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Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart. Anders has collaborated with fellow UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television graduate Kurt Voss and has also worked as a television director.
Allison Anders. Director: Gas Food Lodging. Anders weathered a rough childhood and young adult life which not only encouraged an escapist penchant for making up characters but also an insider's sympathy for the strong but put-upon women who people her films.
Allison Anders. Director: Gas Food Lodging. Anders weathered a rough childhood and young adult life which not only encouraged an escapist penchant for making up characters but also an insider's sympathy for the strong but put-upon women who people her films.
Nov 19, 2008 · Allison Anders co-directed Border Radio and has also directed five other feature films, including Gas Food Lodging, Mi vida loca, and Grace of My Heart.
Jan 21, 2017 · When Lifetime asked iconic indie filmmaker Allison Anders to direct the network’s “Beaches” remake, the director found herself in an interesting position: She’d never seen Garry Marshall ...
Jun 18, 2018 · Alamo Drafthouse flies Anders up from Los Angeles to show and discuss Mi Vida Loca at 7pm on Tuesday, June 19. The theater is showing a French-subtitled print, an oddity that kind of fits with the director’s improbable, unpredictable career.
Allison Anders’s 1994 film Mi Vida Loca follows the stories of young Chicanas in the pre-gentrification Los Angeles neighborhood Echo Park. The women portrayed are rebellious, independent and emotionally complex, recalling Los Bros Hernandez’s Locas stories.
May 1, 2024 · Filmmaker Allison Anders reveals what she's watching on TCM this May including a comedy starring Natalie Wood and Peter Falk, and a pair of essential films directed by Raoul Walsh.
Allison Anders is a Los Angeles-based independent filmmaker. In 1995 she was the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant” and in 2002 she won a George Foster Peabody Award for distinguished achievement and meritorious service for her semi-autobiographical film Things Behind the Sun.
In this 2020 interview, Allison Anders discusses her fiercely independent, deeply personal approach to filmmaking.
