UCLA Film Archives' "Classic Films From India" series concludes with a weekend of Mrinal Sen films, including repeats of several already screened at Melnitz Theater.
The Laguna Beach Festival of Arts will open today minus a large chunk of its colorful history, as cast members mourn the death of Russell C.
Hailing from Beirut, Fresno and points in between, hundreds of Armenians and Armenian-Americans wrapped up five days of sport Sunday with the finale of the Athletic Games and Youth Festival of the Armenian General Benevolent Union.
Most of us are resigned to the advent of fall, but the Old Pasadena Arts Society already is looking further ahead.
The annual Festival of Animation (at Sexson Auditorium, Pasadena City College tonight, Saturday and Sunday) provides Los Angeles audiences with an all-too-rare opportunity to see short animated films from around the world.
Citing an absence of local black dance troupes scheduled for the Los Angeles Festival, members of a new dance organization asked the City Council Tuesday for money to produce a separate minority arts festival to coincide with the Sept. 3-27 arts event.
T he following are capsule reviews of this week's screenings at the AFI Film Festival of Los Angeles.
L istings and commentary for Week 2 of the American Film Institute Film Festival of Los Angeles, which runs through March 26: TODAY "Black and White" (France, 1986, 7:30 p.m.).
L istings and commentary for Week 2 of the American Film Institute Film Festival of Los Angeles, which runs through March 26: WEDNESDAY "Axiliad" (Poland, 1985, 12:30 p.m.).
L istings and commentary for Week 2 of the American Film Institute Film Festival of Los Angeles, which runs through March 26: MONDAY "Final Take" (Japan, 1986, 5 p.m.).
The second program of the Chamber Music/LA Festival, Sunday afternoon at the Japan America Theatre, was a somewhat helter-skelter affair that nonetheless ended in a blaze of glory with a rousing performance of Brahms' String Quintet in G, Opus 111.
The 7,381 residents of Sitka, Alaska, spend most of the year concentrating on fishing, canning and lumbering.
Listings and commentary for Week 2 of the American Film Institute Film Festival of Los Angeles, which runs through March 26: SATURDAY "Static" (U.S.A., 1986, 5:30 p.m.).
"TV Generations," the inaugural exhibition for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition's new downtown facility, kicks up a storm of swirling dataflakes.