British Film Institute brings impressive wares to TCM Fest 2025
Ben Roberts, Chief Executive of the British Film Institute, attends 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival. photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for TCM One of the highlights of this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival was a tribute to the British Film Institute’s remarkable preservation program, now celebrating its 90th year. The tribute included 6 movies, all presented ...
Wonderful world of Allee Willis now in fun pop-up book
One of Hollywood’s most legendary homes—where every room bursts with color, music, and an eye-popping collection of American kitsch —is that of the Grammy, Tony, and Emmy-winning Hall of Fame songwriter, the late Allee Willis. The hit songwriter co-wrote Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September“ and “Boogie Wonderland,” as well as, among many many other songs, the theme ...
‘Early Sounds of Jewish Music’ to resonate at UCLA Herb Alpert School
Apr
23
2025
Early Sounds of Jewish Music is an afternoon symposium and evening concert celebrating the rarely-heard musical traditions of Jewish communities from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. 1:00 pm Symposium led by internationally recognized scholars and musicians, through talks, communal singing, and roundtable discussions will uncover the music that animated Jewish life in early modern Europe ...
My TCM Fest: critic’s choices for Friday April 25, 2025 1
Apr
21
2025
Well, it’s that time again. It’s time for cinephiles from across the country to converge on Hollywood Boulevard in the stretch between our three mighty houses of cinema, respectively, the Chinese, the El Capitain, and the Egyptian Theatres, and bask in the rich movie programming offered in TCM Classic Film Festival. The Festival, in its ...
Get off that couch! Come celebrate Grupo Corpo at ‘Dance at the Music Center’
Most of us can relate. Last Saturday night, April 5, as the clock ticked toward curtain time for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, I was wavering. A cloud of despair over the state of our nation weighed me down. The couch looked good. A glass of rose wine beckoned. Hell, I had half a bottle! ...
Baby-boomer must-see: ‘One to One, John & Yoko’
This poster may only serve to reignite the unsubsiding loathing for Yoko Ono but the documentary, which had musical oversight by the couple’s son Sean, actually counters that view. It reveals an amazingly beautiful relationship between an unlikely pairing, two artists. I recommend it highly. I couldn’t even move from my seat for a good ...
Andrea Miller’s ‘YEAR’ for A.I.M meets ‘The White Lotus’
We’re not suggesting that choreographer Andrea Miller‘s “YEAR” (2024) for A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, is literally “The White Lotus” in dance. No way! But somehow, Miller’s ingenious, mesmerizing, tribal, thirty-minute ballet goes for the jugular in a way that syncs with the neurotic energy with which the HBO series wrapped up its Thailand adventure. The ...
New doc ‘One to One: John & Yoko’ on arts couple’s Greenwich Village life slated to open
Apr
2
2025
We’re seeing it next week. But no harm to view the trailer. “One to One: John & Yoko” concerns an eighteen-month window in 1971 in which the controversial couple, newly arrived in the United States, lived in a tiny apartment in the Village where, among other things, they watched gobs of American television. Living through ...
To listen, ponder & stargaze: ‘Night of Ideas’ at Wende Museum
Apr
2
2025
Life on Planet Earth and in this country has become kind of complicated, have you noticed? There is a lot to discuss, and yet most of us exchange ideas in driblets on social media or in text messaging and images. That’s why the annual free event, Night of Ideas, hosted by the Villa Albertine, which ...
This week! Ailey Company in two rich, vital programs at The Music Center
Apr
1
2025
sacred songs, matthew rushingphoto: paul kolnik We’re spoiled rotten! Springtime at the Los Angeles Music Center brings an annual visit of our resident dance company, no less than Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. “Gorgeous,” “stellar” and body-beautiful” does not begin to describe the dancers of this historically important dance company, a beacon of Black excellence ...