Daily Archives: December 29, 2007

Aero, Egyptian Celebrate Foreign Film Globe Nominees

Screenings

The NBC broadcast of the awards show itself may be in jeopardy, with actors not wanting to cross the picket lines of striking writers, but the five Golden Globe nominees for Best Foreign Language Film will screen at the Aero and Egyptian Theatres next week, before the directors of all the nominated films convene for a special seminar at the Egyptian on Saturday, January 12. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Persepolis, The Kite Runner, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Lust, Caution will screen January 9 through 12 at the Aero Theatre, and on Saturday, January 12 at 1 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, all five filmmakers will sit for a free-admission panel moderated by Screen International‘s Mike Goodridge.

The Aero Theatre
is located at 1328 Montana Avenue in Santa Monica; the
historic Egyptian Theatre is located at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, between Highland and Las
Palmas, in Hollywood. Tickets for both venues are available through Fandango, but for 24-hour recorded
information on tickets, directions and each site’s upcoming schedule,
phone (323) 466-FILM, or visit
the Cinematheque’s eponymous Web site by clicking here.

There Will Be Poster Amusement

Amusements, Posterized!

The tattered tome poster, with the tagline “When Ambition Meets Faith” and its single, vertical, red line, is both simplistic and eye-catching, but does anyone else think that There Will Be Blood‘s other poster, with a hat-sporting Daniel Day-Lewis, makes him look like Burt Reynolds? I swear that Paramount Vantage further lightened that image on the right-hand side, which has a successful reductive effect. But still…

LACMA Fetes New Korean Master

Screenings

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art kicks off the new year by hosting a retrospective of Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong’s work — spanning four movies and three evenings, January 3 through 5. Lee’s latest film, Secret Sunshine, won its lead the Best Actress prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, and is South Korea’s
foreign language submission for the Academy Awards. A former novelist
and recent Minister of Culture, Lee will be in attendance as LACMA
screens his four feature films — clear-eyed and nuanced
dramas all, depicting not only individuals faced with life’s random
complications but also the character of a changing nation — few of which have seen a proper theatrical release in the United States. Peppermint Candy kicks things off on Thursday, January 3, followed the next evening by Oasis; the slate concludes Saturday evening with a double-bill of Green Fish and the aforementioned Secret Sunshine. For more information, click here.