The cast and crew of the indie superhero noir thriller SPARKS will participate in a Q&A after the 7 PM screening at the NoHo 7 on Saturday, March 15.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgM48TVD-g0
The Beginning of Art in the Arthouse: You’re Invited
Outside of your home or office walls, how often do you really get the chance to get to know a work of art in person? Gallery openings and museum visits are often “drive by” affairs that typically limit your engagement. And, even assuming you still have an independent brewing house nearby, coffee house art is unpredictable in quality.
Enter Laemmle’s new Art in the Arthouse program. It promises to deliver a unique and alternative art-viewing experience. By reclaiming wall space throughout its theaters for the display of fine art, Laemmle will give its patrons a chance to bond with notable and emerging L.A. based visual artists and their work. Exhibits will last three to four months, affording regular movie-goers ample time to get to know a piece through repeat visits and exposure. Curatorial standards will be high, in keeping with the approach that has distinguished Laemmle as a film exhibitor over the years.
Art in the Arthouse is the brainchild of Laemmle president, Greg Laemmle. “Switching to digital poster frames conserves both paper and wall space,” says Laemmle. “This opened up the opportunity to extend the cultural scope of our theaters to include the visual fine arts.”
Our first two events feature artists Dave Lefner at the Royal and Bea Husman at the NoHo. The Lefner exhibit opening is February 19 — RSVP here — and the Husman exhibit opening is February 26 — RSVP here. Proceeds from the sale of art benefit the Laemmle Charitable Foundation.
A Plethora of Oscar-Nominated Docs and Shorts on the Big Screen
Last year was a great movie year and we’re still enjoying the cream of the Oscar-nominated crop. Moviegoers still have time to catch many of the documentaries and shorts in all their big-screen glory before filling out their Oscar ballots, either at work or with Laemmle. This weekend we’re opening the live action, animated and documentary shorts and if you haven’t yet enjoyed the doc features THE SQUARE, TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM or CUTIE AND THE BOXER, we’re playing those too! It’s a splendid time to be a cinephile.
Q and A’s with THE HUNT Director Thomas Vinterberg at the Royal this Weekend
Thomas Vinterberg, writer-director of Best Foreign Language Film nominee THE HUNT, will participate in Q&A’s moderated by film critic James Rocchi after the 7:10 PM screenings at the Royal on Saturday and Sunday, February 8 and 9.
L.A. Times Interview: “Filmmaker flashes back to her ’90s girlhood in Georgia for IN BLOOM”
From today’s L.A. Times:
Filmmaker flashes back to her ’90s girlhood in Georgia for IN BLOOM
Nana Ekvtimishvili recalls things being even worse than depicted in her movie IN BLOOM, which is set in a newly independent Georgia. She and husband/co-filmmaker Simon Gross discuss the film.
By Susan King
“In Bloom,” the foreign language film Oscar submission from Georgia, revolves around two 14-year-old girls coming of age in 1992. Best friends Eka and Natia live in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, a newly independent country after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but independence hasn’t made life any easier.
There’s violence and unrest, with justice doled out vigilante style. Food is scarce and bread lines are long. And a lot of young girls don’t even get the opportunity to be teenagers because they are kidnapped by men and forced into marriage.
Nana Ekvtimishvili, who was raised in Tbilisi, wrote the film, which opens Friday, and co-directed it with her German-born husband, Simon Gross. The two met in Munich, Germany, as film students and currently live and work in Tbilisi.
Read the interview on the L.A. Times website.
Laemmle Theatres’ Umpteenth Annual Oscar Contest
Laemmle Theatres will bestow fabulous prizes (movie passes) upon the people who most accurately predict the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s choices in all 24 categories, from the shorts to the Big Kahuna, Best Motion Picture. (Why INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS is not the tenth nominee in the latter category, we do not know.) 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 a crack at it! FABULOUS PRIZES (movie passes) to the those who can best predict the winners. First place wins ten pairs of passes, second place wins eight pairs and third place wins six pairs. Good luck!
Meet the Filmmaker and Co-Star of BRIGHTEST STAR at the NoHo
BRIGHTEST STAR writer-director Maggie Kiley and actress Rose McIver will participate in a Q&A at the NoHo after the 7:40 PM screening on Thursday, February 6th.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHAvzD25Iq0#t=1
Pete Seeger!
We lost a great one this week when folk singer-musician Pete Seeger died. What a brave, talented man. There are a wealth of Pete videos on YouTube and a quick search turned up this gem, Pete’s March 4, 1970 appearance on The Johnny Cash Show. Among other things, it’s a great example of Pete’s musicianship and aversion to singing alone: watch him get the audience singing along.
For a complete portrait of Pete, there’s a great 2007 documentary called PETE SEEGER: THE POWER OF SONG, available on DVD and streaming, and, for those who want to dig a little deeper, THE WEAVERS: WASN’T THAT A TIME, available on DVD.
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