Things To Do This Week: Monday-Wednesday

• Monday:
• Bugsy Malone [starring Scott Baio and Jodie Foster!] then Phantom of the Paradise at the New Beverly
• The Cinema Cabaret: Neo-Benshi Live Film Narration "The Jack H. Skirball Screening Series presents poets from L.A., San Francisco and New York as they convene to re-approach the Japanese “film teller” tradition of benshi, in which writers or actors narrate alongside silent films. Tonight’s neo-benshi invites performers to select scenes from popular TV or film, mute the soundtrack and “re-inscribe the familiar images with new meanings,” featuring new looks at Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Kiss Me Deadly, Rebel Without a Cause and more" at REDCAT
• Polaroid Stories at the Actor’s Playpen
• Robert Haas at the Los Angeles Central Library @ 7
• USC Thornton Chamber Music Marathon "USC Thornton students jam at the annual event featuring three nights of nonstop chamber music performances" at Newman Recital Hall @ 5
• San Francisco
• Undoing at Sundance Kabuki
• The Great Dictator at the Castro Theatre
• Aimee Mann's Second Annual Christmas Show at Bimbo's 365 Club
  

• Tuesday:
  
• A Place To Bury Strangers at the Silverlake Lounge,
• Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings at the El Rey
• SF
• Marc Cohn at the Palace of Fine Arts
• "Douglas Gordon: Pretty Much Every Film and Video Work from About 1992 Until Now" at SF Museum of Modern Art
• Juliette & the Licks (!)(!) at the Great American Music Hall
• "Damned If You Duhig" at Annie’s Social Club
  

• Wednesday:
• Lagerfeld Confidential at the Aero
• A sneak preview of Paul Schrader’s The Walker "starring Woody Harrelson as Carter Page, a D.C. gay confidant and “walker” for some of capitol hill’s most important wives, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall and Lily Tomlin" at the Egyptian
• and I think the Spice Girls show is sold out but if you wanna try a scalper they’re at Staples
• SF
• "The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Escapades at the Shotwell Studios
• Once at the Red Vic (I adore this movie!)
  

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