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.