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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: Z, Missing, The Confession, and his new release, The Last Breath, presenting the social, ethical, and religious issues surrounding the more…
Kino-Arts in Focus
A Doll’s House Part 2 Lucas Hnath Drops in on Ibsen Celebrating the 100th Birthday of the Pasadena Playhouse and the landmark theatre campus re-claiming its ownership, we visit Nora Helmer nearly 150 years (only 15 for her) after she walked out the door of The Doll’s House, finding and claiming her own voice as a woman, a writer, and an independent human being more…
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
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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