Actor Jason Alexander, who appeared in the original Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along and is among the luminaries who talk about the experience in the new documentary BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED, will participate in a Q&A after the 7 PM screening at the Royal on Friday, November 25. Lisa Fung of the L.A. Times will serve as moderator.
Holiday Movies with a Twist Every Throwback Thursday in December at the Laemmle NoHo!
This Just In! Al Leong (Uli, aka the Candy Bar Terrorist in Die Hard) will be introducing the film on Thursday!
Join Laemmle and Eat|See|Hear for Happy Holidaze at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood! Every Thursday in December our Throwback Thursday (#TBT) series presents our favorite holiday classics— with a twist! Doors open at 7PM, trivia starts at 7:30PM, and films begin at 7:40PM! It all starts Thursday, December 1st with EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. Check out the full schedule below. For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt!
December 1: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today’s standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a temporary period, he is fitted with long, scissor-like extremities that, while able to trim a mean hedge, are hardly conducive to day-to-day life. When the kindly inventor dies, however, Edward is left lonely and cursed with some very heavy metal for hands. He is eventually taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Edward finds himself a local celebrity after the town realizes that his talents include creative hedge trimming and an unrivaled ability to cut hair. His so-called friends are proven fair-weather when Edward is accused of a crime. Buy Tickets.
December 8: DIE HARD
It’s Christmas time in L.A., and there’s an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. The revelry comes to a violent end when the partygoers are taken hostage by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi’s high-tech safe. In truth, Gruber and his henchmen are only pretending to be politically motivated to throw the authorities off track; also in truth, Gruber has no intention of allowing anyone to get out of the building alive. Meanwhile, New York cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) has come to L.A. to visit his estranged wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), who happens to be one of the hostages. Disregarding the orders of the authorities surrounding the building, McClane, who fears nothing (except heights), takes on the villains, armed with one handgun and plenty of chutzpah. Buy Tickets.
December 15: SCROOGED
A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard of levels to increase his network’s ratings — even if it means mounting outrageous programs to retain an audience, such as “Robert Goulet’s Cajun Christmas” and Lee Majors in “The Night the Reindeer Died.” Cross plots his foulest move, however, for the Christmas holiday, when he will force his office staff to mount a live production of A Christmas Carol on national television — and thus work through Christmas Eve. Cross’s life is turned upside down with visits from three ghosts: a craggy-faced cabbie known as The Ghost of Christmas Past (David Johansen); the sugar-plum fairy Ghost of Christmas Present (Carol Kane); and, eventually, the caped, headless Ghost of Christmas Future, who will send Frank sliding into a crematory oven — just before he gives the sleazoid one last chance to redeem himself. Richard Donner directs, from a script by Michael O’Donoghue and Mitch Glazer. Buy Tickets.
December 22: TRADING PLACES
The “nature-nurture” theory that motivated so many Three Stooges comedies is the basis of John Landis’s hit comedy. The fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a one-dollar bet over heredity vs. environment. Curious as to what might happen if different lifestyles were reversed, they arrange for impoverished street hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) to be placed in the lap of luxury and trained for a cushy career in commodities brokerage. Simultaneously, they set about to reduce aristocratic yuppie Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd to poverty and disgrace, hiring a prostitute (Jamie Lee Curtis) to hasten his downfall. When Billy Ray figures out that the brothers intend to dump him back on the streets once their experiment is complete, he seeks out Winthorpe, and together the pauper-turned-prince and prince-turned-pauper plot an uproarious revenge. With the good-hearted prostitute and Winthorpe’s faithful butler (Denholm Elliott) as their accomplices, they set about to hit the brothers where it really hurts: in the pocketbook. Buy Tickets.
FINDING BABEL Q&A’s at the Town Center Opening Weekend.
FINDING BABEL director David Novack and editor Dylan Hansen-Fliedner will participate in Q&A’s at the Town Center after the 5:30 and 7:50 screenings on Friday, December 2, after the 1:00, 3:10, 5:30 and 7:50 screenings on Saturday, December 3 and after the 1 PM screening on Sunday, December 4.
CONFESSIONS OF A WOMANIZER Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the NoHo 7.
CONFESSIONS OF A WOMANIZER writer-director Miguel Ali and actor Kelly Mantle will participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the 7:10 and 9:55 screenings on Friday and Saturday, December 9 and 10, and after the 4:30 and 7:10 screenings on Sunday, December 11.
BEHIND ‘THE COVE’ Q&A Opening Weekend at the Music Hall.
BEHIND “THE COVE” filmmaker Keiko Yagi will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall after the 7:20 screenings on Friday and Saturday, December 2 and 3 and after the 2:20 screening on Sunday, December 4.
BLOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN Q&A’s at the Town Center 5.
The BLOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN filmmakers will be joined by the following people for Q&A’s at the Town Center 5: 11/18 Fri @ 7:50pm: Sara Gersen (Earthjustice), Lizette Hernandez (Sierra Club), Lance Simmons (Author, Activist, Public Policy expert) and Jordan Freeman (director).
11/23 @ 7:50pm: Simon Kilmurry (ED International Documentary Association), Mari-Lynn Evans (director), Jordan Freeman (director) and Deborah Wallace (producer).
Humphrey Bogart Double Feature on Wednesday, November 30th in Pasadena, North Hollywood, and West LA!
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a tribute to screen legend Humphrey Bogart with a double feature of The Big Sleep (1946, 70th anniversary) and High Sierra (1941, 75th anniversary).
College students launched a passionate Bogart cult in the 1960s, and it is still going strong today. His tough screen persona gave dimension to a number of memorable characters, and we present two of those seminal roles in this Bogie double bill.
The Humphrey Bogart double feature will play on Wednesday, November 30 at three locations: the Royal in West LA, the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood, and the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena.
CLICK HERE to purchase tickets to the 5:10PM High Sierra (includes admission to the 7:30PM The Big Sleep).
CLICK HERE to purchase tickets to the 7:30PM The Big Sleep (includes admission to the 10PM High Sierra).
HIGH SIERRA is a 1941 heist film with impeccable crime story credits; it was written by W.R. Burnett (Little Caesar, Scarface) and John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo) adapting Burnett’s novel, and directed by Raoul Walsh (The Roaring Twenties, White Heat). Bogart plays “Mad Dog” Roy Earle, a weary, aging gangster who attempts to reject his life of crime. Co-star Ida Lupino (as his adoring moll) was actually top billed, but Bogart’s acclaimed performance vaulted him to leading man status for the rest of his career. The film also cemented the strong partnership Bogart formed with Huston, and they would collaborate on several screen classics in the next decade.
THE BIG SLEEP is a masterpiece of film noir, released in 1946, directed by Howard Hawks and written by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman adapting the Raymond Chandler novel. It marked the second teaming of Bogart with his wife Lauren Bacall, after the two created a screen sensation in Hawks’ To Have and Have Not in 1944. The film is noted for its convoluted plot (just try to follow it) and rich atmosphere. Bogart’s take on private detective Philip Marlowe pleased Chandler, who praised him as “so much better than any other tough-guy actor.” The hero’s sexy interplay with Bacall playfully flirted with contemporary censorship restrictions, as the duo wove the mystique of “Bogie and Bacall.”
DISTURBING THE PEACE Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the Music Hall.
Q&A schedule for DISTURBING THE PEACE at the Music Hall:
Nov. 18 @ 7:20pm: Chaz Ebert (moderator), Steve Apkon (director-producer), Marcina Hale (producer), Combatant for Peace Sulaiman Khatib;
Nov. 19 @ 7:20pm: Marcina Hale (producer) and Brent Alan Blair (USC Professor, Founding Director, Theatre of the Oppressed, Los Angeles);
Nov. 20 @ 5:00pm: Marcina Hale (producer), Alisa Belinkoff Katz (Associate Director Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Board member of Ameinu), David Myers (Sady & Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History, UCLA History Department);
Nov. 20 @ 7:20pm: Marcina Hale (producer) and Rev. James Lawson (American activist, university professor & leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence);
Nov. 21 @ 7:20pm: Marcina Hale (producer) and Marina Cantacuzino (founder of the Forgiveness Project).
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