Film Independent: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Includes a conversation with director Morgan Neville

For over thirty years, Fred Rogers, an unassuming minister, puppeteer, writer and producer was beamed daily into homes across America. In his beloved television program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Fred and his cast of puppets and friends spoke directly to young children about some of life’s weightiest issues, in a simple, direct fashion. There hadn’t been anything like Mr. Rogers on television before and there hasn’t been since. Though he may be best known today as a soft-spoken, cardigan-wearing children’s television host, in reality, Fred Rogers’ career represents a sustained attempt to present a coherent, beneficent view about how we should best speak to children about important matters and how television could be used as a positive force in our society. In Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom) looks back on the legacy of Fred Rogers, focusing on his radically kind ideas. While the nation changed around him, Fred Rogers stood firm in his beliefs about the importance of protecting childhood. Neville pays tribute to this legacy with the latest in his series of highly engaging, moving documentary portraits of essential American artists.

2018, 93 minutes, Color, DCP | Directed by Morgan Neville

Ticketing Information

Free for Film Independent & LACMA Film Club Members.

Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members can reserve screening tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 19. | Screening tickets are free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.

Bring the Noise: Night of the Living Dead

Featuring new live music by The Paranoyds.

For the latest edition of our Bring the Noise program – for which musicians create a new score for a classic film, then perform it live at a screening – we salute the 50th anniversary of scare-auteur George Romero’s zombie revelation, Night of the Living Dead with a new score by Los Angeles’ own psych-punk foursome, the Paranoyds. The band’s brash, noisy and witty catalog – “Rat Boy” alone is a glittering, sweaty highlight – makes them such a perfect marriage of music and movie that we only thank our lucky whomever that no one else thought of it first. Come out and join us for this raucous, noisome and enticing consummation of score and carnage.

Followed by a reception, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Each attendee will receive a limited edition poster by artist Matt Owen – ONLY available the night of the event.

1968, 96 minutes, B/W | Written by John A. Russo and George Romero; directed by George Romero; with Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Marilyn Eastman, Karl Hardman, Judith Ridley, Keith Wayne

Ticketing Information

$15 for Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members. Members of these two groups can purchase tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 19. | Limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

$20 for LACMA members, students with valid ID and seniors (65+); $25 for the general public. Members of these four groups can purchase tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 26. Two ticket limit.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved seating. Ticketed guests must be in their seat at the advertised start time of the event or seat(s) may be released. All ticket sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.

Film Independent: American Animals

The extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends living an ordinary existence who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history. But not everything is as it seems, and as the daring theft unfolds through each of their perspectives, each of them start to question whether their attempts to inject excitement and purpose into their lives is simply a misguided attempt at achieving the American Dream.

2018, 116 minutes, Color, DCP | Written/directed by Burt Layton; with Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Udo Kier, and Ann Dowd

Ticketing Information

Free Screening.

Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members can reserve screening tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 19. | Screening tickets are free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

LACMA member and general-admission tickets can be reserved starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 26. | Free; limit two tickets.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.

Film Independent at LACMA: The Tale

Includes a conversation with writer/director Jennifer Fox.

You’d be hard pressed to come up with a better time than right now for documentarian Jennifer Fox’s fiction debut, The Tale. Trippy and intense, the film premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it became a sensation for both its timely subject matter as well its commanding use of the medium. Writer/director Fox plays with time and storytelling techniques in this story of the relationship between a younger woman and an older man that becomes more and more compelling as perspective shifts. Jenny (Laura Dern) is a nonfiction filmmaker forced to examine her past when she’s asked by her mother (Ellyn Burstyn) about a ménage a trois that took place decades earlier. As she examines this event, long framed as her transition from adolescence into maturity, layer by layer is stripped away until Jenny – whose career is defined by bringing facts to light – is left to face the terrible truth. The Tale, which was purchased by HBO Films at Sundance, also stars Jason Ritter, Common and Frances Ritter. Writer/director Jennifer Fox will be on hand for a conversation after the screening.

2018, 114 minutes, Color, DCP | Writer/director Jennifer Fox; with Laura Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Ritter, Elizabeth Debicki, Common, Frances Conroy, John Heard, Isabel Nélisse

Ticketing Information

Free for Film Independent & LACMA Film Club members.

Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members can reserve screening tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 19. | Screening tickets are free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.

Film Independent at LACMA: The Gospel According to Andre

Includes a conversation with director Kate Novack and André Leon Talley

Both figuratively and literally, no one looms larger in the parallel and ever-intersecting worlds of fashion and style than André Leon Talley. This deeply thoughtful tastemaker rose from humble beginnings to become a journalist and Anna Wintour’s number two at Vogue magazine, where he brought a purview that was both earthy and fabulous – a sensibility that still remains. As a man of color, Talley’s persistence in making diversity an undeniable aspect of fashion is just one element that makes him such a remarkable and compelling figure. It took documentary filmmaker Kate Novack (Page One: Inside the New York Times) to persuade Talley to sit before the camera and tell his singular story, taking him from the center of cool he currently inhabits to his hardscrabble roots in North Carolina. After her remarkable film about an equally remarkable life, Novack and her subject Talley will be on hand for a conversation.

2018, 93 minutes, Color, DCP | Directed by Kate Novack

Ticketing Information

Free for Film Independent & LACMA Film Club members.

Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members can reserve screening tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 19. | Screening tickets are free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.

Film Independent at LACMA: Fahrenheit 451

Includes a conversation with writer/director Ramin Bahrani

In 1953, Ray Bradbury published a science-fiction novel with one of the most unforgettable takes on dystopia ever. It was such a potent piece of work that Francois Truffaut selected it as the basis for his first and only English-language project, choosing it over what would become Bonnie and Clyde. Bradbury devised a shocking definition of the word “fireman”: a destroyer of hope and possibility, rather than a rescuer of these ideals. In the future in which Fahrenheit is set, firemen are charged with burning books, which have been banned. Michael B. Jordan also recognized the power of Bradbury’s fiction, and stars as fireman Guy Montag, leading an able and diverse cast that includes Michael Shannon, as well as Laura Harrier, Lily Singh and Sofia Boutella as the women who open Guy’s eyes and ultimately change his life. Ramin Bahrani, whose thought-provoking work set in real life dystopian circumstances includes Goodbye Solo and Chop Shop, adapted and directed Fahrenheit for HBO Films. He will take part in a conversation after the film.

2018, 115 minutes, Color, DCP | Written by Ramin Bahrani, based on the novel by Ray Bradbury; directed by Ramin Bahrani; with Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Lilly Singh

Ticketing Information

Free Screening.

Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members can reserve screening tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 19. | Screening tickets are free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

LACMA member and general-admission tickets can be reserved starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 26. | Free; limit two tickets.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.

Film Independent at LACMA: Blazing Saddles

1974, 93 minutes, Color, 35mm | Written by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, and Alan Uger; directed by Mel Brooks; with Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, and Slim Pickens

In conjunction with Richard Prince: Untitled (cowboy) 

In conjunction with Richard Prince: Untitled (cowboy) at LACMA, we present director Mel Brooks’ srolling (and roiling) 1974 comedy Western that was a mainstream movie first. Brooks used feature film artistry to demonstrate that genre could be deconstructed in the most popular way possible, while embracing the signposts that created so much affection for the form. In doing so, Brooks broke the mold, the fourth wall, studio expectations of what a parody film could be, and just about everything else. Brooks, along with writer/collaborators Andrew Bergman, Norman Steinberg, and Richard Pryor, assaults the conventions of the traditional Western, including unapologetic racism, entitled colonialism, and rampant misogyny, by dropping a black character from the 1970s into the middle of a film that takes places 100 years earlier. Broadway star Cleavon Little is the former slave turned first black sheriff of a small frontier town who finds himself the victim of hostility from both the greedy villains and the (white) townspeople he was hired to protect. Gene Wilder, demonstrating a command of his talent that would soon see him become a star himself, plays drunkard/sidekick the Waco Kid, with a blissed-out suavity. The cast includes an equally magnetic Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman and, in a take on the archetypal cowboy he’d played many times before (and would play after this film), Slim Pickens.

Film Independent at LACMA

LACMA | Bing Theater

$5 for Film Independent and LACMA Film Club Members. Members of these two groups can purchase tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, February 15. Limit two tickets per membership. Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

$7 for LACMA members, students with valid ID, and seniors (65+); $10 for the general public. Members of these four groups can purchase tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, February 22. Two ticket limit.

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets for the screening can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved seating. Ticketed guests must be in their seats 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seats may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them. 

Free Screening: Billions

2018, 60 minutes, Color, DCP | Written by Brian Koppelman, David Levien and Andrew Ross Sorkin; directed by Neil Burger; with Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff, and Kelly Aucoin

Includes a conversation with co-creator, executive producer and showrunner Brian Koppelman, and actors Maggie Siff and David Costabile

The stakes are higher than ever in a new season of the Showtime Original Series Billions. Season three finds Chuck Rhoades and Bobby Axelrod in a world that has shifted on its axis. Both men are still determined to destroy the other, but must also battle for their own survival amid new forces and powerful enemies. Wendy Rhoades, Chuck’s wife and Axe’s performance coach, is all in for both of them, an uneasy and dangerous position for her, and one that ultimately puts her to a decision that could alter the direction of her life irrevocably. Money, power, justice and revenge are all on the line for each of these characters. After a screening of the season premiere of Billions, co-creator, executive producer and showrunner Brian Koppelman and series stars Maggie Siff and David Costabile, will take part in a conversation about the making of the show.

In conjunction with Film Independent at LACMA

LACMA | Bing Theater

FilmIndependent and LACMA Film Club Members can reserve tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, February 15. | Free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

LACMA member and general admission tickets can be reserved starting at 12 pm on Thursday, February 22 | Free; limit two tickets.

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets for the screening can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved seating. Ticketed guests must be in their seats 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seats may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them. 

Film Independent: Lean On Pete

2018, 119 minutes, color, DCP | Written by Andrew Haigh; directed by Andrew Haigh; with Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, and Chloe Sevigny

For LACMA Film Club and Film Independent members only

Includes a conversation with writer/director Andrew Haig

Director Andrew Haigh (Greek PeteWeekend45 YearsLooking) shifts from the urbane to something more laconic with his newest film Lean on Pete, which follows unhappy teenager Charley (Charlie Plummer) who suffers in a small place made even more claustrophobic by his angry dad. When the at-loose-ends young man finds his way into the race horse circuit and develops an attachment to a particular—and peculiar—animal, he finds a path to the previously unimaginable: satisfaction. Haig’s able cast also includes Chloe Sevigny and Steve Buscemi. The director will discuss the motivation behind his latest work in a Q&A after the screening.

In conjunction with Film Independent at LACMA

LACMA | Bing Theater

Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members can reserve screening tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, February 15. | Screening tickets are free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

PLEASE NOTE: Tickets for the screening can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved seating. Ticketed guests must be in their seats 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seats may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them. 

Film Independent at LACMA: A Child Is Waiting

Includes an introductory conversation with 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards John Cassavetes Nominees

Please note: Film Independent at LACMA ticketing is no longer handled by Eventbrite. All ticket purchases/reservations are now routed through the LACMA box office online ticketing system.

As we do each year just prior to the Film Independent Spirit Awards, we will recognize the nominees for this year’s John Cassavetes Award, which is bestowed upon filmmakers who have managed the extraordinary accomplishment of completing a feature film with a budget of $500,000 or less. The nominees will take part in a Q&A about what was involved in bringing their work to fruition. The conversation will be followed by a screening of the famously independent-minded Cassavetes 1963 feature A Child Is Waiting; a look at the world of mentally challenged children (roles for which the director fought to use non-actors). A Child Is Waiting stars Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland and was produced by social activist Stanley Kramer.

1963, 102 minutes, B&W, 35mm | Written by Abby Mann; directed by John Cassavetes; produced by Stanley Kramer; with Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland and Gena Rowlands

Ticketing Information

$5 for Film Independent and LACMA Film Club Members. Members of these two groups can purchase tickets starting at 12:00 pm on Thursday, February 15. Limit two tickets per membership. Proof of Member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

$7 for LACMA Members, students with valid ID and seniors (65+); $10 for the general public. Members of these four groups can purchase tickets starting at 12:00 pm on Thursday, February 22. Two ticket limit.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.