Celebrating the Return of Awards Season
Over the past three-day holiday weekend, Hollywood enthusiastically caught up on awards season and all the accompanying celebrations they generate.
‘The Teachers’ Lounge’—Nowhere to Relax
This year’s submission to the Oscars by Germany is a thought-provoking film that sends prickles of discomfort up and down your spine as you recognize yourself, others and society in general at this progressive middle school.
New Year Brings a Packed Calendar of Artistic Programming in Beverly Hills
A new year in Beverly Hills means 12 fresh months of diverse and delightful artistic happenings from classical music performances to contemporary art shows to an emerging artist fellowship program.
‘Memory’ Not Forgotten
“Memory,” a searingly incisive film about loss and love, tears at you from many directions, some unexpected. Initially, the impression is given that the story is about connection, and it is but not necessarily in ways you think. Sylvia has just celebrated 13 years sober at
‘The Crime is Mine’—For All of Us
We all have reasons why we’ll see a film sight unseen and one of mine is Isabelle Huppert. She makes even mediocre movies (and she’s been in a few) watchable. So what a thrill when she’s in a good one, and a comedy to boot,
‘American Fiction’ – Too True
Adapted from Percival Everett’s novel “Erasure,” “American Fiction” tells a story of Black identity from many different, and always ironically funny, points of view.
“Our (Almost Completely True) Love Story” – An appreciation
Mariette’s date from hell, as if the first one wasn’t enough, was with someone she calls “psycho date” played by a demonically serious Peter MacNicol as he describes how he disposed of a body off the Long Beach Pier. “Do you want dessert?” It’s tough
The Las Vegas Scene
The iconic Fontainebleau Miami opened its West Coast sister property in Las Vegas on Dec. 13, bringing a sleek new glamour and plenty of stars to the Strip.
‘All of Us Strangers’—Eternally
“All of Us Strangers,” an enigma of a movie directed and written by Andrew Haigh based on “Strangers,” a novel by Taichi Yamada, will leave you off balance from its quiet, almost tedious start to its ending that may be only a beginning. Sound complicated?
‘The Zone of Interest’—In the Eyes of the Beholder
Jonathan Glazer’s new film, loosely based on the Martin Amis novel of the same name, more closely hews to the imagined reality of the actual individuals who inhabited “the zone of interest,” the 40 square kilometer area surrounding the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.