Los Angeles Plays Itself
5/6/04 to 6/29/04
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Thursday, May 6 5:30pmIda Lupino's taut, compassionate drama of a salesman commuting between wives in S.F. and L.A.View DetailsL.A.X.
Tuesday, June 1 7:30pmFabrice Ziolkowski relates Southern California geography to the terrain of cinema, presenting "a disabused, skeptical rendering of the city's grittier underside, the noir realities behind the sunshine."-David James. With Gary Beydler short Pasadena Freeway Stills.View DetailsThe Savage Eye: Free Screening!
Thursday, June 3 5:30pmIntroduced by Thom Andersen. Extraordinary images from the seamier side of the real Los Angeles fuse with fiction in this 1958 indie landmark.View DetailsLos Angeles Plays Itself
Thursday, June 3 7:00pmThom Andersen in Person. Thom Andersen's acclaimed film is "an epic, poignant essay account of the intertwined histories of L.A. and Hollywood."-Film Comment. "An exhaustive, but never exhausting, attempt to reconcile the real and reel identities of the world's most photographed metropolis."-LA Weekly. Repeated on June 13.View DetailsM
Saturday, June 5 4:50pmIntroduced by Thom Andersen. Joseph Losey transposed Lang's Berlin thriller about the hunt for a child killer to L.A.; stunning location shooting reveals a city that's since disappeared. A rare print of this neglected film.View DetailsKiss Me Deadly
Saturday, June 5 7pmIntroduced by Thom Andersen. Pretty pow! Mike Hammer and Malibu enter the atomic age in Robert Aldrich's explosive noir. "Aldrich keeps it savagely fast, dark, angular, and edgy."-Village VoiceView DetailsThe Exiles
Thursday, June 10 7pmKent MacKenzie's semi-documentary film about a subculture of Arizona Indians living on L.A.'s Bunker Hill is "a wrenching document of cultural dislocation."-Thom Andersen. With short Bunker Hill 1956.View DetailsProgress
Thursday, June 10 8:50pmAndrew Garza's portrait of a young Mexican American man working as a busboy and aspiring to become a writer extends the tradition of The Exiles into the present.View DetailsDouble Indemnity
Friday, June 11 7pm"Certainly one of the darkest thrillers of its time: Wilder presents Stanwyck and MacMurray's attempt at insurance fraud as a labyrinth of sexual dominance, guilt, suspicion, and sweaty duplicity."-Time OutView DetailsMildred Pierce
Friday, June 11 9:05pmJoan Crawford won an Oscar for her driven performance in this noir melodrama that exposed the nightmare side of upward mobility and domestic virtue.View DetailsHickey & Boggs
Saturday, June 12 4:50pmThe I Spy duo of Bill Cosby and Robert Culp as down-at-the-heels detectives in neo-noir L.A. "Peckinpah or Siegel couldn't have done it any more crisply."-Time OutView DetailsTargets
Saturday, June 12 7pmPeter Bogdanovich's meta–drive-in movie exploits the double meaning of "shooting," with Boris Karloff as a horror-movie star suddenly faced with real-life horrors.View DetailsPoint Blank
Saturday, June 12 8:50pmLee Marvin in John Boorman's neo-noir, "a fabulous, vicious allegory for modern corporate America, filmed in a dreamlike, sensuous style."-NFT, LondonView DetailsLos Angeles Plays Itself
Sunday, June 13 5:30pmA second chance to catch Thom Andersen's riveting documentary essay on the history and images of Hollywood's biggest backlot: Los Angeles. Please see Thursday, June 3.View DetailsTarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of
Tuesday, June 15 7:30pmIt's a jungle out there: Taylor Mead, Naomi Levine, and a cast of sixties art stars frolic from the Beverly Hills Hotel to the Watts Towers in Andy Warhol's first sound movie. With Warhol short Elvis at Ferus.View DetailsA Certain Kind of Death
Thursday, June 17 7pmThis unblinking documentary asks: What happens to people who die in L.A. with no next of kin? "Altogether mesmerizing."-L.A. TimesView DetailsThe Loved One
Thursday, June 17 8:30pmTony Richardson's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's queasy satire of the Southern California funeral business, proudly advertised as "the motion picture with something to offend everyone!" With Britta Sjogren's short a small Domain.View DetailsCrime Wave
Saturday, June 19 5:30pmAndre de Toth's tense, nocturnal crime thriller slithers all the way from Bunker Hill to the Glendale B of A.View DetailsHollow Triumph
Saturday, June 19 7:05pmPaul Henreid and Joan Bennett in what the ads called "the story of a man who murdered himself-and lived to regret it!" John Alton's cinematography draws out L.A.'s low-key menace.View DetailsCriss Cross
Saturday, June 19 8:45pmBurt Lancaster and Yvonne de Carlo are caught in a criss-cross of obsession and betrayal in Robert Siodmak's compelling noir.View DetailsModel Shop
Sunday, June 20 5:30pmFrench director Jacques Demy's tale of transient love with its "bittersweet delicacy of tone and acute feeling for place [is] one of the great movies about L.A."-Time Out. With Anouk Aimée as Demy's heroine Lola, now a little older and sadder.View DetailsZabriskie Point
Sunday, June 20 7:20pmAntonioni famously filmed the '60s war between radical and straight cultures in L.A. and Death Valley. "Zabriskie Point contemplates [L.A.'s] ludicrous billboards and jumbled traffic signs with an almost guileless, and certainly infectious, delight."-Monthly Film BulletinView DetailsLos
Tuesday, June 22 7:30pmJames Benning's portrait of urban Los Angeles. "Always lurking around in the dark recesses of the American Dream, [Benning's films] are personal and painterly journeys."-Richard Linklater. With Laurel and Hardy short The Music Box.View DetailsBush Mama
Thursday, June 24 7pmIntroduced by Billy Woodberry. Haile Gerima's first feature "takes chances and projects an urgent sense of personal necessity...a raw, fragmented study of a Watts welfare mother's political awakening."-Village VoiceView DetailsBless Their Little Hearts
Thursday, June 24 9:15pmBilly Woodberry in Person. Set in Watts, this bluesy, heartfelt collaboration between director Woodberry and writer/cinematographer Charles Burnett focuses on a black family in crisis.View DetailsThe Long Goodbye
Saturday, June 26 7pmRobert Altman's casually ironic, surprisingly apt adaptation casts Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe adrift in seventies L.A. With Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, and stunning widescreen photography by Vilmos Zsigmond.View DetailsThe Outside Man
Saturday, June 26 9:10pmParis hit man Jean-Louis Trintignant is dispatched to L.A., where he discovers that there's a contract out on his own head. The city "is portrayed without false glamour, and it seems that the filmmakers are discovering the city along with their protagonist."-Thom AndersenView DetailsWater and Power
Sunday, June 27 5:30pmFilm artist Pat O'Neill is very much a Western man, and this one has a narrative "flow" connected to its subject-water and power in the Wild West (and other ambiguous frontiers). With Kenneth Anger's Fireworks.View DetailsChinatown
Sunday, June 27 7pmRoman Polanski remakes L.A. history as noir fiction, placing hardboiled p.i. Jack Nicholson in the rotten middle of a water-and-power play orchestrated by gentleman farmer John Huston. "Undoubtedly one of the great films of the seventies."-Time OutView DetailsThe Decay of Fiction
Tuesday, June 29 7:30pmPat O'Neill reanimates the once grand, now decaying Ambassador Hotel with ghosts of Hollywood's film noir past. "Magically accomplished." -Village Voice. With Maya Deren's avant-garde landmark Meshes of the Afternoon.View Details
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