Duck Soup (1933) / Cracked Nuts (1931) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Mixed Nuts: Vaudeville on Film)
  
• Easy Rider (1969) / Zabriskie Point (1970) (LACMA) (The Golden Age of Road Movies)
  
• Little Fockers (2010) (Arclight Pasadena) (21+ screening)
  
• The Naked Gun (1988) / Airplane! (1980) Drink-a-Long/Beer Pong (Downtown Independent)
  
• Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Sins O' The Flesh Midnight Show) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Shoah (Period 1) (1985) (Aero Theatre)
  
• The Warriors (1979) (Devil's Night Drive In)

Sunday 1/9

• Fausto Romitelli (Goethe-Institut) (Sunday Morning Films)
  
• Little Fockers (2010) (Arclight Pasadena) (21+ screening)
  
• Many Happy Returns (1934) / Million Dollar Legs (1932) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Mixed Nuts: Vaudeville on Film)
  
• The Mechanic (1972) / Hard Times (1975) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Rocky (1976) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• Shoah (Period 2) (1985) (Aero Theatre)
  
• Showboat (1936) (Egyptian Theatre)