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26 February 2011

A martini with Jane Fonda

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With all respect to Atlanta, there’s something fitting about having Jane Fonda around our little village. Jane did a great curtain talk on Valentine’s Day at LACMA. [...]

2 February 2011

Valentine’s Day movie date

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A good choice on Valentine’s this year. For the gooey and romantic, Bogie and Ilsa will always have Paris at the Cinefamily. Further down Fairfax Avenue, film critic Kenneth Turan interviews Jane Fonda, in person at LACMA, prior to a screening of KLUTE. [...]

23 January 2011

“Scarecrow” cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond @ LACMA

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“I like most of them [his movies]. I’ve been lucky. I worked with great directors. I worked with Altman, dePalma, Cimino, Rydell, Schatzberg, Spielberg, all directors who love the image.” [...]

20 January 2011

Melody Kanschat retires. Film lives at LACMA.

The key opponent of film at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is retiring. [...]

7 October 2010

Film Foundation tribute gears up @ LACMA

Guest writer Doug Cummings previews LACMA’s latest series, “20th Anniversary Tribute to the Film Foundation” and makes a few key recommendations. [...]

26 August 2010

Antonioni’s sophisticated chick flick

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

11 July 2010

All hail Travis Banton, Paramount Studios costumer

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The opening program of LACMA’s salute to the American comedies of German-born director Ernst Lubitsch featured exquisite evening gowns for the two films’ leading ladies. [...]

9 July 2010

Ernst Lubitsch’s 90-minute tour of paradise

Dietrich, Cooper, Desire

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

30 May 2010

Robert Ryan fan club

arts·meme, when she is not kvelling on symphony or ballet, is a fangirl.

She has favorite movie actors. The male tribe includes Ralph Fiennes, early Peter Saarsgard, early Tim Roth, and the red-headed Briton, Damien Lewis.

But why oh why was the great b-movie guy, Robert Ryan, heavily featured in LACMA's recent series on the cinematography of [...]

14 May 2010

And the mini Oscar goes to LACMA film

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today a $12,500 grant in support of LACMA's film program for 2010-11 season.

While this check will hardly float the program, it bears significance and good will on a symbolic level. The Academy is Hollywood, Inc.

And so I would like to [...]