Robert Altman’s ‘The Player’ Closes 9th Annual DTLA Film Fest
The film called “one of the all-time great Hollywood satires” by Rotten Tomatoes will appear on the big screen for one night to culminate the DTLA Film Fest. In addition, many of the original cast and crew will reunite to celebrate Robert Altman’s seminal send-up of Hollywood.
“The Player” celebrates its 25th anniversary as the closing night feature of the 2017 DTLA Film Festival on Sept. 30 at L.A. LIVE. Cast members Peter Gallagher (“American Beauty,” “The O.C.”) and Cynthia Stevenson (“Happiness,” “Case 39”) as well as producer Cary Brokaw (“Closer,” “Angels In America”) production designer Stephen Altman (“Ray,” “Gosford Park”) and editor Maysie Hoy (“Smoke,” “What Dreams May Come”) will attend the special event and participate in a post-screening Q&A.
The 9th edition of DTLA Film Festival, which opened last Thursday, continues through next Saturday with more than a dozen films screening over the next six days. In addition to the closing night film presentation, the festival’s upcoming lineup includes the psychological thriller “Super Dark Times,” screening tonight at 7:00 p.m. with an afterparty; the documentary “The Pathological Optimist,” which takes an intimate look into the life of Dr. Andrew Wakefield, screening this evening at 7:30 p.m. with a Q&A afterwards with director Miranda Bailey (producer of “Don’t Think Twice,” “Swiss Army Man”); SXSW Grand Jury Winner and psychological thriller “Most Beautiful Island” screening Tuesday, “Cassette: A Documentary Mix Tape,” screening Tuesday followed immediately by the ultimate mixtape party; and “This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous,” the biopic about the eponymous Internet superstar by two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple (“Harlan County, USA,” “American Dream”), screening Thursday with a ticketed afterparty.
“The Player,” with its enviable 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, won 23 major film awards, including a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay (by Michael Tolkin) and was nominated for three Oscars. New York Times film critic Vincent Canby wrote, “Mr. Altman has made the kind of ‘in’ Hollywood film that will be comprehensible to just about anybody who goes to movies or who simply reads about them.”