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On the Screen
Cyril Schäublin’s Unrest Switzerland at the Center of the World In the 1870s, the village of Saint-Imier was at once the epicenter of global watchmaking and of the international anarchists’ movement. Technology, time, and money formed a new kind of discipline, and new uses of photography promoted it. Yet some aspects of life defied representation more…
The Banshees of Inisherin Tragi-comedy of the Irish Theatre of the Banal meets Melodrama on Martin McDonagh’s serenely cinematic isle off the shore of Galway (home of his own parents). When a fiddler tells his best friend he’s too “dull” for company and the friend is too dim to understand him, all hell breaks loose while cannons roar on the mainland a century ago more…
Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO An Enigmatic Protagonist The multiple award-winning auteur taps all the arts to create the best of cinema in bringing us an unusual odyssey from Poland to Italy. Stunning images, music, and sound give us the point of view of EO, a humble donkey with fears, losses, desires, hopes, and a lot to express more…
Behind the Scenes
Lucky Chan-sil, Lucky Kim Cho-hee A First-time Filmmaker Recounts Her Steps One of 10 feature films showcased by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in “A New Wave of K-Cinema: Korean Women Directors,” Kim Cho-hee’s quasi-autobiographical debut is even more so an ode to cinema. The one-time producer for Hong Sang-soo talks about taking the leap into the writer-director’s chair with a voice of her own more…
Listen by Maria Douza A Film of Few Words but Mighty Power Does it take a Greek to show us what dialogue means in everyday life? Guests at the Closing Night Gala for her film at the 17th LAGFF are the writer-director and the two protagonists of Listen, Efthalia Papacosta and Dimitris Kitsos. Here filmmaker Maria Douza explains how we can all be “deaf” when it's a handicap of the soul more…
Close-Up on Festivals
Magnetic Fields Los Angeles Greek Film Festival It’s often the case that big things come in small packages, and Yorgos Goussis proved it to be true at the 17th LAGFF with his debut feature, Magnetic Fields, a road movie you can’t describe but that you’ll never forget. With only two actors and their immense improvisational talents, the writer-director-producer takes us on a journey more…
A Week of French Language Cinema Theâtre Raymond Kabbaz Screening 9 films in 6 nights that showcase and celebrate the French language in France and beyond, viewers get a sampling of works from Switzerland, Luxembourg, Mali, Quebec, Belgium, and Canada with France's own recipient of 6 top Cesar Awards (akin to Oscars), Xavier Giannoli's Lost Illusions from Balzac's classic more...
Kino-Arts in Focus
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…
Stephane Wrembel Honors Django Reinhardt
For a whole weekend on January 27, 28, and 29 at the Théâtre Raymond Kabbaz, the jazz manouche of Django Reinhardt bubbles over with three evening concerts, morning Master Classes, open-jam sessions, a guitar raffle, champagne and baguettes. A blend of legendary French and American compositions with virtuoso 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...
