LAist Film Calendar: Recent Spanish & Revolutionary Mexican Cinema

This weekend, the Egyptian hosts Spanish thespians Luis Tosar, Antonio de la Torre and Eduardo Noriega, as well as director Emilio Aragon, as part of its 16th annual Recent Spanish Cinema series. Thursday, Tosar opens the series with Even the Rain, Spain's official Oscar submission. The film follows the fight against privatization of water in Bolivia, blurring fact and fiction by cutting footage of real protests within its story. It's preceded by Voltereta, a coming-of-age short set in 1985 Brooklyn. Cell 211 locked down the Goya Awards (the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars), with eight victories including Best Film and Best Actor for Tosar. De la Torre leads the U.S. premiere of Lope and the L.A. premiere of Fat People. Noriega accompanies another L.A. premiere, For The Good of Others. Aragon appears alongside his film Paper Birds.

Jump continents and eras for the Centennial of the Mexican Revolution Project at the Wells Fargo Theater. The Autry series opens with Cinema, Politics and the Mexican Revolution, a free panel discussion on the intersection of provocative politics and cinematic censorship in 1930's Mexican films. The line-up includes El Compadre Mendoza, El Prisioneiro Trece and Vámonos con Pancho Villa. For three more from the '30s - in English this time - swing on by the New Beverly, for W.C. Fields' Man on the Flying Trapeze, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break and the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business. Keep the screws loose Friday night for a 25th anniversary screening of Clue at the Nuart. Rocky Horror shadowcasters Sins O' The Flesh pull double duty with this performance, and a costume contest judged by Clue comedienne Colleen Camp (Yvette, the French maid) promises to be tres chic!

Full list appears below. See you at the movies!

All Week

• Aakrosh (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
  
• Alamar (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
  
• Down Terrace (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Gerrymandering (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Jim (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Letters to Father Jacob (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)

Thursday 10/14

• Case 39 (2010) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ screening)
  
• Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970) / Woman Under the Influence (1974) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• A Dirty Carnival (2006) (Korean Cultural Center)
  
• Even the Rain (2010) (w/ actor Luis Tosar) (Egyptian Theatre) (Recent Spanish Cinema)
  
• Four Boxes (2009) (free event w/ filmmaker & cast) (Downtown Independent)
  
• Paranoia (1969) / Eyeball (1975) / Dirty Pictures (1971) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Giallo!)
  
• Rocco and His Brothers (1960) (w/ Larry Karaszewski) (Aero Theatre)
  
• The Social Network (2010) (Arclight Sherman Oaks) (21+ screening)
  
• Wasteland Utopias (Echo Park Film Center)
  
• Wild River (1960) (w/ special guests) (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences)

Friday 10/15

• The 11 & ½ Polish Film Festival Los Angeles (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• 30 Days of Night (2007) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• Bonjour Tristesse (1958) / The Barefoot Contessa (1954) (LACMA) (20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation)
  
• Clue (1985) (Nuart Theatre) (Sins O' The Flesh Midnight Show) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
  
• Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) / Shaft (1971) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Paint It Black: Revisiting Blaxploitation and African American Cinema of the 1970s)
  
• Gerrymandering (2010) (w/ California Common Cause Executive Director Kathay Feng at 7:30pm show) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Halloween (1978) / The Fog (1980) (Aero Theatre) (Tribute to Jamie Lee Curtis)
  
• The House of the Devil (2009) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
  
• The House of the Devil (2009) / Dead Alive (1992) (w/ director Ti West) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• The Jazz Singer (1927) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Jim (2010) (w/ writer/director Jeremy Morris-Burke and cast at 7:10pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Lope (2010) / Paper Birds (2010) (w/ director Emilio Aragon & actor Antonio de la Torre) (Egyptian Theatre) (Recent Spanish Cinema)
  
• The Quiet American (2002) (Echo Park Film Center) (KPFK Political Film Night)
  
• Rosemary's Baby (1978) / Chinatown (1974) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Teen Wolf (1985) / Ghostbusters (1984) (Downtown Independent) (Drink-a-long)
  
• Xanadu (1980) (Alex Theatre)

Saturday 10/16

• 8th Annual Home Movie Day (free event) (Echo Park Film Center)
  
• The 11 & ½ Polish Film Festival Los Angeles (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• The Blair Witch Project (1999) (midnight show) (Laemmle's Royal Theatre)
  
• El Compadre Mendoza (1933) (Autry National Center) (Centennial of the Mexican Revolution Project)
  
• Deathwatch (1966) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Legacy Project Screening Series)
  
• Enemies of the People (2009) (w/ directors) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
  
• A Fish Called Wanda (1988) / True Lies (1994) (w/ Jamie Lee Curtis) (Aero Theatre) (Tribute to Jamie Lee Curtis)
  
• For the Good of Others (2010) / Cell 211 (2009) (w/ actor Eduardo Noriega) (Egyptian Theatre) (Recent Spanish Cinema)
  
• Freaky Friday (2003) (w/ Jamie Lee Curtis) (Aero Theatre) (Tribute to Jamie Lee Curtis)
  
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
  
• GasLand (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• The Jazz Singer (1927) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Jim (2010) (w/ writer/director Jeremy Morris-Burke and cast at 7:10pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Joni Mitchell: A Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (free event) (Skirball Cultural Center) (Passport Screenings)
  
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945) / Senso (1954) (LACMA) (20th Anniversary Tribute to The Film Foundation)
  
• Life Begins Today (2010) (Egyptian Theatre) (Recent Spanish Cinema)
  
• The Lost Boys (1987) (Regency Westwood Village Theater) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
  
• Madman (1982) (w/ Paul Ehlers & co-writer/producer Gary Sales) (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) (South Coast Village Regency Theaters)
  
• Rosemary's Baby (1978) / Chinatown (1974) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Stingray Sam (2009) (Downtown Independent)
  
• Strait Jacket (1974) / Homicidal (1961) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (William Castle's Shockers!)
  
• Tarzan and His Mate (1934) (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) (Me Tarzan, You Technology: The Magic of Tarzan in the Movies)

Sunday 10/17

• 30 Days of Night (2007) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• After (2009) (Egyptian Theatre) (Recent Spanish Cinema)
  
• Coffy (1973) / Cleopatra Jones (1973) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Paint It Black: Revisiting Blaxploitation and African American Cinema of the 1970s)
  
• Fat People (2009) / Me Too (2009) (w/ actor Antonio de la Torre) (Egyptian Theatre) (Recent Spanish Cinema)
  
• GasLand (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• House on Haunted Hill (1999) (Echo Park Film Center) (Filmmobile Screening) (GHOULA)
  
• The Jazz Singer (1927) (Old Town Music Hall)
  
• Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) / Monkey Business (1931) / Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Peter Mays: Tantras and Sutras (w/ Peter Mays) (Los Angeles Filmforum) (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• El Prisionero Trece (1933) (Autry National Center) (Centennial of the Mexican Revolution Project)
  
• The Twelve Chairs (1970) / Fatso (1980) (w/ Mel Brooks & the DeLuise family) (Aero Theatre)
  
• Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1936) (Autry National Center) (Centennial of the Mexican Revolution Project)

That's all for this week. Want more? Forget it, it's Chinatown.