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Chris & Don: Opposites Attract
New documentary paints a portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)
By ERNEST HARDY
A glint in his eye and a grin on his lips, artist Don Bachardy looks into the camera and explains the dynamic of his three-decade relationship with the late literary icon Christopher Isherwood as if it were a fairy tale. “His role,” Bachardy says, “could be described as that… Keep Reading »
Chris & Don: Opposites Attract
New documentary paints a portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)
By ERNEST HARDY
A glint in his eye and a grin on his lips, artist Don Bachardy looks into the camera and explains the dynamic of his three-decade relationship with the late literary icon Christopher Isherwood as if it were a fairy tale. “His role,” Bachardy says, “could be described as that… Keep Reading »
Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved
L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life
By DAVID EHRENSTEIN
"Oh, it would never have been for us,” Don Bachardy says. “He wasn’t interested — neither of us were — in being ‘legalized.’ But we’d certainly back up anybody who did want to be.” Kevin Scanlon … Keep Reading »
Hancock, America's Low-rent Superhero, Just in Time for the Recession
It's a bird... It's a plane... It's Superbum?
By ELLA TAYLOR
In Hancock, a peculiar and occasionally charming poke in the ribs of the superman myth, Will Smith plays the rudest, smelliest superhero America has ever seen. Cursed with the physical elegance and urbanity of a Cary Grant or a Denzel Washington, Smith looks like an underdressed movie star even… Keep Reading »
One From the Heart: Outfest Achievement Award Winner Donna Deitch
Director shoots from the hip about the Hollywood gender gap and the soon-to-be sequel to her most famous film
By ERNEST HARDY
‘I feel really honored,” says director Donna Deitch, the recipient of this year’s Outfest Achievement Award, between sips of coffee at Masa of Echo Park. “Outfest is an organization that does much more than have a festival for one week or 10 days of the year,” she adds. “There’s… Keep Reading »
John Waters: The Trash Auteur Speaks Out — Way Out
On gay marriage, the presidential race, the corrupting influence of irony and the release of his new 'Til Death Do Us Part DVD
By STEVEN MIKULAN
Forget shrinking icecaps — for filmmaker-raconteur John Waters, the clear and present danger facing America is the loss of its precious heritage of trash culture, thanks to the rule of irony. … Keep Reading »
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Chris & Don: Opposites Attract
By ERNEST HARDY
New documentary paints a portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)
Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved
By DAVID EHRENSTEIN
L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life
Hancock, America's Low-rent Superhero, Just in Time for the Recession
By ELLA TAYLOR
It's a bird... It's a plane... It's Superbum?
One From the Heart: Outfest Achievement Award Winner Donna Deitch
By ERNEST HARDY
Director shoots from the hip about the Hollywood gender gap and the soon-to-be sequel to her most famous film
Violence Is Golden: Timur Bekmambetov's Wanted
By ELLA TAYLOR
Director's stock rises with action-movie fans
WALL-E: Robots in Love
By ROBERT WILONSKY
Movie blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi film's gone before. And that's a good thing.
Avant-gardist Owen Land Comes Out of the Shadows
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Filmmaker will screen new work and appear at L.A. Filmforum
Kit Kittredge: As American As Overpriced Dolls
By Ella Taylor
In Mattel co-production, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine
Indie Remix: Los Angeles Film Festival 2008
By Scott Foundas
Our critics weigh in on the best, and the rest, of this year's event
Los Angeles Film Festival Guide 2008
By L.A. Weekly Film Critics
THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT QUEEN RAQUELA (Iceland/Philippines) In a documentary that often feels stagy,…
Shaw Brothers' Studio of Flying Daggers
By Christoph Huber
LAFF resurrects classics and curios from a legendary Chinese film dynasty
Good Rep
Cinefamily Screens Lucien Pintilie's Reenactment
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Riding Romania's first wave at the Silent Movie Theatre
Wackily Ever After in The Palm Beach Story
By Tim Grierson
Preston Sturges leavens the silly with the bittersweet
Signal to Noise
New Digital Art From Belgium
Building, a 12-minute graphics-based video by Belgian artist Anouk de Clercq, studies the play…
Frankenstein (Mortal Toys): Small Wonder
Janie Geiser and Susan Simpson’s Frankenstein (Mortal Toys) unites flat puppet characters pushed and…
Surf Report
Package Check: The Jonas Brothers' Rock Camp
By ROBERT ABELE
Kevin, Joe and Nick try out Disney's High School Musical tricks
Deadline Hollywood
Calm Down. SAG Will Not Be a WGA Strike Sequel.
By NIKKI FINKE
But when will Hollywood ever get back to work?
The Details the Moguls Don't Want You to Know
By NIKKI FINKE
EVERY TIME I THINK of the way that Hollywood handles its talent guild negotiations,…
Television
John Waters: The Trash Auteur Speaks Out — Way Out
By STEVEN MIKULAN
On gay marriage, the presidential race, the corrupting influence of irony and the release of his new 'Til Death Do Us Part DVD
Faking It: Secret Diary of a Call Girl
By ROBERT ABELE
The too-happy hooker in the new Showtime comedy is unbelievable. Plus, When I Knew, a doc about the moment gays and lesbians realized their sexuality.
In Plain Sight's Concealed Federal Witnesses and Swingtown's Suburban Sexual Adventure
By ROBERT ABELE
Hide and seek
Movie Reviews
Movie Reviews: Gonzo, Tell No One, The Wackness
By L.A. Weekly Film Critics
Also, Diminished Capacity and Holding Trevor
Short Run
The Wrecking Crew: Behind the Music
By Ernest Hardy
Movie retrieves rock history from the cutout bin
Everything Old Is New Again at the 23rd Israel Film Festival
By Ella Taylor
They don't make 'em like they used to
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Showtimes and Theater Info
By L.A. Weekly Movie Critics
Fall Film
The Ice Queen Melteth
By Ella Taylor
From art-house icon to Hollywood headliner, Tilda Swinton isn’t afraid to let them see her sweat
Who Now Controls The Weather? NBC Uni
Sun, Jul 6, 4:15 pm
Like there isn't enough media consolidation... News reports say NBC Universal and two partners have reached a deal to buy The Weather Channel from Landmark Communications, ending a long negotiation that had attracted several Big Media companies -- Time Warner and CBS and Comcast. The AP says the purchase price was $3.5 billion in cash. NBC Uni was joined in the [...]
SAG Takes A Page From AMPTP Trade Ad
Sun, Jul 6, 2:59 pm
This SAG ad will be running in Monday's trades. It is derivative of the AMPTP ad that ran recently -- but without the strike fear-mongering.
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