The SUMMER OF 84 filmmakers and select cast members will participate in a Q&A after the 9:55 PM screening at the Royal on Friday, August 10. On Saturday, August 11 the Dead Right Horror Trivia Night Team will host the screening with actor Caleb Emery and Rebekah McKendry of Dead Right with an introduction and post-screening Q&A.
Royal Q&A’s with the Director of SHARP EDGES, a New Documentary Short About Tonya Harding.
SHARP EDGES filmmaker Sandra Luckow will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall after each screening July 9-12.
ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: KIRK MANN: GAIA’S BLESSING at the Royal
Check out ART IN THE ARTHOUSE‘s latest exhibit at the Royal, KIRK MANN: GAIA’S BLESSING. These exquisite photographs are for sale and on display till September, 2018. Stop by our gallery at the theatre, no need to buy a movie ticket to view our art.
About the exhibit
With awe and a reverence for nature, photographer KIRK MANN presents a unique artistic convergence. He envisions beauty, balance, birth, growth, decay, and dissolution as Gaia’s Blessing – where living organisms interact with their natural surroundings to form life-sustaining synergies. At age 19, Mann began to empathize with living beings in a whole new way. His insight enabled him to recognize the kinship of all life: mineral, plant, and animal. With camera in hand, he sought beauty in the early morning light. Determined to capture nature’s essence, his photography became his meditation on creation. Drawn to the spirituality and philosophy of the East, Mann has practiced acupuncture and Chinese medicine for over 20 years.
Additionally, he is a student of yoga, Asian Art, and has studied Chinese Art, and has studied Chinese calligraphy, brush painting, and Sumi-e with Tomi Ito Levin. Mann is also a singer and songwriter who has written and produced five albums, often integrating his photography and videography with his music. Based in Ventura, CA, the artist has exhibited in Ventura, Carpinteria, and Ojai. It’s not uncommon to feel an instant connection, as I did, with the photography of Kirk Mann. His intimate view of nature reminds us of our first explorations of the outdoors, when we appraised the world with fresh eyes and childhood wonder. Gaia’s Blessing invites us to take that journey once again.
-Tish Laemmle, CURATOR
Laemmle Royal
11523 Santa Monica Blvd.
West L.A., CA
BULL DURHAM 30th Anniversary Screening in 35mm with Actor Robert Wuhl In Person on Tuesday, July 10th at the Ahrya Fine Arts
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 30th anniversary screening of Bull Durham (1988), widely considered the best sports movie ever made.
Writer-director Ron Shelton made his directorial debut with this semi-autobiographical baseball tale and romantic comedy, and he garnered an Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay. His screenplay was also judged the year’s best by the New York Film Critics, the Los Angeles Film Critics, and the Writers Guild.
At the time the film’s romantic triangle featured three future Oscar winners: Kevin Costner (Best Director, Dances With Wolves), Susan Sarandon (Best Actress, Dead Man Walking), and Tim Robbins (Best Supporting Actor, Mystic River).
Costner stars as a veteran catcher who is sent to a minor league team in Durham, North Carolina to mentor a rookie pitcher played by Robbins. They both encounter a “baseball groupie” and earth mother (Sarandon), who chooses the best player each year as her romantic partner, also acting as an unconventional muse for the team. This arrangement leads to a romantic rivalry when Sarandon selects Robbins as her lover and both she and Costner attempt to season the immature pitcher for the major leagues.
Writer-director Shelton (White Men Can’t Jump, Tin Cup) drew on his own experience as a baseball player in the minor leagues, and that authenticity impressed both the critics and sports fans. In 2003 Sports Illustrated ranked it the greatest sports movie of all time.
Among the critical acclaim, Vincent Canby in the New York Times wrote of tyro director Shelton, “This is one first-rate debut.” Newsweek’s David Ansen said the film “works equally as a love story, a baseball fable and a comedy while ignoring the clichés of each genre.”
Hal Hinson in the Washington Post found the film “limber, funny and in touch with the pleasures of the flesh as it is with the pleasures of the game.” The film co-stars Trey Wilson and, as the pitching coach, Robert Wuhl, our special guest for this screening.
Robert Wuhl is an actor, comedian and writer who was also featured in two other films by Ron Shelton, Blaze and Cobb. In addition he was the creator and star of the TV series Arli$$, and won two Emmys for writing Oscar shows hosted by Billy Crystal.
The 30th anniversary of Bull Durham will be presented in a special 35mm screening on Tuesday, July 10 at 7:30 PM at the Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills. Co-star Robert Wuhl will participate in a Q&A after the screening. Click here for tickets.
‘Everybody Loves Denzel’ Every Throwback Thursday in July at the NoHo 7!
Every Throwback Thursday in July, we’re celebrating one of the most critically claimed actors of all time, Denzel Washington! We’re calling it ‘Everybody Loves Denzel!’ His latest film, THE EQUALIZER 2, opens July 19th.
Our Throwback Thursday (#TBT) series is presented in partnership with Eat|See|Hear every Thursday at 7:30pm at the NoHo 7 in North Hollywood. Check out the full schedule below. For tickets and our full #TBT schedule, visit laemmle.com/tbt.
July 5: Glory (1989)
Denzel earned his second Academy Award nomination and first win for this role as a soldier in one of the first all-black regiments in the Union Army. Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, and Carey Elwes also star. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.
July 12: Malcolm X (1992)
MALCOLM X is Spike Lee’s biographical epic of the civil rights leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his political awakening in prison, his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam and his reawakening upon visiting Mecca. Denzel was nominated for his third Academy Award, his first for a leading role. The cast includes Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr., and Delroy Lindo. Look for cameos by Nelson Mandela and Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale. Format: Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.
July 19: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
In this American neo-noir set in post-war Los Angeles, Denzel Washington plays Easy Rawlins, a recently laid off veteran who decides to become a private investigator. Hired to find a missing woman, he gets mixed up in a murderous political scandal. Based on the novel by Walter Mosely. Don Cheadle and Jennifer Beals also star. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.
July 26: Training Day (2001)
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie LAPD cop (Ethan Hawke) goes beyond a full work day along side a rogue detective (Denzel Washington). Denzel won the Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of Detective Alonzo Harris, earning his fifth, out of eight, acting nominations. The film also stars Eva Mendes, Scott Glenn, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg. Format: Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.
CALLING ALL EARTHLING Q&A’s and Sound Baths!
All Friday-Sunday, June 29-July 1 CALLING ALL EARTHLING screenings at the Fine Arts and the Sunday, July 1 screenings at the Playhouse will be feature live sound baths. There will be filmmaker Q&A’s after the Friday and Saturday screenings at the Fine Arts and each screening at the Playhouse, NoHo, and Monica Film Center.
| Date | Location | Soundbath? | Q and A? |
| Friday June 29th @ 5PM |
Ahrya Fine Arts
|
Helaine Anderson and Sacral Sounds | no |
| Saturday June 30th @ 7:30PM |
Ahrya Fine Arts
|
Kassia Meador and Farmer Dave | Q and A |
| Sunday July 1 @ 9:55PM |
Ahrya Fine Arts
|
Helane Anderson from Sacral Sounds | |
| Sunday July 1, 11am | Pasadena Playhouse | yes sound bath, TBD | Q and A |
| Sunday July 1, 7:30PM | Pasadena Playhouse | yes sound bath, TBD | Q and A |
| Monday July 2, 7:30PM |
Noho 7
|
no sound bath | Q and A |
| Tuesday July 3, 7:30PM | Monica Film Center Santa Monica | no sound bath | Q and A |
HALF THE PICTURE Q&A’s Friday and Saturday in Santa Monica.
HALF THE PICTURE filmmaker Amy Adrion will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center following the 7:10 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, June 22 and 23. Melissa Goodman of the ACLU will join her for the Friday Q&A and filmmakers Kimberly Peirce (BOYS DON’T CRY), Nisha Ganatra and Tina Mabry (HBO’s “Insecure” and OWN’s “Queen Sugar”) will join her for the Saturday Q&A.
50th Anniversary Screening of OLIVER! with Actress Shani Wallis In Person on July 15 in Beverly Hills
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 50th anniversary screening of the Oscar-winning Best Picture of 1968, OLIVER!, the much-loved film version of Lionel Bart’s hit stage musical.
The movie was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won six, also including Best Director Carol Reed and a special award for choreographer Onna White. Reed, the acclaimed British director of such classic films as The Third Man and The Fallen Idol, had been working since the 1930s and finally received the Academy’s top honor for this late work.
Charles Dickens’ iconic 19th century novel, Oliver Twist, the heart-rending tale of an orphan who falls in with a band of thieves in London, has been filmed many times over the years; the first version was done in the silent era, and David Lean directed a brilliant rendition in 1948, with Alec Guinness as Fagin.
In 1960 Lionel Bart wrote the book, music, and lyrics for a musical theater version of the novel which scored an enormous success in London and later in New York. Ron Moody, who had played the part of Fagin in London, reprised his role for the film version, and the cast also included Shani Wallis as Nancy, Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger, Oliver Reed (the director’s nephew) as the villainous Bill Sikes, Oscar-winner Hugh Griffith as the Magistrate, and charming newcomer Mark Lester as Oliver.
The 1960s was a great decade for movie musicals, with three earlier films—West Side Story, My Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music—scoring Best Picture wins. OLIVER!, however, turned out to be the last musical film to win the Academy’s top award until Chicago took the prize 34 years later. Reed’s film earned outstanding reviews from most critics. Roger Ebert declared, “Sir Carol Reed’s Oliver! is a treasure of a movie.”
Pauline Kael also admired Reed’s achievement: “Oliver! has been made by people who know how; it’s a civilized motion picture, not only emotionally satisfying but so satisfyingly crafted that we can sit back and enjoy what is going on…there’s something restorative about a movie that is made for a mass audience and that respects that audience.”
Kael also had high praise for the performers. “As Nancy,” Kael wrote, “Shani Wallis is an unexpected pleasure—hearty (as Dickens described her), with a tough vitality that brings poignancy to the role.” Wallis got to perform some of Bart’s best songs, including the rousing “It’s A Fine Life” and the romantic ballad, “As Long As He Needs Me.” Wallis has had an extensive career performing in musical theater and in nightclubs, and she also has many credits in British and American television.
Our 50th anniversary screening OLIVER! (1968) plus Q&A with actress Shani Wallis is Sunday, July 15, at 3pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills. Click here for tickets.
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