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AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA Q&A’s this Weekend at the Royal

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AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA is an unconventional biography about the Hindu Swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s. Paramahansa Yogananda authored the spiritual classic “Autobiography of a Yogi,” which has sold millions of copies worldwide and is a go-to book for seekers, philosophers and yoga enthusiasts today. By personalizing his own quest for enlightenment and sharing his struggles along the path, Yogananda made ancient Vedic teachings accessible to a modern audience.

AWAKE: THE LIFE OF YOGANANDA co-director Lisa Leeman will be at the Royal this weekend to participate in Q&A’s after the Saturday and Sunday morning screenings. AWAKE co-director Paola di Florio and producer Peter Rader will participate in a Q&A after the 3:10 PM showing at the Playhouse 7 on Saturday, 10/18.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdnrP1fMn7I&feature=youtu.be

WATCHERS OF THE SKY Producer Q&A’s this Weekend at the Royal and Tuesday at the Town Center

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WATCHERS OF THE SKY producer Amelia Green-Dove will participate in Q&A’s at the Royal after the 7 PM screenings on Saturday, October 18 and Monday, October 20, and after the 1 and 4 PM screenings on Sunday, October 19. She’ll do the same after the 7 PM screening at the Town Center 5 in Encino on Tuesday, October 21.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfsL61TZsio

E-TEAM Filmmakers in Person at the Royal

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E-TEAM follows the high-stakes work of four fiercely intrepid human rights investigators who are the first on the ground in war torn countries like Syria and Libya to record and expose human rights violations in the midst of devastating wars.

E-TEAM filmmakers Ross Kauffman and Katie Chevigny will participate in Q&A’s at the Royal after the 7:45 screenings on Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25. On Friday they will be joined by two of the film’s subjects, Anna and Ole.

http://www.vimeo.com/106452628
E-TEAM Filmmakers in Person at the Royal
Ross Kauffman
E-TEAM Filmmakers in Person at the Royal
Katy Chevigny

PELICAN DREAMS Q&A’s at the Royal and Playhouse with Filmmaker Judy Irving

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What’s it like to try to get to know a flying dinosaur? In PELICAN DREAMS, Sundance and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (“The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”) follows a wayward California brown pelican from her “arrest” on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a wildlife rehabilitation facility, and from there explores pelicans’ nesting grounds, Pacific coast migration, and survival challenges. Ms. Irving will attend several screenings on opening weekend to do Q&A’s: after the 7:30 PM screening Friday, November 7 at the Royal and after the 5:30 show Saturday, November 8 at the Playhouse.

http://vimeo.com/102655510
PELICAN DREAMS Q&A's at the Royal and Playhouse with Filmmaker Judy Irving
PELICAN DREAMS filmmaker Judy Irving

Pillar of the French New Wave, Long Unavailable for Exhibition in the U.S., HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR is Spectacularly Restored

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HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR is the late Alain Resnais’ seminal debut film. A pillar of the French New Wave, long unavailable for exhibition in the United States due to rights issues, HIROSHIMA has been spectacularly restored. We open the film on October 17 at the Royal, Playhouse and Town Center.

Employing a radical use of voice-over narration and quickly-flashbacked scenes, the film tells the story of a brief relationship in post-war Japan between a French actress, played by Oscar nominee Emmanuelle Riva (Amour), and a Japanese architect, played by Eiji Okada (Woman in the Dunes). The Oscar-nominated screenplay was written by Marguerite Duras, who in novels like The Lover, often dealt with European/Asian relationships. Twenty fourteen marks Duras’ centennial. Don’t miss this very special chance to see this gem of world cinema as it was meant to seen, in a dark room, on a big screen, with an audience!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLts830aLlw
Pillar of the French New Wave, Long Unavailable for Exhibition in the U.S., HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR is Spectacularly Restored
Emmanuelle Riva

WAITING FOR AUGUST Filmmaker Teodora Ana Mihai at the Royal Opening Weekend

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Teodora Ana Mihai, the filmmaker of the wonderful new documentary WAITING FOR AUGUST, will participate in Q&A’s at the Royal after the 7:50 PM screening on Friday, October 3 and after the 5:30 PM screening on Saturday, October 4.

http://vimeo.com/88946425
WAITING FOR AUGUST Filmmaker Teodora Ana Mihai at the Royal Opening Weekend
Teodora Ana Mihai; photo by Miguel Bueno

Interview: “Viggo Mortensen on THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY, LOTR and What His Movies Teach Him”

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On Sunday the Newark Star-Ledger published a very good piece by film critic Stephen Whitty about actor Viggo Mortensen and his excellent new thriller THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY. It provides a glimpse into his unusual history and thoughts on acting, including what he likes about his latest role: “What’s great about this kind of story, it leaves a lot of questions unanswered. It provokes conjectures about meaning and motivation. It’s always great as an actor to play someone with a secret, but here you have secrets inside secrets… all the characters are lying to some degree, at least to themselves, and that makes for some very interesting roles.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPKvfxN-3UI
Interview: "Viggo Mortensen on THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY, LOTR and What His Movies Teach Him"
Viggo Mortensen and director Hossein Amini on the set of THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

PUMP Q&A’s at the Royal this Weekend

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PUMP, a galvanizing new doc about alternative energy, opens this weekend at the Royal. The producers will be at the Royal for Q&A’s after the 5:40 and 8 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, September 19 and 20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HFqAbOgns

PUMP Q&A's at the Royal this Weekend