Al Pacino

L.A. Film Festival 2013: The Best Films to See

Taverna dei Fori Imperiali: When in Rome, Dining with Movie Stars Astronauts

One of traditional decorating elements in Roman trattorias (besides the red and white checked tablecloths, uncomfortable chairs and over bright lighting) are framed photographs of "celebrity" clients. These can often date back decades and whether or not you recognize the face in the frame, it's kind ... More >>

TCM Classic Film Festival: Watching Hollywood's Greatest Films on Its Most Annoying Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard during the TCM Classic Film Festival is mostly business as usual: Captain Jack Sparrow and Marilyn Monroe walk up and down the street to the delight of camera-wielding tourists, Jimmy Kimmel Live staffers give away free tickets, aspiring rappers hand out CDs before not-so-subtly ... More >>

Scent of a Record Producer

Sex and the City Meets Some Like It Hot: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Feb. 15 Five days after Chinese New Year comes the first Asians on Film Festival at J.E.T. Studios, showcasing the work of up-and-coming Asian filmmakers. The red carpet begins at 6 p.m., and the winner of the Best Comedy prize, Starting From Scratch from writer-director-actor James Huang, ... More >>

Why Do So Many Movie Characters Get Hit in the Balls?

Being a lucky guy, I've only been kicked in the balls once. How did it rate on the comedy scale? Well, it was funnier than a monologue by Chelsea Handler, but not quite as hilarious as my last screening for colorectal cancer. Yet despite the fact that this act hurts like hell, Hollywood still thinks ... More >>

How Hollywood Movies Led to Genocide: The Act of Killing at the Toronto Film Festival

The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film Institute, and so it goes that the nonfiction knockout of TIFF thus far is The Act of Killing -- made with Danish support and directed by American Joshua Oppenheimer, executive produced by ... More >>

Collaborator Review: Character Actor Martin Donovan Makes Directorial Debut

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

More vampires, noir and Tarr

Graf Orlock's Los Angeles Is All About the Movie Heat

For the past eight years, Los Angeles metal band Graf Orlock have been culling samples and dialogue from action movies like Predator and Lethal Weapon into a manic concoction of noise, punk and grindcore that they call "cinemagrind." The group twists seemingly innocuous dialogue from these badass fl ... More >>

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

Is Musso & Frank the True Crossroads of Hollywood and Literature? Richard Schave Wants to Find Out

Simone PazRichard Schave with wife Kim Cooper at Musso & Frank​At Hollywood's Musso & Frank Grill, legend has it, giants of American literature -- Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Charles ... More >>

Jack and Jill Review

Up From the Streets: A Scene From Occupy L.A.

Luigi VenturaDito Montiel and Aqeela Sherrills at Occupy L.A.​Woodrow Coleman came all the way from Long Beach to see the Arab Spring bloom in downtown L.A. The African-American septuagenarian with deep-set brown eyes and a woolly white tangle of beard sports a well-worn baseball cap that sug ... More >>

The Son of No One Review

John Leguizamo's Ghetto Klown

How much attention-getting is too much for a solo show?

Porters of Hellgate's The Merchant of Venice

Stage Raw: F. Murray Abraham's "Merchant"

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (are back!)NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Escort and Fetish​F. Murray Abraham (right) turns in an impassioned yet delicate interpretation of Shylock, at the Broad Stage, in a production that draws obvious comparisons and contrasts to Al Pacino's Merchant of ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it’s too late

Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken

LACMA's Road Movies Series

Baal

Theater Reviews: Camelot, IN THE COMPANY OF JANE DOE, BAAL

Also, The Imaginary Invalid, Loyalties, Doctor Noguchi and more

Pacino's Watch: Lawsuit Keeps on Ticking

With the state teetering on economic Gotterdammerung and its water supplies evaporating by the week, it's comforting to know that we can rely on silly lawsuits to keep on proliferating. Readers will remember how Millennium Films, the makers of Righteous Kill, last year's car bomb starring Al Pacino ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Save Me, Take Out, Hounddog

Also, The Pool, Ghost Town, Igor and more

Movie Reviews: Young People Fucking, A Secret, Ping Pong Playa

Also, Sukiyaki Western Django, Surfer, Dude, and more

Al Pacino Plays Beat the Clock in 88 Minutes

Cruising

Gay old time

Manu, Mort & Thor

Greek Love

Charles L. Mee’s Agamemnon, and Sarah Ruhl’s Demeter in the City

Boy Snubs Girl, Girl Beheads Boy

Al Pacino goes Wilde

Young at Heart

Future: Last chance for our theater

New York Playbill

A winter sampler

Examining Farrah

Letters

Night Cruise

Michael Mann’s nerve-rattling Collateral

Rock Steady

Box Populi

TV’s top stories

The Good, the Bad, and the God-awful

Thoughts on Gigli and late-summer truffle hunting

Con Artists and 10 Percenters

In Confidence and People I Know

Minus 10

24 and counting . . .

A Star is Born

Yesterday, in fact, in Andrew Niccol's Simone

Eyes Wide Open

No rest for the wicked in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia

True Believers

High art and low commerce at the Sundance Film Festival

Landmarks

Smokin'

Michael Mann's The Insider

Justice

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

Standing on Ceremony

O'Neill, Pacino, Hughie and Ron Link

The Balding Soprano

From antipasto to antidepressants: a Mafioso's midlife crises