Tokyo Drifter, screening this weekend, “smacks you in the face with a bucket of WTF paint.” More»
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About: Juvenio L. Guerra
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Neon Hitmen
Tagged cinema, film series, free events, Japan, Japanese art, movies, Saturday programs
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Whispers and Shadows: Ray K. Metzker and “Street Noir”
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“I imagine the people in Metzker’s photographs as supporting characters in a film noir—captured on an average day, precisely at the loneliest moment before the cruel twist of fate takes hold.” More»
Tagged cinema, film noir, movies, Ray K. Metzker
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Victims of Soicumstance: My Automatic Visual Reactions to Messerschmidt
A room full of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s Character Heads—currently at the Getty Center as part of the exhibition Messerschmidt and Modernity—may be the best place in L.A. right now to observe neurobiological reactions to human expression. The heads are not… More»
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Portraits of Brute and Brood
“Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you always feel too much.” —Marlon Brando “Only the gentle are ever really strong.” —James Dean Beyond fitting, this weekend’s concluding film series What Becomes a Legend offers the increasingly rare opportunity to… More»
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World War Zinnemann
From Casablanca to Saving Private Ryan, the horrors and heroisms of World War II have provided decades of cinematic material. However, as director Fred Zinnemann masterfully demonstrated, meticulous exploration of the human experience—both immediately before the war (The Seventh Cross,… More»
Tagged events, film series, Fred Zinnemann, GRI, Montgomery Clift, movies
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Cocteau Dreams, In Nitrate
“One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.”―Jean Cocteau We’re offering an array of films… More»
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The Ordinary Becomes Mystical: A Conversation with Betye Saar
On a Sunday, you might find artist Betye Saar at the Pasadena College flea market, scouting for treasures. The energetic 85-year-old is still an active hunter of offbeat and unusual objects, which she combines into sculptures filled with personal, spiritual,… More»
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Havana Mon Amour
This weekend, we’re screening a four-part film series, Soy Cuba!, that offers a brutal and beautiful look at Cuba through different perspectives in the 1960s (and one from 1959 with Our Man in Havana), a time of great transition and… More»
Tagged cinema, Cuba, events, film series, free events, movies
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Encuentros Quemando con Surreal Encanto
Digging for fire at the Getty Research Institute’s recent symposium Vivísimo Muerto: Debates on Surrealism in Latin America, I recalled Guillaume Apollinaire’s thoughts on what I believe to be the essence of Surrealism: “When man wanted to make a machine… More»
Tagged events, Latin America, lectures, Surrealism, symposium
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