I don’t really think it’s dark. I mean, it’s described as a dark comedy only because there’s murder in it, the darkest subject you can think of. But Bernie’s life I don’t… it only had a few seconds of darkness. -Richard Linklater KCET Cinema Series Presents BERNIE Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 104 Minutes | Year: 2012 […]

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What is wrong is wrong, no matter who said it or where it’s written. -Nader KCET Cinema Series and the City National Bank Presents A SEPARATION Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 123 Minutes | Year: 2011 | Trailer: Separation Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 | 7:00 PM Many thanks to the incredible KCET & City National Bank! Q&A […]

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And that’s what’s so brilliant about Charlize. She is the most beautiful human being I have ever met.  So intimidatingly beautiful that the first few times I met her I felt like a 12 year old. -Jason Reitman KCET Cinema Series and the City National Bank Presents YOUNG ADULT Rating: R | Runtime: 94 Minutes […]

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People have been arguing about her for months and months, She certainly burns brightly as a still very divisive character. -Phyllida Lloyd KCET Cinema Series and the City National Bank Presents THE IRON LADY Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 105 Minutes | Year: 2011 | Trailer: Lady Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | 7:00 PM Many thanks to the […]

Read more "Pick for 11/29/11 – “The Iron Lady”"

She’s a strange hybrid. She’s still very separate from her body. She’s more comfortable now in her guise as a man than she would as a woman. If she went into a dress she wouldn’t know how to behave. She’s caught in the middle. In the story, George Moore calls her a perhapser. -Glenn Close […]

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She is a very famous name and an incredibly famous face but people don’t really know the actor. They haven’t seen the movies nearly as much as they know who she is and they know the soap opera of her life. -Simon Curtis KCET Cinema Series and the City National Bank Presents MY WEEK WITH […]

Read more "Pick for 11/15/11 – “My Week with Marilyn”"

I lived and breathed her for the last four years. Everyday day, every night. I learned Burmese,. I slept with her, I woke up with her. Because it was necessary not just to mimic and give you a two-dimensional concept and feel for what she represented, of who she was, but to allow you to […]

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I would say that’s pretty much the theme of all human experience, is it not? Fuck paradise? Isn’t that the theme of Adam and Eve? They’re given paradise and they fuck it up. -Alexander Payne KCET Cinema Series and the City National Bank Presents THE DESCENDANTS Rating: R | Runtime: 115 Minutes | Year: 2011 | Trailer: Descendants […]

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