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AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free? AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free?
A changing film world — and hard times — means comp tickets
Click here for AFI Fest, A to W.They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but what about a free film festival? “We were looking... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 29, 2009
Past, Moving Forward: The Little Theater of Pedro Costa Past, Moving Forward: The Little Theater of Pedro Costa
The Portuguese director discusses his Jeanne Balibar documentary, Ne Change Rien
Click here for AFI Fest, A to W.“A Pedro Costa musical — now, what would that be like?” I asked in these pages two years ago... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 29, 2009
AFI Fest, A to W AFI Fest, A to W
Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup
GO  ABOUT ELLY (Iran) There’s something of Chekhov (by way of The Big Chill) to Asghar Farhadi’s gripping melodrama about a... More>>
L.A. Weekly Film Critics
Published: October 29, 2009
Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else
Click here for AFI Fest, A to W.If you’ve been reading the film pages of L.A. Weekly regularly this year, this won’t be the first... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 29, 2009
How Do You Say Oscar Scandal in Dutch and Chinese? How Do You Say Oscar Scandal in Dutch and Chinese?
We're not sure, but we know when something stinks
Click here for AFI Fest, A to W.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Foreign Language Film award has been no stranger to... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 29, 2009
AFI Fest Short-Film Showcase: Good Things, Small Packages AFI Fest Short-Film Showcase: Good Things, Small Packages
Dick Cheney on ice and GI Joes in flagrante delicto
Click here for AFI Fest, A to W.Despite the heartwarming appeal of its title, Jim Finn’s Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell (which top-lines... More>>
By F. X. Feeney
Published: October 29, 2009
Movie Reviews: This Is It, Boondock Saints II, Gentlemen Broncos, The House of the Devil
Also, The Fall, Skin and more
BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY The Boondock Saints filmmaker Troy Duffy certainly makes for an easy target — at least his former... More>>
L.A. Weekly Film Critics
Published: October 29, 2009
Michael Jackson: This Is (Not Quite) It Michael Jackson: This Is (Not Quite) It
Brilliant dance moves and unanswered questions in the King of Pop's posthumous comeback movie
If you’re a Michael Jackson die-hard, prepare to be thrilled — and heartbroken. This Is It, the documentary created from film footage... More>>
By Randall Roberts
Published: October 29, 2009
Antichrist: Couple Retreats Antichrist: Couple Retreats
Lars von Trier puts his made-in-hell spouses — and his audience — through the ringer
Lars von Trier’s doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something — if only a terrible... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 22, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman
To hell and back with Antichrist's Cannes-winning star
Seconds after the world premiere of Lars von Trier’s Antichrist at Cannes in May, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s performance was already the... More>>
By Melissa Anderson
Published: October 22, 2009
Front Window: Sebastian Silva's Searing Look Inside the World of The Maid Front Window: Sebastian Silva's Searing Look Inside the World of The Maid
Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it’s closer to infernal... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 22, 2009
Audrey Hepburn at LACMA Audrey Hepburn at LACMA
Funny Face (and Teeth and Neck)
If it’s true that only the beautiful get to be movie stars, it’s true also that there are some stars whose beauty becomes its own... More>>
By Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Published: October 22, 2009
Movie Reviews: Amelia, Astro Boy, Saw VI
Also Cirque du Freak, Stan Helsing and more
AMELIA Hilary Swank, slender, toothsome and long-jawed, is a gussied-up physical match for Amelia Earhart — and this is the only meaningful... More>>
L.A. Weekly Film Critics
Published: October 22, 2009
A Beautiful Mind: Anne Friedberg, 1952-2009 A Beautiful Mind: Anne Friedberg, 1952-2009
Los Angeles lost a visionary film scholar on Friday, October 9, when Anne Friedberg, University of Southern California Cinematic Arts professor,... More>>
By Holly Willis and Ella Taylor
Published: October 22, 2009
35 Shots of Rum: Silent Treatment 35 Shots of Rum: Silent Treatment
Family drama, without all the screaming, in Claire Denis' latest
Recent American films about families, like last year’s Rachel Getting Married and Revolutionary Road, all too often pierce eardrums with... More>>
By Melissa Anderson
Published: October 15, 2009
New York Film Festival: Window on the World New York Film Festival: Window on the World
New home, old mission for 47th annual event
The glass prow of the new Alice Tully Hall jutting out at 65th & Broadway wasn’t the only sign that the New York Film Festival (September... More>>
By Philippe Garnier
Published: October 15, 2009
Oren Peli: Ghost Writer-Director Oren Peli: Ghost Writer-Director
Paranormal Activity creator wants to be as mysterious as his surprise hit movie
Two years ago, as I was writing for the Weekly about the Screamfest Horror Film Festival, an unhyped, unknown movie without familiar names caught... More>>
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: October 15, 2009
Beasty Boy: Where the Wild Things Are Beasty Boy: Where the Wild Things Are
... according to Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers
Tinkering with a sacred cultural totem can be riskier business than nuclear fission. Just ask Peter Sellars, the visionary stage director whose... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 15, 2009
Movie Reviews: Black Dynamite, The Stepfather, Law Abiding Citizen
Also, Bronson, Visual Acoustics and more
ADVENTURES OF POWER Adventures of Power, the jejune writing and directorial debut of Ari Gold, wants very badly to win you over — so badly... More>>
L.A. Weekly Film Critics
Published: October 15, 2009
Coffin Joe: Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind Coffin Joe: Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
Cinefamily takes you inside the strange world of Brazil's José Mojica Marins
There are many magnificent mavericks in the history of cinema, but there is only one José Mojica Marins. When this eccentric enthusiast... More>>
By Christoph Huber
Published: October 15, 2009
Screamfest 2009: Scream and Scream Again Screamfest 2009: Scream and Scream Again
Zombie GIs, human centipedes take starring roles at annual horror fest
It may be a sign of trying times for horror that this year’s Screamfest Horror Film Festival includes a few selections that don’t... More>>
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: October 15, 2009
American Radical: Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern American Radical: Ken Jacobs’ Nervous Magic Lantern
Avant-garde filmmaking legend comes to REDCAT
Can there be cinema without film — or video? The answer is a resounding yes if you ask legendary avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 08, 2009
An Education: Higher Learning An Education: Higher Learning
Good marks for 1960s period piece and its star, Carey Mulligan
The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the crash course she... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 08, 2009
Lynn Barber: Don't Ask, Do Tell Lynn Barber: Don't Ask, Do Tell
A legendary interviewer opens up about the new film based on her old May-December romance
I was expecting a dark-brown telephone voice, perhaps an impatient bark from Lynn Barber, the English journalist whose memoir of a formative... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 08, 2009
Movie Reviews: Couples Retreat, The Damned United, Good Hair
Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more
GO  BELIEVE Sometimes appearances aren’t deceiving: As a cross-dressing comic and sometimes dramatic actor, Eddie Izzard is just as... More>>
L.A. Weekly Film Critics
Published: October 08, 2009
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