LAist Film Calendar 01/27-01/30: Oscar Catch Up, Roman Polanski & Claude Chabrol

Yesterday's announcement of the Academy Awards nominees leave you scratching your head? Laemmle's got your back. From heavy hitters like Black Swan & True Grit to lower-profile offerings like Ozarks noir Winter's Bone & Aussie crime drama Animal Kingdom, pretty much everything that wasn't already playing there is coming back this week. Blockbusters Inception & Toy Story 3 are notable exceptions, but there are redboxes on every corner & sales in every big box for those.

As much as the Oscars will dominate all talk in & around town for the next month, the Academy doesn't always get it right. It took them 40 years to recognize writer/director Roman Polanski's tortured talent, but it won't take you nearly as long at the Egyptian Theatre's "Traumatic Rendition" retrospective, running this weekend. The series includes supernatural classic Rosemary's Baby (nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1969) and the ultimate L.A. story, Chinatown (nominated for Best Director in 1975), alongside lesser known features like Knife In The Water, Polanski's claustrophobic debut, and The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck, a rare comedy from the dour director.

Claude Chabrol may not share Polanski's name recognition (or infamy), but the late auteur showed a similar skill for potboilers. LACMA salutes Chabrol by screening eight of his thrillers, spanning from his 1958 debut Le beau Serge through The Bridesmaid, made just a few years ago. Marvelous madame Jacuqeline Bisset appears following his 1995 film La Cérémonie on Saturday night. Equally esteemed (and particularly prolific) European Udo Kier joins the Cinefamily for two of his rarest films, topped off with a world premiere of his most recent shorts with Guy Maddin!

This weekend marks the end of Edgar Wright's tenure at the New Beverly. If you've missed our past coverage, the festival closes out with two incredible journeys (David Lynch's Wild At Heart & the Quentin Tarantino-penned True Romance), two gangland classics (The Wanderers & The Warriors) and two arresting cop films (Thunderbolt & Lightfoot & Miami Blues). The eclectic Englishman will host in-person on Friday with actor James Remar (once of The Warriors, now Dexter's dad) and Sunday all by his lonesome. This means I'll need something new to geek over - like a new year of Horrible Movie Night! The monthly series enters 2011 swinging with Zombie Lake, "an example of what happens when frat boys are given film equipment and Halloween makeup". Proof that just because a film's European, doesn't mean it's artistic, interesting or comprehensible.

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All Week

• 127 Hours (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Animal Kingdom (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Black Swan (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Dil To Bachha Hai Ji (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Downtown Independent)
  
• Husk (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• Prowl (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• Seconds Apart (2011) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• The Social Network (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• The Task (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• True Grit (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• VS: The Movie (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• When We Leave (2010) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
  
• Winter's Bone (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)

Thursday 1/27

• The Anchorage (2009) (free event w/ director C.W. Winter) (Melnitz Movies)
  
• Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (Downtown Independent)
  
• Hyperbola of Youth (1956) (free event) (Korean Cultural Center) (1950s-60s Classic Films)
  
• Knife in the Water (1963) / MacBeth (1971) (Egyptian Theatre) (Traumatic Rendition: A Roman Polanski Retrospective)
  
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) / Red River (1948) (Aero Theatre) (Hollywood Icons)
  
• No Strings Attached (2011) (Arclight Beach Cities) (Arclight Hollywood) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
  
• A Thousand Clowns (1965) (w/ actor Barry Gordon) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• Wild At Heart (1990) / True Romance (1993) (New Beverly Cinema) (The Wright Stuff II)
  
• Zombie Lake (1981) (Horrible Movie Night)

Friday 1/28

• Batman (1989) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
  
• Chinatown (1974) / The Tenant (1976) (Egyptian Theatre) (Traumatic Rendition: A Roman Polanski Retrospective)
  
• La femme infidèle (1969) / The Bridesmaid (2004) (LACMA) (Eight Thrillers By Chabrol)
  
• The Happening (2008) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
  
• Husk (2010) (w/ Shock Till You Drop Q&A at 9:30pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• Mrs. Meitlemeihr (2002) / United Trash (1996) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (An Evening w/ Udo Kier)
  
• Prowl (2010) (w/ Dread Central Q&A at 7:30pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• Rebel Without a Cause (1955) / East of Eden (1955) (Aero Theatre) (Hollywood Icons)
  
• Reservoir Dogs (1992) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
  
• The Wanderers (1979) / The Warriors (1979) (w/ Edgar Wright and actor James Remar) (New Beverly Cinema) (The Wright Stuff II)

Saturday 1/29

• Applause (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Le beau Serge (1958) / La cérémonie (1995) (LACMA) (Eight Thrillers By Chabrol)
  
• Channel 101 (free event) (Downtown Independent)
  
• Every Day (2010) (weekend morning show w/ filmmaker Richard Levine) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Every Day (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Inside Job (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Ong Bak 3: The Final Battle (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• 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)
  
• Repulsion (1965) / Rosemary's Baby (1968) (Egyptian Theatre) (Traumatic Rendition: A Roman Polanski Retrospective)
  
• Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) / Ocean's Eleven (1960) (Aero Theatre) (Hollywood Icons)
  
• 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)
  
• The Room (2003) (Midnight Show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Seconds Apart (2011) (w/ Bloody Disgusting Q&A at 9:30pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• Suburbia (1983) (w/ Zack Carlson) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
  
• Video Art from the New China (free event) (Getty Center)
  
• The Wanderers (1979) / The Warriors (1979) (New Beverly Cinema) (The Wright Stuff II)
  
• 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) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)

Sunday 1/30

• 50 Million Frenchmen (1930) / Who Done It? (1944) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Mixed Nuts: Vaudeville on Film)
  
• Applause (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Cul-de-sac (1966) / The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) (Egyptian Theatre) (Traumatic Rendition: A Roman Polanski Retrospective)
  
• Every Day (2010) (weekend morning show w/ filmmaker Richard Levine) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Every Day (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Fertile Ground (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (After Dark Originals)
  
• Frau Holle (2008) (Goethe-Institut) (Kinder Kino)
  
• I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Inside Job (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Jailhouse Rock (1957) / King Creole (1958) (Aero Theatre) (Hollywood Icons)
  
• Metropolitan (1990) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• Nora's Will (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Ong Bak 3: The Final Battle (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Queen of the Lot (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) / Miami Blues (1990) (w/ Edgar Wright) (New Beverly Cinema) (The Wright Stuff II)
  
• Top Hat (1930) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• 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) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)

Check out this week's featured trailer for Claude Chabrol's The Bridesmaid (screening Friday at LACMA):