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On the Screen
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…
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
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, her debut film more…
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…
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
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...
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…
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...
