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On the Screen — Reviews 

Violeta Went to Heaven                                  Andrés Wood Shows Us How                                           As if empowered by Violeta Parra herself, the internationally renowned pioneer of Latin America’s nueva canción, Andrés Wood once again triumphs as Chile’s most compelling director of his generation with a striking performance by Francisca Gavilán more…

Like Someone in Love                                 Kiarostami Goes East                                            “At least it can’t be said that I made a ‘Western’ film,” says the bard. Yet East meets West when it comes to the master’s love of American jazz.  It may be made in Tokyo, but Ella Fitzgerald never sounded better more...

Behind the Scenes

Nelson Pereira dos Santos at UCLA           Presenting His First and His Latest Works           In a seven-film retrospective by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, April 20 - May 12, Brazil’s preeminent filmmaker appears with Rio, 100 Degrees and Music According to Tom Jobim to talk about Cinema Novo, Bossa Nova, popular cinema more…  

Just the Wind at the HFFLA

Bence Fliegauf about His Oscar Entry

Just the Wind opens the 12^th Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles on November 15^th with Bence Fliegauf in attendance for a post-film Q&A, and it plays throughout the week with four other premieres more...

Close-Up on Festivals

Three Worlds at COL-COA                        Catherine Corsini’s Philosophy                                       From April 15-22, 2013 at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles, the 17^th Annual City of Lights, City of Angels, known to Angelenos as COL-COA, will present 38 feature films and 19 new shorts with at least 9 more...

Caesar Must Die at the AFI FEST            Shakespeare Behind Bars                                     The bard visits Rome’s Rebibbia Prison at the 2012 AFI FEST Presented by Audi when Paolo and Vittorio Taviani bring his tragedy, Julius Caesar, to inmates in their own vital performance of Shakespeare more… 

Kino-Arts in Focus

In Kevin O’Morrison’s play set in 1919 in St. Louis, it might look like all women do is wait for the men to come home from the war, but labor rights, “foreigners,” the vote, and California are all hanging in the air more...

For Women’s History Month:
Mrs. Warren’s Profession by Antaeus Company

Neither Mrs. Kitty Warren nor Miss Vivie Warren is a conventional woman in Victorian England, though each will label the other that, as they struggle to work out the “proper” place of women in the society more...

It's Winter                                                               The Enigma of Rafi Pitts
It’s not every day that a screenwriter/director who studied in London and lives in Paris chooses to more...

The Top Shelf

Eric Rohmer's “Six Moral Tales”              An American Cinematheque Tribute                        Tucked away complacently in his Parisian home under the pseudonym “Eric Rohmer,” and noted for more...

The Lady with the Dog                                       Pure Cinema at the Black Sea                                  In 1960 Iosif Heifitz knew that Anton Chekhov’s short stories were really films waiting to happen more…

Between the Covers 

Life Comes to the Screen                                   The Arts and Cultures of Iran                                             Anyone who has ever doubted that a country like Iran could develop its own film industry should be more...