Art and Culture

Timothée Chalamet couldn’t have hit a lower note among his artistic peers last week.The “Marty Supreme” actor’s recent comments dismissing ballet and opera as arts “no one cares about” led to public ridicule and backlash within the…
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I teach a course on AI and filmmaking at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and lately, rather than planning each session well in advance, I’ve been structuring the class the night before. I’ll browse platforms like X, Substack and…
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Nominations: Oscars, SAG, BAFTA, PGA, GG, Critics Choice Wins: BAFTA, PGA, GG, Critics Choice “One Battle After Another” marks the third consecutive Best Picture nominee for director Paul Thomas…
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Uh … how’s that First Amendment doing? Carr “accused the news media of wanting the United States to lose the war.” – The New York Times Source link
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Stars arrive while the red carpet is hot, literally Shortly before 2 p.m., under the gaze of the Ripley’s Believe It or Not!’s cartoonish T-Rex figure that keeps watch over Hollywood Boulevard, stars like “One Battle…
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For Kate Hawley, designer for Frankenstein, “her first directive from the filmmaker was color, color, color. ‘It was all part of rebelling against the sea of black’ in a typical Victorian-era story, she said.” – Seattle…
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It’s Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles, and you’re trapped in an Escalade, inching through traffic on your way to the Oscars, glamorously attired for the celebration but wishing you felt a little more festive. Instead, you’re monitoring…
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After missteps, Warner Bros’ new “strategy was a roaring success that evoked the studio’s prior glories and served as a reminder that if you let smart directors make great movies, even in a streaming world, audiences will go out to the…
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A new venture in Los Angeles brings the Shakespeare Center and local veterans together for a year-long learning and writing experience. They perform today, and the program is billed as “written by the Ensemble of Veterans In Art &…
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“I love watching people play music,” the director Rachel Chavkin wrote me in an email this week. That makes two of us. We weren’t just chatting about our clubgoing tastes. I was in conversation with Chavkin about two shows in…
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