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LAist Film Calendar 02/23-02/26: Last Minute Oscar Cramming & Razzie Regurgitations
Matthias Schoenaerts as "Jacky Vanmarsenille" in Oscar nominee (Best Foreign Language Film) BULLHEAD. Courtesy Drafthouse Films.
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It's your last chance to cram for the Oscars! The Academy sponsors three symposiums with the nominees for Animated Feature Film (Friday night), Foreign Language Film (Saturday morning) and Makeup (Saturday afternoon). As of this writing, only Animated Feature Film (hosted by Patton Oswalt) has tickets available, but all will stream online. The Egyptian hosts two free panels on Saturday morning, one with the Oscar-nominated editors and another for production designers.
Of course, there's no greater advocate for a nominee than the film itself. The Cinefamily continues its run of Foreign Language Film nominee Bullhead. The Belgian crime film follows a steroid-ravaged cattle farmer caught in a violent spiral of past traumas & current troubles. Bullhead also plays at several Laemmle locations, flanked by fellow nominees A Separation, Albert Nobbs, The Artist, The Descendants, Hugo, The Iron Lady, Midnight in Paris, My Week With Marilyn & Pina, as well as the short documentaries, live action & animated films.
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It's also a big weekend for Oscar's redheaded stepbrother Razzie, who "honors" moviedom's most maligned misfits. While the Razzie Awards ceremony isn't until April 1st, nominees will be announced Saturday at Magicopolis. It's a tragedy that Birdemic: Shock & Terror was shut out last year, but exploding eagles always soar in the hearts of the Cinefamily. Friday at midnight, writer/director/software salesman James Nguyen returns for an anniversary screening of his beloved original (if you're new to Birdemic, check out our original interview with Nguyen from 2010) and a preview of Birdemic II: The Resurrection 3D. Now that the Razzies has a "Worst Eye-Gouging Mis-Use of 3-D" category, we can only hope their voting body will rectify their mistake next year!
(A Troma "safe" trailer is still definitely NSFW.)
For further razzle-dazzle, check out any number of midnight premieres this weekend. Friday brings Father's Day, an ultra-violent, even-ultraer-low-budget exploitation throwback from Troma on Friday at the Nuart. Producer/Troma head honcho Lloyd Kaufman will be in attendance. Saturday, it's The Warriors meets Step Up for the video game generation with postapocalyptic gangland spoof The FP back at Cinefamily. But the only film brave enough to tackle both nights is the most mysterious: Internal Behaviors Part 2: The Regurgitation. We've never heard of the original, nor can we make out any sort of tone or story from the trailer (is it martial arts? police drama? should we be glad nobody's actually regurgitating anything?), but it's produced in Whittier and stars Ron Jeremy, which is plenty to pique our interest.
Full list appears below. See you at the movies!
All Week
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011) (Nuart Theatre)
Iranian Taboo (2011) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
On the Ice (2011) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
A Separation (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
W.E. (2011) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
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Thursday 2/23
The Animated Feature Symposium (w/ Patton Oswalt & special guests) (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
Bullhead (2011) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Cinematic Tapestry: Creating Unforgettable Characters (Egyptian Theatre)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) / Blood Simple (1984) (Aero Theatre)
Duck, You Sucker (1971) (Egyptian Theatre) (Once Upon a Time: The Films of Sergio Leone)
The Great Victor Herbert (1939) (Old Town Music Hall)
LA Air: Instereo (free event) (Echo Park Film Center)
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) / The Darjeeling Limited (2007) (New Beverly Cinema)
Michael (2011) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Romantic Heaven (2011) (Korean Cultural Center)
To Catch a Dollar (2010) (w/ Q&A) (Skirball Cultural Center)
The Vow (2012) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ show)
Walker (1987) (free event w/ filmmaker Alex Cox & special guests) (Melnitz Movies)
Friday 2/24
5th Annual SCREEN Student Film Festival (Aero Theatre)
The 100 Most Outrageous Fucks (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Birdemic Fest (2008) (w/ James Nguyen & cast members) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Bullhead (2011) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Father's Day (2011) (w/ Troma Entertainment co-founder Lloyd Kaufman & special guests) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
Foreign Correspondent (1940) / Journey Into Fear (1943) (New Beverly Cinema)
The Forgiveness of Blood (2011) (w/ director Joshua Marston at 7:30pm show) (Nuart Theatre)
The Great Victor Herbert (1939) (Old Town Music Hall)
Internal Behaviors Part 2 (2012) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
Lonely Are the Brave (1962) / Executive Action (1973) (free event w/ Alex Cox) (Melnitz Movies)
Magdalena Viraga (1986) / A Soft Warrior (1981) (w/ filmmaker Nina Menkes) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Nina Menkes: Cinema as Sorcery)
Michael (2011) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) (Egyptian Theatre) (Once Upon a Time: The Films of Sergio Leone)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
Silent House (2011) (free event) (USC School of Cinematic Arts) (Outside the Box (Office))
The Striking Truth (2010) (free event) (USC School of Cinematic Arts) (Outside the Box (Office))
Saturday 2/25
Act of Valor (2012) (w/ director Mike "Mouse" McCoy & screenwriter Kurt Johnstad at the 5:05pm show) (The Landmark)
Bullhead (2011) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Foreign Correspondent (1940) / Journey Into Fear (1943) (New Beverly Cinema)
The FP (2011) (w/ filmmakers, cast & crew, & afterparty) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
The Great Victor Herbert (1939) (Old Town Music Hall)
Internal Behaviors Part 2 (2012) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
Invisible Art, Visible Artists Oscar-Nominated Editors Seminar (free event) (Egyptian Theatre)
Man With a Movie Camera (1929) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Kino-Eye: The Revolutionary Cinema of Dziga Vertov)
Manipulated Image Presents "Guttural" (Echo Park Film Center)
Michael (2011) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Observation, Passion & Imagination: The Art of Production Design (free event) (Egyptian Theatre)
Producers Forum 2012 (Aero Theatre)
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)
Silver Bullet (1985) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
Taxi Driver (1976) (Egyptian Theatre)
"A Trip to the Moon" (1902) / The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) (Aero Theatre)
Sunday 2/26
The Great Victor Herbert (1939) (Old Town Music Hall)
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