Goings on. LA.

"Jon Jost [site] may well be the most important American filmmaker who remains virtually unknown to moviegoers," suggests Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times. "The perverse irony is that although his films aren't readily accessible in theaters, they are in themselves highly accessible." His latest is La Lunga Ombra, "a beautiful, elliptical meditation on the aftermath of 9/11 in Europe, in particular its effect on three Italian women deeply touched on a personal level by the chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan," screening Sunday in LA, courtesy of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. See acquarello's review as well. And Jost's Homecoming screens Thursday at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Jost will be present on both evenings.

"Since its inception, [City of Lights, City of Angels] has offered local moviegoers a rare opportunity to don honorary French citizenship for a week and see movies the way the French public does - that is, the same mix of highbrow and lowbrow, mainstream and off-the-beaten-path, that can regularly be found playing in any decent Paris cinema, as opposed to the rather narrow selection of haute-bourgeois comedies, lavish period epics and other ready-for-export offerings of le cinéma français that make their annual pilgrimage to American art-house screens," writes Scott Foundas in the LA Weekly. April 16 through 22.

The LAT notes the opening of the Vietnamese International Film Festival, through Sunday and April 19 through 22.

For the LA CityBeat, Andy Klein talks with Bill Plympton about Hair High, opening at Laemmle's Sunset 5.

Posted by dwhudson at April 13, 2007 2:47 PM