Robert Towne screens LA GRANDE ILLUSION November 14, 2006

$10, $8 Skirball & AFI members, $6 students

Academy Award nominee Robert Towne is best known for writing the Oscar-winning Chinatown, as well as Shampoo & Mission Impossible I and II. Towne also wrote & directed Ask the Dust. Towne will screen & discuss Jean Renoir's masterpiece Grand Illusion. (1937, 114 min. In French, German, and Russian with English subtitles.) A Q&A session precedes the screening.

Official Website: http://skirball.org/index.php?s=program&p=film.php&a=grand