You Only Live Twice

Thursday, July 12, 2012 | 7:30 pm
Film Independent at LACMA
1967/color/116 min./Panavision
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Scr: Roald Dahl; dir: Lewis Gilbert; w/ Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Bernard Lee.

You probably feel like you’ve already seen You Only Live Twice, even if you’ve never laid eyes on it. The volcano lair, the tumescent rocket, the disco-owner kimono attire worn by a villain stroking a white feline (Mike Myers and Jay Roach took a hefty spoonful of notions and images from this movie and ladled them onto Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery). Roald Dahl, a close of friend of Ian Fleming, made his screenwriting debut with You Only Live Twice. This time, Bond’s (Sean Connery) mission is to disappear so that he can destroy Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s (Donald Pleasance) plan to force the United States and the Soviet Union into a nuclear war.

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$10 for the general public, $7 for LACMA members, seniors (62+), and students with valid ID | Tickets available Thursday, July 5 at 5 pm. | Tickets: 323 857-6010 or purchase online.

$5 for Film Independent, LACMA Film Club, and New York Times Film Club members | Pre-sale tickets available Thursday, June 28 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.