Michel Gondry

L.A. Film Festival 2013: Music Videos for the Sake of Art, Not YouTube Views

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Weekend

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Friday, May 31 Trixie Whitley TROUBADOUR As the daughter of country rock & blues musician Chris Whitley and the vocalist for Daniel Lanois' Black Dub project, Trixie Whitley pairs a youthful yet worldly outlook with big-lung ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Memories of a Drive-by Gallery

This week, an artist stages a tiny exhibition at Central Library and a century-old Rodin sculpture plays a part in an afternoon-long performance. 5. J.J. Abrams inspires an art book The Lost Issue , the catalog for the "Lost (in L.A.)" exhibition at Barnsdall Park, a show of French and Angeleno art ... More >>

Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

Adam Lisagor: The Video Guru

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. If you've been to the website of a buzzy new tech startup in the last few years -- Groupon, Airbnb, Square -- chances are you've seen the work of Adam Lisagor. Not just his sho ... More >>

Frank Gehry's Grammy Awards Poster: A Transparent Attempt at High-Brow Legitimacy? Not So Fast

​Last week saw the release of the official poster for the 54th Grammy Awards, which was designed by the patron saint of L.A. architecture, Frank Gehry. At first, the poster seems to be another flailing attempt by the Grammys to maintain their relevance in a world where the value of music, and ... More >>

Everything You Wanted To Know About Death Cab But Were Too Emo To Ask

This right here is my swag​I know this is going to sound like a lowball estimate, but there are approximately 102,000 little brothers in the United States. I know this because Codes & Keys moved 102 large in its first week, and the general consensus amongst your friends who "know better" is th ... More >>

Last Night: Big In Japan Featuring Cibo Matto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Buffalo Daughter at The Hollywood Bowl

Timothy Norris Yoko "Oh No" Ono​ WHO: Big In Japan Featuring Cibo Matto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and Buffalo Daughter WHERE: The Hollywood Bowl WHEN: 6/26/11 A show called Big In Japan freely invites you to stare at its Japaneseness, and last night's concert at the Hollywood Bowl wore a risin ... More >>

Submarine: Directed by Richard Ayoade, English Sitcom Star

The Green Hornet Review

Seth Rogen schlubs it in Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet

Michel Gondry's Top Ten Music Videos Ever (In Honor Of His Book Signing Tonight)

​ Tonight Michel Gondry's coming to Family Books on Fairfax to sign copies of his new book/DVD My New New York Diary, a collaborative project with cartoonist Julie Doucet that merges autobiographical illustrations and cinematic storytelling. My New New York Diary is a hardcover volume from Pi ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl

Timothy NorrisWine, cheese and blockrockin' beats: The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl​ LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip, Klaxons and all other dance-rockers currently carving a profitable niche owe a debt of gratitude to electronica's "Born Slippy"-era--namely the holy trinity of stadium DJs ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Friday Schedule: Adult Swim, Yo Gabba Gabba!, Archer and More

Friday, June 23 is Star Wars Day at San Diego Comic-Con. Bring a lightsaber. SDCC announced its Friday schedule this morning. Even if you're one of the few that isn't into Star Wars, there will be plenty to do. Here are our picks from the schedule. Feel free to leave your own in the comment section. ... More >>

Video Debut: Charlotte Gainsbourg's "Time of the Assassins" by 'Aanteni' Director Todd Cole

Video Debut: Charlotte Gainsbourg's "Time of the Assassins" by 'Aanteni' Director Todd Cole

Movie Reviews: Trash Humpers, A Nightmare in Las Cruces, Letters to Juliet

Also, The Thorn in the Heart, Princess Kaiulani and more

Not "High School Musical": Free Staging of "New." Attracts Michel Gondry, Michael Cera and Sebastien Tellier

The free staging of the musical New. last weekend pulled a win for the avant-garde social scene. While experimental theater has long been a place for innovative social commentary by crafty bohemians like Beckett and Shakespeare, the emerging twentysomething generation hasn't much bothered to make th ... More >>

JOURNAL TO THE CENTER OF THE QUARTERLY LITERARY ORGAN

Roll Bounce: Visionary producer Shafiq Husayn debuts new video

World on Wheels: Visionary producer Shafiq Husayn debuts new video

Images for the Post-Video Age

Director Keith Schofield Makes Viral Video Stars

WATCH: Michel Gondry and Mia Doi Todd Make Human Rubik's Cube

Mia Doi Todd, all wrapped up in taffeta?​Late last year -- via our Rock Picks, of all sources -- LA Weekly broke the news that Mia Doi Todd and Michel Gondry were working together. As it turned out, the magnificent L.A. cult folkster and the endlessly inspired French director had collaborated ... More >>

Meet the Michel Gondry of Belgian puppet animation

Flux Screening Series

Charlotte Gainsbourg: The Devil Is a Woman

To hell and back with Antichrist's Cannes-winning star

Rock Picks: Camper Van Beethoven, Cass McCombs, AC/DC

Also, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System, Magda, Hedgehog, Mos Def and others

Jamming on Hump Day with Michel Gondry @ Amoeba

It takes a certain je ne sais quoi to get the go-ahead to get your friends together to drink some beers and have a jam session right in the middle of Amoeba Music on a Wednesday summer night. Mind you, if you're Michel Gondry, you're just about clever and French enough to pull that off, and major b ... More >>

House Nation: Jesse Saunders Celebrates 25 Years of Four-on-the-Floor at Incognito

Liz OhanesianHouse Legend Jesse Saunders at Incognito, 5/15/09 Twenty-five years ago, Jesse Saunders' seminal dance single "On & On" was released through his own Jes-Say Records, ushering in a style of dance music called house that would go on to dominate dance charts for the ensuing decades. "On & ... More >>

MONDO TOKYO

Movie Reviews: The Great Buck Howard, Perestroika, Knowing, Sin Nombre

Also, Explicit Ills, Virtual JFK and more

GO LA: Alvin Ailey, Karen Kilgariff and the Bloody Truth About Downtown

(But not all at once): What to do, March 20-26

Last Night: Tokyo! With Michel Gondry and Ayako Fujitani @ Egyptian Theatre

RAFFI ADLAN I have never traveled to Tokyo. With one of the biggest festivals of the year coming up in two days, attending the screening of Tokyo! the movie -- a three-part film directed by Michel Gondry, Léos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho, respectively -- sounded like a good opportunity to take a menta ... More >>

Coachella Rumor Mill Works Overtime, but the Confirmations Continue to Trickle In

(Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>

For Your Reconsideration: The Reader’s Kate Winslet

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Synecdoche, New York: Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Latest

The world is a stage

Interview: Charlie Kaufman on Synecdoche, New York

By Liz Ohanesian Philip Seymour Hoffman (L) and Charlie Kaufman (R) on the set of Synecdoche, New York. There will be a moment in Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) when you realiz ... More >>

Best L.A. Comic Book Shops

Hand, ink and brain

Michael Reich's Videothing.com Captures the Essence of L.A.'s Underground

TV party tonight

Jonathan Wells

The champion

Son of Rambow: Young Blood

Garth Jennings' comedy illuminates the joys of DIY filmmaking

Movie Reviews: Be Kind Rewind, Men in the Nude, The Signal

And other Feb. 22 releases

Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dream

Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival

Film Reviews: Goya’s Ghosts, Cashback, Captivity

Also this week's pick, Ten Canoes

Music Videos

Rappers Who'll Make You Dial for Dollars

And post-feminist pop from one-hit wonders

Kiddie Porn

From Dakota Fanning’s rape to John Cusack’s daddy issues, Sundance 2007 was all about child exploitation

Film Reviews

Including this week's picks, Jackass Number Two and The Science of Sleep

Music Video Showcase

Party Over Here!

Dave Chappelle raises the roof

The Year's Best DVD Gift Boxes

About a Boy

Growing up with Charlie Kaufman

Pop the Cork

Jay-Z beyond reasonable doubt