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.
ART IN THE ARTHOUSE presents: DANIELA SCHWEITZER: THE JOYFUL DANCE TO WATER in Santa Monica
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.
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.
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.
June’s TBT Screenings in NoHo Include THE WILD BUNCH, THREE AMIGOS, TOUCH OF EVIL, and FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
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.
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.
MARY SHELLEY Director Haifaa Al-Mansour Q&A’s at the Monicas.
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.
THE DEER HUNTER with Actor John Savage In Person on Tuesday, May 29 at the Ahrya Fine Arts in Beverly Hills
On the day after Memorial Day, Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present one of the greatest of all war films, Oscar’s Best Picture of 1978, THE DEER HUNTER.
Actor John Savage will participate in a Q&A at the 40th anniversary screening on Tuesday, May 29th at 7:15pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts theater in Beverly Hills. Click here for tickets.
The film won four other Oscars, including Best Director for Michael Cimino and Best Supporting Actor for Christopher Walken. Robert De Niro earned a nomination for Best Actor, and Meryl Streep earned her very first nomination for her performance in the film. Deric Washburn wrote the screenplay from a story that he created with Cimino, Louis Garfinkle, and Quinn Redeker. Master cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond shot the film, and Peter Zinner was the editor.
This epic vision of working class America follows three steelworkers from Pennsylvania as they journey halfway across the world to fight in Vietnam. De Niro, Walken, and John Savage play the three best friends. The first hour of the film immerses us in the routines of their lives as they prepare for the wedding of Savage’s character.
In the second section the three friends find themselves in a North Vietnamese prison camp, where they endure horrific physical and psychological torture before making a heroic escape.
In the third section, they try to readjust to life back home but find this re-entry just as traumatic as their wartime experiences. George Dzundza and John Cazale (who played Fredo in the first two ‘Godfather’ films and who died before the release of THE DEER HUNTER) round out the cast.
Roger Ebert praised “one of the most emotionally shattering films ever made.” In Newsweek Jack Kroll wrote, “THE DEER HUNTER is a film of great courage and overwhelming emotional power, a fiercely loving embrace of life in a death-ridden time.” The Wall Street Journal’s Joy Gould Boyum declared, “It is one of the boldest and most brilliant American films in recent years.”
Frank Rich, then the critic for Time magazine, added, “De Niro, Walken, John Savage…and Meryl Streep are all top actors in an extraordinary film.” In addition to its Oscars, the film was named best picture of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle.
The film was also greeted by protests by some activists who felt that the movie falsified the complexities of the Vietnam War and demonized the North Vietnamese. But Cimino argued persuasively that the film was intended to belong to an antiwar tradition that went back to one of the very first Oscar-winning films, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’ The film was added to the National Film Registry in 1996, an honor reserved for films deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”
John Savage had his first important screen role in THE DEER HUNTER, and he went on to star in Milos Forman’s film of the classic counterculture musical, ‘Hair,’ in the film version of Joseph Wambaugh’s best-selling novel, ‘The Onion Field,’ Richard Donner’s ‘Inside Moves,’ Oliver Stone’s ‘Salvador,’ ‘The Godfather Part III,’ Spike Lee’s ‘Do the Right Thing’ and ‘Summer of Sam.’ He also distinguished himself in the theater, playing in the original production of David Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo,’ among other roles. In addition to many TV appearances, he has worked as a producer and composer as well as an actor.
Format: DCP
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