UPDATED WITH EYEWITNESS REPORT ON DJ MOM PANTS!Johnny Cash, the revenge-minded father of a dead teen porn star, Bijou Phillips, Julius Shulman, Kelly Lynch, "Kevin" from The Office, Vilmos Zsigmond and a sour-faced Kristen Scott Thomas. No, these are not my ideal players in the perfect poker game but just some figures who have rocked my world so far at the Newport Beach Film Festival, which has reached the halfway point and continues through Thursday. Friday began with a bout of deja vu all over
The "French Spotlight" film Seraphine, which is from France and Belgium, was the big jury-award winner at the just-concluded 10th anniversary Newport Beach Film Festival. The film nearly swept the jury's feature-film categories, winning best film, actor (Ulrich Tukur), actress (Yolande Moreau), director (Martin Provost) and screenplay (Laurent Brunet). The only other jury award for a feature went to the Korean film Modern Boy for best cinematography.In Seraphine (pictured), Moreau plays the titu
Julius Shulman's most-famous shot.One of the better documentaries to screen at April's Newport Beach Film Festival was Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, a love letter to the 98-year-old, Brooklyn-born Angeleno who photographed the architectural modernism that sprang up in California in the 1930s thanks to Richard Neutra, Rudolh Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Harwell Hamilton Harris and others.
Eric Bricker's impressive, important and eye-ope
Photo by Gerard Smulevich courtesy of "Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman"Julius Shulman was passionate about his work.Many of those close to Julius Shulman gathered in a theater at Edwards Island Cinemas in Newport Beach in April to pay tribute to the Los Angeles photographer and subject of the documentary love letter Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius
Shulman. One of those closest to the 98-year-old in his later years, Rose Nielsen of the Woodbury
Institute, told those wh
