FILM/SNEAK PEEK : CITY OF ANGELS FEST MELDS RELIGION, FILM.While ``The Devil's Advocate'' is playing at dozens of movie theaters around town, God gets some screen time this weekend in the fourth annual City of Angels Film Festival. The festival's general purpose is to bring together filmmakers and theologians for serious discussions about the role of religion in the arts and other issues. The theme for this year's festival, running today through Sunday, is ``Seeking to Connect: Outsiders and Community on Screen.'' The slate includes Charles Chaplin's 1931 classic ``City Lights,'' ``What's Eating Gilbert Grape,'' ``Taxi Driver taxi driver n → taxista m/f taxi driver taxi n → chauffeur m de taxi taxi driver taxi n → ,'' ``Zoot Suit'' and ``The Year of Living Dangerously.'' All films will be screened at the Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd Sunset BLVD is unreleased material and remixes by the rapper 2Pac. It was released on September 12, 2005 internationally and the United States. Track listing
For tickets and schedule information, call (818) 304-3775. Israel festival The 14th Israel Film Festival is under way in Beverly Hills, showcasing more than 50 new features, documentaries, made-for-TV movies and miniseries as well as student productions. The weekend schedule includes ``Milky Way,'' about an Arab village devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. by the 1948 war; ``Minotaur,'' about an Israeli Mossad agent in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of who falls in love from afar with an American girl; and ``A Brief History of Love,'' about best friends going through midlife mid·life n. See middle age. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of middle age. crises together. All three are making their premieres at the festival. The festival continues through Nov. 20, with most films presented in Hebrew with English subtitles. Screenings are presented at Laemmele's Music Hall theater and the Writer's Guild of America theater, both on Wilshire Boulevard at Doheny Drive. For schedules and other information, call (213) 966-4166. Tickets are available through the Music Hall box office at (310) 274-6869 or Showtixx at (818) 789-8499. Beat it The Beat era, when free-form poetry, stout coffee and bongo bongo (bŏng`gō), spiral-horned antelope, Boocercus eurycerus, found in jungles and thick bamboo forests of equatorial Africa. Shy, elusive animals, bongos never emerge into the open and are seldom seen; they browse singly or in small drums were where it was at, is being celebrated during the Los Angeles County Museum Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Calif. The original museum opened in 1913. Among its important patrons was William Randolph Hearst, whose enormous collection brought the museum major status among the country's art houses. of Art's Beat Weekend. The screenings tonight and Saturday are sponsored by the museum's film department along with cable's Sundance Channel and Buzz magazine. The offerings include ``Pull My Daisy,'' a 1959 short narrated by Allen Ginsberg, documentaries on Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and ``The Last Beat Movie,'' a 1997 short about a filmmaker's cross-country search for ``the last beat in America.'' The films will be shown in the Bing Theatre at the museum, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. For tickets and schedule information, call LACMA LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA Los Angeles County Medical Association LACMA Latin American and Caribbean Movers Association at (213) 857-6010 or Ticketmaster at (213) 480-3232. Maltin on movies Leonard Maltin, the film critic and historian who put out the first edition of his popular movie guide in 1969 when he was 18, will be the guest Saturday for American Cinematheque's ``One Night Stand With ...'' lecture series. The program begins at 8 p.m. with the screening of one of Maltin's favorite films, ``One Way Passage,'' a 1932 romance starring William Powell and Kay Francis (which rates 3-1/2 stars in his book). It will be followed by Maltin's in-depth discussion on the movie. The event takes place at Raleigh Studios' Charlie Chaplin Theater, 5300 Melrose Ave., Hollywood. Tickets, priced at $7 for the general public and $4 for American Cinematheque members, are available through Showtixx at (818) 789-8499. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: ``The Year of Living Dangerously,'' with Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver, is part of the fourth annual City of Angels Film Festival. |
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