“Hollywood Home Movies”-The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off a weekend of home movie-related events.Saturday, October 15 at noon “Home Movie Day: A Celebration of Amateur Films and Filmmaking”. Hosted by author and humorist Charles Phoenix. Home Movie Day is a celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually on the third Saturday in October at many venues worldwide. These local events provide an opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors’ in turn. The Academy Film Archive organizes the…
Author: Robin Menken
Robin Menken
Robin Menken Robin Menken lives in Los Angeles. She was the Artistic Director of the Second City Workshops, taught at UC Berkeley, USC, Barcelona\'s Ateneu and the Esalin Institute. She was Roberto Rossellini\'s assistant, and worked with Yevgeny Vevteshenku, Glauber Rocha and Eugene Ionesco. She sold numerous screenplays and wrote the OBIE winning The FTA SHow (touring with Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Ben Vereen.) She was a programming consultant and Special Events co-ordinator for numerous film festivals, including the SF, Rio, Havana and N.Y Film Festivals. Her first news outlet was the historic East Village Other.
The 12th Annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles returns to Los Angeles October 11-20. The opening night gala takes place at the Egyptian theatre (6712 Hollywood Blvd), continues at the Laemmle Sunset5 (8000 Sunset Blvd) and moves to the Armer Theater, California State University, Northridge for a panel and re-screening of “Essential Killing.”The Invitational Opening Night Gala at the Egyptian Theatre. Polish Film festival have several sponsores and supporters, notale among them are: PISF – Polish Film Institute, POLAM Federal Credit Union, Consulate General of Poland in Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles, E.L.M.A. (European Languages…
“Dream States: The avant-garde of the 1940s and 1950s” Sunday October 9, 2011, 7:30pm, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90028. Curators Adam Hyman and Mark Toscano in personLos Angeles Filmforum launches It’s film screening series “Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980” on October 9th with “Dream States: The Avant-garde of the 1940s and 1950s”. The series will feature over 24 shows between now and May 2012. Alternative Projections is Filmforum’s exploration of the community of filmmakers, artists, curators and programmers who contributed to the creation and presentation of experimental film and…
British food writer and chef Nigel Slater has written a food column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade and published four best selling food books. He’s hosted a variety of popular food shows- Nigel Slater’s Real Food Show (Channel 4), ” A Taste of My Life” and “Simple Suppers” and “Simple Cooking” for the BBC.Slater’s best selling autobiography “Toast”, has been turned into an amusing coming-out, coming-of -age story by TV vet director SJ Clarkson. The BBC stylized period piece, shot in the sixties in the British midlands, is full of wonderfully dreary period details, cherry cartoonish montages…
The 2010 Los Angeles Irish Film Festival opened Thursday, September 29 at the Linwood Dun Theatre in Hollywood and continues through Sunday, October 2 ate The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.The invitational Opening Night Gala, at the Linwood Dunn Theater, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, honored renowned Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan with The Steve Brennan Tribute and a special screening of “The Guard” (starring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle and Fionnula Flanagan). First time feature director John Michael McDonagh’s comedic thriller, “The Guard” is the most successful independent Irish film in Irish box office history. The Gala evening included…
A unique collaboration between Cineteca di Bologna and LMU School of Film & TV offers a free one day movie marathon of restored prints of rarely seen cinema masterpieces, part of the world’s classic cinema patrimony. Reservations are required at this site.The day devoted to screening a collection of invaluable restorations of three great cinematic works plus a selection of shorts during Movie Marathon: Il Cinema Ritrovato: Rediscovered Film on Friday, September 30, 2011 at the LMU campus’ Mayer Theater.The marathon kicks off at noon with Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Le amiche”, followed by Vittorio De Seta’s “Banditi a Orgosolo” (2:30 p.m.),…
The first Singafest Asian Film Festival will be presented from Sept. 29th – Oct. 2nd, 2011 at Bigfoot’s Majestic Crest, a beautiful Art Deco-inspired movie palace in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.The festival focuses on new Asian and Asian-American films from the U.S., China, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines and more — and will include features, shorts, documentaries, 3D cinema and animation, plus in-person guests and seminar panels with visiting filmmakers and Hollywood industry professionals.A celebration of Asian culture as a whole, presenting the best films from across Asia to engage audiences to…
The Consulate General of Switzerland in Los Angeles presents for the first time “Short Films, Long Night!” (Co-presented by the Cultural Foreign Policy Centre Of the Federal Department Of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)► Short narrative, documentaries and animations films made in Los Angeles and made in Switzerland!► Carte blanche to Swiss actor Carlos Leal! ► Meet directors, actors and producers!► Vote for the Audience Award and much more!Snacks and drinks will be provided. Admission is freeTheatre Raymond Kabbaz10361 West Pico Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90064www.theatreraymondkabbaz.comSeptember 24 • 5-10pm short filmsHosted by Claudia Laffranchi. Since 2005, Claudia Laffranchi has been hosting the Piazza…
Opening night of Göran Hugo Olsson’s provocative “The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975” will feature a special panel and Q & A with Professor Ericka Huggins (former Head of Los Angeles Black Panther Party) and USC Professor Robin Kelley. Panel & discussion will be moderated by Margaret Prescod of KPFK’s Sojourner Truth. Friday September 23, 7:30pm, Landmark Nuart Theater 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90025-3154A trove of archival footage from Swedish newscasters and journalists make up this history lesson about the Black Power Movement. Director Göran Hugo Olsson assembles a time line using extraordinary archival footage (uncovered in the…
The Arpa International Film Festival (ARPA) returns to the Egyptian Theatre, Sept 22-24. Produced by produced by AFFMA and founded by Sylvia Minassian in 1997, the festival’s mission is to ” cultivate cultural understanding and global empathy, creating a dynamic forum for international cinema with a special focus on the work of filmmakers who explore the issues of Diaspora, exile and multi-multiculturalism. A strong emphasis is placed on ideals of independent thought, artistic vision, cultural diversity and social understanding.””Arpa is the name of a river that flows through Armenia. As water provides a source of life and energy, so does…