Several screenings of Another Body at the Royal will feature Q&As. Here is the schedule:
CAT PERSON Filmmaker Susanna Fogel in Conversation with Director-Writer-Actor Alex Winter October 13 at the Laemmle NoHo.
Join us Thursday, October 13th at 7pm for the special screening of Cat Person at Laemmle’s NoHo 7 followed by a conversation between award-winning filmmaker Susanna Fogel and director-writer-actor Alex Winter.
Susanna Fogel is a director, screenwriter, and novelist. Most recently, she wrapped production on Winner, a feature biopic of American whistleblower Reality Winner starring Emilia Jones, Connie Britton, Zach Galifianakis, and Kathryn Newton. Her prior feature film work includes co-writing the hit comedy Booksmart and directing and co-writing Lionsgate’s The Spy Who Dumped Me. On the television side, her directing credits include the pilot episode of the HBO Max series “The Flight Attendant,” for which she won a DGA Award and was nominated for an Emmy, the first three episodes of National Geographic’s recent WWII limited series A Small Light, the pilot of the Amazon series “The Wilds,” and episodes of Gillian Flynn’s remake of “Utopia.”
Alex Winter entered show business as a child actor with co-starring roles on Broadway in The King & I and Peter Pan, and came to prominence in movies such as The Lost Boys and the wildly popular Bill & Ted franchise. As a filmmaker, Winter’s narrative features include the cult classic Freaked and the critically acclaimed Fever, which screened at Cannes. Winter is the founder of Trouper Productions, which services his documentary work. In 2020, Winter released two new documentary feature films; Showbiz Kids, premiered on HBO to widespread critical acclaim, garnering a Critics Choice nomination. Followed by Zappa, the first all-access documentary on the life and times of Frank Zappa. The highly anticipated Bill & Ted Face the Music, opened in August 2020 as the number one movie both in the U.S. and the UK, and is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Winter just completed his next feature documentary, The YouTube Effect, which had its world premiere at Tribeca and went on to a sold-out theatrical run and is now being released worldwide on digital.
Cat Person is a genre-bending thriller which after having its world premiere out of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival has become one of the most anticipated films of the Fall. The film is an all-too-relatable modern-day dating story that rapidly turns into a boldly provocative psychological thriller questioning the limit between fantasy and reality. Cat Person is a smart, darkly funny conversation starter.
CUP OF SALVATION Q&A Schedule
Most screenings of the new documentary Cup of Salvation will feature Q&As at the Laemmle Glendale. Here’s the schedule:
Date: | Q&A |
Friday, October 6th | |
1:30 PM | Anush Gharivyan O’Conner, Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian |
4:30 PM | Anush Gharivyan O’Conner, Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian |
7:10 PM | Kara Warner, Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian |
Saturday, October 7th | |
1:30 PM | Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian |
4:30 PM | Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian |
7:10 PM | Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian, Christina Wise, Jackson Myers |
Sunday, October 8th | |
1:30 PM | |
4:30 PM | Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian, Christina Wise |
7:10 PM | Jason Wise, Armen Khachaturian, Eric Esrailian |
Monday, October 9th | |
1:30 PM | |
4:30 PM | Jason Wise, Christina Wise |
7:10 PM | Jason Wise, Christina Wise |
Tuesday, October 10th | |
1:30 PM | |
4:30 PM | Jason Wise, Jackson Myers |
7:10 PM | Jason Wise, Jackson Myers |
Wednesday, October 11th | |
1:30 PM | |
7:10 PM | Jason Wise, Vahe Keushguerian |
Thursday, October 12th | |
1:30 PM | |
7:10 PM | Jason Wise, Vahe Keushguerian, Claire Coppi moderator |
CAT PERSON Screening + Conversation Between Award-Winning Filmmaker Susanna Fogel and moderated by Social Activist and Writer Monica Lewinsky.
Join us Thursday, October 12th at 7pm for the special screening of Cat Person at Laemmle’s NoHo 7 followed by a conversation between award-winning filmmaker Susanna Fogel and social activist and writer Monica Lewinsky.
Susanna Fogel is a director, screenwriter, and novelist. Most recently, she wrapped production on Winner, a feature biopic of American whistleblower Reality Winner starring Emilia Jones, Connie Britton, Zach Galifianakis, and Kathryn Newton. Her prior feature film work includes co-writing the hit comedy Booksmart and directing and co-writing Lionsgate’s The Spy Who Dumped Me. On the television side, her directing credits include the pilot episode of the HBO Max series “The Flight Attendant”, for which she won a DGA Award and was nominated for an Emmy, the first three episodes of National Geographic’s recent WWII limited series A Small Light, the pilot of the Amazon series “The Wilds,” and episodes of Gillian Flynn’s remake of “Utopia.”
Monica Lewinsky is a social activist, anti-bullying advocate, keynote speaker, producer and a Contributing Editor to Vanity Fair. Monica is an advocate for a safer social media environment and addresses such topics as digital resilience, privacy, cultivating compassion, overcoming shame, and equality for women. During 2014, Lewinsky authored an essay, titled “Shame and Survival” for Vanity Fair. ‘Shame and Survival’ overlapped Monica’s personal experiences and cultural observations. The essay was nominated for a National Magazine Award. In March 2015, Lewinsky was a keynote speaker at the annual TED Conference in Vancouver. Pulling from her unique experiences at the epicenter of a media storm in 1998, her TED speech, “The Price of Shame” has, to date, been viewed over 17 million times.
Cat Person is a genre-bending thriller which after having its world premiere out of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival has become one of the most anticipated films of the Fall. The film is an all-too-relatable modern-day dating story that rapidly turns into a boldly provocative psychological thriller questioning the limit between fantasy and reality. Cat Person is a smart, darkly funny conversation starter.
26.2 TO LIFE Q&A schedule at the Royal Sept. 23-26.
26.2 to Life Q&A schedule at the Royal:
DATE | SCREENING TIME | Q&A TIME | MODERATOR | PANELIST DETAILS |
September 23, 2023 | 5:10PM | 6:40PM | Executive Producer Jennifer Kroot | Producer Sara Sluke Film subject & formerly incarcerated 1000 Mile Club runner, Jonathan Chiu Producer Sara Sluke Film subject Marion Wickerd |
September 24, 2023 | Film begins:
5:10PM |
Screening begins:
6:40PM |
Ray Sheppard, Prism Way | Producer Sara Sluke
Film subject & formerly incarcerated 1000 Mile Club runner, Jonathan Chiu
Film subject Marion Wickerd |
September 26, 2023 | 7:30PM | 9PM | President, Skid Row Running Club & Former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Craig Mitchell | Filmmaker Christine Yoo
Film subject & formerly incarcerated 1000 Mile Club runner, Markelle “The Gazelle” Taylor Film subject Marion Wickerd |
WITH THIS LIGHT Q&As Friday and Saturday at the Monica Film Center.
With this Light Q&A schedule at the Monica Film Center:
Friday, August 11
We will have a Q&A featuring: NICOLE BERNARDI-REIS (Director/Producer)
BONNIE GREENBERG (Executive Music Producer), NORA KROLL-
ROSENBAUM (Composer) & FATHER TOM GIBBONS
Opening remarks by BONNIE ABAUNZA (Impact Producer)
Saturday, August 12
We will have a Q&A featuring: NICOLE BERNARDI-REIS (Director/Producer) in conversation with actress/producer JULIE CARMEN
Julie Carmen, Actress/ Producer is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and the OSCAR committee of judges for the Best International Films. Julie is extremely grateful to have co-starred in films for John Cassavetes, Michael Mann, Robert Redford, John Carpenter, Nicolas Roeg, Tommy Lee Wallace, Michael Olmos, Franc Reyes, Tom Dolby, Reinhard Hauff, Christel Buschmann and on television for Karen Arthur, Betty Thomas, David Milch, Paris Barclay, Debbie Allen, Deborah Kampmeier and Quentin Tarantino. Julie can currently be seen on Grey’s Anatomy and playing La Doña in the AMC anthology Tales of the Walking Dead.
Christian Petzold’s AFIRE opens this weekend at the Royal with the filmmaker in person for a Q&A.
Afire, German director Christian Petzold’s latest movie is, among other things, extremely funny. This comes as a delightful surprise, because his previous work — like Barbara (2012), Phoenix (2014), Transit (2018) and Undine (2020) — was, as Tim Grierson writes in his just-posted L.A. Times piece, noted for its “incisive character studies [with] drum-tight narratives, thematic complexity and investigations of identity,” but not overt humor. Afire is set at a vacation home by the Baltic Sea, where a pretentious novelist (a terrific Thomas Schubert) mixes awkwardly with a group of old and new friends. From the Times piece: “When we did the table read, there was just nonstop laughter,” actor Schubert says during a separate interview. “He was really surprised by that, because he didn’t necessarily see it that way. At the same time, he was relieved because we’d found the right tonality for the story.”
We open Afire this Friday at the Royal and July 21 at the Laemmle Glendale and Town Center in Encino. Petzold will participate in a Q&A after the 7:10 pm, July 15 screening at the Royal. The Los Angeles engagement is co-presented by the Goethe-Institut.
“Another masterwork about characters who are trapped by internal and external circumstances from which they find it intensely difficult to escape.” ~ Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
“In depicting a novice artist forced to unwrite everything to move forward, “Afire” also shows a veteran one open to self-editing, and vigorous self-renewal.” ~ Guy Lodge, Variety
“Deceptive simplicity makes way for illuminating depths.” ~ David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
MATINEE 30th Anniversary Screening with Director Joe Dante in Person Thursday, July 27 at Laemmle’s Royal Theatre.
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 30th anniversary screening of director Joe Dante’s cinematic love letter to the movies and movie makers, ‘Matinee‘ (1993). The period comedy, set in that milestone movie year 1962, is a delightful homage to not only the movies, but also to the moviegoing experience and growing up in that era.
John Goodman stars as an independent filmmaker, Lawrence Woolsey, specializing in low-budget science fiction and horror movies who comes to Key West, Florida with his actress girlfriend (Cathy Moriarty) for a special premiere of his latest exploitation quickie, ‘Mant!’ Woolsey, who is also a huckster showman, brings his newest gimmick, “Rumble-Rama,” to the Saturday afternoon opening. The premiere coincides with the real-life fears of nuclear annihilation generated by the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolding as a backdrop. The movie within a movie, ‘Mant!’, is a clever parody morphing of the sci-fi horror cheapies of the 50s and early 60s, melding radioactivity paranoia with mad scientists and mutations. With a knowing screenplay by Charles S. Haas, including a subplot involving a budding teenage romance when a local teen (Simon Fenton), whose U.S. Navy father is called to duty during the Cuban crisis, falls for a high school classmate (Kellie Martin) with a very jealous boyfriend. The film climaxes at the vintage local movie theater in a mash-up of mayhem and affectionate moviegoing memories.
Dante cast a number of veteran actors, some of whom actually played in the movies he was sending up, including William Schallert, Dick Miller, Kevin McCarthy, and Jesse White as the theater owner, with Robert Picardo as the anxious theater manager who has a bomb shelter in the basement. Featuring writer–director John Sayles in a cameo, and one of the earliest screen appearances for future Oscar-nominated actress Naomi Watts.
Critics of the day fully embraced the film, with Roger Ebert calling it “a delightful comedy and one of the most charming movies in a long time.” Rita Kempley of the Washington Post cited it as “a funny, philosophical salute to B-movies and the B-movie moguls who made them. Dante looks back fondly on growing up with the apocalypse always on your mind and atomic mutants lurking under your bed.” In USA Today, Mike Clark was equally enthusiastic, writing, “Part spoof, part nostalgia trip and part primer in exploitation-pic ballyhoo, ‘Matinee‘ is a sweetly resonant little movie-lovers’ movie.”
Our special guest Joe Dante started his career in the late 70s, directing and sometimes writing and editing the kind of low budget genre films (‘Hollywood Boulevard,’ ‘Piranha’) that he enjoyed in his formative moviegoing years, before making a major critical and commercial breakthrough with 1981’s ‘The Howling.’ He followed that success with the classic horror comedy ‘Gremlins,’ with ‘Explorers,’ ‘Innerspace,’ ‘The ‘Burbs,’ ‘Gremlins 2,’ ‘Small Soldiers,’ and ‘Looney Toons: Back in Action’ among his subsequent credits.
Join us at 7 pm on Thursday, July 27 at the Royal in West Los Angeles for a special evening with Joe Dante and a screening of ‘Matinee.’ For added fun enjoy a trivia contest with prizes about the landmark movie year of 1962, which is arguably “the greatest year at the movies.”
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