BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY producer/son of Bert Berns Brett Berns; co-director Bob Sarles; singer-songwriter Brooks Arthur; and producer-recording engineer Brooks Arthur will participate in a Q&A after the 7:20 PM screening at the NoHo on Friday, May 5. Producer-author Randy Poe will moderate.
Crowd Pleasing Musicals Every Throwback Thursday in May at the NoHo 7 with Eat|See|Hear!
There will be feasting and dancing on Lankershim this May! Laemmle Theatres and Eat|See|Hear present a full month of our favorite musicals every Throwback Thursday in May at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood. Musical May kicks off on Thursday, May 4th with the GUYS AND DOLLS. Doors open at 7 PM, trivia starts at 7:30 PM, and films begin at 7:40 PM! Check out the full schedule below. For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt!
May 4: GUYS AND DOLLS
Incorrigible gamblers Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando) and Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) involve each other in a complicated plot to maintain “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York,” while dolls Jean Simmons as Sergeant Sarah Brown and Vivian Blaine as Miss Adelaide try and stand in their way. Luck, as it turns out, is a Lady after all. Get tickets.
May 11: WEST SIDE STORY
One of the most honored and commercially successful of all movie musicals, WEST SIDE STORY earned a near-record 10 Academy Awards in 1961. The film version of the groundbreaking stage musical that re-imagined Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City retained and deepened the play’s emotional impact by bringing together a show business all-star team. Robbins and Wise reworked the classic Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim score and came up with fresh casting ideas for this ever timely story of racial prejudice and conflict. The stars of the movie included Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Oscar winner George Chakiris, and Oscar winner Rita Moreno. Get tickets.
May 18: HAIR
Milos Forman’s film adaptation of the popular, controversial Broadway musical Hair follows a reserved Midwesterner (John Savage) who joins a group of hippies in Central Park on his way to joining the Army. The musical numbers were choreographed by Twyla Tharp and sung by vocalists like Ellen Foley, Ronnie Dyson, Nell Carter and Melba Moore. Get tickets.
May 25: FUNNY GIRL
Barbra Streisand makes her Oscar winning film debut in a reprisal of her Broadway role as Ziegfeld star Fanny Brice. Brice, a poor Jewish girl from New York’s Lower East Side, rose to fame and won audience’s hearts everywhere with her comic antics and powerful singing. Unfortunately, she had far less success in her personal life, and the film focuses on her doomed romance with her first husband, gambler Nicky Arnstein, played by Omar Sharif. Get tickets.
CHASING TRANE Filmmaker in Person for NoHo Q&A’s this Weekend.
CHASING TRANE director John Scheinfeld will introduce and participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the 7:40 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29 and after the 1:50 PM show on Sunday, April 30.
CHASING TRANE Q&A’s with the Filmmakers.
CHASING TRANE editor/co-producer Peter Lynch will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:30 PM screening on Friday, April 21 and the 4:50 show on Sunday, April 23 at the Playhouse 7. Producer Sig Sigworth will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM screening at the Playhouse on Saturday, April 22. CHASING TRANE director John Scheinfeld will participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the first evening screenings and a Sunday matinee show Friday-Sunday, April 28-30, exact times TBD.
RUN WITH THE BULLS and Painter Francisco Alvarado at NoHo 7, April 25
If you haven’t done so yet, next Tuesday, April 25 will be a good time to catch RUNNING WITH THE BULLS, Art in the Arthouse’s recent exhibit at the NoHo 7 featuring the works of FRANCISCO ALVARADO. That’s because we’ll be having a “late-show celebration” Tuesday, April 25 from 7-9pm, featuring a slide show, artist talk, and of course, the usual food and beverage treats AAH is known for.
Drawing inspiration from nature and his travels, Alvarado creates powerful works utilizing a fascinating process that combines technology and hands-on manipulation of acrylic paint, mixed media and digital imaging. Curated by Joshua Elias, the exhibit runs through early May at the NoHo 7.
About the Exhibit:
Painting with refined Matisse-like cutout shapes, Francisco Alvarado, has a propensity towards creating movement. Overlaying forms are charged with passionate, vibrant colors that evoke the volcanic fields in his native Ecuador. Inspired from loss, a ditch of emotion wells up in his art, focused, patiently rendered, evoking a wistful empathy.
Alvarado moved from Ecuador to Glendale, CA in 1969. Psychedelic 60s painter Peter Max influenced young Francisco greatly. With Heinz Edelman’s animation in the Beatles’ film the “Yellow Submarine,” animation as a gateway to fine art began to percolate.
Inspired by the emergence of Apple Computers, he enrolled at Long Beach State to study engineering. He threw himself into the brave new world of coding and digital imaging, ultimately leading to artistic experimentation with mixed media.
When mentor Quinton Bemiller introduced him to abstract painting, Alvarado’s work took new turns, filled with vivacity and freedom and influenced by luminaries such as Picasso, Hockney, and Matta. As a mature artist, Alvarado has connected to life and painting in a fuller sense, resulting in the stunning new works currently on display.
– Joshua Elias, Curator
Two Courtroom Classics For the Price of One on May 2nd in NoHo, Pasadena, and Beverly Hills
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present two acclaimed courtroom dramas celebrating their 60th anniversaries as the second attraction in the popular Twofer Tuesdays program. 12 ANGRY MEN and WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, both 1957 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, will be paired as a double bill (two movies, one admission price) on May 2nd at the Ahrya Fine Arts, NoHo 7, and Pasadena Playhouse 7. Presented on Blu-ray.
Click here to buy tickets to the 5:15PM show of 12 ANGRY MEN, admission to the 7:15pm WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION is included. Click here to get tickets to the 7:15PM show of WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, admission to the 9:35pm 12 ANGRY MEN is included.
12 ANGRY MEN, about the deliberations of 12 jurors in a murder trial, was adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay, and directed by Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network) as his film debut. Henry Fonda, who also produced, heads a formidable cast of award-winning actors including Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Jack Warden, E. G. Marshall, and Jack Klugman. Both Lumet and Rose were Oscar nominated for their work.
The film, as timely as ever, challenges an audience to confront ethnic and social prejudices in considering innocence or guilt based on reasonable doubt.
Roger Ebert called it “a masterpiece of stylized realism,” enhanced by the expert black-and-white photography of Boris Kaufman, making the most of its one set in the jury room. Ebert further opined, “In its ingenuity, in the way it balances one piece of evidence against another that seems contradictory, 12 Angry Men is as meticulous as an Agatha Christie thriller.” The movie was added to the National Film Registry in 2007.
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, based on an Agatha Christie play, is a spellbinding courtroom thriller about a murder suspect (Tyrone Power) defended by a wily barrister (Charles Laughton) against the testimony of the suspect’s wife (Marlene Dietrich).
Billy Wilder, collaborating with writers Harry Kurnitz and Larry Marcus, strengthened the characterizations and added a surprise twist at the end, heightening the suspense throughout.
Laughton received one of the film’s six Oscar nominations as Best Actor for his delightfully animated portrayal. Elsa Lanchester as the barrister’s no-nonsense nurse afforded comic relief and copped a supporting actress nod. Wilder nabbed the sixth of his eight career directing nominations.
The film was a critical and commercial hit, with Bosley Crowther of The New York Times applauding “Wilder’s splendid staging of some splintering courtroom scenes and a first-rate theatrical performance by Charles Laughton.”
Audiences at the time were aghast and delighted by the film’s wicked surprise ending, which they were urged to keep secret. Even the film’s cast did not know the ending until the last day of shooting. Both films were later cited in the all-time top ten of the AFI’s Courtroom Dramas category.
The Twofer Tuesdays double feature of 12 ANGRY MEN (shows at 5:15 pm and 9:35 pm) and WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (shows at 7:15 pm) plays May 2 at three Laemmle locations: Ahrya Fine Arts, NoHo 7, and Pasadena Playhouse 7.
TOMORROW Screenings All Over L.A. County Next Week.
Next week we’ll begin screenings of the César Award winner for Best Documentary, TOMORROW. It is a galvanizing film that showcases alternative and creative ways of viewing agriculture, economics, energy and education and offers constructive solutions to act on a local level to make a difference on a global level. The co-director, Cyril Dion, will be in attendance for a Q&A after the April 18 screening at the Monica Film Center and we’ll begin a limited engagement on April 21 at the Music Hall with Saturday/Sunday morning shows at the Claremont 5 and Playhouse 7. Mr. Dion will participate in a Q&A after the 7 PM screening at the Music Hall on Friday, April 21. TOMORROW tries to encourage local communities around the world to change the way they live for the sake of our planet.
Step Up to the Plate Every Throwback Thursday in April at the NoHo 7 with Eat|See|Hear!
Spring has sprung, the Major League Baseball season starts Sunday, and our hopes for a World Series Championship in Los Angeles are renewed. Hopefully, they will be renewed so we can start enjoying our favorite sport again! When baseball season arrives, a lot of people get extremely excited, especially those who are looking to place some bets on their favorite team. A lot of people use mobile sports betting Indiana companies to place their bets, but this can vary depending on where the baseball fans live. Of course, placing bets isn’t essential, but it can make the games more fun to watch as there is the potential for fans to make some extra money if they place a bet on the correct team to win. If the Cubs can win it, so can the Dodgers, and lots and lots of experts are pointing to the Trolley Dodgers’ pitching, depth, and farm system and predicting they will, at the very least, play deep into October. Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen, Justin Turner, Corey Seager, and Adrian Gonzalez are all back and surely the team won’t use the disabled list in 2017 as much as they did last year, right? Either way, I’m going to make sure the Dodgers play to win when it comes to my fantasy baseball league, as for if they actually will… Well, let’s hope.
Celebrate this very special sport, our erstwhile national pastime, by joining Laemmle and Eat|See|Hear for “April at Bat,” a full month of our favorite baseball movies at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood! Our season opens on Thursday, April 6th with the THE BAD NEWS BEARS. Doors open at 7 PM, trivia starts at 7:30 PM, and films begin at 7:40 PM! Check out the full schedule below. For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt!
April 6: THE BAD NEWS BEARS (1976)
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league. Walther Matthau and Tatum O’Neal star. Get tickets.
April 13: THE NATURAL (1984)
Robert Redford stars as an unknown baseball player who comes out of nowhere to become a legend with almost divine talent. Based on Bernard Malumud’s novel, the stellar cast includes Glenn Close, Robert Duvall, Wilford Brimley, Barbara Hershey, and Kim Basinger. Get tickets.
April 20: FIELD OF DREAMS (1989)
In this tribute to dreamers, Kevin Costner stars as an Iowa farmer who constructs a baseball diamond in his fields after hearing the inspirational message, “If you build it, he will come.” James Earl Jones, Burt Lancaster, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan, and Gaby Hoffman co-star. Based on W.P. Kinsella’s novel. Get tickets.
April 27: A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (1992)
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry. Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Geena Davis star. Get tickets.
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