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“Authentic portrayals have pitfalls," Clyde Taylor said in his keynote speech at the L.A. Rebellion Symposium on Saturday, November 12. This statement seemed to describe the entire L.A.

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
November 16, 2011 - 10:27 am

Fragrance writer, director Gay Abel-Bey’s MFA thesis project at UCLA is a touching film with a strong classic, old Hollywood veneer that makes witnessing crisis points in the film’s family easier to watch.  The debate over who should fight in a war and for what purpose is superb fodder for a film’s

Signature image for L.A. Rebellion is a still from Ashes & Embers (1982)
November 16, 2011 - 10:24 am

Rain, a short film by Melvonna Ballenger, offers the audience “a chance to recollect, a cool out,” and after all we’ve seen and heard about the L.A.

The protagonist in As Above, So Below is Jita-Hadi, a marine who has recently returned to the U.S. from fighting in Vietnam. Jita-Hadi meets a woman in a cafe and recounts his experiences in the military to her.  Jita-Hadi explains that he was forced to aid the U.S.

Anyone following the L.A. Rebellion film series has probably noticed that the film term ‘neorealism’ comes up a lot in discussions of the films.

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