Award winning filmmaker George Hickenlooper will be the featured guest July 16 as a part of the continuing Cinema’s Legacy series at the Skirball Cultural Center. Now in it’s third season, Cinema’s Legacy features contemporary filmmakers screening films that greatly influenced their careers and interacting with the evening’s audience. Mr. Hickenlooper will be screening Peter Bogdanovich’s THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971).

George Hickenlooper has been a publicly and critically acclaimed filmmaker since his first production in 1988 (ART, ACTING AND THE SUICIDE CHAIR: DENNIS HOPPER) and continued on with such greats as HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE, his adaptation of Orson Welles’ THE BIG BRASS RING, and the indie favorite THE MAN FROM ELYSIAN FIELDS starring Andy Garcia and Mick Jaggar. Most recently, Hickenlooper has tapped in to yet another audience and genre with his documentary THE MAYOR OF SUNSET STRIP about the illustrious career of Los Angeles punk/rock icon Rodney Bingenheimer. Acquired by First Look Features, this film has set fire to the festival circuit and is positioned for an independent hit.

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW
In a bleak and sleepy 50s Texas town, two high-school seniors, stars on a losing football team, ponder their futures, carry on love affairs with the town sweetheart and and an older, married woman respectively, and look to fatherly advice from the ex-cowboy owner of the town's pool hall/cafe and moviehouse. But when the moviehouse closes for good it not only forces the youths to reexamine what lies ahead, it also signals the end of an era.

For more information about this evening, the series and how to purchase tickets, please visit www.afi.com/onscreen. Advance tickets are recommended.