Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study, Linwood Dunn Theater

KCRW and Sony Pictures Classics invite you to a special advance screening of Carmen followed by a conversation with director, Benjamin Millepied and actress, Melissa Barerra moderated by KCRW's Madeleine Brand. Carmen follows a young and fiercely independent woman who is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. Carmen (Melissa Barerra) survives a terrifying and dangerous illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard, who murders two other immigrants in…

KCRW and Sony Pictures Classics invite you to a special advance screening of The Persian Version followed by a conversation with director, Maryam Keshavarz and film composer, Rostam moderated by KCRW's Madeleine Brand. Coming from two countries at odds with each other, Iranian-American Leila (Layla Mohammadi) strives to find balance and embrace her opposing cultures, while boldly challenging the labels society is so quick to project upon her. When her family reunites in New York City for her father’s heart transplant, Leila navigates her relationships at…

KCRW and Sony Pictures Classics invite you to a special advance screening of Freud's Last Session followed by a conversation with director, Matthew Brown actor, Matthew Goode, and actress Jodi Balfour, moderated by KCRW's Madeleine Brand. London, September 3rd, 1939. The world is on the brink of war. In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi regime receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don, C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia). On this day,…

KCRW and Sony Pictures Classics invite you to a special advance screening of Wicked Little Letters. Based on an incredible true story unearthed from the 1920s, Wicked Little Letters sees the post-war seaside town of Littlehampton entangled in a dark and absurd scandal. This ferociously funny mystery follows two neighbors: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) who lives with her elderly parents, and rowdy Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley), an Irish single mother who migrated to the town after the war. A growing friendship between…