CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER director Doug Nichol and producer John Benet will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM screening at the Monica Film Center on Friday, September 8 and Q&A the 3:50 PM screening and introduce the 7 o’clock show at the Playhouse on Saturday, September 9.
Lesley Ann Warren In-person for VICTOR/VICTORIA 35th Anniversary Screening September 19th at the Ahrya Fine Arts
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present the 35th anniversary of Blake Edwards’ gender-bending musical comedy VICTOR/VICTORIA from 1982.
It will screen on Tuesday, September 19 at the Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills, with special guest Lesley Ann Warren, Oscar-nominated as Best Supporting Actress for her role. Presented on DCP. Click here for tickets.
Julie Andrews, who was celebrated as Broadway’s My Fair Lady in the 1950s, and Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins in the 1960s, emerged from a decade long career slump in the 1970s to some of the best notices of her career in 1982’s Victor/Victoria, written and directed by her husband, Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Pink Panther).
Andrews put a whole new spin on her musical sweetheart persona by playing a down-on-her-luck singer in 1930s Paris who finds fame, fortune and romance disguised as a man pulling off a female impersonator act.
A skillful supporting cast added to the merriment, including James Garner as a Chicago gangster who falls for Andrews, Alex Karras as his bodyguard, Robert Preston as a gay cabaret performer who coaches Andrews in the masquerade, and Lesley Ann Warren as Garner’s moll.
Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Andrews as best actress, Edwards for best screenplay adaptation, and Preston and Warren in the supporting acting categories. Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse won the Oscar for their delightful Original Song Score.
Roger Ebert applauded it as “a classic movie sex farce…not only a funny movie, but a warm and friendly one.”
Vincent Canby in The New York Times heaped praise on the entire cast, especially Andrews, Garner, and Preston, “each giving the performance of his and her career in a marvelous fable about mistaken identity, sexual role-playing, love, innocence and sight gags.”
Canby also had kudos for Warren (“squeaky-voiced Norma is enchantingly self-possessed and very comic.”) and for Edwards (“His chef d’oeuvre, his cockeyed, crowning achievement.”)
Our special guest Lesley Ann Warren began her lengthy show biz career on the stage, debuting on Broadway in 1963, which led to her being cast in the title role of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Cinderella in 1965. Following her work as Walt Disney’s main ingénue (The Happiest Millionaire) et al, she graduated to more mature roles in television movies in the 70s before being cast in Victor/Victoria, and played the archetypal dumb blonde with such aplomb that Stanley Kauffmann of the New Republic was impressed that Warren “plays her as if the character had just been invented.”
Warren is also known for playing Miss Scarlet in the cult movie Clue, and for recent recurring TV guest roles in series such as Will & Grace, Desperate Housewives, and Blunt Talk.
The 35th anniversary screening of Victor/Victoria, with a Q&A with Lesley Ann Warren, plays Tuesday, September 19 at 7:30 pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts theatre in Beverly Hills. Click here for tickets.
EMBARGO Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center
EMBARGO Monica Film Center Q&A schedule: Sept. 7th – Director: Jeri Rice; Vice President Los Angeles Port Commissioners: Dave Arian; Editor-in-Chief of Truthdig: Bob Scheer; and American author, journalist and public speaker: Nomi Prins. Sept. 8th – Q&A following 7:10pm screening: Director Jeri Rice and American investigative journalist and author Russ Baker.
Russell W. “Russ” Baker is an American investigative journalist and author. In 2005, he founded the nonprofit The Real News Project and its news website WhoWhatWhy.org. He is the author of a 2008 book, Family of Secrets, that outlines what it claims are connections between President George H.W. Bush and the Watergate scandal and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
GUN SHY Filmmaker in Person for a Q&A Opening Night at the NoHo.
GUN SHY director Simon West, producer Jib Polhemus, actor Martin Dingle Wall, director of photography Alan Caudillo, and author/co-screenwriter Mark Haskell Smith will participate in a Q&A at the NoHo after the 7:40 PM screening on Friday, September 8.
MENASHE Filmmaker in Person at the Monicas for a Q&A Friday, September 1.
MENASHE director/co-writer Joshua Weinstein will participate in a Q&A after the 7:40 PM screening at the Monica Film Center on Friday, September 1.
55th Anniversary Screening of GYPSY and Q&A with Carla Malden September 12th in West LA
GYPSY (1962) 55th Anniversary Screening
With Carla Malden, Daughter of Karl Malden In-person
Tuesday, September 12, at 7:00 PM at the Laemmle Royal
Presented on Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 55th anniversary screening of GYPSY, the 1962 film adaptation of one of the masterworks of the American musical theater, with its triumphant Stephen Sondheim-Jule Styne score.
The film version stars Natalie Wood as burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee, Rosalind Russell as Momma Rose, the ultimate stage mother, and Karl Malden.
The screening takes place on September 12, 7:00 pm at the Royal theatre in West LA, with guest Carla Malden, daughter of Karl Malden, and co-author of his memoir, When Do I Start?
In 1962 Natalie Wood was at the peak of her career, having been Oscar nominated as Best Actress for Splendor in the Grass (1961) and co-starring in that year’s Best Picture, West Side Story, when she was cast to portray the queen of the striptease, Gypsy Rose Lee. Rosalind Russell was cast as Momma Rose by Jack L. Warner, who bought the film rights, and the vibrant star of Auntie Mame took considerable critical heat for displacing Broadway legend Ethel Merman in the role. Malden’s part was built up for the Oscar-winning actor, and he doubled as Uncle Jocko and boyfriend-manager Herbie in the film. Other alterations included the trimming of one song, but these slight modifications did not detract from the success of the film.
Written for the screen by Leonard Spiegelgass from Arthur Laurents’ libretto, and directed by Mervyn Leroy, (Little Caesar, I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, and co-producer The Wizard of Oz), Gypsy remains a faithful, brassy celluloid version of one of the greatest musicals ever staged.
The public didn’t seem to miss Merman, as the movie was a box office smash. Critics were divided at the time, but veteran scribe Joe Baltake (Philadelphia Daily News, Sacramento Bee) later wrote that Russell, “whose line readings are flawless …fleshed out the character of Rose as no one else ever has.” And as noted by Leonard Maltin, “(You) can’t lose with that Stephen Sondheim-Jule Styne score.” Nominated for 3 Academy Awards (Cinematography, Costume Design and Music Scoring).
Gypsy will screen Tuesday, September 12 at 7:00 pm at the Royal; Q&A with Carla Malden who will reminisce about her father and the making of the film, accompanied by a rare showing of the musical number cut from the film, after the screening.
THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT Q&A’s with the Filmmaker and Lead Actor Opening Weekend.
Filmmaker Tarik Saleh and lead actor Fares Fares of the thrilling new Egyptian drama THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT will participate in Q&A’s following the 7:10 PM show on Friday, September 1 at Royal and following the 7:20 PM show on Saturday, September 2 at Playhouse.
Q&A with THE VAULT Writer-director Dan Bush, Lead Actresses Taryn Manning and Francesca Eastwood, and actor Scott Haze August 31st at the Ahrya Fine Arts
THE VAULT writer-director Dan Bush, lead actresses Taryn Manning and Francesca Eastwood, and actor Scott Haze will participate in a Q&A following the 7:30 PM screening at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theater on Thursday, August 31.
Starring James Franco, Taryn Manning, Francesca Eastwood and Scott Haze, THE VAULT opens at the Laemmle NoHo 7 on Friday, September 1st.
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