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Five Great War Movies on Throwback Thursdays in May at the NoHo 7

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Join Laemmle and Eat|See|Hear for Military May at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood. Every Thursday in May our Throwback Thursday (#TBT) series presents five great war movies from D-Day to Desert Storm. It all starts Thursday, May 3rd with THE DIRTY DOZEN. Check out the full schedule below. For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt.

Special Discount: Tickets are $6 for service members with military ID.

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May 3: The Dirty Dozen

Twelve military prisoners serving life sentences are trained to carry out a suicide mission against top Nazi officers. Lee Marvin,  John Cassavetes, Donald Sutherland, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, Ernest Borgnine, Telly Savalas, Trini Lopez,  and Clint Walker star. Format: Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.

 

May 10: MASH

The hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood’s 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. The war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, David Arkin, and more. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

 

May 17: Platoon

A young enlistee’s idealism fades when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. PLATOON was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by a veteran of the Vietnam War. The film won Best picture at the 1986 Academy Awards where Oliver Stone also earned an Oscar for Best Director. Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe star. Format: Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.

 

May 24: Stripes

Two down on their luck friends decide to join the U.S. Army for a bit of fun. Billy Murray, Harold Ramis, and John Candy star. Roger Ebert said, STRIPES is “a celebration of all that is irreverent, reckless, foolhardy, undisciplined, and occasionally scatological. It’s a lot of fun.” Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

 

May 31: Three Kings

After the Gulf War ends, three soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube) decide to steal the gold Saddam Hussein stole from Kuwait. But on their way to collect their booty, they bear witness to the disturbing results of the war effort. Directed by David O. Russell. Format: Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.

An Evening with Al Pacino Sunday, March 25th at the Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills

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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT.

Al Pacino will participate in a Q&A moderated by Stephen Fry following the double bill of Pacino’s documentary WILDE SALOMÉ and his production of Oscar Wilde’s SALOMÉ on Sunday, March 25th at 4:45pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts by Laemmle in Beverly Hills.

WILDE SALOME the documentary is, as Al Pacino describes it, a kind of “collage of a film”, representing the struggles and highs and lows of presenting a challenging and unique piece of writing by one of the literary geniuses of the 19th century, Oscar Wilde. Wilde Salome explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde’s acclaimed play Salome, Wilde himself and the birth of a rising star, in actress Jessica Chastain. The film offers an unprecedented behind the scenes look at Pacino’s journey.

SALOME is Oscar Wilde’s most controversial work, banned in London in the late 19th Century. This scintillating tale of lust, greed and revenge follows the legend of King Herod and his desire for his young stepdaughter, Salomé, and her sexual baiting of John the Baptist. Wilde’s adaptation has spawned multiple stage productions including an opera by Richard Strauss. “SALOME is my attempt to merge play and film. The mediums can collide and my hope is to have them unify so that you’re seeing pure theater on film. To make that hybrid effective has been my goal; to have the more naturalistic photogenic qualities of film complement the language-driven essence of theater.” (Al Pacino)

Al Pacino will introduce WILDE SALOME at 4:45pm. The documentary will be followed by a 15 minute intermission. A post-screening Q&A moderated by Stephen Fry with Al Pacino will follow SALOME. Click here to purchase tickets. SOLD OUT.

55th Anniversary Screening of TOM JONES March 21st in Pasadena, Encino, and West LA

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Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present the latest in our Anniversary Classics Abroad program: a 55th anniversary presentation of the Oscar-winning film of 1963, TOM JONES.

Tony Richardson’s spirited comic romp was the first all-British production to be named best picture by the Academy since Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet in 1948. The film won three other Oscars—best director for Richardson, best adapted screenplay by award-winning British playwright John Osborne, and best musical score by a gifted new composer, John Addison. The film received six other nominations, including a record-tying five acting nods—Albert Finney for best actor, Hugh Griffith for best supporting actor (he had won in this category four years earlier, for Ben-Hur), and an unprecedented three nominations in the supporting actress category—for Diane Cilento, Edith Evans, and Joyce Redman.

Up to this point, Richardson was best known for hard-hitting social protest dramas filmed in black and white—Look Back in Anger (based on Osborne’s hit play), A Taste of Honey, and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. For his new film, adapted from Henry Fielding’s 18th century novel, Richardson made his first period piece, his first comedy, and his first film in color, with superb lensing by Walter Lassally. The director took a playful approach to the material, experimenting with a variety of film techniques, including a silent film opening, and a number of moments when characters broke the fourth wall to address the camera. Yet Richardson and Osborne retained the essence of Fielding’s picaresque tale of a young orphan adopted by a rich nobleman but then thrown into jeopardy by scheming enemies.

The film is remembered for several striking set pieces, including a savage hunt sequence and an erotic eating scene that commingled lust and gluttony. The outstanding cast also includes Susannah York, David Warner, Joan Greenwood, and Peter Bull.

In addition to its Oscar win, the film was named best picture of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle. The New York Times’ Bosley Crowther called Tom Jones “surely one of the wildest, bawdiest and funniest comedies that a refreshingly agile filmmaker has ever brought to the screen.”

Time magazine also extolled “a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema” but added that the film was not completely different from Richardson’s gritty earlier films. As the magazine noted, “It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe.” Audiences turned the innovative film into a box office smash.

TOM JONES screens at 7:00pm on Wednesday, March 21st in Pasadena, Encino, and West LA. Click here for tickets.

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Oscar-nominated Animated Features LOVING VINCENT and THE BREADWINNER this Week at the Ahrya Fine Arts

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Starting Friday you’ll have a great opportunity to catch up on two Oscar nominees for Best Animated Feature Film at the Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills! Maybe you missed them their first time around, maybe you want to bring friends, or maybe you’re cramming for our Predict the Oscars Contest.

LOVING VINCENT is the world’s first fully oil painted feature film. Drawn from meticulous research and inspired by van Gogh’s masterpieces and 800 personal letters, 125 specially trained painters created 65,000 painted frames for a cinematic experience like no other.

As an added treat, filmmakers Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM screening on Saturday, March 3!

In THE BREADWINNER, an 11-year-old girl growing up under the Taliban in Afghanistan cuts off her hair and dresses like a boy in order to support her family after her father is wrongfully arrested . Working alongside her friend, she draws strength from the fantastical stories she invents, as she embarks on a quest to find her father and reunite her family.

THE BREADWINNER comes from the same creators of the Academy Award-nominated THE SECRET OF KELLS and SONG OF THE SEA. The film scored an impressive 94% on Rotten Tomatoes!

Both films screen daily from Friday, March 2nd through Thursday, March 8th.

Animation fans should also mark March 9th on their calendars for the opening of TEHRAN TABOO in Beverly Hills and Encino. The lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect, revealing the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. Making use of rotoscope animation, expat Iranian filmmaker Ali Soozandeh creates a portrait of contemporary Tehran that would be impossible by any other means.

“Wes is More” Every Throwback Thursday in March at the NoHo 7

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Wes is More every Throwback Thursday in March at the NoHo 7! Savor every frame of five Wes Anderson classics, from BOTTLE ROCKET to FANTASTIC MR. FOX. Anderson’s new stop-motion film, ISLE OF DOGS, opens in Pasadena and NoHo on March 28th and in Claremont and Santa Monica on April 6th.

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Our “Wes is More” #TBT series begins on Thursday, March 1st with RUSHMORE! Doors open at 7pm, trivia starts at 7:30, and movies begin at 7:40pm. Check out the full schedule below!

March 1: Rushmore

Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) is the president of practically every club at his prestigious school. He is also one of the worst students. His latest pursuit is falling for a first-grade teacher. But when Max’s tycoon mentor (Bill Murray) starts an affair with the teacher, it triggers a war between Max and his friend. Format: Blu-ray. Tickets.

March 8: The Royal Tenenbaums

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children. They were a family of geniuses and then they separated. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father’s fault. The tale follows the family’s sudden and unexpected reunion one recent winter. Format: DCP. Tickets.

March 15: Bottle Rocket

A group of young Texans aspiring to become master thieves hook up with a master con-man (James Caan) who sends them on a daring — if ill-conceived — mission. Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, and Robert Musgrave star. Format: DCP. Tickets.

March 22: The Darjeeling Limited

Three brothers (Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman and Adrien Brody) try to reforge family bonds on a train trip across the vibrant and sensual landscape of India. Format: DCP. Tickets.

March 29: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson directs a stop-motion animated version of a Roald Dahl children’s book about a resourceful fox (with the voice of George Clooney) who challenges three evil farmers. With the talents of Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox, Adrien Brody and Michael Gambon; Mr. Anderson wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. Format: DCP. Tickets.

Our weekly #TBT series is in partnership with Eat|See|Hear. Visit www.laemmle.com/tbt for details.

Laemmle’s Umpteenth Annual Oscar Contest, 2018 Edition!

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It’s time for our annual Predict the Oscars Contest! The person who most accurately predicts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s choices in all 24 categories, from the shorts to Best Motion Picture, will win fabulous prizes (free movies and concessions at Laemmle)!

First place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $150. Second place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $100. Third place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $50. Entries are due by 10AM the morning of the awards ceremony on March 4th

prem-blogNot sure what a Laemmle Premiere Card is? Think of it like a prepaid gift card for yourself! Use it to pay for movie tickets and concessions. Plus, Premiere Card holders receive $3 off movie tickets and 20% off concessions. To find out more, visit www.laemmle.com/premiere-cards.

We’ve got some smart cookies for customers so we have a tie-breaker question: you also have to guess the show’s running time. Take the tie-breaker seriously! In 2016, the running time question broke a tie between five entrants who correctly predicted 19 out of 24 categories!

We’ll announce the winners right here on our blog by March 5th. Good luck!

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Double Feature: THE WAY WE WERE and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE on February 13th in NoHo, Pasadena, and West LA

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Twofer Tuesdays return just in time for Valentine’s Day. Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a double feature of two all-time romantic favorites, THE WAY WE WERE and SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE.

Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford demonstrate matchless chemistry in THE WAY WE WERE, which received six Oscar nominations in 1973, including a nod for Streisand as Best Actress. The picture won two Oscars, for Marvin Hamlisch’s memorable score and Best Song, written by Hamlisch, Marilyn and Alan Bergman.

Streisand plays a college radical who falls in love with the apolitical campus jock, who also happens to be a gifted writer. The film follows their tumultuous romance over two decades from the 1930s to the 1950s and reaches its climax in the era of the Hollywood blacklist, which destroyed families and careers. Arthur Laurents (West Side Story, Gypsy, The Turning Point) provided the screenplay, and Sydney Pollack, a master of movie romance, directed. The supporting cast includes Bradford Dillman, Viveca Lindfors, Patrick O’Neal, and Lois Chiles.

Pauline Kael wrote of the film, “It’s hit entertainment, and maybe even memorable entertainment…The movie is about two people who are wrong for each other, and Streisand and Redford are an ideal match to play this mismatch.” The finale, in which the lovers meet several years after their divorce and contemplate what might have been, has had audiences weeping for decades.

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE from 1993 also boasts a tearjerking finale that packs a wallop. In the Oscar-nominated screenplay by director Nora Ephron, David S. Ward, and Jeff Arch, geography is the main obstacle keeping the star-crossed lovers apart. Tom Hanks plays an architect from Seattle who is still grieving over his dead wife. His son (Ross Malinger) decides that he needs to find a new mate and helps to orchestrate a radio confessional that attracts the attention of Meg Ryan, a journalist living in Baltimore.

Ephron, a celebrated journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, came into her own as a director when this rom-com became a surprise summertime smash. Ryan, who had starred in Ephron’s screenplay for When Harry Met Sally, demonstrated perfect rapport with Hanks, and they reteamed in Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail five years later. Rosie O’Donnell, Bill Pullman, Rob Reiner (the director of When Harry Met Sally), Rita Wilson, and Gaby Hoffmann as Malinger’s pint-sized co-conspirator contribute delicious cameos. Despite all the prodding and plotting, the potential lovers keep missing each other until a meeting atop the Empire State Building offers them a last chance at connection.

The New York Times’ Vincent Canby wrote, “Not since Love Story has there been a movie that so shrewdly and predictably manipulated the emotions for such entertaining effect.” The rousing soundtrack, which included a series of romantic standards performed by unexpected singers (including two numbers by Jimmy Durante), rose to the top of the pop charts and contributed to the movie’s success.

The double feature screens Tuesday, February 13th at our North Hollywood, Pasadena, and West LA venues.

Click here to purchase tickets for the 5pm screening of SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE with admission the the 7:10pm THE WAY WERE included.

Click here to purchase tickets for the 7:10pm THE WAY WE WERE with admission to 9:30pm SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE included.

Format: Both films on DCP

February in NoHo: The Highly Curated Throwback Thursday Series in Honor of Marijuana Awareness Month

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In celebration of Marijuana Awareness Month, weed proudly present ‘The Highly Curated‘ film series every Throwback Thursday in February at the Laemmle NoHo 7! Our crop of films includes WAYNE’S WORLD, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, FANTASTIC PLANET, and HALF BAKED. Help us spread the word and tell your buds!

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February 1: Wayne’s World

A wacky, irreverent pop-culture comedy about the adventures of two amiable, aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. Starring Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Robert Patrick, and Tia Carrere. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

February 8: The Big Lebowski

Way out west there was this fella… fella I wanna tell ya about. Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. Mr. Lebowski, he called himself “The Dude”… Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

February 15: Fantastic Planet

Based on the 1957 novel Oms en série by French writer Stefan Wul Fantastic Planet is an utterly trippy French/Czech allegorical animation about humans living on a strange planet dominated by giant humanoid aliens who consider them pets. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

February 22: Half Baked

The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail. Starring Dave Chappelle, Jim Breuer, and Guillermo Díaz. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

Our weekly #TBT series is a joint production with Eat|See|Hear. Visit www.laemmle.com/tbt for details.