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LAist Film Calendar 01/19-01/22: 'Contested Visions,' Sci-Fi Writers Go Off Script & Spooks Galore
Haunted hotel story THE INNKEEPERS screens Sunday for free at USC ahead of its release next month. Image courtesy Magnet Releasing.
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Most know Edward James Olmos for his role as Commander Adama on "Battlestar Galactica", but "The Old Man" maintains a dedication to social justice in our universe, too. In 1996, he co-founded the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, and this weekend he and LALIFF co-director Marlene Dermer bring Contested Visions in Latin America to LACMA. The two-day series complements the museum's Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World exhibition, beginning Saturday with an examination of activist cinema from Peru (The Milk of Sorrow), Mexico (The Violin) and Bolivia (The Gift of The Pachamama). Olmos hosts the program and a roundtable discussion with featured directors and actors. Sunday, the series continues with an afternoon of shorts documenting native culture, history, ritual and struggle. Each screening is free, but reservation tickets are required.
"Battlestar Galactica" continued a tradition of melding social critique with science fiction that includes cult writer Harlan Ellison. Ellison wrote the most popular episodes of the original "Star Trek", "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" & "The Outer Limits" (which inspired James Cameron's Terminator), among some 1,700 published pieces. He returns to the Cinefamily this Thursday for The Other Glass Teat. Named for a collection of TV critiques originally published in the Los Angeles Free Press, the event features the famously unhinged author recanting his wild career, joined by rare screenings of his iconic episodes. Screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence) moderates, and if you can't make it out, Cinefamily will live-stream the event on their blog.
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"If you mention 'Battlestar Galactica' one more time, I'll scream!" OK! Just make sure you save it for The Innkeepers. The haunted hotel story from horror wunderkind Ti West (House of the Devil) opens theatrically next month, and USC's School of Cinematic Arts has a free preview (reservation required) as part of its Outside the Box (Office) series. Every Wednesday & Sunday, bear witness to a tantalizing selection of international & independent films at the campus' Ray Stark Family Theatre.
Should you prefer a vintage creeper, the Cinefamily's Friday Night Frights series features Crawlspace with writer-director David Schmoeller in person. You have problems with your landlord? Cult actor Klaus Kinski (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu) stars as a lipstick-laden, ex-Nazi who's outfitted an apartment building with secret passageways and devious devices for peeping & preying upon female residents. Kinski is notoriously nutso off-set as well, and if the title of Schmoeller's documentary short Please Kill Mr. Kinski is any indication, it should make for a lively discussion.
CRAWLSPACE TRAILER (Friday Night Frights) from Mighty Worm on Vimeo.
Full list appears below.
All Week
The Artist (2011) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2011) (Nuart Theatre)
Coriolanus (2011) (The Landmark)
The Flowers of War (2011) (The Landmark) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos (2011) (Downtown Independent)
Hugo (2011) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) (Laemmle's Noho 7) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Loosies (2012) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
Man on a Mission (2010) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Miss Bala (2011) (Regent Theatre) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) (Arclight Hollywood) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
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Thursday 01/19
Un Chien Andalou (1929) / L'age D'or (1930) / The Young and The Damned (1950) (Aero Theatre) (Curse and Kink: A Luis Buñuel Retrospective)
Contraband (2012) (21+ Screening) (Arclight Sherman Oaks)
Every Man For Himself (1980) / The Piano Teacher (2001) (New Beverly Cinema)
The Front Line (2011) (free event) (USC School of Cinematic Arts)
The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (2011) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Last Summer (1969) (w/ Barbara Hershey & Larry Karaszewski) (Egyptian Theatre)
Melancholia (2011) (Downtown Independent)
My Week With Marilyn (2011) (The Bay Theatre)
The Other Glass Teat: More of Harlan Ellison on Television (w/ Harlan Ellison & Josh Olson) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
The Tree of Life (2011) (Downtown Independent)
Friday 01/20
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) / All About Eve (1950) (New Beverly Cinema)
Belle de Jour (1967) / Diary of a Chambermaid (1964) (Aero Theatre) (Curse and Kink: A Luis Buñuel Retrospective)
Crawlspace (1986) (w/ director David Schmoeller) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Friday Night Frights)
The Doors Mr. Mojo Risin': The Making of LA Woman (2011) (w/ Jim Ladd, Jac Holzman & other special guests) (Egyptian Theatre)
Film Socialisme (2010) / Breathless (1960) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
Marina Goldovskaya: Documentary Film Retrospective (free event w/ Marina Goldovskaya) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Old Town Music Hall)
Saturday 01/21
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) / All About Eve (1950) (New Beverly Cinema)
Bill Cunningham New York (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Carnage (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2011) (w/ filmmaker Dori Berinstein at 7:30pm & 9:45pm shows) (Nuart Theatre)
The Exterminating Angel (1962) / The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) (Aero Theatre) (Curse and Kink: A Luis Buñuel Retrospective)
Film Socialisme (2010) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (afternoon solo screening)
La teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) (2009) (free event) (LACMA) (Contested Visions in Latin America Through Film)
Night Train to Terror (1985) (Horrible Movie Night) (The Complex Theater - East Theater)
Passion Plantation (1976) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
The Power and the Glory (1933) / Fury (1936) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing)
The Professionals (1966) (Autry National Center) (What Is A Western?)
El regalo de la Pachamama (The Gift of the Pachamama) (2008) (free event) (LACMA) (Contested Visions in Latin America Through Film)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Live Shadowcast Midnight Show) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
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)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Old Town Music Hall)
El Violín (The Violin) (2006) (free event) (LACMA) (Contested Visions in Latin America Through Film)
A Woman is A Woman (1961) / Film Socialisme (2010) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (evening double feature)
Sunday 01/22
16-Love (2012) (free event) (USC School of Cinematic Arts) (Alumni Screening Series)
The Big Country (1958) (New Beverly Cinema)
Big Miracle (2012) (free event w/ director Ken Kwapis) (USC School of Cinematic Arts) (Alumni Screening Series)
Bill Cunningham New York (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Carnage (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life (2011) (w/ filmmaker Dori Berinstein at 5:15pm & 7:30pm shows) (Nuart Theatre)
Un Chien Andalou (1929) / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) / Viridiana (1969) (Egyptian Theatre) (Curse and Kink: A Luis Buñuel Retrospective)
Film Socialisme (2010) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Georges Méliès Shorts Program I (1896-1907) (w/ live musical accompaniment) (Aero Theatre)
The Godfather (1972) (The Bay Theatre)
The Golden Bridge (2001) (free event) (LACMA) (Contested Visions in Latin America Through Film)
The Innkeepers (2012) (free event) (USC School of Cinematic Arts) (Outside the Box (Office))
The Little Seed in the Asphalt (2009) (free event) (LACMA) (Contested Visions in Latin America Through Film)
Los Angeles Observed (Los Angeles Filmforum) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Porter (2003) (free event) (LACMA) (Contested Visions in Latin America Through Film)
San Francisco (1936) / Libeled Lady (1936) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) (Old Town Music Hall)
Teshuinada, Semana Santa Tarahumara (1979) (free event) (LACMA) (Contested Visions in Latin America Through Film)
Three Wishes For Cinderella (1974) (Goethe-Institut) (Kinder Kino)
That's all for this week. See you at the movies!
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