26 August 2010

Antonioni’s sophisticated chick flick

We loved LACMA’s screening of an early Antonioni film “Le Amiche” (“The Girlfriends”) from 1955. [...]

9 July 2010

Ernst Lubitsch’s 90-minute tour of paradise

Tonight opens LACMA’s 16-film retrospective of the American-made comedies either produced or directed by Ernst Lubitsch [...]

5 May 2010

Musuraca put the noir into film noir

LACMA’s upcoming retrospective of film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca looks great! [...]

1 April 2010

Our exigent film-viewing life in Los Angeles

It’s tough living in Los Angeles. If you are a film lover, there’s simply too much to see in April 2010. [...]

14 June 2009

film noir francais

Alain Delon plays the sinister Tom Ripley in Rene Clement’s brilliant 1960 version of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” called Plein Soleil. [...]