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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

RUNNING ON EMPTY 35th Anniversary Screening with Actors Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch in Person October 24.

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Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 35th anniversary screening of the potent Oscar-nominated drama Running on Empty, written by Naomi Foner and directed by Sidney Lumet in one of his late-career highlights. Christine Lahti, who was named best actress of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for her performance, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, and Martha Plimpton star in one of the few movies to examine the consequences of the revolutionary movements that swept America in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film earned two Oscar nominations in 1988, for Foner’s original screenplay and for Phoenix as Best Supporting actor. We’ll screen Running on Empty at the Royal on October 24 at 7 pm with Ms. Lahti as our special guest.

Lahti and Hirsch play a married couple who were part of a 1960s revolutionary group, probably modeled on the Weather Underground, who participated in the bombing of a napalm laboratory that resulted in the serious injury of a janitor who was not supposed to be on the premises. Since then, they and their two sons have been on the run from the FBI, constantly changing their identities and moving when the authorities seemed close to locating them.  An added complication arises when their teenage son, played by Phoenix, begins to demonstrate extraordinary gifts as a pianist, and the parents realize that their unsettled lives could hinder the development of his talent. At the same time, Phoenix falls in love with the daughter (Plimpton) of his music teacher and feels compelled to reveal his true identity to her.

Lumet (12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, The Verdict), who received an honorary Oscar late in his life, brought his characteristic dramatic vigor and emotional intensity to the film. A highlight is the meeting between Lahti and her long estranged father, played by Steven Hill, that is one of the most wrenching scenes in any film of the period. Most critics recognized the film’s achievements. Roger Ebert called it “one of the best films of the year,” and Newsweek’s David Ansen called it “emotionally overpowering.” Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote, “Sophisticated, uncompromising and refreshingly original, it is one of those rare films which is likely to mean as much to teens as it does to their parents.”

Christine Lahti made her film debut opposite Al Pacino in 1979 in …And Justice for All. She went on to co-star in Whose Life Is It Anyway? opposite Richard Dreyfuss, The Doctor with William Hurt, Just Between Friends with Mary Tyler Moore, Bill Forsyth’s Housekeeping, and, more recently, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood with Tom Hanks. She earned an Oscar nomination when she co-starred with Goldie Hawn in Swing Shift. Later she won an Oscar for a live action short film that she directed, Lieberman in Love, in 1995. Lahti won an Emmy for her starring role in the hit TV series, Chicago Hope, and also had a recurring role in Law and Order SVU. In 2001 she directed her first feature, My First Mister, starring Albert Brooks and Leelee Sobieski.

Judd Hirsch has received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor—for the Oscar-winning best picture of 1980, Ordinary People, and for his performance just last year in Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed memory piece, The Fabelmans. He also won two Emmy Awards for his performance in the critically acclaimed and immensely popular TV show of the late 1970s, Taxi. Among his other notable feature film credits are Independence Day, A Beautiful Mind, The Meyerowitz Stories, and Uncut Gems. Hirsch co-starred in several other TV series—Dear John, Damages, Superior Donuts, and The Goldbergs.

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

“Once upon a midnight dreary,” Price, Corman, Karloff & Lorre! THE RAVEN 60th Anniversary Screening October 19.

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Update October 12: This screening has been cancelled.

Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present the 60th anniversary of THE RAVEN (1963), the fifth film of Roger Corman’s cinematic adaptations of the works of American literary titan Edgar Allan Poe. The movie, written by acclaimed horror, fantasy, and mystery author Richard Matheson, stars horror icons Vincent Price and Boris Karloff in a rare big screen collaboration, and co-stars Peter Lorre, Hazel Court, and future superstar Jack Nicholson early in his career. The horror comedy plays one night only, Thursday, October 19 at 7 PM at the Royal in West Los Angeles. For added fun there will be a Poe/Corman trivia contest before the movie.

 

Producer-director Roger Corman, who began his career in the 1950s, is one of the most prolific independent filmmakers in movie history. Corman specialized in low budget cinema and is regarded as the “king of the B movie” with a steady diet of exploitation titles that spanned six decades and multiple movie genres. In 1960 he turned to the works of an author he had read and admired growing up, Edgar Allan Poe, the nineteenth century inventor of detective fiction and master of mystery and the macabre, and made a stylish if frugal version of The Fall of the House of Usher, hiring Vincent Price for the lead and acclaimed author Richard Matheson (The Incredible Shrinking Man, I am Legend, Somewhere in Time) to write the screenplay adaptation. The movie’s unexpected critical and commercial success spawned seven more Poe films in five years. The Raven, the fifth film, was released in January 1963 and was the first outright feature-length comic take on Poe’s most celebrated poem. The worldwide reception afforded the poem in 1845 made Poe the most famous American author of the 19th century, and he remains beloved in the 21st century for his pioneering detective fiction, horror tales, and haunting verse.

Matheson’s story lightens considerably the tone of the mesmeric poem, with the invention of sorcerer characters (Price and Karloff) who duel over Price’s wife (Hazel Court). Peter Lorre, transformed by Karloff into a raven, induces Price to help him break the spell and rescue Court. They are aided by Lorre’s son, played by Nicholson. Corman retained venerable cinematographer Floyd Crosby, production designer Daniel Haller, and composer Les Baxter from the prior Poe films to continue the atmospheric style which marks all the films. Matheson’s choice to inject humor throughout the movie led critics to pick up on the tongue-in-cheek tone, with one reviewer calling it “less of a Raven, and more of a lark.” Leonard Maltin found it a “funny horror satire [with the] climactic sorcerers’ duel a highlight.

This would be Matheson’s final Poe adaptation after writing House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), and Tales of Terror (1962). Price would continue as the principal Poe player to the end of the eight-film series with Tomb of Ligeia in 1964. All the Poe/Corman films entrenched Price as a legendary horrormeister, but in The Raven he would demonstrate his comic chops along with unexpected humorous turns from Boris Karloff and an improvising Peter Lorre. A young Jack Nicholson is the bonus in this affectionate, amusing homage to the genius of Edgar Allan Poe.

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.