Around Town: Marilyn Monroe, Jacques Tati and a screening you can’t refuse
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It’s a big weekend for the Corleone family. The 1972 Oscar-winning drama ‘The Godfather’ screens Thursday evening at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre, with 1974’s ‘The Godfather: Part II,’ visiting the theater on Saturday. (Also on Thursday ‘The Godfather: Part III’ screens at the New Beverly Cinema.)
The Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre continues with its annual screwball comedy festival Thursday evening with the 1935 laugh-fest ‘Ruggles of Red Gap,’ starring Charles Laughton and directed by Leo McCarey, and the rarely seen 1935 James Whale mystery comedy ‘Remember Last Night?’
The Marx Brothers are up to their hilarious shenanigans in 1937’s ‘A Day at the Races’ and 1935’s ‘A Night at the Opera,’ both screening Saturday. And on tap for Sunday is Howard Hawks’ wickedly funny 1940 ‘His Girl Friday,’ with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, and Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 pre-Code masterwork, ‘Trouble in Paradise.’
The Egyptian Theatre celebrates the 30th anniversary of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ Sunday afternoon with a triple bill of the 1981 Steven Spielberg classic, as well as 1984’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’ and 1989’s ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,’ which features Sean Connery as Indiana Jones’ father.
Vidiots’ Saturday Night Film Club in the Vidiots’ Video Annex presents a free screening of 1992’s ‘The Player,’ Robert Altman’s scathingly funny Hollywood satire. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Tuesday matinee is one of the best MGM musicals -- 1953’s ‘The Band Wagon,’ directed by Vincente Minnelli, and starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Nanette Fabray and Jack Buchanan.
‘Scenes from a Crazy World,’ which features the movies of the great French clown Jacques Tati, is the Tuesday matinee series this month at the Skirball Center. On tap for Tuesday is Tati’s first feature film, 1949’s ‘Jour de Fete.’
The Hammer Museum presents a screening of ‘A Small Act’ Tuesday at the Billy Wilder Theater. The award-winning documentary revolves around a young man from a poor village in Kenya who attends Harvard Law School and becomes a human rights attorney for the United Nations. Following the screening will be a Q&A with director Jennifer Arnold and producers Patti Lee and Jeffrey Soros.
On tap for Wednesday at the Hammer is a screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal 1958 romantic thriller ‘Vertigo,’ starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak. The screening at the Billy Wilder is in conjunction with the exhibition, ‘Hammer Projects: Julian Hoeber.’
The Egyptian Theatre presents its sixth annual ‘Focus on Female Directors’ Wednesday. The evenings of shorts includes ‘Bastard,’ directed by Kirsten Dunst, Amy Ephron’s ‘Chloe @ 3 A.M.’ and Cleo Madison’s ‘Eleanor’s Catch,’ from 1916.
The Aero Theatre kicks off its monthlong ‘That Special Something: A Tribute to Great Screen Icons’ series Wednesday evening with two great Clark Gable films -- 1961’s haunting drama ‘The Misfits,’ directed by John Huston and penned by Arthur Miller, which marked Gable and Marilyn Monroe’s final screen appearances, and the 1936 disaster blockbuster ‘San Francisco,’ which also stars Spencer Tracy and Jeanette MacDonald.
-- Susan King
