Veronika Ferdman

Thurs., Feb. 16 The Egyptian hosts two great silent features directed by Charlie Chaplin, City Lights (1931) and A Woman of Paris (1923). City Lights features Chaplin's iconic Little Tramp, falling in love with a blind flower seller, while A Woman of Paris is one of his most tragic films,......

Thurs., Feb. 9 Eminent cartoon historian Jerry Beck returns to the Silent Movie Theatre for Valentoons, a program of love-centric cartoons in luscious Technicolor prints. The show marks the second day of Cinefamily's "Seven Days of Valentines" program, which continues with screenings of John Cassavetes' Minnie and Moskowitz and Cameron......

Thurs., Feb. 2There’s a Brendan Gleeson double feature at the New Beverly with two crime comedies, In Bruges (the feature debut of playwright Martin McDonagh, a major emerging talent) and The Guard. Fri., Feb. 3The UCLA Film and Television Archive is showing Tom Kalin’s New Queer Cinema classic Swoon, which......

Thurs., Jan. 26 Six films that are not to be missed are playing on three separate double bills across the city tonight. The Aero is having a night of Stacy Keach with Fat City, John Huston's pain-pulsating boxing drama of dreams far lost, and Richard Fleischer's The New Centurions. The......

Thurs., Jan. 19 The American Cinematheque kicks off the first night of its Luis Buñuel mini-retrospective with L'Age d'Or, his wildly surrealist first feature of thwarted consummation. It's playing on a double bill at the Aero with The Young and the Damned, a work of social realism about the travails......

Thurs., Dec. 8 The Aero starts off its Bigger Than Life: 70mm series with Jacques Tati's Playtime, the masterpiece that nearly led to his financial ruin. Tati reprises the comical character of Monsieur Hulot, a man at odds with the alienating technology of the ultramodern urban world. Across town at......

Thurs., Dec. 8 The Aero starts off its Bigger Than Life: 70mm series with Jacques Tati's Playtime, the masterpiece that nearly led to his financial ruin. Tati reprises the comical character of Monsieur Hulot, a man at odds with the alienating technology of the ultramodern urban world. Across town at......

 Director-writer-producer Angela Garcia Combs’s sophomore effort Nothing Special takes on the difficulty of mother-daughter relations as its central theme, but fails to broach new or interesting territory with the material. Louise (Julia Garcia Combs) is a successful insurance underwriter whose bi-polar mother May (Karen Black) has recently moved into her......

Herman Yau’s The Legend is Born – Ip Man is the last film in the semi-biographical Ip Man trilogy, which chronicles the life of one of China’s greatest martial artists. The final film of the trilogy, Legend ventures the furthest back in history to show the years of Ip Man’s......

 Kendall Nelson and Chris Pilaros’s The Greater Good is a social issue doc exploring the politics behind what it suggests is the over-vaccination of American kids, and the harmful side effects the vaccines can cause. Of the many affecting and effective stories relayed, Gabi Swank's is particularly heartbreaking. A high......