Film Reviews & Previews
Beginning June 28 at the Music Hall we’ll screen BIDDER 70, the new documentary about environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, who was jailed for two years for protesting an auction of gas and oil drilling rights in Utah. He disrupted the proceeding in a novel way: by bidding on and winning leases he could never pay for.
Tim was recently released and Bill Moyers interviewed him.
FAME HIGH director Scott Hamilton Kennedy will participate in Q&A’s after the 5 PM screening at the Music Hall on Friday, June 14 and after the 6 PM screening Saturday, June 15 at the Playhouse 7.
HATCHET III director BJ McDonnell and screenwriter Adam Green will participate in Q&A’s after the 9:45 PM screenings at the Music Hall on Friday and Saturday, June 14 and 15.
Devourer of media (and world famous Oscar co-host) James Franco wasn’t satisfied just reading a book about video games while listening to Daft Punk in the lobby of our Music Hall 3 theater in Beverly Hills. No, he needed more and jumped right into a screening of LEVIATHAN… which he LOVED.
“This is life. Man versus nature. Man’s machines. Man’s mastery of the planet. Man’s destruction of the planet. Man’s ushering in of the apocalypse. But it is also beautiful.”
You can read his full review at vice.com
While LEVIATHAN is no longer in L.A. theaters, we encourage you to add it to your Netflix queue.
Select members of the cast and crew of A GREEN STORY will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall 3 following the 5pm show on Friday, May 25; after the 2:40pm show on Saturday, May 26; and following the 7:20pm show on Sunday, May 26.
3 GEEZERS! filmmaker Michelle Schumacher and actor J.K. Simmons will participate in a Q&A after the 7:40 PM screening at the Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, May 22.
Follow actor J Kimball (Juno, Spider-Man, Up In the Air) as he researches what it’s like to be old for a role in an upcoming movie. When he meets the residents at The Coconuts convalescent home, he quickly discovers that his perceptions of the elderly may be off from today’s reality.
STATE 194 producer Elise Pearlstein will participate in a Q&A tonight, May 20, after the 7:30PM screening at Music Hall 3 in Beverly Hills.
THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY director Paul Bunnell will be at the Playhouse 7 for the Friday (May 17) show, along with cinematographer Francisco Bulgarelli and actor Jed Rowen (“Sluggo”). And at the Music Hall 3 on Friday (May 17) will be actors Will Keenan (“Johnny X”) and Les Williams (“Chip”) and costume designer Kristina West. They’ll have free JOHNNY X comic books to give away at both screenings while supplies last.
Paul Bunnell’s 1950s throwback dials up the weirdness of the already surreal genre of sci-fi B movies with show-stopping musical numbers, over-the-top dialogue, and hilariously hokey special effects.