The year is 1994. Kurt Cobain committed suicide in April. Kristen Pfaff, bassist of the Courtney Love-fronted band Hole, was found dead by heroin overdose in June. Two months later, Hole was on tour for its second album, duly called “Live Through This.”
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Movie Review: “Monsieur Lazhar”
Suicide is a jarring, tragic event that often cannot be explained. A teacher’s suicide, especially one committed in an elementary school classroom, is even more unthinkable.
Movie Review: 'The Kid with a Bike'
The character of the orphaned boy is no stranger to the history of film and literature. But then again, you haven’t met 11-year-old Cyril in “The Kid with a Bike” (“Le gamin au velo”), the French-language winner of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix, written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.
More than 40 films of Russian avant-garde artist Dziga Vertov are revived in cinema series
In a scene from the 1924 silent film “Kino-Eye,” a slice of beef from the marketplace flies back into the cow. The audience sees the cow’s skin come back on the bone and a knife cut across the cow’s throat in reverse, bringing the cow back to life, back to the stockyard and then finally to the countryside from where it came.
Getty to showcase art produced in postwar Los Angeles in 'Pacific Standard Time' exhibits
When Judy Chicago came to study at UCLA in the late 1950s, she encountered an L.A. art scene that was largely male-dominated.
New literary journal The Rattling Wall comes to L.A.
There’s a new literary journal in town.
The Rattling Wall may sound like it took its name from a piece of literature, but in fact, its origins are much humbler.
Theater Review: “The Cripple of Inishmaan”
Billy Claven (Tadhg Murphy) is an orphaned, crippled boy who spends most of his time staring at cows and reading books on the island of Inishmaan off the Irish coast, where he lives with his two aunts.