WILLIAM director Tim Disney will participate in a Q&A following the 7:10 pm show on Saturday, 4/13 .
THE LAST Q&A’s Opening Weekend with Cast & Crew at the Royal and Town Center.
THE LAST writer/director Jeffrey Lipsky and star Rebecca Schull will participate in Q&A’s following the 4 pm and 7:10 pm shows on Friday, 4/26 at the Royal and after the 4 pm and 7 pm shows on Saturday, 4/27 at the Town Center.
French Farce THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB April 17th in Encino, Pasadena, and West LA
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present screenings of the raucous comedy, THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB, on the 45th anniversary of its US release as part of the popular monthly Abroad program. The French farce, directed by Gerard Oury, will screen April 17 at three Laemmle venues: Royal, Town Center, and Playhouse.
This madcap movie draws upon time-honored comedy tropes of frantic disguises and mistaken identities. The story, written by Oury, Daniele Thomsom, Josy Eisenberg, and Roberto de Leonardis, involves the return of beloved Rabbi Jacob (Marcel Dalio) from the United States after thirty years to his hometown in France. He is waylaid at the Paris airport by a bigoted French businessman, Victor Pivert (Louis de Funes) and an Arab rebel leader fleeing the police and assassins. Pivert and the Arab then impersonate Rabbi Jacob and his companion in their escape. Other characters, including Pivert’s daughter (Miou-Miou), jealous wife , and Jewish driver, join the pursuit in a hodgepodge of plot twists and slapstick shenanigans culminating in a chaotic, fun climax.
The movie is a showcase for Louis de Funes, a popular French comic actor of the era, who topped French moviegoing polls several times in the 60s and 70s. With his high-energy acting style and wide range of facial expressions and tics, he was known in Europe as “the man with forty faces per minute,” but remains relatively unknown to American audiences. Filmmaker Gerard Oury, who had a long career in France, co-wrote a film there in 1958 that Barbra Streisand later adapted as the basis for her 1996 movie, The Mirror Has Two Faces.
Leonard Maltin found THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB to be “Often quite funny, with echoes of silent-screen humor.” The National Board of Review proclaimed it, “The funniest picture of the year,” with kudos to Louis de Funes as “in a class with Woody Allen. The best slapstick in years.” The Hollywood Foreign Press endorsed the acclaim with a Golden Globe nomination that year for Best Foreign Film.
THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB screens on Wednesday, April 17 at 7pm in Encino, Pasadena, and West LA. Click here for tickets.
WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY? Roberta Grossman in Person for Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) at the Town Center.
WHO WILL WRITE OUR HISTORY? director Roberta Grossman will participate in a Q&A following the 1pm show on Thursday, 5/2.
ROLL RED ROLL Panel Discussions Opening Weekend at the Monica Film Center. Details below.
ROLL RED ROLL panel discussions:
FRIDAY 4/5 7:40pm: Bold Voices Disrupting Rape Culture
Join Director Nancy Schwartzman in a conversation with Carmen Rios, digital editor of Ms. Magazine, co-founder of Argot Magazine.
SATURDAY 4/6 5:30pm: Beyond True-Crime: Composing Music for Complex Stories
A conversation with Director, Nancy Schwartzman, film composer Nima Fakhrara (Resident Evil Biohazard), and musician Morgan Kibby (White Sea, Women of the Sun) who wrote the original song Master of Myself for Roll Red Roll.
SUNDAY 4/7 5:30pm: Could Sex-Education Have Saved Steubenville?
A conversation with Director, Nancy Schwartzman; Dr. Caroline Heldman, intersectional feminist, and Professor at Occidental; with moderator Heidi N. Moore, journalist, formerly of the Guardian and Wall Street Journal.
CANCELLED_BACK FORK Q&A with Cast & Crew Opening Day at the Music Hall._CANCELLED
BACK FORK Q&A with filmmaker/star Josh Stewart (‘The Punisher,’ The Mustang) and producers Robert and Jeffrey Tinnell following the 4:30 pm show on Friday, 4/5. –THIS Q&A IS CANCELLED–
CHAPERONE Q&A with star Elizabeth McGovern Opening Day at the Royal.
CHAPERONE star Elizabeth McGovern will participate in a Q&A following the 4:30 pm show and intro the 7:10 pm show on Friday, 4/5. Jenelle Riley from Variety will moderate the Q&A.
LAEMMLE LIVE presents Cellist Armen Ksajikian with Host Rich Capparela in Santa Monica
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LAEMMLE LIVE presents cellist Armen Ksajikian in a solo recital with music by composer/friends. Rich Capparela returns to host this robust program which includes pieces by Sulkhan Tsintsadzè, J.S. Bach, Alan Hovhaness, James Horner, Haim Shtrum, Gabrielle Rosse Owens, Leslie La Barre, Peter Schickele and more.
Admired as much for his artistry and his sense of humor, Armen Ksajikian joined Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as Associate Principal cello in the 2001-02 season. He is also Associate Principal cello of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. He started out his professional career at age 12 with the Abkhazian State Philharmonic in the former Soviet Union. Since 1976, Armen has been very active in LA’s musical life, working with such notables as Heifetz, Rostropovich, Van Cliburn, Pavarotti, Rosza, Giulini, Baryshnikov, Cage, Mancini, Corea, Dudamel, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Randy Newman, Zubin Mehta and James Cameron, and with groups such as the Eagles, Incubus, System Of Down, and with the Duke Ellington, Dancing with the Stars and Academy Awards orchestras.
Armen has appeared as a soloist with the Nacional Orchestre du Brazil, Pacific Symphony, and Hollywood Bowl and Los Angeles Chamber orchestras, and regularly subs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is a member of several ensembles including The Catgut Trio, The Rio Trio, California String Quartet and the award-winning Armadillo String Quartet, with whom he performed Haydn’s complete string quartets in a 34 ½ hour marathon. He made his Carnegie Hall debut premiering a quartet by PDQ Bach in 1999 and has appeared in the Cabrillo, Colorado, Banff, Sitka Summer, Oregon Bach, High Desert, Park City and Venice Film festivals; the Rio International Cello Encounter and Jasper Festival of Music and Wine.
In 1993, Armen made his ‘limousine-driving” debut in James Cameron’s True Lies with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis and played his own death scene in the movie. Also a busy recording musician – he has over 1,100 movies to his credit. Armen’s performances in less conventional venues include 16-day whitewater tours down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, “concerts for grizzlies” inside a clarifier tank of an old pulp mill in Sitka, Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro and at Neverland Ranch. He is particularly proud to have soloed with the Hiland Mountain Women’s String Orchestra at the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center.
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Sunday, April 14, 2019
Monica Film Center
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica
11am – 12 pm
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