Berlin International Film Festival

Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster Has Been Cut Down for the U.S. — But Is Still Grand

Q & A With Soul of a Banquet's Wayne Wang: Cecilia Chiang Why the Best Chinese Food in the World is in the SGV

Back in 2011, when it seemed like the entire Bay Area was seized with Chez Panisse 40th anniversary fever, Hong Kong-born, San Francisco-based filmmaker Wayne Wang (Chan Is Missing, Joy Luck Club, Smoke) asked Chez Panisse's founder, Alice Waters, if there was a role he could play. Waters suggested ... More >>

River Phoenix's Dark Blood: Not the Epitaph He Deserves

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major International Film Festival

Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies

L.A. Weekly's Top 10 Films of 2011

From Margaret to Moneyball

The AFI Films You Need to See

Our critics' recommendations for the best of the fest

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Halloween Horror Flick Crunch

Fireflies in the Garden Review

Body Politics: Two new works by Barbara Hammer at REDCAT

Movie Review: The Milk of Sorrow

Banksy Revealed?

The Zorro of street art talks about his new film, Los Angeles and, of course, Mr. Brainwash

Driving Mr. Greenberg

Noah Baumbach on the DIY ethos, L.A. without a car and his new film starring Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig

L.A. 'Street Artist' Mr. Brainwash Takes Manhattan (With a Velvet Rope, Of Course)

By Barbara Celis David Bowie, U2, Madonna, and the Rolling Stones. What could they possibly be doing together in the Meatpacking district of New York yesterday? Just hanging out at a party with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Damien Hirst and Barack Obama. Kind of. Slash, by Mr. Brainwash​ They we ... More >>

AFI Fest, A to W

Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup

Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else

Inside The Baader Meinhof Complex

Seeing red

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Movie Reviews: Adoration, Julia, Little Ashes, Revanche

Also, Next Day Air, Our City Dreams and more

Sprechen Sie Berlinale? Looking for "Slow Cinema" Among the Polyglot Unhappy Meals at the Berlin International Film Festival

German director Maren Ade's Everyone Else is competition's most impressive film

Sundance Shocker

This just over the wire from the Sundance Institute:"Sundance Institute today confirmed that effective February 28, 2009, Geoffrey Gilmore is resigning his position as Director, Sundance Film Festival. Gilmore joined Sundance Institute in 1990. As Director of the Sundance Film Festival he has w ... More >>

Rated "G" For Globalization

As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Rated "G" For Globalization

As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>

Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wor ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wo ... More >>

Papa Manoel Turns 100

"How many filmmaker have lived to witness their own centenaries?" I asked rhetorically this past spring on the occasion of the UCLA Film & Television Archive's month-long retrospective of films by the master Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. Well, today Oliveira officially joins that list ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Filth and Wisdom, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Splinter

Also, Fear(s) of the Dark, The Other End of the Line and more

In the Beginning

Border Stories: Fatih Akin's Edge of Heaven

An interview with the German-Turkish director

Movie Reviews: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Postal, War, Inc.

Also, The Cool School, Refusenik and more

Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dream

Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival

Persistence of Time

Thirty-six years after its premiere, a cinephilic Holy Grail re-emerges

War and Remembrance

Gbravica probes the wounds of a forgotten genocide

Getting the Ghost

In Requiem, Sandra Hüller turns heads, just not her own

The Hidden Blade

Michael Winterbottom Takes on The Elephant

Dinner, belly dancing and The Road to Guantánamo

Love & Death

Tales from Cristi Puiu’s Bucharest

Directing With Bifocals

The double vision of Head-On's Fatih Akin

All That Heaven Forbids

Head-On's headlong death wish

After the Lights Go Down

What's up at AFI Fest 2004

On the Couch, Off the Meds

Patrice Leconte’s Intimate Strangers, Zach Braff’s Garden State

Been There, Done That, Back for More

Expect the unexpected at Outfest 2004

A Day for Peace

Peppermint Twist

Edited by Kateri Butler

Kampf und Circumstance

The Führer’s girl Friday; Gilliam’s folly

At Home, He's a Tourist

Hong Kong's Stanley Kwan steps out of the shadows and into Beijing

Self-Realization

Bob Flanagan, Chris Kraus, Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy

Canada Semi-dry

The Toronto Film Festival turns 25

Hope and Glory

A new beginning for Filipino film?