A screening of La La Land at The Burrow on Wednesday will not end when the credits roll.
The Miracle Mile cultural salon is bringing Damien Chazelle’s 2016 musical to its Cinema Salon series Sept. 9, pairing the movie with a discussion afterward about ambition, love and what people give up in pursuit of the lives they want.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at The Burrow, 94 Miracle Mile, with the film beginning promptly at 7. The event is scheduled to run until 9:30 p.m. and is open to ticketed non-members as well as members.
The evening’s premise comes directly from the film. The Burrow asks guests to consider whether following a dream requires letting go of the life they once imagined — and, after the screening, to talk about it with one another.
That makes the event less a conventional movie night than an extension of the reason The Burrow says it exists: to create a room where culture is shared rather than simply watched.
A salon built around participation
The Burrow opened on Miracle Mile earlier this year as a member-driven cultural salon combining live music, drinks, food and conversation in an intimate setting.
Founder Omar Yunes Marquez has described the concept as drawing inspiration from the cultural salons of pre-war Europe, where artists, musicians, writers and patrons gathered in the same rooms rather than experiencing culture at a distance. The venue operates as a private club during regular hours while opening selected performances and events to the broader public.
Its calendar has quickly expanded beyond live jazz. Recent and upcoming programming includes vinyl nights, chef takeovers and other Cinema Salon screenings alongside The Burrow’s recurring live-music sessions.
Cinema Salon takes that social model into film.
For Wednesday’s screening, seating is assigned on a first-come basis, and The Burrow cautions that guests may be asked to share a table with others — a detail that fits the format’s emphasis on conversation rather than the anonymity of a traditional movie theater.
Why ‘La La Land’
La La Land follows Sebastian, a jazz pianist played by Ryan Gosling, and Mia, an aspiring actress played by Emma Stone, as they pursue careers in Los Angeles while trying to sustain a relationship increasingly shaped by their ambitions.
That tension makes the movie particularly suited to The Burrow’s format.
The venue describes the film as an exploration of “the sacrifices that often accompany a life devoted to creating something meaningful” and plans to use the post-screening conversation to examine ambition, purpose and whether achieving one dream inevitably comes at the expense of another.
The movie arrived in theaters in 2016 to enormous awards-season attention. It received 14 Academy Award nominations, tying the record at the time held by All About Eve and Titanic, and won six Oscars. Stone won best actress, Chazelle won best director and “City of Stars” won best original song. The film also won for cinematography, original score and production design.
Its Oscar night became memorable for another reason.
Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway initially announced La La Land as the best-picture winner. Members of its production team had already begun accepting the award when the mistake was discovered: the presenters had been handed the wrong envelope, and Moonlight was the actual winner.
Nearly a decade later, however, The Burrow is less interested in revisiting the awards than in the question that survives the spectacle: what happens when personal relationships and professional aspirations do not lead to the same destination?
What the ticket includes
Admission includes soft drinks, coffee and tea, wine and beer. A full bar and light bites will be available for separate purchase.
The venue describes availability as limited. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and guests are advised that the movie will start promptly at 7.
The format also distinguishes The Burrow’s evening from a conventional film screening elsewhere in Coral Gables. The Coral Gables Art Cinema, only a few blocks away, operates as the city’s dedicated nonprofit art house. The Burrow is using film differently: as the starting point for a social gathering rather than the evening’s final destination.
That distinction is visible in The Burrow’s September calendar. Another Cinema Salon is scheduled for Sept. 23 featuring The Music of Strangers, the documentary about cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad Ensemble, this time organized around the theme of music as community.
For La La Land, the subject is aspiration.
The film ends by asking its characters — and its audience — to imagine the life that might have been. At The Burrow on Wednesday night, the lights will come back up and the audience will have a chance to answer for itself.
Tickets for the Sept. 9 Cinema Salon are available through The Burrow’s event calendar.
The Burrow pairs ‘La La Land’ with post-film conversation Sept. 9
A screening of La La Land at The Burrow on Wednesday will not end when the credits roll.
The Miracle Mile cultural salon is bringing Damien Chazelle’s 2016 musical to its Cinema Salon series Sept. 9, pairing the movie with a discussion afterward about ambition, love and what people give up in pursuit of the lives they want.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. at The Burrow, 94 Miracle Mile, with the film beginning promptly at 7. The event is scheduled to run until 9:30 p.m. and is open to ticketed non-members as well as members.
The evening’s premise comes directly from the film. The Burrow asks guests to consider whether following a dream requires letting go of the life they once imagined — and, after the screening, to talk about it with one another.
That makes the event less a conventional movie night than an extension of the reason The Burrow says it exists: to create a room where culture is shared rather than simply watched.
A salon built around participation
The Burrow opened on Miracle Mile earlier this year as a member-driven cultural salon combining live music, drinks, food and conversation in an intimate setting.
Founder Omar Yunes Marquez has described the concept as drawing inspiration from the cultural salons of pre-war Europe, where artists, musicians, writers and patrons gathered in the same rooms rather than experiencing culture at a distance. The venue operates as a private club during regular hours while opening selected performances and events to the broader public.
Its calendar has quickly expanded beyond live jazz. Recent and upcoming programming includes vinyl nights, chef takeovers and other Cinema Salon screenings alongside The Burrow’s recurring live-music sessions.
Cinema Salon takes that social model into film.
For Wednesday’s screening, seating is assigned on a first-come basis, and The Burrow cautions that guests may be asked to share a table with others — a detail that fits the format’s emphasis on conversation rather than the anonymity of a traditional movie theater.
Why ‘La La Land’
La La Land follows Sebastian, a jazz pianist played by Ryan Gosling, and Mia, an aspiring actress played by Emma Stone, as they pursue careers in Los Angeles while trying to sustain a relationship increasingly shaped by their ambitions.
That tension makes the movie particularly suited to The Burrow’s format.
The venue describes the film as an exploration of “the sacrifices that often accompany a life devoted to creating something meaningful” and plans to use the post-screening conversation to examine ambition, purpose and whether achieving one dream inevitably comes at the expense of another.
The movie arrived in theaters in 2016 to enormous awards-season attention. It received 14 Academy Award nominations, tying the record at the time held by All About Eve and Titanic, and won six Oscars. Stone won best actress, Chazelle won best director and “City of Stars” won best original song. The film also won for cinematography, original score and production design.
Its Oscar night became memorable for another reason.
Presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway initially announced La La Land as the best-picture winner. Members of its production team had already begun accepting the award when the mistake was discovered: the presenters had been handed the wrong envelope, and Moonlight was the actual winner.
Nearly a decade later, however, The Burrow is less interested in revisiting the awards than in the question that survives the spectacle: what happens when personal relationships and professional aspirations do not lead to the same destination?
What the ticket includes
Admission includes soft drinks, coffee and tea, wine and beer. A full bar and light bites will be available for separate purchase.
The venue describes availability as limited. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and guests are advised that the movie will start promptly at 7.
The format also distinguishes The Burrow’s evening from a conventional film screening elsewhere in Coral Gables. The Coral Gables Art Cinema, only a few blocks away, operates as the city’s dedicated nonprofit art house. The Burrow is using film differently: as the starting point for a social gathering rather than the evening’s final destination.
That distinction is visible in The Burrow’s September calendar. Another Cinema Salon is scheduled for Sept. 23 featuring The Music of Strangers, the documentary about cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silkroad Ensemble, this time organized around the theme of music as community.
For La La Land, the subject is aspiration.
The film ends by asking its characters — and its audience — to imagine the life that might have been. At The Burrow on Wednesday night, the lights will come back up and the audience will have a chance to answer for itself.
Tickets for the Sept. 9 Cinema Salon are available through The Burrow’s event calendar.
