Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma’s Sexy Melodrama Passion, Starring Rachel McAdams

Brian de Palma Explains How His Erotic Remake Passion Is Better Than the Original

Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is Lightning From the Heavens

Mainstream Movie Porn Sucks: How Real Sex in Real Movies Is a Real Distraction

The long, hard truth

Everything You Need to Know About Hitchcock Month in Los Angeles

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage It's tempting to think we're in the midst of an Alfred Hitchcock resurgence. Last year, for the first time in half a century, a worldwide poll in Sight & Sound magazine chose Vertigo (1958) over Citizen Kane (1941) as the greatest film of all time; two bio ... More >>

10 Movies We're Excited to See in 2013

See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino Wants a Second Oscar. Will Django Give It to Him?

Quentin Tarantino emerges from a chaotic couple of years with his most ambitious film to date, Django Unchained. Will the Academy really, really like it?

Happy Repeal Day! Are You Drunk Yet?

Happy Repeal Day!! Are you celebrating wildly? Are you drunk yet? On this day in 1933, Utah was the final state to overturn statewide restrictions on alcohol, thus ratifying the 21st Amendment, ending Prohibition in America. Woot! All across the country, Americans legally celebrated Repeal by drink ... More >>

Los Angeles Watches Itself: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week:

Scarface Is Out Of Jail, Performs At Key Club Tomorrow: Excerpts From His Last Interview

​Scarface plays the Key Club tomorrow night. This is big news, considering most folks didn't even know that the greatest of all southern rappers was out of the pen. In October 2010 he began a term at Montgomery County Jail in Alabama over numerous unresolved child support cases. (There is also ... More >>

Top 5 Food T-Shirts That Don't Cost $85 and Aren't Designed by Alexander Wang

Hot coffee became haute coffee as Starbucks debuted a line of high-fashion t-shirts designed by the likes of Sophie Theallet, Billy Reid and Alexander Wang. The ugliest of the shirts, which cost $85 apiece, is undoubtedly the Wang creation. The theoretically unisex shirt features "a coffee spill ill ... More >>

WHO NEEDS ELLIOT STABLER WHEN YOU'VE GOT ELIOT NESS?

A Prophet: Like Scarface but French (and Not Brain-Dead)

With his Oscar-nominated feature, "French Scorsese" Jacques Audiard gives the crime genre new dimension

Ennio Morricone: The Italian Icon

Legendary composer has still never played L.A.

Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Taking No Chances

Those searching for signs of how leaner economic times are being felt at Sundance 2009 need look no further than the fact that the festival's opening weekend yielded only one major sale -- and that one was something of a foregone conclusion. Although the tepid reaction to director Antoine Fuqua's Br ... More >>

Double Impact

Iraq in (Shrapnel) Fragments

LAFF 2008: Centered and Finished

Even though HELLBOY II was called the “closing night” gala, with a huge after party to match, one more day remained of LAFF. But it didn’t seem like it would have much to offer me: family festivities provided pony rides for the kids, while the sparse remaining screenings were mostly things I h ... More >>

Funny Games People Play

Michael Haneke and his brutal home invaders return to implicate you

Cloverfield Is a Horror

Monster mash

2007 Film Poll: If It Bleeds, It Leads

Dark and violent movies top the year’s best. What are we — at war or something?

American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

Annus mirabilis

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Look, The Perfect Holiday

Also Lagerfeld Confidential, Man in the Chair and The Protagonist

Brian De Palma: Eyes Wide Open

De Palma�s Iraq movie never flinches from the casualties of war. Will you?

Redacted's Mission: Impossible

Brian De Palma returns to the war zone. Take cover

Ordinary Rendition

It�s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller�s as conventional as they come

The Kingdom: Shoot 'Em Up

Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy

Lust, Yawn, Caution

There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England

Film Reviews: Arctic Tale, One to Another, Punk's Not Dead

Also this week's pick, The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me and Who's Your Caddy?

Film Reviews: Poison Friends, Angel-A

Taking the Long View

Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot

Paint It Black

De Palma and Ellroy tap one of L.A.�s darkest mysteries

Mime Talkin'

Films Fatale

LACMA projects Brian De Palma�s beautiful and dirty body of work

Carrie

Cruise in Control

The Syracuse kid saves the world in style

Smoke the Muthafuckas, 50!

Calling all High-Level Homies

Mixism

Sampling Christian Marclay

Get To Know Your Rabbit

Hanson's 8 Mile, De Palma's Femme Fatale

Definitive Gaze

Brian De Palma watches everything

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Bombs Away

Revising history in Pearl Harbor

Unnecessary Evil

Roman Polanski goes to hell

Beyond Reasons

Stir of Echoes and The Minus Man

Double or Nothing

Delicate dread from the Polish brothers

De Palma

- all camera, no content

Cinephobia

Some notes on movies and their critics