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City of Lights City of Angels - COLCOA-French Film Festival 2011

Posted by Eric Brightwell, April 11, 2011 01:00pm | Post a Comment
COLCOA-FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 2011

COLCOA-French Film Festival 2011

Today the COLCOA-French Film Festival 2011 gets underway. For the next week, audiences will be able to catch the premiers of French films in LA at the Directors Guild of America, 7920 Sunset Blvd

Bertrand Blier

On the 18th, two films will be screened again at 7:30. Bertrand Blier is the subject of this year's director focuses and, as such, his new film, Le Bruit des glaçons, is premiering. 1979's Buffet froid is also screening.

To get the full schedule and for more information, click here to go to the official website.

Tustin - The City of the Trees

Posted by Eric Brightwell, April 9, 2011 01:00am | Comments (1)

TUSTIN

Tustin
Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of Tustin


This blog entry is about Tustin, a city in north Orange County surrounded by North Tustin to the north, Irvine to the south, Santa Ana to the west and the Santa Ana Mountains to the east. Within its borders are the distinct neighborhoods of Old Town, the hyper-planned, mixed-use Tustin Legacy and upscale, golf-centric Tustin Ranch.

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Japan Film Festival Los Angeles

Posted by Eric Brightwell, April 8, 2011 03:33pm | Post a Comment
Japan Film Festival Los Angeles 2011

The Japan Film Festival Los Angeles gets underway today with screenings in Hollywood, Irvine and Little Tokyo and goes until April 17th. Directors Kinshiro Ogino, Katsuhito Kobayashi, Kenji Kobayashi, Lisa Takeba, Hidetaka Inazuka and producer Shoichi Kawahara are scheduled to appear at various events. Click here to check out the website for scheduling, tickets and plot descriptions.

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Somebody Called Me Australian - Music Videos Part III - The Australian Age

Posted by Eric Brightwell, April 7, 2011 07:00pm | Post a Comment
This blog entry is part of a series on the history of music videos in the pre-MTV era. Part I dealt with the era from 1890s-1940s. Part II covered the 1940s-1960s. This section focuses on Australia's domination of music videos, beginning in the 1970s.

Videos took off in Australia largely because the country is a dang continent and back in the day traveling across it was harder than just moving to England and getting famous there, something which many Aussie bands have done… and probably continue to do. So rather than drive through bush fires and blizzards to get from Perth to play to seven larrikins in Brisbane, music videos were increasingly used to promote bands.

 

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Northwest Passage - A Northwest Los Angeles County Primer

Posted by Eric Brightwell, April 4, 2011 03:30pm | Post a Comment
NORTHWEST LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Map of Northwest Los Angeles County
Pendersleigh & Sons' Official Map of Northwest Los Angeles County
 
 

Mountainous Northwest Los Angeles County is dominated by the Angeles National Forest and boasts numerous reservoirs, wilderness, and winding, scenic roads. In the northern portion there's a series of small towns located around a series of sag ponds. The southern, San Fernando Valley-adjacent towns tend to be booming suburbs by contrast. For centuries, the dramatic landscape supported the Chumash, Kitanemuk and Tataviam nations. Today, most of it is still sparsely populated in comparison to other parts of Los Angeles County. The region is surrounded by affluent Ventura County to the west, the sprawling Central Valley to the north, the somewhat post-apocalyptic desertscape of the Antelope Valley to the northeast, the fairly pristine Angeles Forest to the southeast, and the famed San Fernando Valley to the south. The overall population is approximately 67% white, 21% Latino, 6% Asian and 3% black.

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