Czechoslovakia

Geffen Playhouse Revives David Mamet's Classic American Buffalo

The Movies of Kim Jong Il, Now Available Via Bootlegs and YouTube

Athol Fugard's The Blue Iris at the Fountain Theatre

The Pianist of Willesden Lane

Alice in Wonderland on Film Through the Ages, at LACMA

The Unbelievable Genius of Andrzej Zulawski

Cinefamily hosts retrospective

Kawasaki's Rose (Kawasakiho ruze) Review

Fantastic Planet

Theater Reviews: The Limitations of Genetic Technology, Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein

Also, Roccopella, Crimes of the Heart

Stage Raw: Roccopella

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Watson (Sacred Fools) and Futura (Boston Court)COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROCCOPELLA ​ Embellished with funky MTV-inspired videos, writer/solo performer George Spielvogel's goofy good-natured comedy sports an array of ditzy characters who sha ... More >>

Stage Raw: LOL! Latina on the Loose!

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Watson (Sacred Fools) and Futura (Boston Court)COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLOL! LATINA ON THE LOOSE! ​ Mina Olivera's comedy show is among the productions being reviewed this weekend. For a complete list of assignments, press the More tab at the bottom of t ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

Also, Paper Man, Handmade Nation, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D and more

Why Theater Matters

And how our local stage can seize a national leadership role

Cinefamily to Screen Amazing Cult Films From the Silver Lake of the Soviet Era

The print version of the LA Weekly has a really neat article by Michael Atkinson about the awesome program of cult Czech movies that Cinefamily will be showing every Saturday this month and in March. Titles like Daisies and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders are now part of Hipster 101 syllabi from Wil ... More >>

Grounded: Jason Reitman

Up in the Air director has a good sense of where he's from and where he's headed

Stage Raw: Photograph 51

THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS.BRODER AND SMITH ... More >>

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Bohemian Cowboy, Tartuffe, Black Women — State of the Union

Also, American Guilt, The Taming of the Shrew and more

Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... More >>

Election '08: Remembering Kissinger and the Original September 11th

BY MARC COOPER I'll leave the exploitation of 9/11 to the professional pols. The date -- and its surrounding commemoration -- has become about as meaningless as Thanksgiving, except you don't get a day off from school or work. We all know we are not an iota safer than we were seven years ago. Quit ... More >>

Stupid McCampaign Tricks

With Obamapalooza in full swing, John McCain shouts into the media void

Gramm Cracker Crust: John McCain's Surrogate Trouble

Indy Mac implodes and Johnny Mac's exposed, as econ guru suffers from recession of the brain

Falling Sky: Athol Fugard's Victory

The playwright's latest premieres in Los Angeles

Victory

Shadow and Substance

The bullshit factor and positive vibrations

L.A.'s Red

Dorothy Ray Healey, 1914-2006

California Dreamin’

Protocol for Lying

The senators let Condi Rice slide

The Year's Best DVD Gift Boxes

Yogis for Kerry

Watch Them All Fall Down

Domino dancing to communism’s collapse

Art Therapy

And its progression from the Holocaust camps to Loyola Marymount and beyond

Jon Robin Baitz's play about artists and eclipse

Jon Robin Baitz's play about artists and eclipse

Our Very Own 1914

Bush tries to reorder the world in his declaration of war

From Mediocre to Monster

John O’Keefe’s brilliant new play finds the pulse of our times

As Fighter Jets Go By

Merging Artists

75 years of California highways and byways

Man Without a Country

Athol Fugard in past tense

Off

Running From Hitler

Two men relive a great escape

Inside/Outside

The Architecture of R.M. Schindler and Shaping the Great City

Lost in Yonkers

Gus Hall, 1910-2000

Seeing Red

Joe Stalin comes to L.A.

The Misfits

American Westerns through Polish eyes

Kosovo Conundrum

The Collective Confusion of American Progressives

Jesus Saves

The Residents score on the rebound

Calamity of Excellence

Lawrence Weschler laments the loss of journalism that asks for nothing but our attention

After Sex, Courage

France's actress-director Brigitte Rouan