LAist Film Calendar 03/03-03/06: Quentin Tarantino's March Madness & 'Stupid Questions' Premiere

Four years ago, Quentin Tarantino began a proud tradition of guest programming the New Beverly. Fellow film geeks have followed in his wake, including Edgar Wright (twice!), Eli Roth, Diablo Cody, Joe Dante (another two-timer) & even Peter Bogdanovich, and now the king's returned to his cinematic castle. QT's opening his private vaults for some of the grimiest, craziest, rarest exploitation to hit the silver screen - and luckily for us, they're staying open for a full month of March Madness!

Case in point: Friday & Saturday's midnight screenings of Shame of the Jungle, a XXX Tarzan cartoon produced in France, with the voices of Bill Murray, John Belushi & Christopher Guest! To borrow an acronym from neighboring Cinefamily, HFS! The adult animation continues by daylight with two from Ralph Bakshi (who animated Lord of the Rings & Fritz the Cat): Coonskin satirizes blaxploitation, crime movies and the Uncle Remus chapters of American folklore, while Hey Good Lookin' takes aim at 1950's greasers and gangsters. A black market DVD of Coonskin has floated around Amoeba Hollywood, but none of these films will likely ever see an official release.

Fans of cult film doc Not Quite Hollywood can check out "Ozploitation" classic Road Games, with Jamie Lee Curtis & Stacy Keach on Sunday. It's paired with surveillance thriller cum crime caper The Anderson Tapes, headlined by Sean Connery. Speaking of Connery, Thursday's double bill features two grittier '70s takes on The Rock: Clint Eastwood vehicle Escape From Alcatraz & Roger Corman's I Escaped From Devil Island, starring NFL player turned blaxploitation superstar Jim Brown.

If you need a QT quarantine, head over to Echo Park Film Center for the Saturday premiere of Jessie Kahnweiler's Stupid Questions. The charming comedy short - shot on location in Echo Park (in Kahnweiler's Airstream trailer home) - stars Zelda Williams as a casting assistant who holds a fake audition for a boyfriend. But when she finds someone she clicks with, her optimism is challenged: is he the real deal, or just a really good method actor? Can you "have it all" amidst the neverending hustle of show biz? Kahnweiler appears in-person for two screenings - one at 7 & one at 8. Keep up the hustle on Thursday, International Sex Workers' Rights Day, when EPFC teams up with Sex Workers Outreach Project LA for a festival celebrating sex toys, sex workers & sex equality (NSFW).

Full list appears below. See you at the movies!

All Week

• The Adjustment Bureau (2011) (The Landmark) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Cedar Rapids (2011) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Devolved (2010) (w/ cast & crew at each evening's 7:30pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Happythankyoumoreplease (2011) (The Landmark)
  
• Heartbeats (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• His Way (2011) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• I Saw the Devil (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• The Last Lions (2011) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Of Gods and Men (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Rango (2011) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• The Red Chapel (2009) (Downtown Independent)
  
• Spooner (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• The Strange Case of Angelica (2010) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
  
• Trick of the Witch (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) (Laemmle's Royal Theatre)
  
• Vidal Sassoon (2010) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)

Thursday 3/3

• 9 Songs (2004) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Cedar Rapids (2011) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ screening)
  
• Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) (w/ Kathryn Altman & Karen Black) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Festival of Preservation)
  
• Escape From Alcatraz (1979) / I Escaped From Devil's Island (1973) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Four Lions (2010) / Brass Eye (1997/2001) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Four Lions w/ Chris Morris Retrospective)
  
• Hall Pass (2011) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (Arclight Beach Cities) (21+ screening)
  
• International Sex Workers Rights Day Celebration (Echo Park Film Center)
  
• Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) / The Whisperers (1967) (Aero Theatre) (Scorekeeper: A Tribute to Composer John Barry)
  
• A Small Act (2010 (free event w/ director Jennifer Arnold) (Melnitz Movies)
  
• Unknown (2011) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
  
• You Won't Miss Me (2009) (Downtown Independent)

Friday 3/4

• Belle du Jour (1967) / Repulsion (1965) (LACMA) (The Early Films of Catherine Deneuve)
  
• Blue Velvet (1986) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays) (Long Beach Cinematheque)
  
• Camille (1936) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Christine (1983) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
  
• Coonskin (1975) / Hey Good Lookin' (1982) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Four Lions (2010) / The Day Today (1994) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Four Lions w/ Chris Morris Retrospective)
  
• The Goose Woman (1925) / Eve's Leaves (1926) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Festival of Preservation)
  
• Out of Africa (1985) (Aero Theatre) (Scorekeeper: A Tribute to Composer John Barry)
  
• Pushing the Elephant (2010) (w/ photographic presentation) (Warner Grand Theatre)
  
• The Road Warrior (1981) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
  
• Shame of the Jungle (1975) (midnight show) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Spooner (2009) (w/ cast & crew at 7:20pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)

Saturday 3/5

• Another Year (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• The Big Show (1936) / Texans Never Cry (1951) (Autry National Center) (Saturday Matinees)
  
• Camille (1936) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Coonskin (1975) / Hey Good Lookin' (1982) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Four Lions (2010) / Jam (2000) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Four Lions w/ Chris Morris Retrospective)
  
• The Girl Who Dared (1944) / Rendezvous With Annie (1946) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Festival of Preservation)
  
• Happythankyoumoreplease (2011) (w/ filmmaker Josh Radnor at the 7:30pm show) (The Landmark)
  
• Nathan Barley (2005) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Four Lions w/ Chris Morris Retrospective)
  
• Queen of the Lot (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• 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)
  
• Shame of the Jungle (1975) (midnight show) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Sleep My Love (1948) / Strangers in the Night (1944) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Festival of Preservation)
  
• Spooner (2009) (w/ cast & crew at 7:20pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Stupid Questions (2011) (w/ filmmaker Jessie Kahnweiler) (Echo Park Film Center)
  
• Tron (1982) (70MM w/ writer-director Steven Lisberger, VFX supervisors Richard Taylor & Harrison Ellenshaw, director of photography Bruce Logan, VFX computer animator Bill Kroyer and VFX crew member John Scheele) (Aero Theatre)

Sunday 3/6

• Amadeus (1984) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• Another Year (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Camille (1936) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• The Crocodiles (2008/2009) (Goethe-Institut) (Kinder Kino)
  
• Dust and Illusions (w/ Burning Man Courtyard Activities starting @ 1PM) (Egyptian Theatre) (L.A. League of Arts Burning Man Film Series)
  
• Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) (w/ Cassandra Peterson) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• Happythankyoumoreplease (2011) (w/ filmmaker Josh Radnor at the 5:05pm show) (The Landmark)
  
• Hart of London (1970) (Echo Park Film Center) (Los Angeles Filmforum)
  
• Highlighting the Outfest Legacy: Queens At Heart (1967) / Mona's Candlelight (1950) / Choosing Children (1984) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (UCLA Festival of Preservation)
  
• Jean Harlow Centenary: Bombshell (1933) (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• Queen of the Lot (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Road Games (1981) / The Anderson Tapes (1971) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Splendor in the Grass (1961) (Aero Theatre)

That's all for this week. Glaring omission: with this weekend's Cinefamily retrospective, Chris Morris is blowing up with Four Lions!