Agnès Varda Aero Schedule II
Agnès Varda at the Aero: Part I
Friday, June 26 – 7:30 PM
Los Angeles-Inspired:
LIONS LOVE (AND LIES), 1969, Ciné-Tamaris, 110 min. A blissed-out experiment in anarchy and illusion, featuring Warhol superstar Viva (from LONESOME COWBOYS) and "Hair" authors James Rado and Jerome Ragni playing "themselves" — three innocents adrift in Hollywood. Freely mixing improvisation with scripted dialogue, and occasional news reports on the shootings of Robert Kennedy and Warhol, which interrupt the film, LIONS LOVE is Agnes Varda’s gloriously screwy time capsule of L.A. in its free-love acid-tripping let-it-all-hang-out heyday. In English.
MURS MURS, 1980, Ciné-Tamaris, 81 min. Essential viewing for all Angelenos, MURS MURS is Varda’s lively tribute to this city’s outdoor murals, from the riotous Pig Paradise [...]
by Andre Soares | June 17, 2009
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Agnès Varda Tribute at the Aero
Except for Vagabond, a 1985 drama that earned Sandrine Bonnaire best actress awards from both the French Academy and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, I’m unfamiliar with Agnès Varda’s oeuvre, which encompasses more than 40 films — both shorts and features, narrative and documentaries — spanning 54 years (1954-2008). Well, I’ll now have the chance to rectify that glaring omission in my cinematic connoisseurship — on the big screen — and so will other Los Angeles area denizens.
One of the most respected filmmakers in the world, the iconoclastic Agnès Varda will be the subject of a mini-retrospective at the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica from June 24-July 1. Varda, whose films frequently focus on women and their [...]
by Andre Soares | June 17, 2009
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Tags: Aero Theatre, Agnès Varda, American Cinematheque, Classic Movies, Jacquot de Nantes, Los Angeles Screenings, Nouvelle Vague
