On December 6 at 7:30pm, there will be an advance screening of THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS at the Egyptian Theater in LA.
Tickets are available here.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Los Angeles - THE WHITE RIBBON - Advance Screening *Canceled*
This event has been canceled. Refunds are available from the Aero.
On December 17 at 7:30pm, there will be an advance screening of THE WHITE RIBBON at the Aero in LA.
Tickets are available here.
On December 17 at 7:30pm, there will be an advance screening of THE WHITE RIBBON at the Aero in LA.
Tickets are available here.
Los Angeles - THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND - Advance Screening
On December 16 at 7:30 pm, there will be an advance screening of THE LOSS OF A TEARDROP DIAMOND at the Aero in LA.
Tickets are available here.
Tickets are available here.
Los Angeles - BRIGHT STAR - Director Q&A
On December 12 at 7:30pm, there will be a screening of BRIGHT STAR and SWEETIE at the Aero Theater in LA. Between the films, direction Jane Campion will hold a Q&A session.
Tickets are available here.
New York - THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF - Advance Screening & Actor Appearnanc
On December 22 at 7:15pm, there will be an advance screening at THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF at the 92nd Street Y in NY. Following the screening, actor William Hurt is scheduled to make an appearance (appearance subject to change).
Tickets and more information are available here.
New York - BRIGHT STAR - Director Appearance
On December 8 at 7:15pm, there will be a screening of BRIGHT STAR at the 92nd Street Y in NY. Following the screening, director Jane Campion is scheduled to make an appearance (guest is subject to change).
Tickets and more information are available here.
New York - THE LAST STATION - Advance Screening & Director & Actor Interview
On December 1, there will be an advance screening of THE LAST STATION at the 92nd Street Y in NY at 7:15pm. The screening will be preceded by an interview with actor Christopher Plummer and followed by an interview with director Michael Hoffman.
Tickets and more information are available here.
New York - FIX - Director & Special Guest Discussion
Following the 7:50pm screening of FIX at the Village Cinema East in NY on November 23, director Tao Ruspoli and special guest Daniel Pinchbeck will discuss "Drugs: culture, addiction and the exploration of altered states of consciousness."
Tickets are available here.
New York - An Evening With Christopher Plummer
On November 30 at 7:30pm, actor Christopher Plummer will be interviewed at the Film Forum. Following the interview, copies of his new book, In Spite Of Myself will be on sale, and those who buy books can have them signed by Plummer.
Tickets are available here.
Tickets are available here.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Coming Attractions - 11/20, 21 & 22
Coming Attractions is posted every Friday and serves to remind you of the events taking place during the weekend. From new releases to Q&As and introductions, there's a lot going on and you've got some time off from work - so why not go see a movie?
Wide:
Planet 51
The Blind Side
Twilight: New Moon
Limited:
That Evening Sun - LA
The Messenger - LA
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe - LA
Defamation - LA, NY
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - LA, NY
Broken Embraces - NY
Fix - NY
Mammoth - NY
The Missing Person - NY
The War On Kids - NY
LOS ANGELES:
FRIDAY
THIRST - Director Introduction
Dodger College
Friday, November 20 at 6:00pm.
THAT EVENING SUN - Actor Q&A
Royal Theatre
Friday, November 20 following the 7:15pm show.
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE - Actor Q&A
The Nuart
Friday, November 20 following the 7:30pm and 9:50pm shows.
THE MESSENGER - Producer & Co-Writer Q&A
Sunset 5
Friday, November 20 following the 7:00pm show.
SATURDAY
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE - Actor Q&A
The Nuart
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:30pm and 9:50pm shows.
A BITTERSWEET LIFE - Director Q&A
Dodger College
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:30pm show.
THE CHASER - Screening
Dodger College
Saturday, November 21 at 11:00pm.
COLLAPSE - Subject Q&A
Sunset 5
Saturday, November 21 following the 5:00pm show.
DEFAMATION - Panel Discussion & Producer Introduction
Music Hall 3
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:20pm (panel) show and at 9:50pm (Introduction).
SUNDAY
MOTHER - Advance Screening
Dodger College
Sunday, November 22 at 8:00pm.
DEFAMATION - Producer Introduction
Music Hall 3
Sunday, November 22 at 7:20pm and 9:50pm.
NEW YORK:
FRIDAY
FIX - Directors Q&A
Village Cinema East
Friday, November 20 following the 5:30pm and 7:50pm shows.
FOUR SEASONS LODGE - Director & Producer Q&A
Quad Cinema
Friday, November 20 following the 7:25pm show.
THE WAR ON KIDS - Filmmaker Q&A
Quad Cinema
Friday, November 20 following the 7:40pm show.
THE MESSENGER - Filmmaker Q&A
Angelika Film Center
Friday, November 20 following the 7:45pm show.
THE MISSING PERSON - Actor Q&A
Village Cinema East
Friday, November 20 at 8:00pm.
SATURDAY
FOUR SEASONS LODGE - Director & Producer Q&A
Quad Cinema
Saturday, November 21 following the 3:00pm and 7:25pm show.
FIX - Directors Q&A
Village Cinema East
Saturday, November 21 following the 5:30pm and 7:50pm shows.
THE MESSENGER - Filmmaker Q&A
Angelika Film Center
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:45pm show.
SUNDAY
FOUR SEASONS LODGE - Director & Producer Q&A
Quad Cinema
Sunday, November 22 following the 3:00pm and 7:25pm show.
And for recommendations on what to see this week, check out this week's For Your Consideration.
Wide:
Planet 51
The Blind Side
Twilight: New Moon
Limited:
That Evening Sun - LA
The Messenger - LA
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe - LA
Defamation - LA, NY
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - LA, NY
Broken Embraces - NY
Fix - NY
Mammoth - NY
The Missing Person - NY
The War On Kids - NY
LOS ANGELES:
FRIDAY
THIRST - Director Introduction
Dodger College
Friday, November 20 at 6:00pm.
THAT EVENING SUN - Actor Q&A
Royal Theatre
Friday, November 20 following the 7:15pm show.
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE - Actor Q&A
The Nuart
Friday, November 20 following the 7:30pm and 9:50pm shows.
THE MESSENGER - Producer & Co-Writer Q&A
Sunset 5
Friday, November 20 following the 7:00pm show.
SATURDAY
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE - Actor Q&A
The Nuart
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:30pm and 9:50pm shows.
A BITTERSWEET LIFE - Director Q&A
Dodger College
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:30pm show.
THE CHASER - Screening
Dodger College
Saturday, November 21 at 11:00pm.
COLLAPSE - Subject Q&A
Sunset 5
Saturday, November 21 following the 5:00pm show.
DEFAMATION - Panel Discussion & Producer Introduction
Music Hall 3
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:20pm (panel) show and at 9:50pm (Introduction).
SUNDAY
MOTHER - Advance Screening
Dodger College
Sunday, November 22 at 8:00pm.
DEFAMATION - Producer Introduction
Music Hall 3
Sunday, November 22 at 7:20pm and 9:50pm.
NEW YORK:
FRIDAY
FIX - Directors Q&A
Village Cinema East
Friday, November 20 following the 5:30pm and 7:50pm shows.
FOUR SEASONS LODGE - Director & Producer Q&A
Quad Cinema
Friday, November 20 following the 7:25pm show.
THE WAR ON KIDS - Filmmaker Q&A
Quad Cinema
Friday, November 20 following the 7:40pm show.
THE MESSENGER - Filmmaker Q&A
Angelika Film Center
Friday, November 20 following the 7:45pm show.
THE MISSING PERSON - Actor Q&A
Village Cinema East
Friday, November 20 at 8:00pm.
SATURDAY
FOUR SEASONS LODGE - Director & Producer Q&A
Quad Cinema
Saturday, November 21 following the 3:00pm and 7:25pm show.
FIX - Directors Q&A
Village Cinema East
Saturday, November 21 following the 5:30pm and 7:50pm shows.
THE MESSENGER - Filmmaker Q&A
Angelika Film Center
Saturday, November 21 following the 7:45pm show.
SUNDAY
FOUR SEASONS LODGE - Director & Producer Q&A
Quad Cinema
Sunday, November 22 following the 3:00pm and 7:25pm show.
And for recommendations on what to see this week, check out this week's For Your Consideration.
For Your Consideration - Fresh Blood Edition
For Your Consideration is a weekly round-up of upcoming indie limited releases. The idea is to either expose you to or remind you of films that can't afford to plaster their posters on the sides of buildings or accompany your Happy Meal in toy form.
This week is headlined by a bunch of auteurs authoring very uninspiring things. Pedro Almodovar has opted to go with the greatest hits approach for his latest offering, Broken Embraces. Early reviews are positive, but not stunning so it’s probably not a great entry point, but if you like him, it’ll be worth a gander. Meanwhile, Werner Herzog decides to film a resequelmakespinoff of Bad Lieutnenant to prove once and for all that not even Abel Ferarra is crazier than him. Long-time Swedish art-house director Lukas Moodysson’s English-language debut Mammoth is being hailed as a ‘career killer’ and ‘a film that speaks only in an Esperanto-like mixture of the bad-humanism from Babel and Crash’. And, let’s not forget to mention The Fantastically Banal Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s latest retread that opened last week. The animated nature of the film exposes all of Anderson’s weaknesses. Visually, Wes Anderson's strength has always been his unerring dedication to mise en scene - he fastidiously controls every aspect of production design to create a heightened reality for his specifically dressed characters to interact in. In a way, what makes him so unique in film is the way he blends an animator's sense of aesthetic control to live-action film – a medium that has been trended towards realism for years. Unfortunately his theatricality isn't a novelty in animation, it's a necessity. Mr. Fox is simply him taking an animator's eye to animation, and the results are mundane. So with all of the old guard striking out, what do we have to look forward to this week? Why the debut feature of Scott Teems of course – That Evening Sun.
Where: LA - Sunset 5, Playhouse 7, NY - City Cinemas 1, 2, 3
Why: A story of an aging man that decides to push back against a world that wishes he would just fade away. This premise caught my eye as something interesting and unique with last year’s Gran Torino. Unfortunately, Clint Eastwood’s predilections for melodrama and blunt messaging left me cold. Luckily, the premise is the only common thread between That Evening Sun and Gran Torino; where Gran Torino was blunt, That Evening Sun is subtle. Where Clint Eastwood was little more than an aged Dirty Harry, Hal Halbrook is an emotionally rounded man that just wants the world to give a damn. Where Gran Torino was a racist film about tolerance, That Evening Sun is multi-dimensional look at a region of the country that is often off-handedly labeled as being a zone of racists. If nothing else, this film is worth seeing for what will almost certainly be the final time for the always phenomenal Hal Holbrook to shine in a leading role.
THE MESSENGER
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
DEFAMATION
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
BROKEN EMBRACES
FIX
MAMMOTH
THE MISSING PERSON
THE WAR ON KIDS
This week is headlined by a bunch of auteurs authoring very uninspiring things. Pedro Almodovar has opted to go with the greatest hits approach for his latest offering, Broken Embraces. Early reviews are positive, but not stunning so it’s probably not a great entry point, but if you like him, it’ll be worth a gander. Meanwhile, Werner Herzog decides to film a resequelmakespinoff of Bad Lieutnenant to prove once and for all that not even Abel Ferarra is crazier than him. Long-time Swedish art-house director Lukas Moodysson’s English-language debut Mammoth is being hailed as a ‘career killer’ and ‘a film that speaks only in an Esperanto-like mixture of the bad-humanism from Babel and Crash’. And, let’s not forget to mention The Fantastically Banal Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson’s latest retread that opened last week. The animated nature of the film exposes all of Anderson’s weaknesses. Visually, Wes Anderson's strength has always been his unerring dedication to mise en scene - he fastidiously controls every aspect of production design to create a heightened reality for his specifically dressed characters to interact in. In a way, what makes him so unique in film is the way he blends an animator's sense of aesthetic control to live-action film – a medium that has been trended towards realism for years. Unfortunately his theatricality isn't a novelty in animation, it's a necessity. Mr. Fox is simply him taking an animator's eye to animation, and the results are mundane. So with all of the old guard striking out, what do we have to look forward to this week? Why the debut feature of Scott Teems of course – That Evening Sun.
THAT EVENING SUN
What: The first feature film from newcomer Scott Teems, That Evening Sun is the story of an aging Tennessee farmer who just wants to enjoy his final days. When he returns to the family farm after staying in a nursing home for years, he learns that his son has leased the farm to his nemesis, who refuses to leave. Hal Holbrook shines as the old man in a film that won numerous festival awards.Where: LA - Sunset 5, Playhouse 7, NY - City Cinemas 1, 2, 3
Why: A story of an aging man that decides to push back against a world that wishes he would just fade away. This premise caught my eye as something interesting and unique with last year’s Gran Torino. Unfortunately, Clint Eastwood’s predilections for melodrama and blunt messaging left me cold. Luckily, the premise is the only common thread between That Evening Sun and Gran Torino; where Gran Torino was blunt, That Evening Sun is subtle. Where Clint Eastwood was little more than an aged Dirty Harry, Hal Halbrook is an emotionally rounded man that just wants the world to give a damn. Where Gran Torino was a racist film about tolerance, That Evening Sun is multi-dimensional look at a region of the country that is often off-handedly labeled as being a zone of racists. If nothing else, this film is worth seeing for what will almost certainly be the final time for the always phenomenal Hal Holbrook to shine in a leading role.
Everything Else
THE MESSENGER
WILLIAM KUNSTLER: DISTURBING THE UNIVERSE
DEFAMATION
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
BROKEN EMBRACES
FIX
MAMMOTH
THE MISSING PERSON
THE WAR ON KIDS
New York - FIX - Director Q&A
Following the 5:30pm and 7:50pm screenings of FIX at the Village Cinema East in NY on November 20 and 21, director Tao Ruspoli will hold a Q&A session.
Tickets are available here.
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