Movies
‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ popular Christmas movie, great new American opera
November 20, 2018It’s a critical hit, written in a popular late Romantic and thoroughly American idiom, studded with little musical quotes from familiar holiday noels, high school graduation anthems, and the wild Mekee-Mekee that recalls the dance crazes...
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New films ‘We the Coyotes’ and ‘You Can Choose Your Family’
October 1, 2018Two films premiered at the LA Film Festival this past week having to do with families, which is familiar territory for the cinematic art.
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Cuban film ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’ to screen in L.A.
July 20, 2018Marx@200: The Marxist Movie Series, continues July 26th with a screening of one of socialist Cuba’s most popular films, co-director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s international award-winning Strawberry and Chocolate. This 1993 film, which premiered in Havana and...
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Two South Seas cinema superstars open in ‘Skyscraper’ and ‘Siberia’
July 13, 2018Skyscraper It never fails to amaze (and amuse) how movies mirror reality as emanations of the collective psyche. Just days after the premiere of The First Purge, about a race war aimed at exterminating African Americans...
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“Girls Trip”: A showcase of unapologetic Black womanhood in film
July 17, 2017Movies such as Girls Trip challenge the confines of the ways women are allowed to be funny—especially Black women.
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