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EVERLY Filmmaker and Actors with Free Autographed Posters at the Music Hall February 28

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In the new action-suspense-thriller EVERLY, Salma Hayek stars as a woman who faces down assassins sent by her ex, a mob boss, while holed up in her apartment. We open EVERLY at the Music Hall on February 27 and on Saturday, February 28 the director Joe Lynch, along with cast members Gabriella Wright, Akie Kotabe, Jen Blanc-Biehn and Caroline Chikezie and co-producer Brett Hedblom, will introduce the 9:55 PM screening and participate in a Q&A afterward, as well as autograph and give away EVERLY posters to the first 30 ticket buyers who take and post a picture of the event and tag themselves, @everlymovie and @musichall on social media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCWXWgg5H9g

EVERLY Filmmaker and Actors with Free Autographed Posters at the Music Hall February 28

EVERLY Filmmaker and Actors with Free Autographed Posters at the Music Hall February 28

Heroic Young Students Overcome Everything for Education in ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL

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They live in all four corners of the planet and share a thirst for knowledge. Almost instinctively they know that their well-being, indeed their survival, depends on knowledge and education. From the dangerous savannahs of Kenya to the winding trails of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco; from the suffocating heat of southern India to the vast, dizzying plateaus of Patagonia, these children are all united by the same quest, the same dream. Jackson, Zahira, Samuel and Carlito are the heroes of ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL, a film that interweaves portraits of four pupils forced to confront and overcome countless, often dangerous obstacles – enormous distances over treacherous territory, avoiding snakes, elephants, even bandits – on their journey to their classrooms.

We are very pleased to open this documentary, which “quietly reveals these four small stories as epically heroic and timeless journeys” (Village Voice), on Friday, March 6 at the Music Hall and March 7 at the Playhouse.

http://www.vimeo.com/90794633

Heroic Young Students Overcome Everything for Education in ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL

 

It’s Not Too Late to See Oscar Nominees and Enter Our Oscar Contest

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The Academy Awards air this Sunday which means entries for our Umpteenth Annual Oscar Contest are due Sunday morning. The person who most accurately predicts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s choices wins ten pairs of passes, second place wins eight pairs and third place wins six pairs.

It's Not Too Late to See Oscar Nominees and Enter Our Oscar ContestThe best way to up your Oscar game is to see the nominees. Watching THE 2015 OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORTS ANIMATED, DOCUMENTARY, and LIVE ACTION will certainly put you ahead of the pack.

Best Foreign Film nominees LEVIATHAN and TIMBUKTU expand to Claremont and NoHo this Friday. IDA is playing in Beverly Hills. Unfortunately, WILD TALES and TANGERINES won’t be released prior to the awards.

Other nominees of note still playing at one or more of our theatres include: SONG OF THE SEA, STILL ALICE, WHIPLASH, CITIZENFOUR, TWO DAYS ONE NIGHT, THE IMITATION GAME, AMERICAN SNIPER, and more.

BONUS TIP: Take the tie-breaker question seriously!

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WHITE RABBIT Q&A Opening Night at the Music Hall

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WHITE RABBIT follows Harlon Mackey, who has been tormented by visions since his alcoholic father forced him to kill an innocent rabbit while hunting as a boy. Now that Harlon is a bullied high school teen, his undiagnosed mental illness is getting worse. He begins to hear voices, and his imagination encourages him to carry out violent acts. Things begin to look up when Julie, a rebellious young girl, moves to town and befriends Harlon. But when she betrays him, the rabbit along with other imaginary comic book characters taunt him into committing one final act of revenge.

WHITE RABBIT lead actors Nick Krause and Sam Trammell will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM screening at the Music Hall on Friday, February 13.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCUSBraayvo

Shakespeare’s Globe on Screen 2015: Take a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the New Season

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Celebrating its fifth fantastic year, Globe On Screen returns in 2015 to Laemmle’s Culture Vulture series with a brand new season of sell-out performances and captivating theatre from the London home of Shakespeare.

Globe On Screen offers audiences a ticket to the best seat in the house from the comfort of a your nearest Laemmle Theater and the chance to experience the unique magic of the world-famous Globe, all captured in high definition and full surround sound.

The fifth season contains five thrilling new productions, featuring the critically-acclaimed The Duchess of Malfi (March 2 and 3) starring Gemma Arterton, the inaugural production in the new candlelit Jacobean theatre at Shakespeare’s Globe, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. Other productions include four shows from the Globe’s Summer 2014 ‘Arms and the Man’ season: Globe Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole’s sold-out envisioning of Roman classic Julius Caesar (May 4 and 5); an iconic struggle between love and duty in Antony & Cleopatra (June 15 and 16); the return of Lucy Bailey’s notoriously bloody Titus Andronicus (March 30 and 31), and the uproariously chaotic The Comedy of Errors June 29 and 30). (And while we’re on the subject of live theater, we’ll also have screenings of the stage musical version of From Here to Eternity on April 13 and 14.)

To whet your appetite for the Globe’s new season, watch this five-minute behind-the-scenes look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itPWynTTL3U

Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 2015: Take a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the New Season

MAD AS HELL Q&A’s at the Music Hall

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The Young Turks, one of the most popular online news shows in the world, has amassed a YouTube network consisting of millions of subscribers and billions of views. But that wasn’t always the case. MAD AS HELL documents the tumultuous, at times hilarious and altogether astonishing trajectory of Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks’ main host and founder, as he traverses from unknown public access TV host to Internet sensation.

Several Young Turks will participate in Q&A’s on the following schedule:

Saturday, Feb 7th @ 5pm: David Koller (Intro & QA) 
Saturday, Feb 7th @ 9:55pm: David Koller (Intro & QA)  
Sunday, Feb 8th @ 5pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), Steve Oh (QA)
Sunday, Feb 8th @ 9:55pm: David Koller (Intro & Q&A)  
Monday, Feb 9th @ 5pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), John Iadarola (QA)
Monday, Feb 9th @ 9:55pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), David Koller (QA)
Tuesday, Feb 10th @ 5pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), John Iadarola (QA)
Tuesday, Feb 10th @ 9:55pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), David Koller (QA)
Wednesday, Feb 11th @ 5pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), John Iadarola (QA)
Wednesday, Feb 11th @ 9:55pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), David Koller (QA)
Thursday, Feb 12th @ 7:30pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), David Koller (QA)
Thursday, Feb 12th @ 9:55pm: Kim Horcher (Intro), David Koller (QA)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8ctSdgfq0

BRASSLANDS Screens this Monday and Tuesday; the MUDBUG BRASS BAND will perform at the Music Hall Monday Night.

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A tiny Serbian village explodes with brass cacophony and riotous celebration as more than half a million music fans descend upon Guča, the world’s largest trumpet competition. Amidst a cast of defending Serbian champions and struggling Roma Gypsies, an unlikely brass band from New York City, Zlatne Uste, voyages to represent the United States only a decade after NATO bombs rocked Belgrade. They will be the first Americans ever to compete at Guča. BRASSLANDS offers an intimate and sometimes unsettling portrait of how the hopes and fears of this diverse group of characters collide in their search for common ground and musical ecstasy.

Laemmle Theatres will be screening BRASSLANDS this Monday, February 9 at 7:30 PM and Tuesday, February 10 at 1 PM as part of its Culture Vulture film series. To celebrate the music profiled in BRASSLANDS, L.A.’s own MUDBUG BRASS BAND will be at the Music Hall Monday night to perform their super-fun New Orleans-style brass-based jazz!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCf0UbNemw
BRASSLANDS Screens this Monday and Tuesday; the MUDBUG BRASS BAND will perform at the Music Hall Monday Night.
Mudbug Brass Band in all its glory

The 2015 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts Open January 30

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Here at Laemmle Theatres we take a lot of pride and pleasure in showing many feature documentaries, but it’s extra sweet every February when we can feature the focussed, concise brilliance of the Oscar-nominated short documentaries. We open the program of five films on Friday, January 30 at the Music Hall and February 7 and the Playhouse 7 and Claremont 5. The nominees are:

JOANNA (Aneta Kopacz) – 40 minutes/Poland/Polish. With great visual poetry, JOANNA portrays the simple and meaningful moments in the life of her family. Diagnosed with an untreatable illness, Joanna promises her son that she will do her best to live for as long as possible. It is a story of close relationships, tenderness, love and thoughtfulness.

CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1 (Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry) – 39 minutes/USA/English. The timely documentary CRISIS HOTLINE: VETERANS PRESS 1 spotlights the traumas endured by America’s veterans, as seen through the work of the hotline’s trained responders, who provide immediate intervention and support in hopes of saving the lives of service members.

OUR CURSE (Tomasz Sliwinski and Maciej Slesicki) – 27 minutes/Poland/Polish. OUR CURSE is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child – the Ondine’s Curse (also known as CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome). People affected with this disease stop breathing during sleep and require lifetime mechanical ventilation on a ventilator.

WHITE EARTH (J. Christian Jensen) – 20 minutes/USA/English and Spanish. Thousands of souls flock to America’s Northern Plains seeking work in the oil fields. WHITE EARTH is the tale of an oil boom seen through unexpected eyes. Three children and an immigrant mother brave a cruel winter and explore themes of innocence, home and the American Dream.

THE REAPER (La Parka) (Gabriel Serra Arguello) – 29 minutes/Mexico/Spanish. THE REAPER: Efrain, known as the Reaper, has worked at a slaughterhouse for 25 years. We will discover his deep relationship with death and his struggle to live.

The 2015 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts Open January 30
Still from JOANNA