Meet the HOW JACK BECAME BLACK filmmaker at the following screenings:
Friday, June 1, 7:40 PM screening
Theme: Ready for a fearless dialogue on identity politics and the multiracial baby boom?
Featuring: Filmmaker Eli Steele
Saturday, June 2, 7:40 PM screening
Theme: What is it like raising multiracial families in today’s America?
Featuring: Buddy Sosthand – an award winning stuntman (Pirates of Caribbean, etc.) and the father of a multiracial family. David Raysse – a legendary shoe designer (FILA, Adidas, Skechers, Brand Black) who is mixed himself and the father of a multiracial family. They will be joined by filmmaker Eli Steele.
Sunday, June 3, 12:20 PM screening>
Theme: What exactly does it mean to be black, Jewish, and multiracial?
Featuring: Rabbinic intern Yeshaia Blakeney – Born to a Jewish mother and a black father, he is now part of Ohr HaTorah in West Los Angeles. He and filmmaker Eli Steele will discuss their experiences – religious, racial, individual – that comes with being black and Jewish. https://www.ohrhatorah.org/yeshaia-blakeney.html
Monday, June 4, 7:40 PM screening
Theme: Ready for a fearless dialogue on identity politics and the multiracial baby boom?
Featuring: Filmmaker Eli Steele
Tuesday, June 5, 7:40 PM screening
Theme: What role will the race box play in an increasingly multiracial America?
Featuring: UCLA’s Professor Richard Sander, School of Law, and USC’s Professor Mark Pearson, Center for Education, Equity and Social Justice. Both Professors are fathers of multiracial children and are deeply invested in how the multiracial baby boom will affect government policies and other aspects of our society. They will be joined by filmmaker Eli Steele.
Wednesday, June 6, 7:40 PM screening
Theme: In an America gripped by identity politics, is it too late to begin the movement back to the individual?
Featuring: Liberty on the Rocks, a non-profit libertarian organization. They will be joined by filmmaker Eli Steele.
Thursday, June 6, 7:40 PM screening
Theme: What exactly does the multiracial identity mean?
Featuring: Thomas Lopez, board member of Multiracial Americans of Southern California. Lopez himself is multiracial and he will discuss with filmmaker Eli Steele what it means to be multiracial in today’s America and what the future may hold.
MAINELAND Q&A’s at the Music Hall.
MAINELAND director Miao Wang and producer Damon Smith will participate in Q&A moderated by UCLA professor Kristy Guevara-Flanagn at the Music Hall following the 4:50 PM screening on Saturday June 9 and director Miao Wang and producer Damon Smith will participate in Q&A moderated by journalist Jeff Yang following the 4:50 PM screening on Sunday, June 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpuR-lHaPyA
STRANGERS ON EARTH: A JOURNEY ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO Q&A’s at the Music Hall.
STRANGERS ON EARTH director Tristan Cook will participate in post-screening Q&A’s at the Music Hall June 1-3 following the Friday & Saturday 7:20 PM shows and the Sunday noon show.
SOLLERS POINT Q&A’s this Weekend in Santa Monica.
SOLLERS POINT filmmaker Matthew Porterfield will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center following the 7:20 PM screening on Saturday, May 26 and the 4:30 PM screening on Sunday, May 27.
MARY SHELLEY Director Haifaa Al-Mansour Q&A’s at the Monicas.
MARY SHELLEY director Haifaa Al-Mansour will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center after the 7 o’clock screenings on Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26. Stephen Saito of MOVEABLEFEST.COM will moderate Friday’s Q&A and Christy Lemire of the L.A. Film Critics Association will moderate Saturday’s.
THE DEER HUNTER with Actor John Savage In Person on Tuesday, May 29 at the Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills
On the day after Memorial Day, Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present one of the greatest of all war films, Oscar’s Best Picture of 1978, THE DEER HUNTER.
Actor John Savage will participate in a Q&A at the 40th anniversary screening on Tuesday, May 29th at 7:15pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts theater in Beverly Hills. Click here for tickets.
The film won four other Oscars, including Best Director for Michael Cimino and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken. Robert De Niro earned a nomination for Best Actor, and Meryl Streep earned her very first nomination for her performance in the film. Deric Washburn wrote the screenplay from a story that he created with Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn Redeker. Master cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond shot the film, and Peter Zinner was the editor.
This epic vision of working class America follows three steelworkers from Pennsylvania as they journey halfway across the world to fight in Vietnam. De Niro, Walken, and John Savage play the three best friends. The first hour of the film immerses us in the routines of their lives as they prepare for the wedding of Savage’s character.
In the second section the three friends find themselves in a North Vietnamese prison camp, where they endure horrific physical and psychological torture before making a heroic escape.
In the third section, they try to readjust to life back home but find this re-entry just as traumatic as their wartime experiences. George Dzundza and John Cazale (who played Fredo in the first two ‘Godfather’ films and who died before the release of THE DEER HUNTER) round out the cast.
Roger Ebert praised “one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made.” In Newsweek Jack Kroll wrote, “THE DEER HUNTER is a film of great courage and overwhelming emotional power, a fiercely loving embrace of life in a death-ridden time.” The Wall Street Journal’s Joy Gould Boyum declared, “It is one of the boldest and most brilliant American films in recent years.”
Frank Rich, then the critic for Time magazine, added, “De Niro, Walken, John Savage…and Meryl Streep are all top actors in an extraordinary film.” In addition to its Oscars, the film was named best picture of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The film was also greeted by protests by some activists who felt that the movie falsified the complexities of the Vietnam War and demonized the North Vietnamese. But Cimino argued persuasively that the film was intended to belong to an antiwar tradition that went back to one of the very first Oscar-winning films, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’ The film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996, an honor reserved for films deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
John Savage had his first important screen role in THE DEER HUNTER, and he went on to star in Milos Forman’s film of the classic counterculture musical, ‘Hair,’ in the film version of Joseph Wambaugh’s best-selling novel, ‘The Onion Field,’ Richard Donner’s ‘Inside Moves,’ Oliver Stone’s ‘Salvador,’ ‘The Godfather Part III,’ Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ and ‘Summer of Sam.’ He also distinguished himself in the theater, playing in the original production of David Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo,’ among other roles. In addition to many TV appearances, he has worked as a producer and composer as well as an actor.
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ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the Monicas.
ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE director Matthew Miele will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center on Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19, after the 7:10 PM shows. Jenelle Riley of Variety will join him for the Friday screening, Jazz Tangcay of Awards Daily for the Saturday screening.
Steve Guttenberg in Person to Q&A his New Film LOOKIN UP.
LOOKIN’ UP star Steve Guttenberg will participate in a Q&A at the NoHo after the 7:30 PM screening on Thursday, May 17.
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