CHER: BURLESQUE

CHER: ON FILM

Singer. Actress. Academy Award winner. Icon. During the 1980s, Cher surprised audiences and critics alike by reinventing herself as one of Hollywood's most compelling screen performers. This seven-film retrospective showcases the roles that revealed new dimensions of a beloved superstar—funny, vulnerable, resilient, romantic, and unforgettable. As Cher prepares to release Cher: The Memoir, Part Two this fall, we're turning back time to revisit the films that transformed a music legend into a movie star.

MONDAYS | 6PM

OCT 5 - THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK

FILM Q + A: CASTING DIRECTOR WALLIS NICITA

MODERATED BY COREY ROSKIN

OCT 19 - TEA WITH MUSSOLINI

INTRO: DEVIN ORGERON, DESERTED FILMS

NOV 2 - MERMAIDS

FILM Q + A: CO-PRODUCER WALLIS NICITA

MODERATED BY COREY ROSKIN

NOV 16 - COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN

INTRO: COREY ROSKIN

NOV 30 - BURLESQUE

5PM PRE-SHOW: DEAR MOM, LOVE CHER

FILM Q + A : "DEAR MOM, LOVE CHER," PRODUCERS EBERSOLE + HUGHES

MODERATED BY COREY ROSKIN

DEC 14 - MOONSTRUCK

FILM Q + : A : TBA

DEC 28 - MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN

INTRO: TBA

BURLESQUE (2010)

Director: Steve Antin

Co-starring Christina Aguilera, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell

By the time Burlesque arrived in 2010, Cher had spent decades redefining what it meant to be a pop icon. As Tess, the owner of a struggling Los Angeles nightclub, she brings strength, confidence, and hard-earned wisdom to a story centered on ambition, reinvention, and the power of performance. Opposite Christina Aguilera's rising star, Cher embodies a woman who has survived, adapted, and remained true to herself in an ever-changing industry. The result is a role that feels uniquely suited to an artist whose own career has long celebrated independence, resilience, and unapologetic self-expression.

CHER IN SONG PRE-SHOW SPECIAL! - 5PM

DEAR MOM, LOVE CHER (2013)

Directed by P. David Ebersole and produced by Todd Hughes, Dear Mom, Love Cher offers an intimate look at the remarkable life of Cher's mother, Georgia Holt, a singer, actress and model whose own dreams of stardom helped shape her famous daughter. Featuring rare family interviews, archival footage and previously unreleased music, the documentary celebrates three generations of an extraordinary show-business family.

THE EBERSOLE HUGHES COMPANY is a unique creative collaboration from the award-winning husband & husband team P DAVID EBERSOLE & TODD HUGHES, each an accomplished writer, director and producer.

Credits include work with HBO, Showtime, Netflix, Fox Television, IFC, Sundance Channel, and Lifetime, where they made their documentary on Georgia Holt, “DEAR MOM, LOVE CHER.”

Their films have premiered at every major film festival including Cannes, Venice, and Sundance. Their feature and documentary work has been honored by numerous awards, nominations and distinctions, at the Independent Spirit Awards, the IDA Awards, the WIN Awards, and the CineFashion Film Awards; and they have received grants and support from a variety of venerable arts and entertainment institutions including Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, MacDowell Colony, and the American Film Institute.

The on-screen talent in Ebersole Hughes productions includes everyone from music giants like Alice Cooper, Courtney Love, Trini Lopez, and Dionne Warwick, to fashion and design icons like Pierre Cardin, Naomi Campbell, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Philippe Starck. as well as legends of show business like Kim Novak, Tippi Hedren, John Waters, Sharon Stone, and… Cher.
Their stylish and provocative work has been called “hugely entertaining” (Screen Daily), “wondrous and delirious” (Screen Anarchy), and “strikingly modern featuring mouth agape moments” (Hollywood Reporter).

Dubbed “renaissance men” (by Palm Springs Life) and tapped as LGBTQ notables in the annual issue of Out 100, the duo’s career focus has been on making documentaries about creative pioneers, but they have each written their first published books, and together have a new feature film now in the final stages of post production called FLOWERS PARA LOS MUERTOS.

Corey Roskin has been programming and co-producing literary events for 24 years including the West Hollywood Book Fair, Lambda Lit Fest, Omega Sci-Fi Awards and Palm Springs Pride on the Page. For 29 years he also worked for the City of West Hollywood, most notably coordinating special events and projects as part of the City’s Social Services Division. Roskin currently serves on the Board of the Palm Springs Public Library Foundation and on the special events team at the Palm Springs Cultural Center. He also dabbles in writing fiction and personal stories and has volunteered for a variety of social services and cultural arts programs for almost 40 years.

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