Jason Schwartzman

Middle-Earth and the Iranian New Year: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 15 The New Beverly Cinema is presenting a David O. Russell double feature starting at 7:30 p.m. Russell, whose Silver Linings Playbook recently won an Oscar for Jennifer Lawrence, first gained attention back in 1994 for his controversial fil ... More >>

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the d ... More >>

A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III Review: Roman Coppola Gives Charlie Sheen the 8 1/2 Treatment

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Sheen's new film, made with childhood friend Roman Coppola, was his first acting gig after his notorious meltdown

We Attended Cinefamily's Entire 24-Hour Holiday Telethon. Here's the Mind-Blowing Stuff That Happened

It's somewhere on the wrong side of 4 a.m., John Hawkes is casually smoking cigarettes on an outdoor couch, the German actor Udo Kier just went back to the coffin he likely sleeps in, and Cinefamily's back patio looks like the early morning lull after a biker-gang Christmas party. There are beercans ... More >>

Cinefamily's Telethon Will Include Robert Downey, Jr. Digging Up a Time Capsule, and More

Aquarium Drunkard Is a Cool, Weird Music Bar on the Internet

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Justin Gage's business card for Aquarium Drunkard bears a simple mantra: "Just the good shit." This might seem self-evident for the proprietor of a music ... More >>

Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Cannes Film Festival: Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis and Bill Murray

It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky, isle-strewn coast of New England. Sam (Jared Gelman), a scrawny, bespectacled outcast with an unusual aptitude for cartography, disappears from the Khaki Scout camp supervised by Scout Master Randy Ward (Edward Norton), absconding with a couple of bed ... More >>

Steve Nalepa, the Professor of Party

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: *Low End Theory Anniversary *More Low End Theory Oral History From Those Who Helped Build It All apologies to Mr. Holland, but our opuses hav ... More >>

Ice Cube and Charles and Ray Eames: Gangsters Making the World Go Round

Ice Cube in the Pacific Standard Time promotional video about the Eameses​ Today was a good day for Ice Cube -- he kicked it in the Eames House. In a promotional video for Pacific Standard Time released yesterday, Cube discusses the work of husband-and-wife designers Charles and Ray Eames, an ... More >>

Sesame Street Jason Schwartzman Iron Chef = Genius

​Sporting a cape like Liberace and hair like a demented Elvis, Jason Schwartzman visits Sesame Street for a quick turn in "Cast Iron Cook," an Iron Chef parody. Starring alongside Elmo, Schwarzman plays the discerning and dramatic judge, Super Chef, a man prone to screamed exclamations and pur ... More >>

Susan Mogul Spoofs Jason Schwartzman and Anthony Kiedis in her own Pacific Standard Time Campaign

Courtesy of the artistSusan Mogul's Mogul Celebrates Mogul poster hanging alongside the official PST ads in Echo Park​ Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha both like words. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' front man and now-iconic L.A. artist drive around L.A. discussing this shared affinity in a promo vid ... More >>

Six Pacific Standard Time Artworks Worth Seeing

Pacific Standard Time, L.A.'s 60-museum retrospective on L.A. art 1945-1980, is mostly packaged in box sets, each museum or gallery exhibition the visual equivalent of a multi-part, themed concept album. But despite all the carefully cultivated curatorial choices, as you move from show to show, it' ... More >>

Pacific Standard Time: Frequently Asked Questions From Irritable Skeptics

This thing Pacific Standard Time, which starts on Saturday, can be quite overwhelming, no doubt causing many people not in the know to tune out, question the whole thing or stomp off in anger. Therefore, to help stave off confusion, annoyance and bloodlust, we have created a list of PST-related fr ... More >>

Precious Little Life

Scott Pilgrim and Michael Cera get soul

Music Picks: Circa Survive, Joanna Newsom, El-P, Roots Roadhouse

Also, Scorpions, Viza, the Park and others

Last Night: Strip Dreidel, Christmas Eve Heebonism and Jewjitsu in Palm Springs: Heeb Mag's

Jeremy PelleyThe Ace Hotel in Palm Springs honors the tribe on Christmas Eve​Being Jewish on Christmas sucks. The only places open are Chinese restaurants and movie theaters. Every house but yours is beautifully ablaze in lights and big French windows filled with families in ill-fitting itchy ... More >>

What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?

A decade after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Generation Y's anointed auteur tries for a comeback with Fantastic Mr. Fox

21st-Century Fox

New Dublab Vid: Jennifer Furches (Sea Wolf, Cass McCombs) Live at Elysian Park

It's been a good six months since the good folks at Dublab (currently holding their Proton Drive fundraiser) have delivered up a new installment of Vision Version, a video series that captures touring or L.A.-area artists performing one-off songs in beautiful or unusual settings. Last time, to wit, ... More >>

(Not So) Funny People

Adam Sandler and Judd Apatow Attempt to Yuck It Up Again.

Jason Schwartzman of Coconut Records Picks His Top 5 Favorite Places in Los Angeles

Editor's note: Play welcomes actor and musician Jason Schwartzman on board as a guest blogger to share his top 5 favorite places in Los Angeles. Sure, you're all big fans of Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited, but if you haven't checked out his band Coconut Records then consider it added to your t ... More >>

When Hollywood Goes After White Whales

Thar she blows

Project Jump Ship: Moguls Fight Fiercely Over Runway

... agents Endeavor to change

The Wire's Lance Reddick: He Might Have Been Bubbles

Lieutenant Cedric Daniels meets his fans

Walk Hard: Hock the Line

Movie sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Bollywood Bohème

Indian cinema’s past meets its present in the lavish Saawariya

Getting to the Gala...

When I finagled the invite to the Murakami Gala at MOCA, my girlfriends bombarded me with the same question: "What are you wearing?" It was a legitimate one, considering my sparse excuse for a wardrobe, overrun with tattered t-shirts, baggy jeans, moth-eaten sweaters and a few other shapeless th ... More >>

Strangers On a Train

Unpacking the literal and figurative baggage of The Darjeeling Limited

Off With Her Manolo Blahniks!

Sofia Coppola’s fashionably slight Marie Antoinette

Used Country

Waiting for the Black Keys

The Hills Have Eyes

Getting Good Radiohead

Jon Brion's Amazing Musicquarium

The Nowhere/Everywhere man on Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Frank Sinatra, quantum physics, Roxy Music, acoustic alchemy, God and extreme coffee drinking

Schlockgirl

Gag me with a glove. The only reason I saw the "romantic" "comedy" Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella of the same name, was because my friend and I got lost on the way to Pasadena and it was too late to see The Squid and the Whale. Now, I can appreciate a good chick flick as much as anyone, p ... More >>

Water Water Everywhere

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

Being and Zaniness

I ♥ Huckabees is an existential fun fest

Red-Hot Mamas

What if all the Stars Were Pretty Babies?

Diamond Lane Rock

Strange Bedfellows: Winona and the Chicago 7

The Road Wes Traveled

Fourteen hours riding shotgun with the director of Rushmore

Manohla Dargis' Hit List

The Delicate Delinquent

Wes Anderson’s sublime Rushmore