JANE filmmaker Brett Morgen will participate in a Q&A after the 7:50 PM screening at the Monica Film Center on Saturday, November 4.
THE WHALES OF AUGUST 30th Anniversary Screening November 8th in Encino with Producer In-person
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 30th anniversary screening of THE WHALES OF AUGUST (1987), a poignant drama featuring an all-star cast of actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age.
Silent screen legend Lillian Gish and two-time Oscar winner Bette Davis play elderly sisters spending the summer on an island off the coast of Maine, struggling with jealousy, loss and regret.
The supporting cast includes Ann Sothern, who earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film, screen veterans Vincent Price (who co-starred with Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex in 1939 and went on to become the master of horror for producer Roger Corman) and Harry Carey Jr., one of the favorite actors of director John Ford.
The film is adapted from a play by David Berry and was directed by Lindsay Anderson (the acclaimed British director of This Sporting Life, If…, and O Lucky Man), making his American film debut.
The lovely cinematography of the windswept New England coast is by Mike Fash, and Anderson’s frequent collaborator Alan Price provided the musical score.
Margaret Ladd, Mary Steenburgen, and Tisha Sterling (Sothern’s daughter) portray the three women in flashbacks to their youth.
The New York Times’ Vincent Canby wrote, “With its two beautiful, very different, very characteristic performances by Miss Gish and Davis… Lindsay Anderson’s ‘Whales of August’ is a cinema event.”
Leonard Maltin called it “an exquisitely delicate film,” adding that “Gish and Davis dominate the film, a lifetime of movie memories in each classic face.”
Producer Mike Kaplan is a long-term member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a marketing and sales veteran who first met Gish when he worked on her 1967 film, The Comedians, early in his career. Over the years he consulted for many top directors, including Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, and Mike Hodges.
Kaplan produced Barbet Schroeder’s The Valley, Hodges’ I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead starring Clive Owen and Malcolm McDowell, and Never Apologize, a documentary that recorded McDowell’s one-man stage show about his collaboration and friendship with Lindsay Anderson.
The film and Q & A will be followed by a special bonus screening of revealing interviews with the five principal actors of The Whales of August, filmed on location in Maine at the time of the shooting.
THE WHALES OF AUGUST screens at 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 8th at the Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino. Producer Mike Kaplan will participate in a Q&A at the screening. Click here for tickets.
For more about our Anniversary Classics Series, visit www.laemmle.com/ac and join our Facebook Group.
ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: ARCHIVING HESSE at the Royal Nov 1
In 2016, the seminal artist EVA HESSE garnered national attention with an exhibit at the Whitney, an exhibit at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel in DTLA and with the opening of the film EVA HESSE , also featured at four Laemmle venues. The documentary, directed by Marcie Begleiter and produced by Karen Shapiro, was the first feature-length examination of Hesse’s life and work.
Laemmle’s Art in the Arthouse proudly presents an encore exhibit of ARCHIVING HESSE at the Royal starting on November 1, 2017. The exhibit, which premiered at the Monica Film Center last year, includes photography featured in the film. It showcases the work of photographer and raconteur, BARBARA BROWN, who, from 1962-1965, chronicled Hesse and the other luminaries that made up the Canal St. scene of New York’s Lower Eastside.
Unfortunately, most of Brown’s negatives were destroyed in a bizarre train fire and eternally lost. But we are pleased to present some surviving photos that capture the artist in particularly revealing moments. Interwoven are two images from Hesse’s 1968 solo exhibition at the Fishbach Gallery taken by NORMAN GOLDMAN.
About Eva Hesse: In 1938, at three years old, EVA HESSE was put on the kindertransport to escape Nazi Germany. She arrived in New York to reunite with her family, but seven years later lost her mother to suicide.
Hesse went on to study art and design at Yale University. As an artist, she had a unique ability to alchemize her personal tragedies into searing and poetic works. Based mainly in New York, Hesse and her husband Tom Doyle briefly relocated their studio to Kettwig Germany where she transitioned from painter to sculptor.
“Stop [thinking] and just do!” This strong note circa 1965 from her mentor Sol LeWitt opened Hesse up to an artistic stream of sculptures, paintings, drawings, and happenings. She incorporated industrial materials such as cord, wire, yarn, and latex to create magnificent walls sculptures that commanded attention. Hesse soon became a major figure in the post AbEx landscape movement. Tragically, Hesse died of brain cancer at age 34. She lives on in her works, which are displayed in museums worldwide.
Q&A’s with the AL DI QUA Filmmaker All Week at the Music Hall.
AL DI QUA director Corrado Franco will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall after all 7:40 PM screenings.
LUCKY Director John Carroll Lynch in Person for a Monica Film Center Q&A.
LUCKY director John Carroll Lynch will participate in a Q&A after the 7 PM screening at the Monica Film Center on Monday, October 30.
INHERITANCE Filmmakers and Lead Actress at the Playhouse Opening Night for a Q&A.
INHERITANCE writer-director Laura E. Davis and writer-director-star Jessica Kaye will participate attend the 9:55 PM show at the Playhouse on Friday, October 27 for a Q&A.
FLESH AND BLOOD Q&A’s this Weekend in Santa Monica.
FLESH AND BLOOD writer-director-actor Mark Webber, actress Cheri Honkala, and actor Guillermo Santos will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center after the 7:30 shows on Friday and Saturday, October 27 and 28 and after the 2:10 show on Sunday, October 29. Actress Rosario Dawson will moderate the Friday Q&A; actor-screenwriter Will McCormack will moderate the Saturday Q&A; and Indiewire writer Steve Greene will moderate the Sunday Q&A.
MONOGAMISH Filmmaker Q&A’s After All Screenings.
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.
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