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Anna Deavere Smith's acclaimed one-woman show about the riots in Los Angeles.
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- Announcement of 2012 Broadcast
On the 25th anniversary of the LA riots, Great Performances presents Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, available to stream online. This riveting theatrical account of the 1992 riots from multiple points of view continues to reverberate powerfully within the context of today’s current events. It originally aired on PBS in 2001.
When Anna Deavere Smith’s drama Twilight: Los Angelespremiered in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum, it made national news for its unique and unflinching look at the fallout from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Not only did Smith capture the tumultuous aftermath of the Rodney King trial verdict, she created a searing, innovative and truly American pi...
With the recent passing of Rodney King and in the 20th anniversary year of the Los Angeles riots, Great Performances brings Anna Deavere Smith’s remarkable dramatic work back to public television viewers across America when it presents an encore presentation of Marc Levin’s film adaptation of Twilight: Los Angeles, Friday, June 29, 2012 at 10 p.m. ...
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Twilight: Los Angeles: Directed by Marc Levin. With Anna Deavere Smith, Brian Eric Alexander, George Bush, Reginald Denny. A one woman documentary play based on hundreds of interviews conducted after the riots that followed the 1992 acquittal of the police officers who beat Rodney King.
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- Marc Levin
Plot. In this film adaptation of the Broadway play, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Anna Deavere Smith performs her one-woman show portraying various real life people involved in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial verdict riots in Los Angeles. The film is interspersed with additional footage shot in 1999 of Smith following up with some of ...
Released September 29th, 2000, 'Twilight: Los Angeles' stars Anna Deavere Smith The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 16 min, and received a user score of 80 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled ...
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Sep 22, 2000 · The film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith's acclaimed play, Twilight: Los Angeles presents Smith's one-woman/multi-voiced portrait of the violent aftermath in Los Angeles triggered by the acquittal in 1992 of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King. (Offline Releasing)
