Los Angeles Cinema

Inspiring

1. VC Filmfest

Neighborhood: Downtown

this year to Mako, that pioneering Asian American actor who helped to found East West Players, often keeping it going with his own (and those he inspired) blood, sweat, and tears.  They had their warm...

2. Laemmle Playhouse 7

Neighborhood: Pasadena

You've gotta give it up to a theater that brings inspiring movies to the screen.  Change up your friday night boring old marry people, add some culture to your life...and stop feeding your kids...

3. Regency Academy…

Neighborhood: Pasadena

realigned the reel so the subtitles could be read. No worries as his snafu inspired several good one-liners from the audience, the obvious being: "No wonder it's like $2.00 to get in..."). But that is what...

4. Vista Theatre

movie theatres were (and should be) in LA. I always like to go early so I can sit in the theatre and admire the Egyptian inspired decor.   Opened on Oct 9th of 1923, the theatre is built on the site...

5. Hollywood Forever…

Neighborhood: Hollywood

is owned by two brothers, one of whom is gay..and who was the inspiration for the HBO series "Six Feet Under."...

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Creative

1. Powerhouse Theatre

the intermission.  Inside, where it counts, the house is extremely intimate (especially if, by intimate, you mean one bathroom), as is the stage, though I've seen some extremely creative staging done in the small...

2. The Groundlings

Neighborhood: West Hollywood

you see improv try and use the number 69 and the occupation stripper - ideas from a perverted audience - the funniness goes way down. (I don't mind perverted but at least be creative with it)  Oh and I...

3. Hollywood Forever…

Neighborhood: Hollywood

with a statue of his likeness.  Other celebs include Douglas Fairbanks both Jr. and Sr., and they have this enormous memorial with a reflecting pool in front of it.  Gravestones are really creative, and yeah...

4. Lionsgate…

Neighborhood: Santa Monica

part of the dialogue.  If you want to be part of the solution, put your ideas before the electorate along with your name on a ballot.  Once elected, then let's see some of that creativity that is so...

5. Nuart Theatre

night here and seeing an awesome creative endeavor from my friend on the screen was like the cherry on top of the movie picture Sunday. Yay, definitely check this theater and this film out!...

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