A message from the new proprietors of the Music Hall in Beverly Hills!Dear Laemmle friends,We are very excited to announce that the Laemmle tradition will be kept alive at the Music Hall. We are three Laemmle Theatre employees (two former and one current) and we are opening a new company, Lumiere Cinema, at the Music Hall starting this Friday, November 29th. It is our intention to honor the Laemmle family’s commitment of bringing the best of independent cinema to the big screen in Los Angeles. Each of us has worked at the Music Hall and we are proud to be able to grant it a new lease on life. We would like to thank Greg Laemmle and the entire

With a wistful acknowledgement that all things must pass, Laemmle Theatres announces that Thursday, November 21, 2019 will be our last day screening movies at the Music Hall. We began operating the theater in 1974 and have shown literally thousands of movies from all over the planet. Bergman's SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE was one of the first films we played there. LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and MY LIFE AS A DOG were hits at the Music Hall. One tiny highlight of countless funny highlights was Jason Schwartzman standing on the desk in the tiny office behind the box office in 1999 to autograph the RUSHMORE poster on the wall with "Rock on, Music Hall! Jason

Laemmle Theatres and the Culture Vulture series present GOING ATTRACTIONS: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace, a tribute to the spectacular monuments created as temples for the enjoyment of movies.The film’s L.A. run kicks off Thursday, October 24 with the world theatrical premiere at the historic Ahrya Fine Arts, followed by a discussion with filmmaker April Wright and subject Escott O. Norton, executive director of the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation. Several of the film's other subjects will be in attendance as well!Other countries built palaces for royalty. In the United States, we built them to watch movies.Following the

ALWAYS IN SEASON Q&A's following the 7:30 pm show on Friday, 9/29 - Sunday, 9/29. Details below.https://youtu.be/4ZfBr6MPIKEFriday 9/27 - Re-enactment director Cassandra Greene and director Jacqueline Olive moderated by KUCI's Mike KasparSaturday 9/28 - Re-enactment director Cassandra Greene, filmmaker Lorena Manriquez, and director Jacqueline OliveSunday 9/29 - Professor Melina Abdullah and director Jacqueline Olive

IMPRISONED director/writer/producer Paul Kampf will participate in a Q&A following the 7:00 pm show on Friday, 9/20 and Saturday 9/27.https://youtu.be/jGhmdvT6HGk

3 DAYS WITH DAD filmmaker and star Larry Clarke will participate in Q&A's following the 7:20 pm show on Friday, 9/13 and Saturday, 9/14. Larry will be joined by actress Lesley Ann Warren on Friday.

FRIEDKIN UNCUT director Francesco Zippel and producer Federica Paniccia will participate in a Q&A moderated by Steve Barton of Dreadcentral.com following the 7:00 pm show on Friday, 8/30.https://vimeo.com/354167524

On August 5 we lost one of our most brilliant writers and thinkers, Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison. As it happens, an acclaimed biographical documentary, Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, came out this summer and in light of her passing Laemmle Theatres will return the film to theaters starting Friday at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills and Saturday at the Playhouse and Claremont. If you haven't yet seen it, please consider doing so. Writing in the New York Times, A.O. Scott said "The Pieces I Am offers something else, as a dividend yielded by [Morrison's] achievements and her years on the earth: the profound pleasure of her

CHAIN OF DEATH director David Martin Porras and producer Elisa Lleras will participate in a Q&A joined by cast members Adrienne Barbeau, Josh Patrick Amedori, Madeline Zima and Jamie Clayton and moderated by John Alan Simon following the 9:55 pm show on Friday, 7/19. https://youtu.be/i-bfIajGeGg

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE is delighted to welcome artist DAVID PALMER and his mouthwatering new show, RetroPop. The show will run at the Royal till November 2019. Sales benefit the Laemmle Foundation and its support of humanitarian and environmental causes in Los Angeles.About the ExhibitAs a student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the late 80s, pop artist DAVID PALMER drew inspiration from his mentors JOHN ROY and GREGORY GILLESPIE. Between Roy’s analytical rigor and Gillespie’s wildly improvisational methods, Palmer unearthed an exploratory approach to image-making that evokes dreams and memories, literature and film, science, popular

DARLIN' director Pollyanna McIntosh will participate in a Q&A following the 9:55 pm show on Friday, 7/12. https://youtu.be/U0g1Phwj39Y

5TH OF JULY director Camilo Vila and writer Monty Fisher will participate in a Q&A following the 7:00 pm show on Friday, 7/5.https://youtu.be/V66JLT0Zv0I

SAVING ZOE stars and producers of the film Laura Marano & Vanessa Marano, along with NY Times best-selling author Alyson Noël, author of the book "Saving Zoë will participate in a Q&A following the 7:10 pm show on Friday, 7/12 at the Music Hall.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d855rxdLKh0

BACK TO THE FATHERLAND Q&As with directors Kat Rohrer and Gil Levanon following the 7:40 pm show on Friday, 6/28 and Saturday, 6/29 and after the 1:00 pm show on Sunday, 6/30. https://vimeo.com/334939995

ASK FOR JANE Q&A with star Cody Horn following the 7:00 pm show on Friday, 6/28. https://youtu.be/DExRoAgODyU

THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED Q&A's with director Assia Boundaoui following the 7:40 pm show on Friday, 6/21 and Saturday, 6/22 and Thursday, 6/27 and also after the 3:10 pm show on Sunday, 6/23. https://youtu.be/kyv2WwibtB8

INTO THE MIRROR Q&A's with star/writer Jamie Bacon and star/co writer Charles Streeter following the 9:45 pm show on Friday, 6/21 and Saturday 6/22. https://youtu.be/FDmr3TTScX0

LAEMMLE LIVE proudly presents musicians from the Santa Monica Symphony featuring Susan Greenberg-Flute, Sara Canning-Clarinet, Guido Lamell-Violin, Carol Sandstrom-Viola and Tom Lloyd-Cello. The ensemble will perform works by Mozart, Beethoven, Crusell and Haydn. Beloved classical radio announcer Rich Capparela returns to Laemmle Live to host. Santa Monica Symphony, heralded by the Huffington Post as the "crown jewel of Southern California's community orchestras" has been serving the community through quality, free concerts since 1945.The Santa Monica Symphony enhances lifelong learning through special open rehearsals and performances at local

TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG director Dominga Sotomayor will participate in a Q&A moderated by Carlos Aguilar following the 7:00 pm show on Wednesday, 6/12. https://vimeo.com/288244523

CHANGELAND director Seth Green, actor Breckin Meyer and producer Corey Moosa will participate in a Q&A following the 4:10 pm show on Sunday, 6/9. https://youtu.be/_QAezsySGEI