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  • Los Angeles Opera says ticket sales jump in its anniversary season

    Los Angeles Opera says ticket sales jump in its anniversary season

    Los Angeles Opera said unaudited figures for its recently ended 30th anniversary season show a 19.9% increase in the number of tickets sold and a 27.6% rise in ticket revenue compared with the previous season. L.A. Opera sold 118,565 tickets for the 2015-16 season, compared with 98,861 for 2014-15,...

  • Still waters don't always run deep in dreamy romantic drama 'How He Fell in Love'

    Still waters don't always run deep in dreamy romantic drama 'How He Fell in Love'

    “How He Fell in Love” is a far more pensive, less sentimental romantic drama than its moony title might imply. To that end, writer-director Marc Meyers takes an effectively naturalistic, quasi-European approach to telling this Gotham-set tale of a misjudged affair, allowing scenes to breathe when...

  • Documentary 'At the Fork' opens our eyes to the food we eat

    Documentary 'At the Fork' opens our eyes to the food we eat

    Persuasively putting a face on the meals most of America consumes regularly without coming across as a sanctimonious expose, “At the Fork” serves up an even-handed perspective on the subject of eating ethically. Meat-eating filmmaker John Papola, at the behest of his longtime vegetarian wife, Lisa...

  • Director Henry Jaglom proves there's no business like show business with 'Ovation'

    Director Henry Jaglom proves there's no business like show business with 'Ovation'

    Veteran filmmaker and actor Henry Jaglom’s 20th feature film is the backstage drama “Ovation,” a story that takes place over the course of a week in and around a struggling small stage production of “The Rainmaker.” Tanna Frederick is a standout as Maggie, the breakout star of the show, torn between...

  • 'Fathers and Daughters' burns out of control

    'Fathers and Daughters' burns out of control

    “Fathers and Daughters” might as well have been titled “Daddy Issues: The Movie,” lazily relying on that old chestnut that women who have complicated relationships with their fathers become self-destructive sex addicts — until of course, they find a man who reminds them of dad. That’s the overarching...

  • Heavy-handed 'Dog Lover' takes aim at activists

    Heavy-handed 'Dog Lover' takes aim at activists

    Feeble title aside, Alex Ranarivelo’s “The Dog Lover” would initially appear to be a standard issue, if heavy-handed, family-oriented drama about a young woman who goes undercover as a college intern to gather evidence against a suspected puppy mill operation. Considered an emerging talent at the...

  • Hong Kong sequel 'Cold War 2' is a glossy, forgettable procedural

    Hong Kong sequel 'Cold War 2' is a glossy, forgettable procedural

    It’s comforting to know that Hollywood isn’t the only place that produces needless sequels to box-office hits. Case in point: “Cold War 2,” the underwhelming follow-up to Hong Kong’s highest-grossing domestic film of 2012. “Cold War” directors Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, who co-wrote here with...

  • L.A. theater openings, July 10-17: 'Space' and more

    L.A. theater openings, July 10-17: 'Space' and more

    This week: A dark comedy about a man released from a mental institution, the L.A. premiere of a musical inspired by a famous documentary, and the West Coast premiere of a musical adaptation of a beloved novel. All Shook Up Jukebox musical, with book by Joe Dipietro, inspired by Shakespeare’s “Twelfth...

  • Garth Brooks 24/7 Sirius XM channel to launch Sept. 8

    Garth Brooks 24/7 Sirius XM channel to launch Sept. 8

    Garth Brooks fans will soon be able to hear the country superstar’s music 24/7 when Sirius XM satellite radio service launches a new Garth Brooks channel for its subscribers. The Garth Channel will premiere Sept. 8 and will be curated and presented by Brooks, who joins a short list of pop musicians...

  • Michael Cimino's 'The Deer Hunter' and Hollywood's belated response to the Vietnam War

    Michael Cimino's 'The Deer Hunter' and Hollywood's belated response to the Vietnam War

    Right from the start, Hollywood struggled with the Vietnam War, a conflict that deeply divided public opinion and defied easy representation on-screen. The 1968 John Wayne film “The Green Berets,” released at the height of the conflict, was an old-fashioned war drama and ignored the moral gray...

  • UCLA Archive launches Kirk Douglas Centennial Celebration

    UCLA Archive launches Kirk Douglas Centennial Celebration

    This is the year when Kirk Douglas, one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars, will celebrate his 100th birthday. To mark the event the UCLA Film & Television Archive has put together a massive series that will run from the beginning of July through the end of September showcasing the range of his films....

  • The tragedy of the Ramones gets rewritten for the theater

    The tragedy of the Ramones gets rewritten for the theater

    “I think punk rock needs an ‘Amadeus,’ ” says actor-turned playwright John Ross Bowie, referencing Peter Shaffer’s 1979 drama chronicling the tension between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. He believes he’s found it in “Four Chords and a Gun,” a new play that opened this week at the...

  • Flying Lotus makes directorial debut, announced Brainfeeder film division

    Flying Lotus makes directorial debut, announced Brainfeeder film division

    Flying Lotus’ music has always been influenced by a profound visual and directorial sensibility: His shorts with Kahlil Joseph and Eddie Alcazar are essential works in his long catalog. Now the producer born Steven Ellison is making the connection official: He has announced both a new film division...

  • Jimmy Webb is returning to MacArthur Park on July 9 to sing 'MacArthur Park'

    Jimmy Webb is returning to MacArthur Park on July 9 to sing 'MacArthur Park'

    It’s time to whip up another batch of sweet green icing: Songwriter Jimmy Webb will return to Los Angeles for a performance July 9 at MacArthur Park, where he will sing his iconic 1968 ballad “MacArthur Park” in the place that inspired him to write it. It will be just the second time he has sung...

  • Miike Snow, Zhu to headline the latest CRSSD Fest

    Miike Snow, Zhu to headline the latest CRSSD Fest

    The fourth edition of San Diego’s CRSSD will take a slightly darker, all-club-music tone. The biannual dance music festival, which takes place Oct. 1-2 at downtown San Diego’s Waterfront Park, will sport the Swedish electronic pop act Miike Snow and the brooding house music producer Zhu atop the...

  • Arts patron and Gemini G.E.L. co-founder Elyse Grinstein dies; brought artists together in the '60s and '70s

    Arts patron and Gemini G.E.L. co-founder Elyse Grinstein dies; brought artists together in the '60s and '70s

    The art parties at Elyse and Stanley Grinstein’s sprawling, Spanish-style home in the 1960s and ’70s were legendary. They would rent a jukebox and clear out the living room furniture for wild dancing that would continue into the wee hours. Artists and entertainers would come from around Los Angeles...

  • Ivan Reitman to the 'Ghostbusters' haters: Wait and see

    Ivan Reitman to the 'Ghostbusters' haters: Wait and see

    Paul Feig’s new “Ghostbusters” movie has been one of the most scrutinized of the year, with a flood of pre-release debate over the need for an update. Then there’s that much-disliked trailer. But Ivan Reitman, the mastermind behind the original and a guiding force on the new film, has a message:...

  • Marvel's new Iron Man will be a 15-year-old Iron Woman of color

    Marvel's new Iron Man will be a 15-year-old Iron Woman of color

    Step aside, Tony Stark. A new Iron Man is in town, and she goes by the name of Riri Williams.  In Marvel Comics’ relaunch of “Invincible Iron Man,” a 15-year-old black woman will take over Stark’s role and step into the armor for a more contemporary superheroine story.   The cover of "Invincible...

  • Sundance Next Fest brings an 'indie oasis' to Los Angeles with new movie lineup

    Sundance Next Fest brings an 'indie oasis' to Los Angeles with new movie lineup

    The Sundance Next Fest program was announced Wednesday, filling in most of the gaps for the fourth installment of an event that has become a Los Angeles summer fixture. A mix of movies with post-screening events that brings films from January’s Utah-based Sundance Film Festival to Los Angeles,...

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