John Huston

The Canyons, Starring Lindsay Lohan and Porn Star James Deen

The Canyons Is Vital, Messy, and Alive With Regret

It's the Non-Famous Movies That Make TCM Fest Worth Attending

LACMA Series Spotlights Two Masters of the Frame

LACMA's Reinstallation of Its Latin American Art Galleries, Explained

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Born in Mexico City, Ilona Katzew came to L.A. 13 years ago to assume a role at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as an associate curator of Latin American art. At the time, Latin American art was a component of a larger museum department that al ... More >>

New Marilyn Monroe Biography Says Her Death Was an Accident and JFK Was Just a One-Night Stand

See also: *Marilyn Monroe Photographer Lawrence Schiller: Our Interview *Marilyn Monroe's Never-Before-Seen Poolside Nude Photos As the media undoubtedly will note this week, Aug. 5 marks the 50th anniversary of the sad, premature death of Norma Jeane Baker, aka Marilyn Monroe, the multitalented ... More >>

Spaghetti Westerns at the Egyptian and Aero Theaters

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Baseball, Bikes and Body Snatchers

Whit Stillman Interview

Damsels in Distress, and a director in distress

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Unseen Elaine May and ghibli gems

Pete Smalls Is Dead Review

Peter Dinklage's Big Break

Falling James' Gig of the Week: The Middle Class and Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds at the Echoplex, 6/24

Falling JamesThe Middle Class​So much of punk rock is centered around nostalgia these days, whether it's played by modern corporate pretenders aping their elders in watered-down, insipid ways or the surviving elders themselves, whose reunions are often too sluggish and self-congratulatory to e ... More >>

Werner Herzog Takes Pity on Confused Hipster at Hollywood Cemetery Screening Q&A

cinemastrikesback.comWerner Herzog has seen worse.​The Saturday-night screening of "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery was attended by special guest Werner Herzog, to the delight of a few hundred wine-drunk hipsters on picnic blankets. (Toto was there too, in spiri ... More >>

The Horror

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 >>

Ghosts of a Filmmaker's Past

Why the film Roman Polanski finished from jail is his best in years

Seen Behind the Scene: On the Set with Mary Ellen Mark

Brando and other legends immortalized in photographer's new book

Today in Photographs: December 24, 1952

Happy Holidays, John Huston! The maverick director of The Maltese Falcon and The African Queen gets razzed by anti-communist picketers. Huston was attending a premiere screening of his Moulin Rouge biopic at the Fox Wilshire Theater in Beverly Hills.  (Guys, the film was about Toulouse Lautrec, ... More >>

Woody Allen's European Vacation: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

He lived the young man's dream in Spain; next, he directs Larry David in NYC and Puccini for L.A. Opera

I Am a Diary

Excerpts from Christopher Isherwood's journal

Movie Reviews: Doomsday, Drillbit Taylor, Under the Same Moon

Also Shutter and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns

Culture Clash Unmasks El Zorro

Will the Fox survive?

The Late, Great Kate: A Centennial Tribute to Katharine Hepburn

The Devil May Care

William Friedkin on Bug, Cruising and nights at the opera

Missing the Ex-Factor

AFI remembers the past, neglects the present

Western Expansion

Director Walter Hill brings his new cowboy tale to commercial TV

Heiress Olivia

Sipping tea with Hollywood royalty

The Craftsman

Robert Altman learned moviemaking before the auteur era; long after, he’s still telling stories

O.C. Confidential

Rian Johnson’s suburban noir

Hollywood Through the Looking Glass

Cinematheque exhumes the American new wave

Shadow Man

A retrospective celebrates the work of the mysterious, difficult but brilliant Stanley Cortez

Still a Working Stiff

Never mind the buzz: To Woody Allen, Match Point is just a job well done

In Glorious Technicolor

Three-quarters of a century on, the dye transfer epics haven’t aged a day

Anytime, Anywhere

Hardcore provocateur Eugene Robinson searches for the almost-perfect punch

For a Few Million More . . .

In his 24th film since Play Misty for Me, Clint Eastwood is still working on Hollywood’s longest second act

Kipling, Meet Turgenev – Sort Of

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Two Brothers and Alexander Sokurov’s Father and Son

Bad Girls

Women critics in sexually retro America

Time Lost and Found

LACMA revisit La Belle Époche

Oh Dad, Poor Dad

Surrogate fathers in The Good Thief and The Son

The Three Faces of Ivan

Meet the trinity of filmmakers behind the Tolstoy adaptation that’s making Hollywood crazy

The Anomie and the Ecstasy

Tolstoy, Bernard Rose and the death throes of a ridiculous man

French for Dummies

Hilary does Versailles

Homage to Catatonia

A history of drugs and the movies

My So-Called Rotten Life

Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

Mystery

Mystery Man

Denis Johnson and The Name of the World

In the Land of the Living Dead

The American musical strikes again

Et Cetera, Et Cetera, Et Cetera!

Anna and the King, plus The Emperor and the Assassin

The Filmmakers

The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Turns 5

Moby Dick (the Next Generation)

Patrick Stewart does Captain Ahab