COMING SOON TO MALIBU FILM SOCIETY! MFS Screening Calendar November – 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.

Widely considered as a top contender for Best Foreign Language Feature and Tuesday nominated for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme D'Or, SIERANEVADA centers on a Nov. 15 family coming together -- and then coming apart -- following the death of their 7PM patriarch.

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.

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, MOONLIGHT chronicles the Friday life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his Nov. 18 place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. Starring 7:30 Mahershala Ali (HOUSE OF CARDS, TREME, THE HUNGER GAMES) and Naomie Harris (SPECTRE, SKYFALL, MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM).

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

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.

The second feature from director/screenwriter Tom Ford (A SINGLE MAN) stars Amy Saturday Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Michael Shannon in the story of an art gallery owner Nov. 26 whose ex-husband asks her to review a manuscript for his new novel before it gets 7:30 published – only to discover that the violent, symbolic revenge story he’s written may actually be a veiled threat.

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.

Our next contender in the race for Best Foreign Language Feature is this year's official Tuesday entry from Israel and the winner of this year's World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Nov. 29 Sundance, SAND STORM, which tells the story of two Bedouin women struggling in 7:30 their own individual ways to change the unchangeable rules after their lives are shattered.

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 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.

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.

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