Marwencol
FREE Screening as part of TFI’s Neuro-Cinema and Beyond series: Saturday, February 25th at 2:15pm Martin Luther King AuditoriumSanta Monica Public Library601 Santa Monica BlvdRSVP’s to: 1-800-ST-JOHNS http://www.newstjohns.org/neurocinema.aspx Q&A with director, Jeff Malmberg and neurosurgeon, Dr. Daniel Kelly Articles on Mark and Marwencol Wall Street Journal Psychology Today New York Times Huffington Post Los Angeles [...]
Introducing Dr. Daniel Kelly
Dr. Daniel Kelly, MD Neurosurgeon, Director of the Brain Tumor Center at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Health Center Neuro-Cinema and Beyond In collaboration with Saint John’s Health Center, John Wayne Cancer Institute and Topanga Film Institute. Dr. Kelly’s favorite movie is: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life: “Monty Python’s [...]
Neuro-Cinema and Beyond
Topanga Film Institute has collaborated with Saint John’s Health Center and the John Wayne Cancer Institute to present: Neuro-Cinema and Beyond Film Series The Topanga Film Institute has collaborated with Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica for a three-part film series focused on the brain. The series will include a screening of [...]
Happy Guillotine Films – the Indie Leaders in Online Programming
By LG Taylor There’s no guillotine falling on these four cool-cat filmmakers… In 2006, they submitted a pilot for a MySpace contest, that “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” was promoting. While they didn’t win the contest, they scored a lot of fans – a lot of angry fans who were ticked off that they weren’t [...]
UNA ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER PASADENA UN DAY FILM FESTIVAL
Pasadena, CA, October 12, 2011 –United Nations Association Pasadena/Foothills Chapter in partnership with Laemmle’s Theatres Pasadena is pleased to announce today the UNA Film Festival in celebration of United Nations Day, on Monday, October 24th from 5:30 until 11pm. UNA- Pasadena will feature eight films including two feature length and six short films. The film titles include, two [...]
God Damn It, Godard
Let’s talk trailers. Come on, they’re important. Very important, in fact. Trailers are the three minute cuts that define a film’s purpose, and in most cases, are better than the actual films themselves. (I have a theory for that – with trailers, there’s more space to fill in the blanks. Think about it.) Trailers truly [...]
Unfaithful – An Examination of Infidelity
By LG TAYLOR Director Adrian Lynne’s Unfaithful, a remake of Claude Chabrol’s La femme infidéle, is the archetypal tragic love triangle tinged with tragedy: a bored suburban wife’s infidelity with a young, French roué, played by the seductive Olivier Martinez, catapults into catastrophic consequences for all involved. The acting was top-notch, in particular, Diane Lane’s [...]
Going Without Subtitles, and Then It’s Clear
The other day I was watching Hayao Miyazzaki’s Ponyo in Japanese with no subtitles. (Of course, I hadn’t done this on purpose, as I am certainly not anywhere near fluent in Japanese, only being able to get by with the occasional “konnichiwa” and “domo arigato”). As I’m somewhat embarrassed to point out, I couldn’t figure [...]
Baby Hyundai and I – A Ten Year Epic Story of Great Friendship and Adventure
By LG TAYLOR I can’t say it was love at first sight. There were others on the lot – that effortlessly absorbed my attention like sparkling gemstones. It took a matchmaker to introduce me to her – not necessarily one with the most authentic intentions. She remained apart from the rest – tossed to a [...]
Play Misty For Me – A One Night Stand Gone Bad
By LG TAYLOR Play Misty for Me, Clint Eastwood’s directorial debut in 1971 – and what a debut - is a macabre story of psychosis and murder – all stemming from a one night stand gone wrong. Fatal Attraction is a mere watered down version of the kinetic terror that unfolds in this disturbing thriller [...]
