Happening Tuesday: David Fincher in conversation, Walter Mosley and more
The Movie That Inspired Me David Fincher, celebrated director of “Fight Club” and “Zodiac,” presents George Roy Hill’s William Goldman-scripted “ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in this month’s installment of the UCLA Film and Television Archive series. Post-screening, Fincher and series host Curtis Hanson will discuss the lighthearted 1969 chronicle of the notorious leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Billy Wilder Theatre, 10899 Wilshire Blvd. 7:30 p.m. $9. (310) 206-3456. cinema.ucla.edu.
Urban Ruins, Found MomentsThe filmmaker and preservationist Ross Lipman is like an archaeologist of the recent past, excavating and analyzing the relics of contemporary society. He will present a multimedia program exploring urban decay. In addition to screening short films and selections from his video cycle “The Perfect Heart of Flux,” he will perform “The Cropping of the Spectacle,” a PowerPoint-assisted audiovisual essay. REDCAT, 631 W. 2nd St. $9. 8:30 p.m. (213) 237-2800. www.redcat.org.
BOOKS
Walter Mosley Following last year’s “The Long Fall,” the prolific author returns with more hard-boiled intrigue parsed by middle-aged ex-boxer and P.I. Leonid McGill in “Known to Evil,” for which Mosley has pulled up the midcentury L.A. stakes of his celebrated Easy Rawlins series, situating McGill in a modern-day parallel universe New York City. Two local appearances: Eso Won Bookstore, 4331 Degnan Blvd., L.A. 7 p.m. Tuesday. Free. (323) 290-1048. www. esowonbookstore.com. Also, Vroman’s Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. 7 p.m. Wednesday. Free. (626) 449-5320. www.vromans bookstore.com.
Molly Wizenberg Her blog Orangette started out as a way to pass the time and document her culinary excursions in Paris, but it soon blossomed into a full-time passion for Wizenberg with an international following. In “A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table,” the former academic recounts a life where memories and food are entwined. Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. 7:30 p.m. (323) 660-1175.