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On the Screen
Holy Emy by Araceli Lemos A Double Winner at the LAGFF A Greek filmmaker based in Los Angeles, Araceli Lemos shows us what it’s like to be a young Filipina in Athens today. Sweeping up two Orpheus Awards, for Best Feature Fiction Film and Best Director, at the 22nd Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, she has competed at numerous international festivals with this debut film more…
Lost Illusions from Balzac Cinematic Elán from Giannoli Honoré de Balzac’s French classic, a gargantuan novel of 19th-century Paris, is alive and well as a 21st-century epic in mind and spirit. French writer-director Xavier Giannoli brings us dialogue with verve, characters with panache, an unforgettable ensemble of actors, and a chilling sense that “they” are “us” in the downward spiral of more…
Behind the Scenes
As Far as I Can Walk at SEEfest Stefan Arsenijević Has a Winner With four awards at the 2022 South East European Film Festival including the Audience Award, Serbian co-writer and director Stefan Arsenijević brings a hero like no other to the screen with his adaptation of a medieval folk epic, at heart a love story amidst today's migrant crisis more…
Levan Koguashvili’s Brighton 4th From Tbilisi to Coney Island A Georgian returns to the turf in New York City where he studied filmmaking at NYU to make his third narrative feature about a young man who brings his old bad habits to a new place and a strong father’s steadfast love for his wayward son more…
Close-Up on Festivals
“Czech That Film” in Los Angeles Occupation and National Character The 11th Annual “Czech That Film” festival in Los Angeles offers cinema that is not only recent and award-winning, but also timely and relevant. Works such as Michal Nohejl’s extraordinary debut feature, Occupation, which were created well before the recent tragic events in Europe, give a nod to Ukraine in their themes, casting, and conviction more…
Kino-Arts in Focus
Inna Faliks, Piano at The Wallis Beethoven and Ravel Anew After commissioning new works from nine musicians and composers in response to Beethoven’s Bagatelles op. 126 and Ravel’s Gaspar de la nuit, Faliks premieres them alongside her own performances of the originals, allowing for discovery in both classics and contemporary more…
Jeanne Cherhal Sings Cinema Songs from the French Screen For one night only, May 27th, live in concert, solo with a piano, Jeanne Cherhal will play and sing the songs French cinema has made famous world-wide, beloved by those who may not even know their source. Doors will open at 7 pm for a no-host bar, with the performance beginning at 8 pm at Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz, more...
The Top Shelf
Eric Rohmer's “Six Moral Tales” An American Tribute Tucked away complacently in his Parisian home under the pseudonym “Eric Rohmer,” and noted for spending years without a phone, a car, or even a taxi ride from time to time, but with family, faith, and a firm devotion to nature, cinema, and its related arts, Eric Rohmer presented us with paradoxes 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…
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...
Between the Covers
Life Comes to the Screen The Arts of Iran Anyone who has ever doubted that a country like Iran could develop its own film industry should be more...
