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On the Screen  

Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days                   The Writer-Director-Producer Shows How     From Japan with humility, respect, and love, the prolific and esteemed German auteur gives us the beauty of his art and wisdom through his celebrated 2023 Cannes Best Actor Koji Yakusho. Retro songs, shimmering leaves, architectural wonders, and American literature build a strikingly tacit, noble, and unforgettable character more…

Behind the Scenes

The Monk and the Gun                             The East and the West                                       With his 2nd feature film, it’s the 2nd time Pawo Choyning Dorji has represented his home country, Bhutan, in the competition for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars.  His whip-smart satire shows the difference between innocence and ignorance as Bhutan began to modernize and democratize less than two decades ago more…








Close-Up on Festivals

A Walking Legend, a New Film            Costa-Gavras in L.A.                                                 Not every year does a festival, even the 19th Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, have occasion to present a full tribute to a cineaste as accomplished and as sagacious as world-renowned Costa-Gavras. The LAGFF screened four of his prize-winners: ZMissingThe Confession, and his new release, The Last Breath, presenting the social, ethical, and religious issues surrounding the more…


French Language Cinema                     Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz                                      Beginning Wednesday, March 19th, the Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz continues its tradition of celebrating filmmaking as a nexus of human diversity, relationships intimate and global, and artful communication through its 16th Annual Week of French Language Cinema more...

 




Kino-Arts in Focus


The Glass Menagerie at Antaeus                 A Memory Play for the Ages                                 As directed by Carolyn Ratteray, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie brings great delight to this mid-size theatre in downtown Glendale.  All three members of the Wingfield family face the challenges of time behind and ahead of them with fidelity to the playwright more…

 

Mozart and Beethoven!                          LAV at the TRK                                           Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz welcomes Maestro Carlo Ponti conducting his 10th year of the Los Angeles Virtuosi Orchestra with guest violinists Hannah White and Adam Millstein in a program of Beethoven Romances and a Mozart Concertone more


A Grand String Quartet at The Wallis      Compositions Classical and New                            On May 20th in the Bram Goldsmith Theater, The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills added to its fine reputation for programming music par excellence by presenting both the Miró Quartet and guest composer Kevin Puts to introduce his recent work, “Home” more


Uma Kurt’s The Tie                                     A Teen Who Knows Drama                                   It’s one thing to know the issues that consume teenagers today, and it’s another thing to write, stage, and act the lead in a 65-minute play about them.  Then again, how to do it in another country? From Sarajevo to Santa Monica, Uma Kurt, 17 years old, has done it all and has just begun more


The Top Shelf


Contempt at the Aero                                       Godard’s Valentine to Cinema                        With his 6th feature film, Jean-Luc Godard critiqued the marketplace of cinema and the narcissism of love in a language vitally new in filmmaking history.  From Rome to Capri, we follow his irresistible journey to sadness when the American Cinematheque (July 16th) continues its series of French Favorites more...   



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...


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