Today’s Schedule for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival opens today for two weeks at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas. Here is today’s schedule:
‘The Long Weekend (o’ Despair)’
United States, 1989, 93 minutes
8:30 p.m.
Bargain-basement Bret Easton Ellis: Six post-punk characters spend a dreary weekend whining about Angst and ennui, which they mispronounce. The film is a disaster technically: Some scenes are so dimly lit (and/or badly shot and/or stained from processing errors) that it’s difficult to tell one character from another. Writer-producer-director Gregg Araki reportedly made this gritty exercise in self-indulgent alienation for $5,000; it looks like less.
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