Film series: Postcards from LA 28 March – 9 May 2011

Postcards from LA was a collection of films evoking one of America’s iconic cities. Steeped in the atmosphere of the ‘centreless metropolis of high hopes and great distances, whose moods are hard to read behind the bright façade’ (Kristin Hohenadel, The observer) this series included popular classics, cult and experimental films. Themes included the relationship between landscape and architecture, high and low culture, representations of the body, crime and politics. We met the fortune hunters, sex workers, housewives, movie stars, criminals, new arrivals and hard-bitten denizens whose lives intersect in the City of Angels, 'a sunny place for shady people'.

The series screened at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 28 March to 9 May 2011 in conjunction with the exhibition Making sense: contemporary LA photo artists which presented 13 photographs from artists based in Southern California.

Films 

• 28 March, 1 April – Targets (director Peter Bogdanovich, United States, 1967, 16mm)

• 7 April – Me and you and everyone we know (director Miranda July, United States, 2005, 35mm)

• 4, 8 April – Point blank (director John Boorman, United States, 1967, 35mm)

• 11, 15 April – LA confidential (director Cutis Hanson, United States, 1997, 35mm)

• 21 April – Safe (director Todd Haynes, United States, 1995, 35mm)

• 18, 22 April – Jackie Brown (director Quentin Tarantino, United States, 1997, 35mm)

• 28 April – Pine flat (director Sharon Lockhart, United States, 2005, 16mm)

• 25, 29 April – Bowfinger (director Frank Oz, United States, 1999, 35mm)

• 2, 6 May – Muholland Dr. (director David Lynch, United States, 2001, 35mm)

• 5 May – Gerry (director Gus Van Sant, United States, 2002, 35mm)

• 9 May – The Limey (director Steven Sodabergh, United States, 1999, 35mm)