So much to see in LA this week!
A celebration of the midnight movie & ERASERHEAD in 35mm
A new doc festival with a thrilling lineup of guests
15 years of the American Genre Film Archive
Plus SASQUATCH SUNSET, THE PEOPLE'S JOKER & CIVIL WAR
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On the inspirations & practicalities of the Los Angeles-set scenes in Bertrand Bonello's THE BEAST - shooting only two days in L.A. with no permits & Léa Seydoux doesn't drive.
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“I thought it was a perfect ending to the film. It’s the relationship between technology and humanity, or technology and the loss of humanity... You have this QR code, which has no feelings at all.”
Bertrand Bonello on the QR code credits to THE BEAST
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L.A. movies from Kim Gordon & Rachel Kushner talk Los Angeles Festival of Movies:
Model Shop/Zabriskie Point/The Exiles/Car Wash/The Loved One/Foxes/Body Double/The Long Goodbye/A Woman Under the Influence/My Brother’s Wedding/American Gigolo/Play It As It Lays/Faster, Pussycat! Kill, Kill!

There is a lot happening in L.A. this weekend, but Bertrand Bonello is at a few shows for THE BEAST.

'We're always aspiring to, and will always fail, to make THE MUPPET MOVIE.'
Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross on their joyous GASOLINE RAINBOW after Friday's Los Angeles Festival of Movies west coast premiere.

This week, a lost gem from Charles Burnett found as part of UCLA's Festival of Preservation
New discoveries at the Los Angeles Festival of Movies
Two of the best new releases of the year so far in THE BEAST and LA CHIMERA
Plus Melville's LE SAMOURAI in 4K
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'She had come to the conclusion that life was a random event... It terrified her how big a part chance played in it all & how much it helped to be lucky. Best not to dwell on it.'
If COUP DE CHANCE does end up being Woody Allen's last film, these will be the words he goes out on.

Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny on the nightmarish ‘Civil War’: ‘No nation is immune’
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Mark Olsen

Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny came together to talk to Los Angeles Times about CIVIL WAR, a stunning movie about photojournalists chronicling a violently torn America. It could happen here. Mark Olsen has the story: latimes.com/entertainment-…

An Italian director on her own wavelength didn't seek out the limelight — it found her latimes.com/entertainment-…

In surprise leadership shakeup, Sundance Institute CEO steps down after 2.5 years latimes.com/entertainment-…

“There are only nine or 10 of us who do what I do. How it happens is you get old and decrepit and bald and finally they start hiring you. It’s not that you’re good or anything. They figure if you’ve survived, you must be talented.” All hail M. Emmet Walsh latimes.com/entertainment-…

This week in LA, see SHOWGIRLS in 35mm with Elizabeth Berkeley intro, Oscar winners at the Academy, 4K restoration of Claude Sautet's CLASSE TOUS RISQUES & Robert Altman's SHORT CUTS
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“I’m Ryan Gosling and I did almost none of my own stunts in this movie.”

Gosling, Emily Blunt and more from the #sxsw premiere of the charming action-comedy-romance THE FALL GUY
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