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LAist Film Calendar 01/13-01/16: Edgar Wright Returns to the New Beverly!
Told you so! Edgar Wright returns to the New Beverly for a triple feature of his films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz & Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, and both Friday and Saturday night shows sold out in 4 minutes. But don't despair! This is but the opening night of an entire month of The Wright Stuff, a series programmed by the eclectic English entertainer.
January 16th & 17th, open your heart, mind and stomach for dark fantasies Brazil & Delicatessan. Edgar Wright and Richard Kelly will co-host Sunday's show, which has also sold out (noticing a trend here?). Feel lucky January 18th & 19th, when Wright partners Dirty Harry with The Super Cops, the latter unavailable on DVD. Wright will host next Tuesday's screening.
January 20th & 21st, kick it old school with American Graffiti (George Lucas' last film before Star Wars) & Animal House. Director John Landis and editor George Folsey join in the food fight next Thursday. January 22nd & 23rd, Edgar Wright proffers a deadly double of Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy & Brian de Palma's Dressed to Kill. Wright slays on the Saturday screening, and stays through the break of dawn for a midnight show of Run Lola Run.
January 24th & 25th, L.A. traffic is murder with '70s car thrillers The Driver & Duel. Edgar Wright & mystery guests drive the Monday screening. January 26th & 27th, modern-day fairy tales Wild At Heart & True Romance grace the screen. Wednesday's screening with Wright & mystery guests (perhaps one is True Romance scribe and New Bev angel Quentin Tarantino?) is already sold out, but one more night in line won't hurt.
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January 28th & 29th, the gang's all here, with the greasers of The Wanderers & all the leather you can handle from The Warriors. Edgar Wright will host the Friday show. January 30th & 31st, The Wright Stuff closes out with Thunderbolt and Lightfoot & Miami Blues, with Wright locking down the Sunday show.
Back to this weekend, instead of standing in line, head down to the Egyptian for Crazy Good. The weekend-long program honors the original midnight maven, Alejandro Jodorowsky. The series opens with a rare 35mm screening of Santa Sangre, in celebration of Severin Films' restored DVD/Blu-Ray, hitting shelves in two weeks. A killer kaleidoscope of the carnivalesque, the surrealist circus features knife throwers, painted bodies, sinners, saints, armless women & little people. Santa Sangre composer, Simon Boswell (whose other cinematic collaborators include Danny Boyle, Dario Argento & Clive Barker) will appear for a post-film Q&A.
In case any mental faculties remain intact after Santa Sangre, Alejandro Jodorowsky's first feature, Fando y Lis, will finish blowing your mind to bits. Legend has it the film's premiere in its native Mexico broke into a riot. After a brief recovery period, Sunday hosts a second dose of Jodorowsky with El Topo & The Holy Mountain. Nearly incomprehensible (in a good way), the acid epics star Jodorowsky as a mysterious gunslinger and messianic figure, respectively. Producer Robert Taicher brings some method to the madness between films.
Full list appears below. See you at the movies!
All Week
- 127 Hours (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
- The Concert (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
- Every Day (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
- The Illusionist (2010) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
- Out the Gate (2011) (Laemmle's Royal Theatre) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
- The Social Network (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
- Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
Thursday 1/13
- Blue Collar (1978) / Affliction (1997) (New Beverly Cinema)
- The Fighter (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
- Harry and Tonto (1974) (LACMA) (The Golden Age of Road Movies)
- I Am Love (2009) (w/ director Luca Guadagnino) (Aero Theatre) (Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Series)
- LACLA Screenwalk at Artwalk(Downtown Independent)
- Le Mort Qui Tue (1913) (Hammer Museum) (Fantômas Centenaire)
- Transgender Short Films from the TG Film Fest (Echo Park Film Center)
- The Wedding Day (1956) (free event) (Korean Cultural Center) (1950s-60s Classic Films)
Friday 1/14
- Biutiful (2010) (Aero Theatre) (Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominee Series)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) / Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) (LACMA) (The Golden Age of Road Movies)
- Commando (1985) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
- Dead Silence (2007) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
- Full Metal Jacket (1967)(Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
- Graphation Film Festival (Downtown Independent)
- Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Mixed Nuts: Vaudeville on Film)
- Rear Window (1954) / Dial M for Murder (1954) (Egyptian Theatre) (That Special Something)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004) / Hot Fuzz (2007) / Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010) (w/ Edgar Wright) (New Beverly Cinema)
- What Happened Was... (1994) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (That Guy!)
Saturday 1/15
- Dogtooth (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
- Electra Glide in Blue (1973) / Scarecrow (1973) (w/ Vilmos Zsigmond) (LACMA) (The Golden Age of Road Movies)
- Gift of Gab (1934) / The Big Broadcast (1932) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Mixed Nuts: Vaudeville on Film)
- Golden Globe Foreign-Language Nominees Seminar (free event) (Egyptian Theatre)
- Hollyshorts (Echo Park Film Center)
- The King of Marvin Gardens (1972) / Tattoo (1981) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (That Guy!)
- The King's Speech (2010) (w/ speech pathologist Q & A) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
- Lemmy (2010) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
- Nora's Will (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
- 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)
- Santa Sangre (1989) / Fando and Lis (1968) (Egyptian Theatre) (Crazy Good: An Alejandro Jodorowsky Tribute)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004) / Hot Fuzz (2007) / Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010) (w/ Edgar Wright & special guests) (New Beverly Cinema)
- West Side Story (1961) (Aero Theatre)
- Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Sunday 1/16
- Brazil (1985) / Delicatessen (1981) (w/ Edgar Wright & Richard Kelly) (New Beverly Cinema)
- Dogtooth (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
- Here Comes Cookie (1935) / Diplomaniacs (1933) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Mixed Nuts: Vaudeville on Film)
- Nora's Will (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
- The Party (1968) (The Bay Theatre)
- Queen of the Lot (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
- Radical Light: The 1980s and 1990s (w/ filmmakers) (Los Angeles Filmforum) (Egyptian Theatre)
- The Red Balloon (1956) / The White Mane (1953) (Aero Theatre)
- Smile (1975) / Silent Running (1972) / Diggstown (w/ Bruce Dern) (1992) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (That Guy!)
- El Topo (1970) / The Holy Mountain (1973) (Egyptian Theatre) (Crazy Good: An Alejandro Jodorowsky Tribute)
- Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
- Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
That's all for this week. Next time I want to write about something you've heard of. So you'd better crack open those psychotronic film guides!
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