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SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer in person for a Q&A at the Royal.

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The powerful Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) is based on the true story of Germany’s most famous, fearless anti-Nazi heroine of the resistance group the White Rose. Armed with long-buried historical records of her arrest and incarceration by the Gestapo‚ the filmmakers expertly recreate the last six days of Scholl’s life: a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation‚ trial and sentence. “Harrowing, heroic, exhilarating, inspiring, riveting.” (L.A. Times)
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If you’ve never seen it on a big screen or want to experience it again, Sophie Scholl is more timely than ever, forcing the audience to ask: what is an individual’s responsibility to resist immorality when living under a terrifying, repressive regime? One that has no compunctions about murdering its own citizens if they are deemed the slightest threat to its hegemony?
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Sophie Scholl screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer will join us on Thursday, October 26 at the Royal for a post-screening Q&A moderated by Laemmle Theatres President Greg Laemmle. The screening starts at 7 pm.
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Many thanks to the Goethe Institute and Villa Aurora for to making the screening possible.
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SUBJECT Q&As/panel discussion schedule.

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Subject Q&A schedule at the Laemmle Glendale.

7 pm, Friday, November 3rd: Post-screening Q&A with Subject co-director Jen Tiexiera along with producer and documentary subjects Margie Ratlif (The Staircase), co-producer and subject Jesse Friedman (Capturing the Friedmans), Executive Producer Alexandra Johnes (Time Studios) and cultural strategist Sonya Childress (Color Congress, Perspective Fund). Moderated by Sara Yasin (Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times).

7 pm, Saturday, November 4th: Post-screening Q&A with co-director Jen Tiexiera along with producer and documentary subjects Margie Ratlif (The Staircase), co-producer and subject Jesse Friedman (Capturing the Friedmans), Executive Producer Alexandra Johnes (Time Studios). Moderated by Matt Carey (Documentary Awards Editor, Deadline Hollywood).

4:10 pm, Sunday, November 5th: Post-screening Q&A with co-director Jen Tiexiera along with producer and documentary subjects Margie Ratlif (The Staircase), co-producer and subject Jesse Friedman (Capturing the Friedmans), Executive Producer Alexandra Johnes (Time Studios). Moderated by Caroline Libresco (Co-Executive Director, Jewish Story Partners)

THE SMELL OF MONEY Q&As this Weekend at the Monica Film Center.

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Here are details for the Fri/Sat Q&As for THE SMELL OF MONEY:
Fri 10/13 7:30 PM
PANELISTS:
Director: Shawn Bannon
Producer: Jamie Berger
Exec Prod: Travon Free
Exec Prod: Martin Desmond Roe
Exec Prod: David Lowery
MODERATOR: Tim Grierson – Screen International
Sat 10/14 7:30 PM
HOST: Joaquin Phoenix
PANELISTS::
Director: Shawn Bannon
Producer: Jamie Berger
Exec Prod: Michelle Cho
Exec Prod: Travon Free
Exec Prod: David Lowery
MODERATOR: Matt Carey – Deadline Hollywood
Richard Matson, the film’s U.S. distributor, will introduce the film Friday night.  Joaquin Phoenix will do it on Saturday.
Sun 10/15 3:20 PM
PANELISTS:
Director: Shawn Bannon
Producer: Jamie Berger

MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE Q&A schedule.

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The My Love Affair with Marriage filmmaker will participate in Q&As on the following schedule:
10/12 – Royal – 7:00pm
Director Signe Baumane
10/13 – Glendale 1:30pm
Director Signe Baumane
10/13 – Glendale – 7:20pm
Director Signe Baumane
Moderated by animator Tom Sito
10/14 – Glendale 1:30pm
Director Signe Baumane
10/14 – Glendale 7:20pm
Director Signe Baumane and Shirley Issakhan, YWCA Glendale & Pasadena
Moderated by Wendy Blanco, Peace Over Violence
10/15 – Glendale 1:30pm
Director Signe Baumane
Professor Lilya Kaganovsky, UCLA
10/15 – Glendale 7:20pm
Director Signe Baumane

CAT PERSON Opens Friday; Director Susanna Fogel in Person for Conversations with Monica Lewinsky & Alex Winter October 12 & 13.

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“Margot met Robert on a Wednesday night toward the end of her fall semester. She was working behind the concession stand at the artsy movie theatre downtown when he came in and bought a large popcorn and a box of Red Vines.”

So begins Kristen Roupenian’s short story Cat Person. When The New Yorker published it in 2017, it struck a nerve with readers and was the first work of short fiction to ever go viral, spurring conversations around the world about the modern dating scene, seduction, and consent. After the film adaptation’s buzzy premiere at Sundance in January, Cat Person is finally where it belongs, at “artsy movie theatre[s],” opening this weekend at the Royal, Town Center and Glendale and October 13 at the Monica Film Center and NoHo. We’re also pleased to host two special screenings at the NoHo with the filmmaker Susanna Fogel in person for conversations with social activist and writer Monica Lewinsky on October 12 and  with actor-writer-director Alex Winter on October 13.

Director Susanna Fogel stated “Like the short story that stirred so much controversy, Cat Person will call upon you to reflect on romantic encounters you’ve had in the past, and to question the role (or multiple roles) you may have played. We’ve all been the victim in some narratives and the villain in others, and I hope you’ll walk out of this film with a strong opinion, ready to debate.”

Susanna Fogel. Credit: Roger Kisby/Getty Images for Disney
Monica Lewinsky. Credit: Greg Gorman
Alex Winter

“A film that’s funny in places, horrifying in others and all but destined to be a reference point in future discussions about courtship.” ~ Peter Debruge, Variety

“The relief…is in the filmmakers’ approach to these tense scenes: Fogel and Ashford loosen their grip, at last trusting us to sit in our discomfort, draw our own conclusions and sharpen our tools for the discourse.” — The Hollywood Reporter

ANOTHER BODY Q&A schedule at the Royal.

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Several screenings of Another Body at the Royal will feature Q&As. Here is the schedule:

Friday Oct 27 at 7:30 pm
Los Angeles Premiere screening followed by a Q&A with Directors Reuben Hamlyn & Sophie Compton, Producer Elizabeth Woodward, moderated by Emmy nominated and BAFTA winning Actress Juno Temple (Ted Lasso, Atonement).
 
Saturday Oct 28 at 7:30 pm
Screening of short film MARIANNE by Rebecca Ressler and Lara Porzak before the ANOTHER BODY screening.
 
Screenings followed by a Q&A with ANOTHER BODY Directors Reuben Hamlyn & Sophie Compton, Producer Elizabeth Woodward & MARIANNE co-directors Rebecca Ressler and Lara Porzak and Pulitzer-nominated Author Marianne Wiggins, moderated by Korama Danquah, co-hosted by Brown University Club of LA.
 
Sunday Oct 29 at 7:30 pm
Screening followed by a Q&A with Co-Director Reuben Hamlyn, moderated by Filmmaker and Actor Mojean Aria (Shayda).
 
Monday Oct 30 at 7:30 pm
Screening followed by a Q&A with Co-Director Reuben Hamlyn, moderated by Diane Becker (Oscar winning Producer of NAVALNY).
 
Tuesday Oct 31 at 7:30 pm
Screening of short film AIRHOSTESS-737 by Thanasis Neofotistos before the ANOTHER BODY screening.
No Q&A to follow the 10/31 7:30pm screening.

CAT PERSON Filmmaker Susanna Fogel in Conversation with Director-Writer-Actor Alex Winter October 13 at the Laemmle NoHo.

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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.”

Susanna Fogel. Credit: Roger Kisby/Getty Images for Disney

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.

Alex Winter

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

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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