Join Laemmle and Eat|See|Hear for March Mobness, a month-long Throwback Thursday (#TBT) celebration of classic Mob films! For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt!
March 3: GOODFELLAS
Martin Scorsese brilliantly explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi’s best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a terrific rock soundtrack, the story follows Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian New York kid who grows up idolizing the “wise guys” in his Brooklyn neighborhood. Buy Tickets.
March 10: MILLER’S CROSSING
Joel Coen’s and Ethan Coen’s third film is a dark, moody gangland epic. The typically complex Coen plot centers on the machinations of Leo (Albert Finney), the tough Irish mob boss, and his partner-in-crime Tom (Gabriel Byrne). Buy Tickets.
March 17: CITY OF GOD
A shocking, disturbing and utterly compelling look at life in the slums of Rio de Janiero. Stretched over 15 years, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, the story focuses on two boys who grow up taking very different paths. Buy Tickets.
March 24: SCARFACE
Brian De Palma’s blood-and-sun-drenched saga of a Cuban deportee’s rise to the top of Miami’s cocaine business is referenced in rap songs, subsequent gangster movies, and quoted the world over. Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire. Buy Tickets.
March 31: THE GODFATHER PART II
Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary sequel to his landmark 1972 film The Godfather parallels the young Vito Corleone’s rise with his son Michael’s spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather’s depiction of the dark side of the American dream. Buy Tickets.
#TBT runs every single Thursday night at the Laemmle NoHo 7 in North Hollywood. Tickets are $12 and may be purchased online at http://laemmle.com/tbt or at the Laemmle NoHo 7. As with regular screenings, discounts are available for children, seniors, and Laemmle Premiere Card holders. Films begin promptly at 7:30pm.
Watch the trailers for all March Mobness movies:
It’s that time again! The person who most accurately predicts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s choices in all 24 categories, from the shorts to Best Motion Picture, will win fabulous prizes (free movies and concessions at Laemmle)!
The Academy Awards are many things: entertaining, infuriating, moving, boring. For foreign films, our bread and butter, the Oscars can be quite effective at bringing attention to worthy movies from abroad. That done, the next challenge for cinephiles in the general public is to find a way to see them as they were meant to be seen: on a big screen with an audience in a movie theater. In a typical year, the five nominees for the Foreign Language Film Oscar include one or two that hit theaters months earlier, one or two that are currently in theaters, and one or two that may come out after the big night. This year, that night is February 28 and as luck would have it all five films have or will have Laemmle engagements between now and the Academy Awards ceremony.
