MONOGAMISH filmmaker Tao Ruspoli will participate in Q&A’s after all screenings November 5-8 at the Fine Arts, NoHo, Monica Film Center, and Playhouse.
Classic Detective Films Every Throwback Thursday in November at the NoHo 7
Agatha Christie’s enduring detective, Hercule Poirot, returns November 10th in Kenneth Branagh’s remake of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. To celebrate the famed detective (and his epic moustache), Laemmle presents Watching the Detectives, a full month of our favorite fictional detectives!
Our Watching the Detectives Throwback Thursday series begins at the NoHo 7 on Thursday, November 2nd with John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON! Doors open at 7pm, trivia starts at 7:30, and movies begin at 7:40pm. Our weekly #TBT series is presented in partnership with Eat|See|Hear. Check out the full schedule below!
November 2: The Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade, a private detective who takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. TICKETS.
November 9: Kiss Me Deadly
This film noir stars Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane’s anti-social private eye Mike Hammer. After he and a hitchhiker are kidnapped by thugs, the semiconscious Hammer helplessly watches as the girl is tortured to death. Seeking vengeance, Hammer searches for the secret behind the girl’s murder. Note: Laemmle Theatres will screen the U.K. version of KISS ME DEADLY, which includes the original ending. TICKETS.
November 16: The Long Goodbye
Applying his deconstructive eye to the “film noir” tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler’s novel, The Long Goodbye.
Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn’t a wife-killer, even after the cops throw Marlowe in jail for not cooperating with their investigation into Lennox’s subsequent disappearance.
Once he gets out of jail, Marlowe starts to conduct his own search when he discovers that mysterious blonde Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), who hired him to find her alcoholic novelist husband Roger (Sterling Hayden), lives on the same Malibu street as the absent Lennox and his deceased spouse. As numerous variations on the title song play in unexpected places, Marlowe encounters a shady doctor (Henry Gibson), a bottle-wielding gangster (director Mark Rydell), and a guard aping Barbara Stanwyck (among other stars), before heading to Mexico to stumble onto the truth once and for all. TICKETS.
November 30: Murder by Death
Neil Simon’s comic tribute to detective films begins when a reclusive millionaire invites a number of famed detectives, each a parody of a famous literary sleuth, to dinner. Naturally, a series of murders begins, and the humorous race to be the first to solve the mystery is on. Starring Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Truman Capote, and more. TICKETS.
Details about December #TBT screenings are coming soon. Remember to check www.laemmle.com/tbt for updates!
Halloween Twofer Tuesday: THE MUMMY and CAT PEOPLE on October 31st in NoHo, Pasadena, and West LA
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a special Halloween double feature in the popular Twofer Tuesday Series (two films for the price of one) on October 31.
We will show a “double treat” of the 85th anniversary of THE MUMMY (1932) with the 75th anniversary of CAT PEOPLE (1942). Both films epitomize atmospheric black-and-white chills from the classical studio era.
THE MUMMY was one of the early efforts from Universal studios to capitalize on the their success in the horror genre (following the 1931 hits Dracula and Frankenstein).
Karl Freund, the German émigré cinematographer of Metropolis and Dracula, made his directorial debut with this film inspired by the opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922.
Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. hired one of the writers of Dracula, John L. Balderston, to craft a screenplay from a story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer, and cast Boris Karloff, fresh from his star-making performance in Frankenstein, as the three-thousand-year-old mummy stalking an English girl (Zita Johann) he believes is the reincarnation of his ancient love.
The cinematography is credited to Charles Stumar (who shot the Lon Chaney silent The Hunchback of Notre Dame). The result is a masterpiece of mood, described by critic Pauline Kael as “…disturbingly beautiful. No other horror film has ever achieved so many emotional effects by lighting; the film has a languorous, poetic feeling, and the eroticism that lives on under Karloff’s wrinkled parchment skin is like a bad dream of undying love.”
With David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher, Arthur Byron, and Edward Van Sloan.
CAT PEOPLE was the first venture from producer Val Lewton (I Walked With a Zombie, Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher) as head of RKO’s new horror division in 1942. He gave Jacques Tourneur the chance to direct his first feature with this tale of a new bride (Simone Simon) who fears she is a descendant of a predatory cat family.
DeWitt Bodeen (I Remember Mama, Billy Budd) wrote the screenplay from a short story by producer Lewton, who also employed cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca and editor Mark Robson (future director of Peyton Place and Valley of the Dolls), to create one of the most imaginative low-budget films ever made. Tourneur and Musuraca later collaborated on one of the seminal film noirs, Out of the Past.
Roger Ebert called Cat People one of the “Great Movies,” extolling it as “frightening in an eerie, mysterious way that was hard to define; the screen harbored unseen threats, and there was an undertone of sexual danger that was more ominous because it was never acted upon.”
With Kent Smith, Tom Conway, and Jane Randolph. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1993.
Our Halloween Twofer plays October 31 at three locations: Royal, NoHo 7 and Pasadena Playhouse 7. The complete double feature screens twice, with THE MUMMY shown at 5:00 pm and 8:20 pm; CAT PEOPLE at 6:40 pm and 10:00 pm.
LAEMMLE LIVE presents: SOL-LA Music Academy and Saint Anne School Nov 5 at the Royal
This is a Free Event
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LAEMMLE LIVE IS ON THE MOVE for November only. We proudly present SOL-LA Music Academy and Saint Anne School in a collaborative musical concert on Sunday, November 5, 2017, at Laemmle’s Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles. SOL-LA Music Academy is a nonprofit music school in Santa Monica that provides high quality performing arts education to students from all backgrounds and economic circumstances in an engaging and encouraging environment fostering achievement and community. Their comprehensive program reflects the belief that vibrant cultural education nurtures all areas of learning, connects diverse societies and enhances the enjoyment of life.
Saint Anne School is Santa Monica’s only nonpublic Title I school, with at least 40% of families qualifying as low income according to federal standards. The school serves a diverse population of families from 66 zip codes. Without SOL-LA, most of these students would not have access to the myriad benefits that a comprehensive music education can offer. The SOL-LA at Saint Anne School program, now in its seventh year, was born out of a desire to see music included as a core curriculum subject.
As a parochial school, Saint Anne has the flexibility to include music as a priority rather than as an elective. Saint Anne partners with SOL-LA to bring high-quality music instruction to its students on-site, with an option for the students to further participate in after school instruction at SOL-LA’s campus. SOL-LA at Saint Anne School is a sequential music education program, providing free music instruction and instruments to 270 K–8th Grade students during regular school hours at Saint Anne.
SOL-LA’s program at Saint Anne is thoroughly integrated into the curriculum; all students in all classrooms participate in the program. Additionally, SOL-LA provides instruments to students during the school year at no cost.
EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, November 5, 2017
11:00 AM
Laemmle’s Royal Theatre
11523 Santa Monica Blvd.
This is a Free Event
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HAZE Q&A’s with the Filmmaker and Cast, SaMo, NoHo, Claremont, and Pasadena.
HAZE writer-director David Burkman and one or more of the lead actors will participate in Q&A’s after all 7PM screenings at the Monica Film Center, Claremont, NoHo, and Playhouse October 16-19th.
WALKING OUT Actor and Filmmakers in Person for Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the NoHo.
WALKING OUT lead actor Matt Bomer will participate in a Q&A at the NoHo following the 7:10 PM screening on Friday, October 13. Director Andrew Smith and producer Brunson Green will participate in a Q & A following the 7:10 PM screening on Saturday, October 14.
THIRST STREET Lead Actress Lindsay Burdge in Person at the NoHo Opening Night.
THIRST STREET lead actress Lindsay Burdge will participate in a Q&A after the 7:50 PM screening at the NoHo on Friday, September 29. Brett Gelman will moderate.
Be Afraid…of Subtitles: A Scary Foreign Film Every Throwback Thursday in October at the NoHo 7
At Laemmle we say, “Not Afraid of Subtitles.” But this October, subtitles get downright horrifying! Join us along with Eat|See|Hear at the NoHo 7 for a full month of scary foreign films just in time for Halloween. We’ll provide the subtitles, you’ll provide the screams.
Our “Scary Subtitles” Throwback Thursday series begins on Thursday, October 5th with Nacho Vigalondo’s TIMECRIMES! Doors open at 7pm, trivia starts at 7:30, and movies begin at 7:40pm. Check out the full schedule below!
October 5: Timecrimes [Los Cronocrimenes]
Lauded short film director Vigalondo makes his feature debut with this tense, unstoppable vision of science and natural law gone awry. A man who accidentally travels back into the past and meets himself. A naked girl in the middle of the forest. A mysterious stranger with his face wrapped in a pink bandage. A disquieting mansion on the top of a hill. All of them pieces of an unpredictable jigsaw puzzle where terror, drama and suspense will lead to an unthinkable crime. Who’s the murderer? Who’s the victim? TIMECRIMES takes a bold premise and brings the rarely-tread time travel framework to pulse-pounding, brilliant new heights. In Spanish with English subtitles. TICKETS.
October 12: The Host [Gwoemul]
THE HOST was the talk of the 2006 Cannes International Film Festival. The film from critically acclaimed visionary director Bong Joon-ho had already garnered a substantial amount of international buzz— in 2006 it became the highest grossing Korean film of all time (over $90 million). Utilizing state-of-the-art special effects, courtesy of a creative partnership between Weta Workshop (King Kong, The Lord of the Rings) and The Orphanage (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sin City), THE HOST is both a creature-feature thrill ride and a poignant human drama. In Korean with English subtitles. TICKETS.
October 19: Trollhunter [Trolljegeren]
Shot in a vérité style, TROLLHUNTER is the story of a group of Norwegian film students that sets out to capture real-life trolls on camera after learning their existence has been covered up for years by a government conspiracy. A thrilling and wildly entertaining film, TROLLHUNTER delivers truly fantastic images of giant trolls wreaking havoc on the countryside, with darkly funny adherence to the original Norwegian folklore. In Norwegian with English subtitles. TICKETS.
October 26: Let the Right One In [Låt den Rätte Komma In]
A fragile, anxious boy, 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back. The lonely boy’s wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli, also 12, who moves in next door to him with her father. A pale, serious young girl, she only comes out at night and doesn’t seem affected by the freezing temperatures. Coinciding with Eli’s arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders … It doesn’t take long before Oscar figures out that Eli is a vampire. But by now a subtle romance has blossomed between Oskar and Eli, and she gives him the strength to fight back against his aggressors. Frozen forever in a twelve-year-old’s body, with all the burgeoning feelings and confused emotions of a young adolescent, Eli knows that she can only continue to live if she keeps on moving. But when Oskar faces his darkest hour, Eli returns to defend him the only way she can. In Swedish with English subtitles. TICKETS.
Details about November #TBT screenings are coming soon. Remember to check www.laemmle.com/tbt for updates!
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