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LAist Film Calendar: Iron Men, French Spies & Screwy Kid's Movies
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This Summer's Hottest Film | Photo courtesy of Music Box Films
This week, we welcome a new addition, as expensive as it is adorable. No, not Babies - the Arclight Pasadena! The plucky youngster opens its doors just in time to join siblings Arclight Hollywood and Arclight Sherman Oaks in a one-off screening of Iron Man on Thursday, followed by Iron Man 2 at midnight. If the thick-armored American superhero is unfitting for this column, thick-headed French agent OSS 117 is made to order. The subtitled spy spoof returns to the Nuart this week with Lost in Rio, a sequel to the criminally underrated Nest of Spies. It doesn't get any more criminal than Casino Jack and the United States of Money, a documentary of corrupt lobbyists, Native American casinos, the mob, bribery, national politics, and international revolution. If that makes you sick (non-objective interjection: it should!), learn how to buck the system with The Money Fix, screening at Echo Park Film Center following a potluck and time banking workshop.
For simpler times, retreat to childhood with The Last Starfighter, courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archives, or Popeye & Betty Boop cartoons at the Aero. It may be your only chance to see the latter in 35mm, rather than VHS EP mode. There's also Cinefamily's month-long collection of psychedelic kiddie-flicks, kicking off with the colorful cartoon Hugo the Hippo (presented by Yo Gabba Gabba's animation director Kevin Sukho Lee) and lunatic live-action Cassandra Cat (on loan for the first-and-only-time from Czech film archives). If your childhood was anything like mine, you may also find solace in their screening of Carnival Magic, the screwiest film ever rated PG, boasting talking chimps, abusive carnies, handjobs and vivisection! Or, skip ahead a few years into warped adolescence with Human Centipede. OMG SPOILERZ~! If you think the "ass to ass" ending of Requiem for a Dream is revolting, you ain't seen nothing yet!
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Full list appears below. See you at the movies!
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This Summer's Phattest Film | Photo courtesy of Bill Feigenbaum
All Week
15 Minutes of Fame (2008) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Babies (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
Badmaash Company (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
Behind the Burly Q (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Breath Made Visible (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
Casino Jack and the United States of Money (2010) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5) (The Landmark)
The Extra Man (2010) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2009) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3) (The Landmark)
Harry Brown (2009) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (The Landmark)
I Love You, Phillip Morris (2009) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
The Joneses (2010) (Laemmle's Music Hall 3)
Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival (various locations)
Mercy (2009) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7)
Mother and Child (2009) (The Landmark)
Multiple Sarcasms (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Sunset 5) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
My Name is Khan (2010) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009) (Nuart Theatre)
Please Give (2010) (The Landmark)
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) (The Landmark)
Who Do You Love (2008) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Thursday 5/6
CalArts Film/Video Showcase 2010 (REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney/Calarts Theater)
Cinderella's Stepsister (1st episode) (Korean Cultural Center)
The Company of Wolves (1984) / Freeway (1996) (w/ producer Brad Wyman) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups)
De Luce 1: Vegetare (w/ filmmakers) (Echo Park Film Center) (Benefit for San Francisco Art Institute Faculty Union Legal Fund)
Effects (1980) / Teenager (1974) (w/ Dusty Nelson, John Harrison, Joseph Pilato, Pasquale Buba, Charles Hoyes, Gerald Sindell, and Sue Bernard) (Egyptian Theatre)
The Hurt Locker (2009) / Near Dark (1987) (w/ Bill Paxton) (New Beverly Cinema)
Iron Man (2008) (Arclight Hollywood) (Arclight Pasadena) (Arclight Sherman Oaks)
Kick Ass (2010) (Arclight Hollywood) (21+ screening)
L'Affaire Farewell (2009) (free event w/ former CIA agent George Chritton) (Melnitz Movies)
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Downtown Independent)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) (w/ introduction by Professor Hans J. Rindisbacher) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Friday 5/7
The 39 Steps (1935) / The Lady Vanishes (1938) (Aero Theatre) (Monochrom Mindbogglers: Alfred Hitchcock's Black and White Films)
Animation Night: European Stop-Motion Favorites / Hugo The Hippo (1975) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (The Big Blue Marble: Fun and Funky Kids' Films)
Autarky! Frontier Animation from CalArts (w/ filmmakers) (Echo Park Film Center)
Behind the Burly Q (2010) (w/ filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis at 7:10pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
CalArts Film/Video Showcase 2010 (REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney/Calarts Theater)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) (The Bay Theatre)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) (Goethe-Institut) (LACMA)
Eggshells (1968) (midnight drive-in screening) (Steve Allen Theater)
"From the Inkwell to the Desktop" A Selection of Early Hand-drawn and Digital Animation (w/ Jerry Beck and Bill Kroyer) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema)
The Human Centipede (2009) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
It Came From Kuchar (2009) (w/ director Jennifer Kroot and writer-actor Buck Henry) (Egyptian Theatre)
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Downtown Independent)
Mercy (2009) (w/ actor/screenwriter Scott Caan and director Patrick Hoelck at 7:30pm and 9:45pm shows) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
Night After Night (1932) (Old Town Music Hall)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (live cast midnight show) (Laemmle's Fallbrook 7)
Small Change (1976) / Mississippi Mermaid (1969) (New Beverly Cinema)
Tubefilter's Best of the Internet (Egyptian Theatre)
Who Do You Love (2008) (w/ performance by Sun Ray Gravitones after 9pm show) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Saturday 5/8
8 1/2 (1963) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
Behind the Burly Q (2010) (w/ filmmaker Leslie Zemeckis at 7:10pm show) (Laemmle's Sunset 5)
CalArts Film/Video Showcase 2010 (REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney/Calarts Theater)
Carnival Magic (1981) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (HFS: Fucked-Up Kids' Movies)
Cassandra Cat (1963) / Life and Film: (The Labyrinthine Biographies of Vojtech Jasny) (2009) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Saturday Night Showcase)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) (The Bay Theatre)
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhildís Revenge (1924) (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences) (Goethe-Institut) (LACMA)
Funny Girl (1968) (w/ "Glee" creator Ryan Murphy, executive producer Dante Di Loreto and series cast member Lea Michele) (Egyptian Theatre)
Ghostbusters (1984) (Regency Academy) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
In My Sleep (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
It Came From Kuchar (2009) (w/ director Jennifer Kroot and writer-actor Buck Henry) (Egyptian Theatre)
The Last Starfighter (1984) (w/ Jeffrey A. Okun, visual effects supervisor) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema)
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (Downtown Independent)
Mid-August Lunch (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
The Money Fix (w/ potluck and workshop on time banking) (Echo Park Film Center)
Mother and Child (2009) (w/ writer/director Rodrigo Garcia at 4:35pm and 7:25pm shows) (The Landmark)
Night After Night (1932) (Old Town Music Hall)
Please Give (2010) (w/ writer/director Nicole Holofcener at5pm and 7:15pm shows) (The Landmark)
Popeye and Betty Boop cartoons (Aero Theatre)
Psycho (1960) / Spellbound (1945) (Aero Theatre) (Monochrom Mindbogglers: Alfred Hitchcock's Black and White Films)
Raw Meat (1972) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights) (co-presented by Horror Movie a Day)
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)
Roman Holiday (1953) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
See What I'm Saying (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Small Change (1976) / Mississippi Mermaid (1969) (New Beverly Cinema)
The Toll of the Sea (1923) / Becky Sharp (1935) (w/ Robert Gitt, Preservation Officer, UCLA Film & Television Archive) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema)
Who Do You Love (2008) (w/ performance by White Boy James And The Blues Express after night show) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
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Sunday 5/9
8 1/2 (1963) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
The Aviator (2004) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (From Nitrate to Digital: New Technologies and the Art of Cinema)
Berlin 36 (2009) (Goethe-Institut) Laemmle's Town Center 5) (Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival)
Charles Phoenix and the Third Dimension (Downtown Independent)
A Clockwork Orange (1971) (The Bay Theatre)
Imitation of Life (1959) / There's Always Tomorrow (1956) (New Beverly Cinema)
In My Sleep (2009) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex)
It Came From Kuchar (2009) (w/ Kuchar Shorts Program) (Egyptian Theatre)
Little Women (1933) (free event) (Hammer Museum)
Long Beach Bike Film Festival (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
Mary Poppins (1964) (w/ Mother's Day tea party) (Egyptian Theatre)
Mid-August Lunch (2008) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Night After Night (1932) (Old Town Music Hall)
Roger Beebe's films for One to Eight Projectors (w/ Roger Beebe) (Echo Park Film Center)
Roman Holiday (1953) (Art Theatre of Long Beach)
See What I'm Saying (2010) (weekend morning show) (Laemmle's Monica 4-Plex) (Laemmle's Playhouse 7) (Laemmle's Town Center 5)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) / Stage Fright (1950) (Aero Theatre) (Monochrom Mindbogglers: Alfred Hitchcock's Black and White Films)
Stella Dallas (1925) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Mother's Day Silent Matinee)
That's all for this week. Anyone for tea?
Compiled by the amazing and diligent Edward Yerke-Robins (and family!)
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