Literary Program The Next Angelenos: Emerging L.A. urban-Latino, hip hop, salsa, East L.A. R&B, All Theater Performances Begin at Cine L.A.: show, and a dubious partnership with the on both sides of the border. Phantom Sightings: Art After the Writers dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, 21:00 Visions of Los Angeles Film Series sleazy editor (Danny DeVito) of a tabloid Tuesday, December 1 Chicano Movement Salón 4 As David L. Ulin has observed, merengue and comparsa, New Orleans scandal rag. Based on the novel by James Question and Answer with Screenwriter/ Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano ground floor, Expo Guadalajara Los Angeles “has become less a place second line, Jamaican reggae, and Indian Teatro Experimental de Jalisco Cineforo Universidad Ellroy, L.A. Confidential was nominated for Director Cheech Marin / 17:00 hrs. Movement is the largest exhibition of people go to than one they come from.” raga. Their musical mantra is: “We will take Calzada Independencia Sur s/n Juárez Ave. and Enrique Díaz de León multiple Academy Awards, and garnered cutting-edge Chicano art in the history of Homage to Ray Bradbury What do the newest writers from Southern you around the world by taking you around L.A.” Núcleo Agua Azul St., basement two Oscars: Best Actress in Supporting Chinatown the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Between Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian California have to tell us? Ironically, if the Sunday, November 29 Role to Kim Bassinger, and Best Adapted Jack Nicholson stars as J.J. “Jake” (LACMA), as well as the first exhibition Chronicles, this longtime Angeleno has past is any indication, it will be something Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary Lords of Dogtown Screenplay to co-writers Brian Helgeland Gittes, a former cop turned sleazy private presented in a major American museum coded L.A. as a town unwelcoming to we’ve never heard before. Diavolo Dance Company Marissa Chibas’ one-woman show is a Before delving into the world of baseball- and Curtis Hanson investigator, living off the seedy morality that focuses exclusively on a new, pedestrians, wary of readers, throttled by Saturday, December 5 / 17:30-18:20 hrs. Diavolo presents an evening of avant passionately moving collection of stories playing vampires, director Catherine Monday, November 30 Question and Answer that lies beneath the haze of 1930s second-generation of Chicano artists. metastasizing suburbs, yet somehow still garde dance-theater involving sculptural that preserve the vivid voices of her Hardwicke (Twilight, Thirteen) chronicled the with Director Curtis Hanson / 16:00 hrs. Los Angeles. Masterfully directed by This exhibit is presented by LACMA. hospitable to wonderment. An Overdeveloped Sense of Place: objects. Diavolo was founded to create family’s experience under the tyranny of adventures of real life teenage boys and the Tuesday, December 1 Question and Answer Roman Polanski, beautifully shot by John November 25, 2009 - January 31, 2010 Los Angeles Monday, November 30 / 17:00 hrs. L.A. Novelists large-scale interdisciplinary performances Fidel Castro. Three key narratives are birth of skateboard culture in 1970s Venice with Director Curtis Hanson / 18:00 hrs. Alonzo, and featuring an Academy Award- If the city of Los Angeles resembles any which examine the funny and frightening explored, featuring the lives of her father Beach (the aforementioned “Dogtown”). Friday, December 4 / 18:00 hrs. winning script by Robert Towne, Polanski’s Instituto Cultural Cabañas 2009 Salón 1 one literary form, it’s the novel. Too big to ways people act with an environment Raul, her mother Dalia, and her uncle Lords of Dogtown is a traditional rags- Chinatown remains a neo-noir classic, and Cabañas 8, Plaza Tapatía FIL Guest of Honor ground floor, Expo Guadalajara take in all at once, too layered ever to get to utilizing surrealistic, sometime outrageous, Eduardo. California Institute for the Arts to-riches-to-longing-for-what-got-left- Gods and Monsters one of the best films from Hollywood’s last the bottom of, L.A. and its great unwritten sets or props. Diavolo’s founder and chief and the Center for New Performance will be behind-in-the-rags tale that could happen Ian McKellen gives a brilliant performance great decade. Revenge of Phantasmagoria The New L.A. Surrealists novels circle each other warily, secure in choreographer is Jacques Heim who has presenting Ms. Chibas for two nights during anywhere, barring the fact that it could as filmmaker James Whale, best known Tuesday, December 1 / 20:00 hrs. Site Specific Installation by Los Angeles is proud to As Spike Jones Jr. said of his father, the the knowledge that no book ever nails L.A. worked with Cirque de Soleil. the FIL. only have happened in a place like Venice as the director of Frankenstein (1931), Mark Dean Veca be the first city invited as for more than un ratito—whereupon the city Monday, November 30 Tuesday, December 1 and Wedesday, The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and The The Cool School Mark Dean Veca is known for his gleefully anarchic Angeleno bandleader, Beach. the Guest of Honor at the “One of the things that people don’t realize twirls its cape and becomes someplace December 2 Saturday, November 28 / 16:00 hrs. Invisible Man (1933). Set in 1957, the story Do you think New York dismisses elaborate and detailed installations that about Dad’s kind of music is, when you else. Lula Washington Dance Theatre Monday, November 30 / 19:00 hrs. begins with an elderly Whale recovering Los Angeles’ art scene today? The ‘50s cross the bridge between baroque design Guadalajara International replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to Saturday, December 5 / 18:30-19:20 Grand Performances presents Lula 1984 from a stroke and haunted by memories were worse. Enter Walter Hopps and Ed and street art. Utilizing both painting and/ Book Fair. A multi-layered be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.” Washington Dance Theatre (LWDT). LWDT The Actors’ Gang will present its re- Sunset Boulevard of his painful childhood in England, the Kienholz, who in 1957 pledged to open or vinyl, his works integrate global icons In recent years, L.A. has nurtured a varied Salón Agustín Yañez is a multi-member dance group, well-known imagined production of George Orwell’s Out-of-work screenwriter Joe Gillis trenches of WWI, and his once-illustrious L.A.’s premiere modern art venue, Ferus and symbols of high art and popular metropolis with residents yet identifiable school of such dreamy second floor, Expo Guadalajara for their spirited contemporary dance classic novel 1984 adapted for the stage (William Holden), is on the run from repo Hollywood career. Gallery. Morgan Neville’s detailed profile culture within nearly-psychedelic clouds. who speak over 225 pieces, ranging from the humoristic to the Monday, November 30 / 21:00 hrs. of these Venice Beach beats turned art sharpshooters, purveyors of landscapes by San Francisco Mime Troupe Director, men who are after his Plymouth convertible. Otis College of Art and Design organized different languages, adjacent to our world yet never quite Close-Up: L.A. Confidential political. Founded in 1980 by respected Michael Gene Sullivan and directed by Desperate to avoid the horror of being car- Saturday, December 5 / 20:45 hrs. luminaries interviews the whole gang, this exhibition. mistakable for it. In an informal conversation about L.A. choreographer Lula Washington, the theatre The Actors Gang’s artistic director, Tim less in L.A., Gillis ducks into the driveway providing unique insight into this incredible November 26, 2009 - January 4, 2010 Los Angeles is a natural Monday, November 30 / 18:30-19:20 hrs. Confidential, director/co-writer Curtis based in South Central Los Angeles has Robbins. 1984 is the cautionary tale of the of an apparently abandoned mansion off Collateral movement in American art. bridge between Mexican Hanson and interviewer David Kipen risen to become one of the most admired oppressive, totalitarian society in which Originally scripted to take place in New Wednesday, December 2 / 17:00 hrs. Museo Regional Guadalajara of the legendary Sunset Boulevard. Aided and American cultures. Everything But the Story…: Creative discuss the creative process of taking African-American dance companies in the citizens live in perpetual fear of Big Brother. by a cast of film legends including Gloria York City, Michael Mann’s stylish, intimate Liceo 60, Centro Non-fiction in L.A. James Ellroy’s novel from page to screen. Western United States. Friday, December 4 and Saturday, December 5 Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Cecil B. thriller only assumed its suspenseful Los Angeles Plays Itself It is also a city with a Californians have been breaking or, better Monday, November 30 / 20:00-20:50 hrs. Tuesday, December 1 DeMille, and cameos from Hedda Hooper ambience of the urban space as foreboding Like the Hollywood sign which towers Oz: New Offerings from Angel City thriving creative life and yet, ignoring the rules of seemly journalism Estudio Diana and Buster Keaton, Billy Wilder and writer- wilderness when the director insisted on above the city—both literally and Frank Baum, best known for having since the heyday of Carey McWilliams, and The Heartbeat of the City: L.A. Poetry Phil Ranelin Jazz Ensemble Ave. Las Rosas y Av. Mariano Otero producer’s Charles Bracket’s brilliant, relocating to Los Angeles. Orderly cab metaphorically—the city of Los Angeles has penned the Wizard of Oz books, lived in we are delighted to present before him Mark Twain. Writing poetry in Los Angeles is like playing The Phil Ranelin Jazz Ensemble will take its acerbic, Sunset Boulevard remains one of driver Max (Jamie Foxx) is taken for a ride often been overshadowed by Hollywood— Los Angeles for a number of years while a significant sample in Scrabble in Las Vegas. Supposedly audiences on a jazz journey presenting the Farid Mercury by Robert Karimi by a charismatic hit man (Tom Cruise), who the industry. As Thom Andersen points writing these memorable works. Tuesday, December 1 / 17:30-18:20 hrs. the standout satires about the Hollywood Guadalajara through more nobody else is doing it, so everyone you historical evolution of jazz in Los Angeles Robert Farid Karimi is an interdisciplinary film industry. must kill five targets around town before out in his brilliant, acerbic, and highly It is widely believed that he saw The Short Story: L.A. in a Shot Glass meet who does, seems like a miracle. as a unique American music genre. Ranelin playwright, humorist, activist, and poet. A Saturday, November 28 / 18:00 hrs. sunrise. entertaining film essay, Los Angeles Plays Los Angeles as the visionary “Emerald than 50 distinguished Despite Hollywood’s insinuation that even Every L.A. poet feels like the exception that is a respected master trombonist and has San Francisco Bay Area native, Karimi is a Wednesday, December 2 / 16:00 hrs. Wednesday, December 2 / 20:00 hrs. Itself, the film industry based here hasn’t City,” prophetically realizing its limitless authors participating in 37 published novels are only unofficial first proves the rule, until you collect so many played with some of the most renowned graduate of UCLA and has been featured Sunday, December 6 / 20:45 hrs. Thursday, December 3 / 16:00 hrs. always portrayed the city fairly or accurately possibilities. This exhibition includes drafts of screenplays, a dedicated cohort talented exceptions that the rules no longer musicians in American jazz. The ensemble worldwide. He has performed for Def Saturday, December 5 / 16:00 hrs. (culturally, geographically, and otherwise). artworks of all disciplines, showcasing literary events, 19 diverse of writers has kept an even less marketable apply. is presented by World Stage Performance Poetry Jam and his writings have been Blade Runner But Andersen, a native Angelino, knows established and cutting-edge artists that performing arts groups, 7 Gallery, which provides leadership to The Player better. The resulting film is a must-see form—the L.A. short story—alive and Tuesday, December 1 / 20:00-20:50 hrs. published in Latino Literature Today, and Director Ridley Scott’s seminal science represent the multicultural make-up of visual arts exhibitions with thriving. secure, preserve, and advance the position Total Chaos: The Art and the Aesthetics fiction-noir creates a vision of a future With its dead-on dissection of film industry for anyone who cares about the city of L.A.’s visual arts scene. This program is Tuesday, December 1 / 18:30-19:20 hrs. The Two-Way Mirror: How Mexican- of African-American music, literature, of Hip Hop by Jeff Chang. He is currently Los Angeles as tangible and compelling as clichés, Robert Altman’s brilliant tale about Los Angeles and how it is represented on curated for the FIL by the City of the work of 73 artists, as Americans View Mexico, and storytelling to local, national, and working on Punto!, a Latino spoken-word any cinematic document of the city’s true a Hollywood player who’ll do anything to celluloid. Los Angeles Department of Cultural well as 13 scholars and and Vice Versa international audiences. anthology. stay on top features a first rate cast headed Wednesday, December 2 / 19:00 hrs. Affairs. They’re From Where?: L.A.-Bred life, contemporary counterpart. Based on academics, and a film Writers Who Live Everywhere But Hyphenated Americans traditionally view Wednesday, December 2 Tuesday, December 1 and Wednesday, Philip K. Dick’s dark novel, the film follows by Tim Robbins, and a hilarious parade of November 26, 2009 - January 10, 2010 in L.A. “the old country” as a motherland to sing December 2 gumshoe/android hunter Rick Deckard Hollywood celebrity cameos. Repo Man series presenting 17 works It’s a truism by now that even a native sentimental songs to, a fatherland to define Songs and Dances from the (Harrison Ford) as he tracks down a group Thursday, December 3 Hilarious and subversive, Repo Man Museo de las Artes from the classic to the Angeleno has to immigrate to appreciate yourself against, or an uneasy combination City of Angels Rambla Cataluña of robots who have escaped slavery on an Question and Answer with Screenwriter appeared as welcome relief from the (MUSA) the place—to leave town, miss it and come of the two. What do Americans of Mexican Halau Keali’l O Nalani offers work that Outside MUSA (Escorza and López off-world colony. Michael Tolkin / 18:15 hrs. blandness of the Reagan era, taking aim Juárez Ave. 975 contemporary. back, shamefaced. Still others may never descent see when they look back across honors Hawaiian myths and legends of Cotilla) Saturday, November 28 / 20:15 hrs. Friday, December 4 / 20:30 hrs. at everything from televangelists and the border, especially from Los Angeles? gods and ancestors through the expressive Sunday, December 6 / 18:15 hrs. Scientology to suburban punk culture. Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles move back, but find the city stealthily “For a long time, infiltrating their work anyway, as all the And what does Mexico see when it looks language of Hula movement, chant, and Vexing: Female Voices of East L.A. Devil in a Blue Dress Emilio Estevez plays anti-hero Otto, a The Getty Research Institute is proud while they wonder why a white Christmas back at them? music in both contemporary and ancient Punk presents The Sirens, Las Tres Denzel Washington gives one of the most In Search of a Midnight Kiss disaffected drop-out who quits his job, to bring the work of Julius Shulman to Los Angeles and just feels so wrong. Wednesday, December 2 / 20:00-20:50 hrs. styles. Shakti Dance Company depicts and Lysa Flores memorable performances of his career as Winner of the John Cassavettes Award loses his girlfriend, and wanders the hazy the FIL. Over 70 years, photographer Guadalajara have been Wednesday, December 2 / 17:30-18:20 hrs. the cosmos through bharatanatyam - the Presented in conjunction with the visual Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, a WWII vet who’s (Best Film under $500,000) at Film post-modern wasteland of a decaying Julius Shulman created one of the most What Makes an L.A. Writer? temple dance from South India. Viver Brasil arts exhibition of the same name, this live run out of employment options after being Independent’s 2009 Spirit Awards, this Los Angeles until he’s recruited by crank comprehensive chronologies of U.S. capitals of creativity, They Live Where?: International Is it enough to live there? Or must one is an award winning Afro-Brazilian ensemble concert will showcase women performers laid off from his factory job. Determined romantic comedy is a love letter to sniffing Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), into the modern architecture by picturing the cornerstones for diversity, Writers in L.A. write about the place? Does an L.A. that can perform diverse offerings from spanning three generations of East L.A. to keep up his mortgage payments, Easy Los Angeles written from the heart of a life of professional car repossessionist. ongoing development of Los Angeles. and centers of rich culture From Thomas Mann, Christopher writer have to be born there—or does that Brazil backed by an array of drums, vocals, punk rockers. Musicians include: original accepts an offer to track down a glamorous transplant (the principals are Texas natives). Thursday, December 3 / 17:00 hrs. Shulman is known for his iconic Isherwood, and even the young Octavio disqualify you? and string instruments. artists from the late 1970s and early 1980s white socialite, Daphne Monet (Jennifer Down on his luck screenwriter Wilson is a photographs of unique and classic sites and fabulous art. Our Paz to today’s many refugees and Friday, December 4 / 20:00-20:50 hrs. Thursday, December 3 scene - Alice Bag, Teresa Covarrubias, Beals) who’s been slumming it in South “misanthrope looking for a misanthrope” to Mulholland Dr. and structures, including L.A.’s famous two cities and countries and Angela Vogel, collectively known as spend New Year’s Eve with. When barb- In this “love story in the city of dreams” Case-Study homes and Mid-Century expatriates, Los Angeles has long harbored Central. Based on the book by Walter are united by a shared a robust community of exiles from Café literario Cultural Crossroads: World Music Las Tres; the dynamic Lysa Flores who Mosley, director Carl Franklin’s neo-noir tongued, gleefully anti-intellectual Vivian (to quote the film’s tagline), director David modern buildings. everywhere Los Angeles Pavilion with Jessica Fichot, Niyaz, and broke out during the Riot Girl era of the thriller stands out as one of the best films responds to his Craigslist ad, Wilson finds Lynch casts a spotlight on Hollywood November 27, 2009 - January 10, 2010 heritage and history, and Wednesday, December 2 / 18:30-19:20 hrs. In addition to literary panels with Ricardo Lemvo & Makina Loca 1990s and continues to reinvent East L. A. of the 1990s. himself simultaneously challenged and ambition and desperation through a prism with much delight we look Los Angeles writers, the FIL offers a series Fichot is a chanteuse, songwriter, and multi- Chicana rock today; and The Sirens, who Sunday, November 29 / 16:00 hrs. intrigued by the one person in L.A. more of Hollywood optimism and glamour. Vexing: Female Voices of East LA Down These Mean Streets: L.A. of opportunities to hear from the authors instrumentalist that draws from her French, represent the newest generation of all-girl Wednesday, December 2 / 18:00 hrs. jaded than him. Or is it the other way around? Like a prism, Punk forward to presenting our Crime Writing in a more informal setting. These “Cafés Chinese, and American upbringing. Niyaz Chicana punk. Thursday, December 3 Lynch’s dream-logic narrative casts plot, Vexing: Female Voices of East L.A. Punk artists and strengthening is the brainchild of three musicians mixing Question and Answer with Screenwriter/ character, and theme wildly and colorfully Writing crime fiction in Southern California Literarios” take the form of homages Saturday, November 28 / 18:00 hrs. The Long Goodbye examines the overlooked contributions the bonds between the is like writing for the theater in Stratford- to bygone touchstones of Los Angeles old and new music styles featuring lyrics Robert Altman delivers a brilliant remake Director Alex Holdridge and askew. of women to a vital period of artistic and upon-Avon. After James M. Cain, art and literature, such as photographer drawn from Sufi mystics, Persian poetry, Teatro Diana of the classic story by Raymond Chandler, Producer Seth Caplan / 21:00 hrs. Thursday, December 3 / 19:30 hrs. musical production in L.A. from 1979 United States and Mexico Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald, Julius Shulman or poet Charles Bukowski; and classic poetry sung in Urdu. The trio is 16 de Septiembre Ave., 710 master of Los Angeles crime fiction. Set in Saturday, December 5 to 1984. Drawing from the archives of through our role as Guest arresting collisions of sensibility, such as comprised of DJ Carmen Rizzo, hammered Question and Answer with Screenwriter/ LARVA the musicians and artists of the genre/ what’s left? Actually, plenty. a distinctly 1970s L.A., The Long Goodbye of Honor at the Guadalajara Thursday, December 3 / 17:30-18:20 hrs. those of Angeleno Englishmen Richard dulcimer player Azam Ali and vocalist Loga Southwest Chamber Music stars the inimitable Elliot Gould, who Director Alex Holdridge and Ocampo No.120 on the corner movement, it presents an historic Rayner and Geoff Nicholson, and in-depth Ramin Torkian. Lemvo’s innovative music Southwest Chamber Music is an provides a wholly original take on the Philip Producer Seth Caplan / 18:15 hrs. of Av. Juárez overview of the scene. This exhibition International Book Fair.” Science Fiction: L.A. is Another Planet conversations with the likes of Jane Smiley combines Latin and African elements international champion of the music of Marlowe character—droll, eccentric, and is organized by the Claremont Museum From its early days as home to Ray and Cheech Marin. A panel is a panoramic from salsa to soukous. A Congo-born Mexico’s great composer, Carlos Chavez. obsessed with his cat. In Search of a Midnight Kiss In Search of a Midnight Kiss of Art. There is a musical presentation Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Leigh drive across town; a Café Literario, a artist of Angolan ancestry, Lemvo is the The orchestra received two Grammy Sunday, November 29 / 18:00 hrs. Screening and Case Study Friday, December 4 / 22:00 hrs. associated with this show on Saturday, Antonio R. Villaraigosa Brackett, Forrest Ackerman, and even freewheeling ramble into the hills. embodiment of the Afro-Latin Diaspora Awards and six consecutive Grammy Tuesday, December 1 / 21:00 hrs. with Screenwriter/ Director Alex November 28. Mayor L. Ron Hubbard, L.A. has played host which connects Africa with Cuban clave nominations between 2003 and 2007. Sunday, December 6 / 16:00 hrs. Holdridge and Producer Seth Caplan Museo de Arte de Zapopan November 27, 2009 - January 10, 2010 City of Los Angeles to—and often figures in as an ill-fated Explanada Expo Guadalajara rhythm singing in English, French, Spanish, Their program will focus on the complete A special screening will be followed by a (MAZ) character—a healthy tradition of fantasy Ave. Las Rosas y Ave. Mariano Otero Portuguese, Kikongo, and other languages. chamber music of Carlos Chavez as well as L.A. Story case study where the filmmakers will share Andador 20 de Noviembre 166, Centro Expo Guadalajara and speculative fiction. 21:00 hrs. Free entrance Friday, December 4 the complete Fifteen Encounters series by Written by Steve Martin, L.A. Story details of their experience making and Histórico Internacional Sponsored by: Thursday, December 3 / 18:30-19:20 hrs. Los Angeles composer William Kraft. hilariously skewers Los Angeles and its distributing the film, offering a snapshot Wayne Sorter Quartet Los Lobos Wednesday, December 2 / 21:00 hrs. residents, taking playful aim at Southern of the current state of independent film De LA: Landscape in the Prints, La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City Department of Cultural Affairs You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: L.A. Born in Newark, New Jersey on August Los Lobos is a seminal Los Angeles band California culture and its trendy restaurants, production and distribution in the United Photographs, and Books of of Angels City of Los Angeles founded in East Los Angeles in 1973 that States. Ed Ruscha Non-Fiction 25, 1933, Shorter had his first great jazz Paraninfo Enrique Díaz health crazes, earthquakes, and even the Lowrider culture represents an aspect with generous support from the The sheer improbability of Los Angeles epiphany as a teenager when the jazz has evolved into one of the most respected de León weather, while also offering one of the Friday, December 4 / 11:00 hrs. Ed Ruscha consistently combines the of L.A. that crosses the street scene makes reporting and commenting on greats Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton Latin rock bands in the nation. Using Juárez Ave. 975 most memorable romantic comedies of the cityscape of his adopted hometown of and pop-art with the flavor of Mexican- National Endowment for the Arts it at once challenging, irresistible, and played at the local theater. Shorter has musical modes built on their Mexican- 1990s. Instituto Cultural Cabañas Los Angeles with vernacular language American / American-Latino heritage. necessary. Carey McWilliams showed the worked with such greats as Horace Silver, American heritage and the blues, rockabilly, John Schneider Presents Partch Sunday, November 29 / 20:15 hrs. Sala de Cine Guillermo del Toro to communicate a particular urban Lowrider culture is a regional passion, way, but in a city so ever-changing, their Herbie Hancock, and John Coltrane. and jazz, Los Lobos subtly challenges their John Schneider and his seven member Tuesday, December 1 / 16:00 hrs. Cabañas 8, Plaza Tapatía experience. He has been the subject of identified chiefly with Latino East L.A. inheritors know the job is never done. Wayne Shorter received a Grammy Award audiences with conscience raising songs ensemble, Partch, will take the audience on numerous museum exhibitions, including and Española, New Mexico. Two custom Friday, December 4 / 17:30-18:20 hrs. for his 2003 album, Alegria and is an NEA and thought-provoking lyrics. a fantastic tuned percussion, L.A. Confidential Born in East L.A. representing the United States at the cars, two custom bikes, and educational Jazz Master, the United States’ highest Saturday, December 5 micro-tonal journey specializing in the Set in 1950s Los Angeles, Curtis Hanson’s After being swept up in a raid on a Whitney Biennale in 2005. videos will be displayed in the Expo. Tia The Overshot City: L.A. Novelists- honor presented to jazz musicians. music and instruments of the iconoclastic award-winning, character-driven caper downtown factory by a crooked immigration In 2001 Ruscha was elected to the Chucha’s Centro Cultural will be curating Filmmakers Saturday, November 28 Poncho Sanchez American maverick composer Harry Partch centers on three decidedly different officer, Rudy Robles is accused of being an American Academy of Arts and Letters as this exhibit in the Guest of Honor Pavilion Almost a hundred years after the movies Poncho Sanchez is a story-teller and a who created some of the most sensually detectives: Ed Exley (Guy Pearce), who’s illegal alien and, with no way to prove he a member of the Department of Art. This at the FIL. first discovered it, “Los Angeles as you’ve Ozomatli leader of one of the most popular Latin jazz alluring and emotionally powerful music outward integrity hides cunning ambition; was born and raised in Los Angeles, quickly exhibit of his work is presented by the November 28 - December 6, 2009 never seen it before” may be the biggest In the 13 years they have been together, the groups in the world today. His congas spin from the 1930s to the 1970s. the short-fused Bud White (Russell Crowe) finds himself deported to Mexico. In his Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). cliché of all. Nevertheless, intrepid writers members of Ozomatli have gone from being vivacious tales that pay homage to the glory Thursday, December 3 / 21:00 hrs. who yearns to prove he has brains, not first film without longtime partner Tommy November 25, 2009 - January 31, 2010 of page and screen persist in trying to find hometown heroes to being named U.S. of Afro-Cuban rhythms mixed with bebop. just brawn; and Jack Vincennes (Kevin Chong, Cheech Marin, who wrote, directed, a new angle on the place, and sometimes State Department Cultural Ambassadors. In 2000, his ensemble won the Grammy Spacey), a jaded narcotics officer with and stars in this cross-cultural comedy, Program subject to change the best of them even succeed. Their music is a wonderful combination of Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. a sideline gig as an advisor to a TV cop gives us a hilariously fractured look at life Friday, December 4 / 18:30-19:20 hrs. Sunday, December 6 www.fil.com.mx Saturday 28 Sunday 29 Monday 30 Tuesday 1 Wednesday 2 Thursday 3 Friday 4 Saturday 5 Sunday 6

Homage to Ray Bradbury 17:00 hrs. Salón 4 Ray Bradbury ground floor Videoconference Inteviewed by Sam Weller Moderated by Josephine Reed

The Next Angelenos: Emerging L.A. Everything But the Story...: Creative They’re From Where?: L.A.-Bred Writers Down These Mean Streets: L.A. Crime You Can’t Make This Stuff Up: L.A. Writers Non-Fiction in L.A. Who Live Everywhere But in L.A. Writing Non-Fiction 17:30-18:20 hrs. 17:30-18:20 hrs. 17:30-18:20 hrs. 17:30-18:20 hrs. 17:30-18:20 hrs. Nina Revoyr, Michael Jaime Becerra, The New L.A. Surrealists Rubén Martínez, Luis Rodriguez, Jane Smiley, Dagoberto Gilb, Paul Beatty Gary Phillips, Denise Hamilton, Kwei Quartey Héctor Tobar, D.J. Waldie, Jenny Price Yxta Maya Murray, Alex Espinoza 18:30-19:20 hrs. Richard Rayner, J. Michael Walker Moderated by Scott Timberg Moderated by Marcos Villatoro Moderated by Veronique de Turenne Moderated by Susan Straight Aimee Bender, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Salvador Moderated by Veronique de Turenne Salón 1 They Live Where?: International Writers Science Fiction: L.A. is Another Planet The Overshot City: L.A. Novelists- An Overdeveloped Sense of Place: L.A. Plasencia, Mark Danielewski, Jerry Stahl The Short Story: L.A. in a Shot Glass ground floor in L.A. 18:30-19:20 hrs. Filmmakers Novelists Moderated by David Kipen 18:30-19:20 hrs. 18:30-19:20 hrs. Mark Danielewski, Larry Niven, Kim Stanley 18:30-19:20 hrs. 18:30-19:20 hrs. Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, Geoff Nicholson, Richard Rayner, Kwei Quartley Robinson, Greg Benford Michael Tolkin, Howard Rodman Carolyn See, Susan Straight, Marianne Wiggins, Ana Menéndez, Mary Otis Moderated by Veronique de Turenne Moderated by Jon Peede Moderated by David Kipen Marisa Silver, Jervey Tervalon Moderated by Scott Timberg Moderated by David Kipen

The Two-Way Mirror: How Mexican- What Makes an L.A. Writer? Americans View Mexico, and Vice Versa Close-Up: L.A. Confidential The Heartbeat of the City: L.A. Poetry 20:00-20:50 hrs. Salón 20:00-20:50 hrs. 20:00-20:50 hrs. 20:00-20:50 hrs. Yxta Maya Murray, D.J. Waldie, Gary Phillips, Richard Rodriguez, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Agustín Yáñez, Curtis Hanson B. H. Fairchild, Suzanne Lummis, Marisela Norte Jonathan Gold Dagoberto Gilb second floor Moderator: David Kipen Moderated by Marcos Villatoro Introduced by Gregory Rodriguez Introduced by Gregory Rodriguez Moderated by Laurie Ochoa Moderated by Laurie Ochoa

Writing for Young People 12:00-12:50 hrs. The Englishmen Susan Patron, Luis Rodriguez 17:00-17:50 hrs. The Culinary Conscience of L.A. Under Western Skies: The Real Stars Chicanismo Geoff Nicholson, Richard Rayner 17:00-17:50 hrs. of L.A. 12:00-12:50 hrs. From Comedian to Collector: A Local Boy Makes Good Jonathan Gold 16:00-16:50 hrs. The Times Hands Susan Straight, Michael Jaime-Becerra, Literary Program - Expo Guadalajara Literary Program Conversation with Cheech Marin 17:00-17:50 hrs. Interviewed by David Kipen Larry Niven, Kim Stanley Robinson, 12:00-12:50 hrs. Alex Espinoza 18:00-18:50 hrs. Salvador Plascencia Homage to Charles Bukowski Greg Benford David L. Ulin, Héctor Tobar The Hollywood Novel Cheech Marin Interviewed by Aimee Bender 18:00-18:50 hrs. The Pacifiqueros The Public Intellectuals 16:00-16:50 hrs. Café literario, Introduced by Laurie Ochoa Homage to Julius Shulman Jerry Stahl, B. H. Fairchild, Suzanne Lummis, 17:00-17:50 hrs. 16:00-16:50 hrs. Nina Revoyr, Marisa Silver, Michael Tolkin A Conversation with Jane Smiley Los Angeles 18:00-18:50 hrs. Marisela Norte Richard Rodriguez D.J. Waldie, Jenny Price Interviewed by Carolyn See 19:00-19:50 hrs. Pavilion Sam Hall Kaplan, Wim de Wit Interviewed by Jon Peede Interviewed by Rubén Martínez Homage to the Screenwriter Homage to John Fante, Chester Himes Jane Smiley A Poetry Reading by B.H. Fairchild What Can You Do But Laugh?: Comedy Homage to Raymond Chandler 20:00-20:50 hrs. and Daniel Fuchs Interviewed by David Kipen 19:00-19:50 hrs. in Los Angeles 19:00-19:50 hrs. Howard Rodman, Michael Tolkin 20:00-20:50 hrs. Homage to Thomas Pynchon’s L.A. B.H. Fairchild 19:00-19:50 hrs. Gary Phillips, Denise Hamilton, Kwei Quartey Interviewed by David Kipen Carolyn See, Susan Straight, Marianne Wiggins, Trilogy Paul Beatty, Johanthan Gold, Jerry Stahl Library of America: Toward a National Jervey Tervalon 20:00-20:50 hrs. Interviewed by David Kipen Literature of the United States Interviewed by David Kipen Mark Z. Danielewski, Richard Rayner 20:00-20:50 hrs. Interviewed by David Kipen Mark Danielewski, Kim Stanley Robinson, David L. Ulin

Wayne Shorter Ozomatli 21:00 hrs. Diavolo Dance Company Phil Ranelin Jazz Ensemble Songs and Dances from the City of Angels Los Lobos Cultural Crossroads: World Music Quartet 21:00 hrs. Lula Washington 21:00 hrs. Giving Thanks - Music and Dance of Brazil, 21:00 hrs. Explanada Expo Jessica Fichot, Niyaz and Ricardo Lemvo & 21:00 hrs. Dance Theatre India, and Hawai’i with Viver Brasil, Shakti Makina Loca Guadalajara 21:00 hrs. Dance Company, and Halau Keali’l O Nalani Poncho Sanchez 21:00 hrs. 21:00 hrs. 21:00 hrs.

Daughter of Daughter a Cuban of a Cuban Teatro 1984 1984 Revolutionary Revolutionary 21:00 hrs. 21:00 hrs. Experimental 21:00 hrs. 21:00 hrs.

Farid Mercury Farid Mercury Estudio Diana 21:00 hrs. 21:00 hrs.

Rambla Vexing: Female Voices of East L.A. Punk presents The Sirens, Las Tres and Lysa Flores Cataluña 18:00-20:00 hrs.

Southwest Chamber Teatro Diana Music 21:00 hrs.

Paraninfo John Schneider Enrique Díaz Presents Partch de León 21:00 hrs.

Collateral In Search of a Midnight Kiss Los Angeles Film Independent Panel Collateral L.A. Confidential L.A. Story 16:00 hrs. 11:00 hrs. Lords of Dogtown Devil in a Blue Dress 11:00 hrs. 16:00 hrs. The Long Goodbye 16:00 hrs. 16:00 hrs. The Player Film screening and discussion with Alex 16:00 hrs. 16:00 hrs. Sunset Blvd. In Search of a Midnight Kiss 16:00 hrs. Q & A with the director Curtis Hanson L.A. Confidential 18:15 hrs. Holdridge (screenwriter/director) and Seth Cineforo Sunset Blvd. The Long Goodbye 16:00 hrs. 18:15 hrs. The Player Lords of Dogtown 18:00 hrs. Q & A with the screenwriter Michael Tolkin Caplan (producer) 18:00 hrs. 18:00 hrs. Devil In a Blue Dress Q & A with Alex Holdridge (screenwriter/ 18:15 hrs. Universidad 19:00 hrs. Q & A with the director Curtis Hanson In Search of a Midnight Kiss L.A. Confidential Blade Runner L.A. Story 18:00 hrs. director) and Seth Caplan (producer) Sunset Blvd. Gods and Monsters The Long Goodbye 21:00 hrs. 18:00 hrs. 20:15 hrs. 20:15 hrs. Collateral Gods and Monsters 20:45 hrs. 21:00 hrs. 21:00 hrs. Q & A with Alex Holdridge (screenwriter/ The Player 20:00 hrs. 20:45 hrs. director) and Seth Caplan (producer) 20:30 hrs.

Born in East L.A. The Cool School Repo Man 17:00 hrs. Revenge of Phantasmagoria 17:00 hrs. 17:00 hrs. Q & A with screenwriter/director Cheech Marin Instituto Cultural Site Specific Installation Los Angeles Plays Itself Mulholland Dr. Chinatown by Mark Dean Veca 19:00 hrs. 19:30 hrs. Cabañas 20:00 hrs. November 26, 2009 - January 4, 2010 Sala Guillermo del Toro Sala Guillermo del Toro Sala Guillermo del Toro del Instituto Cultural Cabañas del Instituto Cultural Cabañas del Instituto Cultural Cabañas

LARVA: Laboratorio In Search of a Midnight Kiss de Artes Variedades 22:00 hrs.

Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movemement Museo de Arte de Zapopan De LA : Landscape in the Prints, (MAZ) Photographs, and Books of Edward Ruscha November 25, 2009 - January 31, 2010

Museo Regional Oz: New Offerings from Angel City Guadalajara November 26, 2009 - January 10, 2010

Julius Shulman’s Los Angeles Museo de las Artes (MUSA) Vexing: Female Voices of East L.A. Punk November 27, 2009 - January 10, 2010

Expo La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels Guadalajara November 28, 2009 - December 6, 2009

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