Steve McQueen

Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up

Deals on Wheels

How Does Hans Zimmer Keep His Film Scores Fresh? He Invents New Instruments

The Source Family Comes Home to Hollywood, On Its Own Terms

It was not your typical happy hour on the Sunset Strip. Last Thursday, the Standard Hotel hosted the L.A. premiere of The Source Family, a documentary by Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos. In honor of the 1970s Hollywood commune portrayed in the film, which is the first feature for both directors, the ... More >>

The Exorcist Director William Friedkin Tells All in His No-Bullshit Memoir

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Hollywood heavy hitters normally wait until they're out of the film game to write their memoirs. That way they can settle scores and write the first draft of their cinematic history without severing relationships they ... More >>

Is Ryan Gosling Parodying Masculinity?

Actor reteams with Blue Valentine director for The Place Beyond the Pines

Laura Escude Is Oz Behind the Curtain

The music programmer makes blockbuster tours pop

Food Photography: Herb Ritts, The Black & White Squid Ink Pasta Pairings At The Getty

If you've ever found yourself completely devoid of compelling reasons for a friend to meet you at a museum on a gorgeous, beer-on-the-beach sort of Saturday (the dark galleries are at least air conditioned, the tram to the Getty is sort of fun), you have new food fodder: The Getty Restaurant is serv ... More >>

M83 - Club Nokia - 1/12/12

See also: M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without the Movie M83 and Big Black Delta @ LA Live M83 Club Nokia 1-12-12 Better than...listening to Hurry Up, We're Dreaming on the best stereo system turned up to eleven. Last night Club Nokia was fit to burst for M83's sold out show. After b ... More >>

10 People Who Mattered in Movies this Year

​By Ernest Hardy, Karina Longworth and Mark Olsen Some of our notables showed great courage this year, others are simply notorious, but all 10 had a big impact in 2011.

Shame Review

Michael Fassbender naked in Steve McQueen's latest film

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

M83 - The Music Box - 11/9/11

Ian Cohen​See also: M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without The Movie M83 The Music Box 11-9-11 Better than: Having to actually be 16 again. At the risk of completely disavowing any claims of critical distance, this was the concert event of 2011 for yours truly and I don't care wh ... More >>

Toronto International Film Festival: A Fest Without a Frontrunner

Handicapping the Oscars out of Toronto won't work this year

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

Eddie Izzard at the Hollywood Bowl

What makes Eddie run?

Moleskine's New Recipe Journals: An Antidote to Kitchen Chaos, at Least in Theory

Moleskine's new recipe journals​ Most writers carry around little notepads to scribble down stuff, and if they're food people too, they'll write while they cook, a sometimes difficult task. Some of us have been known to use the insides of whatever cookbook is handy to write recipes or notes o ... More >>

Steve McQueen, 'The King of Cool,' May Get Shabby L.A. Intersection Named After Him

Hollywood icon Steve McQueen​Nicknamed "The King of Cool," the late great movie star Steve McQueen, who often sported a unique sense of style in his films, may get a shabby intersection named after him if Los Angeles City Council members have their way. On Tuesday, the City Council will vote ... More >>

What To Do This Weekend: There Are Alternatives to Stale Popcorn and Cinema

Photo Credit: Rhett MaxwellYou can say "No" to movie theater food and prescription comedies​Should you be operating under the assumption that "Julie & Julia" is the only destination for lovers of food and film this weekend, we would like to remind you that you live in Los Angeles, where, for q ... More >>

Movie Reviews: American Cowslip, Deadgirl, In the Loop, Orphan

Also, Afghan Star, Shrink, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg and more.

Body Politic: Steve McQueen’s Hunger

The excruciating details of death by starvation in Ireland’s Maze prison

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Film is British director’s first feature-length

The 10 (or 17) Best Films of 2008

Coming soon to a theater, er, HDTV near you

to Eat or Not to Eat

Hunger tests the audience’s tolerance for violence — and martyrdom

Movie Reviews: Hunger, One Day You'll Understand, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more

Stage Raw: Speech & Debate

Queer Town: The Televised Revolution

In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and singer with a strong distaste for political apathy, released the song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” It was something of a brass-knuckled, knock-out punch against anyone who didn’t fight the powers-that-be, with Scott-Heron delivering his lyrics w ... More >>

Music Sales Sink to 1985 Levels. Did 1985 Really Suck or Something?

Sure, the papers are full of stories of gas prices shooting up and housing prices plummeting, but those are new phenomena compared to the steady declines in the fortunes of the record industry. The latest sales numbers show a decrease of 11% over last year - and that includes legal digital downloads ... More >>

Shots in the Dark at Cannes 2008

Reflecting its moment, the festival takes a decidedly serious tone

Jay Diola

Hair apparent

Film Reviews: Choking Man, Fred Claus, P2, Steal a Pencil for Me

Into the Woods

A supernatural view of theater in L.A.

Real Time With Clifford Irving

The Hoax author speaks... or does he?

Western Expansion

Director Walter Hill brings his new cowboy tale to commercial TV

The Chemist

Reuben Rueva

The Joy of Eating Dust

Step Into Liquid�s Dana Brown surfs the dunes

The Malloy Brothers Conspiracy

They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

From the Red Car to the Hummer

An automotive timeline

Where Are They Now?

An ever-evolving list of L.A. Weekly alumni

Hot Wheels

Venus de Me

The waxing of male beauty

The Coffee Table, Revisited

Guerrilla Public Service: The Man Who Would Be Caltrans

Winona Forever

In Character

The mayor of Joshua Tree

All the World�s a Farm

Chicken Run and other delights from abroad

Hot Wheels

Summer motorcycling in and around L.A.

Biennial Man

Doug Aitken and his world of video

Hailey's Comet

How Bruce Willis Romanced and then Jilted a Small Idaho Town

Eddie the Confessor

The king of the riffs comes to town