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Your Weekly LAist Film Calendar

Barack Obama bested the Presidential campaign by reaching across all places and people. It seems only fitting that his inauguration week bears a similarly dynamic platform: from the earliest cinematic pioneers to the latest digital technologies, from campy cult comedies to maverick macho westerns, from classic actors to Jean Claude Van Damme, from sea to shining sea. This is why I love L.A. Nay, this is why I love America!

TV Junkie: Tuesday

NBC is in the news big time this week. First off, NBC's ratings for its Wimbledon Men's Final broadcast was phenomenal - the best in 8 years and the best for a finale without a contending American since '91.

DVD Tuesday: Slim Pickings

was the last David Lynch movie that I really dug. Bill Pullman--in all of his confused Everyman glory--was a perfect fit for Lynch's surreal and scuzzy universe.

Pencil This In: Monday

Special Event Alert: AFI's 40th Anniversary Celebration

Though my allegiance has switched over to the Landmark, many film lovers in Los Angeles regard the Arclight as the best multiplex in town. It programs studio pictures right alongside esoteric indies, it offers great concessions, its screenings are commercial-free and it schedules cool events with celebrated films and filmmakers. This Wednesday, tickets go on sale for one of those very events. In fact, this one may be the coolest in awhile. To celebrate...

A Truly Neighborhood Hike: Dixie Canyon Park

We sort of chuckled after finishing this hike. We stood at the trail head 15 minutes after we started. So much for a big adventure (hehe). However, there is still value in this eighth-mile hike at an odd cul de sac surrounded by expensive hillside condos just north of Mulholland Drive in Studio City. We're sure the residents of the street do not appreciate so much the public park outside their door, but also...

Movie Picks: Matthew Barney, Bonnie & Clyde, PAFF, Woman in the Dunes & More!

Why woo your sweetheart with such tediously traditional notions as flowers, teddy bears and edible panties when you could watch Matthew Barney and his inamorata Bjork going at each other with flensing knives on the deck of a Japanese whaling vessel in Drawing Restraint 9? And if that's not enough Barney for you, there's the making-of documentary Matthew Barney: No Restraint. His work has sometimes been described as a "hauntingly dreamlike fantasy and surrealist odyssey," but I think Vern of Aint It Cool has the best take on Matthew Barney.

TV Junkie

NOTE: MOST NETWORKS WILL HAVE ELECTION COVERAGE STARTING AT 10:00 PM "La Strada" (IFC, 7:30 p.m.) A night of Italian neo-realist cinema continues with the story of wife-beating circus brute Anthony Quinn. Antonioni's "L'Avventura" follows "Dancing With the Stars" (ABC, 8:00 p.m.) The death march continues, 3 teams left "Nip/Tuck" (FX, 10:00 p.m.) OK, so Julia's effing a dwarf now and Sean gets to meet his own personal devil in person personally "The Daily...

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