The Read
It lost money and Henson reportedly took the failure hard. The puppetry is the achievement and most of it is in-camera. Bowie wrote five songs and committed completely.
The Venue
Fine Arts Theatre
8556 Wilshire Blvd
A 1937 movie theater on Wilshire in Beverly Hills, a block west of the Metro D Line station, running a monthly Sunday series of older features in 70mm.
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Shape The Night
Before
Hammer MuseumUCLA's museum at Wilshire and Westwood, free to everyone with no ticket and no reservation. The courtyard at the center is open off the street and people sit in it without going into a gallery at all. Exhibitions turn over often enough that a second visit is not a repeat.
7:30 PM · Labyrinth 35mm
After
SwingersA corner diner on the ground floor of the 1967 Beverly Laurel, red vinyl booths and loud music until three in the morning. It shut in the spring of 2020 and reopened that November under Stephanie Wilson, who had worked there since 2011, first as a server and then as general manager.