Pencil This In: 'The Last Nude,' 'The Smartest Man In The World' & 'The Most Fun Funeral!'
Greg Proops
Tonight's event lineup offers unique choices in film, books, comedy and theater. An Iranian film screens at the Aero Theatre as part of the Golden Globe® Foreign-Language Nominee Series, and Anne Brashier is bringing her game show performance to the Westside Comedy Theater. Greg Proops promises to make you laugh at Bar Lubitsch, and Ellis Avery will talk about her new read. Get up, get out and get entertained.
FILM
The Golden Globe® Foreign-Language Nominee Series continues tonight at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica with Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, a nominee from Iran. A family drama, the film explores "the dissolution of an upper-middle class marriage reveals sexual, class and religious fault lines in contemporary Iran," per the synopsis. The film was winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival and is in Persian with English subtitles. 7:30pm. $7-$11.
BOOKS
Author Ellis Avery will discuss and sign her novel The Last Nude at Book Soup. Set in Paris in 1927, the story is a tale of "love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most famous muse in Paris between the world wars," per the Book Soup description. 7pm. Free. A signed copy of the book costs $25.95.
COMEDY
Funnyman Greg Proops presents his latest Vodkast "The Smartest Man In The World" at Bar Lubitsch in West Hollywood. Described as "an hour of the grandest grandiloquence," the show should boldly entertain. 7pm. Free.
THEATER*
Anne Brashier wrote and stars in "The Most Fun Funeral!" where "death hosts a high-stakes game show," according to the event flyer. The show will be performed at the Westside Comedy Theater on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade tonight and tomorrow night and received rave reviews at the Hollywood and New Zealand Fringe Festivals. 8pm. $10. Ticket proceeds benefit Our House Grief Support Center.
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