the women she works with, who help her embrace self-acceptance and determine her future path. Based on the play by Josefina López—who co-wrote the screenplay with George LaVoo—the semi- biographical dramedy takes place in the historically Chicano East LA neighborhood of Boyle Heights. DIRECTED BY: Patricia Cardoso. WRITTEN BY: George LaVoo, Josefina López. WITH: America Ferrera, Lupe Ontiveros, Ingrid Oliu, George Lopez. 2002. 90 min. USA. Color. English, Spanish. Rated PG-13. DCP. Courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
QUINCEAÑERA
Quinceañera in 35mm Fri, Jun 21 | 7:30pm | TMT
While preparing for her quinceañera, a lavish coming-of-age festivity in Latinx cultures, Magdalena (Emily Rios) discovers she is pregnant. When kicked out of her home, she is taken in by her nurturing great-granduncle Tomas (Chalo González in a heartfelt performance), a beloved street vendor also sheltering her ostracized gay cousin Carlos (Jesse Garcia). Filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland were inspired to write the screenplay after attending their neighbor’s quinceañera in Echo Park. While they depict the neighborhood with great love and authenticity, they also exhibit the rapid rise of gentrification that was beginning to affect the predominantly Latinx district in the early aughts. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland. WITH: Emily Rios, Jesse Garcia, Chalo González, Jesus Castaños-Chima. 2006. 90 min. USA. Color. Scope. English, Spanish. 35mm.
SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS
Slums of Beverly Hills in 35mm Fri, Jun 14 | 7:30pm | TMT Based in part on her own childhood, writer- director Tamara Jenkins’s feature debut is a down- to-earth comedy about bright yet incredulous teenager Vivian Abromowitz (Natasha Lyonne) and her family’s peripatetic life between crummy apartments in Beverly Hills as her failed car salesman father (Alan Arkin) is hellbent on maintaining a 90210 address to take advantage of the area’s esteemed schools. Premiering in Directors’ Fortnight at the 51st Cannes Film Festival, this sweet, off-kilter comedy alternates exteriors of neighborhood dingbats and duplexes with period- specific shag interiors for a fully-drawn slice-of-life of a family carving their own path on the fringes of one of the country’s most sought-after zip codes. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Tamara Jenkins. WITH: Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, David Krumholtz. 1998. 91 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 35mm.
Double Indemnity in 35mm Sat, Jun 15 | 2pm | TMT
THE EXILES
Directed by Billy Wilder, who teamed with Raymond Chandler to adapt James M. Cain’s classic novel, this twisted tale of love and murder set the bar for film noir. Fred MacMurray stars as a hardened insurance investigator who falls for a married woman (Barbara Stanwyck). The pair conspires to get Stanwyck’s character out of her marriage and both of them into a fortune, but with disastrous results. The film received seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress (Stanwyck), and its memorable Los Angeles locations include Jerry’s Market and Stanwyck’s Hollywood Hills home. DIRECTED BY: Billy Wilder. WRITTEN BY: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler. WITH: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall. 1944. 106 min. USA. B&W. English. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
The Exiles in 35mm Sat, Jun 22 | 2pm | TMT
Director Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 innovative, genre- bending feature, The Exiles , surveys the lives of Indigenous folks who had been displaced from their reservation and are now living in and around what was then Bunker Hill in Downtown LA. Mackenzie employs minimal intent in the formation of his cinematic language, utilizing negative space in his shots, which consist of frequent close-ups of the subjects, transforming their faces into vast landscapes while respectfully keeping distance in his observation. A chronicle of their night with movies, jukeboxes, Brylcreem, and flashy
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