Michael Nordine

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Michael Nordine
Thursday, June 21 Cinefamily's Friday Night Frights series presents a special sneak preview of Alejandro Brugués' Juan of the Dead — so special, in fact, that it's happening on a Thursday. Brugués will be present for a Q&A about his Cuba-set zombie flick after the screening, though we may never......
Thursday Till Sunday

Los Angeles Film Festival 2012: Narrative Competition

Michael Nordine
The best films in LAFF's narrative competition all take place in the desert or on the road, sometimes both. Dominga Sotomayor's Thursday Till Sunday, for instance, concerns a family of four on what may well be their last road trip together. Sotomayor handles the proceedings of her debut with quiet......

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Michael Nordine
Thursday, June 14 The New Beverly is running an Abel Ferrara double feature, pairing his apocalyptic (yet appealingly low-key and moody) 4:44 Last Day on Earth with 1996's The Funeral, which stars Christopher Walken, Chris Penn and Vincent Gallo as mafioso brothers. The American Cinematheque's Rainer Werner Fassbinder retrospective concludes......
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Michael Nordine
Thurs., Aug. 11 Stop by Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills for rooftop cocktails at 7:30 p.m., followed by an outdoor screening of Jonas Mekas' Scenes From the Life of Andy Warhol beginning at 8:30. USC professor Richard Meyer will introduce the 36-minute film. Fri., Aug. 12 The second annual Latin......
Voluptuous Sleep Series

Betzy Bromberg's Voluptuous Sleep Series at REDCAT

Michael Nordine
A bifurcated commingling of the elemental and the cosmic, Betzy Bromberg's Voluptuous Sleep Series is cinema not only for the eyes and ears but for gray matter as well. At once hallucinatory and tranquil, the ever-flowing stream of images that comprises the film (there are no actors, dialogue or narrative)......