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blog.laemmle.com The official blog of Laemmle Theatres All Theater Buzz Claremont 5 Glendale Newhall NoHo 7 Royal Santa Monica Town Center 5 QA’s LocationsShowtimes Claremont Glendale NewHall North Hollywood Royal (West LA) Santa Monica Town Center (Encino) Film Series Anniversary Classics Culture Vulture Throwback Thursdays Facebook Instagram RSS Twitter Laemmle Theatres Load More... Subscribe This message is only visible to admins. Problem displaying Facebook posts. Backup cache in use. Click to show error Error: Error validating access token: The session has been invalidated because the user changed their password or Facebook has changed the session for security reasons. Type: OAuthException FINDING THE MONEY: come out for QAs with the subject Stephanie Kelton, Harry Shearer, Cory Doctorow,the filmmaker; see Kelton’s appearance on The Daily Show. May 8, 2024 by Jordan Deglise Moore Leave a Comment Hope/Good News Alert! Next week we have three screenings of the new documentary Finding the Money . It follows former chief economist to the Senate Budget Committee, Stephanie Kelton, on a journey through Modern Money Theory or MMT,” to unveil a deeper story about money, injecting new hope and empowering democracies around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality. We’re hosting QAs 5/14 in Claremont with director Maren Poitras; 5/15 in NoHo with Ms. Kelton, Cory Doctorow, and Ms. Poitras; and 5/16 at the Royal with Ms. Kelton, Harry Shearer, and Ms. Poitras. Check out Ms. Kelton’s recent appearance on The Daily Show. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Filed Under: Claremont 5 , Filmmaker in Person , Films , NoHo 7 , QA's , Royal , Theater Buzz ¡Hasta la victoria siempre! THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES 20th Anniversary Screenings May 15. May 8, 2024 by Jordan Deglise Moore Leave a Comment Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present the next entry in our Anniversary Classics Abroad series, the biopic drama of the early years of Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries (2004). The Academy Award-winning film by director Walter Salles ( Central Station ) will play for one show only on Wednesday, May 15 at 7:00 pm at five Laemmle locations: Claremont , Encino , Glendale , Newhall , and West L.A. In addition to the Oscar for Best Song, Al Otro Lado Del Rio,” the film was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay by playwright Jose Rivera, based on Guevara’s memoir. The film recounts the 1952 road trip by 23-year-old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granada (Roberto de la Serna) in a more than four-month, 8,700-mile journey across South America, initially by motorcycle. Originally intended as an adventure for fun and frolic, the two friends are exposed to indigenous peoples and cultural differences they had never experienced. These encounters plant the seeds of radicalization that would manifest as Guevara later emerged as a Marxist guerrilla leader and revolutionary, becoming a global countercultural symbol upon his murder at the age of thirty-nine. The film is a notable combination of road movie travelogue and coming-of-age drama, beautifully captured by the lustrous cinematography of Eric Gautier as their odyssey traverses the South American continent. Critics of the day responded to this approach with due appreciation. Carla Meyer of the San Francisco Chronicle called it a superb film about a physical and spiritual journey taken by a young Che Guevara, whose encounters with the unknown alter and affirm a life.” Peter Travers in Rolling Stone said, in this wild ride of a movie that is part epic poem and part political provocation, it’s the man who holds the screen as a portent of history.” Quietly exhilarating, soulful and sincerely romantic.” ~ Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press It’s about the gradual awakening into awareness, the graduation from carefree youth to responsible adulthood.” ~ Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution An involving, lyrical, and visually beautiful cinematic bildungsroman.” ~ Glenn Kenny, Premiere Magazine Whether you want to see The Motorcycle Diaries as entirely a personal story or as social and political allegory, it captures a far different and far more vulnerable Ernesto Guevara than the one we think we know.” ~ Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com What Bernal and this well-wrought movie convey so well is the charisma that would soon become a part of human history and, yes, T-shirts.” ~ Desson Thomson, Washington Post * You get so caught up in the beauty of the images, and lost in the weathered faces found along the way, you quite forget that you’re traveling with Che Guevara — which is, of course, exactly what the original experience would be.” ~ Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times * Revisits Guevara’s 8,000-mile tour of South America — and the origins of his personal revolution — with humor, exquisite compassion and visual grace.” ~ Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle * It’s got poetry to it — the poetry of humanity.” ~ Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer * Reaches back to the past to suggest that life is full of turning points, some of which we recognize and some we don’t, and that, in a dangerous world, youth and friendship are to be treasured because, like life, they can pass so quickly.” ~ Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune * If I was moved despite my ingrained skepticism about Ché Guevara and Castro’s Cuba, you probably will be too.” ~ Andrew Sarris, Observer * Coming attractions in the Anniversary Classics Series include Dead Poets Society (May 22), From Russia With Love (May 28), The Lovers , Red Desert , A Sunday in the Country , and the Three Colors trilogy: Red , White , and Blue , among others. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Filed Under: Anniversary Classics , Claremont 5 , Featured Post , Films , Glendale , Newhall , Repertory Cinema , Royal , Theater Buzz , Town Center 5 By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes:” MACBETH with Ralph FiennesIndira Varma May 1, 2024 by Jordan Deglise Moore Leave a Comment We’re thrilled to screen Shakespeare’s leanest, meanest tragedy, Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma , May 2 and 5 only, following its highly acclaimed U.K. tour. It was filmed live at Dock X in London especially for cinemas. Tony and BAFTA Award-winner Fiennes ( AntonyCleopatra , Schindler’s List , Coriolanus ) and Olivier Award-winner Indira Varma ( Present Laughter , Game of Thrones , Luther ) star in this brand-new ‘full-voltage visceral’ (★★★★ Daily Telegraph) production of the Scottish play. Designed for a custom-built space, this gripping and breathtaking play about the couple utterly corrupted by their relentless lust for power is unmissable on the big screen. By the end of the run in London and following seasons in Liverpool and Edinburgh, this production played to sell-out audiences of over 100,000 people at 110 performances. We’ll show Macbeth at our Claremont , Glendale , Santa Monica , Newhall and Encino theaters. Directed by Simon Godwin ( AntonyCleopatra , RomeoJuliet , Hansard ) with set and costume design by Frankie Bradshaw ( Jerusalem , Blues for an Alabama Sky ), this stunning production brings ‘Shakespeare’s tragedy pulsing into the present day’ (★★★★★ The I). Regard this clip. It really gives one a (bloody) taste of what awaits: Joining Ralph Fiennes as Macbeth and Indira Varma as Lady Macbeth are Ben Allen as Ross, Ewan Black as Malcolm, Levi Brown as Angus,...