March 26, 2023
Below The Line Screening Series hosted a presentation of The Homesman at Arclight Cinemas, Hollywood, Nov. 10. The film’s writer, director and star Tommy Lee Jones, as well as its cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, and composer Marco Beltrami sat down post credits for a Q&A. […]
Below The Line Screening Series presented a screening of Focus Features’s The Theory of Everything on Sunday at the Pacific Design Center.
Immediately after the film was a Q&A session, moderated by Pete Hammond, with the film’s screenwriter and producer Anthony McCarten, director of photography Benoit Delhomme, composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, production designer John Paul Kelly, costume designer Steven Noble and hair, makeup and prosthetic designer Jan Sewell. […]
The Walt Disney Studios Main Theater provided projector and screen for the Below The Line Screening Series presentation of Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks, Sunday, Dec. 22. The film recalls the true story of Walt Disney’s (Tom Hanks) struggle to gain the rights to shoot Mary Poppins from author P. L. Travers (Emma Thompson), as well as Ms. Travers’ fight to save the family she keeps safe within the pages of her book from the wilds of Hollywood. […]
There wasn’t an empty seat in the theater for Below The Line‘s Screening Series presentation of Dallas Buyers Club Wednesday Dec. 18. Focus Features hosted the film starring Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a Texan through and through who is informed he has AIDS and forced to consider how to spend the 30 days he’s told he has left to live. The film is based on 25 hours of recorded interview with Ron Woodroof before his death in ’92. In the film, Ron turns the 30 day death sentence into roughly seven years of making life count by helping numerous others suffering with AIDS. […]
Below The Line Screening Series members filled the Linwood Dunn theater for a presentation of 12 Years A Slave, Thursday, Dec. 12. The film is based on Solomon Northup’s true story of being kidnapped, sold into slavery and rescued 12 years later after meeting a Canadian abolitionist by chance. Steve McQueen directed the film intent on honesty and exposure. “For me there was a hole in the canon of cinema. I didn’t see that history, at all, on screen,” expressed McQueen. […]
Below The Line Screening Series members filled the Silver Screen theater at the Pacific Design Center on Friday, Dec. 6 for a screening of The Invisible Woman. Ralph Fiennes directed and starred in the period film that explores a complicated relationship kept secret by writer/actor Charles Dickens (Fiennes) with Nelly (Felicity Jones), a woman who painfully remembers the long and passionate affair. […]
Below The Line presented All Is Lost Saturday as its latest Screening Series film. Robert Redford stars as Our Man, flung into overwhelming peril in the Indian Ocean when a collision with a shipping container renders his sailboat vulnerable to the wind and waves of deep sea. Taking advantage of all resources, Our Man troubleshoots through life threatening circumstances while at times only yards away from rescue. […]