On Thursday, December 4, we’ll conclude this year’s series with LAFCA’s 2025 Career Achievement Award recipient, John Carpenter. Carpenter will join LAFCA member and Los Angeles Times film critic Amy Nicholson for a discussion prior to a 35mm screening of Escape from L.A., Carpenter’s 1996 follow-up to Escape from New York, in which Kurt Russell reprises his role as Snake Plissken.

35mm print! The man with the patch is back. Call him Snake. Kurt Russell rejoins filmmakers John Carpenter and Debra Hill to do to the Big Orange what they did to the Big Apple in Escape From New York – with even more futuristic thrills and slam-bang action! Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device. Don't miss the excitement as Snake surfs Wilshire Blvd., shoots hoops at the Coliseum, dive bombs the Happy Kingdom theme park, and mixes it up with a wild assortment of friends, fiends and foes (Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, George Corraface, Cliff Robertson, Pam Grier and more). Escape From L.A. is a 'go-for-broke action extravaganza!' (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).