Aero Theatre Articles

Agnès Varda at the Aero: Part I Friday, June 26 – 7:30 PM Los Angeles-Inspired: LIONS LOVE (AND LIES), 1969, Ciné-Tamaris, 110 min. A blissed-out experiment in anarchy and illusion, featuring Warhol superstar Viva (from LONESOME COWBOYS) and "Hair" authors James Rado and Jerome Ragni playing "themselves" — three innocents adrift in Hollywood. Freely mixing improvisation with scripted dialogue, and occasional news reports on the [...]

Except for Vagabond, a 1985 drama that earned Sandrine Bonnaire best actress awards from both the French Academy and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, I’m unfamiliar with Agnès Varda’s oeuvre, which encompasses more than 40 films — both shorts and features, narrative and documentaries — spanning 54 years (1954-2008). Well, I’ll now have the chance to rectify that glaring omission in my cinematic connoisseurship [...]

Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Martina Gedeck in The Lives of Others (middle); Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom) The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present all five foreign-language films nominated for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards at The Aero’s Max Palevsky Theatre in Santa Monica. The five nominees are: Apocalypto (U.S.) El laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain / Mexico / U.S.) [...]