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We are thrilled to open the new documentary FOLLOWING THE NINTH: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BEETHOVEN’S FINAL SYMPHONY this Friday at the Music Hall. The Village Voice described it as “that rarest of films: a documentary as ineffable and transformative in its reach as it sets out to be.” Veteran journalist Bill Moyers recently did a piece about the film, which you can watch right here:
We are thrilled to be showing the controversial Polish film AFTERMATH in several Laemmle venues right now. If you haven’t seen it yet, read Kenneth Turan’s review to find out why.
GAHAN WILSON: BORN DEAD, STILL WEIRD filmmaker Stephen-Charles Jaffe will participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall after the Friday, November 22nd 7:45 PM screening and Saturday and Sunday, November 23rd and 24th after the 3:45 and 7:45 PM screenings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWrEFil87r8
Frederick Wiseman, one of our greatest and most prolific documentarians, always delves deeply into his subjects and for his latest, AT BERKELEY, that’s more true that ever. He found one of California’s great treasures, U.C. Berkeley, such a rich subject that it required a four hour film. It is receiving some rave reviews, including this one from one that most astute of film critics, David Denby of The New Yorker. We are proud to open AT BERKELEY this Friday at the Music Hall.
http://www.vimeo.com/77225450
Are you a fan of Bill Watterson’s Calvin & Hobbes? DEAR MR. WATTERSON director Joel Allen Schroeder will participate in Q&A’s after the 5:20 and 7:40 PM screenings at the NoHo 7 on Saturday, November 16.
THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE filmmaker Liz Marshall and subject Jo-Anne McArthur will participate in Q&A’s after the 7:20 screenings at the Music Hall Friday-Sunday, November 15-17.
PAD YATRA: A GREEN ODYSSEY filmmaker Wendy J.N. Lee will participate in Q&A’s after the noon screenings on Saturday and Sunday, November 16 and 17.
In December we’re excited to open the Coen Brothers’ new movie INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, and one of the reasons, other than the fact that the Coens are inevitably entertaining, is that this one, like O Brother Where Art Thou?, has a major musical component, in this case, the American folk music revival of early 1960’s Greenwich Village. NPR is streaming the entire T Bone Burnett-produced soundtrack, and there is some beautiful stuff. Enjoy.