Live and Let Die

Thursday, September 13, 2012 | 7:30 pm
Film Independent at LACMA
1973/color/121 min.
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Scr: Tom Mankiewicz; dir: Guy Hamilton; w/ Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell.

Probably the only 007 adventure to feature a phrase as optimistic as “when you were young and your heart was an open book”—of course, that’s the opening line of Paul McCartney’s theme song, Live and Let Die signaled a seismic shift in the world of James Bond. As a further sign of this ever-changing world in which we live, Roger Moore received his first license to kill in this 1973 film—beginning a run that makes him the actor to have portrayed Bond the longest. In Die he tackles the heroin trade led by Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto). There were several first in this film: Gloria Hendry was the first African American Bond girl and it’s the first time Bond is wearing something other than the de rigeur Rolex; in this film, he sports a Pulsar—a watch that was as hip at the time as the idea of Moore as Bond

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$5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club, and New York Times Film Club members | Price includes both films in double-bill. Pre-sale tickets available Thursday, August 23 at 5 pm |  Members of these groups will be required to show proof of membership when retrieving their tickets. | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.