Film Reviews & Previews
The VALENTINO’S GHOST filmmakers will participate in a Q&A after the 2:10 screening at the Playhouse 7 on Saturday, May 18.
VALENTINO’S GHOST explores the ways in which America’s foreign policy agenda in the Middle East drives the U.S. media’s portrayals of Arabs and Muslims.
Q&A with THE SECOND MEETING director Zeljko Mirkovic following the 12:20pm show on Saturday, May 18, at the Playhouse 7.
THE SECOND MEETING is about the first two encounters of former American pilot Dale Zelko and former Yugoslav missile officer Zoltan Dani. The first was on radar in 1999, when Dani shot down Zelko’s F-117A stealth attack plane – the only one ever downed in combat — during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The second was 12 years later, during peacetime, when they decided to meet face to face as civilians and friends.
AUGUSTINE star Soko will participate in a Q&A after the 7:20 screening tonight, May 17 at the Royal Theatre.
John Osborne, National Director, faculty, and teacher trainer for Project Welcome Home Troops, who is featured in the film, FREE THE MIND, will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:30 PM screenings Friday-Sunday, May 17-19, at the Music Hall 3 and after the 11 AM screenings Saturday, May 18 at the Playhouse 7 and Sunday, May 19 at the Monicas.
The DESPERATE ACTS OF MAGIC filmmakers will participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the 7:45 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, May 10 and 11, and after the 1 PM screening on Sunday, May 12. Magicians will perform before the 7:45 and 10:15 screenings on Friday and Saturday and before the 1 PM screening on Sunday.
The WHITE FROG cast and crew will participate in a Q&A after the 7:50 screening at the Playhouse on Saturday, May 11.
Homies from Homeboy Industries will participate in Q&A’s after all G-DOG screenings Saturday and Sunday morning, May 11 and 12, at the Claremont, Monica and Playhouse.
Bill Pullman and Hollywood Orchard host the premiere screening of THE FRUIT HUNTERS, directed by Yung Chang (Up The Yangtze), May 13 at the Monica. The screening begins at 7:30 PM. Pullman, a rare fruit aficionado and founder of Hollywood Orchard, will join three other subjects who are featured in the film for a post-screening Q&A moderated by entertainment reporter Zorianna Kit.