Sabbath Queen filmmaker Sandi Simcha Dubowski will participate in multiple Q&A's with special guests. The full schedule is here.
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)
Sabbath Queen, the new documentary filmed over two decades, follows Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie's epic journey as the dynastic heir of 38 generations of Orthodox rabbis, including the Chief Rabbis of Israel. He is torn between rejecting and embracing his destiny and becomes a drag queen rebel, a queer bio-dad and the founder of Lab/Shul—an everybody-friendly, God-optional, artist-driven, pop-up experimental congregation.Sabbath Queen followsAmichai on his lifelong quest to creatively and radically reinvent religion and ritual, challenge patriarchy and supremacy, champion interfaith love, and stand up for peace. The film interrogates what Jewish
JOIN US on DECEMBER 24th for our umpteenth annual alternative Christmas Eve! That's right, It's time for the return of our Fiddler on the Roof Sing-Along! Screening in five shtetls: Claremont, NoHo, West L.A., Encino, and Newhall.Belt out your holiday spirit … or your holiday frustrations. Either way, you'll feel better as you croon along to all-time favorites like “TRADITION,” “IF I WERE A RICH MAN,” “TO LIFE,” “SUNRISE SUNSET,” “DO YOU LOVE ME?” and “ANATEVKA,” among many others.We encourage you to come in costume! Guaranteed fun for all. Children are welcome (Fiddler is rated "G") though some themes may be challenging for young children.Prices
On December 20th we are opening Pedro Almodóvar's first movie in English, The Room Next Door, at the Royal. We'll bring it to Claremont, Glendale, Newhall, North Hollywood, and Encino in January. Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton star as two friends who reconnect after decades apart and embark on an unusual new phase of their friendship. Writing in Time Magazine, Stephanie Zacharek describes how "the colors of The Room Next Door are its secret message, a language of pleasure and beauty that reminds us how great it is to be alive. If it's possible to make a joyful movie about death, Almodóvar has just done it." "The Room Next Door, as driven by the