‘Joan Baez’ Documentary Arrives in Theatres October 2023

              Magnolia Pictures will release JOAN BAEZ I AM A NOISE in NY theaters on October 6, 2023 Expanding to LA & Additional Markets on October 13, 2023   Directed by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky, and Maeve O’Boyle Executive Produced by Greg Sarris, Parri Smith, Josh Braun, Ben Braun and Terry […]

Letter From LA: Super Bowl Issue

In honor of Super Bowl Sunday and the Chinese surveillance balloons that flew across the country for several days two weeks ago, I decided to revisit John Frankenheimer’s 1977 “Black Sunday,” a thriller about terrorists who commandeer the Goodyear blimp with a plan to murder 80,000 spectators at the 1976 Super Bowl in Miami, Florida. […]

Letter From LA: Gods and Monsters

Swaying palm trees, cool evening breezes, night-blooming jasmine, ruby red and purple bougainvillea, golden sun at twilight: these are some of the cliches that describe Los Angeles — and they’re true. But here’s another version of LA’s reality, from the famous French sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard: “There is nothing to match flying […]

Jean-Luc Godard: 1930-2022

Letter From LA – Summer 2022 – The Crime Issue

When I was growing up in Los Angeles, there were certain parts of the city you just didn’t go to — the bad sides of town: Watts, East LA, parts of Venice and Culver City, Pacoima, Gardena. The stigma never really bothered me: I hung out with bikers in Culver City, surf bums in Venice, […]

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