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MALCOLM LE GRICE IN LOS ANGELES

Malcolm Le Grice—”one of the most compellingly original and radical artist-theorists in the history of the post-war moving image”—will be in Los Angeles for the next week or so.

During this rare visit Le Grice and Los Angeles Film Forum will present his work around town in a series of venues, including the world premiere of the new edit of his immersive multi-screen piece FINITO at the Spielberg Theatre.

See links below for locations. Le Grice—author of Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age— will be on hand to talk with the audience at all three programs.

MALCOLM LE GRICE AT USC

Thursday, February 14, at 7 pm.

USC School of Cinematic Arts 

Broccoli Theatre

900 West 34th Street, Los Angeles.

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MALCOLM LE GRICE—HERE AND NOW

Sunday, February 17, at 7:30 pm.

Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian

6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.

MALCOLM LE GRICE—BEFORE AND AFTER CINEMA

Monday, February 11, at 8:30 pm.

Redcat

631 West 2nd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: Malcolm Le Grice, Berlin Horse (1970); Malcolm Le GriceHorror Film 1 (1971); Le Grice presenting his work in Europe, early 2000s; Malcolm Le Grice, Marking Time, 2015; Malcolm Le Grice, Reign of the Vampire, 1970; Le Grice in the early 1970s; Malcolm Le Grice, Threshold (1972). All images © Malcolm Le Grice and courtesy the artist.

JANE JACOBS

“[Jane Jacobs’] name still summons an entire city vision—the much watched corner, the mixed-use neighborhood—and her holy tale is all the stronger for including a nemesis of equal stature: Robert Moses, the Sauron of the street corner. The New York planning dictator wanted to drive an expressway through lower Manhattan, and was defeated, the legend runs, by this ordinary mom.” — Adam Gopnik*

Robert Moses—the “master builder” of New York’s expressways who dreamed of leveling Soho—met his match in Jane Jacobs, author of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES.** This 20th century battle—the forces of suburbanization vs. middle-class New Yorkers who did not want to destroy their city to save it—is the focus of CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY, the new documentary by Matt Tyrnauer screening this week at USC.

 

CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY, Monday, April 24 at 7 pm. Free with reservation:

cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=16830

BROCCOLI THEATRE, USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS, Los Angeles.

 

CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY opens at the Nuart on Friday, April 28.

NUART THEATRE, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles.

landmarktheatres.com/FilmCalendar/Nuart_calendar_2017_0310_0511.pdf

 

This summer, the RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL in Lower Manhattan will feature excerpts from A MARVELOUS ORDER, a new opera about Jacobs and Moses. Written, composed, and designed by Joshua Frankel, Judd Greenstein, Will Rawls, and Tracy K. Smith, the work will be performed in the transit/shopping hub Fulton Center.

 

A MARVELOUS ORDER, June 15–18.

RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL, FULTON CENTER, 200 Broadway, Manhattan.

 

*Adam Gopnik, “Jane Jacobs’ Street Smarts,” The New Yorker, September 26, 2016.

newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/26/jane-jacobs-street-smarts

**See: theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/14/jane-jacobs-death-and-life-rereading

Jane Jacobs, 1961. Image credit: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection

Jane Jacobs, 1961.
Image credit: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection