East End Film Festival 2017

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La La Land La La Land
La La Land and West Side Story
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Country: UK; Year: 1968; Director: Ken Hughes)
An adventure in an eccentric inventor's flying car.
La La Land (Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Damien Chazelle; Writer: Damien Chazelle; Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Amiée Conn, Terry Walters, Thom Shelton, Cinda Adams, Callie Hernandez, Jessica Rothe, Sonoya Mizuno, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons, Claudine Claudio, Jason Fuchs, D.A. Wallach, Trevor Lissauer)
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
West Side Story (Country: US; Year: 1961; Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise; Writer: Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, Ernest Lehman, William Shakespeare; Stars: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, Ned Glass, William Bramley, Tucker Smith, Tony Mordente)
Musical transposes the story of Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of New York.
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