Weekend Preview: LA Weekend Preview: 1/7-1/10 Edition
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Welcome back! Ready to start 2010 off? Here’s a few things to do to celebrate the end of the first week of the decade. We got art, movies, shows grand and intimate, and the kickoff of the Natural History Museum’s First Friday concert series!
Thursday, January 7
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy presents “Ladies’ Night” double-feature at Cinefamily (611 N. Fairfax Ave). Will Oldham hand-picked tonight’s movies, and will be on hand to present them. The evening opens with Nicholas Ray’s noir A Woman’s Secret (1949), starring Maureen O’Hara as a singing teacher blamed for the shooting of her protégé (Gloria Grahame), “a trollop-minded chirp she has coached into the bigtime.” Written by Herman J. Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), the film is a chance for Ray to take what could have been an average “woman’s picture” and tweak it to suit his slightly perverse sensibilities. Next, Wim Wenders’ Alice In The Cities (1974). This German New Wave gem finds a roving reporter who reluctantly takes on the guardianship of Alice, a little girl who needs to be delivered to her grandmother — a woman whose name and address she doesn’t remember, and whose house can only be identified by a single photo of an unmarked front door. Yella Röttlander’s stellar performance as the young girl whose journey’s end is always one more step away is framed terrifically by Robby Mueller’s B&W cinematography, and a moody score by Irmin Schmidt and Michael Karoli (half of Krautrock legends Can).
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The Happy Hollows play at The Mint (6010 W Pico Blvd) with Dirt Dress and One Trick Pony.
Friday, January 8
It’s the first First Friday at the Natural History Museum (900 Exposition Blvd)! Atlas Sound and the Tune-Yards play amids the dioramas of African mammals and dinosaur bones, while DJs Them Jeans and Spider spin nearby. Entomologists will provide lectures about spider biodiversity and the physics of silk.
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Dopplegangers: A love story. Award winning queer artists Krys Fox (from California) and Michael Burke (from NY) present a subversive performative journey in their first collaborative work. Topics to be explored include sex, identity, appropriation, love, politics, death, drugs, drag, pornography, prostitution, and secret histories. Original video by acclaimed filmmaker Todd Verow (director of the very disturbing Frisk). Tonight at 8:30. At Highways Performance Space (1651 18th St, Santa Monica).
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Tiny Grapfruit
Tiny Food. Jessica Hlavac displays her large-print macro-scale photos of micro-scale food sculptures at Panty Raid (1953 Hillhurst Ave) in Los Feliz.
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A Cry For Help: A group art show at Thinkspace (4210 Santa Monica Blvd)) to save endangered species by benefiting Born Free USA.
Saturday, January 9
Get your dungeons and dragons drag on. It’s the climactic conclusion to American Cinemetheque’s Renaissance Week at the Egyptian Theater (6712 Hollywood Blvd)! The courtyard is transformed into a mini version of an Elizabethan village from the Renassiance Pleasure Faire. Today’s movies include a matinee of The Secret of Kells–an animated tale of a young boy in medieval Ireland who saves the sacred Book of Kells from Viking marauders:
Festivities conitnue in the evening with a double feature of Excalibur, John Boorman’s 1981 epic of Camelot, starring (among others) Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirrin, and Liam Neeson, followed by George Romero’s Knightriders, which tranpsoses the tale to a modern-day ren faire, with knights jousting on motorcycles, and an angsty Ed Harris as their often-shirtless king:
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Instant Gratification at the Copro Gallery in Bergamot Station (2525 Michigan Ave T5, Santa Monica). It’s a Polaroid Party! The ISM Community Project celebrates the exhibition and publication of INSTANT GRATIFICATION: los angeles, a display of over 2,000 one-of-a-kind, irreproducible Polaroid shots submitted by photographers from around the globe. The Fling, Sam Outlaw, and The Romany Rye will be performing.
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Rufus Wainright plays the Terrace Theater in Long Beach (300 E. Ocean Blvd). He may ridicule California, but he’s gracing us with one of his few North American shows.
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Sonic Youth plays at The Wiltern (3790 Wilshire Blvd) with Sic Alps.
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Dopplegangers: A love story. See Friday. Tonight at 10:30. At Highways Performance Space (1651 18th St, Santa Monica.
Sunday, January 10
Lymbyc Systym at The Bootleg Theater (2220 Beverly Blvd). An folk/electronic side project from the boys of Phoenix.
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Zola Jesus, Pocahaunted, Sissy Spacek, and DJ Dean Spunt (of No Age) play at The Smell (247 S. Main St)
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Bears in Space at Akbar (4356 Sunset Blvd). Dancing, cookies, and alternabears!
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