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Your Weekly LAist Film Calendar
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By now, everyone's sick of hearing about how the economy's in the toilet. But hey, sometimes it nets you cheap dinner and a free movie. If you're unemployed, that is. Then you'll want to be heading over to the old Aero, for the uncanny Boris Karloff's spookiest performances, the highly flappable combination of Laurel & Hardy & Fields, and more Ginger than a Shirley Temple - all on their dime (simply present your ID & EDD). For more current freebies, you could always set aside some time to learn something - how about the plight of women in Iran at The Hammer? Or the plight of our descendants stalked by cannibalistic humanoids at The Skirball? Suddenly the recession's a tad easier to bear.
If you're employed, then why so serious? Pay your respects to the late Heath Ledger at the New Beverly's I-can't-believe-it's-a-10th-anniversary-screening of his breakout 10 Things I Hate About You, with accompanying trailer reel. Or pay your 25-years-belated respects to legendary Mexican-wrestler Santo at the Egyptian, and keep his lucha legacy alive. Now, more than ever, it's important to support the line-ups you want to see. A prime example is the limited release of Fanboys, well tanned from years in development hell. If it makes enough per theater, it makes wide release. If not, hello, Paul Blart Mall Cop 2: Mall Cop-er.
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All Week
Absurdistan (2008) (Nuart Theatre)
Fanboys (2008) (Mann's Chinese 6) (Full Theater Breakdown)
The Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts 2009 (Laemmle's Sunset 5) & (The Landmark)
The Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts 2009 (Laemmle's Sunset 5) & (The Landmark)
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Thursday 2/5
Los Campeones De La Lucha Libre (The Champtions Of Mexican Wrestling) (2008) / Bonus El Santo Film TBA (w/ Director Eddie Mort) (Egyptian Theatre)
Frankenstein (1931) / The Mummy (1932) (Free w/ January or February stub from your EDD benefit check) (Aero Theatre) (Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Great Films of the Great Depression)
Home Movie Night (Free Event) (Echo Park Film Center)
The Merry Widow (1934) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Lubitsch Musicals Series)
Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008) / The Nomi Song (2004) (New Beverly Cinema)
Friday 2/6
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) (Regency Fairfax) (Insomniac Cinema Midnight Movie)
Berlin Ñ Schšnhauser Corner (1957) / The Second Track (1962) (LACMA)
The Devils (1971) (Nuart Theatre) (Cine-Insomnia Midnight Movie)
Dub Echoes (2007) (w/ DJ Danny Holloway) (Downtown Independent)
The Fortune Cookie (1966) / One, Two, Three (1961) (New Beverly Cinema)
HollyShorts Monthly Screening Series (w/ Filmmakers) (Echo Park Film Center)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) (Egyptian Theatre)
The Hunger (1983) (Midnight) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Lesbian Vampires Series)
I'll Be Yours (1947) (Old Town Music Hall)
Laura (1944) / Vertigo (1958) (7:30PM) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Romantic Obsession Series)
Mamma Mia! (2008) (Sing-A-Long Version) (Warner Grand Theatre)
Night of the Living Dead (1968) (Midnight Movie) (New Beverly Cinema)
Showgirls (1995) (Art Theatre Of Long Beach) (Mondo Midnights)
Sons Of The Desert (1933) / It's A Gift (1934) (Free w/ January or February stub from your EDD benefit check) (Aero Theatre) (Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Great Films of the Great Depression)
Wild Weather - Wet (2002) (Ramo Auditorium @ Caltech)
Saturday 2/7
International Festival Of Cinema & Technology (Downtown Independent)
* Short Film Showcase: Fantasy vs. Reality 11:30AM
* Visions of Movement, Art and Sound 2:30PM
* Comedies 4:00PM
* Feature Film: Jackson Directed by J.F. Lawton 6:00PM
* Short Films: Questionable Crimes 8:00PM
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) (New Beverly Cinema) (New Beverly Midnights)
Crime Without Passion (1934) / Backdoor To Heaven (1939) (7:30PM) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (Hollywood On The Hudson: Filmmaking In New York Series)
The Fortune Cookie (1966) / One, Two, Three (1961) (New Beverly Cinema)
The Human Condition II: The Road To Eternity (1959) (Egyptian Theatre)
I'll Be Yours (1947) (Old Town Music Hall)
In Search of Memory - Eric Kandel (2008) (w/ Nobel Laureate Dr. Eric Kandel & Documentarian Petra Seeger) (Skirball Cultural Center)
Lola (1981) / East Side Story (1997) (LACMA)
Rhinestone (1984) (10:30PM) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Wretched Romances Series)
Roberta (1935) / Follow The Fleet (1936) (Free w/ January or February stub from your EDD benefit check) (Aero Theatre) (Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Great Films of the Great Depression)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Sins O' The Flesh Midnight Show) (Nuart Theatre)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (Midnight Show) (Warner Grand Theatre)
The Thin Man (1934) / After The Thin Man (1936) (6:30PM) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (The Thin Man Series)
Visual Effects Society Awards Sneak Peak (2:00PM) (Free Event) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum)
Sunday 2/8
International Festival Of Cinema & Technology (Downtown Independent)
* Showcase of International Cinema 11:30AM
* It's In the Game 1:00PM
* Animation 2:30PM
* Shorts about Love and Romance 4:30PM
* Welcome to Eden 6:30PM
* Experimental Film 8:30PM
A Light In The Fog (2008) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum)
FilmWeek Oscar Preview (Egyptian Theatre)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961) (Egyptian Theatre)
I'll Be Yours (1947) (Old Town Music Hall)
Il Decameron (1971) / Arabian Nights (1974) (New Beverly Cinema)
Leandro Katz: The Day You'll Love Me (1997) (REDCAT - Roy & Edna Disney Calarts Theater)
Lovefilm (1970) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Family Sundays: An Evening With Mike Mills)
South Main (2008) (Los Angeles Filmforum)
Topper (1937) (Newly Restored Print) / Holiday (1938) (Free w/ January or February stub from your EDD benefit check) (Aero Theatre) (Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? Great Films of the Great Depression)
Monday 2/9
Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) (Arclight Sherman Oaks)
Il Decameron (1971) / Arabian Nights (1974) (New Beverly Cinema)
Tuesday 2/10
Du Barry Was a Lady (1943) (Matinee) (LACMA)
Ebony, Ivory & Jade (1976) / The Muthers (1976) (New Beverly Cinema) (Grindhouse Film Festival)
He Walked By Night (1948) (Free Event) (Ramo Auditorium @ Caltech)
The Time Machine (1960) (Free Event) (Skirball Cultural Center) (Celebrating Darwin's Birthday: Evolution In Cinema Series)
Women In Shroud (2009) (Free Event) (Hammer Museum) (Sundance Documentary Film Program Work-In-Progress)
Wednesday 2/11
Casablanca (1942) (Arclight Hollywood)
Harold and Maude (1971) / Electric Dreams (1984) (New Beverly Cinema)
South Main (2008) (Los Angeles Filmforum)
The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of...Or Why Citizen Kane Didn't Win: Seminar (Egyptian Theatre)
Unforgiven (1992) (UCLA Film & Television Archive @ Hammer Museum) (The Art Of Light Series)
Wild Orchids (1929) (Cinefamily @ Silent Movie Theatre) (Don't Speak! Series)
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That's all for this week. Love it or Netflix it.
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