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)
