Seven Los Angeles Artists: Film Showcase

Accompanying the exhibition will be “Sublimated Los Angeles”, a film series highlighting little-seen films either shot in or with strong ties to Los Angeles and suppressed for various reasons: Play it as it Lays, based on Joan Didionʼs screenplay from her novel, was considered a failure, rarely screened after its initial release, and never released in either VHS or DVD form; Pot-smoking star Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to suppress Pumping Iron prior to his campaign for governor of California; the 3-D version of Hitchcockʼs Dial M for Murder was quickly pulled from distribution following the crash of the first wave of 3-D films; and Let There Be Light, Hollywood director John Hustonʼs (The Maltese Falcon) documentary featuring soldiers suffering from ʻpsychoneurosis anxiety stateʼ was banned by the U.S. government for 30 years.