Sideways

It's Film Week on LAist 89.3 and the LAist app, and I sure hope you're going to join me for our next Film Week screening, which is at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale.

We're going to be showing Sideways, projected in 35mm, on the big screen at the Alex Theatre in Glendale.

The event is coming up Saturday night, November 14th at 7 o'clock.

I'll introduce the film.

We'll watch it together.

Then afterward, Oscar-nominated for her performance, Virginia Madsen will join me on stage, along with our Film Week critics, Lael Lowenstein and Wade Major.

We'll talk about the making of Sideways, about its impact on Santa Barbara County's wine business and tourism.

and what the film really represented in all its comedic and romantic elements.

You don't understand my plight.

One of the great lines from a movie called Sideways, if you haven't seen it, go see it.

Thomas Hayden Church talking to Paul Giamatti.

As Paul Giamatti is wondering how Thomas Hayden Church on his way to his wedding could stop at a diner and then decide to pick up and have sex with the waitress.

that, yeah.

After this, About Schmidt in 2002, Sideways in 2004, Descendants in 2011.

He took seven years off.

It must have taken a lot out of him to write about Chuck and Larry.

So Citizen Ruth was released in 1997.

And we know Alexander Payne from, you know, very popular films such as Sideways, Election, The Descendants, as well as The Holdovers.

But Alexander Payne's first film was Citizen Ruth, which he wrote and directed.

And that film, after almost 30 years since it came out, this little black comedy still works and it continues to sting.

Yeah.

And finally, Alexander Payne's Sideways.

The movie my parents were like, why can't you make movies like that? Feeding what? What is the vet? You know, this is what we think.

This is a good movie.

They

had

some thoughts about Sideways.

Yeah.

Your book just seems to reach the end of the line.

There's that wonderful bit in Sideways, the Paul Giamatti film, where he realizes, do you remember that, Sam, his agent? It's so long to touch on that.

We've reached the end of the line.

Basically, he essentially pours a keg of wine over his own head, and he sits with his buddy, and his buddy gives him the unhelpful example of John Kennedy Toole, who... who only got published after he took his own life you know it's just the most tragic sort of reflection on the publishing industry very funny but there we go yeah we get that we get that too late for so many writers shall i talk about conduit