Robert St. Martin
Robert aka Jim is a native Angelo, with a wide range of interests. He holds several academic degrees from Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Los Angeles, and UCLA, in English & Comparative Literature, History, and Education. He has been a teacher and university professor for many years and am still active in the academic community. Being an avid movie goer, he writes on film, including foreign-language cinema, feature films, documentaries, independent and experimental film. Having lived so long in Los Angeles, he is quite interested in the history of this particular city and appreciates its ethnic and racial diversity, as well as its fascinating history of filmmaking and popular music. As a world traveler, he has wandered into many fascinating corners of the globe and writes about his experiences.
FLESH AND FUEL: A French Long-Haul Truck Driver Finds a Deeper...
One pleasant surprise at this year’s AFI FEST was a French film directed by Pierre Le Gall and co-written with Camille Perton – FLESH...
Diary of a Chambermaid: Radu Jude’s Biting Update of the French...
Featured at this year’s AFI FEST, Radu Jude’s Diary of a Chambermaid is an interesting “variation on” Octave Mirbeau’s famous 1900 novel by the same novel....
ELEPHANTS IN THE FOG: A Thriller Set in a Transgender...
A fascinating and unexpected film from Nepal worth seeing is Elephants in the Fog, a senstitive debut by Abinash Bikfram Shah set in the...
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD: A Bullied Teenage Boy Plays Dead to...
Goodbye Cruel World, Félix de Givry’s feature directorial debut, co-written with Marie-Stéphane Imbert, stages adolescent despair as a morbid act of authorship. Goodbye Cruel...
ROSE: A Woman Lives in a Disguise as a Man to...
In the Austrian film ROSE, a woman poses as a man in order to claim a farmstead in 17th century Germany. Clearly, the account of...
FATHERLAND: Pawlikowski Asks the Value of Thomas Mann’s Trip to a...
One of the most anticipated films at this year’s Newport Beach International Film Festival is Pawel Pawlilkowski’s Fatherland – a historically inspired story about...
SPEAKING IN TONGUES: LATC’s New Play About A Community of Pentecostal...
Opening on Saturday, October 17 at the Los Angeles Theatre Centre on Spring Street in downtown L.A. – Luis Alfaro’s new play Speaking in...
COME FROM AWAY: A Musical About 9/11 That Captures the...
Currently on stage at A NOISE WITHIN, one of Pasadena’s best theatres, is the critically-acclaimed, Tony-Award-winning musical Come From Away. It tells the remarkable true...
LA BOLA NEGRA: Gay Desire, Suffering and Love Spanning Three Generations...
Sweeping, passionate, and highly ambitious, La Boca Negra (The Black Ball) is Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s film that was a sensation at Cannes...
DIVE BAR: Four People Trying to Find Hope in a Boyle...
Friday was the premiere of a new play by Chris Banda – DIVE BAR – at CASA 0101 Theatre in Boyle Heights. In this...