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El Portal Theatre

5269 Lankershim Boulevard
1 cultural moment at this place.

Location photograph from Wikimedia Commons; not a production still or a live view. Image may be resized; display may crop the original.
Photograph: JGKlein · Public domain · Source & credits

THE STORIES THAT SHARE THIS ADDRESS

What else happened here?

1 of 1 story

2021

Movies · 2021 · Paul Thomas Anderson

Licorice Pizza ↗︎

Filming location · the embrace

Gary and Alana meet beneath the El Portal marquee. The theatre frontage is the tangible landmark at the end of their separate runs.

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Bradley Cooper
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Actor Cooper Hoffman
Actor Benny Safdie
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