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MAREN ADE’S EVERYONE ELSE

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Seven years before shooting her masterpiece Toni Erdmann (2016), Maren Ade wrote, produced, and directed EVERYONE ELSE / ALLE ANDEREN.
“Young couple Gitti and Chris are vacationing at Chris’ parents’ villa in Sardinia. Ade’s almost too perceptive window into the relationship spares us none of the details, as the couple’s vacation—with its ample, visual reminders of Éric Rohmer‘s La Collectionneuse—becomes its own bit of prison.”*
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Author Durga Chew-Bose will present EVERYONE ELSE at Cinefamily on Tuesday night, May 16.
The night before the screening, Chew–Bose will launch her new essay collection TOO MUCH AND NOT IN THE MOOD at a Hard to Read event at the Standard Hollywood, joined by Sarah Nicole Prickett, Grace Dunham, Aria Dean, and Fiona Duncan.
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DURGA CHEW–BOSE: TOO MUCH AND NOT IN THE MOOD,
Monday, May 15, at 7 pm.
Standard Hollywood
8300 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood
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EVERYONE ELSE / ALLE ANDEREN,
Tuesday, May 16, at 7:30 pm.
Silent Movie Theater
611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles
Birgit Minichmayr and Lars Eidinger in Everyone Else/Alle Anderen (2009). Image credit: Komplizen Film

CHANTAL AKERMAN AT CINEFAMILY

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Women of Cinefamily present a weekend of screenings in their No Great Women Artists series, a look at how the Jill Soloway and Sarah Gubbins web series I Love Dick pays tribute to the work of filmmakers like Chantal Akerman, Sally Potter, Carolee Schneeman, and Naomi Uman.

In the 1970s, Akerman spent her early twenties in New York City and absorbed the cinema of Yvonne Rainer, Michael Snow, and Jonas Mekas. Returning to Belgium, Akerman crafted two of her greatest works: JE, TU, IL, ELLE (1974), and JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (1975), both screening at Cinefamily.

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JE, TU, IL, ELLE

Sunday, May 7, at 6 pm.

JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
Monday, May 8, at 7:30 pm.
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Cinefamily
611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles.
Above: Chantal Akerman.
Below: Je, tu, il, elle, directed by Chantal Ackerman

CHRIS KRAUS AND JILL SOLOWAY AT CINEFAMILY

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It’s hard to imagine a better writer–director–producer to turn Chris Kraus’ I LOVE DICK into a limited-series than Jill Soloway. The creative force behind Transparent, as well as the 2013 feature Afternoon Delight, Soloway first attracted notice in Los Angeles with a truly subversive theater piece—created with her sister, Faith, and updated weekly—based on scripts from The Brady Bunch.*

At Cinefamily this weekend, Soloway, Kraus, and Kathryn Hahn, who plays “Chris” in the series, will present a free screening of the entire series, followed by a Q & A.

 

I LOVE DICK, Sunday, April 30, at noon. Free with r.s.v.p.:

cinefamily.org/films/special-events-april-2017/#i-love-dick-the-complete-series-with-jill-soloway-kathryn-hahn-chris-kraus-in-person

CINEFAMILY AT THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE, 611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles.

 

See: Jill Soloway and Van Jones in conversation, Out, May 2017.

out.com/out-exclusives/2017/3/31/transparent-creator-jill-soloway-talks-van-jones-about-new-queer-revolution

*The Real Live Brady Bunch—the first-ever TV screen-to-stage transition—had a long run at the Westwood (now Geffen) Playhouse in the early 1990s.

Kathryn Hahn in Afternoon Delight, written and directed by Jill Soloway Image credit: Collider

Kathryn Hahn in Afternoon Delight, written and directed by Jill Soloway
Image credit: Collider

 

SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL AT CINEFAMILY

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Albert Kodagolian will present his debut film, SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL (2014), on a special night of movie(s), music, and conversation at Cinefamily. Inspired by Atom Egoyan’s Calendar (1993), Kodagolian and Egoyan will be on hand to introduce and discuss their films. A set by musicians Andrea Silva and Avi Buffalo—who wrote several original songs for Kodagolian’s film—will follow the screening.

SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL—shot in 35mm and 16mm, and set in Los Angeles and Patagonia—is a metatexual journey wherein the domestically unraveling life of the director (Kodagolian) “completes” that of the protagonist (Anthony Bonaventura) of his unfinished film within a film.

SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL was written by Matthew Bedard, Jimmy Kelly, and Kodagolian, and features an original score by Zander Schloss and Bauhaus/Love and Rockets drummer Kevin Haskins.

 

SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL, Thursday, April 13 at 7:30 pm.

CINEFAMILY AT THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE, 611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles.

SOMEWHERE BEAUTIFUL opens at the Los Feliz Cinema on Friday, April 21.

somewherebeautifulthefilm.com/

cinefamily.org/films/a-band-and-a-movie/#somewhere-beautiful-with-atom-egoyan-albert-kodagolian-in-person-avi-buffalo-live

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Anthony Bonaventura (foreground) in Somewhere Beautiful Image credit: Somewhere Beautiful The Film.

Anthony Bonaventura (foreground) in Somewhere Beautiful
Image credit: Somewhere Beautiful The Film.

JEAN COCTEAU AT CINEFAMILY

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Jean Marais in Orphée, directed by Jean Cocteau Image: Pop Classics

Jean Marais in Orphée, directed by Jean Cocteau
Image: Pop Classics

Jean Cocteau—perfectly suited to the visual medium of mirrors, dreams, and life after death—was a filmmaker for three decades, but his greatest engagement took place during the five years immediately following the end of the Second World War, a period which began with one masterpiece (LA BELLE ET LA BÊTE, 1945) and ended with another—ORPHÉE.

Cocteau’s perennial star Jean Marais takes the title role, and the film features François Périer, Edouard Dermithe, Juliette Greco, and a cameo by Jean-Pierre Melville (who directed the film of Cocteau’s novel LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES the same year.) Death is played by Maria Casarès—the great star of Bresson’s LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE—and her henchmen in wide leather cummerbunds attend to their errands on motorcycle.

ORPHÉE is dedicated to the artist and designer Christian Bérard, who died while the film was in pre-production.

The closest the cinema has ever got to poetry.” — Leslie Halliwell on ORPHÉE

 

ORPHÉE / ORPHEUS  (1950, Jean Cocteau)—in 35 mm—Saturday, March 18 at 3 pm.

CINEFAMILY AT THE SILENT MOVIE THEATRE, 611 North Fairfax, Los Angeles.

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