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Celebrating three decades of great new films.
The Cinema Series is held on Tuesday evenings at the Landmark Westwood in Los Angeles. Each preview screening is followed by an in-depth conversation with the filmmakers, actors, or other special guests.
The virtual Cinema Series screenings of new films are presented periodically and include a conversation with the filmmakers and top talent.
Popular film critic Pete Hammond hosts both Cinema Series experiences.
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Pete Hammond interviews Actor David Thewlis on The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Pete Hammond interviews Writer-Director Phillipe Claudel on I've Loved You So Long
Pete Hammond interviews writer-director Joshua Michael Stern about his new comedy Swing Vote.
Pete Hammond interviews the teens from director Nanette Burstein's new documentary film American Teen that follows five high school seniors in one small town in Indiana.
Director Guillame Canet discusses his new feature film Tell No One which follows a man in search of his wife who he believed had been murdered eight years before.
Pete Hammond interviews Gary Goetzman, one of the producers of Mamma Mia - the new film adaptation of the ABBA musical.
Director Sarah Gavron discusses her feature debut Brick Lane with Bollywood Star Tannishtha Chatterjee.
Haaz Sleiman discusses The Visitor, the film about a college professor who connects with a young couple he finds inhabiting his apartment.
Director Stephen Walker is joined by chorus founder Bob Cilman and chorus members Steve Martin, Dora Morrow, and Stan Goldman to discuss the documentary Young at Heart.
Writers Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly discuss Leatherheads, their romantic comedy about a 1920s professsional football team.
Director Frank Oz and actor Andy Nyman discuss their film, the dark British farce Death at a Funeral.
President of Samuel Goldwyn Films Meyer Gottlieb joins KCET Cinema Series to discuss the French film Priceless (Hors de prix).