A Serious Man (2009)
<b>BLEAK WEEK SERIES: CINEMA OF DESPAIR</b> SPONSORED BY THIRD PLANET BOUTIQUE NO RED PASSES FOR WEEKEND AND EVENING SHOWS <div><b>SPECIAL GUESTS:</b> ACTOR RICHARD KIND (virtual introduction); FILMMAKER/PROFESSOR/CRITIC BRANDON WILSON (virtual introduction) </div><div><b>FILM DESCRIPTION</b>: Physics professor Larry Gopnik can't believe his life: his wife is leaving him for his best friend, his unemployed brother won't move off the couch, someone is threatening his career, and his kids are a mystery. Struggling to make sense of it all, Larry consults three different rabbis, and their answers lead him on a twisted journey of faith, family, delinquent behavior and mortality.</div><div><br></div><div><b>ABOUT OUR GUESTS</b>:</div><div><b>RICHARD KIND</b>: </div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a93a3ab5-7fff-89f4-d60e-6f45b0fe8087"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Richard Kind is an actor who has been acting in a lot of stuff for 40 years. He appeared in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Argo</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, voiced 'Bing Bong' in the Pixar Film,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Inside Out</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and was 'Uncle Arthur,' brother to Michael Stuhlbarg in the critically acclaimed </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A Serious Man</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Most recently, he appeared in the fourth season of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Only Murders in the Building</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> for Hulu, winning a SAG Award for Best Ensemble. Some of his other acting credits include <i>The Watcher </i>(Netflix), <i>The Out-Laws</i>, <i>The Visitor, The Station Agent, Tick, Tick…Boom, Obvious Child, Auggie, Andover, All We Had</i>, and <i>The Lennon Report</i>. His recurring TV roles include characters on <i>Spin City, Mad About You, Luck, Red Oaks, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Gotham, I’m Dying Up Here, Young Sheldon, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Goldbergs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,</i> and <i>Brockmire</i>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><br></p></span></div><div><b>BRANDON WILSON</b>: </div><div><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandon Wilson is a filmmaker, film writer, and lecturer. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he attended UCLA where he took a B.A. in African-American Studies and an M.F.A. from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. In 2005 he made his feature debut </span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">The Man Who Couldn’t…</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> for under $10,000 on standard definition digital video. The film debuted at the 2005 Pan-African Film Festival and won the Oscar Micheaux Award at the Bare Bones Film Festival in Oklahoma. His second feature </span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Sepulveda</span><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; white-space-collapse: preserve; background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;"> world premiered in New York City at the 2016 Urbanworld Film Festival. Wilson has recently taught courses at UCLA, Glendale Community College and Whatcom Community College. He has also taught at Cal State Long Beach, Columbia College Hollywood, Los Angeles Valley College and Long Beach Community College. He has curated film series for the Pickford Film Center in Bellingham, WA and for the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles. His film reviews and essays have appeared in Shadow & Act, The Playlist, American Cinematographer, and he is a frequent contributor to RogerEbert.com.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div>Comedy, DramaPT1H46M2026-06-05Michael Stuhlbarg
Richard Kind
Fred Melamed
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
A Serious Man (2009)"A Serious Man (2009)"Showtimes
June 5, 4:30 pm
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