Oliver Stone in Conversation with Costa-Gavras

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone will sit down with Costa-Gavras on May 31 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in an extended conversation following the West Coast Premiere of the latest Gavras film, LAST BREATH.

Both critically acclaimed political and social master storytellers, Oliver Stone and Costa-Gavras have used their compelling and powerful art to create conversation starters influenced by living histories and personal experiences. Oliver Stone has said, “Truth is the greatest treasure a Socratic soul can attain in this lifetime”; and Costa-Gavras, “It's important not to describe the character of the situation, but… the ethical meaning… the ethic of truthfulness is something very precise.”

From SALVADOR and MISSING, PLATOON and SHOCK TROOPS, JFK and Z, NATURAL BORN KILLERS and MAD CITY, U-TURN and SLEEPING CAR MURDERS, WALL STREET and CAPITAL, THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES and THE COSTA-GAVRAS CENTURY, to name very few, Oliver Stone and Costa-Gavras have repeatedly led audiences on daring visual journeys to witness humanity, question the narrative, and search for an independent sense of truth.

Held with support from the UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture, and part of the LAGFF Costa-Gavras multi-event Tribute, we are honored to present this once-in-a-lifetime live conversation between Oliver Stone and Costa-Gavras that is not to be missed