A Fashionable First: Oscar de la Renta Full-Scale Retrospective
Ruffles. Roses. Romanticism. All key ingredients that contributed to the lasting genius of one of the world’s most influential designers, Oscar de la Renta. Admirers of the late, great fashion designer will not want to miss the magnificent retrospective of his work currently on display at the acclaimed de Young Museum, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is the first major survey to celebrate the life and career of de...
A Piece of Janis Joplin’s Heart in ‘Little Girl Blue’
The recent death of Prince sparked a revelation for director Amy Berg, who just spent eight years immersed in the life of another musical legend, Janis Joplin, culminating in the feature documentary “Janis: Little Girl Blue,” which she also wrote and produced. Flash back to the fall of 1970. Less than three weeks after Jimi Hendrix died, the world mourned another drug overdose death of a larger-than-life musician, the...
‘City of Gold’ a Glittery Look at LA’s Food Scene from its Top Critic
Rarely have the city of Los Angeles and surrounding Southern California environments looked so delicious as they do in “City of Gold,” a documentary following Pulitzer prize-winning food critic Jonathan Gold as he traverses the area’s culinary culture in his big, black Dodge pickup truck. With his byline in the Los Angeles Times, Gold has single-handedly changed the face of restaurant criticism by uncovering the city’s undiscovered...
The Verdict Comes In for ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’
Just as it was more than 20 years ago during the so-called Trial of the Century, the nation appears to still be riveted by the case of O.J. Simpson and the accusations that he murdered his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. FX’s 10-part limited series “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” which concludes Tuesday night with an episode titled “The Verdict,” has garnered some of the highest...
‘Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures’ a Revelatory View of an Iconic Artist
Even as HBO’s “Vinyl” presents a fictionalized look at the music and drug scene in New York in the 1970s, its new feature-length documentary “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” presents the real world art, gay and drug scene of the era as it delves inside the life and times of the controversial photographer whose work continues to resonate decades after his death. The title of the film is a quote from the ultraconservative Sen....
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