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L.A. Film Festival 2013: The Best Films to See

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Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit Awards -- he announced his intention to raise the profile of LACMA's Bing Theater and fill it with tha ... More >>

Best Beer in America Results: Hoppy Beers Continue to Reign California Brewers Clean Up

The results are in for the tenth annual "Best Beers in America" poll from Zymurgy Magazine, craftbeer.com reports. A Colorado-based publication of the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), Zymurgy has long-asked its readers to vote for their favorite commercially available beers. This year's polli ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

LACMA Film: Remembering Ian Birnie

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 >>

LAFF + L.A. LIVE = Luv

But will the Los Angeles Film Festival work downtown?

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 >>

45365: The Mysteries of a Zip Code

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

Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises

Sundance's Rebel Yell

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

3 Backyards: Secrets and Insides

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

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 >>

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

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

Chloe Doesn't Live Here Anymore

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

Chloe Does't Live Here Anymore

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

No Laffing Matter

Los Angeles Film Festival finally comes of age

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 >>

That's the Spirit

Los Angeles Film Festival

Critics Choices and Schedule

Docs on the Rocks

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

Letters

Pale Fire

The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

Letters

The Accidental Man

An interview with Stephen Frears

Jena at 15

A childhood in Hollywood

Willis Docu Dies Hard

From DIY to Disney