After an evening of Opening-Night shorts, Mykki Blanco will perform at this year’s OUTFEST FUSION GALA in Hollywood.
Friday, March 9.
Awards ceremony begins at 7:30,
followed by screenings, followed by party.
Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Mykki Blanco. Photograph above by Carrie Schechter.
Sebastián Lelio’s great UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA screens for one night only this week.
Premiering at November’s AFI FEST 2017, and starring astonishing newcomer Daniela Vega, MUJER opens in local cinemas in February.
“Shocking and enraging, funny and surreal, rapturous and restorative… a film of startling intensity and sinuous mood shifts wrapped in a rock-solid coherence of vision.” —David Rooney*
UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA—A FANTASTIC WOMAN , Tuesday, January 2, at 7:30 pm.
EGYPTIAN THEATRE, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
Daniela Vega in Una mujer fantástica (2017). Image credit: Sony Pictures Classics.
“You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface… manipulate that surface—gesture, costume, expression—radically and correctly. And I think Egon Schiele (1890–1918) understood this in a unique, profound, original way. [He] pushed… the performing portrait to… extremes. He shattered the form by turning the volume up to a scream.” — Richard Avedon*
EGON SCHIELE, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN—a new feature directed by Dieter Berner, and written by Berner and Hilde Berger—will screen at the Egyptian this weekend. The great Austrian painter is played by Noah Saavedra, and Maresi Riegner and Valerie Pachner co-star in this rich historical drama.
EGON SCHIELE, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN
Sunday, October 15, at 5 pm.
Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
*Richard Avedon, foreword in Jane Kallir, Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors, ed. Ivan Vartanian (London: Thames & Hudson, 2003), 5.
From top:
Noah Saavedra and Valerie Pachner in Egon Schiele—Death and the Maiden. Image credit Picture Tree.
Noah Saavedra. Photograph by Mato Johannik.
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986)—the first German artist to merit a solo show at the Guggenheim—was loved, reviled, collected, and trashed. Indeed, this master of felt, fat, and activism expanded the definition of art in the twentieth century—and the role of the artist in contemporary society. Beuys embraced it all: sculpture, performance art, photography, graphic design, shamanism, and politics. (As a pacifist-environmentalist, he co-founded the Student Party and the Green Party in Germany.)
This weekend in Hollywood, as part of the Goethe Institut’s German Current Los Angeles film festival, writer and director Andres Veiel will present his new documentary BEUYS, in its American premiere.
BEUYS, Saturday, October 14, at 5 pm.
EGYPTIAN THEATRE, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/los/ver/gcu/flm.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21057777
Joseph Beuys. Graphic design material courtesy of Fondazione Bonotto.
When the British film THE RED SHOES first opened in 1948, it was largely met with indifference in its home country. But upon its release in Manhattan, it played continuously for two years, and during the Los Angeles engagement, an MGM contract player went to see the film once a week for a year.
In anticipation of the local premiere this month of Matthew Bourne’s theatrical production of THE RED SHOES at the Ahmanson, LACMA and the American Cinematheque have programmed screenings of the Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger masterpiece.
After the LACMA screening this weekend, stay for the panel discussion “Designing for Dance,” with costume historian Bobi Garland, creative movement director Stephen Galloway, and artist and designer Stacia Lang.
THE RED SHOES, in 35 mm, Saturday, September 2, at 2 pm.
BING THEATER, LACMA, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.
lacma.org/event/red-shoes
THE RED SHOES, in 35 mm, Friday, September 22, at 7:30 pm.
EGYPTIAN THEATRE, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood.
americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/the-red-shoes-2
MATTHEW BOURNE’S THE RED SHOES, on stage from September 15 through October 1.
AHMANSON THEATRE, Music Center, downtown Los Angeles.
centertheatregroup.org/tickets/ahmanson-theatre/additional-events/the-red-shoes/
Top: Moira Shearer and Anton Walbrook in The Red Shoes (1948), written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
Bottom: Léonide Massine and Moira Shearer in The Red Shoes.
