Outbreak writer-director Jeff Wolfe and actor Taylor Handley (Mayor of Kingstown) will participate in a Q&A following the evening screening at the Monica Film Center on December 17.
Both screenings screenings of Born Innocent: Redd Kross -- NoHo/December 10 and Monica Film Center/December 11 -- to be followed by Q&A's with filmmaker Andrew Reich and band members Jeff & Steve McDonald. DJ Kat Corbett will moderate the NoHo Q&A. The moderator for the Santa Monica Q&A on 12/11 is music journalist Lyndsey Parker.
The World According to Allee Willis Q&A schedule: 12/4 – Glendale (7:30pm) – Prudence Fenton, Alexis Spraic (director) and Nick Coles (producer); 12/10 – Monica (7:30pm) – Prudence Fenton, Alexis Spraic (director) and Nick Coles (producer); 12/11 – NoHo (7:30pm) – Prudence Fenton, Alexis Spraic (director) and Nick Coles (producer)
Laemmle Theatres is pleased to announce changes to our eclectic Culture Vulture series beginning next month. After ten years of screening filmed theater, opera, ballet/dance, gallery/art, and much more at our Town Center/Encino, Glendale, Monica Film Center/Santa Monica, and Claremont 5 theaters, we are now adding our Newhall theater. What's more, we will now screen the films Saturdays and Sundays at 10:00 A.M. and Mondays at 7:00 P.M. Tickets are now on sale for the first six films of the new year:*January 25-27: Utilizing the third act motifs of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters as a jumping off point, Dmitry Krymov’s Fragment focuses in on Olga
Tomorrow we open Blitz, the latest film English filmmaker Steve McQueen (Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Occupied City), at the Claremont, Glendale, Monica Film Center, Newhall, and Town Center. Starring Saoirse Ronan, it follows the stories of a group of Londoners during the events of the British capital bombing in World War II. Top film critics have been singing its praises:"McQueen—a director who understands we can only look forward by looking back—gives us a new lens through which to examine WWII in this masterful film." ~ Emily Zemler, Observer"I’ve been to whole film festivals with less cinema than Steve McQueen packs into just two hours." ~
The latest episode of Inside the Arthouse features La Cocina filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios. The drama takes us behind the scenes at a Times Square restaurant, illuminating the lives of the people who prepare and serve our meals while chasing the American Dream. The ensemble cast, which includes two-time Academy Award-nominee Rooney Mara, delivers stunning performances in this beautifully shot film.Laemmle Theatres opens La Cocina this Friday at the Monica Film Center. Writer-director Alonso Ruizpalacios will participate in Q&A's after the 7 PM screening at the Monica Film Center on Friday, November 1st and the 4 PM screening on Saturday, November