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EMERALD FENNELL AND CAREY MULLIGAN IN CONVERSATION

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It could only be her. Carey is… just famously good and she chooses so carefully and she’s really always kept to her own journey in terms of what she picks. She’s very private, which makes quite an enigmatic actress. I really wanted somebody who wasn’t going to come and make her a kick-ass superhero comic book character. I wanted her to be the stillness at the center of it all. She was my dream person. — Emerald Fennell

Film Independent Presents will host a members’ screening of Fennell ’s remarkable debut feature PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, as well as a Q & A with the writer-director joining the film’s star Carey Mulligan.

And the American Cinematheque has added an online Q & A as well, which Bo Burnham will join. A free PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN screener link is available now with this event, while supplies last.

For information on all the events, VOD streaming, and Film Independent membership, see the links below.

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN

Focus Features

Written and directed by Emerald Fennell.

Film Independent Presents

Wednesday and Thursday, January 13 and 14.

Streams for 48 hours.

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN is streaming on demand from January 15.

EMERALD FENNELL and CAREY MULLIGAN Q & A

Film Independent Presents

Friday, January 15.

Noon on the West Coast; 3 pm East Coast; 8 pm London; 9 pm Paris.

EMERALD FENNELL, CAREY MULLIGAN and BO BURNHAM Q & A

American Cinematheque

Saturday, January 23.

1 pm on the West Coast; 4 pm East Coast; 9 pm London; 10 pm Paris.

Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman (2020), from top: Carey Mulligan; Bo Burnham and Mulligan; Alison Brie and Mulligan; Laverne Cox; Mulligan (2); Sam Richardson and Mulligan; Molly Shannon and Mulligan; Adam Brody; Mulligan. Images courtesy and © Focus Features.

EMPTY METAL

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“A trio of musicians desert their sincere but ultimately uninspired creative endeavors after answering an inexplicable call to action by time-traveling revolutionaries. What unravels is a provocatively efficient assassination plot that reveals the status of the artist for what it is, a particle embedded within some of the sustained injustices of our time: wanton surveillance, drone warfare, toxic masculinity within libertarian ranks, and the enduring inaccessibility to a secure sense of culture, place, and identity by displaced populations living in the United States.

“With the intention of creating a science fiction film set one week into the future, EMPTY METAL is an unselfconscious projection of the furthest political imagination stretched and shared by its directors.”*

LACMA‘s one-night-only presentation of EMPTY METAL—directed by Bayley Sweitzer and 2019 Whitney Biennial artist Adam Khalil—is co-presented with The Autry Museum of the American West, which will screen Khalil’s INAATE/SE/ on Friday, June 7, at The Autry.

“In politics, you’re either a terrorist or a freedom fighter… [With EMPTY METAL, we attempted to] create a Trojan horse for ideas of insurrection.” — Adam Khalil, at LACMA

EMPTY METAL*

Thursday, June 6, at 7:30 pm.

Bing Theater, LACMA

5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

See Pamela Cohn on Empty Metal.

From top: Pvssyheaven in Empty Metal (2018); Sam Richardson; King Alpha; Austin Sley Julian; Richardson,; Sley Julian; Alpha and company. Screen images courtesy the filmmakers and Steady Orbits.