Film Forum

Following the special event 25th anniversary screening of Gas Food Lodging, director Allison Anders and star Brooke Adams will appear in person for an audience Q&A. Gas Food Lodging had its us premier at Film Forum in 1992. 

In a Nowheresville, New Mexico trailer park, left-by-James Brolin, single mom Brooke Adams has her hands full with two teen daughters, let alone trying to manage her own love life. 

Allison Anders is the director of feature films including the Independent Spirit Award-winning Border Radio, Gas Food Lodging, Mi vida loca, Four Rooms (alongside Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Alexandre Rockwell), Grace of My Heart with Illeana Douglas, Sugar Town, Things Behind the Sun, and Strutter, as well as episodes of TV shows including The L Word, The Mentalist, Orange is the New Black, and Riverdale. Anders was a 1995 MacArthur Fellow and received a Peabody Award for distinguished achievement and meritorious service in 2002.

New York-born actress Brooke Adams is best-known for her roles in Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, Philip Kaufman’s 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Lester’s Cuba, and David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone. Beyond frequent film and television appearances, Adams also has a prolific stage career, appearing in the original Broadway production of Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, as well as revivals of The Cherry Orchard and Lend Me a Tenor. 

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