Presented as part of the new film series between Film Independent and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Martha Marcy May Marlene marks the second event in the series. The moderator for the evening was Elvis Mitchell, esteemed film critic and curator at Film Independent; and to the audiences delight quite friendly, engaging […]
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Film Rave: Oka! (Dir. Lavinia Currier 2011)
Inspired by the life story of ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno, who has spent 25 years with the BiAka pygmies of Central Africa, Lavinia Currier’s film aims partly to parallel Sarno’s work: that is, to bring to world-wide attention the wonderful and complex music of the forest-dwelling hunter-gatherers. The BiAka’s music is as rich and well-practised as […]
Film Review: Semper-Fi: Always Faithful
Semper Fi: Always Faithful is a documentary chronicling the struggle to make the public aware, and the Marine Corps/Government admit to their gross negligence in dealing with contaminated water at a variety of Marine Corps, and other, military bases across the United States of America. The main subject of the documentary is Marine Corps Master […]
Beware ‘The Ides of March’ (2011); It’s A Taut Political Thriller That Feels All Too Real
In The Ides Of March (2011), George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, and Philip Seymour Hoffman deliver a political worthy of the Beware the Ides of March saying.
Film Rave: Magic Trip (Dir. Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood)
The 1960s, a time of free love and drugs aplenty. The “hippie subculture” of this era took root around 1965, spawning a worldwide counter culture movement that still has remnants in today’s society. How this new subculture was established, and spread so quickly around the globe, can be attributed to a variety of factors. Ask […]