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It’s Time for Our Annual Predict the Oscars Contest!

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It's Time for Our Annual Predict the Oscars Contest!With the 91st Academy Awards right around the corner, it’s time for our annual Predict the Oscars Contest! The person who most accurately predicts the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s choices in all 24 categories, from the shorts to Best Picture, will win fabulous prizes (free movies and concessions at Laemmle)!

First place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $150. Second place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $100. Third place wins a Laemmle Premiere Card worth $50. Entries are due by 10AM the morning of the awards ceremony on February 24th.

prem-blogNot sure what a Laemmle Premiere Card is? Think of it like a prepaid gift card for yourself! Use it to pay for movie tickets and concessions. Plus, Premiere Card holders receive $3 off movie tickets and 20% off concessions. To find out more, visit www.laemmle.com/premiere-cards.

We’ve got some smart cookies for customers so we have a tie-breaker question: you also have to guess the show’s running time. Take the tie-breaker seriously! In 2016, the running time question broke a tie between five entrants who correctly predicted 19 out of 24 categories!

We’ll announce the winners right here on our blog by February 26th. Good luck!

*One entry per person. One winner per household.

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LAEMMLE LIVE presents Samohi Chamber Orchestra and Rich Capparela February 24

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LAEMMLE LIVE presents Samohi Chamber Orchestra and Rich Capparela February 24

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LAEMMLE LIVE is delighted to welcome back the talented musicians of the Samohi Chamber Orchestra. Repertoire will include Der Tod Und Das Mädehen (Death and the Maiden) by Franz Schubert, arranged for string Orchestra by Gustav Mahler and Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra with Piano Obbligato by Ernest Bloch. Joni Swenson and Jason Aiello, Directors. Guest Host, KUSC Radio Announcer Rich Capparela.

Samohi has a long tradition of musical excellence. Several factors contribute to the strength of the Samoni music program including strong elementary and middle school programs, a supportive community, an outstanding music faculty and fine arts coordinator, enthusiastic administrative support, and most important, dedicated parents and students. The Samohi orchestra program offers opportunities to all musicians, ranging from entry to advanced levels. Courses offered are the Beginning Orchestra, String Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra. Students receive one hour per week of sectional small group instruction taught by paid coaches funded by the Samohi Orchestra Parents Association.

Sunday, February 24, 2019
Monica Film Center
1332 Second Street
Santa Monica, CA
11am – 12pm

LAEMMLE LIVE presents Samohi Chamber Orchestra and Rich Capparela February 24

 

 

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: Francisco Alvarado: Underpinnings of a Digital Landscape

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ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: Francisco Alvarado: Underpinnings of a Digital LandscapeCheck out our brand spanking new art show in Santa Monica! Laemmle’s Art in the Arthouse proudly presents Francisco Alvarado: Underpinnings of a Digital Landscape. The show will run at the Monica Film Center till May, 2019. Sales benefit the Laemmle Foundation and its support of humanitarian and environmental causes in Los Angeles.

About the Exhibit
Ecuadorian artist FRANCISCO ALVARADO creates landscapes, foliage and gardens of flat color cut-outs. Raised near fields of beautiful South American farmland, butted against cooled lava pits, the artist recalls his childhood with paint and renders them with joy and animated vision. Alvarado alchemizes both his achievements and his losses through imagery, setting them in a visual forest of filled with intrigue and mystery. His works were painted, photographed, digitized, and reworked, creating fluid landscapes that alternate between internal and external compositions.

Alvarado moved to California in 1969 and began to follow the artwork of PETER MAX. The artist was also greatly influenced by his Ecuadorian roots, his service in the military, the artistry of Chilean painter ROBERTO MATTA and the intricate articulations of Viennese artist FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER. Inspired by the emergence of Apple Computers, Alvarado enrolled at Long Beach State to study engineering. He threw himself into a brave new world of coding and digital imaging, ultimately leading to artistic experimentation with mixed media and a process aided by technology. The artist currently lives and works in Monrovia, California.

   – Joshua Elias, CURATOR

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: Francisco Alvarado: Underpinnings of a Digital Landscape

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: Francisco Alvarado: Underpinnings of a Digital Landscape

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: Francisco Alvarado: Underpinnings of a Digital Landscape

Happy New Year! See the Shortlisted Foreign Films at Laemmle Theatres!

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And then there were nine. Eighty-seven nations submitted one film each to compete for the 2019 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and last month the Academy announced its shortlist. Cinephiles can now or very soon see all but one of these extraordinary movies, which tell stories of Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and Asia, on a Laemmle screen:

Birds of Passage (Colombia), dirs.: Cristina Gallego/Ciro Guerra
The Guilty (Denmark), dir: Gustav Moller
Never Look Away (Germany), dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Shoplifters (Japan), dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda
Ayka (Kazakhstan), dir: Sergei Dvortsevoy (this one is still looking for a U.S. distributor)
Capernaum (Lebanon), dir: Nadine Labaki
Roma (Mexico), dir: Alfonso Cuaron
Cold War (Poland), dir: Pawel Pawlikowski
Burning (Korea), dir: Lee Chang-dong

Happy New Year! See the Shortlisted Foreign Films at Laemmle Theatres!The Academy will announce the final five nominees on January 22. Read Nancy Tartaglione’s Deadline Hollywood post about the shortlist, including a couple surprising omissions, here.

Are there any 2018 films you think should have made the cut? Or do you think AMPAS did well?

Q&A’s with Anna Zamecka, Oscar Shortlisted Filmmaker of COMMUNION.

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COMMUNION filmmaker Anna Zamecka will participate in Q&A’s at the Fine Arts on January 3 (after the 7:30 PM show); at the Laemmle Glendale on January 4 (following 3:00 PM and 7:30 PM shows); and at the Monica Film Center on January 5 (following 11:00 AM show).

Sean Penn and the International Documentary Association’s Claire Aguilar will co-host the January 3rd screening at the Fine Arts.

Oscars Spotlight: Documentaries

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Whether they expose, enlighten, or simply entertain, we love seeing documentaries on the big screen. That’s why we’re delighted to team with the Academy on a special program that kicks off the new year: OSCARS SPOTLIGHT: DOCUMENTARIES, an opportunity to see all of the vital and compelling films on the Academy’s nominations shortlist at our Santa Monica and Pasadena theaters.  All Q&A’s will be at the Santa Monica location unless otherwise noted. There may be additional Q&A’s so stay tuned.

Date Title
Thursday, 1/03 at 7pm FREE SOLO
Saturday, 1/05 at 11am COMMUNION Q&A with director Anna Zamecka
Sunday, 1/06 at 11am OF FATHERS & SONS Q&A with director Talal Derki
Tuesday, 1/08 at 7pm THE SILENCE OF OTHERS Q&A with director Robert Bahar
Wednesday, 1/09 at 7pm DARK MONEY Q&A with composer Miriam Cutler
Thursday, 1/10 at 7pm CHARM CITY co-producer Meryam Bouadjemi
Saturday, 1/12 at 11am HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING
Sunday, 1/13 at 11am ON HER SHOULDERS
Monday, 1/14 at 7pm DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS
Tuesday, 1/15 at 7pm SHIRKERS
Wednesday 1/16 at 7pm CRIME + PUNISHMENT
Thursday, 1/17 at 7pm MINDING THE GAP Q&A with director Bing Liu in Pasadena
Saturday, 1/19 at 11am WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR
Sunday, 1/20 at 11am RBG
Monday, 1/21 at 11am THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLNmwSm2gQ