LAist Film Calendar: This Big Bird's No Turkey!

If you aren't one for turkey, the Aero screens Singin' In The Rain Thanksgiving Day with an introduction from Gene Kelly's widow Patricia. While that's Thursday's lone screening, the rest of the weekend is stuffed with classics and Muppet Magic.

Shemps real and fake will soitenly head to Glendale's Alex Theatre for the 13th annual Three Stooges Big Screen Event. The line up sports five Stooge shorts, book-ended with rarities for the true knuckleheads.

Back at the Aero, a double bill of delectable pairs plays Saturday with It Happened One Night and My Man Godfrey. Sunday, the theater takes two trips down the yellow brick road, with a sparkling print of Wizard of Oz at 4PM, and the '80s pseudo-sequel Return to Oz at 7:30. The two are separate admissions, but Return to Oz features a discussion with its director Walter Murch and A History of Violence scribe Josh Olson.

If you prefer your pumpkin heads with pajama parties, Return to Oz also screens Saturday on a double bill with fellow fantasy Labyrinth at the Cinefamily. Bowie's goblin army is but one brigade in Cinefamily's Muppet invasion. Friday boasts two programs of Muppet History, the early television appearances and commercials where Jim Henson refined his craft and introduced the frogs, dogs and furry monsters we still treasure today. These shows sell out so quickly that the Cinefamily's already booked back-to-back encores!

Saturday's Milestones on the Street traces 40 years of Sesame Street, with births, deaths, joy, heartache, and the show's very first episode. Inside the Sesame Street Vault digs a little deeper into rare footage of Jim Henson's creative team through special clips and interviews. Sunday afternoon spotlights the do-re-mi of Sesame with The Music of Sesame Street, featuring the show's original songs and musical guests spanning all genres. The Muppet mania caps off with a screening of Follow That Bird, Sesame Street's star-studded first movie.

Full list appears below. See you at the movies!

All Week

• Disco and Atomic War (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Me, Too! (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Nothing Personal (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Tiny Furniture (2010) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Undertow (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Vision: From The Life Of Hildegard Von Bingen (2008) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
  
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010) (Downtown Independent)

Thursday 11/25

• Singin' In The Rain (1952) (w/ Gene Kelly's widow, Patricia Kelly) (Aero Theatre)

Friday 11/26

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
  
• It Happened One Night (1934) / My Man Godfrey (1936) (Aero Theatre)
  
• It's A Wonderful Life (1946) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) (w/ director Thom Andersen) (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• Muppet History 101 (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (More Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy)
  
• Muppet History 201 (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (More Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy)
  
• PeeWee's Big Adventure (1985) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
  
• Pulp Fiction (1994) (midnight show) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) (free sneak preview) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• Red Cliff: Part I (2009) (LACMA) (Hard Boiled Hong Kong)
  
• Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) (Art Theatre of Long Beach) (Mondo Fridays)
  
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957) / Some Like It Hot (1959) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Tiny Furniture (2010) (w/ filmmaker Lena Dunham at the 7:30pm & 9:50pm shows) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Undertow (2009) (w/ director Javier Fuentes-León at 7:10pm & 9:55pm shows) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)

Saturday 11/27

• The 13th Annual Three Stooges Big Screen Event (Alex Theatre)
  
• Bold Native (2010) (DVD release party w/ special guests)
  
• Cinefamma Pajama Party III feat. Labyrinth (1986) / Return to Oz (1985) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre)
  
• The Departed (2006) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Disco and Atomic War (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• Gone With the Wind (1939) (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• Jim Henson & Friends: Inside the Sesame Street Vault (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (More Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy)
  
• Marwencol (2010) (weekend morning show w/ director Jeff Malmberg) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• The Monster Squad (1987) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
  
• Red Cliff: Part I (2009) / Red Cliff: Part II (2009) (LACMA) (Hard Boiled Hong Kong)
  
• 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)
  
• Sesame Street at 40: Milestones on the Street (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (More Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy)
  
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957) / Some Like It Hot (1959) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Tiny Furniture (2010) (w/ filmmaker Lena Dunham at the 7:30pm & 9:50pm shows) (Nuart Theatre)
  
• Undertow (2009) (w/ director Javier Fuentes-León at 7:10pm & 9:55pm shows) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
  
• Vision: From The Life Of Hildegard Von Bingen (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Waste Land (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show w/ director Rick Trank at the 11am show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)

Sunday 11/28

• Follow That Bird (1985) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (More Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy)
  
• It's A Wonderful Life (1946) (The Bay Theatre)
  
• Marwencol (2010) (weekend morning show w/ director Jeff Malmberg) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" (1962) (w/ panel discussion) (Egyptian Theatre)
  
• Return to Oz (1985) (w/ director Walter Murch & screenwriter Josh Olson) (Aero Theatre)
  
• Sing! The Music of Sesame Street (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (More Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy)
  
• Tales of Terror (1962) / The Haunted Palace (1963) (New Beverly Cinema)
  
• Vision: From The Life Of Hildegard Von Bingen (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Waste Land (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
  
• Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show) (w/ director Rick Trank at the 11am show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
  
• Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
  
• The Wizard of Oz (1939) (Aero Theatre)

That's all for this week. You think Menomena has ever covered "Mahna Mahna"?