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Toshiro Mifune Mini-Retrospective + MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI Q&A’s at the Fine Arts.

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Toshiro Mifune Mini-Retrospective + MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI Q&A's at the Fine Arts.

Concomitant with our December 3rd – 8th engagement of Oscar-winning director Steven Okazaki’s bio-documentary MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI at the Ahrya Fine Arts, Laemmle Theatres is pleased to present four Mifune classics at the same venue. We will be screening:

SAMURAI REBELLION (1967)
Saturday, December 3 @ 8:00 PM

THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958)
Sunday, December 4 @ 10:00 AM

HIGH & LOW (1963)
Sunday, December 4 @ 8:30 PM

THRONE OF BLOOD (1957)
Thursday, December 8 @ 7:15 PM

MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI director Steven Okazaki will participate in Q&A’s at the Fine Arts after the 8 PM screening on Friday, December 2nd (moderated by Michael Lumpkin – Director of AFI Docs Film Festival) and after the 6 PM screening on Saturday, December 3rd (moderated by Abe Ferrer – L.A. Asian-Pacific Film Festival).

Filmmaker Steven Okazaki.
Filmmaker Steven Okazaki.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ1dkl1ul-s

ON THE MAP Q&A’s at the Town Center.

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ON THE MAP writer-director Dani Menkin will participate in Q&A’s at the Town Center 5 after the first evening screenings on Friday and Saturday, December 16 and 17 and after one of the matinee screenings (exact time TBA) on Sunday, December 18.
https://vimeo.com/144824907?ref=em-share

BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED Q&A Opening Night at the Royal with Actor Jason Alexander.

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwqEdQykJU

FINDING BABEL Q&A’s at the Town Center Opening Weekend.

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEWzKJjKjc

CONFESSIONS OF A WOMANIZER Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the NoHo 7.

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGXoVz8gcE

BEHIND ‘THE COVE’ Q&A Opening Weekend at the Music Hall.

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjjCNi931IM&feature=youtu.be

BLOOD ON THE MOUNTAIN Q&A’s at the Town Center 5.

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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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=KMchsjnyCKE

DISTURBING THE PEACE Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the Music Hall.

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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).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95PDQWr4xs