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Twelve landmark films about Los Angeles are screened featuring commentary by John Rechy, Camille Paglia, Robert Towne, David Thomson and others.
Part of the Los Angeles and the Cinematic Imagination conference, this three-day movie series presents a mix of well- known films that offer big studio visions of Los Angeles, as well as lesser known independent films that present viewers with a very different sense of the city.
The Los Angeles of such films as Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, Bladerunner, Pulp Fiction, and Mulholland Drive is a magical city of the imagination that is as complex, dynamic, and familiar as the real city of palm trees and Santa Anas, burnished beaches and melting asphalt under the relentless sun. It is a world unto itself—a mythic place of abundant promise, a desert that has bloomed on the edge of a continent, a golden mirage of edenic prosperity that nonetheless harbors a darker edge: an apocalyptic fault line that runs through its subterranean vaults and threatens its otherwise sunny optimism with the specter of disaster.
Friday, March 28th
11:30 a.m.
Sunset Boulevard (1950, written by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and D.M. Marshman Jr., directed by Billy Wilder, 110 min.)
1:30 p.m.
The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra (1928), written by Robert Florey, directed by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich, 13 min.
2:00 p.m.
Star Maps (1997), written by Miguel Arteta and Matthew Greenfield, directed by Miguel Arteta, 86 min.
3:30 p.m.
Boogie Nights (1997), written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 152 min.
Saturday, March 29
4:30 p.m.
Chinatown (1974), written by Robert Towne, directed by Roman Polanski, 131 min.
6:45 p.m.
Bunker Hill (1956), written and directed by Kent MacKenzie, 18 min.
7:05 p.m.
Zoot Suit (1981), written and directed by Luis Valdez, from his own play, 103 min.
8:50 p.m.
Menace II Society (1993), written by Tyger Williams, from a story by Tyger Williams, Albert Hughes, and Allen Hughes, directed by Albert and Allen Hughes, 97 min.
10:30 p.m.
L.A. Confidential (1997), written by Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson, from the novel by James Ellroy, directed by Curtis Hanson, 138 min.
Sunday, March 30th
4 p.m.
Mulholland Drive (2001), written and directed by David Lynch, 145 min.
6:30 p.m.
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), written by Maya Deren, directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 18 min.
7:00 p.m.
The Decay of Fiction (2003), written and directed by Pat O'Neill, 90 min.
8:30 p.m.
Strange Days (1995), written by James Cameron and Jay Cocks and Katherine Bigelow, directed by Katherine Bigelow, 145 min.
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