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.
Saturday, April 6, 2024 Join Esotouric for an immersive time travel trip in the footsteps of novelist and screenwriter John Fante (1909-1983) through Downtown Los Angeles and Bunker Hill, On […]
6:00 PM / Doors Open 7:00 PM / Show Begins Maple Block Patio at Grand Central Market Join us for another comedy show with your host Jeff Buck at Grand […]
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.
Swing by Grand Central Market on the day of any Dodger home games in April, show your Dodger ticket at the Info Desk (located next to Villa's Tacos to score […]
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 | […]
Saturday, April 13, 2024 Join Esotouric for an immersive time travel trip in the footsteps of master detective novelist Raymond Chandler and his cynical alter ego Philip Marlowe, in the […]
Swing by Grand Central Market on Dodger home game days in April, show your Dodger ticket at the Info Desk (located next to Villa's Tacos) and score FREE parking! […]
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.
Swing by Grand Central Market on Dodger home game days in April, show your Dodger ticket at the Info Desk (located next to Villa's Tacos) to score FREE parking at […]
Saturday, April 20, 2024 Join Esotouric’s Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, the Skid Row historians featured in “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” and their special guest Joan […]
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 […]
6:00 PM / Doors Open 7:00 PM / Show Begins Basement at Grand Central Market Join us for another comedy show with your host Jeff Buck at Grand Central Market […]
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: Friday April 26, 2024 Time: 6 PM – 9 PM Location: Grand Central Market On-Site Parking: 308 S Hill Street, Los Angeles CA 90013 Get ready for a creative […]
Saturday, April 27, 2024 Join Esotouric on a tour revealing the bookish cultural history in the heart of the city, packed with tales of colorful Los Angeles writers, readers and […]
Saturday, April 27 The LLS Orchestra presents an eclectic mix, featuring McAllister's vibrant "Music from the Redneck Songbook II," arranged by Justin Cole, alongside John Adams' lively "The Chairman Dances." […]
Sunday, April 28, 2024 / 11 AM - 6 PM / DTLA On Sunday, April 28, DTLA brings you four blocks packed with music, latin food, and family fun! The nation’s […]
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.
Saturday, April 6, 2024 Join Esotouric for an immersive time travel trip in the footsteps of novelist and screenwriter John Fante (1909-1983) through Downtown Los Angeles and Bunker Hill, On […]
6:00 PM / Doors Open 7:00 PM / Show Begins Maple Block Patio at Grand Central Market Join us for another comedy show with your host Jeff Buck at Grand […]
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.
Swing by Grand Central Market on the day of any Dodger home games in April, show your Dodger ticket at the Info Desk (located next to Villa's Tacos to score […]
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 | […]
Saturday, April 13, 2024 Join Esotouric for an immersive time travel trip in the footsteps of master detective novelist Raymond Chandler and his cynical alter ego Philip Marlowe, in the […]
Swing by Grand Central Market on Dodger home game days in April, show your Dodger ticket at the Info Desk (located next to Villa's Tacos) and score FREE parking! […]
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.
Swing by Grand Central Market on Dodger home game days in April, show your Dodger ticket at the Info Desk (located next to Villa's Tacos) to score FREE parking at […]
Saturday, April 20, 2024 Join Esotouric’s Kim Cooper and Richard Schave, the Skid Row historians featured in “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” and their special guest Joan […]
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 […]
6:00 PM / Doors Open 7:00 PM / Show Begins Basement at Grand Central Market Join us for another comedy show with your host Jeff Buck at Grand Central Market […]
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: Friday April 26, 2024 Time: 6 PM – 9 PM Location: Grand Central Market On-Site Parking: 308 S Hill Street, Los Angeles CA 90013 Get ready for a creative […]
Saturday, April 27, 2024 Join Esotouric on a tour revealing the bookish cultural history in the heart of the city, packed with tales of colorful Los Angeles writers, readers and […]
Saturday, April 27 The LLS Orchestra presents an eclectic mix, featuring McAllister's vibrant "Music from the Redneck Songbook II," arranged by Justin Cole, alongside John Adams' lively "The Chairman Dances." […]
Sunday, April 28, 2024 / 11 AM - 6 PM / DTLA On Sunday, April 28, DTLA brings you four blocks packed with music, latin food, and family fun! The nation’s […]
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