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...
by Jordan Young | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Combine Bombay and Hollywood and you get Bollywood—the incredibly prolific Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai that produces nearly 2,000 feature films a year. The cinema’s hottest byproduct may be Bollywood Dance—a mash-up of styles including belly-dancing,...
by Jordan Young | Feb 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you’re as passionate about live theatre as I am, I urge you to catch August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles—whether the trains are running or not. Yes, it’s black history month, but this installment in the playwright’s Pulitzer...
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