Advance tickets are no longer available for this event.

• A limited number of tickets will be available at the door two hours before the published start time of the event for Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members.

Includes a screening of The Exterminating Angel and conversation with writer/director Darren Aronofsky

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Does writer/director Darren Aronofsky seek out controversy, or does it just manage to find him? Given that his first film was 1998’s Pi, which he followed up with the 2000 adaptation of Hubert Selby’s novel Requiem for a Dream, and a group of movies that includes The Fountain, The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah, and just this year, Mother!, the answer to the first question would seem to be… well, it’s probably “yes” to both. The filmmaker has often used genre settings—be it the thriller, the melodrama, or even the Biblical film—to deal with protagonists who are barely maintaining a grip on sanity from the start, a proposition that becomes more and more tenuous as the stories progress. For this first edition of “An Evening with…” of the season, Aronofsky’s choice is Luis Buñuel’s 1962 surrealist farce, The Exterminating Angel. The eye-popping satire, which packs in assaults on marriage, drugs, disease and religion, is set at a party of the upper class that becomes an enforced vacation as they’re all trapped in a house. Angel follows how their morality—and will to live—crumbles over the course of time. After this masterpiece of deadpan outrage, Aronofsky discusses it, and his career.

Followed by a reception.

The Exterminating Angel
1962, 93 min, B&W | Screenplay by Luis Buñuel, story by Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza; directed by Luis Buñuel; with Silvia Pinal and Enrique Rambal

Ticketing Information

$15 for Film Independent and LACMA Film Club members. Members of these two groups can purchase tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, October 26. Limit two tickets per membership. Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

$20 for LACMA members, students with valid ID and seniors (65+); $25 for the general public. Members of these four groups can purchase tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, November 2. Two ticket limit.

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 seating. Ticketed guests must be in their seat at the advertised start time of the event or seat(s) may be released. All ticket sales are final; no refunds or exchanges. 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.