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Today on FilmWeek, we revisit Larry Mantle’s 2023 conversation with Patrick Stewart in memory of the late actor who died at the age of 86 this week.
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As a follow-up to last year's successful PolaroidParty LA celebrating instant film and the Polaroid 600 Series, ISM: a community project is ready to do it again with the book release of Still Developing: A Story of Instant Gratification. This limited edition compilation of photographs and essays as well as a rare Polaroid exhibition will be on display Saturday night at Deyermond Art + Books, an independent bookstore and gallery in Santa Monica.
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This weekend the American Cinematheque at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica offers a well-deserved tribute to one of the hardest working directors in the industry, William Friedkin. Both Saturday and Sunday nights will feature talkbacks with Friedkin, moderated by journalist F.X. Feeney and screenwriter Josh Olson respectively. The French Connection, which shows Saturday night, enjoys its 40th anniversary this year. The movie that won Friedkin an Oscar still stands out as a trademark...
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The Dilemma This weekend America faces The Dilemma, a new purported comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. The boys play best friends, James the happily married to Winona Ryder man and Vaughn the bachelor who is practically married to Jennifer Connelly, but scared to take the next step guy. The smug, married couple spend the first half of the movie encouraging Vaughn to pop the question and the second half berating him for...
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Gerald McCullouch and Dan Via in 'Daddy.' (Photo by Eric Krieger) Daddy, currently playing at Hudson Mainstage, is Dan Via's superbly crafted and touching play about the convergent complexities of defining love, friendship, and family in an anti-equaity political arena. Daddy examines a plethora of finely intertwined themes, but what what makes Via's play so engaging is the acknowledgment of the painful uncertainty and emergent joys that accompany the transition to an era of...
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Starting tonight and running all weekend, our very own home for new and exciting performance, REDCAT will host a four evening “contest” for audience-decided best (modern) dance in the area. Part of a national six-city event created in New York in 2005, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! presents the work of 12 local dancemakers chosen by a national panel of cognoscenti.
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Ivana Milicevic and Amanda Detmer (Photo: Kurt Boetcher) What do you do if you get an e-mail from a stranger in distress who just came into a huge inheritance, but urgently needs your help secreting the money away from menacing political or family figures? Of course, you'll be rewarded with a generous cut of the proceeds yourself if you're willing to do the right thing and take part in the plan. Obviously you e-mail...
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Photo by stuartwainstock via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr It would figure that everyday would be No Pants Day for Superman and the Black Swan. Thanks Los Angeles for this profoundly confusing and wondrous shot of a typical day on the streets of LA. Why is she saving him with one leg? Cause that's how it's done....
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We made a couple good calls on last night's "People's Choice Awards" - congrats to "S#*! My Dad Says" for winning best new comedy, their runaway hit status is confirmed beyond the Nielsen numbers. --- Lot's of stuff happening in late night tonight, check out our ramble on it. Too bad there's not much else going on in the hours before the late night shows, check out our Must-Watch Plan and the listings.
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Every year, AIGA LA (the professional organization for design) bestows the highest honor of the organization upon individuals carefully selected for outstanding contributions to design in Los Angeles, the AIGA LA Fellow Award. But don’t be fooled—this is no stuffy awards show with long speeches from relatively inaccessible stars. This year, the Fellows celebration, AIGA LA: Speakeasy, is a party in a salon-style soirée at the Palihouse in West Hollywood on January 20, 2011,...
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Photo by filmerp via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Winter is here in all its frigid blustery glory and with SO MUCH WEATHER Manhattan Beach Patch has put together a list of tips to help you surf your turf, safely. Water temperature "is holding steady at 55-57 degrees," according to the Patch folks, and that means full-wetsuit and booties season. Air, water temperature and swell size can "sometimes be unpredictable despite official reports,"...
