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LAist Film Calendar 07/05-07/08: Battleship Bombs & V For Viscera
These ain't sparklers! BATTLESHIP plays Thursday at the Cinefamily as Doug Benson's latest Movie Interruption. Publicity photo courtesy Universal.
Who says the fireworks have to stop tonight? Doug Benson sets off one of 2012's biggest bombs tomorrow at the Cinefamily for his latest Movie Interruption. The first in a slate of board game adaptations that reportedly includes Candy Land, Monopoly & Ouija, Hasbro's Battleship (2012) sailed over budget & sank like a stone, the perfect target for a volley of jokes from the good ship Benson. For more fun pitting Americans against aliens, New Beverly Midnights celebrates another 4th this Saturday - Rocky IV (1985). Dolph Lundgren's iconic villain Drago "must break" Rocky for the Soviet Union, but our Sly boxer wields the power of red, white, blue...AND VENGEANCE!
Trim the testosterone & triple the terror with the Viscera Film Festival's Bloody Carpet Kick-Off at the Egyptian. The fest honors female genre filmmakers past & present - embodied in its main events, an opening preview of Danielle Harris' (the Halloween & Hatchet franchises) directorial debut Among Friends and closing presentation of their first Inspiration Award to Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary). Between those two, the all-night event features 13 shorts (many of which are local or world premieres) screening in competition alongside coming attractions (among the trailers is Lambert's own Dark Path Chronicles). All that & an after-party at the Roosevelt Hotel will set you back a scant $11.
Full list appears below. See you at the movies!
ALL WEEK
Bernie (2012) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Bol Bachchan (2012) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
Crazy Eyes (2012) (Nuart Theatre)
Downtown Film Festival (Downtown Independent)
The Do-Deca-Pentathalon (2012) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Katy Perry: Part of Me (Reviews) (Showtimes)
The Magic of Belle Isle (2012) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Neil Young Journeys (2011) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Never Stand Still (2012) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Savages (2012) (Laemmle's Noho 7) (The Landmark)
Take This Waltz (2011) (The Landmark) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
To Rome With Love (2012) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
Your Sister's Sister (2012) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Noho 7)
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THURSDAY 07/05
Doug Benson's Movie Interruption: Battleship (2012) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Goldfinger (1964) / From Russia With Love (1964) (LACMA)
Jules and Jim (1962) / Vivre Sa Vie (1962) (Aero Theatre)
The Omega Man (1971) / The Last Man on Earth (1964) (Egyptian Theatre)
FRIDAY 07/06
The Apple (1980) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
The Battle of Algiers (1966) / Pépé le Moko (1937) (New Beverly Cinema)
Contempt (1963) / Mississippi Mermaid (1969) (LACMA) (French Film Fridays)
Crazy Eyes (2012) (w/ director Adam Sherman and actors Lukas Haas & Madeline Zima at 7:30 & 9:50 shows) (Nuart Theatre)
Harold and Maude (1971) (The Bay Theatre)
Never Too Young to Die (1986) (midnight show) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Heavy Hitter Midnites)
The Pretty Things: Midnight to Six 1965-1970 (2010) / The Small Faces: All or Nothing 1965-1968 (2009) (Egyptian Theatre) (This Must Be the Place: Music on the Big Screen)
Sherlock Jr. (1934) / The Cameraman (1928) (Aero Theatre)
Stagecoach (1939) (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
Trás-os-Montes (1976) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (The Films and Legacy of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro)
SATURDAY 07/07
2012 Viscera Film Festival (Egyptian Theatre)
Ana (1985) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (The Films and Legacy of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro)
The Battle of Algiers (1966) / Pépé le Moko (1937) (New Beverly Cinema)
Bernie (2012) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
The Big Leboski (1998) (Devil's Night Drive In)
Bill W. (2012) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Bringing Up Baby (1938) (Hollywood Forever Cemetery) (Cinespia Screenings)
Crazy Eyes (2012) (w/ director Adam Sherman and actors Lukas Haas & Madeline Zima at 7:30 & 9:50 shows) (Nuart Theatre)
Dazed and Confused (1993) (Eat See Hear) (FIDM (Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising) / Grand Hope Park)
First Position (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Guns and Guitars (1936) / Riders in the Sky (1949) (Autry National Center) (Saturday Matinee)
North Shore (1987) (w/ cast & crew) (Aero Theatre)
The Nutty Professor (1996) (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)
Paul Williams: Still Alive (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Rocky IV (1985) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
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)
Turn Me On, Dammit (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
SUNDAY 07/08
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Bernie (2012) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Bill W. (2012) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Cruzin' (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Bike Film Fest)
First Position (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
In the Heat of the Night (1967) / Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (w/ producer Walter Mirisch) (Aero Theatre)
The Love Parade (1929) / The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Archive Treasures)
Paul Williams: Still Alive (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
San Pedro Labor Fest (Warner Grand Theatre)
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) / All the Right Moves (1983) (w/ director Howard Deutch & actress Lea Thompson) (Egyptian Theatre)
T.J. Miller's Hangover Matinee feat. The Forbidden Zone (1982) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Turn Me On, Dammit (2011) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
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