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It’s Time for Our Annual Predict the Oscars Contest!

January 31, 2019 by Benjamin G.

With the 91st Academy Awards right around the corner, it’s time for our annual Predict the Oscars Contest! The person who most accurately predicts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s choices in all 24 categories, from the shorts to Best Picture, will win fabulous prizes (free movies and concessions at Laemmle)!

First place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $150. Second place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $100. Third place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $50. Entries are due by 10AM the morning of the awards ceremony on February 24th.

prem-blogNot sure what a Laemmle Premiere Card is? Think of it like a prepaid gift card for yourself! Use it to pay for movie tickets and concessions. Plus, Premiere Card holders receive $3 off movie tickets and 20% off concessions. To find out more, visit www.laemmle.com/premiere-cards.

We’ve got some smart cookies for customers so we have a tie-breaker question: you also have to guess the show’s running time. Take the tie-breaker seriously! In 2016, the running time question broke a tie between five entrants who correctly predicted 19 out of 24 categories!

We’ll announce the winners right here on our blog by February 26th. Good luck!

*One entry per person. One winner per household.

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Filed Under: Ahrya Fine Arts, Claremont 5, Contests, Featured Post, Films, Glendale, Music Hall 3, News, NoHo 7, Playhouse 7, Premiere Cards, Press, Royal, Santa Monica, Town Center 5

The Grand Opening of the Laemmle Glendale is Set for Friday, August 3rd!

July 10, 2018 by  

Laemmle Theatres is pleased to announce the Friday, August 3rd opening of the Laemmle Glendale, a five-screen movie theater located in a mixed-use project one block off Brand Boulevard behind the historic Alex Theatre. Located at the corner of Wilson & Maryland, the Laemmle Glendale will add to Downtown Glendale’s dynamic arts and entertainment district, home to such local institutions as the Antaeus Theatre Company and the Museum of Neon Art. The neighborhood also includes classic restaurants like Carousel and Porto’s Bakery & Cafe.

The Laemmle Glendale will feature a blend of programming, combining our signature art house cinema with the best of Hollywood. In addition, event cinema including opera, recorded concerts, stage productions, and repertory cinema will be part of the mix.

As Laemmle has been doing since 2014, the Laemmle Glendale will feature an Art in the Arthouse gallery in the theater lobby. The opening artist is local painter Raymond Logan.

The Laemmle Glendale will have stadium seating with ample leg room and all-digital projection. Along with popcorn and soda, the concession stand will serve a robust food menu, along with locally-sourced craft beer and hand-curated wines.

As with all Laemmle venues, the theatre will have reasonable ticket prices and easy access to discounted ticket options.

“We are excited to bring a Laemmle theater to booming Glendale for the first time and offer filmic opportunities to moviegoers of the Jewel City and their neighbors in Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, Los Feliz and Silver Lake,” said Laemmle Theatres President, Greg Laemmle. “As L.A.’s population continues to grow and it becomes more daunting to get from one place to another, we are committed to making it more convenient for people who want to see fine films in a theatrical setting.”


The Laemmle Glendale is part of the “L Lofts” Glendale, which includes 42 units of fully leased housing and the Panda Restaurant Group’s Panda Inn Test Kitchen, a premium Panda experience to augment the neighborhood’s other superlative restaurants.

The Laemmle Glendale will be managed by long-time Laemmle employee Cassie Gratton. After serving as one of the pillars of the Playhouse 7 in Pasadena, she opened the Claremont 5 Theater in 2007 and has served as its GM ever since. She said: “I am excited to meet and share with the community the new direction Laemmle Theatres is headed. I hope this will be a place people will be drawn to for more than a movie experience. Jewel City, here we come!”

After Glendale, the Laemmle circuit will continue to expand with the Laemmle Newhall in 2019 and just beyond that the Laemmle Azusa. Laemmle is also moving ahead with the renovation of the historic Reseda theater at Sherman Way in Reseda. With each of these projects Laemmle continues its commitment to working with local communities, supporting arts and entertainment districts, and catering to L.A.’s discerning moviegoers, something Laemmle has been doing since the founding of the company by brothers Max and Kurt Laemmle in 1938.

Laemmle Glendale
207 N. Maryland Ave.
Glendale, CA 91206

Follow @laemmleglendale on Facebook and Twitter for updates!

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Jewish Journal L.A.: ‘1945’ Examines Postwar Angst in Hungary.

November 22, 2017 by Jordan D.M.

‘1945’ Examines Postwar Angst in Hungary
BY TOM TUGEND | PUBLISHED NOV 17, 2017

An ancient train, belching black smoke, pulls into a station near an unnamed Hungarian village and out step two Orthodox Jews. Not losing a moment, the stationmaster sounds the alarm: “The Yids are coming!”

The year — and the title of the movie — is “1945,” a time when the inhabitants of the village and the rest of their countrymen have arrived at a junction in history and are unsure which path to follow.

While Hungary’s Holocaust-themed movie “Son of Saul” won the Academy Award for foreign-language film two years ago, exhibiting the full horror of the Shoah and its concentration camps, the postwar “1945” probes the potential for greed and selfishness in every human being.

“We are the third postwar generation,” director Ferenc Torok said in a phone interview from Budapest. “And a lot of people are asking what their parents and grandparents did during the world war.”

The film takes place in the middle of summer as the villagers till their fields, smoke and drink endlessly, and prepare for the wedding of the son of a domineering town clerk to a pretty peasant girl. Nazi Germany had surrendered two months earlier, in May, and while some Soviet troops have arrived, the Communist puppet government has not yet assumed power.

The two arriving Jews — the older clad in a black coat and hat and his adult son wearing a workman’s cap and clothing — unload two large trunks and hire a horse-drawn cart and its driver to carry their load for the hour-long trip to the village, while father and son follow behind on foot.

As the odd procession wends its way through the countryside, the stationmaster’s warning stokes the villagers’ fears that the survivors among their former Jewish neighbors now will demand the return of the houses, businesses and furniture they left behind when they were deported to concentration camps. That means the town clerk would no longer own the drug store and his wife could no longer glory in the beautiful rugs, dishes and silver menorah of the previous owner.

In the ensuing panic, some try to hide their ill-gotten gains, while others put their hopes in papers, signed by the pro-Nazi wartime government, “officially” transferring the abandoned homes and goods to the gentile neighbors.

When horse, cart and the “Yids” arrive at the village, women peek through shutters, the pharmacist tries to hide his tubes and bottles. Rumors spread that the trunks contain perfumes and beauty aids to sell to the village women.

Finally, the cart and two men arrive at the gates of the abandoned Jewish cemetery. The younger Jew, with a concentration camp number tattooed on his forearm, takes a key out of his pocket and opens the rusty gate, as a posse of hostile villagers gathers nearby. Inside the cemetery, father and son open the trunks and bury the unexpected contents. In the final scene, the two strangers re-board the train, their mission accomplished.

The result is a masterfully directed, acted and photographed movie, which again disproves predictions that the time of the Holocaust-themed movie has expired, even as the last eyewitnesses are dying.

Torok, who is not Jewish, said that part of the continued interest in a place like Hungary, whose Jewish population was decimated during the war, has to do with the fact that for many years while the nation was a Communist satellite, the subject of the Holocaust — and particularly the participation of many Hungarians in it — was taboo. The same applied to the collaboration of many Hungarians with Hitler’s regime, as German and Hungarian troops fought together in the invasions of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.

The film started as a short story by Hungarian Jewish writer Gabor T. Szanto, titled “Homecoming,” which won the Yad Vashem Avner Shalev Prize for best artistic representation of a Holocaust-related topic. Torok, relying on Szanto’s intimate knowledge of Jewish life and rituals, asked him also to write the screenplay.

In a separate phone interview, Szanto, editor of the Hungarian-Jewish magazine “Szombat” (Sabbath), made a number of observations on Hungarian Jewry, past but mostly present.

“The Holocaust is still the cornerstone of our thinking, not only for Hungary’s 80,000 Jews (compared with 450,000 before World War II) but to every other Nazi-occupied nation,” he said. “This film is really Europe’s story.”

In general, Hungarian Jews, like their American counterparts, tend to be liberals and left-leaning and they are concerned by their country’s political shift to the right, Szanto said. Among the worrisome signs is the growing strength of the nationalistic Jobbik party.

Another sign is the recent public poster campaign by the Hungarian government, depicting George Soros, a Hungarian-American and Jewish billionaire and philanthropist, as the mastermind of a massive of influx of illegal immigrants from the Middle East into Hungary.

“As a writer, I am a bit of an outsider and try to look at Hungary and its Jewish community realistically,” Szanto said. “We have many problems, but I don’t think they can be solved by ideologies. We can believe in ideals, but our solutions must be realistic. You can’t change human nature.”

“1945” begins screening on Nov. 25 at Laemmle’s Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles, Playhouse 7 in Pasadena and Town Center in Encino, as well as Westpark 8 in Irvine. On Dec. 8, the film will open at the Laemmle’s Claremont 5 in Claremont.

 

 

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Jenny Slate in person for LANDLINE at Monica Film Center on 8/5

August 3, 2017 by Narin D.

LANDLINE star Jenny Slate will appear in person for a Q&A following the 7:20 pm screening on Saturday, August 5th at the Monica Film Center.

Click here to purchase tickets to any available Laemmle screening of LANDLINE.

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Laemmle Glendale Update: Sign Installation Video and Residential Loft Leasing Info

April 25, 2017 by Benjamin G.

Way back in 2014 we talked to the L.A. Times about our company’s 75th anniversary and what we had up our sleeves for the future. That’s when many of you first learned of our project located at Wilson and Maryland Avenues in the heart of Glendale. How time flies! We’re happy to report the Laemmle Glendale is expected to open in time for the holidays in late 2017!

Yes, seeing is believing, so we submit this short time-lapse of the “LAEMMLE” sign installation on our building:

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

If just visiting a Laemmle theater isn’t enough for you, how about living atop one? Lease applications are now being accepted for the 42 luxury lofts above the theater. Visit lloftsglendale.com for more information. The ‘L’ is for LAEMMLE!

For updates, follow @LaemmleGlendale on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Admittedly, there’s not much to look at right now… but there will be soon!

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UNLOCKING THE CAGE’s Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker on KCRW’s Press Play

June 24, 2016 by Jordan D.M.

Unlocking the Cage, which we open today at the Monica Film Center and tomorrow at the Playhouse 7, follows animal rights lawyer Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break down the legal wall that separates animals from humans, by filing the first lawsuits that seek to transform a chimpanzee from a “thing” with no rights to a “person” with legal protections. The Hollywood Reporter described the film as “a crisp and convincing doc” and Indiewire “eye-opening.”

The filmmakers, Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, were interviewed on Madeleine Brand’s KCRW show Press Play yesterday. You can listen to it by clicking here.

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Santa Clarita: Voice Your Laemmle Support at the City Council Vote on 2/9/16 at 6PM

February 4, 2016 by Benjamin G.

As our loyal Santa Clarita Valley fans know, we’re in negotiations with the City of Santa Clarita to bring a Laemmle Theatre to Old Town Newhall at the empty city-owned block at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Lyons Avenue.

On Tuesday February 9th, 2016, at 6 PM in the Santa Clarita City Hall there will be an important City Council vote on our project and we hope you’ll attend. Skip to meeting details.

Our proposed project will include a two-story, 7-screen theatre, ground floor retail space, and an outdoor space on the second level. It’s estimated to draw between 150,000 to 200,000 people per year to the Old Town Newhall district.

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The City Council will vote on the terms of the public-private partnership between the city and Laemmle Theatres. Similar partnerships in Pasadena, North Hollywood, and Claremont have already proven successful. We encourage everyone to visit one of these venues to experience firsthand the vibrant neighborhood feel projects like ours help shape.

Public support and outreach for the project and at the meeting is critical. You can help by attending. Supporters wishing to speak should fill out speaking cards. Alternativley, you can submit written comment cards before the meeting starts.

The Santa Clarita City Council meeting is scheduled for 6pm on Tuesday, February 9th:

Santa Clarita City Hall
23920 Valencia Blvd.
Santa Clarita, CA 91355 (map)

You can also email your local Councilmembers in advance so they have written evidence that the community supports our project. Here are their email addresses:

  • Mayor Bob Kellar – bkellar@santa-clarita.com
  • Mayor Pro Tem Dante Acosta – dacosta@santa-clarita.com
  • Council Member Marsha McLean – mmclean@santa-clarita.com
  • Council Member TimBen Boydston – tboydston@santa-clarita.com
  • Council Member Laurene Weste – lweste@santa-clarita.com

Please share this post with any other community members interested in voicing their opinion on this exciting project!

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For more on the project and the importance of community support, read the full statement from our partners at Serrano Development Group.

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L.A. Times Trio of Great Film Critics of Yore on the Trio of Taviani Classics at the Ahrya Fine Arts

January 29, 2016 by Jordan D.M.

Today begins our one-week mini-retrospective, A Taviani Trio, which features three of the Italian brothers’ best-loved films, Kaos, The Night of the Shooting Stars, and Padre Padrone. Today, the L.A. Times published excerpts from their original, glowing reviews:

“”Padre Padrone” (“My Father, My Master”) is a work of art, a poetically realized piece of social realism that stands in the same relation to conventional movie entertainments as Picasso’s “Guernica” to a war bond poster.” (Charles Champlin, 1978)

“”The Night of the Shooting Stars” is a jagged, amazing film, both breathtaking and satisfying at times…the Tavianis seem to have transcended their own material…to create an extraordinary film, both as harsh as that sunlit battlefield and as fanciful as a child’s imagination.” (Sheila Benson, 1983)

“In “Kaos,” Paolo and Vittorio Taviani make us feel that they have revealed the very soul of Sicily in their superb rendering of several tales by Luigi Pirandello…In collaboration not only with Guerra but also composer Nicola Piovani and cameraman Giuseppe Lanci, who contributed such glorious and stirring images and music, the Tavianis have revived the timeless pleasure of storytelling for its own sake.” (Kevin Thomas, 1986)

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