AT LACMA

Free Screening: Christine

AT LACMA

Free Screening: Christine

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, LACMA Film Club, and The New York Times Film Club members.

Includes a conversation with actors Rebecca Hall and Tracy Letts, writer Craig Shilowich and director Antonio Campos

A film that’s simultaneously a character study, a melodrama, and a real life horror movie set in the 1970s, Christine is based on the story of Florida TV reporter Christine Chubbock, who killed herself on the air. As played by Rebecca Hall (from a script by Craig Shilowich), the movie shows a character who’s alternately anxious and aloof, surrounded by people who all want something different from her. And all of whom, in her way, she’s trying to please. There’s the smooth-but-thoughtful anchor (Michael C. Hall), whose glibness doesn’t mask his devotion to serious newsgathering. But Christine’s ambition is stoked by a boss (Tracy Letts), whose need to fill a growing hunger for sensational stories that prey on the viewers’ fears (or create them) plays into her own weaknesses to be seen. Director Antonio Campos has shown a skill for taking viewers in the slowly dissolving psyches of protagonists (Afterschool, Simon Killer). Campos deftly underplays his hand in this final days drama that—in the best way possible—plays like what Anchorman would have been like in the real world.

2016, 115 min, color, DCP | Written by Craig Shilowich; directed by Antonio Campos; with Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, and Tracy Letts

Ticketing Information

Film Independent, LACMA Film Club, and the New York Times Film Club members can reserve tickets starting at 12 pm on Thursday, August 18. | Free; limit two tickets per membership. | Proof of member status is required to reserve tickets during advance reservation period.

LACMA member and general-admission tickets can be reserved starting at 12 pm on Thursday, August 25. | 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.