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BOOTS RILEY’S SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

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“Because I’m working with someone like Lakeith, who has a very sharp tool at his disposal and can carve the things I ask him to carve, we could root the performance in realism and believability and subtlety. It’s really important that all these weird things that happen in our movie happen not for the sake of being weird or eye candy, that they happen because I’m trying to solve a problem in trying to relate an idea or an emotion and that’s where those weird things happen.” — Boots Riley, on making SORRY TO BOTHER YOU*

Writer-director Boots Riley and actors Lakeith Stanfield and Terry Crews will participate in a Q & A after a weekend screening of SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, an uproarious farce that blends the social satire of Justin Simien’s film Dear White People (2014) with Michel Gondry’s surrealist fantasies.

 

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, opens Thursday evening, July 5.

BOOTS RILEY, LAKEITH STANFIELD, and TERRY CREWS Q & A

Saturday, July 7, after the 8:45 pm Cinerama Dome show.

ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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*See: filmcomment.com/white-noise

Lakeith Stanfield (left) and Danny Glover in Sorry to Bother You. Image credit: Annapurna Pictures.

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THE RETURN OF DEBRA GRANIK

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Winter’s Bone (2010) drastically changed the lives of both director Debra Granik and actor Jennifer Lawrence, and Granik is back with an excellent new feature about independence, resilience, and life off the grid.

LEAVE NO TRACE features a remarkable performance by Thomasin McKenzie (Tom) as the daughter of Ben Foster (Will). Dale Dickey co-stars.

 

LEAVE NO TRACE, now playing.

ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

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LANDMARK, 10850 West Pico Boulevard, Rancho Park, Los Angeles.

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See: hollywoodreporter.com/debra-granik-explains-why-been-eight-years

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Above: Debra Granik.

Below: Thomasin McKenzie (left) and Ben Foster in Leave No Trace (2018). Image credit: Bleecker Street.

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YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

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Lynne Ramsay—the director of Morvern Callar and We Need to Talk About Kevin—is not particularly prolific, which makes her new film YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE an especially anticipated experience. Early audiences for this Cannes-winning work have been exiting the cinema exhilarated, unsure as to how literally to take the title’s directive, and struck with a fervent desire to see it again.

The film has been re-edited since Cannes, where Joaquin Phoenix won Best Actor for his work in the film, and Ramsay won Best Screenplay, an award she shared with The Killing of a Sacred Deer writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos. The film’s soundtrack is by Jonny Greenwood.

 

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE, now playing.

ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

arclightcinemas.com/you-were-never-really-here

After you see the film, read Ramsay’s Film Comment interview:

filmcomment.com/lynne-ramsay

Joaquin Phoenix in You Were Never Really Here. Image credit: Amazon Films.

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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

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After months of festival praise and a recent gala screening at AFI Fest 2017, Luca Guadagnino’s CALL ME BY YOUR NAME has finally opened in cinemas.

A portrayal, both devastating and edifying, of a teenager discovering his sexuality, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME features a superlative lead performance by Timothée Chalamet as young Elio, a live wire summering “somewhere in northern Italy” in the early 1980s.

The script—based on André Aciman’s 2007 novel—was written by James Ivory, and Sufjan Stevens wrote two new songs—”Mystery of Love” and “Visions of Gideon”—for the film.

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

Now playing.

Arclight Hollywood

6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Landmark

10850 West Pico Boulevard, Rancho Park, Los Angeles.

From top: Timothée Chalamet (left) and Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name (2017); Chalamet; Hammer and Chalamet. Image credit: Sony Pictures Classics.

GRETA GERWIG’S LADY BIRD

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Elvis Mitchell: “Tell us about your first day as a director.”

Greta Gerwig: “I prepared and I over-prepared. Film is weird—it’s a timed art. For everything you’re doing [on set], that’s something else you’re not able to do. But I was ready. It’s a mix of being totally in control and totally out of control. It’s thrilling.”*

Actor-screenwriter Gerwig grew up in Sacramento, went to a Catholic high school, attended Barnard, and wanted to be a dancer.

The last part of that story provided the basis for Frances Ha (2012), her screenplay collaboration with her work and life partner Noah Baumbach.

For LADY BIRD, Gerwig took over the directing reins for the first time, and the completed work—a roughly autobiographical coming-of-age tale about the Sacramento years, starring Saoirse Ronan in the title role and Laurie Metcalf as her mother—is one of the standout films of 2017.

 

LADY BIRD, now playing.

LAEMMLE NOHO, 5240 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood.

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ARCLIGHT HOLLYWOOD, 6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

ARCLIGHT PASADENA, 300 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena.

ARCLIGHT SHERMAN OAKS, 15301 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks.

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*Greta Gerwig and Elvis Mitchell at the Film Independent screening of Lady Bird (2017), LACMA, November 2, 2017.

Image courtesy of WireImage and Film Independent.

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