by Jordan R. Young | Jun 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Ann Sheridan in “Woman on the Run” (1950) There’s been some concern about the annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival —the wonderful conclave of rare early cinema held Labor Day Weekend in Hollywood—with the untimely passing this week of its president, film historian Bob...
by Jordan R. Young | May 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Samuel Beckett’s best friend in So Cal continues to be the Center Theatre Group. Their latest coup: reteaming Alan Mandell and Barry McGovern—who displayed such great chemistry together in CTG’s “Waiting for Godot” at the Mark Taper Forum in 2012—in Beckett’s...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Stephanie Brait in “Colby.” The Newport Beach Film Festival, which opens tonight, screens something like 100 feature-length narrative films. It’s a global grab bag of indies and studio flicks in every conceivable genre. Among the films this writer has...
by Jordan R. Young | Apr 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
More than 350 films from 50 countries are slated for the 16th annual Newport Beach Film Festival, Apr. 21-Apr. 28. Special events, red carpet galas, conversations with filmmakers, international spotlight events and seminars are all part of the mix. The popular...
by Jordan R. Young | Mar 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
What do Jews do on Purim? This one went to see “Book of Mormon,” natch (at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts, where it runs through Apr. 3). This Trey Parker-Robert Lopez-Matt Stone musical appears to be an amusing but innocuous satire at first, opening with...
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