Summer Festivals
Los Angeles is not known for its film festivals. There are no Golden Bears, Silver Lions or Palme D’ors awarded to obscure auteurs whose careers rise and fall on a handful of impossible-to-get-into screenings presided over by the cinematic elite. There are no A-List celebrities conducting full press Q&As.
See You Next Week – DragonCon awaits!
I’m typing this while sitting on my hotel room bed in sunny downtown Atlanta, preparing myself for four days of geek debauchery. For this is the weekend of Dragon*Con, the world’s largest culture convention — an everlasting gobstopper of science fiction, fantasy, film, television, literature, costuming, podcasting, science!, and more. And this is my Film [...]
Youngblood on Film: Kurosawa Centennial at the Belcourt
Nashville historic Belcourt Theatre continues to impress with astute scheduling choices. Consider last Sunday’s rare screening of Jean Eustache’s 3 1/2 hour The Mother and the Whore, Tarr Bela’s nearly 8 hour Satantango screening from a few years back, and the upcoming Akira Kurosawa 12 film retrospective.
If Kurosawa were alive today, he would be 100 years old; and that is reason enough for the Belcourt to screen 12 of his films. There’s nothing necessarily astute about a Kurosawa retrospective –after all, he’s the undisputed king of art house cinema. What makes the Belcourt’s summer-long retrospective so special is the films they selected. . . and the films they left out.
Beyond Cinema Film Event: Your Invitation
Gaia I’m helping to run what promises to be a remarkable event in a few weeks, in Beverly Hills; and I wanted the TFT audience to be among the first to know the details. If you’re in the neighborhood you’d be most welcome; I’d love to meet you*. You’re invited to Beyond Cinema: Film and [...]
Film & Spirit: An Invitation
Gaia – The best film I’ve seen this year I’m very excited about an event I’m co-facilitating in the Los Angeles area in a couple of months, to which you’re all invited. It’s so exciting that Jett is considering driving all the way from Nashville in the official TFT Prius to get there. This post [...]
