If there’s one thing The Four Hipsters of the Apocalypse ““ the four immaculately dressed editors who run the arts and entertainment section ““ hate, it’s publicists. Read more...

“Tale of Cinema” Directed by Hong Sang-soo Undistributed Of Korea’s major directors, Hong Sang-soo may be the least marketable. This is a tall order, considering his relatively tame content contains none of the extreme sadomasochism ““ a man mutilating himself by swallowing a line of fishhooks in Kim Ki-duk’s “The Isle,” another pulling teeth as a form of torture in Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy” ““ often associated with the recent cinema from the country. Read more...

Richard Kline has been a cinematographer longer than most UCLA students have been alive ““ long enough to remember a time when artistic innovation was not as appreciated in the film industry as it is now. Read more...

Beth Orton “Comfort of Strangers” Astralwerks Records In 1996, Beth Orton was canonized into the genre of trip-hop with her debut “Trailer Park,” which established her as the woman who brought folk-rock sensibility to the burgeoning electronic generation. Read more...

You can tell a lot about a party, or party-goers for that matter, by checking out the food table. One of my good friends from high school best summed up this idea when we were in the middle of a fight over how much food to buy for a party we were hosting together. Read more...

Most would argue that Japanese anime and the American theater have little to do with each other. The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble’s production of Adam Rapp’s “Stone Cold Dead Serious,” however, manages to fuse the two together, albeit not seamlessly. Read more...

Polaroid photographs remind us of childhood birthday parties and other usually embarrassing events only worthy of inexpensive documentation. Most people would agree that these photographs hardly constitute art worthy of space in a museum. Read more...