DTLA ArtNight
DTLA ArtNight is a cultural gathering and art walk organized monthly on first Thursdays where over 25 Galleries debut new exhibitions from their fine arts collections. These collections encompass a […]
DTLA ArtNight is a cultural gathering and art walk organized monthly on first Thursdays where over 25 Galleries debut new exhibitions from their fine arts collections. These collections encompass a […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
Date: May 4 & 5, 2024 Time: 11 AM to 9 PM Location: 350 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071 Join the largest U.S. film festival dedicated to promoting diversity and […]
Date: May 4 & 5, 2024 Time: 11 AM to 9 PM Location: 350 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071 Join the largest U.S. film festival dedicated to promoting diversity and […]
Mark your calendars for Tuesday May 7 when McConnell’s will offer 49% off every item on the menu at each scoop shop to celebrate their original opening on May 7, 1949. What could be sweeter than that?
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
Delirium Musicum is finishing their 6th season with a delirious BANG featuring music from the French Baroque to John Adams. Join Delirium Musicum for their first collaboration with Groupmuse, we […]
Attention all Music & Foodie Lovers! Grand Central Market and Beat Swap Meet team up for a dream collab bringing music and good vibes to Broadway! EVERY SECOND SATURDAY | […]
DOORS AT 6:00 PM SHOW STARTS AT 7:00 PM FEATURING Jazmyn W Jenny Yang Valeri Tosi Mike Lenczewski Terrence Murphy Jeff Buck + MORE! ***lineup subject to change*** Maple Block […]
Elevate your celebration by enjoying free rides all day on Metro buses, trains, bike share and Micro! With its extensive network of stops and stations, you can fully immerse yourself in […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
Saturday, May 18, 2024 From the founding of the city through the 1940s, downtown was the true center of Los Angeles, a lively, densely populated, exciting and sometimes dangerous place. […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
DOORS AT 6:00 PM SHOW STARTS AT 7:00 PM FEATURING Paul Elia Nicole Tran Tony Sam Renee Gauthier Holly Brown Madison Shepard Terrence Murphy Jeff Buck ***lineup subject to change*** […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
DTLA ArtNight is a cultural gathering and art walk organized monthly on first Thursdays where over 25 Galleries debut new exhibitions from their fine arts collections. These collections encompass a […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
Date: May 4 & 5, 2024 Time: 11 AM to 9 PM Location: 350 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071 Join the largest U.S. film festival dedicated to promoting diversity and […]
Date: May 4 & 5, 2024 Time: 11 AM to 9 PM Location: 350 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071 Join the largest U.S. film festival dedicated to promoting diversity and […]
Mark your calendars for Tuesday May 7 when McConnell’s will offer 49% off every item on the menu at each scoop shop to celebrate their original opening on May 7, 1949. What could be sweeter than that?
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
Delirium Musicum is finishing their 6th season with a delirious BANG featuring music from the French Baroque to John Adams. Join Delirium Musicum for their first collaboration with Groupmuse, we […]
Attention all Music & Foodie Lovers! Grand Central Market and Beat Swap Meet team up for a dream collab bringing music and good vibes to Broadway! EVERY SECOND SATURDAY | […]
DOORS AT 6:00 PM SHOW STARTS AT 7:00 PM FEATURING Jazmyn W Jenny Yang Valeri Tosi Mike Lenczewski Terrence Murphy Jeff Buck + MORE! ***lineup subject to change*** Maple Block […]
Elevate your celebration by enjoying free rides all day on Metro buses, trains, bike share and Micro! With its extensive network of stops and stations, you can fully immerse yourself in […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
Saturday, May 18, 2024 From the founding of the city through the 1940s, downtown was the true center of Los Angeles, a lively, densely populated, exciting and sometimes dangerous place. […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
DOORS AT 6:00 PM SHOW STARTS AT 7:00 PM FEATURING Paul Elia Nicole Tran Tony Sam Renee Gauthier Holly Brown Madison Shepard Terrence Murphy Jeff Buck ***lineup subject to change*** […]
Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Lower Level, Grand Central Market presents Grand Central Bazaar! Join us and see the latest and greatest from the very best independent merchants, artisans, and makers in LA.
3 PM / All That Heaven Allows Showtime
5: 15 PM / Imitation of Life Showtime
The Million Dollar Theater / Event Location
"We continue our THANKSGIVING CINEMA with a double feature of Douglas Sirk 1950's melodrama classics for which we're extremely grateful.
It's because of German born director Sirk, who found a way to somehow BOTH make crowd-pleasing melodramas that turned out to be incredibly subversive critiques of American society, that we have the middle period of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Fassbinder understood immediately (much quicker than many of his contemporaries) that Sirk's movies miraculously worked on two levels: the emotional AND the satirical. But Sirk's satire was so pointed. So barbed. So brutal. That no one saw it because he made sure to wrap it up in gorgeous technicolor, handsome actors, lush music. But it was there. The barbed wire wrapped in velvet.
First up, we screen All That Heaven Allows which dared, in the mid-1950's, to tell the story of a widowed middle aged woman who felt she had the right to have a sincere romance with a younger man. This of course shocks everyone from her family to her community and soon gossip, hypocrisy, and human cruelty make her life a living hell. Even though she's really done nothing wrong.
Gorgeously shot and performed, many folks missed the clear critique of small town American hypocrisy at its heart.
Next up is Sirk's towering Imitation of Life which pulls off the near impossible: it is both extremely sincere and heartfelt AND dangerously subversive. This is at the heart of Fassbinder cinema.
Here we get the story of two single mothers-one black and one white-who join together to raise their daughters and get through life. However, African American Annie's daughter, Sarah Jane, is able to pass for white. And as the movie progresses, this forms a central conflict as Sarah Jane more and more rejects her mother and her background because SOCIETY rejects her mother and her background.
A more brutal attack on the emotional violence American racism wrecked across countless families is hard to find in the 1950's. . .WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING.
Somehow Sirk, in the guise of a tearjerker melodrama, was able to hold up a mirror to America. And America didn't like what it saw. Because it had a long way to go.
Martin Scorsese among countless others have pointed out how important Sirk's cinema is to to what would come in the 1960's and 1970's.
Come watch three of his greatest movies. On 35mm. And if you want say for our screening of Scorsese's own subversive family melodrama in the guise of a gangster movie Casino."
For More Information and Tickets, Please Visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/35mm-all-that-heaven-allows-imitation-of-life-million-dollar-theater-tickets-204041522687