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V.I. Lenin proclaimed: “For us, the cinema is the most important of the arts.” The leader of the Russian Revolution said this around 1922, the year Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts rose to power in Italy, and later decreed: “Film work facilitates fascist penetration.

LOS ANGELES — Since 1898, when a Thomas Edison camera crew on location in Honolulu shot the first footage ever filmed in the Pacific Islands, the South Seas Cinema movie genre has been dominated by Haole (Caucasians) male filmmakers lensing productions primarily for the consumption of Haole audien...

The powerful 1979 documentary “The Wobblies” is being revived, offering a contemporary look at the United States’ most militant union.

 A comic spy thriller by two-time Emmy nominee and WGA award-winner Mark Wilding (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, Good Girls, Charmed) is set to receive its New York City off-Broadway premiere in September.

A new PBS docuseries explores the campaign of lies that’s blocked efforts to protect the planet.

Like other nationalities, Hollywood has manufactured cinematic stereotypes of the French. Unlike Tinseltown movies such as 1951’s An American in Paris, 1954’s The Last Time I Saw Paris, 1964’s Audrey Hepburn-William Holden comedy Paris When It Sizzles, and 1972’s Last Tango in Paris, there a...

The star-powered documentary about the United Farm Workers celebrates the art of organizing.

LOS ANGELES — Assassins, with music and lyrics by the legendary Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman, based on a concept by Charles Gilbert Jr., is a bold choice for the venerable East West Players to reopen with after having been shuttered for almost two years.

Academy Award-winning Danish director Bille August’s screen adaptation of Thorkild Bjørnvig’s (played by Simon Bennebjerg) memoir The Pact, about his experiences with the celebrated Out of Africa novelist Karen Blixen (portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 1985 Sydney Pollack-directed film of the sa...

Academy Award-winning Danish director Bille August’s screen adaptation of Thorkild Bjørnvig’s (played by Simon Bennebjerg) memoir The Pact, about his experiences with the celebrated Out of Africa novelist Karen Blixen (portrayed by Meryl Streep in the 1985 Sydney Pollack-directed film of the sa...