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Massive Airfare Savings: Tour Special Exhibits by the World’s Great Museums at Your Local Movie Theater

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Our Culture Vulture screening series features opera and ballet from the great houses of Europe and Shakespeare productions from the Globe in London and, beginning this Monday and Tuesday, our first art exhibit. For the very first time, Ultra HD 4K film cameras have been allowed inside the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel, bringing never-before-seen art to your local Laemmle just in time for the holiday season. THE VATICAN MUSEUMS is a mega-production by a team of 40 professionals who traveled hundreds of miles in the cultural setting of the Vatican Museums while filming some of the most rare and precious works of art in the world, spanning all civilizations and epochs. Screenings are at all Laemmle venues this Monday at 7:30 PM and Tuesday at 1 PM. Other exhibits coming up on our Culture Vulture schedule include THE HERMITAGE REVEALED from Saint Petersburg on January 26 and 27; POMPEII from the British Museum on February 16 and 17; and VIKINGS: LIFE & LEGEND March 9 and 10.

http://vimeo.com/106387845

Massive Airfare Savings: Tour Special Exhibits by the World's Great Museums at Your Local Movie Theater
The Discobolus of Myron

MONK WITH A CAMERA Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the Royal

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MONK WITH A CAMERA chronicles the life and spiritual quest of Nicholas (Nicky) Vreeland, who for the past twenty-eight years has been a Tibetan Buddhist monk. The son of a United States Ambassador, grandson of legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland, and a photographer by trade, Nicky left his privileged life behind to follow his true calling. He moved to India, cutting his ties with society, photography, and his pleasure-filled world, to live in a monastery with no running water or electricity.

MONK WITH A CAMERA filmmakers Tina Mascara and Guido Santi will participate in Q&A’s at the Royal after the 2:55, 5:20 and 7:45 PM screenings Friday through Sunday, December 12-14. The film’s subject, Nicky Vreeland, will join them for the Friday screenings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07LL-r-Sqzk

 

AFTERMATH Q&A’s at the Town Center with Anthony Michael Hall and Elisabeth Röhm

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AFTERMATH Q&A's at the Town Center with Anthony Michael Hall and Elisabeth Röhm
Anthony Michael Hall

AFTERMATH stars Anthony Michael Hall and Elisabeth Röhm, filmmaker Thomas Farone, producer/co-writer Sean Boyle, executive producer Jonathan Brandstein, associate producer Michalina Scorzelli, and composer David Kitay will participate in Q&A’s at the Town Center after the 3 and 7:40 PM screenings on opening day, Friday, December 5.

Anthony Michael Hall plays the owner of a profitable construction company whose perfect life is interrupted when a charismatic ex-convict Tony Bricker (Chris Penn) is fired and his foreman (Jamie Harrold) goes missing.

http://vimeo.com/111799054

THE INVISIBLE FRONT Q&A’s this Weekend at the Music Hall

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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

 

Italy’s Great Toni Servillo Returns to U.S. Screens in VIVA LA LIBERTA

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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.

http://www.vimeo.com/106627472
Italy's Great Toni Servillo Returns to U.S. Screens in VIVA LA LIBERTA
Toni Servillo

BRAHMIN BULLS Q&A’s this Weekend at the Playhouse

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In BRAHMIN BULLS, when Ashok makes a surprise trip to L.A. to visit his estranged son, the two begin a journey to mend their relationship until Sid discovers that his father has actually come in search of an old flame.  Starring Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes, Beauty and the Beast), Roshan Seth (Gandhi), Academy Award winner Mary Steenburgen (The Help), Justin Bartha (The Hangover), and Academy Award nominated Michael Lerner (Barton Fink), BRAHMIN BULLS is a heartfelt and humorous look at the ever-evolving relationship between a father and son, the women in their lives, and the powerful secrets they keep.
The BRAHMIN BULLS filmmakers will participate in Q&A’s all weekend at the Playhouse: they will answer audience member’s questions after the 11/21, 22, and 23 7 PM screenings, as well as after the 1:20 PM show on Sunday the 23rd.
11/21 – Cassidy Freeman (actor), Mahesh Pailoor (director), Anu Pradhan (co-writer), Yoshi Tsuji (producer);
11/22 – Presented by Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Gingger Shankar (Composer), Mahesh Pailoor (director), Anu Pradhan (co-writer);
11/23 (1:20 PM) – Mahesh Pailoor (director), Anu Pradhan (co-writer);
11/23 (7 PM) – Presented by the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles, Mahesh Pailoor (director), Anu Pradhan (co-writer).