RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH writer-director John Allan Simon and producer Elizabeth Karr will participate in a Q&A at the NoHo after the 7 PM screening on Friday, June 27.
RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH Filmmaker Q&A at the NoHo
CHAPLIN OF THE MOUNTAINS and ONE CANDLE, TWO CANDLES Q&A’s at the NoHo
Jano Rosebiani, filmmaker of both CHAPLIN OF THE MOUNTAINS and ONE CANDLE, TWO CANDLES, will participate in Q&A’s after the 5:30 PM screenings of CANDLES and the 7:45 screenings of CHAPLIN on Wednesday, June 25, Thursday, June 26 and Saturday, June 28.
THEY CAME TOGETHER Filmmaker Q&A at the Playhouse
THEY CAME TOGETHER filmmaker David Wain will participate in a Q&A after the 8 PM screening at the Playhouse 7 on Friday, June 27.
THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY ~ Saturday Q&A w/the Filmmaker at the Playhouse
THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY director Brian Knappenberger will participate in a Q&A after the 4:30 PM screening at the Playhouse on Saturday, June 28.
Greg Laemmle with Preston Sturges’ Sons and THE LADY EVE at Last Remaining Seats
We are longtime fans of the L.A. Conservancy’s annual program Last Remaining Seats and on June 11 Laemmle Theatres President Greg Laemmle presented the pricelessly funny 1941 comedy THE LADY EVE at the Los Angeles Theatre.
Beforehand he moderated a Q&A with two of filmmaker Preston Sturges’ sons, Preston Sturges Jr. and Tom Sturges. You can watch his introduction and the Q&A HERE.
At 18:20, don’t miss Tom Sturges talking about his upcoming book and then reading an amazingly candid letter from his late father about his relationship with the Lady Eve herself, Barbara Stanwyck.
There is still time to catch a screening at this year’s Last Remaining Seats. Upcoming programs include Luis Bunuel’s EL GRAN CALAVERA (The Great Madcap, 1949) at the astounding Los Angeles Theatr, Wed. June 25 and CITIZEN KANE (1941) at the Orpheum, Sat. June 28 for both a matinee and evening showing.
Visit the L.A. Conservancy web page for tickets and details.
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS Special Q&A’s This Weekend With Tomorrow’s Screening Hosted by KCRW’s Matt Holzman
Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese-American writer and activist whose vision of revolution will surprise you. The filmmakers will be in attendance for Q&A’s after tomorrow & Saturday 7:40 PM shows as well as the Sunday 3:10 PM show. KCRW’s Matt Holzman will be hosting the Opening Night Q&A. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY screens tomorrow June 20 through Thursday, June 26 with daily showtimes of 1 PM, 3:10 PM, 5:30 PM, 7:40 PM and 10 PM with an added 10:50 AM screening on Saturday the 21st and Sunday the 22nd only. All screenings will be at the Playhouse 7.
THE ONLY REAL GAME Q&A’s @ Music Hall w/Filmmaker, Writer Richard Schickel and Dodger Derrel Thomas!
THE ONLY REAL GAME filmmaker Mirra Bank will participate in Q&A’s after the 5 and 7:20 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, June 20 and 21. Friday’s 7:20 Q&A will be moderated by renowned author and filmmaker Richard Schickel. Former Dodger utility player — he played every position except pitcher! — and current Dodger Community Relations liaison Derrel Thomas will be part of the Saturday 7:20 Q&A. Members of the film team will participate in Q&A’s after all afternoon and evening shows on Sunday, June 22nd – Film reps for these Q&As are Randye Ringler, MLB liaison for THE ONLY REAL GAME; and MLB Envoy coach and former Minnesota Twins pitcher, Jeff Brueggemann, who is a principal character in the film.
L.A. Conservancy Celebrates Dance with WEST SIDE STORY and Special Guest George Chakiris June 14
A great dance film, a great house of dance, a great dancer—the Los Angeles Conservancy hosts a triple-threat screening of West Side Story on Saturday, June 14 at 8 p.m. at The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Co-star George Chakiris, who won both a Golden Globe® and an Academy Award® for his role in the film, will appear onstage before the screening in conversation with dance critic Debra Levine.
“George is one of dance’s smoothest operators,” says Levine, a Los Angeles Times dance writer who blogs on dance and film on artsmeme.com. “He’s a suave and velvety mover whose smoldering good looks propelled him to stardom.”
The evening is part of the Los Angeles Conservancy’s Last Remaining Seats series, an annual series of classic film and live entertainment in historic theatres. Last Remaining Seats presents classic films as they were meant to be seen: on the big screen, in a beautiful historic venue, surrounded by up to two thousand fellow fans.
A Broadway musical immortalized in film, 1961’s West Side Story is a modern-day take on Shakespeare’s timeless tale, “Romeo and Juliet.” The story is set in New York City’s Upper West Side in the 1950s. In the place of Shakespeare’s warring families are rival street gangs—the Jets, second generation Polish-American teens, and the Sharks, Puerto Rican immigrants.
Co-directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, the film features songs by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim for the original stage production. The exceptional cast includes Chakiris as Bernardo, leader of the Sharks. Delivering other iconic performances were Russ Tamblyn as the leader of the Jets, Rita Moreno as Bernardo’s girlfriend, and Natalie Wood as Maria.
West Side Story won ten Academy Awards and five Golden Globes. It was thematically and stylistically groundbreaking for the movie musical genre. At the movie’s center is the original choreography of Robbins: beautiful, stylized, and balletic.
Chakiris was a veteran film gypsy before Jerome Robbins cast him in “West Side Story.” “In the ’50s, he worked with the crème de la crème of Hollywood dance makers, notably Hermes Pan, Robert Alton and Jack Cole,” says Levine. “He’s the only actor to win an Oscar® for a dancing role beside James Cagney, for 1942’s Yankee Doodle Dandy.”
“George is a dancer-eternal who looks decades younger than his age. He’s in tremendous condition. His personal fountain of youth? ‘Go to the gym,’ he advises.”
Making the screening even more special is its locale: The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The Pavilion is widely renowned for hosting stellar dance performances, presenting the best dance companies in the world since 1969.
Tickets for the screening are available online until noon on Wednesday, June 11, then in person at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion box office on June 13 and 14. For details, visit laconservancy.org.
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