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See a film ... then see it inside out.

In an energized atmosphere, Below the Line gathers key department heads from the crew responsible for the film. After viewing the finished movie, imagine a roundtable where you have a seat. Filmmakers interact with each other and with you, their peers.

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WALL•E Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
Q & A immediately following the screening featuring:
Director Andrew Stanton
Composer Thomas Newman
Sound Designer Ben Burtt
 
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets an adventure into motion. Joining WALL•E on his journey across the universe is a cast of characters including a pet cockroach and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.

Arclight Sherman Oaks Cinema 15301 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Parking is free.
Doubt Sunday, November 16th, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
Q & A immediately following the screening featuring:
Director John Patrick Shanley
Cinematographer Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC
Production Designer David Gropman
Costume Designer Ann Roth
Editor Dylan Tichenor
Composor Howard Shore
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are weeping through the country, and, indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius is galvanized to begin a crusade to both unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shred of proof or evidence except her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn, a battle that threatens to tear apart the Church and school with devastating consequences.


Fine Arts Theater 8556 Wilshire Blvd. (between Robertson & La Cienega) Parking is available at the Flynt Building – one block east of theater at Wilshire & La Cienega BRING YOUR PARKING STUB TO THEATER FOR VALIDATION
Revolutionary Road Sunday, November 16th, 2008 @ 10:00 AM
Q & A immediately following the screening featuring:
Director
Sam Mendes
Director of Photography Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC
Composer Thomas Newman

Adapted from the revealing novel by Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road is an incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (three-time Academy Award® nominee Leonardo DiCaprio) and April (five-time Academy Award® nominee Kate Winslet) Wheeler. Yates’ story of 1950’s America poses a question that has been reverberating through modern relationships ever since:  can two people break away from the ordinary without breaking apart?  
 
Frank and April have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia that surrounds them and determine never to be trapped by the social confines of their era.  
 
Yet for all their charm, beauty and irreverence, the Wheelers find themselves becoming exactly what they didn’t expect:  a good man with a routine job whose nerve has gone missing; a less-than-happy homemaker starving for fulfillment and passion; an American family with lost dreams, like any other.  
 
Driven to change their fates, April hatches an audacious plan to start all over again, to leave the comforts of Connecticut behind for the great unknown of Paris.  But when the plan is put in motion, each spouse is pushed to extremes – one to escape whatever the cost, the other to save all that they have, no matter the compromises.  



Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study 1313 N. Vine Street (between Fountain & Homewood) Hollywood, CA Free parking behind theater - enter lot off Homewood on north side of bldg.
Changeling Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Q & A immediately following the screening featuring:
Director of Photography Tom Stern, ASC;
Editors Joel Cox & Gary Roach ;

CLINT EASTWOOD (Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Letters from Iwo Jima) directs ANGELINA JOLIE (The Good Shepherd; A Mighty Heart; Girl, Interrupted) and JOHN MALKOVICH (Dangerous Liaisons, Beowulf, Burn After Reading) in an emotional and provocative drama based on actual events that forever transformed the city of Los Angeles. Changeling tells the story of one woman whose invincible spirit and refusal to surrender brought down a corrupt police department and ushered in a new era of dignity and equality under the law.

Los Angeles, March 1928: On a beautiful Saturday morning in a working-class suburb, single mother Christine Collins (Oscar® winner Angelina Jolie) says goodbye to her nine-year-old son, Walter, and leaves for her job as a telephone operator. But when Christine returns to their modest home, she is confronted with every parent’s worst nightmare: Her son has vanished.

An exhaustive and fruitless search ensues, but Walter has disappeared without a trace…until five months later, when a child—claiming to be her boy—is returned by police who are eager to bask in the public-relations coup of reuniting mother and child. Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters, photographers and her own conflicted emotions, Christine is persuaded to take the boy home. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter.

As she pushes authorities to keep looking for her real son, Christine learns that in Prohibition-era L.A., women don’t challenge the system and live to tell their story. Slandered as delusional and unfit, she finds an ally in community activist Reverend Gustav Briegleb (John Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy.

Facing corrupt police who question her sanity and a skeptical public hungry for a fairy-tale ending, Christine desperately hunts for answers.  As she searches, she becomes an unlikely heroine for the poor and downtrodden who have been systematically abused and swept aside by the police state that has gripped L.A. Now, one woman’s quest won’t stop until she finds her son…unless those assigned to protect and serve silence her for good.



Directors Guild of America Theater #1 7920 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA Parking available in underground garage
Rachel Getting Married Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Screening only
When KYM (Anne Hathaway) returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister RACHEL (Rosemarie Dewitt), she brings a long history of personal crisis, family conflict and tragedy along with her. The wedding couple’s abundant party of friends and relations have gathered for a joyful weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym—with her biting one-liners and flair for bombshell drama—is a catalyst for long-simmering tensions in the family dynamic.

Filled with the rich and eclectic characters that remain a hallmark of Jonathan Demme’s films,
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED paints a heartfelt, perceptive and sometimes hilarious family portrait. Director Demme, first-time writer Jenny Lumet, and the stellar acting ensemble leaven the drama of these difficult but compelling people with wry affection and generosity of spirit.

Arclight Sherman Oaks Cinema 15301 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Parking is free.
Righteous Kill Paid-member exclusive! Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Screening Only

A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. Before they can hang up their badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing. When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own--take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question: Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

RIGHTEOUS KILL stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, 50 Cent, Donnie Wahlberg and Carla Gugino. Directed by Jon Avnet and produced by Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Avi Lerner.




Fine Arts Theatre 8556 Wilshire Blvd. (between Robertson & La Cienega) Parking is available at the Flynt Building – one block east of theater at Wilshire & La Cienega BRING YOUR PARKING STUB TO THEATER FOR VALIDATION
Henry Poole is Here Paid-member exclusive! Thursday, September 11th, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Screening Only
Luke Wilson (The Royal Tenenbaums, Old School), Academy Award® nominee Adriana Barraza (Babel) and Radha Mitchell (Finding Neverland) star in a modern day fable about the unexpected wonders of the everyday from director Mark Pellington (U2 3D, The Mothman Prophesies). HENRY POOLE IS HERE tells the funny, poignant and uplifting story of a disillusioned man who attempts to hide from life in a rundown suburban tract home only to discover he cannot escape the forces of hope.

Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) just wants to disappear. Shattered by circumstances beyond his control, he offers full price on a cookie cutter house in a drab, middle-class, L.A. neighborhood through his perky realtor Meg (Cheryl Hines). But just as he settles in to his indulgent isolation with a case of vodka and all the junk food he can eat, his neighbor, a well-meaning busybody named Esperanza (Adriana Barraza), drops by with a plate of homemade tamales and a whole lot of questions.

Despite his desire for solitude, Henry can’t help noticing Dawn (Radha Mitchell), the beautiful young divorcée next door and her daughter Millie (Morgan Lily), an eight-year-old amateur spy who hasn’t spoken a word since her parents’ break-up.

Henry’s self-imposed exile is shattered when Esperanza discovers a mysterious stain on Henry’s stucco wall that is seen to have miraculous powers. She begins leading pilgrimages to the “holy site” and invites church officials, including her pastor, Father Salizar (George Lopez), to inspect the apparition.

Although Henry remains skeptical, he finds himself gradually drawn back towards life, especially after his silent friendship with Millie brings him closer to Dawn. As news of the apparition spreads throughout the neighborhood and his feelings for Dawn grow, Henry realizes his plan to live out his days in quiet desperation is going to be much harder than he ever imagined.



Fine Arts Theatre 8556 Wilshire Blvd. (between Robertson & La Cienega) Parking is available at the Flynt Building – one block east of theater at Wilshire & La Cienega BRING YOUR PARKING STUB TO THEATER FOR VALIDATION
The Duchess Paid-member exclusive! Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Screening Only
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, THE DUCHESS is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age.

While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love.

From Georgiana’s passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, THE DUCHESS is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love.



Fine Arts Theatre 8556 Wilshire Blvd. (between Robertson & La Cienega) Parking is available at the Flynt Building – one block east of theater at Wilshire & La Cienega BRING YOUR PARKING STUB TO THEATER FOR VALIDATION
Traitor Paid-member exclusive! Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Screening Only
An elite FBI investigator crosses three continents in search of a renegade U.S. military operative who holds the secret to a shocking conspiracy in Traitor, a taut international thriller set in the treacherous world of covert counter-espionage operations.

Academy Award® nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash), Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential), Golden Globe® nominee Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale), Neal McDonough (Minority Report), Archie Panjabi (A Mighty Heart), Aly Khan (A Mighty Heart) and Saïd Taghmaoui (The Kite Runner) star in a globe-hopping thriller that will keep audiences guessing until its stunning climax. TRAITOR is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of The Day After Tomorrow). David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman, Don Cheadle, Jeffrey Silver produce. Ashok Amritraj, Steve Martin, Arlene Gibbs and Kay Liberman serve as executive producers.

When FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) heads up the investigation into a dangerous
international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn (Don Cheadle). A mysterious figure with a complex web of international connections, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down and disappearing before the authorities can question him.

The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter (Jeff Daniels), an amoral, veteran CIA contractor who seems to have his own agenda, and FBI agent Max Archer (Neal McDonough). The task force links Horn to illicit activities in Yemen, Nice and London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative—or something far more complicated.

Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world constructed of secrets and lies.



Fine Arts Theatre 8556 Wilshire Blvd. (between Robertson & La Cienega) Parking is available at the Flynt Building – one block east of theater at Wilshire & La Cienega BRING YOUR PARKING STUB TO THEATER FOR VALIDATION
Mamma Mia! Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Screening Only
It’s the blockbuster stage musical seen by more than 30 million people in 170 cities and eight different languages.

About a bride, her mom and three possible dads.


Filled with songs by iconic supergroup ABBA that you know and love.


Now, summer 2008 is the season when it finally hits the big screen.


Mamma mia, here I go again. My, my, how can I resist you?


MERYL STREEP and PIERCE BROSNAN lead a spectacular all-star cast in Mamma Mia! The Movie, the musical celebration of mothers and daughters and fathers, true loves lost and new ones found, and the romantic possibilities of what can happen on one magical Greek island when love is in the air and music and dancing abound.

Joining Streep and Brosnan for the music, romance and comedy are COLIN FIRTH (Love Actually, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason), STELLAN SKARSGÅRD (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Exorcist: The Beginning), JULIE WALTERS (Becoming Jane, Harry Potter series), DOMINIC COOPER (The History Boys, Starter for 10), AMANDA SEYFRIED (Mean Girls, television’s Big Love) and CHRISTINE BARANSKI (Welcome to Mooseport, Bonneville).

The three women who created the worldwide smash stage hit—global producer JUDY CRAYMER, screenwriter CATHERINE JOHNSON and director PHYLLIDA LLOYD—reprise their roles in bringing this joyful, musical story to the big screen. Producer GARY GOETZMAN (Charlie Wilson’s War, The Polar Express, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) joins them for the musical celebration.

Mamma Mia!’s accomplished behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography HARIS ZAMBARLOUKOS (Sleuth, Venus), production designer MARIA DJURKOVIC (The Hours, Billy Elliot), Oscar®-winning costume designer ANN ROTH (The Good Shepherd, The English Patient) and editor LESLEY WALKER (Emma, The Brothers Grimm).

The executive producers are BENNY ANDERSSON (composer), BJÖRN ULVAEUS (lyricist), RITA WILSON (My Big Fat Greek Wedding, upcoming My Life in Ruins), TOM HANKS (Charlie Wilson’s War, Band of Brothers) and MARK HUFFAM (The Hours, Johnny English). Music and lyrics are by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeu
s.



Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study 1313 N. Vine Street (between Fountain & Homewood) Hollywood, CA Free parking behind theater - enter lot off Homewood on north side of bldg.
WALL•E Thursday, July 10th, 2008 @ 7:30 PM
Screening Only
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets an adventure into motion. Joining WALL•E on his journey across the universe is a cast of characters including a pet cockroach and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.


Linwood Dunn Theater at the Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study 1313 N. Vine Street (between Fountain & Homewood) Hollywood, CA Free parking behind theater - enter lot off Homewood on north side of bldg.