Film

It’s <i>Plus Ça Change</i> for Wes Anderson and <i> The French Dispatch </i>

It’s all a matter of taste, of course, but for some of us once upon a time Wes Anderson was…

4 years ago

SPIFF Opening Night Highlights Cultural Offerings

The San Pedro International Film Festival or SPIFF and Grand Vision Foundation, together with the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce…

4 years ago

“Muhammad Ali” Covers Dramatic Arc of a Man and His Country

On October 2, 1980, my parents took me to the home of family friends who subscribed to OnTV so we…

4 years ago

Documentary Recalls FDR’s “New Deal for Artists” as Advancing American Society

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel specialized in oral histories, so he knew whereof he spoke when over 40 years ago…

4 years ago

The LA Harbor International Film Festival Goes Virtual

The arts have an important place in the San Pedro Harbor Area, whether from artists who live and work here,…

5 years ago

2021 Pan African Film Festival Extends Worldwide

After the summer 2020 uprisings — gathering people of all races stirred deeply by the May 25 murder of George…

5 years ago

The Destruction of Myth

Judas and the Black Messiah film changes a false narrative By Robert Lee Johnson, Contributor The American media has attempted…

5 years ago

Post Traumatic Stress Is Not a Disorder

New Documentary Destigmatizes PTS Ninety-five years ago, American author Ernest Hemingway’s short story, A Soldier’s Home,  made post-World War I…

5 years ago

Supervisor Hahn Calls on California Film Commission to Reward Diversity in Film Tax Credit Program

Hahn hopes for this program to be modeled off the diversity requirement announced in September by the Academy of Motion…

5 years ago

“Good Trouble” Makes a Portrait of a Change Agent

John Lewis’ life was too complex for any one movie — or book — to encompass it all. Dawn Porter’s…

5 years ago