LAist Film Calendar 02/10-02/14: Cinema Plays Cupid All Valentine's Weekend

Love is in the air, but since Valentine's Day falls on a Monday, this weekend is cupid's best shot at dinner & a movie. The Egyptian Theatre boasts Harold and Maude, a pairing of The African Queen & From Here to Eternity, Doctor Zhivago and even the throbbing hearts of Beatlemania. Its Santa Monica soulmate, the Aero, goes double dutch with The Princess Bride & The Notebook, Casablanca & Double Indemnity, and rounds out the romantics with Gone With The Wind and Breakfast At Tiffany's. This is but a taste of the cinematic lovefest.

Cliche has it the French are masters of l'amour. Let's not forget that they've also mastered l'arts de cinéma. Thursday, Cinefamily mates the New Wave love triangle Jules and Jim with spunky darling Amelie. Saturday, they dig a little deeper with Love In The Afternoon, before going interspecies with Pepe le Pew & his crew for a Sunday of Valentoons. The New Bev goes big with Moulin Rouge & Marie Antoinette, and goes bleak with crime film Inspector Bellamy & colonial drama White Material. Even Insomniac Cinema gets in on the game with those who come from France, The Coneheads.

If you're already sick of the lovey dovey, head with guns blazing to the Autry for The Searchers. The John Wayne classic screens as part of their "What Is A Western?" series, which explores cinematic and cultural issues of the Old West. Share the art of rainbows (and what's on the other side) at a free screening of The Muppet Movie at the Hammer Museum. Or take a spin right round to the Echo Park Film Center, where artist Melody Owen curates Circles and Spinning Wheels, a program of animation, experimental film, documentary and music videos celebrating 360 degrees of circles & spheres.

Full list appears below. See you at the movies!

All Week

• Another Year (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Blue Valentine (2010) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Carancho (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Cedar Rapids (2011) (The Landmark)
  
• Cold Weather (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• The Company Men (2010) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
  
• Dogtooth (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• The Illusionist (2006) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Kaboom (2010) (Downtown Independent) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• The Oscar Nominated Short Films: Animated (Nuart Theatre)
  
• The Oscar Nominated Short Films: Live Action (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Patiala House (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• The Way Back (2010) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

Thursday 2/10

• Circles and Spinning Wheels (Echo Park Film Center)
  
• Cold Weather (2010) (free event w/ director Aaron Katz) (Melnitz Movies)
  
• This Gun for Hire (1942) / The Glass Lake (1942) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Harold and Maude (1971) (Egyptian Theatre) (Romancing the Screen)
  
• Jules and Jim (1962) / Amelie (2001) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Vive L'Amour)
  
• The King's Speech (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks)
  
• The Loved One (1965) (free event) (Space15 Twenty)
  
• The Love Marriage (1958) (free event) (Korean Cultural Center) (1950s-60s Classic Films)
  
• No Strings Attached (2011) (Arclight Beach Cities) (Arclight Sherman Oaks)
  
• The Rite (2011) (Arclight Beach Cities)
  
• True Grit (2010) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ screening)

Friday 2/11

• The Beatles' First American Concert (1964) (w/ discussion) (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• Can't Buy Me Love (1987) (w/ screenwriter Michael Swerdlick and cast members) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
  
• Coneheads (1993) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
  
• Harold and Maude (1971) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
  
• Howling III: The Marsupials (1987) (midnight show w/ director Phillipe Mora) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Friday Night Frights)
  
• Inspector Bellamy (2009) / White Material (2009) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• In The Soup (1992) / Living In Oblivion (1995) (w/ director Alexandre Rockwell) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (When Indies Rocked)
  
• My Little Chickadee (1941) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• The Princess Bride (1987) / The Notebook (2004) (Aero Theatre) (That Special Valentine's Day Weekend)
  
• Pulp Fiction (1994) (midnight show) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) / The China Syndrome (1979) (LACMA) (Bright Star: Jane Fonda on Film)

Saturday 2/12

• 4th African American Shortsfest (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• The African Queen (1951) / From Here to Eternity (1953) (Egyptian Theatre) (Romancing the Screen)
  
• Alamar (2009) (Echo Park Film Center)
  
• Barbarella (1968) / Coming Home (1978) (LACMA) (Bright Star: Jane Fonda on Film)
  
• Cinefama Pajama Party V: Electric Dreams (1984) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Co-sponsored by Snap Yourself! Photo Booth and Pazzo Gelato)
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (Devil's Night Drive In)
  
• Gone With the Wind (1939) (Aero Theatre) (That Special Valentine's Day Weekend)
  
• Hyperspeed (Ramo Auditorium @ Caltech)
  
• Inspector Bellamy (2009) / White Material (2009) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Let the Right One In (2008) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
  
• Love In The Afternoon (1972) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Vive L'Amour)
  
• My Little Chickadee (1941) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Qaisar (1969) / Molf-e Gand (2009) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
  
• 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)
  
• Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Midnight Insanity Midnight Show) (South Coast Village Regency Theaters)
  
• The Searchers (1956) (Autry National Center) (What Is A Western?)
  
• Troubadours (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Waste Land (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winter's Bone (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

Sunday 2/13

• 500 Days of Summer (2009) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Aaron Cassidy (Goethe-Institut) (Sunday Morning Films)
  
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (Arclight Pasadena) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Casablanca (1942) / Double Indemnity (1944) (Aero Theatre) (That Special Valentine's Day Weekend)
  
• Doctor Zhivago (1965) (Egyptian Theatre) (Romancing the Screen)
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (Arclight Hollywood) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• From Here to Eternity (1953) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) / The Lovers' Wind (1978) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
  
• The Illusionist (2006) (w/ animator Walter Santucci) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
  
• Jerry Beck's Animation Show: Valentoons (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• Legends of the Fall (1994) (Arclight Beach Cities) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Moulin Rouge! (2001) / Marie Antoinette (2006) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• The Muppet Movie (1979) (free event) (Hammer Museum) (Family Flicks)
  
• My Little Chickadee (1941) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• New Urban Observations (w/ filmmakers) (Egyptian Theatre) (Los Angeles Filmforum)
  
• The Notebook (2004) (Arclight Pasadena) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Once (2006) (Arclight Hollywood) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Queen of the Lot (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Some Like It Hot (1959) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• Titanic (1997) (Arclight Beach Cities) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Troubadours (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Waste Land (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winter's Bone (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

Monday 2/14

• 500 Days of Summer (2009) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (w/ raffle) (Aero Theatre) (That Special Valentine's Day Weekend)
  
• Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) (Arclight Pasadena) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Casablanca (1942) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (Downtown Independent)
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) (Arclight Hollywood) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• From Here to Eternity (1953) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Legends of the Fall (1994) (Arclight Beach Cities) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• The Notebook (2004) (Arclight Pasadena) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Once (2006) (Arclight Hollywood) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)
  
• Some Like It Hot (1959) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• Titanic (1997) (Arclight Beach Cities) (ArcLight Presents...Valentine/Anti-Valentine Celebration!)

That's all for this week. Play it once, Sam. For old time's sake.