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I like long walks on the beach, and Sean Bean... | Photo courtesy of IFC Films
This Valentine's Day, a dozen red roses may be out of the question, but a dozen dead schoolgirls is totally doable courtesy of The Red Riding Trilogy, unspooling in various installments at an exclusive Nuart engagement. Keep the blood flowing with Oscar nominee The Cove, playing alongside fellow nominated docs Food, Inc., Burma VJ and The Most Dangerous Man in America at several Laemmle's locales (curiously, Which Way Home stayed home). If you're tired of playing catch-up, get the jump on You Didn't See Anything in Kinshasa, a documentary so fresh it isn't even listed on IMDb. Melnitz Movies and The Pan African Film & Arts Festival co-present the free screening, with Congolese director Mweze Ngangura hopping continents for a very special guest appearance.
Speaking of talents severely underrepresented in the mainstream, the Autry presents the best American Indian filmmakers, and the best American Indian tacos! Creative Spirit, a multimedia apprenticeship program sponsored by the Southern California Indian Center, presents its 4th annual Native Filmmakers Showcase. The line-up includes the fantasy-comedy-quest In Search of the World's Best Indian Taco, immigrant drama Indios Primeros, and shorts from previous years running the gamut from environmentalism to vampires. It's free with an RSVP to swminfo@autrynationalcenter.org, but hurry - seat reservation ends tomorrow!
Lastly, but not lastly, the Egyptian sports another "American Cinematheque Blows Up The Internet" event, where web content makes the jump to the big screen. This time, the 'splosion comes courtesy of Crackle, who bring con-man caper The Bannen Way and a preview of sci-fi series Trenches. Bannen comes backed by a number of its cast, and Trenches comes with the pedigree of Shane Felux, winner of a number of Star Wars Fan Film Awards. And you won't even have to sit through all those seconds of unskippable commercials.
Full list appears below - see you at the movies!
Brooding over unsolved child murders = CHICK MAGNET! | Photo courtesy of IFC Films
All Week
Broken Embraces (2009) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Fish Tank (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
The Messenger (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
My Name Is Khan (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
North Face (2008) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Royal Theatre) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Order of Chaos (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Terribly Happy (2008) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Waiting for Armageddon (2009) (Downtown Independent)
Thursday 2/11
All Star Comedy Festival (Old Town Music Hall)
The American Cinematheque Blows Up the Internet: ORIGINAL WEB CONTENT THAT CRACKLES (w/ Mark Gantt, Jesse Warren, Michael Ironside, Michael Lerner and Eric Berger) (Egyptian Theatre)
The Blob (1958) (w/ live comedy dubbing by L.A. Connection) (Laemmle's Royal Theatre)
Car Cemetery (1983) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Post-Punk Junk)
Edge of Darkness (2010) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ screening)
The Exiles (1961) / Killer of Sheep (1977) (New Beverly Cinema)
From Paris With Love (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
In the Loop (2008) (Egyptian Theatre)
M (2007) (free event) (Korean Cultural Center)
Mock Up on Mu (2008) (w/ filmmaker Craig Baldwin) (Echo Park Film Center)
Muscle Beach Party (1964) / Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) (w/ Donna Loren) (Egyptian Theatre)
Open Projector Night (free event) (Hammer Museum)
Portrait of Jennie (1948) / Love Letters (1945) (Aero Theatre) (Valentine's Day Weekend: Romancing the Screen)
You Didn't See Anything in Kinshasa (2009) (free event w/ director Mweze Ngangura) (Melnitz Movies)
Friday 2/12
444-Day Face-Off (2008) / Countdown (2008) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (20th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
All Star Comedy Festival (Old Town Music Hall)
Beauty and the Beast (1946) / Donkey Skin (1970) (Aero Theatre) (Valentine's Day Weekend: Romancing the Screen)
Dirty Harry (1971) / Tightrope (1984) (LACMA) (The Essential Clint Eastwood)
Eggshells (1968) (midnight drive-in screening) (Steve Allen Theater)
The Exiles (1961) / Killer of Sheep (1977) (New Beverly Cinema)
Fleshpot on 42nd St. (1973) / The Body Beneath (1972) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Cultra Video Presents: The Art of Exploitation)
Harold and Maude (1971) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
Harold and Maude (1971) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
In the Loop (2008) (Egyptian Theatre)
The New Year Parade (2008) (w/ Greg Lyons and Skype Q&A w/ Tom Quinn) (Downtown Independent)
Order of Chaos (2010) (w/ filmmakers and cast at 7:40pm screening) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Red Riding: 1974 (2009) (Nuart Theatre)
Saturday 2/13
All Star Comedy Festival (Old Town Music Hall)
The Bicycle Thief (1949) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) / Sabrina (1954) (Aero Theatre) (Valentine's Day Weekend: Romancing the Screen)
Burma VJ (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Cove (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Exiles (1961) / Killer of Sheep (1977) (New Beverly Cinema)
Food, Inc. (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
HFS 2009 Super Secret Screening Party! (free event w/ free popcorn if you guess the movie) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (HFS: 2009)
The 4th Annual Creative Spirit Native Filmmakers Showcase: In Search of the World's Best Indian Taco (2010) / Indios Primeros (2010) (free event, RSVP: swminfo@autrynationalcenter.org) (Autry National Center)
In the Loop (2008) (Egyptian Theatre)
Intimate Lighting (1965) (w/ director Ivan Passer) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Czech Your Head)
The Last American Virgin (1982) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
Letter to Anna: The Story Of Journalist Politkovskaya's Death (2008) (w/ panel discussion) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Archive Documentary Spotlight)
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
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)
Order of Chaos (2010) (w/ filmmakers and cast at 7:40pm screening) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) / Pale Rider (1985) (LACMA) (The Essential Clint Eastwood)
Psycho (1960) (Alex Theatre)
Red Riding: 1974 (2009) (Nuart Theatre)
Red Riding: 1980 (2009) (Nuart Theatre)
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)
Wings of Desire (1987) / Edward Scissorhands (1990) (Egyptian Theatre)
Sunday 2/14
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)
Casablanca (1942) / Double Indemnity (1944) (Egyptian Theatre)
The Cove (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Food, Inc. (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Harold and Maude (1971) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
In the Loop (2008) (w/ Armando Iannucci) (Egyptian Theatre)
Ice Castles (1978) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (My Mondo Valentine)
Manhattan (1979) (The Bay Theatre)
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
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)
Rebecca (1940) / Notorious (1946) (Aero Theatre) (Valentine's Day Weekend: Romancing the Screen)
Red Riding: 1974 (2009) (Nuart Theatre)
Red Riding: 1980 (2009) (Nuart Theatre)
Red Riding: 1983 (2009) (Nuart Theatre)
Seven Chances (1925) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
Summertime (1955) / All That Heaven Allows (1955) (New Beverly Cinema)
Tinar (2007) / A Man Who Ate His Cherries (2009) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (20th Annual Celebration of Iranian Cinema)
Wild At Heart (1990) (Downtown Independent)
Yvonne Rainier Retrospective (Part 5 of 8) (Los Angeles Filmforum) (Egyptian Theatre)
That's all for this week.
Compiled, as always, by the amazing and diligent Edward Yerke-Robins (and family!)
