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| ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | DARK WAVE | DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION | FAMILY SCREENINGS | FORD AMPHITHEATRE | FREE SCREENINGS | FUTURE FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE | GALAS | GEORGE LUCAS SELECTIONS | GUILTY PLEASURES INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE | MUSIC VIDEO SHOWCASE | NARRATIVE COMPETITION | SHORTS | SPECIAL SCREENINGS | SPOTLIGHT: ISRAEL | SUMMER PREVIEWS | TRIBUTE SCREENINGS |
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| What can a studio do to ensure box-office success? Inspired by Peter Bart’s book Boffo: How I Learned to Love the Blockbuster and Fear the Bomb, Oscar-winning filmmaker Bill Couturié examines the risky business of filmmaking through interviews with a bevy of stars and filmmakers including George Clooney, Danny DeVito, Brian Grazer, Peter Guber, Alan Horn, Sherry Lansing, Sydney Pollack, John Singleton, Steven Spielberg, Charlize Theron, and Robert Zemeckis. This documentary chronicles the complex, often traumatic stories behind Hollywood’s biggest box-office hits and bombs. |
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| L.A. International pays homage to a trio of émigré directors—Parviz Sayyad, Shin Sang-ok (sadly recently deceased), and Cecile Tang Shu-shuen—quite possibly the most important Los Angeles filmmakers you may not have heard of. |
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| This stylized period melodrama stars Lisa Lu as a widow who suppresses her requited desire for a virile young man, in favor of feudal virtue and her daughter. |
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| A political thriller shot entirely in and around New York City, The Mission tracks an Islamic revolutionary who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is sent to assassinate a former colonel in the Shah’s secret police. |
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| This classic of South Korea's Golden Age cinema is a subtle work of longing about a widow torn between propriety and her feelings for an artist renting a room in her rural home. |
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| Film noir experts Alain Silver and James Ursini lead an armchair excursion to shooting locations of selected noir and neo-noir films from the 1940s through the ’90s. Patrons will receive a flyer for a podcast, self-guided tour of noir Los Angeles. |
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Pitfall
Director: André de Toth
Writer: Karl Kamb
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| Genre specialist André de Toth directs this pungent noir melodrama about a dissatisfied family man sucked into an underworld quagmire after a fling with a femme fatale spirals out of control. |
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| Co-presented by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the UCLA Film & Television Archive |
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| In the near future of a China ruled by a bizarre cult, two brothers face an uncertain fate in this beautiful and slyly elliptical examination of fears in the new China. |
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| Mystery is suspended, and perhaps even cancelled out, in Lisandro Alonso’s astonishing second feature, which follows a man released from prison who treks to his daughter’s home. |
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| The term "poetic cinema" rarely applies as well as it does to this gently observant film of a teen boy taking in the sights and sounds of a port town in Mauritania. |
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