Film Reviews & Previews
TANZANIA: A JOURNEY WITHIN filmmaker Sylvia Caminer and the subjects of the film, Kristen Kenney and Venance Ndibalema, will participate in Q&A’s at the NoHo after the 7:10 PM screenings Friday-Sunday, May 2nd-4th as well as after the 4:20 screenings on the 3rd and 4th.
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine, the co-directors of THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR, will participate in Q&A’s after the 7 PM screenings and introduce the 9:55 PM screenings at the Royal on Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19.
Here’s you chance to travel back in time to see classic films in vintage movie palaces courtesy of our friends at Last Remaining Seats.
You can win tickets to a special screening of WEST SIDE STORY at the DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION with special guest GEORGE CHAKIRIS (dancer, singer, and Academy Award-wining actor) in conversation with dance critic DEBRA LEVINE. Enter to win tickets for Saturday, June 14 screening here.
You can also enter to win tickets to the Saturday, June 28 screening of CITIZEN KANE at the ORPHEUM THEATRE. The evening will be hosted by BEN MANKIEWICZ, weekend host of Turner Classic Movies and features pre-show organ music by TONY WILSON. Enter here.
Last Remaining Seats is the Los Angeles Conservancy’s annual program that combines classic film with L.A.’s historic theatres. Visit the L.A. Conservancy’s website for this year’s full schedule of screenings.
Greg Laemmle has urged me to pass on to Laemmle moviegoers a theater recommendation: he recently saw the Falcon Theater’s production of THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON, a new comedic drama about a Holocaust survivor living in North Hollywood. Greg’s reaction is echoed in the rapturous L.A. Times review. (A sample line: “That rarefied place where craft, collaboration and content create theatrical poetry is everywhere in THE LAST ACT OF LILKA KADISON.”) The play has been extended through April 27.
Did you know that 19 nations around the world are currently experiencing conflicts that could devolve into genocide? Please consider joining Greg and Tish Laemmle on the 2014 Los Angeles Walk to End Genocide April 27 at Pan Pacific Park. It’s being organized by Jewish World Watch as part of Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. From the website where you can sign up:
“Join thousands of your fellow activists for JWW’s 8th Annual Walk to End Genocide on Sunday, April 27, 2014 at Pan Pacific Park in Los Angeles from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Visit the Global Village Festival, before and after the Walk, for information and advocacy booths on Darfur, Sudan, Congo and other human rights abuses, conflict minerals campaign and other advocacy opportunities, solar cooker demonstrations, crafts, merchandise, food, music and more.
“Take one step closer to a world without genocide by walking 3 miles on paved surfaces around Pan Pacific Park. Together with the 2014 Honorary Committee Co-chairs Mayor Eric Garcetti & Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis, Vice Chair, former councilwoman Joy Picus, and committee members, including the entire City Council and Board of Supervisors, the City Attorney, City Controller, District Attorney and Sheriff, we will walk to let our local community and the world know that we will not stand idly by while human rights violations continue to impact the lives of innocent men, women and children.”
We are thrilled to be opening PETER BROOK: THE TIGHTROPE this Friday at the Music Hall. It’s a documentary about an acting class helmed by Mr. Brook and filmed with hidden cameras by his son, Simon (who will be doing Q&A’s after each 7:20 PM screening at the Music Hall, Friday, April 11 through Tuesday, April 15 as well as the 2:40 and 5 PM screenings on Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13). If you are an actor or just someone who has marveled at what great actors can accomplish, seek out this film and watch a master in action.
As it happens the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA opens a Peter Brook play, THE SUIT, this week at the Freud Playhouse. “Devastation by enchantment,” sang Ben Brantley in the New York Times. There are only nine performances. A plethora of information about the production and its origins is here. And if you bring your ticket stub from the play to the Music Hall for any screening of PETER BROOK, you may buy tickets at a good discount: $6 each. Also, check out this piece the L.A. Times published today about Brook and the UCLA production.
We are very pleased to welcome AFTERNOON OF A FAUN director Nancy Biurski, who will participate in a Q&A after the 7:50 PM screening at the Royal on Friday, April 11.