‘The White Ribbon’: The totalitarian in all of us

In his last movie, the unwatchable Funny Games, German-born filmmaker Michael Haneke punished a bourgeois American family by having them tied up and tortured by two preppy psychopaths (the film was a remake of Haneke’s own 1997 German-language version). Prior to that, in the compelling Caché, [...]

Somehow, we missed Press-Telegram reporter Kris Hanson’s latest port report yesterday–which is too bad, because it kinda reads like a script for the TV series The Fabulous Life of … .
The “of” in this case is Port of Long Beach harbor commissioners, Mayor Bob Foster and Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal, who have flown many [...]

Life is a cabaret

GOLDFARB’S “DANCING WITH THE TIGERS III”
It’s been a while since Long Beach had Serious Art around, being grand and weighty and muy importante—and honestly, I don’t think I’ve missed it. Here, even our most successful artists leaven their weightiness with some tasty irony—usually in the immortal form of the spork—and I may [...]