The TOMORROW EVER AFTER director and cast — Ela Thier, Nabil Viñas, Memo, and Matthew Murumba — will attend and participate in Q&A’s after the 7:30 PM screenings at the Music Hall on Wednesday and Thursday, May 10 and 11.
Q&A’s with the Filmmaker of ANGKOR AWAKENS: A PORTRAIT OF CAMBODIA May 12 and 13 in Santa Monica.
ANGKOR AWAKENS director Robert H. Lieberman will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center after the 7:40 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, May 12th and 13th, as well as after the 3 o’clock show on Saturday the 13th.
55th Anniversary Screenings of DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE May 17th in Encino, Pasadena, and West LA
Laemmle Theatres and Anniversary Classics Abroad present a 55th anniversary screening of Pietro Germi’s Divorce Italian Style on Wednesday, May 17 at 7:00PM at the Royal, Town Center, and Playhouse 7. Click here for tickets.
The acclaimed satiric comedy and Oscar winner (Best Original Screenplay) stars Marcello Mastroianni as an impoverished, bored Sicilian aristocrat who hatches an elaborate scheme to murder his wife after inveigling her into an adulterous affair.
According to Italian custom, he would be justified in killing her, by defending his “honor,” (divorce being forbidden in Italy). Conveniently he would be then free to marry his young, beautiful cousin, who seems to return his affections, right up to the film’s final, wicked shot.
Director Germi, who co-wrote the slyly clever script with Ennio De Concini and Alfredo Gianetti, had a background in neorealist Italian dramas, and that would serve him well in his sendup of the Catholic country’s cultural habits and social mores.
Mastroianni’s voiceover narration offers wry commentary on those traditions, effectively skewered by Germi. Bosley Crowther in the New York Times called it “a dandy, satiric farce” and Time lauded Germi for “something wildly, wickedly, wonderfully funny. He has applied a cunning hotfoot to the world’s biggest boot.”
And director Martin Scorsese, who is of Sicilian ancestry, said, “Every detail in Divorce Italian Style is so truthful and right that all Germi had to do was to heighten everything a bit to make it funny.”
The film was a box office smash, breaking out of the art houses into general release, and garnered three Academy Award nominations: Best Director (Germi), Best Actor (Mastroianni) and Best Original Screenplay. It was the first time in Academy history that a foreign-language film was recognized in those top three categories, and the first-ever Oscar awarded to a foreign-language feature for writing. The film also helped elevate Mastroianni to international stardom, cementing his reputation as one of the era’s finest actors.
This screening is the latest installment of our Anniversary Classics Abroad series, presented the third Wednesday of each month. Our subsequent attraction will be Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night on June 21.
LAEMMLE LIVE: presents SOL-LA / Orff Music Workshop with Jamie Lee Curtis
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Join us at the Monica Film Center on Sunday, May 21, 2017 for Laemmle Live presents: SOL-LA / Orff Music Workshop with Jamie Lee Curtis. The celebrated actress and best-selling author will kick-off the workshop by reading her delightful new book, THIS IS ME: A Story of Who We Are and Where We Came From.
Through games and activities, SOL-LA Music Academy teaching artists Mary Ann Cummins and Jan Kravets will explore the fundamentals of music using the Orff Method. Orff Schulwerk is an internationally acclaimed developmental approach to music education that engages mind, body, music, movement, drama and speech. Through the Orff philosophy, children learn the language of music as instinctively as they learn their own native tongue.
Jamie Lee Curtis is an actress and an author. She has appeared in many acclaimed films such as Halloween, True Lies, Freaky Friday and A Fish Called Wanda. She has appeared on television in Anything But Love, The Golden Globes,The Heidi Chronicles and Nicholas’ Gift, NCIS, and New Girl. She is an Emmy Nominee, BAFTA winner, Golden Globe Best Actress,Golden Globe Best Supporting Actress and currently stars in Ryan Murphy’s Scream Queens on FOX, earning her a seventh Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy.
Jamie is the author of 12 Bestselling Children’s Books. THIS IS ME: A Story Of Who We Are And Where We Came From was published this year by Workman Publishing. She is a recovering alcoholic/addict and is an advocate for children and has proudly served on the Boards of CASA and CHLA. Jamie is married to Christopher Guest and they have two adult children, Annie and Tom.
EVENT DETAILS
Sunday, May 21, 2017
11:00 AM
Monica Film Center
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Oscar Winner Laura Poitras in Person for a Q&A with Her New Film RISK
RISK director Laura Poitras will participate in a Q&A moderated by filmmaker Amy Ziering (The Invisible War) at the Monica Film Center after the 5 PM show on Saturday, May 6. Unfortunately, the Sunday Q&A session is cancelled.
CITIZEN JANE, Acclaimed Documentary about Jane Jacobs, Q&A’s this Weekend in Pasadena and Beverly Hills.
CITIZEN JANE director Matt Tyrnauer will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:20 screening at the Playhouse on Friday, May 5 and after the 4:50 show at the Music Hall on Saturday, May 6.
BUSTER’S MAL HEART Director Sarah Adams and Actor DJ Qualls Q&A Opening Night at the Monicas.
BUSTER’S MAL HEART director Sarah Adams and actor DJ Qualls will participate in a Q&A at the Monica Film Center after the 7:10 PM show on Friday, May 5.
BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY Q&A this Weekend at the NoHo.
BANG! THE BERT BERNS STORY producer/son of Bert Berns Brett Berns; co-director Bob Sarles; singer-songwriter Brooks Arthur; and producer-recording engineer Brooks Arthur will participate in a Q&A after the 7:20 PM screening at the NoHo on Friday, May 5. Producer-author Randy Poe will moderate.
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