Culture
Cuban film ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’ to screen in L.A.
July 20, 2018Marx@200: The Marxist Movie Series, continues July 26th with a screening of one of socialist Cuba’s most popular films, co-director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s international award-winning Strawberry and Chocolate. This 1993 film, which premiered in Havana and...
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‘Game Girls’: An unfiltered documentary on being Black, lesbian, and homeless
July 19, 2018The unfiltered, and at times unsettling film forces us to acknowledge that the crisis of homelessness is not just faceless statistics.
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World premiere love story ‘Arrival & Departure’ features Deaf and hearing actors
July 17, 2018In Stephen Sachs reinterpretation, Sam, a Deaf man (Troy Kotsur), and Emily, a hard-of-hearing woman (Deanne Bray), two married strangers, meet by chance in a New York City subway station. Their casual friendship evolves over the...
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Picking up sticks and stones at Woody Fest 2018
July 16, 2018In the hometown where Woody grew up, Okemah, Okla, each year around his birthday the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival takes place. It’s sorta an old hippie crowd along with progressive young persons desiring to connect to...
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Two South Seas cinema superstars open in ‘Skyscraper’ and ‘Siberia’
July 13, 2018Skyscraper It never fails to amaze (and amuse) how movies mirror reality as emanations of the collective psyche. Just days after the premiere of The First Purge, about a race war aimed at exterminating African Americans...
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