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Cinema Her Way Book Signing with Gas Food Lodging in 35mm

  • Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 6067 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles, CA, 90036 United States (map)

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Author Marya E. Gates will be signing her book Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words and join filmmaker Allison Anders for a conversation before a screening of Gas Food Lodging (1992). Includes the book, book signing, author meet-and-greet, screening, and conversation.

Join film critic and historian Marya E. Gates for a signing of her book Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words. Gates’ book celebrates women directors and their contributions to cinema. The book includes in-depth conversations with directors about their filmmaking processes and their journeys in the film industry.

After the signing, Marya will join director and writer Allison Anders for a conversation before a screening of Anders’ film Gas Food Lodging (1992).

SCHEDULE:

  • 6:30–7:15pm | Book signing of Cinema Her Way | Ted Mann Theater Lobby

  • 7:30pm | Conversation and screening of Gas Food Lodging (1992) in 35mm | Ted Man Theater

Gas Food Lodging (1992) in 35mm

From her first feature, Border Radio (1987), filmmaker Allison Anders has always been interested in interrogating the “mainstream” by exploring and ultimately exploding genre. In doing so, her films upset the values maintained and encouraged by the dominant filmmaking industry. In its localized view of relationships and small-town dreams in the fictional border town of Laramie, New Mexico, her second feature, Gas Food Lodging (1992), focuses on a single mother (Brooke Adams) raising two teenage daughters (Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk), and explores their relationships within and outside the family unit. Inspired by her work as a production assistant for Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas (1984), Anders opens Gas Food Lodging... on an image of the open road, inviting us into the emotional landscape of these complex women. J Mascis’s reverb-drenched score and Dean Lent’s gorgeous cinematography envelop the protagonists in a world entirely of Anders’s making.

1992 | 101 min | USA | Color | English | Rated R | 35mm | Print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Allison Anders

WITH: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin

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