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The L.A. Times’ Kenneth Turan Commentary: “Hollywood’s hedgehog mentality threatens its survival.”

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The Los Angeles Times’ chief film critic Kenneth Turan has a good piece on the state of Hollywood in today’s L.A. Times citing the fox-versus-hedgehog mentality. He makes a very compelling and convincing case that the industry endangers itself and the film culture we all value by focussing on superhero/action-adventure movies with gargantuan budgets rather than more interesting and smaller budgeted films that appeal to adults.

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

I AM ELEVEN Q&A’s with the Filmmaker Opening Weekend at the Royal and Playhouse

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I AM ELEVEN filmmaker Genevieve Bailey will participate in Q&A’s at the Royal after the 7:50 PM screenings Friday-Sunday, September 19-21 and after the 1 PM screenings on Saturday and Sunday. If the Playhouse 7 is your theater, Ms. Bailey will be there for Q&A’s after the 4:20 PM screenings on Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.vimeo.com/45231682
I AM ELEVEN Q&A's with the Filmmaker Opening Weekend at the Royal and Playhouse
Genevieve Bailey; portrait by Henrik Nordstrom

Lil’ P-Nut at the NoHo Friday Night for a TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Q&A

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Child hip hop artist Lil’ P-Nut, one of the artists featured in TAKE ME TO THE RIVER, will participate in a Q&A after the 7 PM screening on Friday, September 12.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZzqsvV_Oyk
Lil' P-Nut at the NoHo Friday Night for a TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Q&A
Lil' P-Nut