
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. This is a film adaptation of the play, directed by Mark Levine with additional documentary footage.... (Full plot summary below)
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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. This is a film adaptation of the play, directed by Mark Levine with additional documentary footage.
Leave your thoughts about Twilight: Los Angeles.
| OffoffoffJoshua TanzerMy top film of 2000. ... As a play, this was already one of the most exciting pieces of theater of our time. The film is every bit as gripping. |
| New York Magazine/VultureJohn LeonardTwilight, in other words, hurts. Please listen to it anyway. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaria GarciaLevin often doesn't hold scenes long enough for the audience to absorb Smith's characterizations. |
| New York Daily NewsJami BernardForces the audience to rethink the riots in new and difficult ways, to find empathy and revulsion where it might not have known they existed. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxPart documentary, part one-woman quick-change show and part sociological investigation, this is enthralling theater with a purpose. |
| Village VoiceJessica WinterSmith's work is a means of cauterizing wounds that have not even begun to heal...certainly not across a continent in Giuliani's New York. |
| New York PostJonathan ForemanWhen it was first performed in theaters a couple of years after the L.A. riots took place, Twilight: Los Angeles must have been very powerful. Unfortunately, director Mark Levin's filmed version lacks that impact. |
| The New York TimesDave KehrThe resulting compromise does not produce a perfect film, but it is a fine record of a classic production and an important reminder of an event that has not stopped echoing in American culture. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyThe camera's closer scrutiny doesn't flatter this unique theatrical reportage. |