While our allotment of advance tickets has sold out online, some additional tickets will be available to purchase at the door on a first come, first served basis on the night of the show. Box office & doors open roughly one hour before the first film. For shows that have sold out online, in-person ticket purchases are limited to 2 tickets per person.
John Schlesinger’s lavish, daring film adaptation of the Nathanael West legendary novel depicts the glamorous allure of 1930s Los Angeles and the grotesque decay of the hypocritical Hollywood dream. At the crumbling San Bernardino Arms apartments live the hopeful and the hopeless hangers-on: an artist and recent transplant (William Atherton), the aspiring actress (Karen Black) that caught his eye, her alcoholic ex-vaudevillian father (Burgess Meredith), a malicious, wannabe child star (Jackie Earle Haley), and others blinded by the draw of fame and fortune. But when the blonde bombshell turns her attention outside the complex to an emotionally stilted accountant (Donald Sutherland), it leads to an explosive, unforgettable conclusion that threatens to destroy the city. Packed with period detail and an incredible supporting cast, The Day of the Locust remains a timelessly acidic look at the poison of Tinseltown.
