L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. Here's a thought: The Big Lebowski is all about the penis. The dick, the rod, the johnson. More specifically — an ... More >>
In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute's ongoing filmmaker development labs as "our core," noting that the festival itself was conceived "to create an audience for the filmmakers in our lab program."
See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>
Paul Dano stars in adaptation of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Independence Day = aliens
Also, Despicable Me, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko makes a traditional (lesbian) domestic comedy for the sperm-donor age
Also Sweetgrass, West of Pluto, Vincere and more
By George, British actor almost didn't get the role of a lifetime
Christopher Isherwood, out of the closet
Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones and more
View more photos in the Lebowski Fest '09 slideshow. Timothy NorrisCostume contest winners: [L-R] The Jesus, Maude, Walter and The Dude.It's a balmy Friday and just north of the Long Beach Airport, the Lebowski Fest 2009 crew has landed, ready to launch into the second night of their all-stops The ... More >>
Also, Blindness, Still Life, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and more
Also, Meet Bill, Quid Pro Quo and more
Mike Tyson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Terence Davies and more
With his kaleidoscopic Bob Dylan anti-biopic, the director takes a bold leap back to his avant-garde roots
Also Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace and more
The future’s uncertain in thrilling, bleak Children of Men
Middle-class malaise meets inner-city despair in The Architect
At home with Penélope Cruz
Mr. and Mrs. Julianne Moore’s expensive home movie
For February 17 - 23
Moore versus Brosnan in Laws of Attraction
At Sundance, indie film thrives — in spite of the “hot” industry tips
Johansson smolders on the edge of stardom
The Oscars give peace a glance
Give peace and a bad show a pass
The fetish of knowingness
Kidman, Streep and Moore in The Hours
Todd Haynes' postmodern tearjerker
A Beautiful Mind; plus, The Shipping News
The real world of actor Brooke Smith
The American Nightmare and Hannibal
Paul Thomas Anderson's third symphony
Neil Jordan's and Graham Greene's The End of the Affair
Oliver Parker's snoozy Ideal Husband
French actresses at the American Cinematheque
Gus Van Sant’s imitation of art
In which the Coens sing the praises of dope, bowling, loyalty and sloth
