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Now performing its 34th annual dance concert titled connected spaces at the Irvine Barclay theatre June 1st through 3rd a collaboration between contemporary dance choreographers and underserved youth striving for art that is original thought provoking and inventive the o.c. Register said the wooden floors concerts display abstract modern and contemporary movement that encourages audiences to craft their own meaning more at the wooden floor dot org. From the Mon broadcast center it's film week Good morning I'm Larry Mansell this week our critics review the comedy snatched starring Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn his daughter and mother Jonathan leviathan is the director last year about King Arthur legend of the sword co-written and directed by Guy Ritchie and the wall a thriller in selected theaters those movies and more coming up on film week. Life from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Laurie London Attorney General Jeff Sessions is signaling a return to a more tough on crime approach that opponents say will swell prison populations as N.P.R.'s Tamara Keith reports sessions sent a new directive to federal prosecutors sessions is reversing Obama era guidance that aim to reduce prison populations by encouraging prosecutors to avoid triggering mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenses in his memo sessions writes quote prosecutors should charge and pursue the most serious and readily provable offense if they want to charge a lesser offense prosecutors will need permission sessions argues this will lead to more consistent enforcement of the law but Michael Collins of the Drug Policy Alliance says in a statement the move will increase the prison population exacerbate racial disparities in the criminal justice system and do nothing to reduce drug use or increase public safety Tamara Keith n.p.r. News a wave of cyber attacks appears to. Be targeting organizations across Europe in England Scotland Spain Italy Portugal Russia and Ukraine N.P.R.'s Frank Langfitt reports England's National Health Service says these are attempts to extort money from hospitals n.h.s. Digital said facilities were hit with malware called Want to decrypt or a screen shot published by the b.b.c. Showed hackers demanding payment in bitcoin to allow hospital staff to access data and gave them 3 days to pay physicians say they can't access records and hospitals are warning some patients to stay away writing on its Facebook page culture Esther General Hospital said it was postponing all non-urgent activity and told patients not to come to its accident an emergency center Frank Langfitt n.p.r. News London newly elected French President Emanuel Macross now needs to win and legislative majority in the French parliament in order to put forth his agenda N.P.R.'s Eleanor Beardsley reports that his brand new party currently has no seats but has just released its list of candidates for the June 11th parliamentary election half the 428 candidates from McCall's new party are women 50 percent have no political experience the candidates range in age from 24 to 721 is an elite swat team leader Jummy shuffle there to lead the assault on the organizers of the deadly Paris terrorist attacks 2 years ago another candidate is a female bullfighter from southern France their ranks also include entrepreneurs teachers and social workers campaign says the candidates fulfill a central criteria of the party to return government to regular people party has to win 289 seats in the national assembly and order to obtain a majority Eleanor Beardsley n.p.r. News Paris stocks are slipping today on Wall Street the Dow is down $33.00 points the s. And p. $500.00 off for this is n.p.r. Support for n.p.r. Comes from avel Lera tax automation for big. This is of all sizes I have a letter of works to simplify sales tax and other business taxes with a real time rates and automatic filing avel era dot com a v a l a are a dot com This is 89.3 k. P.c.c. News Good Morning I'm heading at 11 o 4 we have breaking news about former l.a. County Sheriff Lee Baca he's been sentenced to 3 years in prison for obstruction of justice in an inmate abuse scandal. Frank Stoltze was in court for today's sentencing us District Judge Percy Anderson rejected Baucus request for probation only and said if not more Baucus also timers and his good access sheriff would have slapped him with 5 years in prison for his role in trying to block an f.b.i. Investigation into inmate abuse inside l.a. County jails Anderson said Baka was more interested in His image and in getting reelected than stopping those abuses which of ruin lives in Costa County millions of dollars and doctors attempt to shift the blame to his den undersheriff the judge said Mr Baka you knew exactly who Mr to not go was you let other people do your dirty work the 74 year old Baka was expected to make a final plea to the judge before sentencing but when the time came he whispered with his attorney who turned to the judge and said Baka one of the most powerful lawman in the country at one time that Baka declined to address the court reporting from the federal courthouse Frank Stoltze 89.3 k.p.c. L.a. Mayor Ghar city's proposed budget will be the topic of conversation today at the Budget and Finance Committee meeting there are also expected to unveil any changes they've made the budget proposal could come before the full city council next Wednesday Carr said he's $9200000000.00 plan calls for an increase in spending on homeless initiatives and other items it's 1106. News. Good morning it's film week I'm Larry mantles such a pleasure to have you with us today wherever you are in Southern California or listening around the world via pod cast from i Tunes or your k p c c app coming up later this hour Oscar winning film composer Justin or wits He'll be with us to talk about the full orchestra a Company Man of La La land on the big screen at the Hollywood Bowl coming up in a couple weeks already tickets gone very fast for that event but we start with the films this week including snatched a comedy that costars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn is mother daughter Jonathan love vine is the director Katie Dippold the screenwriter Joining us to review the films this week Claudia Puig president the l.a. Film Critics Association and Lowenstein Claudia let's start with you on stach Well this is not mining any new comic territory by any means what I appreciate from this movie was the chemistry between Goldie Hawn enemy Schumer and what I really will be high on back after I think 15 years of not been that long sass Arness him yeah yeah and I don't know what his her comic timing is spot on it still sharp and yet we were talking about this before I enjoyed it I think because I saw it with my daughter so it was kind of a mother daughter adventure and I think I enjoyed it more because of that had I been watching it perhaps solo or with someone else I might not have been quite as I don't know it somehow it was it definitely influenced me but I think which I'm sure is what the filmmakers studio are hoping I'm getting a lot of hard writers go to see her Mother's Day Exactly it's you know it's raunchy it's fitfully funny but I did like the chemistry in there were some moments that I thought the 1st half hour was better than anything else and when they actually I was a little insulted by some of the stuff that happened once they got to Ecuador you know brown people were kind of either depicted as drug dealers and evil kidnappers or kind of blissfully you know. Just and she night. Yeah I agree with you Claudia I thought what worked in the film was the chemistry between Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer and I would have liked to see more of that when they are working out the little problems in their relationship whether it's Goldie Hawn applying too much sunscreen to her to her grown daughter or you know or telling her daughter what to do or you know the bickering between them I I loved that dynamic when they're down there in the jungle and it's sort of it becomes like a caper misadventure that sort of like a misguided Romancing the Stone meets outrageous fortune which you know to go back to movies from you know 20 more than 20 years ago it just it lost its focus and I also felt like it became so convoluted and that's fine in certain cases in comedies but it took away from the kind of the fun of watching them work out the problems in their relationship absolutely agree and it became repetitive you know they would they would be can have an beat when they get away they became at that they get away and also they have some supporting characters that were not really given enough to do and want to Sykes was was and she was good Joan Cusack Why give Joan Cusack a role and then make her money speaking yeah I mean she helped some sort of American choosing and then Christopher Maloney and I was actually kind of funny and he was I mean there's a there's It was a great cast and it was you know just it was it was fun you just wanted it to be more better you just wanted to be it had its moments like where she sort of skewers the millennial kind of selfie culture and it and it may have her moments and goalie had a role in South did and I feel like Amy had a lot more moments but she and Amy Schumer fans will not be disappointed they'll like the I think they'll see the kind of raunchy the sort of pushing the envelope humor that she's known for but called the girl and Goldie Hawn fans will be glad to have her back but it just I would have liked to have liked a little bit more it could have been better I'm at least glad. Here it's somewhat better than I had expected because the t.v. Ads are truly awful Yeah the excerpt they pull it out of this is the funniest thing in the movie with this is in trouble so you're describing a better film that I had anticipated Well that's good I'd like to know people's feelings when I said people I saw people go oh how awful was it yeah. You get campaign does it no favors. Unfortunately I think they're playing to the lowest common denominator anyway snatched is the film r. Rated action comedy with Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn John of the vine is good director Yes in wide release King Arthur legend of the sword is directed by Guy Ritchie who's one of the screenwriters with Joey Harold and Lionel Wigram Lael and so this is a movie that I also. My experience of which was inflected by seeing it with my son who was 11 and he loved it it this is a retelling of the King Arthur legend and Guy Ritchie has been notable for particularly most recently redoing to the Sherlock Holmes story to great success with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law and he's also before that was known for sort of more independent British films like Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels he's he's known for great scenes of pugilism and fighting and battles and just around the sort of in town or counterpoint that very much counter programming exactly and and this is I'm just going to say it you know basically a boy's movie a guy's movie and my son loved the battle's he loved the story and he loved the magic there's a magic in there too there's this this conceit that there's these these things called mate is yeah just like a sort of a human with a connection to animals who can who can chant animals and make things happen Jude Law is a menacing villain who is the uncle of Charlie Hunnam is King Arthur who says snatches the throne he's like a scar you know he's exactly like I felt like I was watching a live action lite you know which they're actually going to. Mading I think he's yeah yeah he's. So evil but you know this movie has has suffered in some of the advance reviews a little bit but I seeing it with my son I actually was able to enjoy the action I felt Guy Ritchie style Biju although it is a little bit frenetic and a little bit over editing a little if I look at a lot a lot a lot and I do and I would have liked to shorten the the movie by maybe at least a good 10 minutes and there was a battle that went on way too long but heck it just it gets you in matches you in the action and it's very exciting you know I mean I like a lot. To take place. You know to take my daughter and that will always tell me what you did but what well it didn't work the frenzied stuff is so for you and the story just didn't it didn't feel like I mean the story was muddled lost amid all the stories a great story well of course but we didn't mean that the prequel to 11 and you haven't seen Yeah sure if you're letting me know you're right Betty yes and I did like that and that low key charisma of Charlie Hunnam the role of Arthur I thought it was good you know it's kind of an orphan who is also very dignified and not dignified but a bit you know sort of to the level of this of a kingly character you know the intentional anachronism that's fine the smirking fast cuts all that kind of stuff it just felt a little you know it's definitely had a Guy Ritchie which I have liked some Guy Ritchie movies not all but it just felt a little excessively hectic Arrow's did you feel it was overly modernized like the way he sort of put a contemporary spin or Merriman's Yeah it's every man but also the way he made sure like Holmes a little modern in certain ways and he did he did that with this he gave it sort of a modern attitudinal doesn't bother me as much more the hectic frenzied and then the sort of over acting of Jude Law I don't like the Zack Snyder ask quality when it. When that battle scenes just sort of all kind of blue blend into one another and the giant animals have these giant serpents and giant elephants and you know they're just very obviously c.g. And also kind of murky to the way it was shot it did feel Marcie Yeah but but but yet yet it was fun King Arthur legend of the sword Guy Ritchie the director and Co screenwriter Charlie Hunnam and Jude Law starts rated p.g. 13 in wide release the wall dramatic thriller directed by Doug Liman Dwayne Warrell is the screenwriter Aaron Taylor Johnson and Johnson a star Claudia Well I went in not expecting all that much and I was a little bit pleasantly surprised this is a very tense 2 person survival thriller it feels like it almost could have been done on stage and it's basically just Aaron Taylor Johnson with a small assessed by Johnson but he's unconscious for a lot of the movie. And I don't mean that. There's something nice to go yeah he's a wrestler after all. But intelligence and it's a little hard for him to hold the movie has kind of a fake Southern accent that are not fake I mean it's because he's British but but it's over the top southern accent it's it's kind of an interesting. Kind of a prey and predator sort of story. It because there's he's be outwitted by an Iraqi sniper and so the whole thing is kind of this cat mouse thing and it's shot in the desert it's actually l.a. You can kind of tell it's l.a. But only if you really know a way. I like to climb in as a director I look kind of like I was trying to do but I think it should have got a little bit deeper into sort of the psychology of what was going on instead he just turned into kind of the character who was who's probably way too smart and quoting poet and Shakespeare the sniper didn't feel believable it felt very like dialogue that you know someone had worked really hard to write but that would not ever actually happen so that's why I felt more stagey than real but I like that it was trying to. Do you something more psychological sort of like buried. With Ryan Reynolds and you know I mean you think of Locke which is a much better movie you know again a solo performance for spend a lot of time to really supposed to get to know the character yes yes and kind of understand this kind of back and forth but it it just it wasn't a bad movie it just ultimately there was some gritty realism there was a little disappointing I think mostly because it didn't feel as realistic and it you know kind of tries to explore the brutality of war of course and the ambiguity of it raises some philosophical questions but doesn't delve deeply enough and what about just the tension level did Lyman do a good job of keeping the end that he did that he was his forte and as a director like in that the 1st Bourne Identity movie there was great tension throughout I love that and yeah and of course even Mr Smith Yeah yeah exactly he's so good at sustaining he is he is and that part I did feel like I was on the edge of my seat. It probably went on a little bit too long and then the end was kind of I won't give it away of course but it just it went south but it was so tense that you kind of were a little exhausted from that you know level of focus and intensity so it's it's good I wouldn't rush out to see it but if it's something that you know you caught on on it's Amazon Prime they're going to veiling on Amazon Prime You know Amazon Studios making the film Doug Lyman's movie the wall in selected theaters in case you want to see it on the big screen Aaron Taylor Johnson and Johnson a star it's rated r. Harold and Leslie and a Hollywood love story is a documentary about a true Hollywood industry couple they a lock to Hollywood in 1947 both of them becoming prominent figures if not household names in the film industry the movie is directed by Daniel Raine lay out what you think of her. I absolutely love this movie this is my favorite movie of the week it these are 2 unsung heroes of Hollywood and just this year I think they actually got acknowledged by our just last year by the Academy I don't know what but when it was but they were well he was actually nominated for Star Trek he was nominated but just this last year I think they got a sort of career commendation for their country he was an art director so he was a storyboard artist for many many years and became an art director a production designer later but the story of them is that he moved out to how they fell in love in Florida he had to go off to war but professed his love for her and she was an orphan and she was an orphan who had basically had the scrappy upbringing and was considered suitable by his mother it's very protective mother he moved off to to l.a. And wanted her to come out with him and she wasn't sure that she would be good for him but she sort of decided to do so just to spite his mother they began this beautiful marriage of some 60 years during which time he became a prominent storyboard artist who contributed to some of the most important films in Hollywood including the birds and Marnie worked with Hitchcock the graduate he was actually responsible the film does a wonderful job of making this case for some of the most iconic shots in Hollywood backdrops leg Yeah definitely that was him also the Dustin Hoffman at the end of the graduate standing in the back of the church the Christ like symbol. Some of the Hofmann in the in the pool on the raft coming out onto the bed so many wonderful moments came right from his imagination and the same with the birds he talks there's some interviews Well I should explain Harold died 10 years ago but there are some interviews with him some archival interviews and then there's little Ian who knew everything about his life Lillian herself who still alive who is still alive and and just recently retired last gatt in 87000. I believe so she she she became the in charge of this amazing research library in Hollywood which is now been named after her and has had several different incarnations and it was a different. So trope it was at Paramount 3 more Dream Works And and she tells these amazing tales of how she was able to discover things for example while researching Fiddler on the roof and there was no no information about how. Old orthodox Jewish knickers with would look like so she found a woman in the Fairfax section of l.a. Who came to her with a pattern who brought her a pattern and said Here this is what you need and she just the way that she could talk to people and get information out of them all this while raising 3 sons one of them autistic she is an amazing woman in Italy a credible mentor and role model and and I found the whole movie absolutely fascinating as a portrait of their marriage and of Hollywood history it was so for absolutely it was so fully realized and it's you know it's been history but it's also celebrating hardworking people and unsung heroes definitely from from the film industry contributions since you have people like Mel Brooks and Francis Ford Coppola Danny De Vito and if you don't talk out about them and this was so many things it's a moving portrait of their marriage about raising a child and not knowing how to raise an autistic child and kind of making mistakes and be and owning up to some of those yes the lack of information there was at that time she said she spent 10 years in a Freudian psychotherapy group that was a horrible did more harm than good yeah and you know and so and also a sort of a portrait of like a proto feminist who someone who was really ahead of her time in that way absolutely and it was even really good it's so good and you know it doesn't it doesn't do anything new with form in terms of documentary but it's so layered and so revolutionary a little bit it actually uses some storyboard cards which it didn't add that much the film but there's there were storyboards Oh yeah. Added Yeah to sort of storyboard out the early Saturday or Mary yeah yeah I mean I much preferred seeing Harold's own storyboards to to the ones that were added to the film the documentary Harold and Lillian Hollywood loves a big hit with our critics this weekend sounds like a must see for anyone interested in the history of Hollywood it features in Harold Michelson the movie is directed by Daniel rame it's on rated You can see it at length Monica Film Center Santa Monica playoffs Pasadena down center in Encino Coming up we'll hear about the French drama a woman's life as well as a movie set in East Los Angeles low riders it's film week on k.p.c. See back after a live update from. The latest now on our breaking story former l.a. Sheriff Lee Baca has been ordered to turn himself in on July 25th to be excuse me to begin serving a 3 year prison sentence for obstructing an f.b.i. Investigation into abuses at county jails Baka had been convicted of derailing the probe into civil rights abuses and corruption in the system the defense had asked for home detention for the 74 year old former sheriff who's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's is expected to appeal today's decision former angels 3rd baseman Doug descents was convicted today of 13 counts of insider trading stemming from stock tips he got from a friend the friend David Parker was convicted of 3 counts jurors deadlocked on all counts against a 3rd defendant James. 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Dot com Queen's care providing directly and with others accessible health care for uninsured and low income individuals and families residing in Los Angeles County next time on the world a little known piece of American history when the u.s. Army imported camels for expeditions across the American Southwest a man with an Arabic name. Was a camel driver when he gets over here the kid say's name so they start calling Hi jolly and the name sticks the story of the camels and a hard Jolly who may be America's 1st Syrian immigrant that's on the world join us this afternoon at 2 on 89.3 k. P.c.c. . Wake on 89.3. Our critics are claiming the documentary heroes in a Hollywood love story you know that Michael will be making a couple of appearances with the movie's director Daniel Raymond this weekend tonight at the screening at least Monica Film Center and $730.00 Daniel Raymond Michelson will be in conversation after that showing and then Sunday afternoon at playoffs in Pasadena at the $130.00 showing Sunday afternoon the director Daniel rame and the subject of the documentary Lillian Michelson will be in conversation there and then they're going to be a 3rd time actually later that afternoon in Encino traffic permitting the town center 5 this coming Sunday for 20 showing Rayman Michaelson in conversation there it's film week our next movie to review the French drama of woman's life it's directed by Stefan Rezaei who co-wrote the screenplay of the movie Claudia what do you think of a woman's life I like this film it's it's based on a gate him up a song novel The humble truth I'll translate it. Because it will thank you. But it's I did was beautifully shot in a very naturalistic style and it brings the period to life in a way more vividly it used to have these close up shots of gardens and mud and rain and irises and it's very atmospheric and there's of ambient sounds and this is beautiful under the harpsichord or fortepiano soundtrack that I thought really sort of is a piano for yeah yeah. Sometimes you're stunning the lighting is beautiful and the lead actress Judith can love reminded me of a kind of Juliet b. No she crossed with Rachel Griffiths Yes and she was she was very good. And you know it's an interesting kind of explorers a similar kind of turf as like a Madame Bovary on a reading of you know women of that era who were held down by men and but what I guess what I really like for this was that felt very. Really observed and more lived in as opposed to a lot of period dramas that feel a little bit more. I think that's well put I I I I'm a big fan of this directors to fundraise day who did a film called Man was a couple years ago that was just wonderful had a period piece also it was not it was not in fact he's never done a period piece before Larry he tends to do stories of more working class French people in contemporary France and he's known for this tremendously naturalistic style with real kind of emotional honesty and pure purity to his to his films. So you wouldn't think that he would be drawn to a get him up a song novel about it an aristocrat interestingly he's able to make this period story this feel contemporary through. Elliptical editing where we're sort of Time goes back and forth you're in the present then you're in the past and then you're seeing something that could be from the future through the use of sort of her perspective even though you're seeing her in the film you're very much identify you feel very much identified with John she has the sort of tragic life but but you you feel very much for her I think there's a very strong identification with her and it felt very fresh and naturalistic and I think it's a very it's a beautifully observed like Claudia said a very keenly and beautifully observed portrait of this woman and it felt very naturalistic and and really beautifully done well orchestrated well well assembled and and the camera is really like a character in the film like which is sort of is constantly moving about and you feel this real present and there's a beautiful there's some really great dialogue there is a line that I think kind of sums it up where they say life is no. As good or as bad as you think yes and I thought that you know it's just I really liked that it was from her perspective and that we kind of got into her head we felt for this character and yet it's a very subtle performance of the same and speaking of use of language did you feel like it felt authentic to the time yes the language did yes. And interestingly he said in an interview at the Koko a couple weeks ago that the they didn't have music they had only this one performance on the on the piano forte and and he said we had to just figure out how to cut that into the film and make it work and they did so he improvised but did you know if it was the same tune even if sometimes as you know heightened Yes Lote I don't have beautiful yes and sometimes there was no music at all which in itself was an interesting choice of orchestration to to not have music and let sort of the the actions speak for themselves in the dialogue a woman's life French drama which is directed by Stephane Brazil who Coa Dapto the screenplay with Florence been yawn it's not rated rated movie of play offs Pasadena and Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles low riders tells the story of a street artist in East Los Angeles Gabriele shove Arya is the star along with Demi and b. Cheer directed by Ricardo De montréal. And the screenplay co-written by Dari Coker and Elgin James Claudia this movie grew on me despite its flaws it had sort of a formulaic storytelling However I feel like it really effectively conjured up this very specific car club culture and I'm Mexican American and I grew up near Venice Boulevard So I remember those low rider cars Yeah but I wasn't a part of it so I really don't know anything about it I don't know much about Boyle Heights either so I felt like I learned a lot about this and it also the history of low writing which is you know sort of what it signified and not only is it an entree into. This world but it's also I think celebrated the multiculturalism of l.a. Right now in 2017 which I really appreciated there's a there's kind of a voiceover that I would say is not is a little bit intrusive and not always great but he talks about you know we would be yeah I've kept feeling like where's that kind you know and it was very intermittent in design it was distracting but the beginning where they're riding in a car and probably lower I don't remember but there the 3 of them riding Oh by the way Tony revel Henri who is in. The Grand Budapest Hotel played Kerry yes he was that the little bell hop that they had Yeah I got her but anyway so they're driving around and he said you know we'll go to Korea town for this and we'll go to downtown l.a. And you you realize that this generation of Latinos is very much more open to this broader multiculturalism than his father who's played by Daniel beach here and played very well I loved him and as you would expect yes always he's always good. And which is also quite good in this lead role Eva Longoria has a small part in it as the wife of Demi and be cheated. It's a scrappy low budget movie there's an honest quality to it yes it is sort of predictable yes it will formulaic so it's not perfect but I actually enjoyed it the part that I that I didn't care for as much was the sort of formulaic. Romance that develops between oh I hate the Kate and then they and the white girl in the hall and it was that was sort of stor that was a little bit it felt kind of annoying and force I thought that the the family dynamic and what I learned about the writing culture and there's actually it is sort of a primer on the low writing you know the world and the and the and they all are artists in their way and they create these cars that are so beautiful and decked out and you know and kind of fascinating and they all have sort of stories to them about how he's an artist in a different way because he's Tagore right he's attacked he's Street Art Yeah yeah but but he sort of. He has to learn to channel his talent into that and that's where arms are for No no go ahead that's kind of where I did appreciate the romance because not the romance itself because it was more what it stood for she was kind of of the dominant culture saying you know art is gallery walls and museums and he's saying you know l.a. Is my is the whole city is my gallery so here's a question for you Claudia It bothered me that the whole thing was in English and because I felt like. You know if this is supposed to be sort of more authentic to its community are they really going to be speaking in English that well there were moments where there there were any specks Spangler she had I was Spanish wasn't important to me and each I wouldn't and this group is a small tight generation I wouldn't expect Spanish to be domineering many many Latinos who don't speak again or speak Spanglish but so I didn't that didn't bother me you know it would bother me if it was said in Mexico and I was in English but because it said in East l.a. I I did that that part of it didn't. There much bang question it or a little bit of lying there in there comes from Demi Moore there anything yeah there was yeah and I actually he's he's a terrific actor he was so good in a better light or light. So to really one of many wonderful film yes a fantastic yeah Down Low Riders is the film it's in selected theaters including the arc light Hollywood many of the AMC theaters directed by Ricardo montréal the movie low riders rated p.g. 13 and a chance for you to hear more about it k.p.c. Sees Morning Edition host Alex Cohen interviewed the actor Theo Roscius one of the stars of low rider and you can hear that interview in an 6 banded form beyond what there was time for on Morning Edition go to k.p.c. Si dot org to hear that conversation between Alex and Theo Ross Sea of low riders folk hero and funny guy comedy written and directed by Jeff Grace Lael. So this is a really surprisingly delightful road movie that that shows what happens when 2 old friends go on the road one folk musician played by Wyatt Russell that would be Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell son who has a week for the Russell It is a big big week for that family he has his dad's eyes and his mom's laugh I think he was delightful and his is sort of starting to break out and become rising He's a rising star definitely I thought it was. A terrific reporter between between those guys. I loved Alex Karpovsky who's you know I had not really known as a comedian but he was he was terrific he keeps trying this tired Facebook and even a bit and people just don't laugh and he doesn't get it so he's sort of a little bit tone deaf about his own lack of comic timing he's in advertising kind of he's life has been advertised right wants to be you know he's always want to be and he it's questionable about whether he really to me has the film felt extremely natural like it there was this it was almost as if it had been you know partially improvised and that felt really good because it the free flowing dialogue between the 2 guys was just so fun to listen to and just be I feel like I was I was really right there in the car with them it was really fun they had a really nice chemistry Yeah I kept thinking like emu bull affable agreeable all these words it was just a very amiable kind of you know road trip but there is tension there is yeah tension between them of both about what they each want to be tension over a girl over their own goals for themselves so there's you know a little melancholy Yeah but you know they both. Why it's character is you know kind of you reminded me of the character in Nashville played by Keith Carradine he said you know yeah he's a singer he's good he's pretty good and he also just handsome and women just love him and and so he has an easy time with sort of the kind of yes but not you know there's a there's a. Moment where it's a really nice little scene between him and Melanie Lynskey who's always good where he decides kind of independent that she's engaged to somebody else that he wants to settle down with her and she's like what he talking about you know you're not that kind of guy and you see the kind of how he's deflated by that when you know women have been kind of not throwing themselves at him but certainly had an easy time with women and suddenly he's dealing with that and then the other characters exactly the opposite is kind of neurotic but the they they blend together so well the chemistry really worked it's a very it's a slight but very delightful movie and yet very enjoyable folk hero and funny guy is that the feel is see it's unrated Jeff grace the writer director Alex Karpovsky and Wyatt Russell star Paris can wait which is set on a car trip from Cannes to Paris Diane Lane stars Eleanor Coppola is the director and screenwriter of the film this is another roadtrip movie that had great potential but doesn't have any conflict and do any chemist and in really very little chemistry I adore Diane Lane I think she's a terrific actress with wonderful timing either it is a comedienne or or in a drama and Europe has been good to her in films like Under the Tuscan Sun and a little romance and this movie which happens to be Eleanor Kopel as feature directing debut at age 80 or $81.00 Ford Coppola So that would be his wife yes that is a sweet story but it is so absolutely without conflict without edge without without anything to really hang a hook on it just it it's it doesn't go anywhere she is in Cannes with her husband who's a movie executive producer of out Baldwin Alec Baldwin in a brief role and he's has to go to Budapest and then is going to meet her in Paris she decides not to go to Budapest she's having an earring so his business partner his French business partner jock agrees to drive her offers to drive her best begins a journey that supposed to take a. Day they take something like 2 or 3 where she supposedly maybe discovers this deep attraction for Jock despite the fact that he's he's really quite self-absorbed What's funny is this almost sounds a little like Lost in Translation so he had to. Get out they weren't on a road trip yet right that the husband zaps and is interested and I want to go Mary comes under a common theme and you think about you know the before movies there was a movie called Cairo time with Patricia Clarkson That was really good there's a number that number that Alexander Siddig much better all bunch better movies The problem with this is he feels like a stereotype you might as well have a brain a baguette and he says. Doesn't he yeah that's really got some wind yeah and he just you know he wants to teach her about this wonderful gastronomy and foodies will love because the food is beautiful and looks you know delicious and is trying to teach you to smell the roses or simple Weiner and yes yes that's 11 point he called are with family why is there that. I just wish it had more substance and there was one moment in it where where you see Diane Lane's character really dig a little deeper and it's a tragedy and asked yeah in her past and but otherwise it kind of felt almost tone deaf too because it's like the you know the lives of these rich white people and the big problem is should we have one issue or not have one you know it just didn't such a tough decision. And it just I just wish they had been also more substance to her character or yeah the dynamic between yes to that it has to be why wouldn't they have when Paris can write a film written and directed by Eleanor Coppola Diane Lane are no v.r. And Alec Baldwin are the stars rated p.g. It's at the Arclight Ollywood and the landmark in West l.a. Coming up on film week we'll talk with Justin Hurwitz the Oscar winning composer of the score for la la land we talked with him when the film was nominated since that time of course big night for the film and a very big night for Justin we'll talk about his transferring his music. To the Hollywood Bowl live orchestral accompany meant to a screening of the film coming up in a couple of weeks 1st a live update from Harry Leonard Larry the latest now on our breaking news story former l.a. 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Good morning it's film week I'm Laura mantle that of course Oscar winning Best song composed by Justin or waits for law in that land which took home 5 additional Oscars agile have a chance to see the film under very unique circumstances 2 weeks from tonight as well as the following night at the Hollywood Bowl 100 pieces symphonic orchestra also jazz group choral groups will all do life accompany meant as la la land is shown on the big screen at the Hollywood Bowl that stopped la la land in concert a live to film celebration the man conducting the orchestra the man who wrote the score to la la land just in her was just in great to have you back with us on air talking film we thank you for having me and congratulations when we spoke with you before you were a nominee now you're a winner and just describe that experience walking up on stage at the Dalby theater it was it was pretty surreal you know it's kind of a blur walking up turning around seeing that crowd grabbing the 1st from Samuel l. Jackson it was it was really you know is really kind of a surreal moment and being honored twice I mean it's just it's got to feel great yeah it it was it was a really fun night and I was also happy for so many other people in the movie who got recognized you know our cinematographer Alina in the production designers the last goes and of course and Damian a lot of a lot of people from our movie got to get recognized and I was I was very happy and have all. All of you that were the team behind the film sort of recovered from the oddity of how the Best Picture part of it closed I think so I didn't really talk to too many people after it I texted a couple of the producers the next day just to say Hey how are you feeling. But no I mean I think I think everybody moved on and it's so beautifully handled by everybody and obviously historic circumstances for the film yeah yeah there was a lot of poise. You know from from Jordan and and Mark and everybody and. And Fred so it was yeah it was it was nice I mean it was great very happy for moonlight that movie just blew me away and also terrific fantastic movie and a lot of people from our movie got honored so as it was a finite very dramatic night no question so just let's talk about the idea of doing a live musical accompaniment to the film was this your idea or does someone approach you about this while I remember a few years ago before we even made the movie Damian and I talked about it we talked about wouldn't it be cool one day to do it at the Hollywood Bowl this is before I don't even made the move yeah we hadn't even made the movie this was I mean the whole movie was like kind of a pipe dream at one point like we so everything was kind of a pipe dream and and that was one of the lofty sort of Dreams was hey $11.00 day when it be cool to do this music at the Hollywood Bowl. Or to do it live and and then that was you know just a quick conversation and then it came up a couple of times later in the process like at our premier in Toronto the president of the film studio mentioned it to me he said hey we should do this at the Hollywood Bowl I said yeah great idea and then that was it for a couple months and then it became a very real thing a few months later as we were actually launching the movie a few people you know from the studio and and producers came up to me and asked if I would you know if we could do it enough. I could conducted I was delighted to do it I mean it's it's yeah very excited to show people what what went into making that music and what the musicians brought to it well done and you've got to be gratified that my understanding is though there are some tickets available that looks like you're going to have full houses both nights Yeah looks like it will be full houses I think one of the nights I think Saturday is almost is very close to being sold out on Fridays getting there as well so yeah it'll I'm just I'm so happy that people you know want to see the movie again and want to keep We did an outdoor screening downtown a couple weeks ago that I think 5000 people came to normally that I think they said they get like 2000 people and 5000 people came so it's just so cool that people are still enjoying the movie and listening to the music and you know people tell me they listen it's incredible to me yeah it's just become a phenomenon and so you're going to nearly 34000 people between the 2 nights at the Hollywood Bowl this over Memorial Day weekend Friday and Saturday night at the at the Hollywood Bowl what kinds of changes have you had to make to accommodate live performance in you know multi-tracking obviously and you got to move people around to hit different parts of the soundtrack so how have you adapted it yeah there are not many changes because it's the kind of score that really was played in the room by an orchestra we didn't strike the orchestra we didn't record you know the brass separately and then the string separately and then the winds have believe it was really was you know $95.00 musicians making music in a room together. So a lot of the score converts very well there's there's a little adjustment you have to make in that and when you're recording a score you're stopping and starting for different sections and this has to flow all the way through and you know you need to think about how you know there's the wind and brass players are breathing and make sure that they. Have you know a 2nd to get their breath so their little moments where things need to glue together slightly differently because it's flowing straight through but generally it's the same thing as as it's pretty much exactly what's in the movie a couple of other instances where sort of jazz flows into score in a way that obviously we didn't record it where the jazz combo stuff flows into score so that again has been kind of glued together in the scores but it converts pretty well and then there's a little bit of new music actually that I've spent some time on. There was there was always going to be an overture in the movie. I forget if we discussed this last night and we did have but it was in Damien script from the very 1st draft of the script his script started. You know an overture an instrumental overture based on the theme of the movie Me and Sebastian's the in this instrumental overture plays over the you know imagery of I think it was a sunrise or something and this was before the camera tracks down into the another day of sun so it's kind of like the old roach show movies where you'd have that even as people are entering the theater exactly it was always the plan for the movie and it was it was literally the 1st piece of music that I composed back in 2011 the 1st piece of music that I orchestrated it was really sort of important and figured out the sound of the movie that the colors the flavors that would be and eventually in the score and then the overture got cut from the movie we were we were editing the movie and we discovered that the overture and another day of sun back to back it was too much music was taking too long to meet our main characters so we decided to cut the overture which made perfect sense for the movie but for the show we thought it's a concert yeah people are still maybe taking their seats it's a great it's a great opportunity to show to bring back that overture and show people you know kind of the 1st piece of music what was intended to start the movie to start the experience. And I think it will work really well and then there's. A new piece of I made in on track and on track to piece of music a piece of music that carries us from the the intermission into the 2nd half just something that kind of weaves together all the themes from the 1st half of the movie and kind of delivers us into the 2nd half of the movie so that's an new piece of music that I spent some time on to reflect We're talking with 2 time Oscar winner Justin her wits the film composer for la la land also Best Original Song for City stars from the film again live performance 100 piece in phonic orchestra on stage as well as a jazz group b. Their choral group as well as live music companies the screening of the film let's just hear some of the music from the film again just to refresh our memories someone in the crowd probably hear that early on in the fray and I. Think they can get to realize that all of them all the songs you make those. Everybody knows a. Game. And so how do you handle where you've got a solo vocal with an ensemble like that how do you do that on stage for the most part the vocals the lead vocals we're going to keep from the movie you know certainly anything Rhiannon and sayings in the room a girls we're just keeping those vocals because you can't you can't replace Ryan in a minute and those those you know anybody who's kind of a featured. Part of of the vocal ensemble for another day of sun we are going to do some live vocals and I think we're going to. Probably have the 1st We're still playing around with the concept a little bit but I think the the for the 1st girl who gets of the car the plan is for that to be live Ok and then to sort of we're going to sort of. Transmission station and back into the pre recorded vocals it's tricky because we put so much care into the you know the lead the soul the vocal soloist so we spend a lot of time calibrate finding the right voices calibrating the singing and Jamie and I are you know so proud of kind of where we where we ended up in the movie that we want to preserve as much of that as possible but we also want to give people a window into you know the amazing talent that went into making it so we're going to you know we're finding kind of a middle ground with that with the opening number and we're going to show some of it live some of the singing live and then all the choral vocals all the you know all those whose and textures in the songs as well as in the the score he is that's all going to be live and that's that's a fun thing to see a big a big choir Yeah you know divided 8 ways basically just the live power of this I expect going to be very impressive and a very unique experience different than watching it where you don't see the musicians to have the power of the orchestra coming off the stage along with the soundtrack of the film that that's that's going to be a great experience Yeah it's a really amazing thing to feel to stand in the same room or close to an orchestra and feel that that real sound you know the real power and the warmth and the vibrations from that ensemble and. You know obviously the Hollywood Bowl you have to then amplify and you have to send it out into the audience but the ball is such a such a beautiful sounding place and the sticks always amaze me the way that you can hear an orchestra at the back and yeah and you know it's it's a tricky thing I mean we're going to have to have people mixing constantly you know mixing it as it goes with the other dialogue and sound effects it's kind of it's the mix there is always a challenge and sometimes for the concerts it takes a little while to get the mics higher and out yeah and it will sound checks are going to be key Exactly and it's you know the mixers do it do amazing work they have to mix it on the fly and they have to make sure everything. I won't be exactly how the movie is mixed but it's a different it's a different space it's a down experience and so I have to be you're not recreating it is its own its own thing how are you going to feel about stepping out there on stage I mean you were a live performer going back to to college so I know it's not like you just sit in a room by yourself but being up in front of 17000 people have stepped out on that stage to address the crowd I mean it it is an exciting feeling Yeah well I wasn't much of a performer I didn't have much of a performing background there's a reason that you're in a group yeah I was in a band yeah Damien I had a band together and I grew up playing classical piano doing recitals so I've been in front of people but I've I've never been I'm most comfortable you know at my piano alone composing or that's why I'm a composer not you know really truly a performer that's why I'm not doing that with my life this is obviously the biggest crowd I've been in front of in my life so this is it's a little it's a little scary. But the Hollywood Bowl crowd is always such a great crowd and they they love music and they come to see. You know orchestras so I think it'll it'll be fun and I'm you know put in a lot of preparation I think to keep in mind is everybody there to have such a great time and you know you walk it's like walking into a living room 17000 people where people are are just there to have a great time and it's so much it's so much fun that communal l.a. Experience that the bowl you know is very unique in the type of experience it offers before I wrap up are the members of the orchestra you're going to have a lot of people who were on the soundtrack who were in the. Studio over at Sony with you yeah we tried to get back as many as possible I think we have somewhere between half and 2 thirds closer to 30 original musicians back and yeah I'm excited for people to see we had such incredible musicians all l.a. Musicians of course who played on the score and the jazz and the best here and the choir you know again all l.a. . Singers and yeah and then we have a jazz group we've put together you know a similar jazz corps of jazz musicians some of those the same from the some of those are the same Yeah who will play the rhythm section of the songs as well as the jazz and and we're loosening it up a little bit on the Jazz words of you know for the for the movie all the jazz is prerecorded and then I transcribed everything so that they could mash on screen to hear we're going to have them play new solos and kind of make it there and that sounds great Justin congratulations thanks so much for joining us thank you for having me back we have a ticket like on the air talk page k.p.c. Si dot org la la land at the Hollywood Bowl live accompany meant Memorial Day weekend Friday and Saturday night from all of us and film week have a great weekend Well while we're talking entertainment from a young age Elinor Coppola saw herself as an artist but as the wife of famed film director Francis Ford Coppola she largely put aside her own creative ambitions to be a full time mom and homemaker now at $81.00 she's written and directed her 1st feature film Paris can wait it's based on a circuitous road trip she took from Cannes to Paris it just was a time out of waking up and smelling the roses and having a fresh experience and having some funny experiences mazing experiences and it just struck me as something that could be a film. Eleanor couple at 330 and again it's 7 this evening on the frame here on k. P.c.c. 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