reviews
Clashes of class and culture at L.A.’s Encuentro theater festival
November 22, 2017Encuentro has brought the Vueltas Bravas theater company from Bogotá, Colombia, in its staging of Miss Julia adapted by J. Ed Araiza, directed by Lorenzo Montanini.
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“Deferred Action” and “Dementia”: Two outstanding productions at Encuentro
November 15, 2017LOS ANGELES—Twice again, the Encuentro de las Américas Latinx theater festival scores a pair of home runs. What a huge job to pull something like this together! It winds down on November 19, so for those...
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“Tigers Are Not Afraid”: A dark fairytale with human trafficking as the real monster
October 17, 2017Issa Lopez’s film uses fantasy to highlight the all too real nightmare that is happening to the women of Mexico.
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s “Earth” to screen in L.A.
August 21, 2017The 75-minute Earth is sheer cinematic poetry in motion, one of the most beautiful black and white and silent films ever shot.
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“The Classic”: High school football and what it means to be American
June 30, 2017As Coach says, “You have to adjust to the things that come at you.”
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