Zoot Suit + Q&A w/ Gustavo Arellano: Presented By Muzeo & El Pachuco
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Luis Valdez Run Time: 103 min. Release Year: 1981
Starring: Charles Aidman, Daniel Valdez, Edward James Olmos, John Anderson, Tyne Daly
Join our friends at El Pachuco and Muzeo for a night of fashion and film as we present the 1981 classic Zoot Suit on the big screen! And stick around afterwards for an in-person Q&A with LA Times Columnist (and Zoot Suit superfan) Gustavo Arellano!
Part fact and part fiction, Zoot Suit is the film version of Luis Valdez’s critically acclaimed play, based on the actual Sleepy Lagoon murder case and the zoot suit riots of 1940s Los Angeles. Henry Reyna is the leader of a group of Mexican-Americans being sent to San Quentin without substantial evidence for the death of a man at Sleepy Lagoon. As part of the defense committee, Alice Bloomfield and George Shearer fight the blatant miscarriage of justice for the freedom of Henry and his friends.
The schedule for the evening is below: