Murakami @ Cinevegas

Murakami Screening

As a part of the 10th Annual CineVegas Film Festival, a site specific installation featuring an animation piece by renowned international artist Takashi Murakami will be featured at Wynn Las Vegas for one night only on Monday, June 16, 2008.

Having previously exhibited only at Murakami’s currently touring mid-career retrospective © MURAKAMI, the work, entitled Planting the Seeds, will be shown on the Lake of Dreams, the unique outdoor waterfall venue at Wynn Las Vegas, with showings at 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.

Murakami will be in attendance.

Get your tickets here.

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Giant Robot is giving away 5 pairs of tickets. To enter, please send an email to filmmatters@giantrobot.com, subject line: Murakami @ Cinevegas. We will notify the winners today!

CinéMOCA

CinéMOCA starts this weekend




Please join Giant Robot at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

CinéMOCA – Six Saturdays of Art and Cinema

This Saturday:

Music set by Henry Rollins from 7-9 pm and screening of Underground Forces from 9-11 pm

The Geffen Contemporary galleries will be open.

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N Central Ave
Downtown LA

Full schedule and more info

Los Angeles Film Festival

FILM INDEPENDENT’S LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
PRESENTED BY LOS ANGELES TIMES
June 19 – 29 • Westwood Village

Giant Robot is proud to invite you to the following screenings as part of the 2008 Film Festival:


Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe
DIR: Harry Kim
USA
CAST: David Choe
Underground artist David Choe's rise to fame and bizarre adventures are chronicled by his lifelong friend Harry Kim, the only one brave enough to follow him from the mean streets of L.A. to the heart of the Congo.
Saturday, June 21, 9:45 p.m., Majestic Crest Theatre
Sunday, June 22, 4:00 p.m., Mann Festival Theatre
Thursday, June 26, 4:30 p.m., Mann Festival Theatre


Wonderful Town
DIR: Aditya Assarat
Thailand
CAST: Anchalee Saisoontorn, Supphasit Kansen, Dul Yaambunying
Visually stunning, with an entrancing soundtrack, the debut feature follows a fragile romance between a Bangkok architect and a rural hotel owner in a Thai coastal town still recovering from the 2004 tsunami.
Saturday, June 21, 7:00 p.m., AMC Avco 4
Tuesday, June 24, 9:45 p.m., The Landmark

Film Independent’s Los Angeles Film Festival, presented by Los Angeles Times, showcases the best of American and international cinema. The Festival is held in the heart of Westwood Village. The Festival screens more than 250 narrative, documentary, short film, and international features to a diverse audience of 83,000. From VIP galas to celebrity-studded premieres, the Los Angeles Film Festival highlights film from every corner of the globe.

For passes, tickets and full Festival details, please call
1.866.FILMFEST or visit LAFF

Hollywood Chinese

Arthur Dong's documentary about Chinese Americans in Hollywood movies not only features filmmakers, cast members, and clips from titles you'd expect (Charlie Chan, Flower Drum Song, Chan Is Missing, Joy Luck Club, Better Luck Tomorrow) but also offers surprises such as Yellowface actors and excavated footage from the first Chinese-American movie. While Dong intelligently addresses race issues and box-office politics, the overall tone is more like a celebration than a sermon, and will interest not only students of Chinese-American and Asian-American culture but movie fans in general.

Check out HOLLYWOOD CHINESE during its all-important opening weekend at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills or Laemmle's One Colorado in Pasadena this Saturday and Sunday or in a return engagement at the ImaginAsian Theatre in New York City.

(and stay tuned for GR54!)

Free MONGOL Screening- Wednesday, June 4, 2008 7:30p

GIANT ROBOT invites you & a guest to a Special Screening of the new PICTUREHOUSE release

Directed by Sergei Bordov and written by Sergei Bordov with Arif Aliyev
Starring Tadanobu Asano

Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS) illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, MONGOL. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, MONGOL delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. MONGOL shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested: his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor.

Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, MONGOL transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad’s landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (ICHI THE KILLER, ZATOICHI, LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror. Asano’s achievement is matched by those of his co-stars, including the radiant newcomer Khulan Chuluun as Temudgin’s courageous, spirited wife Borte, and the Chinese actor Honglei Sun (THE ROAD HOME) as the Mongol chieftain Jamukha, Temudgin’s dearest friend and deadliest enemy. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages.

MONGOL will be released in NY/LA on Friday, June 6th, 2008. 124 minutes. MPAA Rating – R.


Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 7:30PM
PACIFIC DESIGN CENTER
Silver Screen Theater (2nd Floor)
8687 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90069
*Please enter the PDC through the San Vicente Blvd entrance and park in the parking structure next to the green bldg where the theater is located.*

Seating is not guaranteed and will be first come, first serve.

1. Send RSVPs to filmmatters@giantrobot.com with “Mongol” in the subject line.
2. Please indicate if you will be bringing a guest.
3. You will receive an email confirming your RSVP.
4. Seating is not guaranteed and will be first come, first serve.

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The Children of Huang Shi

Giant Robot readers and Film Matters subscribers are invited to attend the U.S. premiere of The Children of Huang Shi this Thursday, May 15th at 7:30 p.m. The historical epic, which is directed by Roger Spottiswoode and stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, and Michelle Yeoh, will screen at the new Landmark Theatres at the Westside Pavilion.

A reception will immediately follow the screening at the Wine Bar.

How it works:
1. Send RSVPs to rsvp@bk-pr.com.
2. Please indicate if you will be brining a guest.
3. You will receive an email confirming your RSVP.
4. Seating is not guaranteed and will be first come, first serve.

See you there!