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Independent Spirit Awards

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Q & A With The Off Hours' Megan Griffiths: Edward Hopper Diners, Prop Movie Fries Diner Booth Migration Patterns

    Lost souls at all-night diners have been explored on the big screen before. But from the opening montage of The Off Hours, with its quietly melancholic images of customerless four-tops, upended coffee cups and a scraper sitting on a worn-out greasy griddle, it's clear that Seattle-based writer-dire ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO, Thrashed by Anonymous Old White Men in LA Times Roast

    Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesHudson takes on the haters.​Half a year into her stint as CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Dawn Hudson got a cutting performance review from the Los Angeles Times last weekend. The Times piece is not, at face value, an editorial evaluation of Hu ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    November 17, 2011

    LACMA Goes Hollywood With Elvis Mitchell

    Museum scrapped its film program for a star-studded partnership aimed at courting showbiz bucks — helmed by the nation's most controversial critic

  • Film+TV

    July 7, 2011

    LACMA Film: Remembering Ian Birnie

    Museum scrapped its film program for a star-studded partnership aimed at courting showbiz bucks — helmed by the nation's most controversial critic

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

    Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    June 17, 2010

    LAFF + L.A. LIVE = Luv

    But will the Los Angeles Film Festival work downtown?

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    LA Film Fest Moves to LA Live

    ​ This morning the Los Angeles Film Festival announced that they're moving the show downtown. LAFF had been based in Westwood for the past four festivals, but the event's growing size and the concurrent reduction in potential screening venues in the area (the seats were torn out of the Festiva ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 18, 2010

    45365: The Mysteries of a Zip Code

    Bill and Turner Ross’ award-winning doc about their hometown impresses with craft and patience

  • Film+TV

    March 11, 2010

    Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises

    Bill and Turner Ross’ award-winning doc about their hometown impresses with craft and patience

  • Film+TV

    February 5, 2010

    Sundance's Rebel Yell

    The festival goes back to its roots — or does it?

  • Film+TV

    January 21, 2010

    3 Backyards: Secrets and Insides

    Director Eric Mendelsohn on the suburbs, working for Woody Allen and his new film

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Film+TV

    September 25, 2008

    Movie Reviews: Choke, August Evening, Eagle Eye, Nights in Rodanthe

    Also, Freebird, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela and more

  • Stage

    November 8, 2007

    Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

    After her big kiss with El Rushbo, 24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

  • Stage

    November 8, 2007

    Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

    After her big kiss with El Rushbo,24’s Mary Lynn Rajskub returns to her darker standup roots

  • Film+TV

    June 21, 2007

    No Laffing Matter

    Los Angeles Film Festival finally comes of age

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2006

    Vote For Pedro (and Larry)

    The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 9, 2006

    That's the Spirit

    The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    June 16, 2005

    Los Angeles Film Festival

    Critics Choices and Schedule

  • Film+TV

    December 30, 2004

    Docs on the Rocks

    At Oscar time, many of the year’s best documentaries don’t stand a chance

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    Letters

    At Oscar time, many of the year’s best documentaries don’t stand a chance

  • News

    September 18, 2003

    Pale Fire

    The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Letters

    The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

  • Film+TV

    October 4, 2001

    The Accidental Man

    An interview with Stephen Frears

  • News

    June 22, 2000

    Jena at 15

    A childhood in Hollywood

  • News

    November 11, 1999

    Willis Docu Dies Hard

    A childhood in Hollywood

  • Film+TV

    January 28, 1999

    From DIY to Disney

    A childhood in Hollywood

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