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Who'll save you now, Ferris? | Photo courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment
No matter how hard I stare at my keyboard, I cannot escape the pull of the Oscars. The New Bev welcomes twice-nominated director Jason Reitman for its latest guestival. Since there's no official title for the program (unlike, say, Dante's Inferno or The Wright Stuff), I humbly submit "Broderick: High and Low" for the Friday & Saturday line-up of Ferris Bueller & Election, and "Oh, Oh, It's Magic!" for Sunday's sweet '70s pairing of Shampoo & Boogie Nights. In a parallel universe, Not Quite Hollywood is nominated for best doc, which is enough poetic license to mention the New Bev's midnight screening of Razorback, the greatest killer boar flick in all of Australian cinema (and possibly the world!). Back to reality, Laemmle's continues its morning shows of the actual best doc nominees, while the Egyptian has best just-about-everything-else nominee The Hurt Locker in its intimate Spielberg Theatre.
You can even knock those pesky "Best Short" categories out of your Oscar pool with Shorts International's annual program of animated & live action nominees! Catch each individually at the Nuart, or the whole kitten caboodle (for free) at Melnitz Movies. Keep the shorts coming back at the Bev with The Best of Animation Block Party, sporting several animators as guests and a line-up featuring the end of it all, the beginning of it all, chicken cowboys, a robotic unicorn and more! Then, Echo Park Film Center deploys the 3rd International GI Joe Fest, with a GI Joe Stop Motion Workshop for plotting your own surge. GI Joe Fest 2007 winner Jeff Gurwood supports your troops all the way to a stop-motion mission accomplished. Knowing is half the battle!
Full list appears below. See you at the movies!
Damn you, Cobra!!! | Photo courtesy of Summit Entertainment
All Week
Ajami (2009) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Broken Embraces (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
Bulletproof Salesman (2008) (Downtown Independent)
Fish Tank (2009) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Flexing With Monty (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
The Ghost Writer (2010) (Arclight Hollywood) (The Landmark)
The Girl on the Train (2009) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Happy Tears (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
October Country (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
The Oscar Nominated Short Films (Animated) (Nuart Theatre)
The Oscar Nominated Short Films (Live Action) (Nuart Theatre)
The White Ribbon (2009) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (The Landmark)
Thursday 2/18
2010 Oscar Nominated Shorts (free event) (Melnitz Movies)
After Hours (1985) / Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) (w/ Rosanna Arquette) (Aero Theatre)
Athens, GA: Inside Out (1987) (w/ filmmakers and music videos) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Post-Punk Junk)
Best of Animation Block Party (w/ filmmakers) (New Beverly Cinema)
A Face in the Crowd (1957) / Wild River (1960) (w/ Patricia Neal) (Egyptian Theatre) (Waterfronts and Streetcars: An Elia Kazan Retrospective)
The Hurt Locker (2009) (Egyptian Theatre)
Left Bank Film Night (w/ Rena Durrant) (Echo Park Film Center)
Friday 2/19
Bronco Billy (1980) / Honkytonk Man (1982) (LACMA) (The Essential Clint Eastwood)
Cold Turkey (1971) / Hot Millions (1968) (w/ Bob Newhart) (Aero Theatre)
Eggshells (1968) (midnight drive-in screening) (Steve Allen Theater)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) / Election (1999) (New Beverly Cinema) (Jason Reitman Guest-Programs the New Beverly)
Fig Trees (2008) (w/ filmmaker John Greyson) (Echo Park Film Center)
Full Metal Jacket (1987) (The Bay Theatre)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) (Old Town Music Hall)
Haxan (1922) (midnight show w/ live score by Cabeza de Vaca Arkestra) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
The Hurt Locker (2009) (Egyptian Theatre)
Man on a Tightrope (1953) / On the Waterfront (1954) (w/ Terry Moore) (Egyptian Theatre) (Waterfronts and Streetcars: An Elia Kazan Retrospective)
My Little Country (2008) / The Legend of Gordafarid (2008) / Final Fitting (2008) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (20th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
Scream of the Bikini (2009) (midnight screening) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Shock Treatment (1981) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
Teenage Divorcee (1972) / Honky Tonk Nights (1978) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Cultra Video Presents: The Art of Exploitation)
Saturday 2/20
3rd Annual GI Joe Fest (Echo Park Film Center)
Baby Doll (1956) / A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) (w/ Carroll Baker) (Egyptian Theatre) (Waterfronts and Streetcars: An Elia Kazan Retrospective)
The Bicycle Thief (1949) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Burma VJ (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Color Purple (1985) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
The Cove (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) / Election (1999) (New Beverly Cinema) (Jason Reitman Guest-Programs the New Beverly)
Food, Inc. (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) (Old Town Music Hall)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) / Last House on the Left (1972) (Aero Theatre) (Merchant of Nightmares: A Tribute to Wes Craven)
The Human Centipede: First Sequence (2009) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (HFS: 2009)
The Hurt Locker (2009) (Egyptian Theatre)
The Karate Kid (1984) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
Marketa Lazarova (1967) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Czech Your Head)
The Messenger (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Razorback (1984) (w/ director Russell Mulcahy) (co-presented by Shock Till You Drop) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Sins O' The Flesh Midnight Show) (Nuart Theatre)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Midnight Insanity Midnight Show) (Warner Grand Theatre)
Scream of the Bikini (2009) (midnight screening) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Unforgiven (1992) / White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) (LACMA) (The Essential Clint Eastwood)
Sunday 2/21
About Elly (2009) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (20th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
America, America (1963) (w/ Stathis Giallelis, Lou Antonio, and cinematographer Haskell Wexler) (Egyptian Theatre) (Waterfronts and Streetcars: An Elia Kazan Retrospective)
The Bicycle Thief (1949) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Burma VJ (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Color Purple (1985) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
The Cove (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Edge of America (2003) (Autry National Center) (Native American Women in Film)
Food, Inc. (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Full Metal Jacket (1987) (The Bay Theatre)
GI Joe Stop Motion Workshop (Echo Park Film Center)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) (Old Town Music Hall)
The Hurt Locker (2009) (Egyptian Theatre)
It (1927) (w/ lecture on "The Bob" by Joan Renner) (Egyptian Theatre)
The Last Hurrah (2009) (Downtown Independent)
Ludwig Van: A Report (1969) (Goethe-Institut)
Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (1996) (free event) (Hammer Museum)
The Messenger (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Natural (1984) (w/ cinematographer Eric Steelberg) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (The Art of Light)
The People Under the Stairs (1991) / The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) (w/ Wes Craven) (Aero Theatre) (Merchant of Nightmares: A Tribute to Wes Craven)
Shampoo (1975) / Boogie Nights (1997) (New Beverly Cinema) (Jason Reitman Guest-Programs the New Beverly)
White Lightnin' (2009) / Dancing Outlaw (1991) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Jesco Night)
Yvonne Rainier Retrospective (Part 6 of 8) (w/ Yvonne Rainier) (Los Angeles Filmforum) (Egyptian Theatre)
That's all for this week. How did I make it this far without mentioning Wes Craven? That begins the nightmare on my street...
Compiled, as always, by the amazing and diligent Edward Yerke-Robins (and family!)
