Email Author Ella Taylor

Awards

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh adn Remembrance"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 11, 2008

  "The Women: Ladies Night"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 11, 2008

  "Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh and Remembrance"

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2009 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Jeff Bridges: One From the Heart

  published December 10, 2009

  Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children’s movie Surf’s Up, the... More >>

• Invictus: All's Well That Ends Well

  published December 10, 2009

  Aside from Morgan Freeman, who makes a fabulous Nelson Mandela, there’s this to savor about Invictus, a rosy... More >>

• UP IN THE AIR WITH VERA FARMIGA

  published December 10, 2009

  Vera Farmiga isn’t the only one who’s been up in the air lately. Her 10-month-old son, Finn, just clocked his 21st... More >>

• Twilight: Moping at the New Moon

  published November 13, 2009

  Bella: I’m coming.Edward: I don’t want you to.—The Twilight Saga: New MoonWorry not... More >>

• Lynn Barber: Don't Ask, Do Tell

  published October 8, 2009

  I was expecting a dark-brown telephone voice, perhaps an impatient bark from Lynn Barber, the English journalist whose memoir... More >>

• A Serious Man: Seriously Bad for the Jews

  published October 1, 2009

  The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen’s new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or... More >>

• Capitalism: A Love Story's Awful Truth

  published September 24, 2009

  The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore’s latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked... More >>

• Disgrace: Truth Without Reconciliaton

  published September 24, 2009

  Dour, detached, and oozing general contempt, the professor of literature who runs afoul of postapartheid South Africa in... More >>

• Quentin Tarantino Serves Up Hitler's Head in Inglourious Basterds

  published August 20, 2009

  Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his... More >>

• Mr. Blood Red: Ella Taylor's 1992 Quentin Tarantino Profile

  published August 20, 2009

  (Originally published Ocober 23, 1992)A friend calls from the Sundance Film Festival to say that an unspeakably violent movie... More >>

• The Cove: Free Willy, Seriously

  published July 30, 2009

  Late in the infectiously frisky documentary The Cove, an older man calmly gate-crashes an international conference on... More >>

• Angels & Demons: Holy Crap

  published May 14, 2009

  At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours to find out... More >>

• Homeland Insecurity: Costa-Gavras’ Radicalizing Political Thriller, Z, 40 Years Later

  published April 2, 2009

  Forty years of suave political thrillers have made an awkward, lumbering creature out of Costa-Gavras’ adaptation of Vassili... More >>

• Camera Ready: Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments

  published March 5, 2009

  Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in, Jan Troell’s Everlasting Moments is a tribute to... More >>

• Morphine in His Coffee: Remembering Dennis Potter on DVD

  published February 26, 2009

  Fifteen years after his death at age 59 from cancer of the pancreas and liver, Dennis Potter’s legacy is still up for... More >>

• Coraline Director Henry Selick Makes Horror Movies for Kids, Keeps His Distance From Hollywood

  published February 5, 2009

  The bracingly strange artist Henry Selick has carved out a fruitful, if fitful, career animating the warped imaginations of... More >>

• He's Just Not That Into You: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating

  published February 5, 2009

  The smirky, overbearing and subliminally hostile romantic primer He’s Just Not That Into You — which sold... More >>

• Hindsight Hurts: Revisting the Sex, the Lies and the Videotape

  published January 15, 2009

  On August 11, 1989, I wrote my first film review for L.A. Weekly, as follows: With its whacked-out, wry... More >>

• Happy-Go-Lucky: Driver's Eddie

  published January 8, 2009

  It says a lot for actor Eddie... More >>

• For Your Reconsideration: The Reader’s Kate Winslet

  published January 8, 2009

  Critics commonly cite with approval actors who can “disappear” into their characters, but that’s rarely, in the best sense,... More >>

• For Your Reconsideration: Frost/Nixon’s Michael Sheen

  published January 8, 2009

  If you’re younger than 20, you may only know him as the hairy Lycan from the More >>

• After the Script: Sundance Screenwriters' Lab Fellows Start Making Their Deals

  published January 1, 2009

  Almost exactly a year after I visited the Sundance Institute Screenwriters’ Lab in Utah, the sky has fallen on the... More >>

• Best Movies of 2008: Great Expectations

  published January 1, 2009

  1. Waltz With Bashir If ever there was proof that psychic agonies are not always best represented by... More >>