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The L.A. Times’ Kenneth Turan Commentary: “Hollywood’s hedgehog mentality threatens its survival.”

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The Los Angeles Times’ chief film critic Kenneth Turan has a good piece on the state of Hollywood in today’s L.A. Times citing the fox-versus-hedgehog mentality. He makes a very compelling and convincing case that the industry endangers itself and the film culture we all value by focussing on superhero/action-adventure movies with gargantuan budgets rather than more interesting and smaller budgeted films that appeal to adults.

BRIDGE AND TUNNEL Q&A at the Music Hall Opening Weekend

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BRIDGE AND TUNNEL actors Annet Mahendru (The Americans, Escape from Tomorrow), Mary Kate Wiles (The Lizzie Bennett Diaries!!!), Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie), along with director Jason Michael Brescia, will participate after the 7:3o PM screening at the Music Hall on Saturday, September 27.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3s1KZfd4Cc

Join Laemmle at Heal the Bay’s Coastal Cleanup Day this Saturday

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This Saturday morning is Heal the Bay‘s annual Coastal Cleanup Day. Led by Royal Theater manager Erin LaBrie, Greg Laemmle and his wife Tish will be joined by a gaggle of Laemmle employees on the beach at Ocean Park Boulevard from 9 AM to noon. Join us! RSVP to info@laemmlefoundation.org to be part of Team Laemmle!

PUMP Q&A’s at the Royal this Weekend

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PUMP, a galvanizing new doc about alternative energy, opens this weekend at the Royal. The producers will be at the Royal for Q&A’s after the 5:40 and 8 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, September 19 and 20.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HFqAbOgns

I AM ELEVEN Filmmaker Interviewed on KCAL 9

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I AM ELEVEN filmmaker Genevieve Bailey visited KCAL 9 for an interview recently:

THE FRONTIER Q&A this Friday at the NoHo 7

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THE FRONTIER filmmaker Matt Rabinowitz will participate in a Q&A after the 7:40 PM screening at the NoHo on Friday, September 19.

http://vimeo.com/86659716
Matt Rabinowitz

I AM ELEVEN Q&A’s with the Filmmaker Opening Weekend at the Royal and Playhouse

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I AM ELEVEN filmmaker Genevieve Bailey will participate in Q&A’s at the Royal after the 7:50 PM screenings Friday-Sunday, September 19-21 and after the 1 PM screenings on Saturday and Sunday. If the Playhouse 7 is your theater, Ms. Bailey will be there for Q&A’s after the 4:20 PM screenings on Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.vimeo.com/45231682
Genevieve Bailey; portrait by Henrik Nordstrom

Lil’ P-Nut at the NoHo Friday Night for a TAKE ME TO THE RIVER Q&A

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Child hip hop artist Lil’ P-Nut, one of the artists featured in TAKE ME TO THE RIVER, will participate in a Q&A after the 7 PM screening on Friday, September 12.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZzqsvV_Oyk
Lil' P-Nut