films
Capsule reviews from the L.A. Film Festival 2017
June 26, 2017This year’s 23rd LAFF stressed a multitude of voices with regard to ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
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New film “20 Weeks” asks, To birth or not to birth?
June 21, 2017With no plot complications outside the blinkered focus on the couple to distract us, the film seems dogged and redundant.
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Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s “Arsenal” to screen in L.A.
June 21, 2017In his history of the Soviet film, Kino, Jay Leyda called the 90-minute-long Arsenal “the first masterpiece of the Ukrainian cinema.”
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Unsatisfying self-satisfied lives depicted in South African film
June 20, 2017Writer/director Kagiso Lediga’s new film Catching Feelings received its world premiere on June 18 at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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Unsatisfying self-satisfied lives depicted in South African film
June 19, 2017Catching Feelings is billed as a “highly nuanced dark romantic comedy.” Now “comedy” is when no one gets killed, so it’s a broad term that can encompass a lot.
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