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• American Zombie now playing - Q&A after 7:30pm show, April 1

  2008-04-01 6:18AM / 標準BLOG

      Hi all, It's not too late to see AMERICAN ZOMBIE -- now playing at the Sunset 5 Theaters in Los Angeles. Please come check out the movie.. we've gotten some great reviews and I will be doing a Q&A Tomorrow (April 1st) after the 7:30pm show...along with some of the cast and crew.  We did OK box office over the weekend, but want to get the numbers up for the entire run.  That will ensure that it will play elsewhere.   As always, thank you for your support!! 
  Grace
  
  AMERICAN ZOMBIE   NOW PLAYING AT 
  
  Laemmle's Sunset 5 8000 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90046
   Showtimes: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 & 10:00
  
  More info at www.americanzombiemovie.com
  
   Tickets www.laemmle.com
  
  Here's a review from the LA Daily News
  LA DAILY NEWS 3 out of 4 stars
  Laugh yourself to death with `Zombie'
  BY BOB STRAUSS >FILM CRITIC
  
  Just as it's about to wear out its one-joke premise, the horror mockumentary "American Zombie" deepens, grows complicated and even gets pretty scary. It's a poker-faced satire in which director Grace Lee - whose "Grace Lee Project" saw her tracking down women who shared her name - and her idiot friend from film school, John Solomon, try to portray "high-functioning zombies" as a misunderstood minority who are just like anybody else, except dead. But what starts out as a typically liberal plea for acceptance and equal rights slowly turns into something much darker, a metaphor for American paranoia at its hysterical worst - and, perhaps, its most justified. No one here gets out alive, or at least without being implicated in some kind of delusional prejudice, smug documentary filmmakers least of all. Lee and Solomon are hilariously passive-aggressive with one another ("Nobody wants to see `The Grace Lee Project 2,' " he says as the director keeps turning the camera on herself). And the key zombie players are all terrific, as are the film's funky/downscale L.A. locations.
  
  

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• The Art of American Zombie -- at SCOOPS!

  2008-03-25 12:10PM / 發表

     For those of you who live in Los Angeles, there will be a special art exhibition entitled THE ART OF AMERICAN ZOMBIE at Scoops ice cream parlor/gallery in East Hollywood.   Please check it out!  Tai Kim, the owner/proprieter of Scoops (the best and most inventive ice cream in Los Angeles) will be creating several zombie flavors inspired by the movie for the opening weekend, and you will be able to check out some art from the los angeles zombie underground. Press release below:
  
  THE ART OF AMERICAN ZOMBIE
  
  Until now, art from the Los Angeles Zombie Underground has failed to achieve any major exhibition in the United States.  Spontaneous collections have appeared in derelict buildings or empty parking lots, but The Art of American Zombie finally brings these revolutionary works to a local gallery setting.
  
  The artists drew inspiration from the ordinary and extraordinary facets of Los Angeles life: city council meetings, traffic on the 605, the annual LIVE/DEAD jamboree, empty voids of nothingness, the La Brea Tar Pits.  Many of the revenant artists are reclusive and some of them remain unknown.  All of them present a fresh perspective on “outsider art” and the challenges of living and creating in Los Angeles.  This show endeavors to illuminate the zombie (non-living) experience for serious contemporary-art connoisseurs  and casual viewers alike.
  This exhibition -- a collection of collage works, photography, pen-and-ink portraits, string art, pop ‘zine art, charcoal-and-paper(bag) abstracts, and melted Styrofoam sculpture -- offers a fascinating cross section of the burgeoning Los Angeles zombie underground artist community.  The ‘zine art, created by an artist by the name of IVAN, is heavily influenced by a convenience store milieu (where he is employed): images of junk food, cheesy nachos and neon slushies, assorted customers, and 24-Hour News programs mingle with street life and pop culture to create a biting commentary about life as a zombie.  String art, the domain of an artist named LISA, serves to examine the inner lives of zombies: repetitive empty void imagery depicted in string and nails offers a glimpse into the complexities of zombie psychology.  GLEN, an artist working in a charcoal-and-paper bag medium, also explores the notion of Great Empty Voids with bold abstract swirls.  BLRG, an artist who creates playful pen-and-ink zombie portraits, combines satire and heart to produce deeply felt political statements.  
  The Art of American Zombie is presented in conjunction with the new film AMERICAN ZOMBIE, opening March 28th at the Laemmle Sunset Five.  Much of the artwork seen in this exhibition can also be seen in the film, which explores the emerging zombie population of Los Angeles.
  
  

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• American Zombie opens March 28 in Los Angeles

  2008-03-10 12:47PM / 標準BLOG

    Hey everyone, It's official -- American Zombie is opening in Los Angeles!  We are working with the distributor to make sure we get people into the theaters, particularly on the opening weekend, as that is the key to expanding to other theaters.  We're planning on Q&As with cast and crew, giveaways, an zombie art show opening in conjunction with the movie and more. If you are part of an organization that would like group discounts or would like posters or postcards, please let me know -- we are always looking for creative ways to get people to the Sunset 5. We're also going to have a Zombie Art show with opening reception on March 27 (Thursday) at Scoops ice cream shop/gallery in East Hollywood.  More on that later.  
  American Zombie premieres in Los Angeles March 28th
  Laemmle's Sunset 5 8000 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood, CA 90046 Showtimes: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 & 10:00 
  Q&A with Grace Lee and the zombies: Friday (3/28) and Saturday (3/29) after the 7:30PM show
  Buy tickets online at www.laemmle.com
  To watch the trailer and get more information visit: http://www.americanzombiemovie.com
  
  

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• Korean Cinema Now at UCLA Film Archive

  2008-01-22 12:37PM / 資料

  For those of you in LA, here's a chance to watch some Korean films -- classics and new independents.  The only one I've seen is the Hong Sang-soo film "Woman on the Beach," which is classic Hong Sang-soo. I've heard "Driving with My Wife's Lover" is quite good, too.  But mostly, I would really love to catch the classic melodramas by Shin Sang-Ok and Lee Man-Hee.
  
  More info at www.cinema.ucla.edu 
  
  UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) present   KOREAN CINEMA NOW (AND THEN) Friday, January 18 – Saturday, February 9
  
  While many U.S. moviegoers may have first encountered Korean cinema when last year's international hit, The Host, splashed across North American screens, longtime Archive patrons know that director Bong Joon-ho's riotous familial monster fest is only the latest high water mark of a surging Korean film industry.  Since the 1980s, the Archive has championed—and often premiered—the work of such internationally acclaimed filmmakers as Im Kwon-taek, Park Kwang-su, Lee Chang-dong, and Hong Sang-soo, whose compelling seventh film Woman on the Beach will screen in this series.  These directors, in turn, are building on a long tradition of work by Korean masters that began in the 1950s with the Golden Age of Korean cinema.  Many of these older filmmakers, such as Shin Sang-ok and Lee Man-hee, have only recently come to the attention of Western critics and audiences.  Their work, however, provides significant context for the current crop of Korean directors wrestling with questions of Korean national identity and societal change across an array of genres and cinematic forms.  This series brings together a selection of rare Korean classics, many newly restored, and recent gems to present a tantalizing snapshot of Korean cinema past and present.
  
  *Films in this series, except for The City of Violence (2006) and Woman on the Beach (2006), are provided courtesy of KOFIC.  All films are presented in Korean with English subtitles. 
  
  

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• American Zombie screens twice in Chicago this weekend

  2008-01-17 1:19PM / BLOG新聞

      Hi all, Anyone in Chicago? I just found out from the distributor that American Zombie will be screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center as part of its "Stranger than Fiction" Documentary series.   Here are the details. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it there, but if anyone has friends in Chicago who might enjoy it I would appreciate your spreading the word!  
  Stranger Than Fiction series at the Gene Siskel Film Center this weekend:  
  http://www.artic.edu/webspaces/siskelfilmcenter/2008/january/2.html
    Chicago premiere! AMERICAN ZOMBIE 2007, Grace Lee, USA, 90 min. 
   Zombies aren’t real, a fact you’d never guess from the investigative gusto acclaimed documentary filmmaker Grace Lee (THE GRACE LEE PROJECT) brings to her subject of L.A.’s disrespected “zombie community.” Lee and filmmaker John Solomon play themselves as a pair of mismatched directors at odds over their cinema verité documentary on Zombie Americans. The film’s subjects, who prefer to be called “revenants,” seem open about all aspects of their undercover lives except when the subject of eating human flesh is broached. Lee’s deadpan and often-hilarious satire suggests that zombies might stand in for any number of marginalized communities. 
   Friday, January 18, 8:00 pm Monday, January 21, 6:00 pm
  
  

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