Coen Brothers

Lebowski Fest - Saban Theatre - 03-22-13 (With Video!)

Lebowski Fest, Night One Saban Theatre 03-22-13 Beverly Hills was full of far more "achievers" on Friday -- the handle Lebowski Fest co-founder Will Russell has applied to the hardcore fans of the Coen brothers' 1998 film. Lebowski Fest, held here in Los Angeles since 2002, brought about a thousa ... More >>

Meet Emanuel Pleitez

He's the Most Amazing Person Who Won't Win the March 5 Los Angeles Mayoral Primary

From Punks to Mobsters: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special-event movies to see: Thursday, January 3 A Vincente Minnelli double feature courtesy of the Aero: The Band Wagon and Meet Me in ... More >>

Ruth Bourdain's Comfort Me With Offal: From Twitter to Your Local Bookstore

If you've spent the last two years laughing over the comic genius of Ruth Bourdain, you'll need no reminder that her eagerly (to some) awaited book has just come out from Andrews McMeel Publishing. If you are not among the initiated, here's a thumbnail sketch: In March of 2010, a hilarious Twitter f ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Barbers, Sharks and Treasure

'Big Lebowski 2' Not Actually Happening; CBS Just Got Punked

Haven't we all learned, after Manny Pacquiao was falsely quoted last month as saying all gays should be "put to death," that the Examiner is not a source to be aggregated? CBS2 didn't get the memo. "Lebowski fans, lift up your white russian!" the local news site wrote this morning. "The much-antici ... More >>

Foster Wallace, Ginsburg, Warhol: These Are Kyle Nicolaides' Favorite Works of Art

Kyle Nicolaides is a thinking man's rocker. The frontman and songwriter for L.A. band Beware of Darkness -- who sound like a literary Led Zeppelin -- grew up in Santa Barbara, where his father owns a small Greek restaurant. In addition to playing music from a young age, Nicolaides read a lot, he s ... More >>

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Alex Cox, curator

Band of Horses - The Wiltern - September 8, 2011

Timothy Norris(See also: Our Band of Horses and Brett Netson slideshow)​Band of Horses The Wiltern September 8, 2011 Better Than: Sitting on the porch of a cabin in the woods with loved ones drinking a beer and listening to cicadas. Band of Horses has two gears: mellow-pseudo-philisoph ... More >>

For the Record: The Coen Bros.: a Cabaret Show About Big Lebowski Filmmakers, and Other Reviews

​Anti-Semitic graffiti found on a market wall in central Houston last month is just one symptom of why The Merchant of Venice belongs on our shores. The Porters of Hellgate have their version running at the Whitmore Theatre in North Hollywood. See Theater feature on Wednesday​Capsule reviews of ... More >>

This Dude Rolls on Shabbas

Dinner a Show: Sing-a-long Coen Brothers

Photo Courtesy For the Record​ In L.A., dinner and a show doesn't have to mean parking at the Arclight and walking to one of the myriad bars and restaurants near the movie theater. There are some great spots around town where you can dine and be entertained at the same time, and we don't mean ... More >>

The Dude's Abode: The Big Lebowski's Venice Bungalow Up For Sale

606-608 Venezia ​ Are you one of the (many, many) people who can't engage in conversation without dropping a line from the Coen Brothers' seventh movie? Are you also looking to move? Well, we found you a place! You're welcome. Yep, the Dude's one-bedroom bungalow is on the market, just waiti ... More >>

Five Noir Films To Remind You Why You Heart L.A.

"You seen my cat?"​ Yes, we love this place, but that doesn't mean it doesn't get exhausting explaining to everybody else what it is, exactly, that we're doing here. Particularly in summer when the fake tans, overpriced cocktails and newsboy caps worn by people who don't deliver newspapers for ... More >>

The Top 5 Hollywood Bowl Classical Concerts to Enjoy While Stoned: Smoke a Bowl Before The Bowl

Look at all those trees, dude. ​By Christian Hertzog Marijuana has a well-deserved reputation for being a recreational substance enjoyed at live concerts of rock, rap, and--especially--reggae. Should anyone be surprised that some folks enjoy a righteous hit of cheeba before attending a classi ... More >>

Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire: New Edition Out Today

​Yes, we know how much you like your tattered and demi-glace-stained copy of The Joy of Cooking, or maybe How to Cook Everything, but there is another book that you would do well to add to the kitchen library, if you don't already have it. The new edition of Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire, the ... More >>

Oscars 2011: The Most Embarrasing Academy Awards Ever?

"It's the young and hip Oscars!" So chirped Anne Hathaway when returning to the mic after 50 year-old winner Melissa Leo--looking much more legitimately glamorous than in those for your consideration ads she controversially self-financed--spontaneously let the word "fucking" escape her lips whil ... More >>

True Grit Movie Review

Jeff Bridges stars in the Coen brothers' remake of the classic Western

RED HILL

Movie Review: Leaves of Grass

Movie Review: A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

Use Your Noodle Part Two: Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop

In June, we wrote of the dazzling food prep scene in Chinese director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop (a re-make of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple which will be released on September 3rd). In it, Li, a chef with a fondness for bare midriff tops, pink satin and the wife of his grouchy ... More >>

Life During Wartime: Happiness Recast

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

Siam Sunset: The Thaiest Thai in Thai Town

It's all about the ordinary

Use Your Noodle: Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's Remake Of The Coen Brothers' Blood Simple

Sony Pictures Classics​ For all the marquee prominence in the title of Chinese director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop, (slated for release on Sept. 3rd) we only see a kitchen staff shift into high gear once. In the scene, Wang -- the villainous owner of a restaurant located in ... More >>

Hershey Sues William-Sonoma Over Brownie Pan: Rectangular Is Not Funny

There is a hilarious moment in the Coen Brothers film Raising Arizona, in which an old-timer gas station attendant considers the humor of balloon shapes. They are not particularly humorous, he points out, unless round is funny. Rectangular isn't really funny either, especially if you're Williams-Son ... More >>

The Other Renoir

LACMA pairs its Pierre-Auguste Renoir retro with a Jean Renoir film series that defies masterpiece doldrums

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

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

A Serious Man: Seriously Bad for the Jews

Self-hating or just everyone-hating? The Coen Brothers aim their contempt at MOTs

Last Night: Nihilists in Koreatown! Lebowski Fest 2009, Night 1, Hits The Wiltern

View more photos in the Lebowski Fest '09 slideshow. Timothy NorrisA Walter and Jeff Dowd, who character of the Dude was based on, at the Lebowski Fest Day 1The Dude abides. And so does that Dude over there.... and that Dude, with the really natty bathrobe... and that Dude, who looks a lot more D ... More >>

Film Poll 2008: WALL-E World

The little robot that could tops another chart

Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

When good directors go bad

Burn After Reading: Intolerable Cruelty

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

Speed Demons: Breaking Bad

New series traffics meth labs and fatherly love gone awry

Horror films failed to scare up big bucks in 2007

Bad blood

2007 Film Poll: If It Bleeds, It Leads

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

Badlands

Coen brothers transcend themselves with No Country for Old Men

Film Reviews: Goya’s Ghosts, Cashback, Captivity

Also this week's pick, Ten Canoes

Extreme Downsizing

Heads roll in satirical Severance

Let the Sunshine In

Last Thursday morning in Paris, the lineup was announced for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The announcement was made by Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux during a press conference held in a gilded and mirrored salon of the Hotel de Crillon, located on the Place de la Co ... More >>

War and Remembrances

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

The Defender

Intolerable?

More cruelty for Coenheads

Final Cut

Barbershop noir from the Coens

Pushing the Envelopes

Mommy Was a Tweaker

Too Simple

Filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen

The Filmmakers

The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Turns 5

Letters

The Brothers Freak

In which the Coens sing the praises of dope, bowling, loyalty and sloth