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Anniversary Classics: February Screenings include LA DOLCE VITA in Santa Monica, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? with George Segal in West LA

February 8, 2016 by Lamb Laemmle 44 Comments

We’re celebrating Oscar season with screenings of two Academy Award powerhouses in our continuing Anniversary Classics Series.

First, we offer a 55th anniversary screening of LA DOLCE VITA, one of the most influential of foreign films, and the recipient of 4 Academy Award nominations in 1961 – Best Director and Original Screenplay for Federico Fellini, Art Direction and Costume Design (an Oscar winner for Piero Gherardi). Fellini’s sardonic take on the decadence of Rome in the 1960s reverberated throughout modern film history, and heavily influenced the 2013 Oscar foreign-language winner THE GREAT BEAUTY. So cruise along the Via Veneto with Marcello Mastroianni, then take a dip in the Trevi Fountain with the voluptuous Anita Ekberg, and see it all at the sleekly elegant, newly re-opened Monica Film Center!

LA DOLCE VITA will screen on Tuesday, February 16 at 7:30 PM at the Monica Film Center in Santa Monica. Tickets on sale now at laemmle.com/ac.

Next, we look back 50 years to celebrate one of the most provocative films in cinema history – WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966). The film adaptation of playwright Edward Albee’s scathing dissection of a marriage was brought to the screen with most of its graphic dialogue intact due to the relaxation of the censorious Production Code in its fading, final gasp. VIRGINIA WOOLF garnered a near-record 13 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for tyro film director Mike Nichols, winning 5 Oscars including Elizabeth Taylor (Best Actress) and Sandy Dennis (Supporting Actress). The rest of the 4 character cast were also nominated: Richard Burton (Best Actor) and our special guest, George Segal (Supporting Actor) who will join us for a Q & A after the screening.

We are also presenting this screening as a tribute to the late Haskell Wexler who died late last year at the age of 93. Wexler won his first Oscar for filming VIRGINIA WOOLF in glorious black and white, an art form endangered by the mid-sixties.

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? with special guest George Segal will screen on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:00 PM at the Royal Theater in West LA. Tickets are on sale now at laemmle.com/ac.

Join the conversation in our Anniversary Classics Facebook Group.

Photo Gallery: The All New Laemmle Monica Film Center

February 3, 2016 by Lamb Laemmle 326 Comments

If you haven’t had a chance to visit our newly opened Monica Film Center, you’re missing out! It looks fantastic and fellow movie nerds have already said it feels like home.

But what’s a movie theater without movies, right? Well, we’re off to a great start on that front as well! The latest Coen brothers film HAIL, CAESAR! opens this Friday. TROUBLEMAKERS: THE STORY OF LAND ART also starts Friday and the film’s director will participate in a Q&A following the 7:20PM show opening night. ANOMALISA, THE LADY IN THE VAN, and THE 2016 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT DOCS will continue through next week. Thursday is the last day to catch the Oscar-nominated foreign films, THEEB and MUSTANG.

We invite you stop by if you’re in the neighborhood, even if you don’t have time to see a movie. Need more convincing? Take a look at these photos!

A rare chance to see all five Oscar-nominated foreign language films before the Academy Awards.

January 20, 2016 by Lamb Laemmle 3 Comments

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.

The nominees are:

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT ~ from Colombia, with its first nomination. We open the film February 26th at the Monica Film Center, Playhouse 7 and Town Center 5 and March 5 as a weekend morning show at the Claremont.

MUSTANG ~ from France, with its 37th nomination, its first since A Prophet in 2009. France hasn’t won this award since Indochine in 1992. Now showing at the Playhouse; opening Friday at the Music Hall and February 5th at the NoHo 7 and Claremont 5.

SON OF SAUL ~ from Hungary, with its ninth nomination in this category. It has won once, in 1981 for Mephisto. It’s now playing at the Playhouse and Town Center and opening January 29th at the Monica Film Center and February 12th at the Claremont 5 and NoHo 7.

THEEB ~ from Jordan, with its first nomination. Opens Friday at the Music Hall with weekend morning shows at the Playhouse and Claremont.

A WAR ~ from Denmark, with its 11th nomination. Denmark has taken this prize three times, including for Babette’s Feast in 1987. We open it February 12th at the Royal, Playhouse and Town Center.

Avail yourself of these terrific films before the Oscar ceremony!

New Year’s Resolution: See More Movies, Spend Less Money

January 13, 2016 by Lamb Laemmle 2 Comments

‘Spend less money’ always ranks high on those annual lists of top resolutions for the New Year. And, no matter how many films we see here in Laemmle-land, ‘see more movies’ always sits atop our list. Using a bit of our own movie magic we’ve combined these seemingly incompatible resolutions and outlined how you can see more movies at Laemmle for less money!

Laemmle Premiere Card
With a Laemmle Premiere Card you receive $2 off movie tickets and 20% off concessions. Plus, every Thursday Premiere Card holders get a free medium popcorn. You can buy a Premiere Card online or at the box office for $100. Use it for all your Laemmle purchases and when it’s running low, reload it for as little as $50. Think of it as buying a gift card for yourself! For more information and the full list of card-holder perks, click here.

Senior Wednesdays
One of our most popular discount programs is Senior Wednesdays. If you’re 62 or over, all tickets before 6PM on Wednesdays are $5. Yes, five dollars. We also offer a Senior Concessions Combo (Small Popcorn & Fountain Drink for $4.50) that’s available ANY TIME.

Student Sundays
Catching a flick may not be an ideal study habit, but you sure can learn a lot from the movies. Students with a current ID can nab $8 tickets and a $1 small popcorn every Sunday for films that start after 6PM.

Frequent Movie-Goer Tickets
Pay only $7.50 per admission when you purchase a block of 20 tickets. Our new Frequent Movie-Goer Tickets are now available at theater box offices and online.

Group Activity Tickets
Many local organizations use our Group Activity tickets to reward their members but there’s nothing keeping you from participating in this amazing deal. Pay only $6 per admission when you buy a block of 100 tickets! Group Activity Tickets can only be purchased online.

To learn more about ALL our discount programs, visit www.laemmle.com/discounts.

Certain restrictions apply. Specific terms are detailed on each program’s web page.

Kenneth Turan in today’s L.A. Times: “John Ford-directed ‘Rio Grande’ to get the big-screen treatment in West Los Angeles”

January 8, 2016 by Lamb Laemmle 279 Comments

If you haven’t been keeping up with our Anniversary Classics Series, you’ve been missing out! Last week’s screening of YOUNG CASSIDY honoring legendary film editor Anne V. Coates was a prime example of how film history lives and breathes. The youthful 90-year old Coates passed on the wisdom of her more than sixty year career (and still going strong!) to an appreciative audience of admirers. More importantly, it demonstrated how vibrant industry veterans can be in our youth obsessed culture and film industry.

Now there’s another chance to celebrate film history and those witness to it with our tribute to the late Maureen O’Hara in our 65th anniversary screening of John Ford’s RIO GRANDE.

In today’s L.A. Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, “John Ford is the acknowledged master of the western, and his Cavalry trilogy one of the highpoints of his career, but “Rio Grande” the third film of the group (after “Fort Apache” and “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”) is not revived as often as the other two.

“Now, in honor of its 65th anniversary, the 1950 film will get a big screen appearance on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Laemmle’s Royal in West Los Angeles, a location that is sure to flatter the picture’s expansive Monument Valley setting. More than that, costar Claude Jarman will make an appearance and participate in a Q&A after the screening.

“Jarman played Trooper Jefferson “Jeff” Yorke, assigned to the command of the father he hardly knows, Lt. Colonel Kirby Yorke, gruff as only John Wayne knew how to be. Adding spice to the story is the appearance of the trooper’s mother and Yorke’s estranged wife, played by Maureen O’Hara in the first of five on-screen pairings with Wayne. Sparks, as they say, will fly.”

Los Angeles Film Critics Association President Stephen Farber will moderate the Q&A with Mr. Jarman.

RIO GRANDE is part of our Anniversary Classics Series. For tickets, details, and more, visit:
www.laemmle.com/ac.

Anniversary Classics – 2015 Wrap-up, John Ford’s YOUNG CASSIDY to Kickoff 2016

December 21, 2015 by Lamb Laemmle 121 Comments

Our Anniversary Classics Series closed out 2015 in grand fashion with a sold out 35th anniversary screening of SOMEWHERE IN TIME at the Royal on 12/15. This romantic fantasy cast its spell once again to an appreciative crowd, many of whom had not seen their favorite on the big screen since its original opening in 1980. Through the years it has developed a cult following and after viewing again last night its easy to see why.

Jane Seymour with Michael McClellan and Stephen Farber at the 35th anniversary screening of SOMEWHERE IN TIME.

The film’s co-star Jane Seymour and director Jeannot Szwarc entertained the audience with remembrances about making the film and even a few heretofore unknown secrets. Some fans came dressed in period costumes so altogether it was quite a memorable evening!

We will have many more memorable screenings in 2016, and to start the new year off we feature the 50th anniversary of John Ford’s YOUNG CASSIDY, starring Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith and Julie Christie. Our special guest is the film’s Oscar-winning editor, Anne V. Coates, the recipient this year of a lifetime achievement award by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. This screening takes place on January 6, 2016 at 7:00 pm at the Royal in West LA.

More about this and other Anniversary Classics events for 2016 very soon. For the latest updates visit www.laemmle.com/ac or join our Facebook group! Happy Holidays!

In 45 YEARS, Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay give a master class in screen acting.

December 9, 2015 by Lamb Laemmle 1 Comment

On December 23rd we’ll be opening one of the most acclaimed films of the season, 45 Years, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. The veteran actors were both awarded Silver Bears for Best Actor and Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year and this month the Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted to name Ms. Rampling Best Actress of the Year. The film was directed by a relative newcomer, Briton Andrew Haigh, whose perfectly realized 2011 romance Weekend played to great acclaim all over the world. His follow-up feature is 45 Years, a moving, profound and superbly performed look at a marriage and its secrets. The story opens one week prior to Kate Mercer’s (Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband (Courtenay). The body of his long-lost first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

In Time Out London Dave Calhoun wrote, “It’s a film of small moments and tiny gestures that leaves a very, very big impression.” In the New York Post Lou Lumenick mused that “Rampling has never received an Oscar nomination, but she deserves one for this performance. Courtenay, who has two Oscar nods under his belt, rates another one for helping Rampling reach this peak.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg5cpiX18TA

45 Years – Official Trailer I HD I IFC Films (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg5cpiX18TA)

We are thrilled to open 45 Years on December 23rd at the Royal and New Year’s Day at the Playhouse 7 and Town Center 5.

See the Films on the 2016 Oscar Documentary Shortlist at Laemmle and Online

December 9, 2015 by Lamb Laemmle Leave a Comment

The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced January 14th but Oscar completionists can get a head start on the Documentary Features category thanks to the Academy’s 15-film shortlist and Laemmle Theaters.

The Academy’s Documentary Branch narrowed the field to 15 from 124 submissions. While we’ve already screened many films, seven will play as morning shows over the next few weeks. Check out the schedule below.