Nikah Q&A's: On November 18, Jenny Chio, a cultural anthropologist and filmmaker at the University of Southern California, will introduce and lead a post-screening talk-back after the Glendale screening; Faroukh Virani, a television/documentary editor and film festival programmer, will do the same at the Monica Film Center screening.
The World According to Allee Willis Q&A schedule: Sat. 11/16 - Monica Film Center, 7:20pm show, Q&A with filmmaker Alexis Spraic & producer Prudence Fenton; Sun. 11/17 - Monica Film Center, 1:30pm show, Q&A with Spraic & Fenton; Tues. 11/19 - Laemmle NoHo 7, 7:30pm show - introduction by Spraic; Tues. 11/19 - Laemmle Glendale, 7:30pm show, Q&A with Spraic.
Breakup Season cast and crew members will participate in Q&A's after the November 14 screening at the NoHo and each screening at the Laemmle Glendale November 15-21.
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." ~
When he accepted the Palme d'Or for his colorful, authentic, surprising, exciting, thrilling comedy Anora earlier this year at Cannes, writer-director Sean Baker (Tangerine, The Florida Project, Red Rocket) spoke eloquently about seeing movies in theaters. You can watch the whole thing online, but here's the key excerpt:"This literally has been my singular goal as a filmmaker for the past 30 years. So I’m not really sure what I’m gonna do with the rest of my life, but I do know that I will continue to fight for cinema because right now, as filmmakers, we have to fight to keep cinema alive. This means making feature films intended for theatrical
THE EYE OF THE SALAMANDEROpening at the Laemmle Glendale on Friday, November 1Q&A with Writer/Director Pavel Nikolajev and Producer Olga Polevaya on Saturday, November 2 following primetime showingAn Aztec pyramid figurine found in the ancient city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico stores a dark secret, which is discovered by professor Hiscock, a non-traditional hero, who will learn quantum teleportation the hard way, facing primal folklore fears and his alter ego in the gruesome catacombs of uncharted realm.DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT"I had a vision to create a film about instant teleportation via an ancient artifact for quite some time and was