Back at the Troubadour for the first time in over a year to see Michigander, who released my favorite album of this year.
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Movies. Music. Museums. LEGO. And Dog. 🏳️🌈
Tonight’s screening at the AMC Century City was the provocative, thoughtful, Palme d’Or-winning FJORD, followed by a Q&A with writer-director Cristian Mungiu (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, BEYOND THE HILLS, GRADUATION). Here’s Mungiu addressing the concept of “objectivity” in filmmaking.
Tonight at the Aero Theatre, the American Cinematheque hosted the opening night of the 20th annual German Currents film festival, featuring the West Coast premiere of FATHERLAND, followed by a Q&A with director Paweł Pawlikowski (COLD WAR, IDA), moderated by Bill Hader.
Spent yet another night in the presence of a screen legend: tonight at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was the premiere of a beautiful 4K restoration of the 1980 film RESURRECTION, and the screening was preceded by a Q&A with the amazing Ellen Burstyn (a very lively 93 years old!).
I spent today at the Aero Theatre for the Beyond Fest Bruce Dern marathon at the Aero Theatre: THE ‘BURBS, SILENT RUNNING, THE DRIVE, and the US premiere of the documentary DERNSIE: THE AMAZING LIFE OF BRUCE DERN, followed by a Q&A with director Mike Mendez and the legend himself, Bruce Dern.
Double-feature of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and ESCAPE FROM LA at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, followed by a Q&A with director John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell.
Tonight’s screening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE as a tribute to the late Sam Neill. Here’s the hilarious introduction by director Taika Waititi and actors Rhys Darby and Rima Te Wiata.
Scenes from last night’s Beyond Fest/American Cinematheque world premiere of the short film “Invention 13” and the freaky Japanese horror film HAUSU in 35mm, with a Q&A with “Invention 13” directors Conor Oberst and Shawn Foree & actors Olivia Howard and Nelly Morville, moderated by Whitmer Thomas.
Tonight’s screening at the AMC Century City was YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER, followed by a Q&A with writer-director Bassam Tariq and actor John Cho.
Tonight’s American Cinematheque/ Beyond Fest screening at the Aero Theatre was the premiere of the gorgeous 4K restoration of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, followed by a Q&A with director Frank Oz.
This afternoon’s American Cinematheque screening at the Aero Theatre was the hilarious THE INVITE in 35mm, followed by a Q&A with director and actor Olivia Wilde and cinematographer Adam Newport-Berra, moderated by Jazz Tangcay.
Tonight’s American Cinematheque/ Beyond Fest screening at the Aero Theatre was the horror film NEVER AFTER DARK (coming September 25), with a Q&A with writer-director Dave Boyle (MAN FROM RENO) and star Moeka Hoshi (SHOGUN), moderated by horror director Joe Lynch (MAYHEM, SUITABLE FLESH).
Tonight at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was a 20th anniversary screening of MARIE ANTOINETTE, with an introduction by director Sofia Coppola and followed by a Q&A with Coppola and star Kirsten Dunst, moderated by museum Teen Council members Vivienne Rutherford and Liliana Patel.
Double-screening at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today! First, my first time seeing BLACK NARCISSUS on the big screen, and now a 20th anniversary screening of MARIE ANTOINETTE with a Q&A with director Sofia Coppola and star Kirsten Dunst.
Tonight I saw the utterly nuts Korean sci-fi-action-horror movie HOPE for a second time at the AMC Century City, this time with a Q&A with writer-director Na Hong-jin and star Hoyeon (SQUID GAME), moderated by Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social
At the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to see the 4K restoration of the original theatrical cut of AMADEUS, but first I went to check out the display of the Salieri make-up and prosthetics in the museum.
Tonight’s American Cinematheque screening at the Aero Theatre was THE UPRISING, followed by a Q&A with director Paul Greengrass (THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, UNITED 93, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, THE LOST BUS), moderated by Pete Hammond.
Over the weekend I also went to go see David Byrne at the Hollywood Bowl. It was my third time seeing him!
At last night’s ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Q&A at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, director Paul Thomas Anderson, cinematographer Michael Bauman, and producer Sara Murphy discuss shooting the climactic car chase with a VistaVision camera.
Tonight the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures screened ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER in VistaVision, preceded by a Q&A with director Paul Thomas Anderson, cinematographer Michael Bauman, and producer Sara Murphy.
Back at the Directors Village theater for an American Cinematheque screening of the 4K restoration of AKIRA.
Tonight at the Aero Theatre, the American Cinematheque and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association had a 12th anniversary screening of BOYHOOD (which took 12 years to film) in 35mm, followed by a Q&A with writer-director Richard Linklater, moderated by Tim Grierson.
The introduction to tonight’s world premiere of COYOTE VS. ACME at the Directors Village theater featured director Dave Green, producer Christopher DeFaria, screenwriter Samy Burch, and stars Will Forte, Lana Condor, John Cena, Martha Kelly, P.J. Byrne, Kenneth Choi, and voice artist Eric Bauza.
The UCLA Marching Band, led by Wile E. Coyote, welcomes everyone to tonight’s world premiere of the very funny (and nearly buried) COYOTE VS. ACME at the American Cinematheque’s Directors Village theater.
RIP Tim Curry 💔 Last September 26, on the 50th anniversary of the US release of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, the Academy Museum hosted a rare Q&A with the legend himself. After a debilitating 2012 stroke, Curry had diminished mobility and speech, but he was as sharp and wonderfully witty as ever.
Earlier this year on January 19, the American Cinematheque celebrated Dolly Parton’s 80th birthday with a double-feature at the Aero Theatre of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS and 9 TO 5, with this recorded introduction by Dolly herself.
Tonight at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was a screening of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, preceded by a Q&A with star Charlize Theron, moderated by Academy Museum Teen Council members Shyla Corona and Kamila Gomez.
Last night was an American Cinematheque/ Beyond Fest screening of BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL, a documentary about the disastrous production of EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, with a Q&A with director David Kittredge & producers Travis Stevens and Jim Fall, moderated by Bryan Fuller @amcinematheque.bsky.social
