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The Spartan Dream director M. Achilles Nickles and lead actor Peter Bundic will participate in Q&A's at the Laemmle Glendale following the early evening screenings on Friday and Saturday, August 15 and 16. Moderator Fernando Escovar, Entertainment News / TV Host FABTV, will join them for the Friday Q&A.
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Boys Go to Jupiter director Julian Glander and actor Jack Corbett will participate in Q&A's at the Laemmle Glendale following the 7:30 P.M. screenings August 15-17. Actor Demi Adejuyigbe will join them on the 15th. Holmes will moderate on 8/15, Atsuko Okatsuka on 8/16, and Mitra Jouhari on 8/17.
You may not be familiar with Jeff Buckley’s name. But you almost certainly have heard his haunting cover of Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah," a song which was named to Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and has been inducted into the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.In her latest documentary, It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg explores the singer's story and impact.Tragically, Buckley drowned while swimming in the Wolf River in Memphis just as he was about to start work on his second album. But his stature as a singer and songwriter has only grown in the years since his
"A master of existential dread, Kurosawa was early to posit a creepy side to online culture... Things have gotten even grimmer in Cloud. The malevolence is not supernatural but human." ~ John Powers, NPR*"Kurosawa inches back toward the knotted-stomach dread of his horror classics Cure and Pulse with Cloud, albeit accented this time with a healthily morbid sense of humour. And, perhaps more surprising, a serious affinity for action movie shoot-outs." ~ Barry Hertz, Globe and Mail*"That tension between modes [of realism and online fantasy] gives Cloud tremendous visceral and intellectual force, plus a persistent air of moral inquiry." ~ Justin
Sophie Brooks's subversive new romantic comedy Oh, Hi!, co-written with lead actress Molly Gordon, follows a new couple (Gordon and Logan Lerman) whose weekend road trip takes a crazy turn. Drew Taylor of The Wrap wrote that the film "zigs where you think it’ll zag, weaponizing that knowledge and using it to subvert expectations." Kristy Puchko of Mashable called the film a "comedy as current and enthralling as it is outrageous. And by rights, it should prove Gordon is a star."Inverse just posted the following interview with Brooks headlined "How Oh, Hi! Finds the Humanity in Millennial Misery."Q: This film came together in the thick of COVID
Little, Big and Far follows an Austrian astronomer as he begins reevaluating his life and work. He ascends a Greek mountaintop in search of a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars.“Jem Cohen’s wondrous, expansive Little, Big, and Far…. A reminder to seize solitude amid the bustle of everyday existence, to be quiet and still, to look up and consider the universe.” ~ Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com"Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using the cinematic form to patiently interrogate ways of seeing and being." ~ New York Film Festival