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- Critic's Notebook: As the sitcom turns…
- In Rotation: Jessica Lea Mayfield's 'Tell Me'
- Reel China: Targets an elusive film fan — the Chinese American
- Everyone's doing the 'Dougie,' but what's next for Cali Swag District?
- Cultural Exchange: 'Presumed Guilty' turns the lens on Mexico's legal system
- A Second Look: 'Yi Yi'
- SXSW Day 5: Screeching Weasel fallout and L.A.'s Foster the People win over Austin
Critic's Notebook: As the sitcom turns… Posted: Like some form of comedic Darwinism, the basic premise that launched a TV series often is nowhere to be found a season or two down the line as the show morphs into whatever it might need to be to survive and flourish. Most TV series begin with a premise. (Some begin with a star, around whom a premise is molded.) It is desirable, given the many discussions it takes to bring a show to fruition — to pilot, to market — that some sort of compact, comprehensible theme be stated. A picture painted in words, the hint of the beginning of a story: the situation in the situation comedy. A man finds himself married to a witch, a snob gets a job in a bar, a hot blond moves in across the hall from a pair of socially awkward physicists. |
In Rotation: Jessica Lea Mayfield's 'Tell Me' Posted: 19 Mar 2011 06:43 PM PDT |
Reel China: Targets an elusive film fan — the Chinese American Posted: |
Everyone's doing the 'Dougie,' but what's next for Cali Swag District? Posted: The band's full-length 'Kickback' is mired in label upheaval. What a difference a dance makes. Eighteen months ago, the Cali Swag District consisted of four largely anonymous Inglewood teenagers making R&B/hip-hop hybrids and everything in between. They got nowhere. Then it filmed the video for "Teach Me How to Dougie," the biggest domestic dance phenomenon since Soulja Boy taught a nation of online video novices how to "Crank Dat" in 2007. |
Cultural Exchange: 'Presumed Guilty' turns the lens on Mexico's legal system Posted: Antonio Zuniga was convicted twice despite a flimsy case. 'Presumed Guilty' shows the fight to get him free. The documentary is a huge success in Mexico. A young man is arrested off the street for a fatal shooting he did not commit. Never mind that he has an alibi and witnesses. Never mind that ballistics tests show no sign of gunpowder on his hands. Never mind that the young man who fingers him does so belatedly, and then can't describe him. |
Posted: Edward Yang's final film is a delicate, assured exploration of a year in the life of one Taiwanese family. A three-hour drama that spans a year in the life of a middle-class Taipei family, Edward Yang's "Yi Yi" (2000) opens with a wedding and closes with a funeral. It's a film that includes a birth and a death and encompasses just about everything in between, from the awkward pangs of first love to the persistent stirrings of middle-aged regret. |
SXSW Day 5: Screeching Weasel fallout and L.A.'s Foster the People win over Austin Posted: 19 Mar 2011 07:22 PM PDT |
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