Citizen Kane

Lovelace, Starring Amanda Seyfried as the Famed Porn Star, Is a One-Person Rashomon

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 >>

Before Midnight Review: Richard Linklater's Fateful Lovers Are Back

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy Return to Finish the Trilogy

Dances With Films and a London Olympics Doc: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 24 Paul McCartney and Wings went on their Wings Over the World tour from 1975-76, conquering three continents and marking McCartney's first concert appearance since the breakup of The Beatles. The concert film of the same name premiered in 198 ... More >>

You've Probably Never Heard of the Fascinating Brazilian Director Nelson Pereira dos Santos. UCLA Is Trying to Change That

The Exorcist Director William Friedkin Tells All in His No-Bullshit Memoir

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Hollywood heavy hitters normally wait until they're out of the film game to write their memoirs. That way they can settle scores and write the first draft of their cinematic history without severing relationships they ... More >>

What Your Favorite Restaurant Says About You

We all have our favorite things that, implicitly or otherwise, reveal a little bit of ourselves. Thus it makes sense that Fraulein Maria would love whiskers on kittens and bright copper kettles, and that Oprah would have many, many favorite things. Which brings us to restaurants that you may consid ... More >>

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

The Best Five Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, July 16 Animal Raps LOS GLOBOS By day, Paul Prado is one of the brevity-obsessed comic geniuses at L.A.'s own 5 Second Films. He's their in-house Method actor -- a guy who takes what he does so seriously, he'll shave his head clean for a five-second spoof of Citizen Kane. He can occupy a ch ... More >>

Music Picks: Aesop Rock, Azealia Banks, Toots & the Maytals

Also, Mariachi El Bronx, Phil Ranelin, Spaceghostpurrp and others

Rock Bottom Remainders, the Literary All-Star Band With Stephen King, Scott Turow, Amy Tan and Dave Barry, Plays Its Last Show

The Rock Bottom Remainders -- that all-star band made up of the country's most beloved, best-selling literary luminaries, including Dave Barry, Amy Tan, Scott Turow, Mitch Albom, Matt Groening and even, yes, Stephen King -- wouldn't exist but for Kathi Kamen Goldmark.The noted "author schlepper" ... More >>

2012 Hollywood Fringe Reviews

Check out our growing docket of 2012 Hollywood Fringe theater reviews after the jump, which are scheduled for publication June 21st. The number of reviews will continue to grow, as they come in.

7 Bizarro Life Lessons from Kevin Smith's New Book Tough Sh*t

Southwest Airlines may agree with the "fat" part of Kevin Smith's new book Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good from Gotham Books, but Silent Bob is far from lazy. He's an author, comic book store owner, professional stage farceur and podcaster who runs a network of podcasts fo ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

From screwball to Singles to "Outrageous Fucks"

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Melies, Minnelli and Huppert x 2

Oh Hollywood, You've Really Let Yourself Go

Sunset 5 Theater Closes

The end of an era, and what it means for the L.A. art house landscape

J. Edgar Review

Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

What makes Eddie run?

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

A View of The Room

How Audrey Hepburn Shaped Sex

Sam Wasson's book throws back covers on Breakfast at Tiffany's

John Forsythe (RIP Today) Tortured by Beatniks With Sex and Jazz

​Intense character actor John Forsythe died today at 92. For some, he was the old rich white guy in Dynasty (the '80s version of The Hills). For others, he was the disembodied voice of a mysterious pimp in Charlie's Angels (the '70s version of The Girls Next Door). For us, however, he will ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, Paranormal Activity

Plus, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, In Search of Beethoven and more

Che, Cannes and Hi-Def Video

Steven Soderbergh, 20 years after his Sundance hit

The Night Before Christmas

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Dumb and Dumberer

Why the FCC shouldn’t consolidate without concessions