Jim Jarmusch

Why Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning's John Hyams Could Be Our Best Action Film Director

Spike Lee on Shooting in His Favorite Borough for Red Hook Summer

Lee talks making the very indie Red Hook Summer

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

From Nostalgia's fade-out to Dust

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Saturday Night: Kaoru Abe, Acid King, Pontiak

Timothy Norris​KCRW BROADCAST #111 for Saturday, April 23. Fanatics! It is Friday, early afternoon and I am just now getting a chance to write these brief notes up for you. One of these days I'm going to get some sleep. Just back from Ann Arbor, Michigan where we had a major blast at the Stoo ... More >>

Meek's Cutoff Review

Chinese Democracy

Film series highlights indie film as resistance

True Grit Movie Review

Jeff Bridges stars in the Coen brothers' remake of the classic Western

Cahiers du Cinema: The New Wave in a New World

Legendary French film mag brings its auteurist project to the States via a new book imprint

Live Review: RZA at the Key Club

Rebecca HaithcoatRZA, ready to ascend​A little more than halfway through his show at the Key Club Saturday night, RZA proclaimed, "If you're not havin' a good time, you're wastin' your time." He then launched into a track from 2003's Birth of a Prince, "Drink, Smoke Fuck." Scheme, or serend ... More >>

Sundance: What's Happening NEXT?

Festival’s new microbudget indie sidebar is nothing to mumble home about

Watch: Indie Luminaries Covering Skip Spence and Neil Young

In celebration of the holiday spirit of sharing, we've got two shining visual examples of how to do just that below, each of which offers up an indie world collaboration of cream-in-your-jeans proportions. First up is the latest entry in Beck's ongoing Record Club -- a full-album covers series that ... More >>

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Tom Waits Live Album Streaming at KCRW

Cooking With Werner: Werner Herzog and Jim Jarmusch Make A Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Ever wonder what it would be like if the Food Network or PBS or whomever gave a cooking show to somebody completely unlikely? Not Bobby Flay or Mario Batali or even Brian Boitano (yes, this month), but Werner Herzog? Imagine the German filmmaker, director of Fitzcarraldo and Nosferatu (and writer of ... More >>

South of the 10: Sonic and Savory Flavors of Ethiopia at the Industry Cafe

For the real sonic and savory flavors of Ethiopia, the Industry Cafe in the Culver City arts district brings together slick jazz and delicious eats from East Africa.

The Limits of Control: The Man, the Myth

Wandering Spain with Jim Jarmusch's lone wolf

Movie Reviews: The Great Buck Howard, Perestroika, Knowing, Sin Nombre

Also, Explicit Ills, Virtual JFK and more

David Axelrod to Perform His Legendary Solo Tracks Live in LA

David Axelrod, the legendary LA-based jazz/funk/breakbeat king whose work has been heavily sampled by hip hop producers, will perform some of his classic tracks live for the first time ever (though he did do something similar in London in 2004) this spring as part of the Timeless Concert Series, a ... More >>

Bride Wars, Not Easily Broken, The Unborn

Also, Tracing Cowboys and Yonkers Joe

Stuff and Dough Makes Its Belated L.A. Debut

The birth of Mr. Puiu, three years after its director's star rose at Cannes

Hello Mommy Africa: A Hipster's Guide to Afro-Indie Rock

Here's eight records. Now go start a riot

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#25-21)

25. Wu-Tang Clan-8 Diagrams [SRC/Loud] 8 Diagrams is east coast hardcore rap that doesn't sound like it was made on the east coast. It was recorded in LA but it doesn't sound like LA either. considering it isn't loud, it isn't flashy, and it certainly couldn't soundtrack a barbeque unless Jim Jarm ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan Still Sting

Sentencing Diagrams: A swarm turns in on itself

Jon Spencer, Jail Weddings at the Echo, 11/10

Heavy Trash, Jail Weddings The Echo, Nov. 10 Photos and review by Rena Kosnett I’m just trying to understand why Jon Spencer is doing this. This egomaniacal vanity study called Heavy Trash, which I could take for ironic stagecraft if I wasn’t under the impression that his inflated id is all t ... More >>

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Rock Picks

For the week of Nov. 30 – Dec. 7

Dear Kevin

Toxin Avenger

A party girl cleans up her tract... er, act during the 21-Day Detox

Dante's Inferno

The divine dark comedy of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Love & Death

Tales from Cristi Puiu’s Bucharest

Border Crossings

Claire Denis On Intruders Internal and External

Rock Like an Egyptian

a.k.a. The Year in Greg Burk: Metal Went Mideastern, Paul Rodgers became Freddie Mercury, and Diana Krall did not become Ella Fitzgerald

The Best of the Rest of the Fest

Our critics’ picks from the final weekend of AFI Fest 2005

The Cenozoic Era Passes in Five Seconds Flat

Subversive promotional activities with Jim Jarmusch

The Thrill Is Gone

Jim Jarmusch and Wong Kar-wai look for love in all the wrong places

Los Angeles Film Festival

Critics Choices and Schedule

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

Dressed To Thrill

Pollack’s The Interpreter and the Hungarian first feature Kontroll

11 Great Small Performances

I’m Steve Coogan

. . . and Alan Partridge and Paul Calf and Tony Ferrino and Tony Wilson and 'Steve Coogan' and, oh yes, Phileas Fogg in the soon-to-open remake of Around the World in 80 Days

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

Same Old, Same Old

Black (and white) at the movies

Wonder Boys and Girls

Our year at the movies

The Moralist

Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker

Black Steel

Common in commotion

Float On

Forest Whitaker on the ghosts that dog us all

Howl

Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog

The Hidden

Or, how The Blair Witch Project conquered the world

Under the Skin

The 52nd Festival de Cannes

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Rockin' Off the Wall