Devil in a Blue Dress in 4K Sat, Aug 24 | 2pm | TMT Set in 1948, World War II veteran Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is paid to investigate the disappearance of Daphne Monet (Jennifer Beals), the girlfriend of a Los Angeles mayoral candidate and a regular among the juke joints. As Easy inches closer to locating Daphne, he uncovers a darker truth connected to her disappearance. Based on the novel of the same name by Walter Mosley, the film takes place in South LA, primarily illustrating the vibrant historical Black jazz strip that once lined Central Avenue. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Carl Franklin. WITH: Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals, Don Cheadle. 1995. 102 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 4K DCP. Los Angeles is where the relationship between reality and representation gets muddled. ”
biography of Chicano icon and Los Angeles native Ritchie Valens. Portrayed by Lou Diamond Phillips in his first leading role, the film chronicles Valens’s overnight success as an impressive guitarist and songwriter, in a life that was tragically cut short. Focusing on family life, first love, and race issues of the 1950s, La Bamba features Valens’s hit songs, performed by Los Lobos for the film’s soundtrack, as it details the life of a high school student from the San Fernando Valley thrust into stardom. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Luis Valdez. WITH: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosana De Soto, Elizabeth Peña. 1987. 108 min. USA. Color. English. Rated PG-13. 4K DCP.
In a Lonely Place in 4K Sun, Aug 18 | 2pm | TMT
A fading screenwriter (Humphrey Bogart) is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a hat-check girl. The only person who seems able to supply an alibi is the seductive woman next door: Gloria Grahame in one of her greatest performances as an aspiring actress with a troubled past. A claustrophobic noir from legendary director Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place adapts Dorothy B. Hughes’s taut novel of the same name and remains one of the director’s most personal films, partially shot in the same courtyard apartment complex where Ray first lived in Los Angeles, West Hollywood’s Villa Primavera. DIRECTED BY: Nicholas Ray. WRITTEN BY: Andrew Solt, Edmund H. North. WITH: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid. 1950. 95 min. USA. B&W. English. 4K DCP.
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Thom Andersen, Los Angeles Plays Itself
Night Tide in 4K Sat, Aug 24 | 7:30pm | TMT
“You think you’ve discovered reality, but you don’t even know what it is.” Written and directed by Curtis Harrington, Night Tide presents a world in which undefined realms float around, blurring boundaries between reality and fantasy. Dennis Hopper is profoundly charming in his portrayal of Johnny, a young sailor who is spellbound by Mora, an enigmatic woman who performs as a mermaid at the Santa Monica Pier carnival. Set near the water in Santa Monica and Venice Beach, Night Tide dives into the purgatory domain of dreamy love, which is cursed by doomed imagination, like a beautiful nightmare underwater. DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Curtis Harrington. WITH: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders. 1961. 86 min. USA. B&W. English. 4K DCP. Restored in 2018 by Peter Conheim/Cinema Preservation Alliance and by NWR.com from the severely degraded original 35mm negative and track, with partial integration of the previous photochemical restoration by Academy Film Archive/Mark Toscano. Restoration services provided by Hiventy/France with the assistance of Kodak.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
Model Shop Sun, Aug 25 | 2pm | TMT
The Big Lebowski in 4K Thu, Aug 22 | 7:30pm | DGT
The remarkable Anouk Aimée rejoins Jacques Demy after their first collaboration on Lola (1961), in Demy’s first English-language film, Model Shop , portraying a mysterious woman, Lola, who mesmerizes a recent architecture graduate, George (Gary Lockwood). George’s infatuation with Lola leads to a stalking pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles, captured by Demy, an outsider to the city, who unleashes a surreal tonality in the narrative tunneled through the beauty he finds in Los Angeles. In Demy’s words, “I was really moved by the geometry of the places… it’s a fabulous city.” DIRECTED BY: Jacques Demy. WRITTEN BY: Jacques Demy, Carole Eastman. WITH: Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole. 1969. 97 min. USA. Color. English. DCP.
The Coen Brothers’s follow-up to their smash hit Fargo (1996) did not have great commercial or critical success in its initial release but went on to develop a devoted following, even spawning an annual festival in honor of the film. Jeff Bridges’s now-iconic stoner character, The Dude, is an avid bowler mixed up in a comedy of errors, kidnapping caper, involving mistaken identity, missing money, and a host of colorful characters scheming to come out on top. Watch as he journeys throughout Los Angeles in hopes of finding answers to this ever- changing mystery—if there even is a mystery at all. DIRECTED BY: Joel Coen. WRITTEN BY: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. WITH: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore. 1998. 117 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 4K DCP.
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