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As theaters struggle, many independent cinemas in Los Angeles are finding their audience
3 months, 2 weeks ago

As theaters struggle, many independent cinemas in Los Angeles are finding their audience

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — On a hot summer evening, Miles Villalon lined up outside the New Beverly Cinema, hours before showtime. The audience awaits the premiere screening of the film “Biosphere,” Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Eagle Theatre at Vidiots Foundation in Los Angeles. But I think there’s a lot less communal connection” said Dr. Michael Hook, who attended a …

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Review: In ‘Beyond Utopia,’ the weight of North Korean oppression on its citizenry is undeniable
1 year, 2 months ago

Review: In ‘Beyond Utopia,’ the weight of North Korean oppression on its citizenry is undeniable

LA Times  

The world’s bad-actor states are well-known from the worrying news they regularly produce. Documentaries with life-or-death stakes, not to mention wider resonance in our increasingly unsettled geopolitical world, don’t get much more nerve-racking or heartbreaking than “Beyond Utopia.” At the same time, the film is inspiring about the lengths people will go to for a better life. The Rohs — …

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Review: Fassbinder’s sadomasochism gets a reboot in the disappointing ‘Peter von Kant’
2 years, 4 months ago

Review: Fassbinder’s sadomasochism gets a reboot in the disappointing ‘Peter von Kant’

LA Times  

Back-to-back viewings of German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s semi-autobiographical 1972 classic, “The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant,” and acclaimed French filmmaker François Ozon’s pared-down, gender-switched remake, “Peter Von Kant,” offers a stark and somewhat disappointing contrast. Where the Bergman-esque “Petra” followed a self-centered female fashion designer’s fascination with a younger model, the redo finds successful filmmaker Peter instantly besotted …

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Review: Gaspar Noé is up to his old tricks, and some new ones, with ‘Vortex’ and ‘Lux Aeterna’
2 years, 8 months ago

Review: Gaspar Noé is up to his old tricks, and some new ones, with ‘Vortex’ and ‘Lux Aeterna’

LA Times  

The Argentina-born French director Gaspar Noé often is described as a polarizing filmmaker, but never before has he had two movies in American theaters in the same month, both of which seem to arise from vastly different poles of artistic sensibility and experience. As shot by Noé’s longtime cinematographer, Benoît Debie, both “Vortex” and “Lux Aeterna” make extensive use of …

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Review: ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ recounts a groundbreaking life
3 years, 4 months ago

Review: ‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ recounts a groundbreaking life

LA Times  

The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. The newest documentary from “RBG” director duo Julie Cohen and Betsy West, “My Name Is Pauli Murray” follows with detail the life of Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray. A queer and gender nonconforming Black poet, civil rights lawyer, priest and activist, Murray’s history is one of firsts — …

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Review: Joan Chen is the ultimate parting gift in the loopy ‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’
3 years, 5 months ago

Review: Joan Chen is the ultimate parting gift in the loopy ‘Sheep Without a Shepherd’

LA Times  

The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then again, Malaysian-Chinese filmmaker Sam Quah’s Thailand-set yarn — a remake of the Indian noir drama “Drishyam” — is ultimately a loopy, stylized celebration of the kinds of byzantine, trap-laden suspensers that have delighted audiences from “The Purloined Letter” through Hitchcock’s wronged-man oeuvre and the career of …

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Review: Outrunning Nazis in compelling family drama ‘Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog’
3 years, 7 months ago

Review: Outrunning Nazis in compelling family drama ‘Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog’

LA Times  

The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite outward appearances, “Shepherd: The Story of a Jewish Dog” isn’t a canine heart-tugger on the order of the fine “A Dog’s Purpose” or “My Dog Skip” but more of a family-style adventure drama with an important historical bent. This new decree sets the tale in motion …

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Column: Vaccinated and back at the movies, together
3 years, 8 months ago

Column: Vaccinated and back at the movies, together

LA Times  

My husband and I went to the movies last weekend. Pre-pandemic, this was something people would often say either as an expression of delight over a proposed plan — “Yes, let’s; I can’t remember the last time we went to the movies” — or, sometimes for couples, as an accusation: “What kind of relationship is this? I can’t even remember …

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Laemmle Theatres will reopen six of its eight locations April 9
3 years, 9 months ago

Laemmle Theatres will reopen six of its eight locations April 9

LA Times  

The Laemmle Playhouse 7 in Pasadena is one of the chain’s six locations that will reopen on April 9, after more than a year of state-mandated pandemic closures. After more than a year of pandemic closures, Laemmle Theatres will begin to reopen its doors April 9, starting with six of the historic SoCal chain’s eight venues. Call it a leap …

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Life, death and pandemic greet California’s struggling Main Streets
4 years, 1 month ago

Life, death and pandemic greet California’s struggling Main Streets

LA Times  

Konstantinos Varelas twisted a string of blue komboloi — Greek worry beads — outside his family’s restaurant on Main Street in El Monte. They love streets with activity,” said Miles Orvell, a Temple University professor and author of “The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Space, Memory and Community.” “They love the idea of living in …

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Independent movie theaters were already struggling. Coronavirus could leave them decimated
4 years, 9 months ago

Independent movie theaters were already struggling. Coronavirus could leave them decimated

LA Times  

The exterior of the Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills on Dec. 31, 2019. “You knew something was going to come,” Laemmle said, “either economically or from a jurisdictional standpoint, that someone was going to say, ‘Shut it down.’” Laemmle’s Royal in West L.A. on July 15, 2019. “You have people coming in but they’re definitely not …

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Nepotism, morphine and secret homoeroticism: The bizarre history of Universal’s movie monsters
4 years, 10 months ago

Nepotism, morphine and secret homoeroticism: The bizarre history of Universal’s movie monsters

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The Invisible Man, based on HG Wells’s novel and the 1933 Universal movie starring Claude …

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Laemmle Theatres calls off sale as its historic Music Hall location shuts down
5 years, 1 month ago

Laemmle Theatres calls off sale as its historic Music Hall location shuts down

LA Times  

Robert Laemmle and his son Greg at the Laemmle Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles. Los Angeles-based cinema chain Laemmle Theatres, best known for showcasing art-house movies and foreign gems, is taking down the “for sale” sign after months of seeking a buyer. For the first six months of 2019, box office for Laemmle theaters was down as much as …

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Four Hours: Claremont is vintage, delicious and delightfully smart
5 years, 3 months ago

Four Hours: Claremont is vintage, delicious and delightfully smart

LA Times  

What is it that makes college towns so vibrant? Whatever the magic qualities, Claremont, home to the highly respected Claremont Colleges, seems to have them in abundance, especially around its inviting tree-lined core known as the Village, a blend of interesting shops, historic buildings and diverse eateries. The so-called “city of trees and PhDs” is an affluent and thickly academic …

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Review: The demonic possession Euro-horror of ‘Luz’ will rattle your soul
5 years, 5 months ago

Review: The demonic possession Euro-horror of ‘Luz’ will rattle your soul

LA Times  

As if exhumed from a tenebrous archive of unholy secrets not meant for a layperson’s eyes, German writer-director Tilman Singer’s succinctly horrifying first-feature, “Luz,” chronicles the passage of a demonic entity across multiple bodies in search of its legitimate host. A dynamically engineered hypnosis session, conducted in a police station echoing Lars von Trier’s “Dogville,” brings him to Chilean taxi …

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Review: ‘Ophelia,’ starring Daisy Ridley, zeroes in on Shakepeare’s fatal femme
5 years, 6 months ago

Review: ‘Ophelia,’ starring Daisy Ridley, zeroes in on Shakepeare’s fatal femme

LA Times  

“Ophelia,” as its name implies, sees “Hamlet” through the eyes of one of Shakespeare’s best-known female characters. “Ophelia’s” message — something about the futility of vengeance — is muddled despite being spoken aloud, particularly in an unsatisfying finale in which mystifying decisions are made. One doesn’t have to be a “Hamlet” fan, for instance, to find the film’s version of …

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