Name: Cinematheque at the Chazen: PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
Start: 2024-12-08T14:00:00-06:00
Location: Chazen Museum of Art

Cinematheque at the Chazen: PLAY IT AS IT LAYS

At the Chazen: Austen, Kawabata, Oates, and Didion On Film
Presented in conjunction with the Chazen Museum of Art’s exhibition, Petah Coyne: How Much A Heart Can Hold, this series presents four feature films that are all adaptations of stories or novels by writers who influenced Coyne’s body of work: Jane Austen, Yusanari Kawabata, Joyce Carol Oates, and Joan Didion. Each of these authors inspired original Coyne works in the exhibition, which can be viewed at the Chazen September 9 through December 23.
Chazen
SUN, 12/8, 2 p.m.
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
USA | 1972 | 35mm | 99 min.
Director: Frank Perry
Cast: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes
In contemporary Los Angeles, a failed actress (Weld), descends into madness after the dissolution of her marriage to a self-obsessed director (Perkins). Writer Joan Didion, known for her exploration of California landscapes and mythologies, wrote the screenplay, an adaptation of her own novel about the dark side of tinseltown.