Film Society Takes On Dark Comedy The Laguna Beach Film Society hosts a premiere of the dark comedy “Struck By Lightning” on Thursday, Dec. 20 at the South Coast Cinema at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, and $5 for students. The showing includes a catechism with the director Brian Dannelly. For $20, there will be [...]
A documentary film called “Fighting Fear” and featuring pro surfers Kelly Slater and Bruce Irons will have a special screening at South Coast Cinema on Sept. 16 at 11 a.m. Over the course of three years, the film follows two men, a mixed martial arts fighter and a pro surfer, respectively. The film is an [...]
A Quebec comedy titled “Starbuck” will screen Thursday, Sept. 20 at Laguna’s South Coast Cinema at 7 p.m. “Starbuck” concerns a class action lawsuit brought by 142 half-siblings challenging the anonymity of their shared sperm-donor father and is presented by the Laguna Beach Film Society. Tickets are $10 at the door and $5 for students [...]
The Laguna Beach Film Society will premiere the new Olympia Dukakis film, “Cloudburst,” on Thursday, Aug. 16 at 7 p.m. at the South Coast Cinema, 162 S. Coast Highway. “Cloudburst” centers on a blind member of a same-sex couple who is committed to a nursing home by her family and is thusly separated from her [...]
From the land of bossa nova, The Laguna Beach Film Society (LBFS) presents an evocative, new Brazilian film, “Found Memories,” on Thursday, July 19 at 7 p.m. at the South Coast Cinema. Tickets are $15 at the door and $20 for film, food, appetizers, and prefilm conversation at the Laguna Art Museum at 6 p.m.
A terrorist bombing cuts off Anita, a young woman with Down’s Syndrome, from her family, leaving her lost and confused as she tries to find her to her caregivers in Buenos Aires. Will the others she meets help or ignore her as she tries to learn to care for herself? Find out, Thursday, June 21, [...]
‘Clean’ Energy’s Dark Side The public is invited to attend a free screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Gaslands” at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Laguna Beach, 429 Cypress Street, at noon on Sunday, July 17. This film, which won in the documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival, reveals the destructiveness of [...]
In celebration of the Fete de Musique celebrations to honor our French Riviera sister city, Menton, the Laguna Beach Film Society will present “The Heartbreaker,” a French film about a guy who ruins relationships for a living, at the South Coast Cinema, 162 S. Coast Highway, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 16. Tickets are [...]
The Laguna Beach Film Society presents the Swedish film “Among Us,” a mystical tale that explores family dynamics, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 20, at South Coast Cinema. Tickets are $15 at the door. For an additional $5, moviegoers can join the LBFS members before the film at 6 p.m. for hors d’oeuvres and [...]
Police Use Taser to Subdue Assault Suspect
An assault involving three men escalated into a struggle with Laguna Beach police, who ultimately deployed a taser twice to subdue the younger combative suspect in the 300 block of Cozumel around 1:15 a.m. Friday, May 10, police said. Police ultimately arrested Laguna Beach resident Sergio Gabriel Borgognone, 51, for allegedly resisting arrest and his [...]
