LOS ANGELES DESTROYS ITSELF








Saturday June 23 2007, 8:30PM ( Free Admission )
Free Outdoor Screening @ Festival Promenade on Broxton Ave.
NIGHT OF THE COMET








Sunday June 24 2007, 9:30PM
ESCAPE FROM L.A.









Saturday June 30 2007, 7:30PM
@ James Bridges Theater, UCLA
EARTHQUAKE











Sunday July 1 2007, 12:00PM
THEM!











Sunday July 1 2007, 7:30PM
@ Italian Cultural Institute
MIRACLE MILE








Los Angeles Destroys Itself highlights five classic disaster epics set in the City of Angels. As Thom Andersen suggests in his 2003 film-essay Los Angeles Plays Itself, "the entire world seems to be rooting for Los Angeles to slide into the Pacific or be swallowed by the San Andreas fault," and Hollywood has delivered in spades. Join us for a five-film series in which the sprawling metropolis, its citizens and its landmarks are threatened and attacked in innumerable ways, from earthquakes to nuclear missiles, from a comet to a conservative regime—even giant radioactive ants! Click here for info.