Roger Ebert

Metallica: Through the Never's Weird Provocation of White Aggrievement

Spoilers abound below—for a concert film!

Prince Avalanche Director David Gordon Green Finds Inspiration in Texas' Worst Fire Ever

Haji, Star of Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill! Dead at 67

Haji, the Quebec-born actress who most famously starred in iconic cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! passed away this morning, according to longtime friend Kitten Natividad's Facebook page. She was 67. Haji was born with the equally exotic name Barbarella Catton in Quebec City in 1946. At 14 ... More >>

Directors Discuss the Obscure, Bizarre Films They Love

Robert K. Elder, a writer and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, is a veteran of crowdsourced cinephilia, having written The Film That Changed My Life, featuring discussions with film directors on the subject. His new book is The Best Films You've Never Seen, which discusses those films that never re ... More >>

Beyond Camp

Dances With Films and a London Olympics Doc: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, May 24 Paul McCartney and Wings went on their Wings Over the World tour from 1975-76, conquering three continents and marking McCartney's first concert appearance since the breakup of The Beatles. The concert film of the same name premiered in 198 ... More >>

Roger Ebert: Why There Can Never Be Another

What Your Favorite Restaurant Says About You

We all have our favorite things that, implicitly or otherwise, reveal a little bit of ourselves. Thus it makes sense that Fraulein Maria would love whiskers on kittens and bright copper kettles, and that Oprah would have many, many favorite things. Which brings us to restaurants that you may consid ... More >>

Roger Ebert, Hollywood's Most-Famous Film Critic, Dead At 70

Roger Ebert, the nation's most high-profile movie critic, is dead at age 70, his longtime employer, the Chicago Sun-Times, announced this afternoon. He died today in his hometown of Chicago following a much-publicized battle with cancer, the paper reported:

9 Life Lessons Learned From Roger Ebert (1942-2013)

Roger Ebert was an American film critic, screenwriter, and journalist, whose columns and reviews appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times and were syndicated in more than 200 newspapers across the country. Ebert made a name for himself in the candid and no-apology approach he had toward film review, earn ... More >>

French Crime Master Claude Sautet's 1971 Film Max and the Junkmen Finally Arrives in L.A.

Robert M. Parker Jr. Steps Down as Wine Advocate Editor

In a stunning turn of events, the Wall Street Journal reports that Robert M. Parker, Jr., the single most driving force in the wine industry in the last 30 years, wine's most influential critic and populist, is stepping down from editing his influential journal The Wine Advocate. According to Let ... More >>

3D Film Festival Seeks to Answer: Is 3D a Fad or the Future?

While you were clicking hours away on your View-Master as a child, Christopher Crescitelli was heralding the future. "I was one of those weird kids, who, in the fifth grade, started making 3D imagery with my crayons and colored markers," he says. "People nicknamed me the 3D kid." Unfortunately, ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Castle in the Clouds

This week, a performance artist celebrates a jazz singer, a Parisian artist celebrates a German-born architect and an iconic L.A. gallery says goodbye with the same savvy it's always had. 5. Everyone onstage Abbey Lincoln played a black maid in the 1968 film For Love of Ivy -- not a bit part but th ... More >>

Shoah

Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic

LACMA Goes Hollywood With Elvis Mitchell

Museum scrapped its film program for a star-studded partnership aimed at courting showbiz bucks — helmed by the nation's most controversial critic

Joel Schumacher Interview

On Trespass as a sign of the times

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

Tarantino's Angst

Jackie Brown and its worried-man blues

At the Movies Sans Siskel & Ebert Cancelled

Kevin Smith's implication that film critics are over-cushioned got swift counterpoint this afternoon: Disney-ABC has announced that it is canceling At the Movies, the long-running film review TV show that was originally hosted by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. When Siskel died, he was replaced by Rich ... More >>

I Love Rock & Roll (Movies): The Nightranger's Guide to LA Band-dom On Film

[Lina Lecaro writers our amazing Nightranger column every week. Check out her explorations of LA nightlife here.] With The Runaways bringing rock n' roll to movie theaters this week (see a report from the premiere here), we've been thinking about our favorite band n' beat packed films lately. Docum ... More >>

R. Crumb Retrospective at Cal State Fullerton

Apocalypse Maintenant: Last Week at Cannes

The Weekly Goes to the Movies

When writing about them really mattered

TV Reviews: Crash and My Own Worst Enemy: When Worlds Collide

Navigating L.A.'s social and racial minefields, plus Christian Slater's mind games

Dark Knight, Late-Night Wars and More: What a Bunch of Jokers:

But for some in Hollywood, the joke's on them

Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine's Way

The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson

Sleuth: Better Home and Garden

But not much else in Kenneth Branagh’s remake

Why Torture Porn Isn't

Notes on the contemporary horror movie

Phil Noir: Accidental Suicide

Guns, slips and semiotics

Le Pierre

There may be no single person who better embodies the Telluride spirit than Pierre Rissient, a lifelong cinephile who has attended Telluride for nearly all of its 33 years and whose resume is as varied as the mountain climate. One of the storied film buffs who inhabited the hallowed halls of Henri L ... More >>

Death Race 2000

Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

The Secret Lives of Cheetahs

Despite critical raves, Carroll Ballard’s Duma may go quietly into the night

Jacques et Jim

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

The Ultra Critic

Hollywood Boulevard gives Roger Ebert a very enthusiastic thumbs-up

O Brother, Where Art Thou Screening?

What in Tarnation

Will success spoil filmmaker savant Jonathan Caouette?

Genius With a Hard-on

Russ Meyer, 1922–2004

“Bow-Wow,” Said the Bunny

Self-service without a smile

The Lie, the Whole Lie, and Nothing But the Lie

Errol Morris on the folly of certain distinctions

Big Media’s Bamboozle

Why radio’s wrong to already call the recall

White Elephant Sale

The 56th Cannes Film Festival goes hunting for America

Beatrice and Hubert

And how they begat Hollywood’s most exclusive awards ceremony

The Rise of Anthony Lane

Andy and Pauline get laid

Bollywood Now!

The stars come out for Craze 2001

In Bed With Oscar

Fametracker a lonely voice of dissent amid fawning awards Web sites

The Golden Age of Cinema?

Letters