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Theater Preview: BEETHOVEN — LIVE FROM FLORENCE (Hershey Felder)
BEETHOVEN TO APPEAR LIVE IN YOUR HOME Dramatizing Dr. Gerhard von Breuning’s factual memoir, Aus dem Schwarzspanierhaus (Out of the House of Black-Robed Spaniards, Beethoven’s last residence), Hershey Felder brought Ludwig van Beethoven to life on stage through the eyes of the Viennese Doctor Breuning who spent his boyhood by the Maestro’s side. Featuring some of…
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Theater Preview: DEAR ONE: LOVE & LONGING IN MID-CENTURY QUEER AMERICA (ONE Archives Foundation)
ONE TO CATCH Between 1953 and 1965, ONE Magazine, the first openly gay & lesbian periodical in the United States, received thousands of letters monthly from its readers. a great many of them isolated and in search of community. Now, playwright Josh Irving Gershick has compiled the voices of more than 40 distinct, mid-century Queer…
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Film Preview: FIRST PHYSICAL MOVIE THEATER OPENS IN LOS ANGELES (Arena Cinelounge on Sunset)
FIRST THEATER RE-OPENS IN LOS ANGELES TODAY Arena Cinelounge Sunset, Hollywood’s location for arthouse, genre, and independent cinema, will be the first physical movie theater in Los Angeles to re-open today, Friday, June 19, 2020 with special engagements of the classic and highly, highly recommended The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Babyteeth starring Ben Mendelsohn….
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Film Preview: AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE’S WEEK INCLUDES A SPIKE LEE INTERVIEW AND A DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE
AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE’S WEEK INCLUDES A SPIKE LEE INTERVIEW AND A DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE THE HIGH NOTE | Q&A with Director Nisha Ganatra Fri. June 19, 2020 | 7:00 PM PDT FREE Virtual Q&A with Director Nisha Ganatra Moderated by Carla Renata RSVP >> A SALUTE TO SPIKE LEE | Live Conversation with Spike Lee Sat. June 20, 2020 |…
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Film and Event Feature: RODNEY KING (Netflix; Roger Guenveur Smith in conversation with Sarah Bellamy and Rohan Preston)
Click here to watch Rodney King on Netflix To attend the conversation, please RSVP to RSVP@altaglobalmedia.net **Virtual Conference link will be shared upon RSVP**
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Film Review: UNCUT GEMS (directed by Josh and Bennie Safdie)
THE MESMERIZING CHAOS OF UNCUT GEMS This movie, directed by Josh and Bennie Safdie, was released on Netflix and quickly became an industry favorite and garnered hundreds of rave reviews. It only recently became available to the citizens of the United States and now they too can enjoy this brilliant movie featuring Adam Sandler and…
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4 REASONS TO DIGITIZE YOUR MOVIE COLLECTION
The world that we’re living in is an increasingly digital one, where TV series and movies can be easily viewed online. However, this leaves a question mark hanging over your existing DVD collection. You almost certainly have plenty of DVDs in your home taking up precious space. Now, the time has come to clean out…
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Film Preview: MR.TOPAZE (directed by Peter Sellers) (Virtual Exclusive Engagement by American Cinematheque)
CATCH MR.TOPAZE, PETER SELLERS’ LONG LOST 1961 DIRECTORIAL DEBUT, NEWLY RESTORED IN 2K FROM THE LONE SURVIVING 35MM PRINT The comedy opens exclusively at American Cinematheque via Film Movement’s Virtual Cinema on June 12, 2020, for two weeks Peter Sellers directs himself in the 1961 British comedy Mr. Topaze, an old role previously played by…
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Film Review: RUNNER RUNNER (directed by Brad Furman)
If you love watching gambling movies, this post is for you. Runner Runner is an online gambling movie by Brad Furman and was initially released on 18 September 2013. The film starred Justin Timberlake as Richie, Ben Affleck as Ivan, Gemma Arterton as Rebecca, and Anthony Mackie as Agent Shaver in significant roles, although the…
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Theater Review: BOMBSHELL IN CONCERT (streaming)
IT’S DA BOMB! The best set of new Broadway-style songs I’ve heard in years. Marc Shaiman and Scott Witman deserve a standing ovation for creating the spectacular score, the songs of which came from the cancelled TV show Smash. These are the tunes that were from Bombshell, the musical-within-the musical that was about Marilyn Monroe…
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Film Review: VAMPIRE BURT’S SERENADE (directed by Ken Roht)
UNDEAD, UNREAL, AND UNINTERESTING Unrelentingly campy and absurd, Vampire Burt’s Serenade revels in its own trashiness and in-your-face pansexuality, but this low-rent 2014 indie horror/musical doesn’t seem to give a shit about two things: the horror and the music (pre-released as The Bloody Indulgent, it is now a 2020 VOD release on Amazon Prime). With…
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Film Feature: SOME AWESOME MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES (Red Bull Music Academy)
FUN, FIERCE AND FREE I gotta tell you, folks, since the lockdown from COVID-19, the amount of streaming dreck that has come before me is embarrassing. so it’s a pleasure to share with you some awesome music documentaries I’ve encountered. Many different lengths, many types of music, all fascinating. Some are great to watch on…
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Film Review: 15 YEARS (directed by Yuval Hadadi)
A CRISIS OF NORMALCY Israel, in spite of its ultra-orthodox religious influences, is a fine country for LGBTQ rights. And its film industry has certainly proven it with some outstanding pro-gay films: (Yossi & Jagger [2002], Walk on Water [2004], The Bubble [2006]). Now it has another winner in a thoughtful and entertaining examination of a…
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FILM / TV: MOVIES AND TV SHOWS YOU DIDN’T KNOW WERE FILMED IN LIVERPOOL
Liverpool is a city at the heart of the North West of the UK, and it’s commonly known for its musical geniuses, The Beatles, as well as being one of the top tourist destinations in Europe. However, although the city is known for its music history, it has been featured in many movies and TV…
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Film Review: BACURAU (directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles)
BACURAU TO THE FUTURE If you don’t allow Bacurau to unfold itself on its own terms, you may find one of the most surprising and daring films of the year maddening and alienating. It isn’t always easy to decipher just what game is afoot in this genre-bending Brazilian film, but moviegoers are going to eat…
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Film Review: PANDORA’S BOX (directed by G. W. Pabst)
OUTSIDE OF THE BOX Norma Desmond‘s iconic pronouncement “We had faces then” might well have been written specifically for Louise Brooks. This is a face that defies time and period, and is as relevant today as it was in 1929 when she was lured to Germany by G. W. Pabst to play the doomed Lulu…
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Film: INGLORIOUS BASTERDS (directed by Quentin Tarantino)
NOT YOUR TYPICAL WAR STORY Mind the spelling, Mr. Tarantino calls this his “bunch of guys on a mission” movie. Set in 1944, the film follows two parallel stories that quickly converge. In the first, an American group of Jewish soldiers called “The Basterds”, led by Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), plans terror attacks against German…
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Film Commentary: FILMMAKING AS A PROFESSION: WHERE TO STUDY?
FILMMAKING AS A PROFESSION: WHERE TO STUDY? Cinema is a world of dreams, illusions, and fantasies. That is why any girl dreams of becoming a movie star. However, everyone who connects their lives with cinema faces the problem of choosing a university. A primitive lever drives a rotating disk and, with a chatter, translates a…
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Film Review: CATS (directed by Tom Hooper)
CATNIP FOR THIS CATS LOVER OK, I’m fully aware that many people find Cats the musical a baffling phenomenon. I’ve loved it from the start, when I saw it with my husband on Broadway. He hated it. Later I dragged him clawing and mewling to the now shuttered Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles, and he…
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Film Review: SAFETY (directed by Fabrice Joubert)
THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY If you have ever thought, I can’t imagine what it must be like to be in a situation as awful as a school shooting, this incredible new short film will show you. Without bloodshed, writer/director/producer Fabrice Joubert creates an effectively tense film with little more than a ten-minute run-time. There’s just…
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