Monica Film Center

Monica Film CenterFri (1/03) 4pm - Los Frikis - Special Screening with Q&A with director Michael Schwartz and star Eros de la PuenteFri (1/03) 7pm - Los Frikis - Special Screening with Q&A with director Michael Schwartz and star Eros de la PuenteSat (1/04) 4pm - Los Frikis - Special Screening with Q&A with director Michael SchwartzSat (1/04) 7pm - Los Frikis - Special Screening with Q&A with director Michael Schwartz Laemmle NoHo 7Fri (1/03) 4:10 pm - Los Frikis - Special Screening followed by Q&A with director Tyler NilsonFri (1/03) 7:10 pm - Los Frikis - Special Screening followed by Q&A with director Tyler NilsonSat (1/04) 4:10 pm - Los Frikis

Acclaimed filmmakers Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck, three-time Sundance honorees who previously took audiences to the secret corners of the Italian countryside in search of white truffles with The Truffle Hunters, recently sat down with Inside the Arthouse hosts Greg Laemmle and Raphael Sbarge to talk about their latest striking nonfiction work. Gaucho Gaucho paints an Argentinian western with images and sounds of operatic beauty, building on their earlier success with The Last Race, a film that explored the last stock car racetrack on Long Island.Kershaw and Dweck’s focus is now on the vast mountains of Argentina, expressed in stunning black

Palestine's Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero is a powerful collection of short films by 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war in Gaza. Through a unique blend of animation, documentary, and fiction, these stories capture the unyielding steadfastness of the human spirit and enduring creativity that thrives even in the face of relentless devastation. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has short-listed the film in its Best International Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards.From Ground Zero was created by filmmaker Rashid Masharawi and designed to give a voice to the people of Gaza and to

In Paul Schrader's new film Oh, Canada, which we open Friday at the Monica Film Center, NoHo, and Town Center, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi play a man at opposite ends of his life, deciding how to live it. Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli, and Victoria Hill co-star.Schrader said this about his film:"When friend and author Russell Banks (Affliction) took ill I was weighing other story possibilities. I realized that mortality should be the subject. Russell had researched and written a book about dying when he was healthy titled, Foregone. He'd wanted to call it Oh, Canada (there was a conflict with Richard Ford’s Canada), and asked if I would use his

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