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Hollywood Has A Growing Appreciation For Foreign Cultures: Top Movies Of 2022

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North American films attract massive audiences around the world, which is why film companies based in the US and Canada control the majority of the world film industry’s market share. This power has led to the promotion of North American culture and tradition through film, resulting in a global language, lifestyle, value and ideology effect. However, …

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Andra Day stars in THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY from Paramount Pictures. Photo Credit: Takashi Seida.

New Faces in Movies and TV

Leave a Comment / Film, TV / By Elisa Leonelli

While writing about movies and TV programs for international and domestic publications, as I have done for the past 45 years, I pay special attention to new actors that make an impression with their talent. During the year that started January 1, 2020, and that, after the closure of movie theaters due to the Coronavirus …

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Homage to Los Angeles

2 Comments / Visual Art / By R. Daniel Foster

A few words about my latest art film — 1.5 minutes in length. The film is posted below. Nearly 15 years ago while driving to my Los Feliz apartment, I spied an old lamppost on Hollywood Blvd. with a bunch of plastic bags caught in it, blowing wildly. Back home, I grabbed my video camera …

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It’s baaaack! A proposed aerial tram to the Hollywood Sign

Leave a Comment / Destinations / By R. Daniel Foster

“How do I get to the Hollywood sign?” That’s the question I’m invariably asked when hiking in Griffith Park, the largest urban wilderness park in the United States. Los Angeles has long been vexed about how to best direct visitors to the landmark without clogging residential neighborhoods. So it’s not surprising that aerial tram proposals, …

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DUDLEY MOORE. Marina del Rey, California, November 14, 1980. Photos by Elisa Leonelli

Remembering Dudley Moore

Leave a Comment / Film, Photography / By Elisa Leonelli

I was still living in my hometown of Modena when I first saw Bedazzled (1967), the irreverent British comedy directed by Stanley Donen, so it was dubbed in Italian and titled Il mio amico diavolo, but I found it wickedly delicious. Peter Cook played the devil who, helped by the seven deadly sins, offers seven …

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Hollywood in Place: The Velocity of Discourse Where I Live, Part 2 (June 1, 2020)*

Leave a Comment / Discourse / By Robin Grearson

Propaganda has escaped the internet, it’s running amok in my neighborhood (and yours!). Helicopters and sirens and camouflage, oh my! A popular local hiking spot near me was closed for Covid–19, then reopened, then closed—“because of the riots.” Covid testing was unavailable, and then it was free, and then it was shut down— “because of …

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Hollywood in Place: The Velocity of Discourse Where I Live, Part 1 (April 1, 2020)*

Leave a Comment / Discourse / By Robin Grearson

I went to my local pharmacy megachain to buy a thermometer last month and I saw Pete Buttigieg and his husband at the self-checkout. For a few days I was puzzled by my own puzzled feeling about seeing them. I recalled reading on Twitter that Pete was hosting Jimmy Kimmel, which films nearby, and I …

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Anish Kapoor: Fluidity, Reflections, Space

Leave a Comment / Architecture, Visual Art / By Rick Meghiddo

Anish Kapoor is known as one of the world’s great living artists. Since he won the Premio Duemila Prize at the 44th Venice Biennale back in 1990, his sculptural installations had a significant presence in many cities, including London, at the Tate Modern, Paris, at the Grand Palais, and Jerusalem, at the Israel Museum. Anish …

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12/12 in L.A. & 3 Pianists

Leave a Comment / Architecture, Lifestyle, Visual Art / By Rick Meghiddo

This short documentary tries to connect dots between three disparate experiences that happened in a single day, 12/12/2019. The dots are a brainstorming session with old friends, a visit to a new working environment in Hollywood, the discovery of an art studio by the Los Angeles River dedicated to environmental art, and three piano performers, …

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A Violent Reality: Hollywood’s Influence On Violence Against Muslims

Leave a Comment / Film, Discourse / By Leah Balter

I heard the call to prayer for the first time in the United States this Friday. But it was not the familiar, sweet call to worship that I so fondly remember from my time abroad; this was a call to come together as a community—to mourn. I gathered in the courtyard with countless others in …

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Forbidden Hollywood by Mark Vieira

Leave a Comment / Film, Photography / By Elisa Leonelli

I was gifted the new book by Mark Vieira, Forbidden Hollywood: The Pre-Code Era (1930-1934). When Sin Ruled the Movies, when picking up my press credentials to cover the 10th TCM Classics Film Festival. Then I interviewed the author, in the offices of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and I discovered a like-minded soul. Like …

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Play or Pass? An Examination into Why Actors Choose to Step Away from Or Remain in Controversial Roles

Leave a Comment / Film, TV / By Dwight Moore

We are proud to publish Hollywood Lens Z, a series of student essays written in partial fulfillment of Dr. Kathleen Tarr’s first-year course taught in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, “That’s Entertainment! The Rhetoric of Hollywood’s Inequities.” “Women, poor people, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, …

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Sundance Takeaway: Content Wars, Talent Wars

Leave a Comment / Film / By Adam Leipzig

$13 million. $14 million. $15 million. Numbers most if us didn’t expect to see at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. But there those numbers were, along with a host of others in the millions, proffered by Amazon and Netflix, New Line and Neon and HBO. As one smaller distributor said to me at the Brunch …

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Young Faces in Movies

Leave a Comment / Film / By Elisa Leonelli

It feels like a breath of fresh air to see so many new faces among the young protagonists of movies released in 2018, and they come in a variety of ethnicities and nationalities, which is a reflection of our vitally multicultural American society. Elsie Fisher, 15, from California, plays a 13-year-old middle schooler who posts …

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The Last Three Dancing…for NOW

Leave a Comment / Dance / By Ann Haskins

Minnesota modern dance rocks Hollywood, Native American ballerinas celebrated downtown, Greek tragedy finale in West L.A., dance festival mixing it up in Santa Monica, last chance for NOW downtown, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. War—Huh! What is it good for? Last chance to see the latest 21st century exploration of classical plays involving …

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