by Jordan R. Young | Feb 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Collette Merton and Colleen Moore in “Why Be Good?” (1929). Among the highlights of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival for silent film enthusiasts are Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” (1928) with a live score by Carl Davis, and the world premiere...
by Jordan R. Young | Jan 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Pacific Symphony. How many times can Hershey Felder pull off the hat trick of writing and performing a play for one man and a piano? An infinite number I’d guess, judging by his latest effort, “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin.” Admittedly I found the opening a bit...
by Jordan R. Young | Dec 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Variations on a theme can be great fun. “She Loves Me,” the Tony Award-winning musical based on a play (Miklos Laszlo’s “Parfumerie”) filmed three times, most famously as “The Shop Around the Corner,” is a delightful confection on its own merit. It nicely fills the...
by Jordan R. Young | Nov 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” (1919). Before the Nazi era reared its ugly head, German artists and filmmakers astonished the world with a series of Expressionist classics that continue to exert their influence. L.A. County Museum of Art’s “Haunted Screens: German...
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