Filmmaker in Person – Page 47

HEARING IS BELIEVING Q&A with the Filmmaker and Subjects Opening Night at the Music Hall.

June 5, 2017 by Lamb L.

HEARING IS BELIEVING filmmaker Lorenzo DeStefano and subjects Rachel and Jeanie Flowers will participate in a Q&A after the 7 PM screening at the Music Hall on Friday, June 16.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEb5YVcLa8Y&feature=youtu.be

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL Q&A Tonight at the Monicas.

June 2, 2017 by Lamb L.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL director Vadim Jean will participate in a Q&A after the 7:10 PM show at the Monica Film Center on Friday, June 2.

RANDOM TROPICAL PARADISE Q&A’s with the Filmmaker and Cast Opening Weekend at the Monica Film Center.

June 2, 2017 by Lamb L.

RANDOM TROPICAL PARADISE writer-director Sanjeev Sirpal and the cast will introduce the 9:55 PM screening on Friday, June 9 and the 5 PM screening on Saturday, June 10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxJvyXiewu8

MAURIZIO CATTELAN: BE RIGHT BACK Filmmaker in Person with MOCA Director Philippe Vergne Opening Night at the Music Hall.

May 30, 2017 by Lamb L.

MAURIZIO CATTELAN: BE RIGHT BACK director Maura Axelrod, along with Philippe Vergne, director of L.A. MOCA, will be on hand for a Q&A on Friday 6/2 after the 7:30PM show at the Music Hall. The first 50 people in the theater will get a bag designed by Maurizio Cattelan exclusively for the film, limited edition (only 200 made).

96 SOULS Opens May 26 at the Music Hall: Writer-Director and the Cast in Person Opening Night.

May 25, 2017 by Lamb L.

96 SOULS writer-director Stanley Jacobs and cast members Greg Rose, Grinnell Morris, Sid Veda, Kevin Rock, Toyin Moses, Darla Haun, and ShaiFali will participate in a Q&A after the 7:10 PM screening at the Music Hall on Friday, May 26.

https://vimeo.com/140860833

"96 Souls" Theatrical Trailer (https://vimeo.com/140860833)

STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN 35th Anniversary Screening and Q&A with Director Nicholas Meyer on May 31 at the Ahrya Fine Arts

May 22, 2017 by Lamb L.

35th Anniversary Screening of STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN
Followed by Q&A with Director Nicholas Meyer
Wednesday, May 31, at 7:30 PM at the Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre
Presented on DCP.

Click here for tickets.

Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 35th anniversary screening of STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN, regarded by many buffs as the best feature film in the long running series. After the box office disappointment of the first Star Trek feature in 1979, Paramount Pictures and producer Harve Bennett decided to take a fresh approach to the follow-up film, cutting the budget drastically and bringing in talented newcomers to revitalize the popular franchise.

Nicholas Meyer, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter and novelist of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, had made his directorial debut with 1979’s Time After Time. He came to this new project, as he freely admitted, as a Star Trek novice, but he brought intelligence, ingenuity, and wit to the sequel.

Meyer and the screenwriters decided to bring back one of the memorable villains from the TV series, the intergalactic tyrant Khan, and hired Ricardo Montalban to reprise his role from that episode. Of course the regular cast members of the Starship Enterprise — William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, and Walter Koenig — were also on board, along with newcomer Kirstie Alley.

Another newcomer to the enterprise was young composer James Horner, a future Oscar winner who had one of his first major credits on Star Trek II.

Critics endorsed the new approach. Variety called the film “a very satisfying space adventure, closer in spirit and format to the popular TV series than to its big-budget predecessor.” The commercial success of Star Trek II insured a long voyage for the Enterprise on the big screen and on television for decades to come.

Director Nicholas Meyer also worked on Star Trek IV, Star Trek VI, and the upcoming TV series Star Trek: Discovery. In addition to The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and Time After Time, his many other credits as writer and/or director include Volunteers, Company Business, Sommersby, the TV movie The Day After, and two Philip Roth adaptations, The Human Stain and Elegy.