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Laguna Beach Film Society Presents Movie Chris Colfer Wrote and Stars in, Struck By Lightning

I believe it was an old screenwriting teacher who concluded Sunset Boulevard was the first film narrated by (spoiler alert) a dead character.Glee's Chris Colfer gets the honors in Struck by Lightining, which the Laguna Beach Film Society presents tonight with a post-screening Q&A with director B ... More >>

Film Curator Brings Trashy Ocean Issue Home With Tonight's "Kaisei" Screening

It's not often that a film series curator gets to present a motion picture she was intimately involved with the making of, but Keiko Beatie will do so tonight when the Laguna Beach Film Society presents Kaisei: Journey Into The Plastic Vortex.

"The White Ribbon," Sea Tales Series, "The World We Want" Fill Local Film Screens

A pre-World War I Protestant northern German village of the damned.​When it comes to filmmakers who create pictures forever burned into your head after seeing them, Michael Haneke rivals Stanley Kubrick. I can't remember all the movies I've seen and immediately forgotten since first viewing 1997's ... More >>

"The Drummer" and "The Young Victoria" Square Off in Competing Screenings

"The Drummer." Kick ass!​Two foreign films that received OK notices roll tonight as the film societies of Orange County and Laguna Beach present competing screenings. Laguna Beach Film Society shows 2007's The Drummer, a Hong Kong by way of Taiwan production that features Jackie Chan's son Jaycee ... More >>

Full Film Slate: "Imagine This," "Crude," (the Return of) "The Cove," "Coco Before Chanel" and Michael Moore's Latest Polemic

Chill the Red Bull, re-heat the coffee and warm up the crack pipe: your eyeballs are about to get a workout from local screens in the days ahead. "Imagine This" took a film crew high into the Andes Mountains. First, Laguna Beach Film Society screens the documentary Imagine This tonight. Eion ... More >>

Laguna Film Society Gets Local

For years, the Laguna Beach Film Society (LBFS) has presented foreign films and American independent features and documentaries to its members and non-members who attend screenings at South Coast Cinema or the Festival of Arts grounds. Keiko Beatie, formerly of the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'The Heart of the Sea,' 'Blazing Saddles,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Citizen McCaw,' 'Absurdistan,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Orfeu Negro,' 'For the Bible Tells Me So,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Flow,' 'Prête-moi ta main,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Strangers,' 'Sid and Nancy,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Let the Right One In,' 'Carrie,' 'Clerks,' 'Psycho'

[Special Screenings] Movie of the Week: 'Xanadu!'

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Trainspotting,' 'Bad Santa' and More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Surfing 50 States,' 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'The Magnificent Seven,' '1984,' 'West Side Story,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Heat,' 'Animal House,' 'Annie Hall,' 'Monster House,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Gunnin' for That #1 Spot,' More

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Una Historia Adolescente en el Medio de la Nada,' More

Just Another Bloody Sequel

Filmmakers of Vietnam-era DISSENT documentaries see parallels to Iraq War

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Sir! No Sir!

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Movie of the Week: The U.S. vs. John Lennon

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Movie of the Week: The Rocky Ho-ho-horror Picture Show

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It's up to you to put the 'special' in Special Screenings

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Movie of the Week: The Searchers