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251 S. Main St. Los Angeles, CA 90012

213-617-1033

http://www.downtownindependent.com

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251 S. Main St. Los Angeles CA 90012

Hours: Mon-Thu 3pm-10pm, Fri-Sat 3pm-12am

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This theatre is located on Main Street between Second and Third. Amenities include a lobby and a concession stand that feature specialty wines and beer.

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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (No Rating) 84 mins.
A young man's film marred by some tedious narration, Terence Nance's gorgeous An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is more than saved by a wildly ambitious visual imagination. It teeters somewhere between film school precocity and impressively... More »

A young man's film marred by some tedious narration, Terence Nance's gorgeous An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is more than saved by a wildly ambitious visual imagination. It teeters somewhere between film school precocity and impressively assured audaciousness, blending animation, freeze-frame stop-and-go effects, mockumentary, and inspired manipulation of light and color into an ocular feast. It's almost hypnotic in its style and genre promiscuity. Nance plays a version of himself as he maps the frustrating evolution of a friendship with his ideal woman (Namik Minter) into something more. A struggling student and artist with a Maxwell-esque 'fro, hip wardrobe, and small but charming apartment, Nance is a poster boy for New York 21st-century black bohemia. If there's a downside to Nance's facility with the visual, it's that in his determination to avoid racialized cliché, to stretch the expectations of black filmmakers, he steps hard into a more generic and color-blind trap: that of the first-time filmmaker who communicates every idea, theory, and aesthetic exercise he's ever conceived of, hurling them all with the ferocity of someone afraid they may never get another shot. (Which, given the grim data on the number of black filmmakers—especially men—who never make a sophomore film, is not an unfounded fear.) Here's hoping he can avoid that fate because if he can write or attach himself to a script that is as risky and unconventional in its story as he is in his craftsmanship skills, he'll be a powerhouse filmmaker. « Less

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From a Gas Station Screening to Linsanity: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

By Sherrie Li | Thu, April 25, 2013

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, April 26 From Japanese director Shunji Iwai comes Vampire, a film about a teacher (Kevin Zegers -- a long ... More »
From Child Soldiers to the History of the Razzie Awards: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

By Sherrie Li | Wed, April 10, 2013

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, April 12 Starting at 7 p.m. at the Downtown Independent is Movies and Music: Pavilion and Sam Prekop. Comi... More »
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By Sherrie Li | Mon, April 08, 2013

This past weekend at the Downtown Independent was the fifth annual Los Angeles Comedy Shorts Film Festival, featuring ten film blocks of shorts. Topics (and interpretation of "short") varied in the fi... More »
From Edouard Manet to Funny or Die: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

By Sherrie Li | Wed, April 03, 2013

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, April 5 Start your weekend with a laugh by heading over to the 2013 Los Angeles Comedy Shorts Film Festival at the Downtown Independent. Not only ... More »
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By Paul T. Bradley | Tue, February 19, 2013

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