Los Angeles Film Festival

The Los Angeles Film Festival has been around in one version or another since 1971. Its current version began sixteen years ago in 1995. My first attendance at the current festival was its tenth year in 2004 where among the seven films I saw were – “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead”, “Feux Rouges” (“Red Lights”), and “Confidences Trop Intimes” (“Intimate Stangers”) and all three of them at the Directors Guild. Prior to 2010, the last time I went to the festival was in 2008, its fourteenth year. I saw ten films that year and among them were “Encounters At The End Of The World” at the Majestic Crest, “La France” at the AMC Avco, and “The Poker House” at the Majestic Crest.

I am only attending the 2010 LA FilmFest today and seeing two films. They are:

“Mahler Auf Der Couch” (“Mahler On The Couch”)

“Freakonomics”

Part of the reason that I’m only seeing two films this year, is that the festival has moved from its recent Westwood location (more convenient for me) to Downtown Los Angeles. And as I didn’t purchase tickets in advance, it’s the Rush line for me and standing outside the Regal Cinemas until almost the films’ start times before being able to buy tickets. I hope the festival returns to Westwood, but I’m afraid that is unlikely. No matter, it is a good festival for seeing international films.


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