A slight but sweet movie, An Education is based on the memoir of journalist Lynn Barber, depicting a life-altering relationship she experienced at the tender age of 16. Adapted for the screen by Nick Hornby (whose own...
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A study of an unusual crime — L’Amante Anglaise
French writer Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) wrote prolifically for every medium: plays, novels, stories, screenplays, and was also a filmmaker. She is best known in the U.S. for her autobiographical novel The Lover...
A slop-motion snoozefest – The Fantastic Mr Fox
A strange little movie, The Fantastic Mr Fox is a whimsical slice of cinema that can”™t seem to decide if it is intended to amuse children or adults. Perhaps neither? This new stop-motion animated film is based on...
Greg Laswell Рa heartfelt performance at Hotel Caf̩
Greg Laswell”™s music has a stripped down personal nature that is refreshingly blunt and bravely uninhibited. On his first album, Through Toledo, Laswell opened up the scrapbook of the difficulties of his...
The Fall of the Berlin Wall – re-enacted Sunday Nov 8th
This Sunday, on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, a special street ceremony is being staged to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years ago. On November 8th art lovers in Los Angeles will join groups across the...
