Weekend Highlights for L.A. International Film Festival
The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival continues at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas this weekend. Highlights from today’s and Sunday’s program follow.
SUNDAY
‘Comic Book Confidential’
Canada, 1988, 90 minutes 4:45 p.m.
All the artists who drove kids under the covers or, in the case of Dan O’Neill, drove the Disney lawyers to court, are here in Ron Mann’s affectionate, enthusiastic look at comics, from The Spirit to Zippy to Art Spiegelman (“Maus”). Beautifully lit, shot and set to music, the strips, animated in a way that preserves their original style, seem to leap from the page, while the film’s more than 20 interviews, which range from veterans like Will Eisner to R. Crumb and Lynda Barry, capture the true seditious spirit behind so many of the strips. RECOMMENDED.
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