COMING SOON TO MALIBU FILM SOCIETY! MFS Screening Calendar – 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. FREE ADMISSION for members of MFS along with AMPAS, film industry guilds and their guests. Non-members can save $5 each by making their reservations in advance; day-of-show full-price tickets will be available at the door.

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

Our foreign language feature series continues with Germany’s TONI ERDMANN, Sunday which has been sweeping up awards ever since it took the international critics prize Dec. 11 at the Cannes Film Festival. Drama mixes with comedy in this story of a father 7PM 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 as we’re starting this 80-minute film in time to finish well before 8:30.

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.

This new comedy from director Taylor Hackford (AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, Weds. DOLORES CLAIRBORNE, RAY) stars Robert De Niro as an aging insult comic, alongside Dec. 14 Leslie Mann, Danny De Vito, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Keitel, Patti Lupone, Edie Falco, 7:30 and Hannibal Burress.

A spacecraft transporting thousands of hibernating people to a distant colony planet Thursday has a malfunction in its sleep chambers, awakening two of its passengers (Jennifer Dec. 15 Lawrence, Chris Pratt) 90 years before it’s scheduled to arrive at its destination. 7:30 Oscar-nominated director Morten Tyldum (THE IMITATION GAME) will join us for the Q&A after the screening.

Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (MUD, TAKING SHELTER, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL), Friday LOVING stars Joel Edgerton (KINKY BOOTS, BLACK MASS) and Ruth Negga Dec. 16 (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.

The movie which took Martin Scorsese 30 years to make, SILENCE is now being hailed as one of the top contenders for Best Picture and Best Director. In 17th Century Sunday Japan, two Jesuit priests (Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield) are met with violence and Dec. 18 persecution when they arrive to search for their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) and 6:30 propagate Christianity. Actor Andrew Garfield (THE SOCIAL NETWORK, THE

AMAZING SPIDERMAN, 99 HOMES) will join us for the Q&A after the screening. Unless otherwise noted, doors open each night 30 minutes before showtime at the Malibu Screening Room @ MJCS