Gene Hackman

TCM Classic Film Festival: Watching Hollywood's Greatest Films on Its Most Annoying Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard during the TCM Classic Film Festival is mostly business as usual: Captain Jack Sparrow and Marilyn Monroe walk up and down the street to the delight of camera-wielding tourists, Jimmy Kimmel Live staffers give away free tickets, aspiring rappers hand out CDs before not-so-subtly ... More >>

A Janis Joplin Musical Boosts the Pasadena Playhouse Box Office

One Night With Janis provides some nostalgic comfort food

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 >>

Is it Possible to Write a Novel That Doesn't Treat Hollywood With Derision?

Beau Rosenwald — an obese Hollywood talent agent–turned-producer — was used to having his movies fail. He also was used to raking in millions of dollars via films starring a monkey. This time, however, the failure was monumental. After the studio killed his script, Beau found himse ... More >>

Everything You Need to Know About What Happened at Sundance

Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body -- was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let's say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less heady consideration o ... More >>

Danny Holloway, Music Industry Legend, Has the Nuts

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Danny Holloway owns as many stories as vinyl records: 50,000. Before our waiter at El Tepayec takes drink orders, he's already riffing on how he almost s ... More >>

Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain and Beautiful Lighting Can't Save The Exorcist, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatre, Artworks, Theatre Asylum and Lab. For shows you may have missed in June, see the complete schedule following New Theater Reviews aft ... More >>

Ron Swanson of Parks & Rec vs. Nick Offerman: The Food Interview

The Ron Swanson food pyramid.​Like the character he plays on Parks & Recreation, Nick Offerman is a man with a magnificent mustache. Something of a libertarian, most certainly a contrarian and definitely not a vegetarian, Ron Swanson is the gruff but goofy patriarch who viewers have come to id ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

Marc Maron

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Screenings with a shelf life to catch before it’s too late

Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken

LACMA's Road Movies Series

Middle Men : The History of Internet Porn. Sort Of

Luke Wilson does his best work in years

Oh, Camelot!

The Pasadena Playhouse takes a final bow. Again

Stage Raw: City Council Postpones Crisis Vote

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingCHECK BACK HERE MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESCITY COUNCIL POSTPONES VOTE, CULTURAL AFFAIRS PROGRAMS SPARED FOR T ... More >>

Stage Raw: Yes, You Can Do Something of Consequence

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's THEATER FEATURE On Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus DescendingCheck here on Monday afternoon for the 2009 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards nominees!YES, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING. The local blogosphere has been generating a number of letters like ... More >>

Eric Rohmer's Talking Pictures

Remembering the idiosyncratiic New Wave director, 1920-2010

Happy-Go-Lucky: Driver's Eddie

As film’s angry road instructor, character actor Eddie Marsan enters the fast lane

Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

The Tales of Eric Rohmer: Nouvelle Vague's Master of Talking Pictures at LACMA

Series honors octogenatian writer-director with rare prints on big screen

Spaced: The Next Frontier, on DVD

The long-awaited release of the British pop-culture phenom loved by Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino

Queen Week

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Best Lost East L.A. Cinema Gems

Cisco Pike & Two-Lane Blacktop

Hollywood Through the Looking Glass

Cinematheque exhumes the American new wave

Water Water Everywhere

Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve

Eyes Half Closed

Novelist Michael Ondaatje and film editor Walter Murch talk Coppola, Lucas and the problems that make the movies

Games People Play: Thy Neighbors Script

Who Are You To Refuse My Sugar?

Letters

High Hopes

Wes Anderson’s tragicomedy of the gifted child

See Owen Run

Another top gun goes Behind Enemy Lines

Slush

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Moralist

Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker

The Fisher King of Camp

Medea: The Musical and the scholar-clown who created it

Colonial Life

The brave bugs of Antz and the rabid racists of The Life of Jesus

Love Among the Ruins

A Long Island delight, a Santa Monica snore