Includes a conversation with writer/director Whit Stillman

Co-presented by The New York Times Film Club

Love & Friendship is the newest film from writer/director Whit Stillman, whose debut in those capacities, 1990’s Metropolitan, got him an Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Stillman’s films, which also include Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco (which comprise a trilogy for many of his fans), and the 2011 musical Damsels in Distress, are modern comedies of manner which examine attitudes and decorum that are making a final stand; they’re effectively Jane Austen-type period pieces. Love & Friendship happens to be the first of Stillman’s films that are exactly that, a period Jane Austen adaptation. (The book is Austen’s posthumously published Lady Susan.) Set in the late eighteenth century, Love & Friendship reunites the filmmaker with actresses Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny, his Disco stars. Beckinsale is Lady Susan Vernon, a widow who sets turmoil into motion when she retreats to her in-laws’ estate to flee damaging rumors; her mission, while there, to find mates for herself and her daughter. Her free-spirited accomplice in the mission is her American friend, Alicia (Sevigny). The cast also features Stephen Fry. Stillman will participate in an onstage interview about his career after the screening.

2016, 92 min, color, DCP | Written by Whit Stillman, based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novella Lady Susan; directed by Whit Stillman; with Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, and Stephen Fry

Ticketing Information

Film Independent, LACMA Film Club, and the New York Times Film Club members can reserve tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, April 14. | Free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

New York Times Film Club members must RSVP to www.nytfilmclub.com for this screening.

LACMA member and general admission tickets can be reserved starting on Thursday, April 28. | Free; limit two tickets.

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-reserved tickets for this event can be picked up at LACMA’s Ticket Office, located in the Hammer Building, on the day of the event—as early as 11 am. Tickets are for general, unreserved Bing Theater seating. Ticketed guests must be in their Bing Theater seat 15 minutes prior to the advertised start time or seat(s) may be released. Reservations do not guarantee entry, even with a ticket in hand. Entry is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Program and guest participation subject to change or cancellation without prior notice. Tickets are nontransferable and can only be picked up by the individual who purchased or reserved them.