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While this was a summer of box office sequels and “Love Island” Season 7 watch parties, the fall landscape for movies and TV feels much crisper.
Sure, there are repeats on a form, but there’s a unique direction to the wind. While “The Paper” is a loose spinoff of “The Office,” lead actor Domhnall Gleeson tells The Times the mockumentary about a struggling newspaper has its own feel. Then there’s drama “The Lowdown” from Sterlin Harjo, co-creator of “Reservation Dogs,” starring Ethan Hawke. One of our critics intriguingly calls it Tulsa noir.
On the big screen, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” brings wild energy, while Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with “Eleanor the Great,” a Cannes audience favorite. And as an extra special treat, we got the guys from “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues” to dish in character — animal print pants and all.
Meanwhile, the L.A. arts scene is unafraid to go there this fall. Across MOCA and alternative space the Brick, an exhibit will feature decommissioned Confederate monuments. To kick off his final season in Los Angeles, Gustavo Dudamel will premiere a new piece partly inspired by the region’s fires and swelling oceans. And a solo dance show at UCLA about love and loss is provocatively called “Becoming Daddy AF.”
Then there are the crowd-pleasers. A massive exhibition of artist’s artist Robert Therrien will occupy all of the Broad’s ground floor. “One Man, Two Guvnors” had our theater critic cackling when he saw it in London — here’s hoping the L.A. showing can do the same.
Buckle up for an eventful fall. — Brittany Levine Beckman, Entertainment and Features editor
MOVIES
Director Richard Linklater had only one person in mind for “Nouvelle Vague,” his loving evocation of the making of “Breathless.” Deutch went deeper than a haircut.
Older, louder, though perhaps not wiser, Spinal Tap returns with a new film and some new fans you may know, including Paul McCartney and Elton John.
In the upcoming “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” based on the stage musical, L.A.-born phenom Tonatiuh announces himself as a player to watch, with serious ambitions.
From a Bruce Springsteen biopic to the movie version of Stephen King’s “The Running Man” to the “Wicked” sequel, here are the movies to look forward to this fall.
TELEVISION
The Irish actor stars as an idealistic editor in chief of a Midwest newspaper that he’s trying to revive with the help of his ragtag staff.
FX’s ‘The Lowdown,’ starring Ethan Hawke, is centered on creator, writer and director Sterlin Harjo’s Oklahoma hometown.
The drama ‘Black Rabbit,’ the docuseries ‘Mr. Scorsese’ and the comedy ‘DMV’ present the democratic ideal of television, with something for everyone this season.
ARTS
From a full retrospective of Robert Therrien at the Broad to decommissioned Confederate statues at MOCA and the Brick: Here’s what to see at Los Angeles-area museums this fall.
In November, the Broad museum will debut the largest-ever solo museum show of late artist Robert Therrien’s work, featuring more than 120 pieces.
THEATER
‘Stereophonic,’ ‘Suffs’ and’ Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ and a musical version of ‘Working Girl’ light up the fall theater season in Southern California.
Liberty Station’s long-neglected naval training center will be reborn as the Joan and serve as the new home of Cygnet Theatre, which will stage Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Follies’ as its first production.
CLASSICAL MUSIC
Gustavo Dudamel’s last season with the L.A. Phil and 10 other major classical music concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Wallis, BroadStage, the Nimoy and throughout Southern California.
POP MUSIC
Fall preview music list — the best concerts, docs, books and more
With local nightlife in troubled straits after fires, inflation and ICE raids, South Pasadena’s Sid the Cat Auditorium is a self-funded bet that the local music scene can recover.
DANCE
Here are 10 dance events sure to send you spinning this fall, from L.A. Dance Project to BodyTraffic.
BOOKS
Four decades into her career, Debbie Gibson epitomizes the relentless drive that her momager instilled. After Diane Gibson’s death, the pop star looked inward to write a raw and honest memoir.
In the 17 mysteries in the series, Easy Rawlins has given readers a front-row seat to author Walter Mosley’s vision of L.A.’s evolution. Easy navigates the social shifts in Mosley’s latest book, ‘Gray Dawn.’
The season’s literary offerings are as varied and complex as a cast of Thomas Pynchon characters ... and include Thomas Pynchon’s return. Here’s a sampling of the most anticipated books of fall.
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