Nearly 40 years after Penelope Spheeris’ groundbreaking 1980 documentary The Decline of Western Civilization chronicled the lives of Los Angeles punks, filmmaker Angela Boatwright takes her camera to the neighborhoods...
Category - Festival
Kurt Gardner
UNDERGROUND USA: INDIE CINEMA OF THE 80’s – Cinefamily and Cinespia
Starting this weekend, the Cinefamily and Cinespia are presenting UNDERGROUND USA: INDIE CINEMA OF THE 80’s, running from February 18–April 16, 2016 on Fairfax. This exciting film retrospective celebrates...
Pauline Adamek
Alamo City Film Festival – Texas film festival report
Report and film reviews from the Alamo City Film Festival by our man in Texas, Kurt Gardner: In keeping with its mission of showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world, the Alamo City Film Festival brought an...
Rising Tohoku Food Fair – Los Angeles culture event review
The exotic delights of a special region in Japan can be experienced right here in L.A. Today, Friday and all this weekend — Thursday August 20 through Sunday August 23 — you can immerse yourself in Japanese culture at...
San Antonio Film Festival Wrap-Up: An Interview with the “Moments of Clarity” Team
Festival report by Kurt Gardner. Of the many films I saw at the San Antonio Film Festival, which took place July 28th through August 2nd, a standout for me was a feature entitled Moments of Clarity, a refreshingly...