Kenneth Anger

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Tuesday, December 25 Cody Bryant VIVA CANTINA Believe it or not, there are actually a few clubs open on Christmas. Over at Liquid Kitty in West Los Angeles, DJ Charlie X is spinning a no-cover mix of punk rock and various hits from that lost decade, the 1980s. Across town, at Viva Cantina in Burban ... More >>

Music Picks: Chino XL, Marissa Nadler, As Blood Runs Black

Outfest: 30 Years of History

James Franco's Art: A Layperson's Guide

See also: *James Franco's MOCA Show Opening: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There' *James Franco & Alex Israel: Why Their Obsession With Celebrity Doesn't Pay Off Who are we to argue celebrity artistic merit -- or any artistic merit anywhere? It is 2012, after all, and it has kinda all been done. ... More >>

L.A. Observed Preview

Thom Andersen and others present experimental nonfiction films about Los Angeles

MOCA's 'Kenneth Anger: ICONS' Opening: Avant-Garde Filmmaker Parties with Dave Navarro, Porn Star April Flores and More

If experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger had written Hollywood Babylon today (instead of during the 1950s), his subjects would have been among Saturday night's turnout at the MOCA members' opening for Kenneth Anger: ICONS. Just substitute guitarist Dave Navarro for Rudolph Valentino, plus-size porn ... More >>

All About Anger

George Lucas, John Baldessari, and Kenneth Anger Walk Into a Bar ...

Alternative Projections Preview

Pacific Standard Time collaboration offers a massive survey of postwar experimental moviemaking in L.A.

Inquiry Towards the Practice of Secular Magic

A live documentary and more at multimedia event

Brian Butler: Spell-Raiser

Video: Teaser for Hecuba's Film 'Brass Knuckles'

More Manimalian--Manimalien?--news today: L.A. band Hecuba has been laying a little low since the release a memorable EP and a very sophisticated full-length since 2008. If you've never met them, allow John Payne to introduce you to producer/singer Jon Beasley and singer/daner Isabelle Albuquerque ... More >>

Hollywood's Soft Psychedelic Underbelly

Filmforum's "Alternative Projections" symposium draws a line from avant-garde to Avatar

L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

Highlights from the fall season

Movies Gone Bad

Pat O'Neill's shattered, kaleidoscopic storytelling — and beyond

Locals Only

Changing the System From Within

Rock Picks: Mark Eitzel, Wanda Jackson, Dan Deacon, Heartless Bastards

Plus, Hecuba, James Pants, Angus & Julia Stone and others

Occulture Club

GO LA: Rum, Sodomy and John Waters’ Filthy World

Plus plenty of high-brow, March 13-19

Art Around Town: Paul P. at Marc Selwyn Fine Art

Kenneth Anger Is a Rolling Stone

Zachary Lazar’s ’60s hash, Sway

Hoopla: How to Be Happy

What to do for the next seven days

Don't Say "Look Back in Anger"

Best Measure of a Man: Porn Prints at Studs Theatre

Marfa Film Fest Dispatch: World Premiere of Heath Ledger-directed music video

(photo by Randall Roberts) Today's a travel day for me, having just experienced the best little festival I've ever attended, the first annual Marfa Film Festival, in Marfa, Texas. The second annual one is already on my calendar for next year (and in the interim I'll be trying to convince my bosses ... More >>

The Strange Loves of Crispin Hellion Glover

Canyon Lady

Legendary experimental filmmaker Chick Strand, vital and vibrant at 75

The Films of James Broughton

Old Is the New New

UCLA fest shows why some films should never be forgotten

L.A. for New York

The Whitney Biennial screening room

Pirates, Pimps, Artists and Anarchy

Hollywood’s Gershwin Hotel is a freak’s paradise

Out of the Mystic

Finding a way to John Zorn

Moving Pictures

The layered images of Pat O’Neill, L.A. icon

Sound Methods and Weird Channels

How producer and Masters of Reality main man Chris Goss got his groove

Girth of a Nation

Jerry Stahl on Hollywood’s first scandal

Hooray for Hellmouths

In With the Out Crowd

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Last Picture Show

Of Los Angeles’ great archival double-bill theaters, only Sherman Torgan’s New Beverly Cinema remains. Can this revival house be saved?

Stan Brakhage, 1933 — 2003

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered

Apocalypse Culture Now

Letters

Meditations in an Emergency

On Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom

“I Am a Bullet!”

Cult legend Donald Cammell

Get Pretty

Dave Hickey’s fantasy art team in Santa Fe

Apocalypse Now

Poetry of protest at the San Francisco International Film Festival

Nowhere To Hide

Filmmaker Floyd Mutrux

Dystopia, Datopia

Southern California on film

Death Takes a Meeting

Excavating the Necropolis of Angels