Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival heads to Hollywood

Marcel Rasquin’s “Hermano� opens the 14th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival on Thursday at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The seven-day event includes 25 narrative and 12 documentary features and 36 shorts from the Latin filmmaking community. The festival also features numerous filmmaker panels, parties and gala events. Except for openings and closing night programs, all screenings take place at the Mann Chinese 6 Cinemas; panels and seminars are holding court on the third floor of the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel Space, and the closing night gala screening of Carlos Carrera’s “Backyard� is set for the Egyptian Theatre. https://www.latinofilm.org

Animated antics

Some of the greatest actors you’ll ever hear will be talking about providing the voices for some of the best-loved animated characters at “The Marc Davis Celebration of Animation: Voice of Character,� Thursday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Animation historian (and Los Angeles Times contributor) Charles Solomon hosts the event, which features voice artists Jim Cummings (Winnie the Pooh), June Foray (Rocky of “Rocky and Bullwinkle�), as well as Susan Egan, Yuri Lowenthal and Russi Taylor; animation director Bob Peterson, animator James Baxter and casting executive Rick Dempsey.

And that’s not all folks! The animation fun continues Friday at the Goldwyn with an evening of Oscar-winning or Oscar-nominated films directed by Chuck Jones presented in conjunction with the Academy exhibition, “Chuck Jones: An Animator’s Life from A to Z-Z-Z-Z.� Among the films to be screened are the Oscar-winning 1949 “For Scent-imental Reasons,� which introduced Pepe Le Pew, the 1949 documentary short, “So Much for So Little� and 1965’s “Dot and the Line.� Special guests include animators Rob Minkoff, Chris Bailey, Jeff DeGrandis, Kelly Asbury and Jones’ daughter, Linda Clough, and his wife, Marian Jones. https://www.oscars.org.

Maverick screenings

Maverick British filmmaker Ken Russell will be making three appearances this weekend as the American Cinematheque honors him. Russell will visit the Aero Theatre on Friday for a double bill of his controversial, X-rated 1971 film “The Devils,� starring Oliver Reed as a womanizing priest and Vanessa Redgrave as a hunchbacked nun, and 1980’s sci-fi thriller “Altered States,� adapted by Paddy Chayefsky from his novel. Writer-director Mick Garris will moderate a discussion with Russell.

Screening Saturday at the Egyptian with Russell in attendance is the new digital restoration of his 1975 rock opera “Tommy� and his truly bizarre 1975 musical “Lisztomania,� both starring Roger Daltrey and his curly locks.

Russell returns Sunday to the Aero for a screening of one of his strongest efforts: “Women in Love,� which was released in England in 1969 and in the U.S. in 1970, based on the novel by D.H. Lawrence. Glenda Jackson, who won the lead actress Oscar for her role, Jennie Linden, Reed and Alan Bates star. Rounding out the evening is “The Music Lovers,� the 1970 surreal biopic of Tchaikovsky ( Richard Chamberlain). Jackson also stars. https://www.americancinematheque.com

Antonioni marathon

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art unveils five showings Friday and Saturday of the 1955 Michelangelo Antonioni (“Blow-Up�) film, “Le Amiche.� The drama, adapted from the novel by Cesare Pavese, about a young Italian woman who returns to her native Turin to open a dress shop, was never released in the U.S. https://www.lacma.org.

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