Events for August 28th, 2008

Docuweek Los Angeles

ArcLight Hollywood - 6360 Sunset Blvd - Hollywood (Hollywood)

It's docu-mania at the Arclights

The Wrecking Crew

ArcLight Hollywood - 6360 Sunset Blvd - Hollywood (Hollywood)

Find out what went on behind the scenes of the best backup band you've never heard of. Working for the likes of the Beach Boys, the Monkees, the Mamas and The Papas and even Frank Sinatra, these Los Angeles session men scorched a path up and down the Top 40 charts. With a roster that inlcuded Glen...

Fire Under The Snow

ArcLight Hollywood - 6360 Sunset Blvd - Hollywood (Hollywood)

The story of the Venerable Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, who was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959 and who spent 33 years in prison for the "crime" of demonstrating peacefully. He was tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor. This film follows his journey through...

Yodok Stories

ArcLight Sherman Oaks - 15301 Ventura Boulevard, Building A - Sherman Oaks

"Yodok Stories" follows a 36 year-old North Korean defector, Jung Sung San, who managed to escape through China to South Korea. One out of nine people who fled to “safety” in Seoul, he inspires eight other refugees to recreate the past through theater, and together they work to develop...

An Unlikely Weapon

ArcLight Sherman Oaks - 15301 Ventura Boulevard, Building A - Sherman Oaks

This documentary focuses on the work of Wire Service photographer Eddie Adams, who captured on film 13 wars, six American Presidents and every major film star of the last 50 years. The picture to the left, of Saigon police chief General Nygoc Loan shooting a Vietcong guerilla at point-blank range,...

What We Do Is Secret

Nuart Theatre - 11272 Santa Monica Blvd. - Los Angeles (West L.A.)

In this fictional account, director Rodger Grossman takes on the birth of the Germs and the late-'70s L.A. punk scene. Shane West (from "ER") plays frontman Darby Crash and Bijou Phillips, somehow, co-stars. Call us a bunch of hippies, but where's the Love/Arthur Lee biopic? Aug. 22 - Aug....

Grease - Universal Citywalk

Universal CityWalk - 1000 Universal Studios Blvd - Universal City

7:30 p.m.

Thursday, August 28: You know the score. Singing high schoolers in the 1950s. John Travolta singing and dancing. Lots of summer lovin'. "Grease" under the florescent stars of Universal Citywalk.

Neil Young: Heart of Gold / Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense

Aero Theater - 1328 Montana Ave. - Santa Monica (Montana Avenue)

7:30 p.m.

A double feature (a Shot of Love, if you will) of Jonathan Demme's musical documentaries. "Neil Young: Heart of Gold" followed by "Stop Making Sense." Big guitars and big suits. Below, a real live wire.