Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind: Joan Didion and Cinema

Photo credit: Mary Lloyd Estrin, 1977.

Free admission. No registration needed for this series; first come, first served.

Cinema, and Hollywood in particular, casts a long shadow across the writings of Joan Didion. This series, a collaboration between the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, seeks to measure its reach in a variety of ways, considering her work as a screenwriter and her influences, as well as those directors who share a subject with Didion but diverge, sometimes dramatically, from her unflinching perspective.

Series curated and program notes by Thomas Beard.