Ingmar Bergman

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

Emancipation Proclamations

Ingmar Bergman's Nora and two plays by Horton Foote at Open Fist Theatre present defiant women, in ways that feel almost nostalgic

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Pioneering Actress Hattie McDaniel

Our critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, and comprehensive stage listings, see below.This week's Stage Feature takes a look a three shows th ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Sherlock's Last Case

No new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's stage feature, we asked our stable of critics what they most dread and anticipate when being assigned a s ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

Nora

Henry Rollins: The Column! Hunting, Gut Stew, and Sex With Your Sister

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Still in Australia, get used to it! I will be here for quite a while. Things are going very we ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Much Bergman, much of the time

Meet Your Food Blogger: Billy Vasquez of The 99 Cent Chef

Billy Vasquezthe 99 Cent Chef​Where does Billy Vasquez, the 99 Cent Chef, find inspiration for his blog? At L.A.'s ubiquitous 99 Cents Only Stores, of course. His blog reports on the current food items (some vary from day to day) as well as other under-a-dollar bargains at local markets. Us ... More >>

The New Sex Flick

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

Live Review: Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman

Guy Maddin, by Guy Maddin​ WHO: Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman WHERE: Ford Amphitheateer WHEN: 6/25/11 Just to recap the slightly complicated scenario, Sparks' The Seduction of Ingmar BergmaN, as presented at Ford Amphitheater on Saturday evening, was a staged read-through of a pla ... More >>

Sparks Premiere Radio Drama "The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman" Live at L.A. Film Fest Saturday, Guy Maddin Directs the "Film-to-Be" Performance

​ L.A.'s own veteran pop duo Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael, bring the world premiere of a staged version of their latest project, a radio drama called The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, to the Los Angeles Film Festival Saturday night. The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman is a musical compos ... More >>

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The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman

Not The Same Old Plate Of Sugar Cookies: Top 10 Food Scenes In Xmas Movies

​What is it with Christmas movies and food? Whether it's George Bailey borrowing his mother's good dishes for the high school dance in It's a Wonderful Life or Ralphie's little brother showing Mom "how the piggie eats" in A Christmas Story, eating is inextricably linked with holiday festivitie ... More >>

The Lynch Touch

AFI's Guest Artistic Director presents Eraserhead and its influences

'The American Astronaut' Brings 'The Girl With The Vagina Made of Glass' And More Sci-fi, Musical-Western Hits to the Downtown Indie

'The American Astronaut' Brings 'The Girl With The Vagina Made of Glass' And More Sci-fi, Musical-Western Hits to the Downtown Indie

Psych Major

A two-weekend Bergman crash course at LACMA

Telluride: Down From The Mountain

Studios trek to Colorado festival in search of art-film street cred

Top 10 Killer (Literally) Food Films

Did watching Julie & Julie make you want to kill yourself? Or someone else? Or perhaps you've heard that your preoccupation with eating, your appetite for amuse-bouche, your thirst for terroir--the sort of things that would drive you to see such a film in the first place--might be symptomatic of a n ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Habit of Art

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAYNEW REVIEW GO THE HABIT OF ART By Paul BirchallIf you want to see director Nicholas Hytner's smart and compelling production of Alan Bennett's new drama at the National Theater of Great Britain, you co ... More >>

Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else

Antichrist: Couple Retreats

Lars von Trier puts his made-in-hell spouses — and his audience — through the ringer

The Last House on the Left: That’s So Craven

Rape. Revenge. Yawn

Jan Troell's Persistence of Vision

Swedish director adds a new page to his celluloid scrapbook

AFI Fest: High School Confidential

Cutting class with Afterschool director Antonio Campos

Steve Tatham

Putting on the ointment

“Milestones”: In Memoriam

AFI Fest honors world cinema’s late greats

Watching the Apocalypse

Cinefile

Cruel Beauty

Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata

Tell Me You Love Me: The Thinking-Person’s Excuse for Graphic Nudity

The end of meaningless sex

Letters: No Hip-Hop Hurrah

Our readers write

Two Weeks in Manhattan

A veteran critic turns rookie programmer for the 45th New York Film Festival By Scott Foundas From The Reeler On Monday, July 30, as I arrived in New York for my first tour of duty on the New York Film Festival selection committee, I received an e-mail announcing the death of Ingmar Bergman -- one ... More >>

Letters: Driving Concerns

Our readers write

Michaelmas

Michael Tilson Thomas leading the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl

Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

Ingmar Bergman, 1918–2007; Michelangelo Antonioni, 1912–2007

Last Orgasm in Hollywood

Movie sex, dirty and clean, through the ages

They’re Ba-ack!

Scenes From a Marriage, Part Deux

Summer Enchanted Evenings

Opera’s Crude Cousin Grown Up

Stephen Sondheim, and the winding road of the American musical

An Ounce of Otello

Turn the Tide

Pursuits of Happiness

Liv Ullmann directs Bergman

Faithful

Director Liv Ullmann

The Poet

Filmmaker Terence Davies

To Niche or Not To Niche

Foreign-film distribution

Past Presence

Akira Kurosawa - 1910-1918

Cinephobia

Some notes on movies and their critics