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Connectivity: Only in Theaters
with Greg Laemmle (documentary participant)
and Raphael Sbarge (filmmaker)
Tuesday, April 21 / 7:00 PM
Pollock Theater, UCSB
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Only in Theaters (2022), a film by actor/director Raphael Sbarge, is an intimate and moving journey taken with the Laemmle family, spanning nearly three years of challenges, losses, and personal triumphs. Laemmle Theatres, the beloved 84-year-old arthouse cinema chain in Los Angeles, is facing seismic change and financial pressure. Yet the family behind this multigenerational business—whose sole mission has been to support the art of film—is determined to survive. With appearances from Cameron Crowe, Ava DuVernay, James Ivory, Nicole Holofcener, and Allison Anders, Only in Theaters is a state-of-industry film, a love letter to cinema for a general audience, and an irresistible story of a multi-generational American family.
Documentary participant Greg Laemmle and filmmaker Raphael Sbarge will join moderator Ross Melnick (Interim Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center) for a post-screening discussion of Only in Theaters and the future of arthouse cinema.
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Greg Laemmle
(documentary participant)
Greg Laemmle is the CEO of Laemmle Theatres, a group of family-run arthouse movie theaters in the Los Angeles area. Laemmle Theatres was established in 1938 by Greg’s grandfather and great uncle, Max and Kurt Laemmle, who were German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and came to California to work for their cousin Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures. Greg is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a rare honor for a theater owner.
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Raphael Sbarge
(filmmaker)
Raphael Sbarge has been a working actor for more than five decades, growing up in New York City and performing extensively on stage, including five Broadway shows. He has acted in many films, such as Risky Business, Pearl Harbor, and Independence Day. His recent credits include The History of Sound and the HBO series Task. Raphael is an Emmy Award-winning and nominated filmmaker, and is the director of Only in Theaters. He also co-hosts the filmed podcast Inside the Arthouse, focused on in-depth conversations with filmmakers.
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Ross Melnick
(Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Ross Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB and Interim Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center. He was named an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Scholar and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for his book Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World. He is the author of American Showman: Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry, co-editor of Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive, and co-author of Cinema Treasures.
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