Film Reviews & Previews
PLEASE STAND BY director Ben Lewin will participate in Q&A’s at the Fine Arts on Friday, January 26 after the 7:30pm screening and after the 2:30 PM show on Saturday, January 27.
SHOT IN THE DARK director Dustin Nakao Hadier and producer Derek Doneen will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall after the 7:10pm screenings on Friday 2/2 and Saturday 2/3.
KANGAROO Q&A Tuesday, January 23 at 7:20pm with co-directors Mick McIntyre and Kate McIntyre Clere; Jennifer Fearing of the Humane Society; and Hollywood Foreign Press Association journalist Jenny Cooney.
Producer/Director/Writer Kate McIntyre Clere is a multi-award winning documentary filmmaker who brings together key international social and environmental issues with beautiful cinematic storytelling. Kate’s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Variety, L.A. Times and Woman’s Day.
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THE REVIVAL director Jennifer Gerber will participate in a Q&A at the Music Hall after the 9:55 PM show on Friday, January 19.
THIS GIANT PAPER MACHE BOULDER IS ACTUALLY REALLY HEAVY director Christian Nicholson will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall following the 9:55 PM screening tonight, January 25.
FREAK SHOW director Trudie Styler and actor Ian Nelson will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center after the 7:10 PM screenings Friday through Sunday, January 19, 20 and 21. Actress Abigail Breslin will join them for the Friday Q&A and novelist James St. James will join them for the Friday and Saturday Q&A’s. David Arquette will serve as moderator Sunday night.
MY ART writer-director Laurie Simmons and actors Lena Dunham and John Rothman will participate in a Q&A at the Ahrya Fine Arts on Friday, January 19 after the 7:20 PM screening. Additionally, Ms. Simmons will be joined by journalist-author Nancy Griffin for a Q&A after a special 1:50 PM screening dedicated to women (and friends!) on Sunday, January 21.
This year intrepid moviegoers will have a chance to see every one of the shortlisted foreign films in theaters. The Academy received submissions from around the world, 92 nations in all, and has whittled them down to these lucky nine. (Anne Thompson of Indiewire has a good breakdown about the snubs and surprises here.)
We open the Hungarian drama ON BODY AND SOUL this Friday at the Music Hall. We’ve been playing the hit Swedish comedy THE SQUARE since November. We have Fatih Akin’s IN THE FADE (Germany), starring a fierce Diane Kruger, right now at the Royal and starting Friday at the Playhouse and Town Center. (We’ll also host Mr. Akin in person for a Q&A at the Royal this Friday.) The following weekend we’ll open THE INSULT (Lebanon), and bring back FELICITE (Senegal) and THE WOUND (South Africa). We’ll have Russia’s LOVELESS in February and Israel’s FOXTROT in early March. We don’t yet have FANTASTIC WOMAN (Chile) dated but most likely will soon. Travel the world via movie theater seat. Much more affordable than the airlines, and better leg room!