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Friday at AFI Fest 2017

Friday at AFI Fest 2017

Welcome to AFI Fest 2017 Presented by Audi. Hollywood and Highland is one of the epicenters for the entertainment industry. The Chinese Theatre (with its courtyard full of shoeprints and handprints) is the location for most of the gala events for the festival. The...

AFI Fest Celebrates Cinema’s Past

AFI Fest Celebrates Cinema’s Past

AFI Fest 2017 Presented by Audi runs November 9-17 in and around the Hollywood and Highland complex (also home to the Academy Awards). For those in the L.A. area, tickets for the festival are free, but you must go online to get the tickets. Besides bringing a variety...

Looking Ahead to AFI Fest 2017

Looking Ahead to AFI Fest 2017

This is the American Film Institute?s 50th year. (Thank you, President Johnson.) It was 30 years ago that AFI held its first AFI Los Angeles Film Festival. Now we are coming to the start of AFI Fest Presented by Audi held at and around the Hollywood and Highland...

The Work – Getting Inside on the Inside

The Work – Getting Inside on the Inside

Raw emotion is the driving force in the documentary The Work. In California?s Folsom State Prison, some of the inmates take part in group therapy to try to rehabilitate themselves. Twice a year, people from outside the prison come to take part in a four-day intensive...

Goodbye Christopher Robin: Identity Theft

Goodbye Christopher Robin: Identity Theft

Blue: ?Your childhood. . .? Billy: ?. . .Was wonderful. Growing up was hard.? In a time when people were famous just for being famous, a young boy?s father writes a book with him as a character. Soon, the whole world wants to know and meet the ?real? Christopher...

Blood Stripe: Unseen Wounds

Blood Stripe: Unseen Wounds

In Blood Stripe, a Marine sergeant (known only as Our Sergeant) returns from her latest deployment to start civilian life. She has a difficult time fitting in with family and friends. She finds much of her daily life meaningless. She is unable to sleep. She has...

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

The Meyerowitz family has spent their lives talking past each other. How can they find ways to say the important things that must be said? Noah Baumbach?s The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is a comic, yet painful look at a family that must struggle to get past...