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NELA filmmakers spotlighted at eighth annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival
The eighth annual Highland Park Independent Film Festival took place Oct. 1–2 at the Highland Theatre. The festival featured 31 films by NELA filmmakers including “Brandi Finds...
Culture
Birds of Passage gestures toward tradition
The stereotypical novelties of the epic crime genre seek to outline lawless truths. The rise and fall of a charismatic figure detail the evolution of immoral...
2011
Octavio Camargo Brings Advocacy Art to Occidental
Author: Claire Diggins, Senior Writer Occidental has recently welcomed the second of three artists-in-residence, Octávio Camargo. Camargo is a well-known composer, theater director and artist based...
2014
Miyazaki’s final film epitomizes career-long aesthetic
Author: Malcolm MacLeod It was a quote from engineer Jiro Horikoshi that inspired Oscar-winning animator and head of Studio Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki to tell the aeronautical...
2011
Kevin Smith takes on the Studio System at Sundance
Author: Jack Greenbaum, "The Reel Deal" Columnist In film history, there are milestone movies that changed cinema for better and for always. Kevin Smith is trying...
2014
‘House of Cards’ season two review: Toppled
Author: Mike Cosimano The second season of Netflix’s original series “House of Cards” seems to view its story with actual contempt. It knows where it wants...
2011
Hollywood Sees Quiet Immigration of British Actors
Author: Cordelia Kenney If you watch the extra features and backstage interviews with cast members of movies, you may have noticed an emerging trend: Once the...
2014
Underdogs stole show, broke boundaries at 86th Annual Academy Awards
Author: Charlotte Flight Stranded in space, a scientist must scrape together means to survive from destroyed, orbiting satellite scraps. Kidnapped from his family and forced into...
2011
This Year’s Oscars Race Harkens Back to 1941
Author: Jack Greenbaum When a movie wins an Academy Award, it sets off a reaction called the "Oscar bump." Suddenly, the film becomes a must-see on...
Arts & Entertainment
Local drive-in provides kitschy way to spend a Saturday night
Author: Olivia Landon As the sky went to black Saturday evening, hipsters, popcorn, burgers, a classic hearse and an FM radio station channeling "Harold and Maude"...
2013
Pre-Oscars 2013: “Zero Dark Thirty” spurs debate
Author: Mallory Fencil "Zero Dark Thirty" is a cinematic work that marks
the documentation of one of the most important events of our
generation. Directed by...
Arts & Entertainment
‘The Drop’ entertains, refreshes tired storylines
Author: Gregory Feiner Director Michaël R. Roskam's latest film, "The Drop," featuring James Gandolfini and Tom Hardy, may seem like the stereotypical Brooklyn mob crime thriller,...
