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BERNARD AND HUEY Filmmaker Q&A Opening Weekend at the Monicas.

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BERNARD AND HUEY director Dan Mirvish, producer Bernie Stern and actors Jim Rash, Sasha Alexander and Bellamy Young will participate in a Q&A at the Monica Film Center after the 7:30 PM screening and introduce the 10 PM screening on Friday, June 8. Actor Jay Renshaw will join Mr. Mirvish, Ms. Alexander, Mr. Rash and Ms. Bellamy for a Q&A after the 7:30 show on Saturday, June 9.

Based on a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jules Feiffer, BERNARD AND HUEY is a comedy about two old friends who reconnect after 30 years apart, and the women who complicate their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usqo9pN2OB4

HOW JACK BECAME BLACK Q&A’s at the Music Hall.

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Meet the HOW JACK BECAME BLACK filmmaker at the following screenings:
 
 
Friday, June 1, 7:40 PM screening
 
Theme: Ready for a fearless dialogue on identity politics and the multiracial baby boom?
 
Featuring: Filmmaker Eli Steele
 
 
Saturday, June 2, 7:40 PM screening
 
Theme: What is it like raising multiracial families in today’s America?
 
Featuring: Buddy Sosthand – an award winning stuntman (Pirates of Caribbean, etc.) and the father of a multiracial family. David Raysse – a legendary shoe designer (FILA, Adidas, Skechers, Brand Black) who is mixed himself and the father of a multiracial family. They will be joined by filmmaker Eli Steele.
 
 
Sunday, June 3, 12:20 PM screening>
 
Theme: What exactly does it mean to be black, Jewish, and multiracial?
 
Featuring: Rabbinic intern Yeshaia Blakeney –  Born to a Jewish mother and a black father, he is now part of Ohr HaTorah in West Los Angeles. He and filmmaker Eli Steele will discuss their experiences – religious, racial, individual – that comes with being black and Jewish. https://www.ohrhatorah.org/yeshaia-blakeney.html

 
 
Monday, June 4, 7:40 PM screening
 
Theme: Ready for a fearless dialogue on identity politics and the multiracial baby boom?
 
Featuring: Filmmaker Eli Steele
 
 
Tuesday, June 5, 7:40 PM screening
 
Theme: What role will the race box play in an increasingly multiracial America?
 
Featuring: UCLA’s Professor Richard Sander, School of Law, and USC’s Professor Mark Pearson, Center for Education, Equity and Social Justice. Both Professors are fathers of multiracial children and are deeply invested in how the multiracial baby boom will affect government policies and other aspects of our society. They will be joined by filmmaker Eli Steele.
 
 
Wednesday, June 6, 7:40 PM screening
 
Theme: In an America gripped by identity politics, is it too late to begin the movement back to the individual?
 
Featuring: Liberty on the Rocks, a non-profit libertarian organization. They will be joined by filmmaker Eli Steele.
 
 
Thursday, June 6, 7:40 PM screening
 
Theme: What exactly does the multiracial identity mean?
 
Featuring: Thomas Lopez, board member of Multiracial Americans of Southern California. Lopez himself is multiracial and he will discuss with filmmaker Eli Steele what it means to be multiracial in today’s America and what the future may hold.
 
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxUi-fEUPsg

 

ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: DANIELA SCHWEITZER: THE JOYFUL DANCE TO WATER in Santa Monica

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ART IN THE ARTHOUSE invites you to view our newest exhibit in Santa Monica, DANIELA SCHWEITZER: THE JOYFUL DANCE TO WATER. All works are for sale and on display till August 29, 2018. Please visit our galleries on both floors at the Monica Film Center next time you come for a movie. Or just stop by; movie tickets are not required to view our art.

About the exhibit
DANIELA SCHWEITZER is an artist, a painter, deeply connected to movement, light and the color of water. She captures moments and manifestations of aquatic colors, oceanic gatherings, and the compositional arc of a young dancer’s arms. With a nod to the Bay Area figurative movement and artists David Park and Richard Diebenkorn, Schweitzer’s work exudes a fluid harmonious quality, a balance of color and pictorial composition.

Additionally, her work exhibits a keen understanding of atmosphere, controlling mood and expressing locational flavor through juxtaposition of vibrant color. Schweitzer’s paintings begin with a photograph to create emotional impact and story. Schweitzer reflects, “I select my scenes … because they possess a simple, beautiful, and usually colorful human gesture that is energetic, calm, or harmonic. The balance and contrast between light and shadows, values and temperatures, and my loose and contrasting brushstrokes and lines all come together during the painting process to create my own style or point of view.”

Much of her oeuvre is personal. The painting Dancer, for instance, is a deftly rendered work of admiration, an observant balletic posturing of the artist’s daughter.

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Daniela is a highly respected pediatrician, currently residing in Los Angeles. She studied at the Atelier Clásico de Dibujo y Pintura, Buenos Aires, Academia Central Mendía and earned her medical degree at the Buenos Aires School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires.

Above all, Daniela Schweitzer’s work celebrates a genuine joie de vivre.

– Joshua Elias, CURATOR

Monica Film Center
1332 2nd Street
Santa Monica, CA
310-478-3836

 

 

MAINELAND Q&A’s at the Music Hall.

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MAINELAND director Miao Wang and producer Damon Smith will participate in Q&A moderated by UCLA professor Kristy Guevara-Flanagn at the Music Hall following the 4:50 PM screening on Saturday June 9 and director Miao Wang and producer Damon Smith will participate in Q&A moderated by journalist Jeff Yang following the 4:50 PM screening on Sunday, June 10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpuR-lHaPyA

STRANGERS ON EARTH: A JOURNEY ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO Q&A’s at the Music Hall.

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STRANGERS ON EARTH director Tristan Cook will participate in post-screening Q&A’s at the Music Hall June 1-3 following the Friday & Saturday 7:20 PM shows and the Sunday noon show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-E41Hc0lkg

June’s TBT Screenings in NoHo Include THE WILD BUNCH, THREE AMIGOS, TOUCH OF EVIL, and FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

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With the opening of SICARIO: DAY OF THE SOLDADO at the end of June, our Throwback Thursday series takes a look at some earlier tales of American misadventures “Down in Mexico.”

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.

June 7: The Wild Bunch (1969)

Sam Peckinpah’s controversial revisionist Western follows an aging outlaw gang trying to adapt as the Old West transitions to the New West along the US-Mexico border. William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O’Brien, Ben Johnson, and Warren Oates star. Format: Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.

June 14: Touch of Evil (1958)

A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town, co-starring, written and directed by Orson Welles. The film also stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Marlene Dietrich, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

June 21: ¡Three Amigos! (1986)

Steve Martin, Martin Short and Chevy Chase star as three silent movie actors known as the Three Amigos who travel to a small Mexican town for what they think is a public appearance. Instead, they realize they have been mistaken for their screen characters and the townspeople ask them to help fight an evil bandit. Format: Blu-ray. Click here for tickets.

June 28: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Fugitive bank robbers unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino, the film stars George Clooney, Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, and Juliette Lewis. Format: DCP. Click here for tickets.

SOLLERS POINT Q&A’s this Weekend in Santa Monica.

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SOLLERS POINT filmmaker Matthew Porterfield will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center following the 7:20 PM screening on Saturday, May 26 and the 4:30 PM screening on Sunday, May 27.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqU6O4eYcso

MARY SHELLEY Director Haifaa Al-Mansour Q&A’s at the Monicas.

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MARY SHELLEY director Haifaa Al-Mansour will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center after the 7 o’clock screenings on Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26. Stephen Saito of MOVEABLEFEST.COM will moderate Friday’s Q&A and Christy Lemire of the L.A. Film Critics Association will moderate Saturday’s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-WGaZaojFc