The 2026 Film Festival in Los Angeles is set to take place on April 3-5 and 5-12 under the banner “Face the Music! 20 Tales of Music, Mayhem, and Murder!” at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre. The festival has been running every spring since 1999 under the auspices of the American Cinematheque. The films selected have primary characters who are jazz musicians, appearances by real-life jazz greats, jazz scores, and classical mayhem. The only exception is the 1970s version of "The Long Goodbye," which hosts Eddie Muller and Alan K. Rode. Muller discusses the shift in jazz being used as a significant subtext to classic crime films, starting in the 1940s when Hollywood scores were mostly orchestral.