Gas Food Lodging in 35mm and Conversation

Gas Food Lodging in 35mm and Conversation

From her first feature, Border Radio (1987), filmmaker Allison Anders has always been interested in interrogating the “mainstream” by exploring and ultimately exploding genre.

Please Note:

  • This ticket is for the screening and conversation ONLY.

  • To purchase the book and participate in the author meet-and-greet, book signing, screening, and conversation click here.

Gas Food Lodging (1992)

From her first feature, Border Radio (1987), filmmaker Allison Anders has always been interested in interrogating the “mainstream” by exploring and ultimately exploding genre. In doing so, her films upset the values maintained and encouraged by the dominant filmmaking industry. In its localized view of relationships and small-town dreams in the fictional border town of Laramie, New Mexico, her second feature, Gas Food Lodging, focuses on a single mother (Brooke Adams) raising two teenage daughters (Ione Skye and Fairuza Balk), and explores their relationships within and outside the family unit. Inspired by her work as a production assistant for Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas (1984), Anders opens Gas Food Lodging on an image of the open road, inviting us into the emotional landscape of these complex women. J Mascis’s reverb-drenched score and Dean Lent’s gorgeous cinematography envelop the protagonists in a world entirely of Anders’s making.

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Allison Anders. WITH: Brooke Adams, Ione Skye, Fairuza Balk, James Brolin. 1992. 101 min. USA. Color. English. Rated R. 35mm. Print courtesy of UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Book Signing

Occasioned by the publication of Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words, this screening will be preceded by a book signing with author Marya E. Gates and a conversation with Gates and filmmaker Allison Anders. The book celebrates women directors by shining a light on their career-spanning works, highlighting groundbreaking history, and sharing revelatory in-depth interviews.

Schedule

  • 6:30–7:15pm | Book Signing—Cinema Her Way

  • 7:30pm | Conversation + Screening of Gas Food Lodging

To purchase the book and participate in the author meet-and-greet, book signing, screening, and conversation click here.

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