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How Artist Hector Zamora Built a House on Top of Shopping Carts

Will Anyone Buy My Amazing Festival Movie?

As tends to be the case, several of the best films made in the last year have yet to screen outside of the festival circuit. For some this is because their scheduled release date simply hasn't arrived; others are still waiting to be picked up by a distributor in the first place. The vagaries of cin ... More >>

Miguel Gomes on His Film Tabu, Featuring 'Melodramas, Forbidden Love Affairs, Melancholic Crocodiles, Bands Playing Phil Spector Songs'

AFI Fest 2012: Who Will Win the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film?

Mark de Clive-Lowe Throws Great Party

Pianist and producer Mark de Clive-Lowe is a man of the world. Splitting his childhood between New Zealand and Japan, he has also called Boston and London home before settling here in sunny Los Angeles. Today he'll be celebrating the two year anniversary of his monthly residency Church at the Del ... More >>

Music Picks: Bettye LaVette, Johnny Thunders, Johnny Hallyday

Also, Kate McGarry, Enter Shikari, Hype Williams and others

L.A. Weekly Critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 Movies of 2011

L.A. Weekly's Top 10 Films of 2011

From Margaret to Moneyball

2011 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Critics' Poll

Parsing the data

The Best and Worst of the Summer Movie Season

Considering the middlebrow question, and assessing the year in film thus far

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Catch Bellflower before it wilts

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

The Social Network Named Best Movie of 2010

The film critics' poll

Last Night: The Walkmen at The Music Box

Rachel CarrThe Walkmen​ Looking neat in a white collared shirt and black blazer, lead singer of The Walkmen, Hamilton Leithauser emerged from the cloud of crimson smoke that had engulfed the stage. There was so much of it that the rest of the band looked like mere impressions of men, like sh ... More >>

Music Picks: The Chapin Sisters, Pink Martini, Freestyle Fellowship, Mark Kozelek

Also Shonen Knife, the Vibrators, Karnivool and others

Jose Saramago: Death Interrupted (Extended Version)

An interview with the late Nobel laureate

Jose Saramago: Death Interrupted

An interview with the late Nobel laureate

Eccentricities of a 101-Year-Old Filmmaker

Manoel de Oliveira's signature style fuels Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl

New No Age Songs Unveiled in Portugal

No Age (plus cake)​The Ashtape website (via Pitchfork) has uploaded Soundcloud versions of a short set of new No Age songs premiered in, of all places, Portugal: As we've told you before, No Age's recent stay in Portugal didn't go that well. First, they were beaten up in Lisbon and the day af ... More >>

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Meyer Lemons and Cabbage

It used to be that unless you knew someone with a Meyer lemon tree, your lemon options were limited to the standard and thicker skinned Eureka and Lisbon lemons. The Meyer's soft and pliant skin was too fragile for the packing and shipping standards of the day. But the flavor and aroma were second ... More >>

Like a Rainbow in Curved Air: An Interview with Terry Riley

Legendary composer-performer Terry Riley is the creator of such groundbreaking "Minimalist" works as In C, A Rainbow In Curved Air, Poppy Nogood and, with the Kronos Quartet, decidedly un-Minimalist works as Cadenza on the Night Plain and Salome Dances for Peace. He'll perform solo and in collabora ... More >>

AFI FEST 2009: Final Weekend

Festival moves to Santa Monica, premieres more films; our critics weigh in

TWEET THIS: GET A LIFE, TWITTER USERS!

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

Coachella Day 1: Buraka Som Sistema and Conor Oberst

Timothy NorrisBuraka Som Sistema Buraka Som Sistema Gobi, 5:35 5:50 - 6:20   A sizeable crowd has gathered for Buraka Som Sistema in the Gobi tent, but the music hasn't started. Several men are running around the stage, chasing cables, jiggling things, playing music, stopping and starting again. ... More >>

Countdown to Coachella: Buraka Som Sistema's Portuguese/Angolian Funk (Hot Chip Remix, MP3)

Name check off the top: M.I.A. stars in the great video above, which features an amazing dance move that we around here have dubbed The Flop. It's easy to do: Just jump in the air, move your body horizontal to the ground, and land flat and hard. The chicks totally dig this move. Another variation: ... More >>

Parsing the Mysterious Lyrical Challenges of the Animal Collective, This Year's "New Radiohead"

Vague terrain

UCLA's Manoel de Oliveira Retrospective Enters Final Week

99-year-old Portuguese director translates the mystery

Manoel de Oliveira: Man of the Century

Portuguese director, 99, lives long and prospers

American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?

Annus mirabilis

The Films That Got Away

Seeing Pedro Costa

Dreaming with open eyes

Hail, Farewell

Taking the Long View

Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot

Vote For Pedro (and Larry)

The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

Two Hander

Robert Chesley’s Jerker turns 20

Village Muse

Monica Ali on her new novel, Alentejo Blue

Let Them Eat Film

Tales of wars and misguided youth dominate Cannes 2006

The Ground You Fall Through

Environmental and social neglect left New Orleans on dangerous footing

Dirty Work Afoot

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

The Great American Spy Novel

Charles McCarry and The Tears of Autumn 30 years later

Tat’s Incredible

Master, Old and New

One way to Toronto 2003

Extreme Games

This is shaping up to be the strangest, most exciting, least predictable World Cup in decades

The Observer in the Tall Black Hat

Fernando Pessoa and his many faces

Girls, Interrupted

Debuts from Sofia Coppola and Gina Prince-Bythewood