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Making Tracks

Chris Morris
BOBBY FULLER El Paso Rock Volume 2: More Early Recordings (Norton) THE BOBBY FULLER FOUR Never To Be Forgotten (Mustang) One recent Saturday night, I idly tuned in to the Arts & Entertainment network, the "All Crime All the Time Channel." Between a Gary Gilmore flashback and an awful TV......

Design for Living

Paul Malcolm
In Dark City, the latest visual nightmare from writer-director Alex Proyas (The Crow), a race of Nosferatu-like beings manipulates the memories of humans as part of a fiendish experiment. The Strangers, as they're called, also exert their will on the very look and layout of the urban milieu they use......

South of Your Border

Ernest Hardy
MEN WITH GUNS Written and directed by JOHN SAYLES Produced by R. PAUL MILLER and MAGGIE RENZI Starring FEDERICO LUPPI DAMIÁN DELGADO DAN RIVERA GONZÁLEZ and DAMIÁN ALCÁZAR Released by Sony Pictures Classics At Laemmle's Sunset 5 and the Los Feliz 3 "Every man should leave a legacy, something he......

Passion Play

Manohla Dargis
MEAN STREETS Directed by MARTIN SCORSESE Written by SCORSESE and MARDIK MARTIN Produced by JONATHAN T. TAPLIN Starring HARVEY KEITEL ROBERT DE NIRO DAVID PROVAL and AMY ROBINSON Released by Warner Bros. At the Nuart, March 13-19 Looking at Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets again, 25 years after its initial release,......
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Branded by Plath

Brendan Bernhard
Ted Hughes is the Prince Charles of modern poetry, the man who spurned the woman women love. (He is also poet laureate to the queen.) Birthday Letters, a long, sometimes rambling series of poems recounting his six-year marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath, puts him in a uniquely difficult......
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Retro Crusader

Stacie Stukin
L.A. OBSCURA: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman At USC FISHER GALLERY Harris Hall Through April 18 As Julius Shulman looks back on pictures he took of downtown L.A. in 1970, Southern California's premier architectural photographer gets a bit nostalgic. "I was there when the city was a virgin," he......
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Self-Partnering

Sasha Anawalt
Daniel Ezralow is sitting in the darkened Freud Playhouse at UCLA, watching a technical run-through of his one-man multimedia show, Mandala. "I dance with that guy," he says as I find my way to a seat. He's pointing to a film of a man trudging along a stretch of beach......
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Larry Johnson

Brian Baltin
LARRY JOHNSON At MARGO LEAVIN GALLERY 812 N. Robertson Blvd. Through March 21 Larry Johnson's work at its best is like a fine rare cocktail - a Bloodhound, perhaps, or a Corpse Reviver, or a London Fog - a heady riot of Ektacolor meant to be savored, and to disorient......
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Sharon Lockhart

Ingrid Calame
SHARON LOCKHART: Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team At BLUM & POE 2042 Broadway, Santa Monica Through March 28 Using society's two most seductive mediums for both telling stories and selling dreams, Sharon Lockhart's photographs and films know how to tease. In her most recent work, a 63-minute film, Goshogaoka, which screened......
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Jazz Central

L.A. Weekly
If you think of L.A.’s past as a movie, you will find the city’s nondominant classes and races on the cutting-room floor. You already know the starring roles, which are nailed down by a familiar cast of wealthy celebrities from William Mulholland to O.J. Simpson. That viewpoint becomes history, and......