Janis Ian: Breaking Silence filmmaker Varda Bar-Kar will participate in Q&A's after the evening shows on Thursday 4/3 @ Laemmle NoHo and 4/4 & 4/5 @ Monica Film Center, and the 1 P.M. show @ Laemmle Glendale on 4/5. Janis Ian will join her for the NoHo and Santa Monica screenings.
Fishbowl director Glorimar Marrero Sánchez and star Isel Rodriguez will participate in Q&A's after the March 29 screening at the Laemmle Glendale and the March 30 at the Monica Film Center.
Far Out: Life On and After the Commune filmmaker Charles Light; Sluggo Wasserman, commune co-founder and No Nukes activist; and Patty Carpenter; film music composer/performer will participate in Q&A's after the April 5 screening in Encino, the April 6 screening in Glendale, and the April 7 screening in Santa Monica. Kat Kramer (Kat Kramer’s Films that Change the World) will moderate. Actress Mimi Kennedy will participate in the April 7 Q&A.
Perhaps no other sport lends itself as well to cinema as baseball, and there have been some memorable ones over the years. The Natural, Moneyball, 42, Field of Dreams and Bull Durham spring to mind. Well, we have a funny, soul-soothing treat for you this week at our Glendale and Santa Monica theaters. "Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title." ~ Nick Schager, The Daily BeastThe filmmakers will participate in Q&A's in Glendale after the 7:10 PM screenings on 3/13 with writer-director Carson Lund and actor Keith William Richards and moderator Amber A'Lee Frost (Chapo Trap House)
The 2025 Oscars are in the history books. It was a good night, with a funny, skilled host in Conan O'Brien and a fairly equitable distribution of statuettes for some terrific movies. It was also a good night for theatrical exhibition, better known as good, old-fashioned moviegoing. As he did during his speech accepting the Palme d'Or last year in Cannes, Anora filmmaker Sean Baker gave a passionate, trenchant speech in favor of seeing movies as filmmakers have always intended them to be seen, in theaters. After accepting the Oscar for Best Director from filmmaker (and movie theater owner) Quentin Tarantino, Baker said the following to almost 20
If you still haven't seen some of the films honored at the Academy Awards on Sunday, you can still see all of the following this week: Anora (winner for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing, and Actress), The Brutalist (Best Actor, Score, and Cinematography), Flow (Best Animated Feature), I'm Still Here (Best International Film), and No Other Land (Best Feature Documentary). All are fantastic and, as one social media user posted after listening to Sean Baker's speech extolling the virtues of seeing movies in movie theaters, "movies just hit different at the cinema."And if you've already seen these films, check out The Fishing Place
Forty years after starring in Martin Scorsese's After Hours, Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette are back, their days of all-night Manhattan romantic misadventures given way to the sober realities of late middle age. Writer-director Noah Pritzker's dramedy Ex-Husbands beautifully captures the low-key new milieu, in which Dunne plays a father whose faltering marriage coincides with his adult sons' romantic troubles. (Both Pritzker and Dunne speak about the film in a recent episode of Inside the Arthouse.) Richard Benjamin, James Norton, and Miles Heizer, all terrific, costar. We open Ex-Husbands this Friday at the Monica Film Center in Santa Monica