WALKING THE CAMINO producer/Pilgrim Annie O’Neil will participate in Q&A’s after the 11 AM screenings at the Playhouse Saturday and Sunday, November 29 and 30.
by Lamb L.
WALKING THE CAMINO producer/Pilgrim Annie O’Neil will participate in Q&A’s after the 11 AM screenings at the Playhouse Saturday and Sunday, November 29 and 30.
by Lamb L.
Winner of the Audience Award at the international film festival “Kino Pavasaris” in Vilnius 2014, THE INVISIBLE FRONT is the story of one of the 20th centuries most significant anti-Soviet resistance movements, told through the words and experiences of Juozas Luksa and his fellow Forest Brothers. Their war was completely unknown to the public in the West. The Soviet Security forces, fighting against them, dubbed the conflict “The Invisible Front.”
THE INVISIBLE FRONT filmmakers Vincas Sruoginis, Jonas Ohman, and Mark Johnston will participate in Q&A’s after the 7 PM screenings at the Music Hall on Friday and Saturday, November 21 and 22.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUfIuzZLDGk
by Lamb L.
Many U.S. arthouse moviegoers were wowed last year when they were introduced to Toni Servillo, one of Italy’s finest actors, in The Great Beauty. The film went on to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Next Friday the 28th we are excited to open Mr. Servillo’s latest film to make the journey from overseas, VIVA LA LIBERTA. Servillo plays Enrico Oliveri, a politician who realizes that the decline of his party is inevitable and decides to disappear, fleeing to Paris to find peace in the home of his ex-girlfriend Danielle (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) while creating a panic within the party. His top aide and his wife decide to contact his twin brother, a genius philosopher suffering from bi-polar disorder and living in a psychiatric institution. The three of them concoct a dangerous plan.
We will open VIVA LA LIBERTA at the Royal, Playhouse and Town Center on Friday, November 21.
by Lamb L.
by Lamb L.
The documentary SHADOWS FROM MY PAST, which we open this Friday at the Town Center 5, juxtaposes interviews of prominent contemporary Austrians grappling with their nation’s complicity in the Holocaust with desperate letters written by filmmaker Gita Kaufman’s Jewish family from Vienna, 1939 – 1941, begging to save their children. Both the interviews and the letters reverberate to today.
SHADOWS FROM MY PAST co-director Gita Kaufman will participate in Q&A’s after the 8 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday and the 1 PM and 3:20 PM screenings on Sunday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJetDlcLUxk
by Lamb L.
This weekend we open FOOD CHAINS, a new feature documentary that exposes the abuse of farm workers within the United States and the complicity of the multi-billion dollar supermarket and fast food industries. There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farm workers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States.
The FOOD CHAINS filmmakers are planning a number of events around the screenings at the Playhouse 7:
November 21st
5:20PM – TENTATIVE PANEL – details tbd
7:30PM – PANEL:
Thomas Saenz (MALDEF)
Lupe Gonzalo (CIW),
Elena Stein (CIW)
November 22nd
5:20PM – PANEL:
David Damien Figueroa (MALDEF, Executive Producer of Food Chains),
Jon Esformes (Operating Partner of Pacific Tomato Growers featured in Food Chains)
7:30PM – PANEL:
Lupe Gonzalo (CIW),
Elena Stein (CIW); UNCONFIRMED PANELIST: Melody and Bobby Kennedy Jr
(After 5:20 screening there will be Wine Happy Hour at Whole Foods Pasadena).
November 23rd
1:00PM – PANEL:
Joann Lo (Food Chains Worker Alliance),
Lupe Gonzalo (CIW),
Elena Stein (CIW)
7:30 PM – TENTATIVE PANEL – details tbd
by Lamb L.
In 2011, music legend Glen Campbell set out on an unprecedented tour across America. He thought it would last five weeks. Instead it went for 151 spectacular sold-out shows over a triumphant year and a half. What made this tour extraordinary was that Glen had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. He was told to hang up his guitar and prepare for the inevitable. Instead, Glen and his wife went public with his diagnosis and announced that he and his family would set out on a “Goodbye Tour.”
GLEN CAMPBELL…I’LL BE ME director James Keach, producer Trevor Albert, executive producer Susan Lord Disney and CEO of Alzheimer’s Association Susan Galeas will introduce and participate in a Q&A following the 7:20 pm screening.
by Lamb L.
In the new thriller AS NIGHT COMES, troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called ‘The Misfits,’ whose charismatic leader, Ricky, takes him under his wing. But as Sean becomes more and more entangled in the gang’s anarchist ways, things begin to spiral out of control, and Sean realizes Ricky is a ticking time bomb on a rampage of revenge. On the eve of Halloween, as night comes, everything explodes…
AS NIGHT COMES producer/co-writer/director Richard Zelniker, co-producer/actor Jesse Kove and cast members Luke Baines (playing Ricky), Myko Oliver (playing Sean), Evanne Friedmann (playing Sarah) will participate in a Q&A at the Music Hall after the 4:40 screening on Saturday, November 15.