COMING SOON TO MALIBU FILM SOCIETY! MFS Screening Calendar October – December 2016 Schedule subject to change, with more shows to be added soon!

THE FOLLOWING SHOWS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND WILL BE HELD AT THE MALIBU SCREENING ROOM @ MJCS. To guarantee your seats, please make online reservations at MalibuFilmSociety.org up to one day before each show. Non-members can save $5 each by making their reservations in advance; FREE ADMISSION for members of MFS along with AMPAS, film industry guilds and their guests. Day-of-show: full-price tickets will be available at the door.

Our first contender for this year's best foreign language feature is ELLE. Nominated Tuesday for the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, the official entry from France is an Nov. 1 empowering and absorbing film about a successful businesswoman (Isabelle 7PM Huppert) who gets caught up in an intricate game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.

John Krasinski (THE OFFFICE) makes his directorial review by starring with Margo Weds. Martindale, Richard Jenkins and Anna Kendrick in this hilarious yet touching comedy Nov. 2 about a dysfunctional family brought together when an aspiring New York artist 7:30 returns to his small Midwestern home town on the eve of his mother's surgery.

Shot over four years and featuring incredible cinematography, SEASONS retells the Saturday 80,000-year post-Ice Age history of Europe as seen through the eyes of the animals of Nov. 5 the forest. This screening is free and open to the public. Oscar-nominated 7PM documentarians Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (WINGED MIGRATION) and their fellow filmmakers will join us for an audience Q&A after the show.

In 1997, a group of attorneys and activists banded together for the world’s first Monday prosecution of rape as a war crime. This documentary details their fight against the Nov. 7 odds, supported by women volunteering to testify despite the threat of assassina- 7PM tion. This screening is free and open to the public. Former U.S. Ambassador Pierre- Richard Prosper will join us for an audience Q&A after the show.

Bring the entire family to this free 5pm screening of our first contender in the race Saturday for this year's best animated feature, KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS tells the story of Nov. 12 a young boy who must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his late father in order 5PM to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. To guarantee your seats, please make reservations at www.MalibuFilmSociety.org.

Our next contender for this year's best foreign language feature is NERUDA, which Sunday stars Gael Garcia Bernal (MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, ROSEWATER, MOZART IN THE Nov. 13 JUNGLE) as the Chilean police inspector hunting down Nobel Prize-winning poet 7:30 Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Meryl Streep stars in the bizarre but true story of FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS, a Weds. Depression-era New York heiress whose dreams of becoming an opera singer Nov. 16 eventually lead her to a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall – despite the fact that 7:30 she was (and remains) once of the worst singers ever to “grace” the stage. Actor Simon Helberg will join us for an audience Q&A after the screening.

Oscar-nominated actress Jessica Chastain (ZERO DARK THIRTY, THE HELP), stars as Saturday MISS SLOANE, a brilliant but ruthless Washington lobbyist notorious for her Nov. 19 unparalleled talent and her desire to win at all costs – even when it puts her own 7:30 career at risk. Oscar-nominated director John Madden (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE) and first-time screenwriter Jonathan Perera will join us for the Q&A after the show.

From executive producers Terrence Malick, Natalie Portman, and Chris Eyre comes Sunday this haunting and unflinching debut documentary feature directed by Jack Pettibone Nov. 20 Riccobono about an American Indian gang leader who must confront his role in 5PM bringing violent drug culture into his beloved community. Director Jack Riccobono and producer Chris Eyre will join us for an audience Q&A after this free screening.

Actor Miles Teller (WHIPLASH) stars in the inspirational story of World Champion Monday Boxer Vinny Pazienza, who suffered a near fatal car crash which left him not knowing Nov. 21 if he'd ever walk again – only to eventually make one of the most incredible 7:30 comebacks in sports history. Director Ben Younger will be joining us for the Q&A after the screening.

Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (MUD, TAKING SHELTER, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL), Saturday LOVING stars Joel Edgerton (KINKY BOOTS, BLACK MASS) and Ruth Negga Nov. 26 (PREACHER) as Richard and Mildred Loving, the real-life Virginia couple convicted and 7:30 sent to prison in 1958 for breaking racial segregation laws by getting married.

JACKIE stars Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman (THE BLACK SWAN) as iconic First Sunday Lady Jacqueline Kennedy – fighting through grief and trauma to regain her faith, Nov. 27 console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy after his assassination 7:30 in 1963.

The final film from the late Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda tells the Weds. passionate true story of an avant-garde artist (brilliantly portrayed by Polish Nov. 30 superstar Boguslaw Linda) who battled Communist orthodoxy and his own physical 7:30 impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art. Actor Boguslaw Linda will join us for an audience Q&A after the screening.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA stars Casey Affleck as a man forced to look after his Thursday teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. Also starring three-time Oscar-nominee Dec. 1 Michelle Williams (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, MY WEEK WITH MARILYN). Director/ 7:30 screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan (ANALYZE THIS, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, GANGS OF NEW YORK) will join us for an audience Q&A after the screening.

Based on the best-selling children’s book from Great Britain, the title character in A Sunday MONSTER CALLS is a giant tree making nightly visits to a 13-year old boy, demanding Dec. 4 that the boy face his biggest fear: telling the truth by coming to grips with his 7:30 mother’s terminal illness. Starring Sigourney Weaver and Felicity Jones (THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, TRUE STORY, LIKE CRAZY).

Our next contender in the race for best foreign language comes from Spain: JULIETA, Monday by (who else): Oscar-winning director/screenwriter Pedro Aldomovar! This time, his Dec. 5 passion for films focusing on women involves a brokenhearted mother whose 7:30 unhappy casual encounter leads her to confront her life and the most important events about her stranded daughter.

The winner of this year’s People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Weds. Festival, LA LA LAND stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling as two Hollywood dreamers Dec. 7 who fall in love – only to have their relationship tested as they finally start to achieve 7:30 success. Director and screenwriter Damien Chazelle (WHIPLASH) will join us for the audience Q&A after the screening.

Our foreign language feature series continues with TONI ERDMANN, which has been Sunday sweeping up awards ever since it took the international critics prize at the Cannes Dec. 11 Film Festival. From Germany comes, which mixes drama with comedy in the story of 7PM a father seeking to reconcile with his estranged daughter, rescuing her from a life of corporate drudgery.

Our next contender in the race for this year's best animated feature, THE RED Monday TURTLE is a film entirely without dialog about the major life stages of a castaway on a Dec. 12 deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds. This movie is free and 7PM open to the entire community; we know it’s a school night, but bring the kids anyway: we’re starting this 80-minute film right at 7PM.

This year’s official best foreign language feature submission from Denmark, LAND OF Tuesday MINE has won 21 international festival awards for its exploration of one of the Dec. 13 darkest chapters in Danish history: when a group of German POW’s was forced after 7:30 the war to dig up two million land mines with their bare hands.

We don’t have much of a synopsis yet (much less a poster) – but we now know the Weds. ARTWORK title: THE COMEDIAN. We also know it’s directed by Taylor Hackford (AN OFFICER Dec. 14 COMING AND A GENTLEMAN, DOLORES CLAIRBORNE, RAY), and that it stars Robert De Niro as 7:30 SOON! an aging insult comic, along with Leslie Mann, Danny De Vito, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Keitel, Patti Lupone, Edie Falco, and Hannibal Burress – so save the date! Dev Patel (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE) stars in the story of a five-year-old Indian boy Saturday who gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of miles from home and survives Dec. 17 many challenges before finally being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, 7:30pm he sets out to find his lost family. Also starring Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara (CAROL, SOCIAL NETWORK, GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO).

Doors open each night 30 minutes before showtime at the Malibu Screening Room @ MJCS, 24855 Pacific Coast Hwy