Marlon Brando

That's a Lotta Boinking for 12 Bucks

Henry Rollins: Tragedy, and How to Carry On

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See Also: Henry Rollins: When It Comes to Gun Control, the Bad Guys Have Won the Day A few nig ... More >>

Kevin Pollak on His New Autobiography and How He Convinced Steve Martin to Tweet

Revered standup and actor Kevin Pollak's new autobiography, How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs , fulfills precisely what its subtitle promises, chronicling his rise as an formidable impressionist and standout player in The Usual Suspects, A Few Go ... More >>

Zombies and Mummies: 
Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see includes some evidence of Halloween creeping in: Thursday, Oct. 18 Andrew Shea's thriller of a documentary, Portrait of Wally, traces the legal journey of the titular 1912 painting by Austrian artist Egon Schiele of then-17-year-old Valerie "Wally" Ne ... More >>

Gods Like Us by Ty Burr: Our Book of the Week

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival 2012 Report: The Master, Spring Breakers and More

According to the people who track these things, there are roughly 170,000 new books published each year in the United States -- an alarming percentage of which arrive, unbidden, at the L.A. Weekly office. Each week, we'll offer a snapshot of a newish book that's caught our attention. Just as there ... More >>

How Hollywood Movies Led to Genocide: The Act of Killing at the Toronto Film Festival

The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film Institute, and so it goes that the nonfiction knockout of TIFF thus far is The Act of Killing -- made with Danish support and directed by American Joshua Oppenheimer, executive produced by ... More >>

Top Ten Musicals for People Who Don't Know Shit About Showtunes

See Also: Top Ten Classical Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Classical MusicTop Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About JazzTop Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance MusicTop Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-HopTop Ten Metal Albums ... More >>

Jonathan Lethem

See Also: Top Ten Classical Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Classical MusicTop Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About JazzTop Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance MusicTop Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-HopTop Ten Metal Albums ... More >>

Chucho Valdes and Poncho Sanchez - Walt Disney Concert Hall - 2/16/11

Christina Limson O'ConnellPoncho and Terence channel Chano and Dizzy​ Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band Chucho Valdes & the Afro-Cuban Messengers Walt Disney Concert Hall 2-16-12 See also: *Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck *Marlon Brando R ... More >>

Marlon Brando Rocked the Conga Drums -- in Fact He Invented One

See also: Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck In his column this week, Jeff Weiss talks with renowned conga player Poncho Sanchez about the unlikely gringo who put him on. Today we've got another Sanchez story about an even stranger encounter -- with M ... More >>

Poncho Sanchez Played the Weekend Wedding Circuit, Until a Gringo Changed His Luck

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] See also: Marlon Brando Rocked the Conga Drums -- in Fact He Invented One "I'd rather be lucky than good." --Lefty Gomez, Hall of Fame pitcher and inven ... More >>

The New Sex Flick

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

The Rum Diary: Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

Gregg Ostrin's Kowalski

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

WHAT COULD BE MORE FESTIVE THAN A DOUBLE FEATURE ABOUT FAMILY VALUES?

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

Lemon Durang Pie

Are movies such as Shame and Sleeping Beauty feel-bad finger-wagging or heirs to the Last Tango throne?

Día de los Muertos: Reviving Spirits of the Past

Flickr user ChotdaPan de muerto​ Of all the world's costume-heavy seasonal holidays, Día de los Muertos is perhaps the least understood. Yet in Los Angeles, where makeshift memorials to the dead often appear overnight, Día de los Muertos is part of our cultural heritage. It's also an opportu ... More >>

The Jewing of Westwood

Flickr user ChotdaPan de muerto​ Of all the world's costume-heavy seasonal holidays, Día de los Muertos is perhaps the least understood. Yet in Los Angeles, where makeshift memorials to the dead often appear overnight, Día de los Muertos is part of our cultural heritage. It's also an opportu ... More >>

WHAT GOOD IS SITTING ALONE IN YOUR TOMB?

Flickr user ChotdaPan de muerto​ Of all the world's costume-heavy seasonal holidays, Día de los Muertos is perhaps the least understood. Yet in Los Angeles, where makeshift memorials to the dead often appear overnight, Día de los Muertos is part of our cultural heritage. It's also an opportu ... More >>

Treeless Mountain: What It Feels Like for a Girl

Pitch-perfect child performances root So Yong Kim feature

Stage Against the Machine

Pitch-perfect child performances root So Yong Kim feature

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

Brando and other legends immortalized in photographer's new book

The Age of Dreaming

Nina Revoyr’s silent, eerie new work

Christian Brando to Be Autopsied

The death of Christian Brando is officially a Los Angeles County Coroner's case. According to sources, the coroner's office took possession of the 49-year-old troubled son of actor Marlon Brando earlier today after Brando's mother called for a full-investigation into his death, citing “suspicious ... More >>

K-Cars lot on Santa Monica Blvd.

The K-Cars auto lot on Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood is a bit of a landmark, though if you're like most people, you've probably only ever just driven by it. It's defining characteristic was a long mural of Hollywood with creepy painted images of Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Arnold Schwarzenegge ... More >>

Cuckoo for Coconuts

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Brando: The Molecule Jiggler

TCM’s bio-doc Brando is cinephile catnip

Un-Fashion Week

I've been unnoticeably absent from Fashion Week this season for no real reason other than I have been doing lots of random shit. It's not 'cause of any beef I may have with Smashbox (even though I am on Fern Mallis' shitlist after accidentally misquoting her in a piece I wrote for the LA Times - she ... More >>

Red Any Good Carpets Lately?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Best Smoky Tinder Box

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Beyond the Imaginary Line

Hubert Cornfield, 1929–2006

New Theater Reviews

For the week of April 28 - May 4

The Contender

Elia Kazan, with a smile

Schlockgirl

Gag me with a glove. The only reason I saw the "romantic" "comedy" Shopgirl, based on Steve Martin's novella of the same name, was because my friend and I got lost on the way to Pasadena and it was too late to see The Squid and the Whale. Now, I can appreciate a good chick flick as much as anyone, p ... More >>

Jacques et Jim

In a reversal of the usual cultural exchange, a classic of the American independent cinema gets remade by a French admirer

10 Great Profiles

and Tributes of 2004

Yogis for Kerry

and Tributes of 2004

Last Tango at LACMA

Plus 12 other films in Bertolucci retrospective

The NYT Goes Way Off-Broadway and Other Big Hits

WEB UPDATE: LAT moves off the mat, Baquet goes ballistic, Brando monkeys around, and Babs butters up

Marlon Brando, 1924–2004

WEB UPDATE: LAT moves off the mat, Baquet goes ballistic, Brando monkeys around, and Babs butters up

Behind the Scenes

Phil Stern shows what a “dumb-fucking illiterate schmuck” can do with a camera

10 Going on 16

Phil Stern shows what a “dumb-fucking illiterate schmuck” can do with a camera

You Vill Vatch!

Or, maybe you won’t: Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Who Are You To Refuse My Sugar?

Or, maybe you won’t: Hitler: The Rise of Evil

A Thousand Clones . . .

...do not an awesome Star Wars make

Watching the Detectives

How a couple of middle-aged P.I.'s and world-class raconteurs survived the DEA, the mob and the tabloid wars to take on their most elusive target yet -- Hollywood

Pauline Kael, 1919–2001

How a couple of middle-aged P.I.'s and world-class raconteurs survived the DEA, the mob and the tabloid wars to take on their most elusive target yet -- Hollywood

The Last Movie

Apocalypse Now Redux

Set Em' up, Buddy

Apocalypse Now Redux