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On the Screen — Reviews


The Forgiveness of Blood

Home as a Hide-Out

American independent writer-director Joshua Marston immersed himself in the ethos of northern Albania to portray a blood feud governed by medieval law in the 21st century.  A teenage brother and sister more...

 


 

Sing Your Song                               Belafonte on the Screen and the Page        In his enthralling and indispensable memoir, My Song, and the epic documentary of an era, Sing Your Song, Harry Belafonte shows what it means to act — not just acting, more…


 

Todorovsky’s Hipsters                                   East Meets West in Russia                                   Stilyagi were “stylists” from head to toe and morning ‘til midnight, defying Soviet codes for dress, hair, behavior, and lifestyle including  music, dance, and cocktail parties but especially the sax  more...

 


Behind the Scenes


Pernilla August Discusses Beyond                 The SFFLA Hosts a Guest of Honor                    It’s the first feature directed and co-written by the prolific Swedish actress, Pernilla August, and it showcases her wealth of acting experience on both the stage and the screen as she adapts a bestselling more...

 


The Kid  with a Bike                                                       A Talk with the Dardenne Brothers                       Belgian brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have been lauded worldwide as auteurs for their realistic dramas of everyday contemporary life since the mid-90s when they launched their more...

 



 

 

 

 


 

 

Close-Up on Festivals

 

Mariette Monpierre Goes to Guadeloupe

Elza at the 20th PAFF                                            Writer-director Mariette Monpierre's debut feature won three times at the Pan African Film and Arts Festival, February 9-20, 2012 at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza Rave Cinemas BHCO 15 more...

 

 

SFFLA Takes a Dip in French Waters

Kaurismäki’s Le Havre Is a Finnish Delight

Vividly heart-warming, Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is also surprisingly cosmopolitan at the Scandinavian Film Festival Los Angeles (Jan. 7, 8, 14, and 15 at the Writers Guild Theater, 145 S. Doheny) more…

 


 


 

 

 

Kino-Arts in Focus


The Seagull Flies at Antaeus

Chekhov Cuts Two Ways

When popular, puffed-up, and aging actress Arkadina returns with her younger lover, a fashionable writer, to her lakeside estate in late 19th-century Russia, she steps into a bees’ nest of would-be artists and more…

 



Canzoni del Secondo Piano                          From the Screen to the Stage                                The Italian dance company, Tecnologia Filosofica, comprised of five dancers, a singer, a musician more...

 



 

George Legrady: Refraction                          Photography in Motion                                                       Legrady’s new multi-media project at Edward Cella Art + Architecture in Los Angeles animates more...


 



Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar     A World Premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse      Three 16-year-old girls crave unconditional mother love and conspire how to act upon their desires more...


                                                         

Digital Releases


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...



 


 

 

 

 

 


 



 

 


 







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