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We pick the best from the world of ballet, opera, stage, fine art and more to feature on the big screen every Monday at select Laemmle Locations. Can't make it Monday? No problem! Catch discounted encore presentations Tuesdays.
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Vanya
110 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions, directed by Sam Yates. Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center
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Monday, March 25, 2024
American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eugene Victor Debs
97 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Prolific filmmaker and ethnographer Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer, Carpati, L'Chayim Comrade Stalin! and many others) has turned his attention to an early American political hero: Eugene Victor Debs. Bernie Sanders inspired a generation – but who inspired him? Most people in America don't know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Debs.
Playing at:
Monica Film Center,
Glendale,
Town Center 5,
Claremont 5
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Monday, April 1, 2024
The Motive and the Cue
180 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center,
Glendale
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Monday, April 8, 2024
One Hand Don't Clap
92 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
ONE HAND DON’T CLAP captures the vibrant story of calypso and the emergence of soca through the eyes of two legendary artists, Lord Kitchener, the Grandmaster of the music, and Calypso Rose, the first woman to break through in a traditionally male arena. Forging on-screen the connections between American communities and where families come from, the documentary leads audiences from New York recording studies to the awesome magic of Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago.
Playing at:
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5,
Glendale
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Monday, April 15, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
102 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. In late 2022, as a parting gift, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and his piano. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty pieces featured in the film wordlessly narrate his life through his wide-ranging oeuvre. The selection spans his entire career.
Playing at:
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5,
Glendale,
Town Center 5
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Monday, April 29, 2024
Heading Away from the Ledge
Synopsis:
Playing at:
Glendale,
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5
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John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger
90 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger examines how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.
Playing at:
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5,
Glendale
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Monday, May 6, 2024
J'Accuse
79 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
This blistering documentary is recalibrating the dialogue between the Jewish People and Lithuania by demanding that the Lithuanian government stops telling Holocaust lies.
Playing at:
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5,
Glendale,
Town Center 5
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Monday, May 13, 2024
Mouthpiece
91 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Patricia Rozema's MOUTHPIECE centers on Cassandra, an aspiring writer who, while struggling to compose a eulogy after the sudden death of her mother, comes to discover that her own rebelliousness is as much a response to the male gaze as her mother's conformity. Enacting the two sides of Cassandra's conflicting inner dialogue, playwright-performers Nostbakken and Sadava create a compelling portrayal of the tension between regression and progress that is often found within women.
Playing at:
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center,
Glendale,
Claremont 5
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Monday, June 3, 2024
Nye
160 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the National Health Service, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence over the UK without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center,
Town Center 5
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Monday, June 10, 2024
My National Gallery
90 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of stories. But whose stories are told? Which art has the most impact and on whom? The power of great art lies in its ability to communicate with anyone, no matter their art historical knowledge, their background, their beliefs. This film gives voice to those who work at the gallery – from cleaner to curator, security guard to director – who identify the one artwork that means the most to them and why.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center,
Town Center 5
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American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eugene Victor Debs
97 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Prolific filmmaker and ethnographer Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer, Carpati, L'Chayim Comrade Stalin! and many others) has turned his attention to an early American political hero: Eugene Victor Debs. Bernie Sanders inspired a generation – but who inspired him? Most people in America don't know that the contemporary political movement to address income inequality began over 100 years ago with Debs.
Playing at:
Glendale,
Town Center 5,
Claremont 5,
Monica Film Center
Dates:
3.25.24,
Mon Mar 25, 2024
3.26.24
and Tue Mar 26, 2024
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Heading Away from the Ledge
Synopsis:
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center
Dates:
4.29.24,
Mon Apr 29, 2024
4.30.24
and Tue Apr 30, 2024
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J'Accuse
79 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
This blistering documentary is recalibrating the dialogue between the Jewish People and Lithuania by demanding that the Lithuanian government stops telling Holocaust lies.
Playing at:
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5,
Glendale
Dates:
5.6.24,
Mon May 06, 2024
5.7.24
and Tue May 07, 2024
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John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger
90 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
John Singer Sargent is known as the greatest portrait artist of his era. What made his ‘swagger’ portraits remarkable was his power over his sitters, what they wore and how they were presented to the audience. Through interviews with curators, contemporary fashionistas and style influencers, John Singer Sargent: Fashion & Swagger examines how Sargent’s unique practice has influenced modern art, culture and fashion.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center
Dates:
4.29.24,
Mon Apr 29, 2024
4.30.24
and Tue Apr 30, 2024
Get Tickets
+ Show Details
- Hide Details
The Motive and the Cue
180 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s exacting direction. But as rehearsals progress, two ages of theatre collide and the collaboration between actor and director soon threatens to unravel.
Playing at:
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center,
Glendale,
Claremont 5
Dates:
4.1.24,
Mon Apr 01, 2024
4.2.24
and Tue Apr 02, 2024
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Mouthpiece
91 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Patricia Rozema's MOUTHPIECE centers on Cassandra, an aspiring writer who, while struggling to compose a eulogy after the sudden death of her mother, comes to discover that her own rebelliousness is as much a response to the male gaze as her mother's conformity. Enacting the two sides of Cassandra's conflicting inner dialogue, playwright-performers Nostbakken and Sadava create a compelling portrayal of the tension between regression and progress that is often found within women.
Playing at:
Glendale,
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center
Dates:
5.13.24,
Mon May 13, 2024
5.14.24
and Tue May 14, 2024
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My National Gallery
90 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of stories. But whose stories are told? Which art has the most impact and on whom? The power of great art lies in its ability to communicate with anyone, no matter their art historical knowledge, their background, their beliefs. This film gives voice to those who work at the gallery – from cleaner to curator, security guard to director – who identify the one artwork that means the most to them and why.
Playing at:
Town Center 5,
Claremont 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center
Dates:
6.10.24,
Mon Jun 10, 2024
6.11.24
and Tue Jun 11, 2024
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Nye
160 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the National Health Service, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence over the UK without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
Playing at:
Town Center 5,
Claremont 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center
Dates:
6.3.24,
Mon Jun 03, 2024
6.4.24
and Tue Jun 04, 2024
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On the Adamant
109 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, this affecting, enlightening documentary from nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf) invites viewers to come aboard the Adamant and witness the transformational power of art and community. The Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of Paris that offers day programs for adults with mental illnesses. Its attendees come from across the city and are offered care that grounds them in time and space, helping them achieve recovery and stability.
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One Hand Don't Clap
92 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
ONE HAND DON’T CLAP captures the vibrant story of calypso and the emergence of soca through the eyes of two legendary artists, Lord Kitchener, the Grandmaster of the music, and Calypso Rose, the first woman to break through in a traditionally male arena. Forging on-screen the connections between American communities and where families come from, the documentary leads audiences from New York recording studies to the awesome magic of Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago.
Playing at:
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5,
Glendale
Dates:
4.8.24,
Mon Apr 08, 2024
4.9.24
and Tue Apr 09, 2024
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Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
102 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, RYUICHI SAKAMOTO | OPUS is the definitive swan song of one of the world’s greatest musicians. In late 2022, as a parting gift, Ryuichi Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and his piano. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the twenty pieces featured in the film wordlessly narrate his life through his wide-ranging oeuvre. The selection spans his entire career.
Playing at:
Glendale,
Town Center 5,
Monica Film Center,
Claremont 5
Dates:
4.15.24,
Mon Apr 15, 2024
4.16.24
and Tue Apr 16, 2024
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Vanya
110 mins Not Rated
Synopsis:
Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions, directed by Sam Yates. Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End.
Playing at:
Claremont 5,
Town Center 5,
Glendale,
Monica Film Center
Dates:
3.19.24
Tue Mar 19, 2024
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