by Jordan Young | May 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
There can be no argument that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was a great achievement for 1937. Without taking anything away from Disney, Lotte Reiniger’s “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” (available on Blu-ray from Milestone Film & Video) must be acknowledged...
by Jordan Young | Apr 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
More than a bit of the blarney in So Cal next week. If the cluster of Irish films at the Newport Beach Film Festival tomorrow aren’t enough—see the previous blog—Dublin’s famed Abbey Theatre touches down May 2 at Chapter One in Santa Ana with a touring show, “Two...
by Jordan Young | Apr 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Want to see a new Hungarian film? I do. It’s called “Curtiz” and it’s about the complicated life of Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz during WWII and the making of “Casablanca.” It’s screening next week at the 20th annual Newport Beach...
by Jordan Young | Apr 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Film festival season is officially underway. Hot on the heels of the long-running film noir festival, Noir City (closing tonight), the tenth annual TCM Classic Film Festival virtually engulfs Hollywood April 11-14. Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan and director Rob Reiner will...
by Jordan Young | Mar 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Timing is everything, and the time is now for plays and films about women of substance and worth. Anna Ziegler’s “Photograph 51” (through today at South Coast Repertory) is just such a play, about a scientist named Rosalind Franklin, who played a major albeit little...
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