Monica Film Center

Can you name your five favorite films released last year? Enter our contest here, use our handy-dandy drop-down menus to quickly choose five, and you'll automatically be entered into a raffle to win a gift card! Also, we'll create an overall customer top ten list from all the entries. In case you need your memory jogged, Greg Laemmle composed the following:*"I'm actually kind of glad that we are only asking for everyone's five favorite films this year. Yes, we will compile all the submissions and ultimately turn it into a Laemmle Patron Top 10 list, so maybe that's a cheat. But as I sit here looking at my top films from 2024, it's actually kind of

To honor our one-of-a-kind city and its amazing communities, we're giving you the gift of FREE MOVIES! Thanks to our amazing friends at NEON, catch any film at the Monica Film Center and Royal tonight and tomorrow absolutely free. Come take a much-deserved break and experience the joy of an arthouse film. The offer only applies in-person at the theater box offices. Take the money you would have spent on tickets and donate it to fire relief.

When is a documentary about hummingbirds more than just another educational nature documentary? In the case of Sally Aitken’s new movie Every Little Thing, we discover that small things are very big things— and you will be more than a little surprised. Hummingbirds’ wings beat fifty times per second, and with astounding high speed photography, they float like gossamer on the screen, captured like tiny, magical sprites. Terry Masear, the film's subject, runs a hummingbird rescue and she, too, is magical and surprising. These remarkable birds, no bigger than your little finger, become bigger than life as we discover Terry’s care, attention, wisdom

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