Cannes Film Festival

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Is David Lynch's Masterpiece

Cannes: Heli is Family Drama Set Against Mexico's Drug Wars

The Big Wedding is Vile, Racist, and Embarrassing

Amour and More: How to See the Golden Globes' Five Foreign Film Nominees in Five Days

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 >>

The Beats Go On: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see in L.A. Friday, Nov. 30 The Beat generation -- or, as Cinefamily puts it, the "O.G. hipsters" of the 1950s -- is a pretty tough group to beat. They smoked, drank and wandered aimlessly, all while producing literature that through the decades has avoide ... More >>

Byung-Hun Lee Is a Big Deal in South Korea. But Not in the U.S. Yet.

I was told I was going to meet the Korean Brad Pitt. With that in mind, I walk into the Los Angeles office of CJ Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in South Korea, where I am introduced to Byung-Hun Lee. He currently stars in The Prince and the Pauper-type period piece, Masquerade, w ... More >>

The Connection

New Beverly Cinema hosts the return of Shirley Clarke's 1962 film

Los Angeles Film Festival 2012: Summer Showcase

Lars Von Trier's Zentropa at LACMA

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Chris Rock Talks to Barack Obama, and Other Random Festival Notes

After eight days in Park City, I'm back in Los Angeles; the festival continues through the weekend, with the awards announced Saturday night. Here are some notes on films I didn't get a chance to write about at length. Keep an eye out for my wrap-up of the festival in next week's print edition. 2 D ... More >>

Santa Barbara Film Feast: Dinner and More Than 195 Movies

Santa Barbara's International Film Festival (SBIFF) echoes Cannes' famed film festival -- both are held in lovely seaside towns betwixt mountains and the ocean, stars come out in force and there is ample fresh local seafood. But unlike the French Riviera version, SBIFF prix fixe menus are deals: For ... More >>

AFI Film Festival 2011: Melancholia

Dunst is the heir apparent to Louise Brooks

Omar Von Muller's Skateboarding Dogs. Yes, Skateboarding Dogs.

Adam GropmanDash goes skateboarding​It's a pleasant summer day down at Venice Beach, the boardwalk humming with activity. On the paved path pointing toward the water, near where Windward Avenue ends at the beach, a skateboarder shows off, kicking sturdily against the pavement, leaning into ... More >>

Glen Hartford's Hollywood Dream and How It Came to Ruin

Cari Ann Shim Sham*'s Documentary About Tap-Dancing on Sand

Image by Ross Riege​ That's L.A. tap dancer Kenji Igus, on the right, watching as his father, Darrow, releases a fistful of sand. Darrow is readying the stage for a "sand dance," a rare style of tap dancing in which the dancer scrapes the gritty grains to extract whooshing and shussing sounds ... More >>

David Robert Mitchell's Myth of the American Sleepover: A Truffaut-Inspired Teen Sex Comedy?

​ Best Coast's retro garage-band sound on the radio and pre-1980's-style balances in our bank accounts are the latest evidence that we're living in the era of the throwback. It's only natural that David Robert Mitchell's Myth of the American Sleepover -- a last-day-of-summer-vacation movie th ... More >>

Sparks Premiere Radio Drama "The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman" Live at L.A. Film Fest Saturday, Guy Maddin Directs the "Film-to-Be" Performance

​ L.A.'s own veteran pop duo Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, bring the world premiere of a staged version of their latest project, a radio drama called The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, to the Los Angeles Film Festival Saturday night. The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is a musical compos ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

5 Movies Opening This Weekend, Including The Hangover Part II, Tree of Life and Magic!

​ While the rest of us waited in vain for the Rapture, Karina Longworth was busy writing about her own encounter with the end of days. She offers her thoughts on Lars Von Trier's "depression-as-apocalypse epic" Melancholia in her Cannes Film Festival Wrap-Up. Von Trier's movie hasn't made it ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's The Tree of Life Gets Irate Boos Followed by Thin Applause

Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life​ CANNES, FRANCE -- Much improved since I last posted, the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its midpoint in train-wreck fashion, its wagon to hitched to The Tree of Life. The first screening of Terrence Malick's long-awaited new movie, three years in the editing, ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Don't wait for Uncle Boonmee

How to Hallucinate Without Drugs

Step one: Watch Gaspar Noé's dumb but trippy Enter the Void

Inception's Kiss

And other memories of summer

Life During Wartime: Happiness Recast

Todd Solondz on the new roles, and new life, in his latest film

Simply French: Bastide Is Back

Learning German From Michael Haneke

Sautéed chicken breasts over fascism, from the director of The White Ribbon

Past, Moving Forward: The Little Theater of Pedro Costa

The Portuguese director discusses his Jeanne Balibar documentary, Ne Change Rien

AFI Fest, A to W

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

Dardenne Brothers on Lorna's Silence

Acclaimed Belgian Filmmakers Take a (Short) Road Trip

Joshua Leonard: The Man Behind (Ahem) Humpday

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest. ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest ... More >>

Of Time and the City: Terence Davies Goes Home Again

Liverpool director on his first film since The House of Mirth

Foundas on Film: How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Italian?

One year ago this week, I wrote with astonishment and anger about the omission of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Cannes-winning abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' nine-film "shortlist" for the 2007 Foreign Language Film Oscar. That ... More >>

Indie Remix: Los Angeles Film Festival 2008

Our critics weigh in on the best, and the rest, of this year's event

Some Alternative Cannes Awards

Che wins the only Cannes prize that really matters: ours

Controversy at Cannes: The Headless Woman

And a lot of big heads too

Shots in the Dark at Cannes 2008

Reflecting its moment, the festival takes a decidedly serious tone

American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

Annus mirabilis

Movie Reviews: Secret Sunshine, Awake, The Amateurs

Also Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Timber Falls, Oswald's Ghost and more

Lee Chang-Dong Lets the Sunshine In

South Korean filmmaker illuminates life’s emotional twists and turns

Whoa, Nellie! You're the Best!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Francophilia

Have no fear, the French will save cinema

The Two Faces of Cannes: Gilles Jacob

Eye of the storm

War and Remembrances

City of Lights, City of Angels winds down with dark ruminations and hopeful sentiments

Dead Director Rises Again

George Romero on zombies, politics and his own second coming

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

Human Rites Activist

Depicting real people’s lives, unvarnished, gives screenwriter Paul Laverty his biggest thrill

Money No Enough

Asia's financial crisis has its filmmakers scrounging for dollars