Film Branch
The Film Branch was established in 2010. This branch is currently chaired by Jamie Fleming. It provides an additional opportunity for film goers in the Valley to come together and enjoy the art of film and film making. Scheduled in upcoming months as part of the 75th Anniversary celebration are four retrospective films from 1939.
Featured Films Coming Soon by The Ojai Film Festival and The Ojai Film Society
Since the devastation of the broken water main and the flooding of our movie theater several years ago, there has been a lack of places to screen films. We have a big new screen in our theater and are happy to share our space with the Ojai Film Festival and the Ojai Film Society who each have events here during November.
For the past 18 years, the Ojai Film Festival has brought a great diversity of films of talented filmmakers from around the world to Ojai. Last year they received over 400 entries and have selected 70 thought provoking and humorous films. The festival held every November also includes workshops and seminars by industry experts; receptions and parties. For more info, visit the Ojai Film Festival website.
For the past 18 years, the Ojai Film Festival has brought a great diversity of films of talented filmmakers from around the world to Ojai. Last year they received over 400 entries and have selected 70 thought provoking and humorous films. The festival held every November also includes workshops and seminars by industry experts; receptions and parties. For more info, visit the Ojai Film Festival website.
The Ojai Film Society will show several films in our theater this month- Sundays at 5 p.m.
Feb. 5: The First Monday in May. USA • 2016 • 1 hr., 30 min. • Rated PG-13 • Documentary
The First Monday in May follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton. With unprecedented access, filmmaker Andrew Rossi captures the collusion of high fashion and celebrity at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events, chaired every year by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Featuring a cast of renowned artists in many fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano) as well as a host of contemporary pop icons like Rihanna, the movie dives into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as art. “I am always a sucker for the eye-gasm of a fashion documentary.” Kate Muir, UK Times
Feb. 12: For the Love of Spock. Canada/USA • 2016 • 1 hr., 51 min. • Not Rated • Documentary
The beloved series Star Trek was a touchstone of the sixties, and one actor who made his career as a result of it was Leonard Nimoy. In this loving tribute by son Adam Nimoy, the life and acting/directing career of his father is laid bare. At times hilarious, informative, conflicted and emotional, the relationship between father and son is tested in the cauldron of the Hollywood star machine. That both men emerged as full and creative human beings is not so much striking as inevitable, given the commitment to personal excellence, as evidenced by on-film interviews with a great number of colleagues, from William Shatner to George Takei to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Zoe Saldana. “. . . known for creating the mixed alien and human outsider, Spock, in the 1966 ‘Star Trek’ television series, [Nimoy] will never be forgotten.” Liz Calvario, indiewire.com.
Feb. 19: Being 17 (Drama/Romance). France • 2016 • 1 hr., 56 min. • Drama/Romance
From the distinguished director André Téchiné comes this profoundly moving story set in the French Pyrenees, of two young students on the brink of manhood. Damian is a good student and a dutiful son to his doctor mother and military father (stationed in a war zone). Thomas is biracial and struggling under the demands incurred by the illness of his adoptive mother. Thrown together they are oil and water, buffeted in a battle of self-identity, erotic wakening and teen angst that plays out over the course of three school terms. Téchiné’s approach to the subject matter is sure-footed, frank and intensely compassionate, eliciting strong performances from the three principals. For mature audiences.
Feb. 5: The First Monday in May. USA • 2016 • 1 hr., 30 min. • Rated PG-13 • Documentary
The First Monday in May follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s most attended fashion exhibition in history, “China: Through The Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton. With unprecedented access, filmmaker Andrew Rossi captures the collusion of high fashion and celebrity at the Met Gala, one of the biggest global fashion events, chaired every year by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Featuring a cast of renowned artists in many fields (including filmmaker Wong Kar Wai and fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano) as well as a host of contemporary pop icons like Rihanna, the movie dives into the debate about whether fashion should be viewed as art. “I am always a sucker for the eye-gasm of a fashion documentary.” Kate Muir, UK Times
Feb. 12: For the Love of Spock. Canada/USA • 2016 • 1 hr., 51 min. • Not Rated • Documentary
The beloved series Star Trek was a touchstone of the sixties, and one actor who made his career as a result of it was Leonard Nimoy. In this loving tribute by son Adam Nimoy, the life and acting/directing career of his father is laid bare. At times hilarious, informative, conflicted and emotional, the relationship between father and son is tested in the cauldron of the Hollywood star machine. That both men emerged as full and creative human beings is not so much striking as inevitable, given the commitment to personal excellence, as evidenced by on-film interviews with a great number of colleagues, from William Shatner to George Takei to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Zoe Saldana. “. . . known for creating the mixed alien and human outsider, Spock, in the 1966 ‘Star Trek’ television series, [Nimoy] will never be forgotten.” Liz Calvario, indiewire.com.
Feb. 19: Being 17 (Drama/Romance). France • 2016 • 1 hr., 56 min. • Drama/Romance
From the distinguished director André Téchiné comes this profoundly moving story set in the French Pyrenees, of two young students on the brink of manhood. Damian is a good student and a dutiful son to his doctor mother and military father (stationed in a war zone). Thomas is biracial and struggling under the demands incurred by the illness of his adoptive mother. Thrown together they are oil and water, buffeted in a battle of self-identity, erotic wakening and teen angst that plays out over the course of three school terms. Téchiné’s approach to the subject matter is sure-footed, frank and intensely compassionate, eliciting strong performances from the three principals. For mature audiences.
Past Film Branch Screening Trailers
Past Film Branch Screenings
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
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1939 Academy Award Winner For Special Effects THE RAINS CAME
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AMMELIE
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PUMP
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FINNEGANS WAKE
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BEYOND THE SURFACE
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