This year, Ava DuVernay became the first black woman to win the Best Director Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. During her acceptance speech she said that it was important for filmmakers of color "to see one anothers' films and have them seen."
That sentiment is shared by Ayuko Babu, the founder and director of The Pan African Film Festival (PAFF), NAACP-nominated actress turned filmmaker Tangi Miller and Jimmy Jean Louis, star of the hit TV show "Heroes" and the new film "Toussaint Louverture." All three shared their thoughts about the festival with me.
Not feeling particularly excited about any of the movies currently out in theatres? Have no fear! Living in Southern California means we have access to more than just the latest blockbuster or romantic comedy. Here is our curated list of cinematic adventures you can get into this weekend.
Friday, Feb. 17
A Fistful of Dollars and For A Few Dollars More
Where: Aero Theatre
Cost: $11
Time: 7:30 p.m.
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Clint Eastwood stars in this Western masterpiece by director Sergio Leone with an original (and memorable) score by the legendary Ennio Morricone. The story is adapted from Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo," and tells the story of a wandering assassin who gets in the middle of two families at war in a small Mexican border town. Stay for the sequel, For A Few Dollars More and watch one of the greatest shootout scenes in movie-making history.
See them before they're gone! Here's a list of what museum exhibitions are closing this week.
A+D Architecture and Design Museum
Eames Designs: The Guest-Host Relationship takes a look at the more unknown side of Charles and Ray Eames' lives and the variety of tools that made up their interminable canvas. Features key vintage furniture pieces, Eames films, slide shows and quotes.
Ends February 20, 2012
A weekly guide showing you what museum exhibitions are opening this week around Southern California.
LACMA
Let's map out globalization in art. Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping features three objects from LACMA's permanent collection, "which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century valance, a cigarette silks quilt, and Alighiero Boetti's Mappa."
February 18, 2012-May 13, 2012
Get out your cummerbund and dust off your bow tie. Here is a selection of lavish events going on in Los Angeles this week that appeal to all of your senses.
Holding onto a special first edition novel? Experts at the 45th California International Antiquarian Book Fair will be available for appraisals and book sales February 10 through the 12. Visitors to the book fair will be able to peruse stacks of dusty tomes holding hidden literary gems.
Not feeling particularly excited about any of the movies currently out in theatres? Have no fear! Living in Southern California means we have access to more than just the latest blockbuster or romantic comedy. Here is our curated list of cinematic adventures you can get into this weekend.
Friday, Feb. 10
100 Years of Paramount Pictures: Lady Sings the Blues
Where: LACMA's Bing Theatre
Cost: $10
Time: 7:30 p.m.
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To celebrate Paramount Pictures' 100th year, LACMA is screening a number of the studio's classic films. This weekend, come see Diana Ross's film debut as Billie Holiday in this movie musical Lady Sings The Blues (and boy does she!). Actor Billy Dee Williams and screenwriter Suzanne de Passe will appear and take questions from the audience.
A weekly guide showing you what museum exhibitions are opening this week around Southern California.
The Getty Center
Ever wonder where an object has been, who touched it, what it signified at the time? In The Life of Art: Context, Collecting, and Display, four objects from the Getty's decorative arts collection--a silver fountain, a wall light, a side chair, and a lidded bowl--are given complete biographies through an interactive presentation.
Opened February 7, 2012 and is ongoing
See them before they're gone! Here's a list of what museum exhibitions are closing this week.
The Getty Center
What makes an artist? How do artists see themselves? Images of the Artist explores these questions through various media, examining how, exactly, artists and artistry are portrayed. The exhibit is divided into four categories: Portraits and Self-Portraits, Allegories of the Artist, Work Life and Space, and Traces of the Artist.
Ends February 12, 2012
Before street art romanticized the urban landscape, street photography was the valentine from the city. It loves the grit for what it is, and Los Angeles has been the subject many times. There is no shortage of street pics during the February 2012 Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk.
"It is the fine art form of photojournalism and makes an important record of the times. It tells important stories that 'humanize' the people living on the streets and captures their wild and capricious character that downtowners know all too well," said Rex Bruce, who as director of Los Angeles Center For Digital Art has brought a long time presence of experimental photography to Downtown. Yet, there is an appreciation of the traditional black and white of street photography.
Keeping with the month's most obvious theme, The Downtown Art Walk Lounge will feature "Love Art." It is a chance to purchase affordable art suitable to be delivered on Valentine's Day, which can be arranged in collaboration with USC's TKE Fraternity. The Art Walk lounge is open from 6 to 10pm at 634 S. Spring Street.
Here is a peek of the downtown exhibitions you can find in February, 2012, including at Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk (Thursday, February 9).
Not feeling particularly excited about any of the movies currently out in theatres? Have no fear! Living in Southern California means we have access to more than just the latest blockbuster or romantic comedy. Here is our curated list of cinematic adventures you can get into this weekend.
Friday, Feb. 3
The Contender with star Gary Oldman in person!
Where: LACMA's Bing Theatre
Cost: $10
Time: 7:30 p.m.
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Gary Oldman will likely be a contender at this year's Oscars for his role in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but this weekend you'll have a chance to see him in person and watch his 2000 political thriller The Contender on the big screen. Oldman plays a conservative Republican who leads an attack on Vice President nominee, played by Joan Allen. A Q&A with Oldman will precede the screening, so get there early.
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