THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES director Phil Allocco, producer Isen Robbins, and actresses Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Gemma Forbes will participate in a Q&A after the 7:30 PM show at the Monica Film Center on Thursday, October 26.
Classic Detective Films Every Throwback Thursday in November at the NoHo 7
Agatha Christie’s enduring detective, Hercule Poirot, returns November 10th in Kenneth Branagh’s remake of MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. To celebrate the famed detective (and his epic moustache), Laemmle presents Watching the Detectives, a full month of our favorite fictional detectives!
Our Watching the Detectives Throwback Thursday series begins at the NoHo 7 on Thursday, November 2nd with John Huston’s THE MALTESE FALCON! Doors open at 7pm, trivia starts at 7:30, and movies begin at 7:40pm. Our weekly #TBT series is presented in partnership with Eat|See|Hear. Check out the full schedule below!
November 2: The Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart is Sam Spade, a private detective who takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. TICKETS.
November 9: Kiss Me Deadly
This film noir stars Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane’s anti-social private eye Mike Hammer. After he and a hitchhiker are kidnapped by thugs, the semiconscious Hammer helplessly watches as the girl is tortured to death. Seeking vengeance, Hammer searches for the secret behind the girl’s murder. Note: Laemmle Theatres will screen the U.K. version of KISS ME DEADLY, which includes the original ending. TICKETS.
November 16: The Long Goodbye
Applying his deconstructive eye to the “film noir” tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler’s novel, The Long Goodbye.
Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn’t a wife-killer, even after the cops throw Marlowe in jail for not cooperating with their investigation into Lennox’s subsequent disappearance.
Once he gets out of jail, Marlowe starts to conduct his own search when he discovers that mysterious blonde Eileen Wade (Nina Van Pallandt), who hired him to find her alcoholic novelist husband Roger (Sterling Hayden), lives on the same Malibu street as the absent Lennox and his deceased spouse. As numerous variations on the title song play in unexpected places, Marlowe encounters a shady doctor (Henry Gibson), a bottle-wielding gangster (director Mark Rydell), and a guard aping Barbara Stanwyck (among other stars), before heading to Mexico to stumble onto the truth once and for all. TICKETS.
November 30: Murder by Death
Neil Simon’s comic tribute to detective films begins when a reclusive millionaire invites a number of famed detectives, each a parody of a famous literary sleuth, to dinner. Naturally, a series of murders begins, and the humorous race to be the first to solve the mystery is on. Starring Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Truman Capote, and more. TICKETS.
Details about December #TBT screenings are coming soon. Remember to check www.laemmle.com/tbt for updates!
THE WORK Filmmakers and Special Guests Opening Weekend at the Monica Film Center.
THE WORK filmmakers Eon Mcleary and Miles Mcleary and other guests from the film will participate in Q&A’s at the Monica Film Center following the Friday – 7:40PM and Saturday – 7:40PM show on October 27 and 28.
EVERYBODY KNOWS…ELIZABETH MURRAY Q&A’s Opening Weekend at the Music Hall.
EVERYBODY KNOWS…ELIZABETH MURRAY filmmaker Kristi Zea will participate in Q&As following the 6:10 and 8:00 PM screenings at the Music Hall on Friday through Sunday, November 3-5.
HEAL Q&A’s with Special Guests All Weekend at the Monicas.
HEAL Q&A schedule this weekend at the Monica Film Center:
FRIDAY 10/27 7:10pm
Peter Crone, Patti Penn, Dianne Porchia, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, Moderator – Peter Rader (Producer of AWAKE and Writer of WATER WORLD)
SATURDAY 10/28 4:30pm
Peter Crone, Dianne Pocria, Dr Jeffrey Thompson, Moderator – TBD
SUNDAY 10/29 4:30pm
Dr Michael Bernard Beckwith (Founder of Agape) and Filmmaker Kelly Noonan Gores, Moderator Ginger Pullman
MULLY Filmmakers in Person at the Music Hall.
MULLY producer Lukas Behnken will introduce and/or participate in Q&A’s at the Music Hall on Friday, October 27 for the 5:10, 7:30p, and 9:50pm screenings. Director Scott Haze and producer Elissa Shay will join him for the 7:30 and 9:50 shows on Saturday, October 28. Ms. Shay will attend the 5:10, 7:30, and 9:50 shows on Monday, October 30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu4ZR34rAkE&feature=youtu.be
ATOMIC HOMEFRONT Special Guests at the Playhouse Opening Night.
Opening night 7:10 show features a post-film conversation with ATOMIC HOMEFRONT Producer/Director Rebecca Cammisa, Producer Jim Freydberg, and film subject Dawn Chapman, co-founder of Just Moms STl.
Halloween Twofer Tuesday: THE MUMMY and CAT PEOPLE on October 31st in NoHo, Pasadena, and West LA
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a special Halloween double feature in the popular Twofer Tuesday Series (two films for the price of one) on October 31.
We will show a “double treat” of the 85th anniversary of THE MUMMY (1932) with the 75th anniversary of CAT PEOPLE (1942). Both films epitomize atmospheric black-and-white chills from the classical studio era.
THE MUMMY was one of the early efforts from Universal studios to capitalize on the their success in the horror genre (following the 1931 hits Dracula and Frankenstein).
Karl Freund, the German émigré cinematographer of Metropolis and Dracula, made his directorial debut with this film inspired by the opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922.
Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. hired one of the writers of Dracula, John L. Balderston, to craft a screenplay from a story by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard Schayer, and cast Boris Karloff, fresh from his star-making performance in Frankenstein, as the three-thousand-year-old mummy stalking an English girl (Zita Johann) he believes is the reincarnation of his ancient love.
The cinematography is credited to Charles Stumar (who shot the Lon Chaney silent The Hunchback of Notre Dame). The result is a masterpiece of mood, described by critic Pauline Kael as “…disturbingly beautiful. No other horror film has ever achieved so many emotional effects by lighting; the film has a languorous, poetic feeling, and the eroticism that lives on under Karloff’s wrinkled parchment skin is like a bad dream of undying love.”
With David Manners, Bramwell Fletcher, Arthur Byron, and Edward Van Sloan.
CAT PEOPLE was the first venture from producer Val Lewton (I Walked With a Zombie, Curse of the Cat People, The Body Snatcher) as head of RKO’s new horror division in 1942. He gave Jacques Tourneur the chance to direct his first feature with this tale of a new bride (Simone Simon) who fears she is a descendant of a predatory cat family.
DeWitt Bodeen (I Remember Mama, Billy Budd) wrote the screenplay from a short story by producer Lewton, who also employed cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca and editor Mark Robson (future director of Peyton Place and Valley of the Dolls), to create one of the most imaginative low-budget films ever made. Tourneur and Musuraca later collaborated on one of the seminal film noirs, Out of the Past.
Roger Ebert called Cat People one of the “Great Movies,” extolling it as “frightening in an eerie, mysterious way that was hard to define; the screen harbored unseen threats, and there was an undertone of sexual danger that was more ominous because it was never acted upon.”
With Kent Smith, Tom Conway, and Jane Randolph. Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1993.
Our Halloween Twofer plays October 31 at three locations: Royal, NoHo 7 and Pasadena Playhouse 7. The complete double feature screens twice, with THE MUMMY shown at 5:00 pm and 8:20 pm; CAT PEOPLE at 6:40 pm and 10:00 pm.
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