Martin Scorsese

Hollywood: Enough With the Father-Son Dramas, Already!

Films That Should Be Nominated for Oscars But Won't Be: Our Complete List

See also: *Previous "We'd Like to Help the Academy" columns Perceived reality has a habit of becoming actual reality when it comes to the Academy Awards. It was with that in mind that we decided to funnel whatever influence we may have into "We'd Like to Help the Academy," an online column launched ... More >>

Why 4:44 Last Day on Earth's Abel Ferrara Should Be Nominated for the Best Director Oscar

We'd Like to Help the Academy is our Oscar column highlighting the outliers that should be nominated (but probably won't be). The output of Abel Ferrara, a never-nominated New Yorker responsible for the likes of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York, may have been too superficially similar to that of ... More >>

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

Bad 25 Review: Spike Lee's Michael Jackson Documentary

Last Night the Songs From Boogie Nights Were Performed. Rollergirl Was in Effect

Last night a lavish postmodern public masturbation session went down at the Rockwell in Los Feliz, with a full cast performing the movie music of director Paul Thomas Anderson. The show, titled For The Record: Boogie Nights, also featured music from other Anderson films including Magnolia, Punch Dru ... More >>

Will Ferrell in Casa de mi Padre: Outtakes From Our Interview

Casa de mi Padre, starring Will Ferrell (speaking Spanish!), opens in theaters nationwide this weekend. Karina Longworth chatted with Ferrell, director Matt Piedmont and screenwriter Andrew Steele for our print story about why this bizarre film exists, and why Ferrell decided to play a Mexican cowbo ... More >>

Zina Bethune, Famed Dancer, Theater Founder, Killed in Possible Hit-and-Run After Stopping to Help Injured Animal

Cops today were looking for the driver of a white car who might have fled after hitting Hollywood dance legend Zina Bethune near Griffith Park, leaving her for dead. Bethune, who was born Zina Feeley, is the founder of Theatre Bethune in L.A. She danced with the New York City Ballet under George Ba ... More >>

Santa Barbara Film Feast: Dinner and More Than 195 Movies

Santa Barbara's International Film Festival (SBIFF) echoes Cannes' famed film festival -- both are held in lovely seaside towns betwixt mountains and the ocean, stars come out in force and there is ample fresh local seafood. But unlike the French Riviera version, SBIFF prix fixe menus are deals: For ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Melies, Minnelli and Huppert x 2

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel Review

James 'Whitey' Bulger, Boston Mob Boss From 'The Departed,' Arrested in Santa Monica at 81

James "Whitey" Bulger​Update: MSNBC reports that Bulger was living on the 1000 block of Third Street in Santa Monica -- a surprisingly public spot at the end of the Promenade. PHOTO of his unassuming apartment, after the jump. James J. Bulger, known within his Irish-American crime family as " ... More >>

Film at LACMA is Dead. Long Live LACMA Film?

Not a portrait of Michael Govan, but a still from Edward Scissorhands, from LACMA's upcoming Tim Burton series.​ BY RICHARD NATALE Two years ago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan proposed suspending the then-41-year-old weekend film program because it was losing money ... More >>

The Sugar King of Havana and The Coke Machine: Two New Non-Fiction Titles To Curb Your Afternoon Vending Machine Runs

​Violence, greed, political turmoil and money in quantities reminiscent of another era that is selectively passed out in wads, rolls and tombstones. You're either watching Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese's new HBO series Boardwalk Empire, or getting your late night thrills from the pages of ... More >>

LACMA Film: Back on the endangered list?

​ La Chienne (The Bitch), by Jean Renoir, screened at LACMA last month. For a month last summer, it looked like the venerable film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was going to disappear. Then, in late August, thanks to the grassroots efforts of activists like Save Film at LACM ... More >>

Guest Blogger: '(500) Days of Summer' Co-Screenwriter Scott Neustadter on Music & Film

By Scott Neustadter​ Editor's note: Screenwriter Scott Neustadter struck gold in 2009 with his script for (500) Days of Summer, which he co-wrote with Michael H. Weber. The film, shot in downtown Los Angeles, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and viewers watch the rise and fall ... More >>

The Oscars: B-Movie King Gets A-List Award

B-movie king and splatter-flick auteur Roger Corman is getting a lifetime achievement Academy Award, the Associate Press is reporting Wednesday.Roger Corman​The director and producer is behind hundreds of horror films, including Children of the Corn, Death Race 2000 and Piranha, that are so graphi ... More >>

Romero, Fellow Politicians Support Polanski Extradition

Los Angeles state Sen. Gloria Romero and several Sacramento colleagues signed a letter supporting county District Attorney Steve Cooley's efforts to extradite Roman Polanski, who admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old before fleeing to France in 1978.State Sen. Gloria Rome ... More >>

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

JUMPIN' JACK STABBED

The 10 (or 17) Best Films of 2008

Coming soon to a theater, er, HDTV near you

Bad Trips: Pineapple Express, Transsiberian

Not McLovin'

LAFF 2008: Oh Heavenly Prince

The day before yesterday, we spoke of misleading titles, like how there are no flying monsters in WINGED CREATURES. But it works both ways – sometimes movies have titles that lead you to believe they’ll be immeasurably lame, and they’re not. PRINCE OF BROADWAY, for example, sounds like it’s ... More >>

Hey! You! Get Off of My Lap!

What to do in L.A., April 4-10

Jumpin Jack Flashed

The "ugly beautiful" model trend goes in a groovy new direction with these new Louis Vuitton ads starring Keith Richards. Of course, our man Keef is already the butt of late night jokes for this ad, but we think it's rad. "Pretty" and "handsome" are so borrrring. The ad, shot by Annie Leib ... More >>

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division portrait, Control, proves the exception to the rock-biopic drool

Rock Picks: Lee ''Scratch'' Perry, The Swell Season, Maximo Park and More

For the week of July 26 – August 2

Mad Men's Gray Flannel Nightmare

Suiting up for a season of treacherous nostalgia

Film Reviews: Surf's Up, Memories of Tomorrrow, Flanders

Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters and Ingénues

Things to chew on this Memorial Day weekend

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

The Best Films of 2006: The Year of Army of Shadows

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

¡Ask a Mexican! Huddled Messes

Critics’ Picks

Our guide to the best of AFI Fest 2006

Oh Sandy

Ms. Bernhard fluffs, folds, flaps

Directing With Bifocals

The double vision of Head-On's Fatih Akin

Woman vs. Machine

As persona overtakes person, Love, Angel, Music, Baby shows Gwen Stefani still drives her own ambition

Martha and Barry’s Big Britches

Supersized Celebrity Crimes

Stop Buggering Oscar

A five-point plan for intervention — no one gets arrested

A Moment Like This

The Year in Film

The Rise of Anthony Lane

Andy and Pauline get laid

To Live and Skate in L.A.

Tweakers in The Salton Sea and the wild boys of Dogtown

Musical, Schmusical

A hybrid work flowers at the Ahmanson

Guy, Interrupted

Writer-director James Mangold

Noodle-Noodle Soup

Summer of Spike

On Lee's First "White" Film, the Elusive "Black" Audience and Other Gray Areas

To Know God

A post–New Age dialogue with Dr. Stephan Hoeller

The Balding Soprano

From antipasto to antidepressants: a Mafioso's midlife crises

Forward Into the Past

The terrifying togs of That '70s Show; the retro robots of Rolie Polie Olie