Film Independent made a great move to the Regal Cinema’s Live forthis year's Los Angeles Film Festival. The opening film was director LisaCholodenko’s “Are the Kids All Right” with Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo andAnnette BeningFilm starsfrom Hollywood and overseas walked the red carpet along with many brightfirst feature directors like Adam Reid with narrative ensembleaward for "Hello Lonesome",Hossein Keshavarz ,director of "DogSweat" shot in Tehran and Brett Haley...
Welcome to the Rileys hassome excellent performance by actors James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo withKristin Stewart portraying a stripper /hooker who steals the film her realitybased character, Director Jake Scott uses theNew Orleans backdrop for most of the film and uses the city'scharacter to create an emotional link but Ken Hixon’s script falls short for meon a very personal level. I lost my son Adam a few years back and mydaughter Lea has a Kristin Stewart feel so the script mis...
Barbara Romer explodes as an actress playing Alma Mahler in her first film roleFilm is a masterpiece on a budget of $2.5 million and looks like 10 times that Film plays again on Saturday June 26 at Regal Cinemas at 1:45 www.lafest.com ...
I added the link and will do more later but if you are in downtown Los Angeles drop by and see director David Michod's first feature He will be doing a Q & Awww.lafilmfest.com http://www.sonyclassics.com/animalkingdom/ I ...
by Marla LewinThe play “Arcadia” is set at the English estate of the Coverlys, a family of the nobility, and bounces back and forth between 1809 and the present day. Arcadia refers to the classical Greek state of mind which is pastorial and harmonius. There is little of that actually in the play where both classic and present day characters look for love, relics, and recommendation and confirmation of their talents.There is repeated mention of poet, playboy Lord Byron himself, though we ne...
DOGSWEAT turns up the heat Director/writer/producerHossein Keshavarz along with Maryam Azadi who is alsothe writer/producer of this film take us on journey into the lives ofyoung adults who are living in Tehran and are dealing with issues which are commonplacein our everyday lives in real life and on reality TV in America.Thefilm’s title is the Iranian term for moonshine. So this is not a doggie moviebut a presentation what a dog’s life can be if you follow the culture and itstraditional va...
The Third Annual Love Unlimited Film Festival and Arts Exhibition is dedicated to international outreach in order to promote love through Film, Visual Arts, Music, Writing and Screenplay Writing. Our website is available in over 50 languages and ticket fees to the events are always low with no one turned away for lack of funds making our event accessible to people worldwide. This festival offers an extremely large variety of awards, certificates and exposure at venues in several large cities d...
Bitter Feast is aHappy MealThefilm “Bitter Feast” which premiered at Los Angeles Film Festival is acollaborative effort by Indie filmmakers who combined talent to make a filmwhich was shot in 14 days. The production values along with performances by actorsJames LeGros. Joshua Leonard , Amy Seimetz are outstanding and of course MarioBatali adds to the recipe Cinematographer ,Michael McDonough, creates images ontwo Canon 5 D Mark II SR cameras with most of the film shot on available lightin th...
Los Angeles Film Festivalreally sparks LA LiveUsing many of the film titles you can really appreciate theLAFF choicesLisa Cholodenko’s TheKids are All Right has made sure that they are really enjoying it all.Aaron Katz’s ColdWeather has gotten much warmerJoe Maggio’s BitterFeast has made the festival a tasty onePhillip G.Flores’s TheWheelers Boys are doing wheeliesWe are fortunate and excited to have Lisa Leeman’s One Lucky Elephant for all of us luckyanimal loversThe Zone loungereally...
Los Angeles Film Festival Lights up HollywoodDowntown A crystal clear night set inthe backdrop of the Staples Center where the LA Lakers came out on top in the NBAFinalsLAFF brought out the starsboth in the sky and on the red carpet on the opening night screening of “TheKids are All Right” at the Regal Cinemas. Director Lisa Cholodenko hascreated a comedy which deals with parenthood in this day and age which hastaken on a whole new twist and both gay and heterosexual audiences will havesom...
Los Angeles Greek Festival ends on High NoteOrpheus’s spirit was abound at the Awards Ceremony presentation at the 4th annual Los Angeles Greek Film festivalwith the fabulous , Alexia Vassiliou enchanting us with lyrics from classic films such as ,” Boy on a Dolphin”, “Never on Sunday”, “Phaedra”, andothers with film stars Melina Mercouri,Alan Ladd and Anthony Perkins.The beautiful Patricia Kara, of the TVshow Deal or No Deal hosted the award ceremony which included Academ...
Dancing with theStars of Greecein Hollywood I have come to the conclusion that the hit TV show “Dancingwith the Stars” was inspired by the Greeks. On the 2nd day of theLos Angeles Greek Festival I was dancing through the films in my head. Matt Bolish,the main programmer has projected a personal passion in his choice of films.You feel that you are in Greeceand are surprised not to be when you leave the Egyptian theatre and view HollywoodBlvd...You discover that many Greek filmmakers like Per...
Getty interview with Thelma Schoonmaker. Thelma says the main ingredient to a life's work as Scorsese's editor has been creative collaboration with the genius himself and patience.
As a sports and health writer in addition to my film industry involvement ,I attended the Annual Memorial day Muscle Beach Venice body builder contest which has now added a bikini contest. I was there to support my buddy , body builder Bill Howard ,who kept the tradition alive in Muscle Beach Venice .during the lean years and was there back in the day, at the original Santa Monica Muscle Beach which closed in 1959,along with Steve Reeves,Jack LaLanne and other well known muscle men,He was ...
Dennis Hopper , who was a fellow member of the famed Actors Studio, has left us for another stage in his famous and turbulent career, but he was and will always be held close to us all . I remember seeing him at Golds Gym in Venice in the 1990's after he had appeared on Inside the Actors Studio in NY with James Lipton ,where I was an audience member. So since we had known each other , I walked over to him and told him that he was so inspirational and his clarity was awesome and he ...
An Interview with Kevin Asch, director of Holy Rollers
As we sat at a table in front of Bob Dylan’s 18 Street Caféin Santa Monica, Californiacoffee wasn’t necessary because I got my caffeine rush from Kevin. His creativeenergy in discussing the making of his film and the collaboration with the actorsand writer reminded me of directors like Sydney Lu...
Holy Rollers is a film shot like a 70's film like Mean Streets.The director Kevin Asch has assembled an incredibly talented cast and crew in a film about Hasidic Jews who were drug mules in the lat 90's for the drug trade between NY and Amsterdam. Jesse Eisenberg is the lead character as Sam the protaganist who is drawn in this world by his neighbor Yosef( Justin Barta) who introduces him to drug dealer ,Jackie(Danny Abeckaser) and the ball rolls in from there with Sex.drugs and rock and roll.Fe...
The main players of the new film Wall Street discuss morality as it relates to the film as well as their own lives. ...
Michael Douglas answers the question "How does it feel to be Michael Douglas?" ...
Oliver Stone discusses capitalism as a possible "weapon of mass destruction." ...
Oliver Stone speaks at the Wall Street press conference in Cannes ...
Michael Douglas and Oliver Stone discuss the new Wall Street film and what it was like to come back 23 years later. ...
The director and cast of the new Wall Street film by Oliver Stone walk the red carpet in Cannes. ...
